Pathfinder Newsletter – Autumn 2016

Summer of 2016 was the most productive one yet for the Great Divide Trail Association! This Autumn edition of the Pathfinder Newsletter will provide a summary of our efforts including: Trail maintenance and building trips Trail Tales Oh The Peaks You Will See Annual General Meeting GDTA Photo Contest And well-deserved…

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Moose River Project – The Valley Sentinel

Every year, horseback riders and hikers from around the world travel through the mountains on the Great Divide Trail behind the Robson Valley highway corridor. “Fires made travel very difficult through a large section of the trail within Robson Park, so travellers were challenged navigating their way with downed burned…

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Trail Tales: A Thru-hiker Account

By Fabian Kurte The bachelor’s thesis is done. The certificate is still not printed but I am already dreaming about the wild North American Rocky Mountains. I want to get away; for a while at least. Experience some of the nicest backcountry, do it at my own pace. Soon I…

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Oh The Peaks You Will See: New Trail, New Peaks!

By Jen Peddlesden This past July, the Great Divide Trail Association (GDTA) members created new trail in the Dutch Creek Area, circumventing the difficult and sometimes precluded route of the Great Divide Trail (GDT) in British Columbia. You can read more about trail creation here.  This new trail, means new…

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