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Ferris Jabr

Ferris Jabr is a writer based in Portland. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American and Outside, among other publications.

Trekking the Oregon Desert Trail

September 7, 2017
Compared to famous routes such as the Appalachian Trail, the ODT is young and obscure. It began to take shape one evening in 2010 in the restless mind of Brent Fenty, executive director of the Oregon Natural Desert Association, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting the state’s high desert. More
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