
Peak Northwest
Hosted by Chiara Profenna · The Oregonian/OregonLive
4.5from 156 ratings
- 358
- Episodes
- 129
- Transcribed
- 156
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2019
- First episode
- 363M
- YouTube views
About Peak Northwest
Hosts Jamie Hale and Chiara Profenna take you to some of the greatest destinations in Oregon and the Pacific Northwest.
- Publisher
- The Oregonian/OregonLive
- Category
- society & culture · sports
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 7 Nov 2019
- Latest episode
- 8 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
129 of 358 episodes have a transcript.

8 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
How one Oregon group is making hiking more accessible for wheelchair users

1 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
This breathtaking Washington wilderness offers much more than its famous Pacific Crest Trail stretch

24 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Planning an Ashland trip? Here's what to do beyond the Shakespeare Festival
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How one Oregon group is making hiking more accessible for wheelchair users
Published 8 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] The hikes that I design are always wheelchair accessible, but there's a lot that aren't wheelchair accessible, but they might be accessible for somebody else. So accessibility has a wide range of abilities. So that's pretty much what we do. So that's how we really encourage people to get up by letting them know what to expect. A lot of times we have to worry about, you know, like, Are the bathrooms there? Are the bathrooms far apart? Are they accessible? The terrain is really important, too. But everything that we try to do is on access recreation, and that kind of helps to do that kind of thing. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Franklin Ouchida
- Heather Bowers
- Veronica Nocera
- Allison Barr
- Jess Liotta
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 363,148,554
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 122 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 34 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 82 / 100
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- Quality
- 81
- Social presence
- 94
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 67
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Chiara Profenna host the show. Published by The Oregonian/OregonLive.
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