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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Written by a fundraising hike participant Having always lived in big cities, I make a point of spending my holidays walking in nature away from noise and air pollution as well as from crowded urban environments. In 2018, I chose the Armenian highlands in the South Caucasus as my multi-day trekking destination. This wasn’t entirely […]
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… […]
