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10A • July 14, 2017 | Cannon Beach Gazette | cannonbeachgazette.com T R AIL OF D I V ISI th B TRADING CO. 29 th S B R CU EA N B O Discovery O N 29 R CU EA BS D I V ISI TRADING CO. COLIN MURPHEY/EO MEDIA GROUP Tanya Gephart starts her trip on the Tillamook Head Trail portion of the Oregon Coast Trail. Many hikers are moving off the Pacifi c Coast Trail due to inclement weather. KATIE FRANKOWICZ/EO MEDIA GROUP Ryley Delgado and the group of three people he’s hiking with walk along U.S. Highway 101 to reach the next section of the Oregon Coast Trail. Hikers discover a path less traveled, and it leads through Cannon Beach From left , Peter Carpenter, Bri Hochadel and Ryley Delgado, all from the East Coast, stop for a break outside of Arch Cape while hiking the Oregon Coast Trail. Like dozens of other backpackers this spring, the group abandoned the Pacifi c Crest Trail and started walking the Oregon Coast Trail. The Oregon Coast Trail was offi - cially declared “hikeable” in 1988, a legacy of the state’s landmark 1967 Beach Bill that granted public access B to all of Oregon’s beaches, writes Eu- gene author Bonnie Henderson in her guidebook to the trail. The trail is a O N work in progress. Unlike the world-famous PCT, which winds through remote back- country, the Oregon Coast Trail is what hikers call a “civilized” trail. In NEW PRICE! AFFORDABLE CANNON BEACH CONDO CANNON BEACH $279,000 $302,500 CANNON BEACH OCEANVIEW LOT CANNON BEACH OCEANVIEW CONDO $485,000 $489,000 Clatsop County, sections of the trail are popular as day hikes at Fort Ste- vens , Ecola and Oswald West state parks. In a single day’s trek, a hik- er might start on the beach, cross a highway, dive deep into quiet woods, climb in and out of ravines and end up in a town packed with tourists trying to escape the heat in Portland. The trail is not set up for back- packers, or thru-hikers. Legal camp- sites are few and far between . Differ- ent sections of the trail are maintained at different levels. Gaps exist where hikers must trek along highways or down neighborhood roads, or hitch rides with friendly boaters to get across waterways. Oswald West State Park, for ex- ample, is made up of numerous par- cels of land. Some parcels come with deed restrictions attached that allow or forbid certain activities and limit the department’s options. The dilemma of where they are going to sleep each night weighs on Annichiarico and the others. “The worst thing we could do is give rangers a reason to kick every- one out,” he said. Making Sweet Memories for over 54 Sweet Years! Active Members of What is RMLS? As the Northwest’s largest REALTOR®-owned Multiple Listing Service(MLS), RMLS serves approximately 10,000 Real Estate Professionals in over 2,200 offi ces licensed in Oregon and Washington. R CU EA were the only hikers they encountered who had packed games: Yahtzee and Frisbees. They were put off by PCT hikers obsessed with mileage, whose fi rst question was, “How many miles did you make today?” Then Annichiarico and Carpenter stumbled on the Oregon Coast Trail Closing gaps D I V ISI As he stretches next to a sign pointing back toward Arch Cape, Ry- KATIE FRANKOWICZ/EO MEDIA GROUP th ‘PCT refugees’ while researching alternative routes online. The group canceled a grocery run and started fi guring out how to get to Astoria. They began their hike at South Jetty in Fort Stevens State Park and plan to walk the approxi- mately 400-mile-long trail all the way to where it ends near Brookings at the California border. The trail has been heaven after weeks of California’s deserts, they say. It hugs the Oregon C oast and there are long stretches of fl at beach, cliff sides thick with trees, green woods dense with mosses and ferns. But there are also challenges. TRADING CO. A t the end of June, a woman picked up three young back- packers walking along the highway near Gearhart. They had been hiking the Pacifi c Crest Trail — a 2,650-mile-long path that twists up the West Coast from the Mexico border to Canada — but heavy snowfall in the Sierra Nevada moun- tain range stopped them 700 miles in. Rather than stop hiking, they de- cided to hop over to the lesser -known Oregon Coast Trail. And they aren’t alone. “Everyone is coming here,” they told their driver. This spring, dozens of hikers snowed out of California’s moun- tains or, as the snow melts, faced with dangerous river crossings, have abandoned the Pacifi c Crest Trail and jumped over to the Oregon Coast Trail. But the trail isn’t ready for them. ley Delgado has just been voted his group’s sweatiest hiker. Again. He shrugs. The hikers gather at the edge of a road off U.S. Highway 101 to eat a late breakfast in the shade before continuing on to Falcon Cove in Os- wald West State Park. Bri Hochadel sits cross-legged and looks around at the forest on either side of the road. Peter Carpenter ventures a couple of steps down the trail and then unfolds his sleeping pad to make a more com- fortable seat on the ground next to Hochadel. Tanner Annichiarico, the only Oregonian in the group, remains standing, loosening his heavy pack and stretching his arms. The four hikers started on the Pa- cifi c Crest Trail this spring. They hiked more than 500 miles before they hit snow. They heard it was even worse farther ahead. They didn’t want to split up, but they weren’t sure they wanted to push through the mountains. Should they just wait for the snow to melt? They hadn’t expected to fi nish the PCT anyway. At the leisurely rate they were going, hikers who started two weeks after them had already caught up and passed them by. 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