On Saturday, September 17 at the IAT Annual General Meeting at Saint Anne des Monts, Québec, the IAT honoured Appalachian Trail Executive Director Dave Startzell - who will soon retire after more than 30 years of dedicated service - for his outstanding leadership of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy(ATC) and his support of the IAT. To mark…

From August 21 to September 2, long-distance hiker and filmmaker Mark Flagler was in Newfoundland beginning production on a one-hour documentary about the IAT in North America.  It follows his successful Appalachian Impressions documentary about the US Appalachian Trail, which aired in more than a million households on the PBS television network.    Though planning to begin filming…

During the first weekend in September, Coast Alive partners around the North Sea took part in a weekend of various activities. For the first time, the collaboration with the IAT was visible on signs exhibited by all 14 partners in 5 countries, from the spectacular fiord-indented coastline of Norway, through the pastoral countryside of Sweden and sandy landscape of Denmark, along the formidable…

In December 2010 the Ayrshire Coastal Path was delighted and honoured to be selected and branded by Scottish Natural Heritage as one of twenty of Scotland’s Great Trails (www.scotlandsgreattrails.org). From being just the new kid on the block, they are now playing with the big boys of the West Highland Way, the Great Glen Way, and the…

National Trail Officer Dave Maclachlan of the IAT Pembrokeshire Coast Path recently walked Wales' Abereiddi to Porthgain coastline trying to figure out a safe trail route up a rock face, then later checked on the BBC filming at Little Haven.   Intercontinental collisions and volcanic activity have led to an industrial legacy on this section of…