Category: Events

The Great Divide Trail Association is this year’s Green Bib Charity for the Servus Calgary Marathon.

The 2025 marathon dedicates time, energy, and resources to reduce environmental impact. If a registrant chooses the Green Bib option, a $10 donation will be made to the Great Divide Trail Association in lieu of a race shirt and medal.

Enter the race, join our team, and fundraise to support the Great Divide Trail. Together, we can make a difference—one step at a time!

Lace-up, join the race, and help us protect the trail we all love.

Hiking season is winding down, so it’s time to share the amazing things you’ve experienced along the Great Divide Trail! Spend some time reminiscing and go dig through all the photos you’ve taken. Then select your favourite(s) and submit them to the GDTA’s Photo Contest!

Submitting your photos is a unique and simple way to help out the GDTA! As the association works to protect, promote, and maintain the trail, we’re always in need of high-quality imagery. Who better to provide that then those of you who’ve lived it!

Prizes

The GDTA will be awarding prizes for the top three submissions, as voted on by select members from our volunteer community. Please check back here as we’ll be updating this page with more info on the prizes.

Guidelines

• Digital images must be submitted via email to photocontest@greatdividetrail.com
• Submissions must include the following text (please copy and paste this into the email submission)

Photographer: <your name>
Working Title: <one-sentence title>
Location: <specific location>
GDT Section: <A through G>
Detailed Caption: <longer caption, please include names of any identifiable individuals>

With this submission I affirm that I have read and agree to the terms and conditions of the GDTA Photo Contest. 

• One photo per submission, multiple submissions are allowed
• Submission deadline:  Saturday October 26, 2024 at midnight Mountain time.
• Photos can be from any year.
• Photos can be color or black & white digital images of any location along the Great Divide Trail
• JPEG or TIFF files are allowed and ideally higher than web-resolution (at least 300 dots-per-inch or approximately 1000×1500 pixels for a 3×5 photo).
• If you’d like your photos to be considered for our annual calendar or magazine covers, they should be at least 8.5×11 inches at 300 dpi or approx. 2500×3300 pixels in size.
• Photos can be horizontal or vertical. Please upload in the proper orientation.

Terms and Conditions

No purchase is necessary to enter or win. Void where prohibited. By entering this contest, you agree to the terms and conditions relating to this contest and you are responsible for understanding your rights.

Photos entered are considered licensed to the Great Divide Trail Association in perpetuity. By entering the photo contest, you are giving the GDTA the right to use your photos as we see fit to promote the trail and its protection.

You will retain copyright to any photograph you submit. You only grant the GDTA rights to your photograph royalty-free, in perpetuity, nonexclusively to:

• Reproduce, distribute, transform, display and/or to perform your photographs in all print and electronic mediums at any size.
• Use your photos worldwide.
• Provide your photograph to other individuals and organizations for non-commercial use, such as in news stories, newsletters, reports, slide shows, displays, web pages, and the like.
• Archive in electronic forms so that your photos can be used to support our mission.
• The GDTA may request additional permission to use your photo for Commercial and Editorial uses that directly benefit the GDTA and the trail.

Whenever possible, the GDTA will provide attribution in the form the photographer’s name and/or photographer’s website URL per GDTA’s discretion. Attribution will appear next to the photo or in the credits of the work product.

By entering, participants agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless the GDTA, its respective subsidiaries, affiliates, directors, officers, employees, volunteers, attorneys, agents and representatives, from any and all third party liability for any injuries, loss, claim, action, demand or damage of any kind arising from or in connection with the competition (collectively, “Losses”), including without limitation any third party claim for copyright infringement or a violation of an individual’s right to privacy and/or publicity right. The Contest is void where prohibited by law.

Contest entrants are responsible for ensuring that he or she has the right to submit the photos that he or she submits to the contest.

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¹The concept and inspiration for this contest comes from the Pacific Crest Trail Association’s annual Photo Contest.

Monday, September 16th at 6:00 PM MST – ONLINE

Don’t miss this year’s AGM! We’ll be unveiling exciting updates on our strategic planning, and you’ll be the first to discover the path forward for our association and trail. Tune in to get the inside scoop and be part of the future!

The Annual General Meeting is open to all active GDTA members, and is where members receive updates and vote for new Board Members.

All of the information is available on the AGM 2024 page (member access only). Not a member? Become a Member Today!

PARTICIPATE IN OUR GDTA PHOTO CONTEST!

The GDTA wants to see the greatest of the Great Divide Trail in 2016! Whether it be a summit selfie, camp at sunset, meandering trail into wilderness or a wildlife shot, we want to share your divide adventure in the Canadian Rocky Mountains with our photo contest.

TO PARTICIPATE: Post your top pictures (limit of 3 entries per person) from the 2016 hiking season on the Great Divide Trail (day, section or thru-hiker entries all welcome) in the comments section of our Photo Contest post on our Great Divide Trail Association Facebook page with a short caption of location and time. The TOP THREE most liked shots will be eligible to receive cool PRIZES from the GDTA and our sponsors!

DEADLINES: The window for photo entry submissions will close Sunday, September 18 & the last chance to cast your like votes will be Sunday, September 25, 2016 at 11:00pm PST. The top three winners will be announced and showcased the following day at our AGM in Calgary, Monday, September 26, 2016.

If you have additional photos that you would like to share with us, we would be happy to receive them to update our website and share the beauty in our Pathfinder newsletter and promotional materials with your permission.