I'm about 300 miles east of where I was when last we met. I have left the gardenesque Pacific Northwest behind. I'm now in the Wallowa Mountains of eastern Oregon, where the rolling hills and valleys ...

From mid May to the first of October, getting to the top of Mount Howard at 8,200 feet in the Wallowa Mountains is not quite the arduous trek it could be. To reach the top of Mount Howard, one needs ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — A Portland State University professor has just done something no one else has done before, and few people have even attempted. He’s climbed all the major peaks in Easter Oregon ...

No matter how much I love the challenge of climbing a mountain — that primordial test of trudging thousands of feet uphill — there's something darkly satisfying about cheating your way to the summit.

Step off the Wallowa Lake Tramway and onto the trails near 8,250-foot Mt. Howard at the edge of northeastern Oregon’s Eagle Cap Wilderness, and you’ll quickly max out an SD card on your digital camera ...

BAKER CITY – Rocky Mountain goats captured in the Elkhorn Mountains near Baker City were transplanted at a location near Eagle Creek in the Wallowa Mountains July 12-16. The effort was conducted by ...

The Wallowa mountains of Oregon also merit a place on that list. Situated in the extreme northeastern corner of the state, about 200 miles south of Spokane, the Wallowas are known by some as the “Alps ...

With so much to see in Joseph and the surrounding Wallowa Mountains, how do you decide what to do? We recently spent three nights in the remote corner of northeast Oregon, trying to answer that very ...

But carrying heavy loads on foot for days at a time as you move through these mountains is no small undertaking. "Oregon Field Guide" photographer Michael Bendixen found one man who helps travelers ...

JOSEPH, Ore. — We explore a corner of the state where scenery takes the breath away and you must peddle to enjoy the views of the Wallowa Mountains, Oregon’s Swiss Alps of the West. Not long ago, we ...

This is the third part in a four-part series on trail running through the seasons of northeast Oregon's wild "Wallowa country." BY JOE WHITTLE Late spring in Wallowa County is a confusion of all the ...