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Cabox Geopark Submits Application Dossier

After several months preparing document and annexes, on February 26 Cabox Aspiring Geopark submitted its official application dossier to the Canadian Geopark Network (CGN). Submitting the dossier is the first step in a 2-3 year application process that, if successful, leads to the designation of Cabox as a UNESCO Global Geopark, one of three…

Gregory River to Shoal Point Traverse

On August 9, 2024, IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol and Appalachian explorer Lew Coty from Stowe, Vermont made a Gregory Mountains traverse from Gregory River to Shoal Point Cove. The adventure began early in the morning at the intersection of Mogul ATV Trail and Chimney Cove Road 2km south of Trout River Campground where Gros…

Work Completed on Stage 1 of East Blow-Me-Down Trail

From spring to fall 2024, the International Appalachian Trail Newfoundland and Labrador (IATNL) in conjunction with Cabox Aspiring Geopark developed the first stage of the East Blow-Me-Down Trail off the Forestry Access Road above Benoit’s Cove on Route 450 on the south side of Humber Arm, Bay of Islands. The trail replaces an excavator track…

Lew Coty’s Triple Crown

There they lie, lined up like bowling pins on the north side of Rt 430 (The Viking Trail), southeast of Rocky Harbour. Travelling from the north they are Big Hill, Killdevil Mountain, and an unnamed mountain I call Dicks Peak that rises up to the east of Dicks Brook. They aren’t really isolated peaks so…

Work Starting Soon on East Blow Me Down Trail

In Spring 2024, work will begin on the East Blow Me Down Trail, a 4km backcounty hiking route that will connect the Forestry Access Road above Benoit’s Cove on the south shore of Humber Arm to the eastern end of the Blow Me Down Ophiolite Massif. The new International Appalachian Trail Newfoundland and Labrador (IATNL)…

Celebrating the Solstice

Appalachian hiker Lew Coty from Vermont makes an annual pilgrimage to Western Newfoundland in August to spend a month exploring the mountains and coastlines of Newfoundland's Long Range Mountains, North America's northern terminus of the Appalachian-Caledonian Orogeny.  Some might wonder what he does at home in winter, besides tend to trees on his maple syrup…

Scouting the Virgin Mary Hills

Another chapter in the Adventures of Lew Coty! "It was near the end of my Newfoundland vacation when I spend over a month hiking into the backcountry every year. Paul Wylezol who heads the IATNL was eager to do some exploring and suggested hiking into the hills south of Little Port not far from the…

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