Bigfoot Trail Tales

The Klamath Mountains are shaped by movement — rivers carving canyons, fire renewing forests, salmon returning upstream, and people traveling trails that connect communities across Northwest California. Now, a new generation is stepping onto those trails. The Klamath Mountain Workforce Training Network , is a regional collaborative helping young people gain hands-on experience in trail stewardship...

Some people meet the Klamath Mountains only once or twice in their lives. Others feel the call so strongly that it becomes a kind of compass. Dr. Brad Marston — physicist, professor at Brown University , and our 2025 Volunteer of the Year — is one of those people whose life keeps bending back toward this rugged, rain-washed country. In this episode of Bigfoot Trail Tales , we sit down with Brad to...

A Life in the Saddle For nearly five decades, Ken Graves has ridden into the wilderness with horses at his side and purpose in his heart. As a seasoned horse packer on the Shasta-Trinity National Forest , Ken has spent most of his career navigating the rugged beauty of the Yolla Bolly-Middle Eel Wildernes s — hauling tools, gear, and stories into the backcountry. A Conversation with Ken Graves In...

Congratulations to Sylas and Oliver! We are excited to announce that our 2024 Volunteers of the Year are Sylas Kauffmann and Oliver Bullwinkle. They each volunteered 118 hours doing trail work across two week-long trips. The first trip was into the Siskiyou Wilderness where they worked on the Bigfoot Trail from Poker Flat toward Young's Valley. Their second trip of the summer was to the Russian Wi...

For this episode we spoke with Eva Pointkowski who solo hiked around 200 miles of the Bigfoot Trail this summer. Eva grew up in the San Francisco area and nurtured her love of the outdoors in the Sierra Nevada. On a hike in the Marble Mountain Wilderness last year she learned of the Bigfoot Trail when she met one of our Trail Crews. In June 2024 she set out to do the southern half of the trail fro...

We are re-launching our podcast here at the Bigfoot Trail Alliance with a redux of one we recorded in 2015. Mary Kwart, now a board member, ended her adventure in August 2015 and sat down with Michael Kauffmann to tell her Bigfoot Trail Tales. In this episode we explore details of Mary's hike and the affects of fire on the long distance hiking community. Mary's PostHoler Report

A podcast with Scott Herriott Michael Kauffmann and Cliff Berkowitz spoke with Scott Herriott about his adventures last summer on the Bigfoot Trail and His creation of a Bigfoot Trail Film. He hiked the entire trail, shooting about 30 hours of film which turned into a 75 minute documentary called "Asquatchalypse Now." Scott will be in the region for two screenings. Monday February 1...