Jamie Hale | The Oregonian/OregonLive

Jamie Hale is the outdoors and travel reporter for The Oregonian/OregonLive. He spends his time traveling Oregon and the Pacific Northwest to help guide travelers to the region’s best trails, small towns and roadside attractions. Jamie co-hosts the Peak Northwest podcast and co-hosts the Peak Northwest video series. His passion is in finding the ways we connect with each other and with the natural world around us. He started covering travel in 2016, after two years on the events beat in Portland. He graduated with a journalism degree from the University of Maryland in 2010, and worked at newspapers in Idaho, New Mexico and Pennsylvania before returning home to Oregon.