This is the 9th instalment in a series of Q&As with past TCT volunteers. The aim of this series is twofold: to provide information about what it is like to volunteer with us, and to preserve our antics for posterity. TCT: This is a grassroots project with a marketing budget of precisely zero. Given that, how did […]
This is the 8th instalment in a series of Q&As with past TCT volunteers. The aim of this series is twofold: to provide information about what it is like to volunteer with us, and to preserve our antics for posterity. TCT: What is something we might not know about you otherwise? Lusine: In my junior year of […]
Great news if you’re planning to hike the Transcaucasian Trail loop in Dilijan National Park this summer – the first batch of Cartisan’s new hiking maps have just arrived from the printer and will be shipping in the next couple of weeks! To be more precise, they’ve arrived at Cartisan co-founder Simon’s place in Berlin, […]
If you’re keen to join a group hike on the Transcaucasian Trail next year and support our work in the process, you’ll be interested to hear that applications for 2019’s group fundraising treks are now open! We’re pleased to offer three sets of dates throughout the summer in both Georgia and Armenia. See below for […]
We’re relieved and grateful in equal measure to know this project will happen – but it’s not too late to claim your copy of the brand new hiking map of Dilijan National Park, Armenia, as there are still a couple of days to go! In anticipation of this, we believe it’s important to be fully […]
With a nerve-wracking 4 days left until the deadline at midnight PST this Sunday, we want to thank the 211 backers who have helped us reach an amazing 90% of our USD $12,900 target. Every contribution, no matter how small, is another step closer to the goal! Today we want to try and answer some […]
It’s no secret that detailed mapping of Armenia needs to be vastly improved, for locals as well as for foreign visitors. It’s why the Transcaucasian Trail is supporting a crowdfunding campaign to produce an all-new hiking map of Dilijan National Park. But collecting the data needed to map a whole country in such detail is a […]
This is a guest post by Jennine Walker, who last year completed the 5-day Transcaucasian Trail section through Dilijan National Park with a group of friends – with the help of an early prototype of our forthcoming crowdfunded map. We think her beautiful (and very flattering) words match the thru-hiking experience perfectly. See if you agree… […]
We’ve just pressed the launch button on the latest TCT-supported crowdfunding campaign on IndieGoGo! This time, our goal is nothing less than to create and publish the first 1:25,000-scale printed topographical hiking map of the region, covering Armenia’s stunning Dilijan National Park, and including an 80km-long section of the Transcaucasian Trail. It’ll be the first […]
This is a guest post by Val Ismaili, who in July 2018 returned to Mtirala National Park to reattempt a thru-hike through this dense patch of rainforest near the Black Sea Coast. With him was Lea Geibels, who was nearing the end of her own 1,500km trek through Armenia and Georgia on the prototype southern […]
