Welcome back to Day 5 of #BlazeTheTCT! Today, we leave the desert far behind and embark on one of the most remote and challenging sections of the Transcaucasian Trail: traversing the rugged highlands of the Gegham Mountains. There’s no towns up here, no village markets or shelters– only the wide-open landscape, the big booming sky, […]
Welcome to Day 4 of #BlazeTheTCT! Today, we’re continuing our journey along the Transcaucasian Trail, following the 1500-kilometer North-South route that connects Armenia and Georgia. Each day, we’re highlighting a new 100-kilometer section of the trail and some of our favorite people and places along the way. Bit by bit, we’re inching towards the Black […]
Welcome to Day 3 of #BlazeTheTCT! Today, we’re continuing our journey along the Transcaucasian Trail, following the 1500-kilometer North-South route that connects Armenia and Georgia. Each day, we’re highlighting a new 100-kilometer section of the trail and some of our favorite people and places along the way. Bit by bit, we’re inching towards the Black […]
Gooooood morning, intrepid hikers! Today, we’re continuing our journey along the Transcaucasian Trail, following the 1500-kilometer North-South route that connects Armenia and Georgia. Each day, we’re highlighting a new 100-kilometer section of the trail and some of our favorite people and places along the way. Bit by bit, we’re inching towards the Black Seat coast […]
Welcome to day 1 of #BlazeTheTCT! If you’ve been following us for a while, you’ll have seen a lot of information about the different projects happening along the TCT– our conservation corps, our volunteer programs, our maps and trail resources, our supporters’ treks. But over the next two weeks, we want to do something different. […]
We’ve got one last exciting update for you this holiday season: Our newest trail section, this time in Georgia!This new 74 kilometer stage of the Transcaucasian Trail weaves through pastoral valleys, thick forests, and looming alpine cliffs as it climbs from the low agricultural valleys of Imereti into the rugged high mountains of Racha in northern Georgia.After two years of […]
We are excited to announce the second TCT trail section in Azerbaijan: a 102km trek through the high mountains and deep canyons of the Guba and Gusar regions of Northern Azerbaijan! The Guba-Gusar trek doesn’t follow a perfectly straight line – instead we’ve pieced together a route that makes sure you don’t miss out on […]
There’s no better way to start a new year than with planning new adventures – and TCT’s got a fresh, exhilarating new adventure for our hikers. After a big year of trail development, we’re thrilled to start 2022 by launching the first section of the Transcaucasian Trail in Azerbaijan!
Happy holidays from the TCT Team! As we close out the year, we want to say a huge thanks to everyone who was part of the TCT in some way in 2021: all the volunteers who joined us on the trail, the crew leaders who put weeks into their training, the hikers who shared their […]
Click here for the Armenian version of this post. Սեղմեք այստեղ հայերեն լեզվով կարդալու համար։ Today we’re celebrating a true milestone for the Transcaucasian Trail: the launch of our first national route section. Yes, you read that right: there’s now an 827km (514mi) route the full length of Armenia, fully mapped, beta-tested, and waiting to […]
