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 […]
Ever since we began work on the Transcaucasian Trail in 2015, we’ve all been working towards our vision of a world-class, long-distance trail stretching across the entire South Caucasus region. Our shared goal: to highlight the beauty and diversity of the South Caucasus, to create more cross-border connections around a shared love of the natural […]
For the past five years, our team has been chipping away at the monumental task of creating a 3,000-kilometer trail network across the Caucasus. It’s been slow work finding old trails, building new trails, and creating the resources necessary to help hikers have a safe and enjoyable experience. But it’s been work richly rewarded in […]
This is a guest post by Alessandro Mambelli, Director & Co-Founder of our longtime partner Cartisan. Cartisan has been working to create the Caucasus’ first high-quality topographic hiking maps since 2018, and they just released their new map of the Vayots Dzor region– which we just took out on the trails for the first time.Ale […]
Thick sunlight is dripping through the tree canopy, illuminating mossy branches of ancient hornbeam trees. We cross one gurgling stream, winding its way through a carpet of green, then another, and the forest itself seems to glow in the moist rising heat after a rain shower. It’s early November — and still green, still glowing […]
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 […]
