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"The International Applalachian Trail extends the original AT past Maine’s Mount Katahdin north through 1,830 miles of regged eastern Canadian wilderness, including Newfoundland’s Gros Morne National Park, which is rife with freshwater fjords. And that’s just the start. International agreements are in the works to expand the trail hundreds of miles through Greenland, Scotland, Ireland,…

Virtual Hike

The history and development of the trail was detailed in stunning pictures of the mountainous landscape between Maine and Morocco. The presentation explained how plate tectonics affected the breakup of the original mountains. The International Appalachian Trail was proposed on Earth Day 1994 by Gov. Joe Brennan, Dick Anderson and Don Hudson. The three envisioned…

Eco-Trailblazer

According to the website www.howmanyofme.com, there are 7,505 Richard Andersons in the United States. But to people familiar with Maine’s environmental history, there is only one. Revisit any of the milestones in Maine’s journey from the polluted waters and scarred lands of 50 years ago to the clean, green vistas of today, and you’ll find…

Breaking A Snowshoe Trail To The Hummock

On January 30, IAT President Paul Wylezol and Finance Director Kevin Noseworthy headed out of Frenchman’s Cove to break a snowshoe trail to the Hummock. The route followed the Hummock Trail to the base of the Hummock, across the adjacent mountain range, then down the worker access trail and back to Frenchman’s Cove. …

First Snowfall On New Humber Village Trail

On December 30, IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol and Vice Chair Arne Helgeland joined Humber Village resident Andrew May on a short one-hour wintery trek of a new access trail connecting the small riverside community to the IATNL’s Humber Valley Trail. The new trail winds its way up a forested hillside to a barren 900…

IATNL Completes Overfalls Trail in Gros Morne National Park

On November 12, the International Appalachian Trail Newfoundland Labrador (IATNL)completed the new Overfalls Trail in Gros Morne National Park.  The trail begins at the eastern end of Trout River Pond after a scenic 1-hour boat ride along the south side of the Tablelands, a 2,000ft+ (600m+) mountain range of peridotite mantle rock heaved up through…

IAT Annual General Meeting

The International Appalachian Trail held its Annual General Meeting in Dalhousie, New Brunswick on October 28-30, with representatives from Maine, New Brunswick, Quebec, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, Newfoundland Labrador, and European Coast Alive partner Denmark. The two-day event opened Thursday evening at the Best Western Manoir Adelaide, with a reception and…

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