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2025 Spring Passport: Freshly maintained trails

2025 Spring Passport: Freshly maintained trails

Gabriel Howe

Nick Hodges on the Kalmiopsis Rim. Photo by Chloe Grimes Summer is a-comin' and the spring hiking season could be narrow considering hotter, dryer longterm outlooks for the American West. Here...

2025 Spring Passport: Freshly maintained trails

Gabriel Howe

Nick Hodges on the Kalmiopsis Rim. Photo by Chloe Grimes Summer is a-comin' and the spring hiking season could be narrow considering hotter, dryer longterm outlooks for the American West. Here...

Fired AmeriCorps crews reinvent the volunteer vacation: "We'll find food later. I'll eat dirt."

Fired AmeriCorps crews reinvent the volunteer v...

Gabriel Howe

DOGE fired this group of eight AmeriCorps members. They're deciding to serve anyway and headed out to restore the Lost Coast Trail. 

Fired AmeriCorps crews reinvent the volunteer v...

Gabriel Howe

DOGE fired this group of eight AmeriCorps members. They're deciding to serve anyway and headed out to restore the Lost Coast Trail. 

$100,000 Campaign Update: Thank You SMC Members

$100,000 Campaign Update: Thank You SMC Members

Gabriel Howe

Community surpassed $100,000 goal and raised $144,213.37. 

$100,000 Campaign Update: Thank You SMC Members

Gabriel Howe

Community surpassed $100,000 goal and raised $144,213.37. 

Peak of the Week: Tincup Peak

Peak of the Week: Tincup Peak

Vincent DiFrancesco

Tincup Peak is situated in the northern half of the 180,000-acre Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area along Tincup Trail #1117. Standing at roughly 4500 feet high, the shoulder of the peak can...

Peak of the Week: Tincup Peak

Vincent DiFrancesco

Tincup Peak is situated in the northern half of the 180,000-acre Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area along Tincup Trail #1117. Standing at roughly 4500 feet high, the shoulder of the peak can...

Spring 2025 Get Out Guide: Kids camps & trail days

Spring 2025 Get Out Guide: Kids camps & trail days

Gabriel Howe

A mild spring has blessed the Pacific Northwest, which means there have been fewer reminders that the season will progress, the heat will come, and it's time to make plans...

Spring 2025 Get Out Guide: Kids camps & trail days

Gabriel Howe

A mild spring has blessed the Pacific Northwest, which means there have been fewer reminders that the season will progress, the heat will come, and it's time to make plans...

Staff crew works along Kalmiopsis Rim Trail

Staff crew works along Kalmiopsis Rim Trail

Vincent DiFrancesco

06 MAY 2025 | KERBY, OR. -- After our volunteers cleared trail around a foggy Babyfoot Lake last weekend, our staff continued on for five more days, heading south along...

Staff crew works along Kalmiopsis Rim Trail

Vincent DiFrancesco

06 MAY 2025 | KERBY, OR. -- After our volunteers cleared trail around a foggy Babyfoot Lake last weekend, our staff continued on for five more days, heading south along...