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From April 19 to 27, four students from Algonquin College in the Ottawa Valley’s Outdoor Adventure Leadership Program will be in the mountains of Western Newfoundland completing their Final Expedition. The group will spend 7 days and 6 nights winter…

On April 22 at the Annual IAT Council Meeting in Halifax-Dartmouth, IAT Greenland Director Rene Kristensen and IAT Greenland member Hans Gundel gave a slideshow presentation of their 2009 two-week trail blazing trek of what would become the new IAT…

On April 22-23 at the Annual IAT Council Meeting in Halifax-Dartmouth, Greenland joined the International Appalachian Trail as the 7th official chapter. In attendance from Greenland were IAT Greenland Director Rene Kristensen and his Greenlander hiking friend Hans Gundel.…

On March 22 IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol and Signage Director Delano Pittman made a one-day snowmobile trip into the Long Range Mountains of the Northern Peninsula to scout out the recently created CBPPL-IATNL Special Management Areas at Brian’s Pond Inner…

On March 25-26, IAT President Paul Wylezol gave a slide show presentation of the IAT at the Binational Tourism Summit in Niagara Falls, New York. The host Binational Tourism Alliance is a not-for-profit tourism industry trade organization created to…

From February 19 to 21, IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol, Communications Director Greg Wood, and Treasurer Kevin Noseworthy attended the Boston Globe Travel Show. The IATNL was an exhibitor with its own booth to promote the International Appalachian Trail. …

Corner Brook Pulp and Paper Limited and the International Appalachian Trail Newfoundland and Labrador have entered into an agreement to protect five areas of western Newfoundland where the trail network plans to expand. The Special Management Areas, to which…

On January 25, IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol and Treasurer Kevin Noseworthy had the good luck of driving to Port aux Basques on a beautiful winter day to attend an IATNL information session. The meeting was well attended by stakeholders…

The IATNL recently received news and photos from the first complete non-stop Devil’s Bite Trail hike. Though the entire route was bushwacked by IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol over three separate occasions, French adventurers Matthieu Currat and Simen Andersen made the…

On a sunny October afternoon IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol made a trail blazing trek to the top of the Hummock, located 2kms southwest of Frenchman’s Cove in the beautiful Bay Of Islands. This 1,000ft hill provides fantastic views of…

With 3 inches of snow on the ground and more falling, IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol and trail workers Caroline Swan, Katie Broadhurst, Curtis Payne, Tyler Grant, David Simms and Trent Foster set out late one October afternoon across Parsons Pond…

In late August local outfitter Randy Parsons gave IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol and trail workers Curtis Payne and Trent Foster a boat ride across Parsons Pond to the Devil’s Bite Trail southern trailhead. From there the three hiked deep…

Read the account of Keith and Heather Nicol’s recent hike along the IATNL’s Humber Valley Trail, as reported in the Evening Telegram, November 14.

On October 13 IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol and Trail Director Arne Helgeland attended a meeting in Conche to discuss the development of the Conche to Croque section of trail, and to officially rename it the French Shore Trail. Also…

On Halloween weekend IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol, Treasurer Kevin Noseworthy and Trail Director Arne Helgeland attended the 2009 IAT Annual General Meeting at Stanley Bridge, Prince Edward Island. Also present were chapter representatives from Maine, New Brunswick, Quebec, Nova…

In September, College Of The North Atlantic Adventure Tourism Instructor Eugene Flynn accompanied IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol on a 2-day trail blazing trek of the Conche to Croque section of the IATNL along the eastern coast of the Great Northern…

In September IATNL Treasurer Kevin Noseworthy and German volunteer Lenny Engelke journeyed into Simms Gulch on their way to trail blazing the barren mountaintop plateau of Blow Me Down Mountain Trail. Accompanying them into the gulch was filmaker Mark…

Adventure filmmaker Mark Flagler recently joined IATNL Chairperson Paul Wylezol on the first Inner Pond to Inner Pond Trek. It began with an early 45 minute boat ride across Portland Creek Outer and Inner Ponds, and ended 3 days/2…

A new cost-sharing agreement between the provincial and federal governments aims to address a number of concerns along the T’Railway Provincial Park. The initiative, cost-shared on a 50-50 basis, will result in $1.6 million being utilized for improvements and…