The Local’s Guide to Trail Running in the Pacific Northwest
Lauren Gastineau has been running in the Pacific Northwest for as long as she can remember.
“I started running with my mom,” says Gastineau, a trail runner and travel blogger who grew up in Portland and is now based in Bend, Oregon. “She was always training for marathons, and she would bring me to the track when I was just four or five years old.” But even after a lifetime spent on the Pacific Northwest’s fern-draped singletrack and alpine ridgelines, Gastineau still feels like she’s only scratched the surface.
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“There are so many incredible trails to explore, and many are really close to major towns,” she says. “You can go from the mountains to the coast to the high desert in a matter of hours.” On top of that, each trail takes on a completely different demeanor from season to season. In summer, alpine wildflowers carpet the mountain slopes, while fall dyes the forests red and gold. Sometimes, Gastineau says, it feels like you never run the same trail twice; there’s always something new to discover.
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