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. […]
Katya’s story about her recent adventure across Armenia continues — if you haven’t read Part 1 yet, now is the time! Katya spent 22 days this summer running the TCT Armenia and captured the Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the trail — no easy feat! While she ran most of the trail alone, she had […]
Katya, ultrarunner living in the UK, spent 21 days and 8 hours this past June running the TCT Armenia in pursuit of the Fastest Known Time (FKT) on the trail. Spoiler alert: she did it! We caught up with her (literally!) on the trail, as our own executive director, Meagan, joined her for four days […]
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 […]
