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By working on trail maintenance projects with other passionate PCT volunteers, you will help the trail, and you’ll help thousands of hikers for years to come. Trail maintainers, section adopters, scouts, and the rest of the thousands of people in our formal volunteer program would like your help. We’d like to offer a plug and speak directly: there is a huge need for volunteers who want to work on trail maintenance crews and projects. When considering appropriate forms of trail magic, please recall Leave No Trace principles, including being considerate to other visitors, respecting wildlife and disposing of waste properly. For the philosophers wanting a deeper dive into this vision work, please read our Statement of the Trail Experience. Consider whether you are intruding on that. It’s also a place to practice self-reliance and personal growth to meet the challenge found along the trail. Photo of southbound thru-hikers in Glacier Peak Wilderness. We travel the Pacific Crest Trail seeking challenge, solitude and independence. The cumulative weight of many such encounters can be overwhelming and detract from one’s ability to “get away from it all.” Frequent intrusions from trail angels or a loud party with signs advertising it and dozens of people - however well-meaning - can negatively affect someone’s planned solitude. The Pacific Crest Trail exists in part to provide an escape from the city into the natural world.

Overdone trail magic is no longer magical. Sometimes, kind acts have unintended downsides. With the increasing popularity of “trail angeling,” it’s important for people to consider their unintended impact on the trail and other people’s experience. To be a trail angel, simply start by doing nice things! Keep trail magic low impact and Leave No Trace. It’s an informal system not organized by the Pacific Crest Trail Association. Hundreds of new people are getting involved in providing rides, food, and places to stay on the PCT.

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How to be a trail angel and provide organized trail magic.

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Offering professional services for free: like the foot doctor or dentist who waives their fees.

Feeding hungry hikers: offering picnics to hikers and horseback riders.

Hosting: people who bring hikers and horseback riders into their homes, offering safe places to sleep, wash clothes, eat.

Rides: the vast community of trail town locals who give rides to and from the trail because public transit doesn’t exist or is inconvenient.

There are various types of organized trail magic: Hikers head back to the trail after spending the night in town. You have poison oak and find the right balm for it in the hiker box. You meet the love of your life at mile 2,278. You’re offered a job around the campfire. It’s trail magic when you run into a childhood friend you haven’t seen in years. It’s strongly related to the PCT truism, “The trail provides.” It can be a moment of extreme beauty, feelings of connectedness or a remarkable wildlife experience that becomes trail magic when a hiker really needs it to continue. Trail magic often happens naturally – it’s not structured or planned. It’s the experiences that are almost too hard to believe. These are the serendipitous moments or almost mystical happenings. The trail provides: the original meaning refers to the magical moments that happen on the trail. Trail magic has multiple meanings and it’s one of the truly wonderful aspects of the Pacific Crest Trail experience. Trail magic is an act of goodwill you can perform or a remarkable moment that you might experience on the Pacific Crest Trail. Practice logical caution: not all hikers, or people you meet in town, are “angelic.” Learn more.