Beginning December 5, Ottawa-area adventurers Mike Bergeron and David Burnford made a 6 day/5 night early winter trek across the Lewis Hills and Blow-Me-Down Mountains. The first December attempt of this IAT route was made under less than ideal weather conditions, and was supported by the IATNL, which supplied maps, GPS, satellite phone, and…

Looking back on the IATNL highlights of 2010, no list would be complete without the solo trek by American hiker Lew Coty from Vermont. In August Lew completed the first solo trek of the combined Devil’s Bite and Indian Lookout Trails. The feat was especially impressive given that the former trail is still…

On November 12, the 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 plate tectonics. …

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.

During summer 2010, with oil exploration beginning on the barrens near Parsons Pond, work was completed on the Jacques Cartier Memorial Trail around the circumference of Parsons Pond Head. The landmark is located 1.6 kms (1 mile) from the Gulf coast, and rises to a height of approx. 150 meters (490 feet). From…

On October 7, during the Adventure Travel World Summit in Aviemore, Scotland, the International Appalachian Trail welcomed nine new European chapters to its growing international trail network. Coast Alive partners in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and England, along with partners in Ireland, Wales, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland, joined what is quickly becoming…

In August a group of hikers, including IAT President Paul Wylezol, IATNL Secretary Caroline Swan, and Signage Director Delano Pittman, made a two-day mountain trek from the Starlight Trail in Codroy Valley to Table Mountain east of Cape Ray. The goal was to explore the region for the Grand Codroy Way, to be the…

On August 16, IATNL Transportation Director Robert Bradbury took IAT President Paul Wylezol and HEDB Executive Director Connie Taylor on a one-hour flight over the North Arm Hills in his Cesna 172. The goal was to survey potential trail routes from North Arm, Bay of Islands across the hills to Trout River Pond in…