Trevor Loring Williams

Trevor Loring Williams passed away peacefully at home on May 16, 2026, after a five-and-a-half-year walk with stage 4 colon cancer. He faced cancer the same way he approached every other adventure in his life: with thoughtfulness, intention, steadiness, quiet courage, humble strength, persistence, and deep curiosity about the world around him.

Trevor was born in Anchorage, Alaska, to Brian and Joyce Williams. From an early age, it was clear that Trevor moved through life differently than most. He pursued the things that mattered to him wholeheartedly and with remarkable intensity. Whether it was an idea, a landscape, a challenge, or a belief, Trevor followed it fully.

After growing up in Maple Valley, Washington, where he was active in student leadership throughout school, Trevor attended Eastern Washington University before beginning a career in finance as a day trader. Though successful in that world, Trevor increasingly realized that his deepest passions existed elsewhere — in mountains, forests, swamps, rivers, and the quiet freedom of moving through wild places under his own power.

During those years, Trevor immersed himself in endurance sports and mountaineering, completing two Ironman triathlons and climbing peaks including Mount Rainier and Mount Baker multiple times. He sought challenge not for achievement alone, but for the perspective, humility, and connection it offered.

In 2011, Trevor began volunteering with the National Park Service at Mount Rainier National Park and Olympic National Park. He was soon hired as a seasonal wilderness backcountry ranger for Olympic National Park, a role that fit him completely. For many years, Trevor helped protect and care for the wilderness he loved so deeply while guiding others to experience it safely and respectfully.

He also worked in Florida at Big Cypress National Preserve as a wildland firefighter specializing in prescribed fire and land protection work, and spent five months living alone in the remote backcountry wilderness of Payette National Forest. Trevor believed deeply in living responsibly within the natural world and spent much of his life helping preserve it.

In 2015, Trevor met his wife, Paige Jones, on the trails of Olympic National Park. Together they built a life rooted in adventure, love, tenderness, and connection to the outdoors. In 2021, they moved to Port Townsend, where Trevor spent the final years of his life deeply invested in the community, surrounded by extraordinary friends, trails, mountains, water, pickleball courts, and the rhythms of the place he came to call home. Locally, he worked for the YMCA, Jefferson Land Trust, and Northwest Watershed Institute.

Those who knew Trevor knew someone who walked through life on his own terms. He consistently chose the less traveled path - often the more difficult one - believing that slowing down, paying attention, and stepping outside convention opened the door to a richer and more honest life. Trevor inspired many people not simply through what he accomplished, but through the way he lived: independently, intentionally, curiously, and in deep relationship with the earth.

He noticed things other people missed. He believed in traveling by foot and bicycle whenever possible, in caring for the land immediately around you, in rejecting excess and consumerism, and in finding meaning through simplicity, effort, and presence. He reminded others that there are many ways to live a life, and that beauty often exists just beyond the familiar path.

Trevor is survived by his wife, Paige Jones; his parents, Brian and Joyce Williams; his brother, Tanner Williams (Kara); dog, Dove; and a wide community of beloved friends and family whose lives were profoundly changed by knowing him.

A Celebration of Life will be held on June 13, 2026, at 2:00 p.m. at Kodama Farm. Please RSVP at the attached link. https://pp.events/trevorloringwilliams

The best way to honor Trevor is to drive less, and walk and bike more. Slow down. Care for the place you live. Plant something native. Explore somewhere you have never been before. Take the long way home (on foot).

Trevor lived a life marked by fierce independence, quiet tenderness, deep integrity, and reverence for the natural world. He leaves behind a legacy of curiosity, presence, adventure, and love that will continue to ripple outward through everyone fortunate enough to have known him.

He will be utterly, deeply missed.