Washington Trails to Be Bimonthly

In March, WTA members will notice some changes to Washington Trails magazine when they open their mailboxes.

Most importantly, we've decided to change our publication schedule from 10 issues per year to bimonthly (6 issues per year). This was not an easy decision to make, but it will allow us to more efficiently and economically spend our member donations on efforts to protect and maintain our state's trails.

To compensate for this change, we're also making some exciting improvements. First, we'll be adding 12 pages of full color to every issue of Washington Trails. That means you'll be able to see those autumn larches in all their golden glory, and so many other fantastic photos from hiking destinations as they really look in the wild. We'll also be boosting the page count of each magazine slightly.

Second, over the next few months we'll be adding even more content to our website. Look for more articles in the news section of our our website, and in all of our different program areas. We'll include more articles from members online, and begin to post our magazine articles online in html format rather than in the static PDF format we're currently using.

These changes will help us better deliver the great hiking info you've come to expect from WTA to our members and the broader hiking community.

We appreciate all that our members do for us--we literally couldn't do it without you. If you've enjoyed using WTA's website as a resource, or appreciate the work we do leading volunteer trail crews or speaking up for trails in Olympia and Washington, D.C. I urge you to join your fellow hikers in supporting WTA.

We'd like to hear your feedback on this. Please post a comment.

Also, FYI I'm going to be away from the Signpost Blog until early March, and our able staff, including Steve Duda--our web content manager--will be blogging in my absence.