Discover the Desert in a Day

Discover the Desert in a Day

By Renee Patrick on March 29, 2024 | Posted in: Where-to

Author: Renee Patrick  |  Published: March 29, 2024  | Category: Where-To This article originally appeared in The Bulletin on March 22, 2024. These short hikes will give you a taste […]

Thoughtful Gear Choices for an Oregon Desert Trail Hike

By Renee Patrick on September 6, 2023 | Posted in: How-To

Author: Renee Patrick  | Published: September 6, 2023  | Category: Deep Dive Gear is always a hot topic of conversation among long-distance backpackers. Good gear choices for a challenging route […]

How-To: Experience the Best of Oregon’s High Desert – practical advice from ODT hikers

By Renee Patrick on February 3, 2023 | Posted in: How-To

Author: Renee Patrick |  Published: February 3, 2023 |  Category: How-to Taking on a challenging remote hike like the Oregon Desert Trail can be intimidating, but hikers from all experience […]

How-To: Tips for Opening and Closing Barb Wire Gates

By Renee Patrick on January 30, 2023 | Posted in: How-To

Author: TJ Paulsen |  Published: January 30, 2023 |  Category: How-To Hikers will run into more gates than you might expect across the high desert. TJ Paulsen completed the entire […]

12 Explorers We’d Love to Bump Into on the Oregon Desert Trail

By Lace Thornberg on October 25, 2022 | Posted in: Profile

Authors: Renee Patrick and Lace Thornberg  |  Published: October 25, 2022  |  Category: Profile Go out for a long hike in Oregon’s high desert and you will see more pronghorn […]

Oregon Desert Trail Impact Monitoring

By Renee Patrick on February 15, 2022 | Posted in:

Wonders by Day and Night

By Scott R. Bowler on January 14, 2022 | Posted in: Where-to

Author: Scott Bowler  |  Published: January 14, 2022  |  Category: Where-to    A  month-by-month guide to appreciating Oregon’s high desert As the tenth largest state in the union, Oregon offers […]

Stories from the Oregon Desert Trail

By Renee Patrick on November 1, 2021 | Posted in: How-To, Where-to

Author: Renee Patrick  |   Category: Where-to Getting ready to go on a day-long, week-long or month-long adventure on the Oregon Desert Trail? You can learn so much by seeing how […]

Your Next Autumn Activity:
Volunteering

By Genessa Goodman-Campbell on September 30, 2021 | Posted in: Coming Up

As golden aspen leaves and frosty mornings mark the arrival of fall in Oregon’s high desert, welcomed rains are bringing fire danger down and allowing volunteers to resume work on […]

Return to the Oregon Desert Trail

By Renee Patrick on August 30, 2021 | Posted in: Look Back

Carly “Quill” Swisher started a thru-hike of the Oregon Desert Trail in the late spring of 2020, but had to get off in McDermitt, Nevada. Undeterred, she went back June […]