Pacific Northwest Trail, Washington to Montana

The Pacific Northwest Trail (PNT) travels 1,200 miles through Montana, Idaho, and Washington from near the Continental Divide in Glacier National Park to the Pacific Ocean on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. About 63 miles of the trail passes through North Cascades National Park Service Complex, which includes both the National Park and Ross Lake National Recreation Area. PNT travelers fall into one of three categories:

• “Thru-hikers” is the term for those traveling the entire 1,200 mile length of the PNT in continuous, single year trip.
• “Long distance hikers” are those traveling more than 500 continuous miles along the trail in a single trip.
• “Section hikers” includes everyone traveling less than 500 miles in a single trip or doing more than one hiking trip on the PNT in a year.

-https://www.nps.gov/noca/planyourvisit/pacific-northwest-trail.htm