Subject:

Gifford Pinchot National Forest

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2012

    Peace, Love, and Handcuffs: The Rainbow Family's Adversarial Relationship With Law Enforcement

    Every Fourth of July, several thousand hippies flock to a different National Forest for the annual Rainbow Family Gathering, and every year several hundred are arrested or cited by local and federal authorities for a variety of (mostly) minor infractions. The 2011 Gathering in southwest Washington w ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 2, 2012

    Missing Persons or Just Misunderstood on the Rainbow Trail?

    When 54-year-old Marie Hanson vanished at the Rainbow Gathering last summer, police initially suspected that she hit the fabled "Rainbow Trail," meaning she cut ties with her family and began drifting from one hippie festival to another. Although it turned out not to be the case with Hanson, the Rai ... More >>

  • News

    February 1, 2012

    Marie Hanson: End of the Rainbow

    A grandma disappears at "hippie Disneyland."

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    End of the Rainbow: Death, Prayer, and Partying at the Rainbow Family Gathering (VIDEO)

    ​Our feature story this week, "End of the Rainbow," investigates the peculiar case of Marie Hanson, a 54-year-old grandmother who disappeared in a remote area of southwest Washington last July during the legendary counterculture bacchanal known as Rainbow Family Gathering. Hanson's skeletal re ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 14, 2011

    James Piles, Rainbow Gathering Hippie, Gives Calm, Positive Interview About the Train that Just Severed His Leg

    ​Here's James Piles. He was strolling back into Portland along the railroad tracks with a buddy this week, having just spent several days at the Rainbow Gathering hippie fest in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, when a train came from behind him, struck his bag, sucked him under the train, and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    March 17, 2010

    Timothy Egan

    ​Here's James Piles. He was strolling back into Portland along the railroad tracks with a buddy this week, having just spent several days at the Rainbow Gathering hippie fest in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, when a train came from behind him, struck his bag, sucked him under the train, and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    December 2, 2009

    Tim Egan

    ​Here's James Piles. He was strolling back into Portland along the railroad tracks with a buddy this week, having just spent several days at the Rainbow Gathering hippie fest in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, when a train came from behind him, struck his bag, sucked him under the train, and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 18, 2009

    Tim Egan

    ​Here's James Piles. He was strolling back into Portland along the railroad tracks with a buddy this week, having just spent several days at the Rainbow Gathering hippie fest in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, when a train came from behind him, struck his bag, sucked him under the train, and ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 14, 2009

    Timothy Egan

    ​Here's James Piles. He was strolling back into Portland along the railroad tracks with a buddy this week, having just spent several days at the Rainbow Gathering hippie fest in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, when a train came from behind him, struck his bag, sucked him under the train, and ... More >>

  • Arts

    October 14, 2009

    The Weekly Wire: This Week’s Recommended Events

    ​Here's James Piles. He was strolling back into Portland along the railroad tracks with a buddy this week, having just spent several days at the Rainbow Gathering hippie fest in Gifford Pinchot National Forest, when a train came from behind him, struck his bag, sucked him under the train, and ... More >>

  • News

    December 11, 2002

    Chainsaw Politics

    Some environmentalists think the way to deal with Bush forest policy is to cut a deal that involves cutting a lot of trees.

  • News

    September 4, 2002

    Spotted Owls on the Outs

    Supposedly saved, biologists now count half as many on federal land.

  • Diversions

    July 3, 2002

    Outdoorsman

    Independent Celebrations

  • News

    June 5, 2002

    Cutting the Giff

    Activists prepare to fight timber harvests in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

  • News

    May 29, 2002

    Who Said It?

    Activists prepare to fight timber harvests in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest.

  • News

    June 14, 2000

    Sierra clubbed

    Environmentalists break out their axes over a green tree-cutting scheme.

  • News

    April 28, 1999

    SMASH SEATTLE!

    Where and how to mount the barricades.

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