For the past four years, we’ve run volunteer trail building camps in Georgia and Armenia. And each summer, a diverse group of passionate, hardworking, fun individuals has descended on the growing hiking hubs of the Caucasus. They’ve worked on hundreds of kilometers of trail. They’ve learned how to swing Pulaskis, whacked through overgrown fields with […]
This is a guest post by Val Ismaili, who in 2017 completed an 800km thru-hike of Armenia and returned in 2019 with another ambitious goal: to establish brand new rock-climbing routes among the stunning cliffs of Dilijan National Park. In 2017, I travelled to the Caucasus for the first time. It was a four-month-long trip […]
It seems 2020 might just be the start of Armenia’s tourism boom, with the country appearing on countless listings of hot new destinations, and the Transcaucasian Trail being named one of TIME magazine’s 100 Greatest Places. Following this trend, three European airlines – Ryanair, Wizzair and Air Baltic – have announced new cheap flights to […]
We’re happy to announce the full calendar of annual supporters’ treks in Armenia next year – including a brand new itinerary in southern Syunik, for which we (already!) have only one spot remaining! With Ryanair announcing new routes to Yerevan via Berlin, Rome and Milan, it’ll never have been easier or more affordable to sample […]
Since the early days of the Transcaucasian Trail we’ve experimented with drone mapping to further our trail-building ambitions and make our work more effective. The technology has progressed at an incredible pace since then, and now we’re very happy to announce DroneDeploy as our team in Armenia’s newest sponsor! DroneDeploy’s world-leading drone software is typically […]
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, […]
Last year, the Transcaucasian Trail Association was pleased to support Giorgi Jmukhadze in his participation in Earth Corps, an outdoor leadership program in Seattle that brings together US and international volunteers to learn about environmental issues, trail building, and land management while working on conservation corps crews in parks throughout the Puget Sound region of […]
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 […]
