Evan Bush is a science reporter for NBC News.
Already this year, 26 wildfires have burned along the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail, which travels along the spine of California, Oregon and Washington and has long been considered one of America’s spectacular thru-hikes. The blazes have forced 16 parts of the trail to close, leaving hikers hastily arranging rides around them. Father-son duo Thijs Koekkoek, 52, and Taime Teesseling, 17, spent four months hiking the trail this year, from Southern California to the Canadian border.
Many prepare for their journeys with the assumption that they will skip several sections of trail due to fires, or “flip-flop” — return back later. Others attempt to string together complicated workaround paths. Karen Altergott, a 2022 thru-hiker, was forced off the trail near Stehekin, Washington, after she developed a hacking cough, headache and sore throat from three days of hiking through smoke. “My lungs felt full of liquid,” she said.
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