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In 2021 we’ll once again invite adventurous hikers to join our guided supporters’ treks on new sections of the Transcaucasian Trail.

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Our international volunteer program runs every summer! Learn new skills and make new friends while contributing to the trail’s development.

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Latest Blog Articles

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June 14, 2021

We’ve created a thru-hiking route across Armenia. Now, we’re putting it to the test.

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 […]

May 11, 2021

Why We’re Supporting Dilijan Hikers Hostel (& How You Can Help)

Here at TCT HQ, we dream of a day when a perfectly groomed trail network spans the Caucasus, trodden by intrepid hikers from across the region and the globe, bringing to light the beauty of these wild and ancient places, and helping revitalise mountain communities and conservation efforts at the same time. That day, of […]

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July 31, 2020

Hike Vayots Dzor: New Trails, Ancient Trails, and Navigating Off-Trail with Armenia’s Newest Topo Map

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 […]

July 20, 2020

Announcing Armenia’s Newest Topo Map!

Ah, the old adage: “A good map is hard to find.” (No? Just us?) It’s particularly true in the Caucasus, where we’ve mainly resorted to satellite imagery and combing through old scans of Soviet military maps to figure out potential new routes. So we count ourselves very lucky to have smart friends like the people at […]

May 18, 2020

Can You Help Support the TCT’s 2020 Summer Projects?

Like everyone, we’ve been working to adapt and reprioritize lately. With unprecedented global travel restrictions in place and most of our annual fundraisers cancelled, we’ve developed new– but still ambitious– summer plans. In short: the COVID-19 pandemic has made it impossible to run our international summer programs this year, but we’re not going to let […]