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The Pacific Crest Trail Conference evolved into the Pacific Crest Trail Association (PCTA) in 1992. Today, the PCTA is a nonprofit organization that stewards the trail under a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, and Bureau of Land Management. The PCTA protects, preserves, and promotes the trail. Some of their key activities include trail maintenance, protecting the trail from urban encroachment and the scars of resource extraction, and sharing trail information. The staff at the PCTA was tremendously helpful while I was researching this guide. The royalties from this book will be donated to the PCTA to care for the trail. If you enjoy hiking on the PCT, you may find volunteering on a trail crew deeply satisfying. For more information, see www.pcta.org.

Several individuals have contributed ideas or reviews that have improved this book. They include Tony Condon, Sally Harris, Anitra Kass, Joe Sheehy, Elizabeth Thomas, and Fritz Ward. Also, numerous students from the Claremont Colleges On the Loose outdoor club have joined me scouting the trails.