+PISA-caching Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 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? Quote Link to comment
Bon Echo Posted July 8, 2019 Share Posted July 8, 2019 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" 1 Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 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 Quote Link to comment
+PISA-caching Posted July 9, 2019 Author Share Posted July 9, 2019 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....... Quote Link to comment
vulture1957 Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 (edited) 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 Quote Link to comment
+QuarrellaDeVil Posted July 9, 2019 Share Posted July 9, 2019 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. 1 1 Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 On 7/9/2019 at 5:28 AM, vulture1957 said: 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. Add 1,130 km for the Great Divide Trail, which runs from the end of the Continental Divide trail north to Kakwa Lake in Kakwa Provincial Park, and you have the whole trail. We've probably crossed the Great Divide Trail dozens of times and the Continental Divide trail a few times, as well. We were in both Waterton and Glacier in the last two or three years but, strangely, haven't yet done any trails in either. Gonna hafta look through our pix and see if we have any of said trails. Keith Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 On 7/9/2019 at 10:29 AM, QuarrellaDeVil said: 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. How long did it take? Keith Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted July 11, 2019 Share Posted July 11, 2019 On 7/9/2019 at 12:34 AM, PISA-caching said: Wikipedia has the answer: The Trans Canada Trail, officially renamed The Great Trail in September 2016....... My guess would be that I last looked at the TCT website in 2017. I don't remember coming across any mention of the "Great Trail" then, but it's sure there now! Keith Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted July 12, 2019 Share Posted July 12, 2019 (edited) Well, one good thing came of this. Looking at our WMs in the vicinity I discovered a Lucky 7 I'd missed and another WM we'd missed. Keith Edited July 12, 2019 by BK-Hunters "y" Quote Link to comment
+QuarrellaDeVil Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 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. ? Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 12 hours ago, QuarrellaDeVil said: 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. ? But you two were doubtless just strolling leisurely along and enjoying the scenery, right? In a previous life I've walked about 45 miles in one day, but I'm not sure I could have done that for 10 straight days. Keith Quote Link to comment
+QuarrellaDeVil Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 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.). 1 Quote Link to comment
+T0SHEA Posted July 30, 2019 Share Posted July 30, 2019 An epic journey, to be sure! Keith Quote Link to comment
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