Learn more about the GDT and the GDTA
With such a spectacular natural wonder, and a passionate community, there’s no end to the stories. On this page you’ll find all sorts of unique insights about what it’s like to experience the trail, and to volunteer with the association. If you like what you see, consider subscribing to our newsletter so you don’t miss out on this great content.
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Latest Publications
Waypoints
Waypoints is the GDTA’s monthly email newsletter has Trail News; Events; Trail Building Trips; Contests; and other things related to the GDT
Pathfinder
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Rowe Alternate Fun
By Barb Lauer, Most Photos by Lynnie Wonfor Last September (2022), mighty Lynnie Wonfor, her daughter, Zoe, and I hiked…
Pathfinder is the GDTA’s bi-annual online magazing-style newsletter, filled with lots of great news and articles from hikers and GDT fans.
Recent Blog Posts
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Draft Update on the GDTA Trail Users Code
By Jenny Feick, PhD The original Great Divide Trail Association (from the mid-1970s to late 1980s) developed a trail user’s…
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GDTA Winter 2022 Webinars
This winter the Outreach Committee presented four GDT trip planning Webinars: Webinar 1: Planning and Preparing for Your GDT Hike…
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Musings on the GDT Past to Present to Future
by Bethany Hughes Six months ago we were turning past a forest fire burning just off highway 16 on our…
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What Goes Around (But Didn’t Go Anywhere) Has Come Around Again
By Jenny Feick, PhD Read in The Globe and Mail: https://apple.news/ARKD6TecwThGWflUpiS9nHg Brianna Sharpe’s Globe & Mail article in April 2022 entitled…
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Resurrecting the GDTA Trail Users Code
By Jenny Feick, PhD I recalled the old GDTA Trail Users Code while listening to the Her Odyssey duo when…
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Our New GDTA Corporate Supporters
by Kate Hamilton The GDTA is pleased to announce several new corporate supporters that were engaged this year. These are industrious,…