Hike the Rachel Carson Trail

Hike the Rachel Carson Trail

PHOTO BY ANDREW GEE Every year, on the Saturday nearest the summer solstice, the Rachel Carson Trail Challenge invites adventurous souls to embark on a 37-mile endurance trek. Taking place from sunrise to sunset, the hike covers nearly the entire length of the rugged, geographically diverse Rachel Carson Trail, which runs north and east of Pittsburgh and includes a cumulative elevation gain of close to 7,000 feet. Tory Mather, a local outdoor ad…

Rachel Carson’s Sense of Wonder

Installation view of Silent Springs, Windswept Seas: Rachel Carson's Environmental Vision at Beinecke Library, Yale University. Photo by Samantha Annette Photography. Courtesy of Yale University. The image below is Rachel Carson holding binoculars, 1951. Photo by Norman Driscoll. Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Image: Norman J. Driscoll, with permission of the Rachel Carson Council, Inc. Courtesy of Yale University.