Long Distance Hiking Trails

[+PISA-caching]

I just finished my very first waymark for the "Long Distance Hiking Trails" category. I never expected to find a waymark for that category in the middle of Monaco(!). Apart from that I was surprised to learn that the Via Alpina is a network of several trails across the Alps and that the Red Trail is the longest with 161 stages and more than 2,600 km across eight countries. I wonder, if anybody has ever walked all these stages in 161 (or less) continuous days.

 

Anyway, my question is: Does anybody know which trail in this category is the longest? I found http://www.Waymarking.com/waymarks/WMH6VB but maybe someone knows a longer one. Or maybe there are other (longer) trails that haven't been waymarked yet?

 

 

 

[Bon Echo]

The Great Trail (formerly Trans Canada Trail afaik) claims to be 24,000 kms. I'm sure there are a few waymark entries for it. I have photos to make one, but it's in the low queue of waymarks "to post someday when time permits"

[+PISA-caching]

55 minutes ago, BK-Hunters said:

The TCT (Great Trail) has been Waymarked at least 31 times. We've Waymarked it 23 times, but so far only in 4 provinces.

Question: When was the name changed? We haven't Waymarked it since 2017.

Keith

 

Wikipedia has the answer: The Trans Canada Trail, officially renamed The Great Trail in September 2016.......

[vulture1957]

5 hours ago, BK-Hunters said:

The TCT (Great Trail) has been Waymarked at least 31 times. We've Waymarked it 23 times, but so far only in 4 provinces.

Question: When was the name changed? We haven't Waymarked it since 2017.

Keith

BK -- here's one in your neck of the woods -- Continental Divide trail starts in Waterton/Glacier park and goes to the southern US border in New Mexico. You get to Montana occasionally. But it's only a little one, only 5,000 km.

 

Edited July 9, 2019 by vulture1957

[+QuarrellaDeVil]

FWIW, I am an end-to-end hiker of the Bruce Trail in Ontario, Canada.  It was about 450 miles long when I hiked it, and it has grown since.  When I can dig up my photos from 1989, I'll scan 'em and log visits.

[+QuarrellaDeVil]

On 7/11/2019 at 5:41 PM, BK-Hunters said:

How long did it take?

 

My best friend and I knocked out the entire BT in 40 days.  We met a guy around the halfway mark who was coming from Tobermory, and he'd been on the trail for half the time we had.  Serious embarrassment for two Eagle Scouts.  ?

[+QuarrellaDeVil]

On 7/22/2019 at 1:24 PM, BK-Hunters said:

But you two were doubtless just strolling leisurely along and enjoying the scenery, right? 

 

Put it like this:  I have regular dreams that we're back on that trail.  One of the best experiences we've ever had, and I wouldn't give up the overpacking, sometimes slow pace, going up a muddy Balls Falls, a lost compass, taking the wrong path, bear encounters, or rattlesnake encounter for the world.  I'm even OK today with having been soaking wet and near hypothermia on our second day out (Think Ontario, 50 degrees, and steady rain in May.).