GOAT ROCKS WILDERNESS, Wash. -- After two days of walking, Andy Wunder and Sivan Goobich are miles away from the nearest road or cell phone signal. They’ve been getting their drinking water from ...

They told us to watch for goats and avoid the crowds. At the trailhead to Snowgrass Flats in the Goat Rocks Wilderness, two women from the Seattle area were peeling off their boots after a multiday ...

Backpacking in the high country of the Cascades is exhilarating for many reasons. Among them is that it’s only accessible for a few months of the year. That window is open now. And few places in ...

The Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail through Goat Rocks is popular, but many locations in the wilderness are hard to reach due to roads lacking maintenance. (Files/ The Columbian) SEATTLE — The ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sep. 6—The Goat Rocks Wilderness Fire roughly 7 miles northeast of Packwood has grown to 80 acres. While fire activity has been ...

The Goat Rocks Fire has grown to 1,200 acres and is threatening neighborhoods around Packwood in Lewis County. Miles Stipek Courtesy of U.S. Forest Service UPDATE: This story has been updated to a ...

The Goat Rocks Wilderness Fire roughly 7 miles northeast of Packwood has grown to 80 acres. Courtesy of the U.S. Forest Service The Goat Rocks Wilderness Fire grew to 80 acres late last week, and ...

Packwood Lake with Agnes Island in the foreground and Johnson Peak in the Goat Rocks Wilderness in background. The U.S. Forest Service prohibits access to Agnes Island. The (Vancouver, Wash.) ...

YAKIMA - A fire was burning Thursday in a remote section of the Goat Rocks Wilderness, west of Yakima. Firefighters with the Gifford Pinchot National Forest said they were monitoring a 6-acre wildfire ...

The Goat Rocks Fire has grown to 1,200 acres and is threatening neighborhoods around Packwood in Lewis County. Miles Stipek Courtesy of U.S. Forest Service U.S. Forest Service ordered evacuations of ...

Sep. 6—The Goat Rocks Wilderness Fire roughly 7 miles northeast of Packwood has grown to 80 acres. While fire activity has been subdued since the fire grew in size Friday and Saturday, officials with ...