Teenager dies of heat stroke on Pacific Crest Trail

The death of a teenage hiker this week along the Pacific Crest Trail has been ruled an accident, coroner documents show. Timothy Evan Nodal, 19, of Julian died of heat stroke while hiking with a friend in the Cleveland National Forest in temperatures ranging from 74 to 80 degrees. (Click here to read the entire …

Survival Knife Review: The Swiss Army Knife Classic?

http://www.survivalcommonsense.com Elk Lake, Oregon is one of the major re-supply places for hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail. Every year, a handful of through hikers will attempt to walk border-to-border on the trail. They generally start in Mexico in April, and start trickling in to the Elk Lake Resort about August. They need to get …