Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” (2012) — a best-selling memoir and later a successful film — introduced a large, new audience to the allure of the West’s most ...

Hikers from around the world come to San Diego County each spring to walk the Pacific Crest Trail, one of the longest thru-hikes in the U.S. Here’s what San Diego readers should know about the trail ...

Thru-hikers on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail have long relied on the kindness of strangers to get them through difficult stretches. Trail angels fill water caches, open their doors to smelly ...

The film “Wild,” which opened Wednesday, tells the raw personal journey of Cheryl Strayed, who took off on a 1,000-plus-mile trek presumably to find herself. Where she chose to go, the remote and ...

In March 2017, 25-year-old David O’Sullivan came from Ireland to Southern California, intending to hike the Pacific Crest Trail 2,650 miles to Washington. Two weeks later, he vanished and has never ...