Rachael Plunkett

Day hikers looking to break into overnight trips can find adventure in Oregon’s mountain wildernesses, with short adventures in the glorious backcountry of the Elkhorn and Wallowa mountain ranges. More

To enjoy Oregon's crisp winter air and the peaceful quiet of a snow-dusted landscape, there is little better than putting on a pair of cross-country skis and gliding through the forest on a classic track. More

If it’s your first winter-photography excursion in Eastern Oregon, try these simple camera tricks that improve images even with a simple phone camera. More

With one of the widest geographic ranges of all the conifers, the larch family is known for its very peculiar habits: It loses its needles, more like deciduous maple or oak trees than its evergreen counterparts. Growing on mountain slopes, in valleys and in swampy areas, larches can be found with Douglas fir and ponderosa pine companions in great masses in Eastern Oregon. More

I started to wonder what we had gotten ourselves into after the sun dipped below Eastern Oregon’s Wallowa Mountains. There was not a single light in sight besides our own headlamps as we set up our camera gear, serenaded by coyotes yipping to the moonless sky. More