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ABOOTKwPICiKsSting Journey
Oregon Backroads Guide To the Pacific Crest Trail
Ed McBee, who currently lives in Southern Oregon, has always had
a love for the high country. Traveling the mountains of the Cascades
and Sierras, he has explored some of the most beautiful and remote
landscapes in the American west, afoot, afloat, and a-wheeled. McBee’s
initial goal was to poke and prod every corner of the Pacific Northwest
from Alaska to California, at one time dreaming of hiking the 2650-
mile length of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) from Mexico to Canada.
He has been lucky to have the health and time (over 40 years) to explore
large portions of the PCT, but has resigned himself to the probability
that hiking the entire trail probably isn’t in his future.
Not ready to throw in the towel on mountain adventures quite yet, he Volume Two is currently in layout and design (promised by Fall of
hatched the idea of exploring a backroads version of the Pacific Crest 2015) and takes the traveler through the high country of Northern
Trail through Oregon’s high country. With the goal of avoiding the Oregon.
clutter of I-5, the “Twisting Journey” follows the backroads of Oregon
spanning the state from California to the Washington state-line at the The book is currently available online:
Columbia River. www.oregonbackroads.com
A road-trip shadowing the PCT is the result of three years of field Local retail stores:
research. With easy to follow hand drawn maps and colorful descrip- Bloomsbury Books
tions of Oregon’s mountain landscapes, Volume One of the Oregon Northwest Outdoor Store
Backroads Guide to the Pacific Crest Trail takes the traveler on a high Rogue Creamery Retail Store
country adventure covering Southern Oregon from the point the PCT
enters the state, to Willamette Pass near Eugene. Beautifully illustrated
with full color photos, the guide describes the many lakes, trails and
attractions of the Siskiyou and Cascade Mountains.
30 southernoregonmagazine.com • winter 2015
ABOOTKwPICiKsSting Journey
Oregon Backroads Guide To the Pacific Crest Trail
Ed McBee, who currently lives in Southern Oregon, has always had
a love for the high country. Traveling the mountains of the Cascades
and Sierras, he has explored some of the most beautiful and remote
landscapes in the American west, afoot, afloat, and a-wheeled. McBee’s
initial goal was to poke and prod every corner of the Pacific Northwest
from Alaska to California, at one time dreaming of hiking the 2650-
mile length of the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) from Mexico to Canada.
He has been lucky to have the health and time (over 40 years) to explore
large portions of the PCT, but has resigned himself to the probability
that hiking the entire trail probably isn’t in his future.
Not ready to throw in the towel on mountain adventures quite yet, he Volume Two is currently in layout and design (promised by Fall of
hatched the idea of exploring a backroads version of the Pacific Crest 2015) and takes the traveler through the high country of Northern
Trail through Oregon’s high country. With the goal of avoiding the Oregon.
clutter of I-5, the “Twisting Journey” follows the backroads of Oregon
spanning the state from California to the Washington state-line at the The book is currently available online:
Columbia River. www.oregonbackroads.com
A road-trip shadowing the PCT is the result of three years of field Local retail stores:
research. With easy to follow hand drawn maps and colorful descrip- Bloomsbury Books
tions of Oregon’s mountain landscapes, Volume One of the Oregon Northwest Outdoor Store
Backroads Guide to the Pacific Crest Trail takes the traveler on a high Rogue Creamery Retail Store
country adventure covering Southern Oregon from the point the PCT
enters the state, to Willamette Pass near Eugene. Beautifully illustrated
with full color photos, the guide describes the many lakes, trails and
attractions of the Siskiyou and Cascade Mountains.
30 southernoregonmagazine.com • winter 2015
