IAT Vice President Eric Chouinard of Québec traveled to France in March to promote the International Appalachian Trail at tourism shows in Lyons and Paris.  He also met with representatives from the French hiking federation (Fédération Française de la Randonnée Rédestre - FFRP) and the National Pole of Resources for Outdoor Sports (Pôle Ressources Nationales des Sports de Nature - PRNSN)…

  The IAT attended the Maine Travel & Adventure Expo in Bangor, Maine on the weekend of April 1, 2 and 3. The information table was continually staffed by your team of Poul Jorgenson, Walter Anderson, Carl Lavigne and Dick Anderson. Traffic on Friday was reduced by a significant, late-season, snowstorm, but was high on both Saturday and…

The International Appalachian Trail is growing in Europe. The newest addition is a chapter in Spain, Sendero Internacional de los Apalaches – SIA, to be established formally next month. IAT Maine Chapter members Don Hudson, Thomas Urquhart and Robert Marvinney traveled to the Iberian Peninsula between March…

Peregrinando por …. Visita del IAT a España Las Villuercas 18, 19 y 20 de Marzo de 2011 ¿apalaches o villuerquinos? Esa es la pregunta que se harán a partir de ahora los miembros del IAT tras…

"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,…

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…

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…