Day 1 of hiking the TransCaucasian Trail in Georgia. It was a blistering 30+° and this river literally saved my sanity

#hiking #hike #transcaucasiantrail #river #georgia #tct #caucasus #mountains
TCT Hike-a-Thon Challenge: Week 2

The challenge was ‘find and share a “treasure of nature”’. I hiked for three days in Peak District National Park and saw this sturdy moth clinging to a rock in high winds, as well as other beautiful sights—fells, dales, tors, rhododendrons, caterpillars, escarpments, bracken, and the millstone grit.

#transcaucasiantrail
TCT Hike-a-thon: Week 1 challenge

The Hike-a-thon start off with an easy task: ‘share a photo or short video of yourself on your first hike or run’. Here I am on a walk in Oxford’s University Parks. Walking in the UK is great. There are public footpaths connecting every town, which is not true in most other countries! It used to be true elsewhere, and projects like the TCT are bringing old walking routes back to life. If you think it’s a good cause, or you like these photos of Oxfordshire, please support through this link: https://HKuril.com/0004

#TransCaucasianTrail #Hiking #HikeAThon
2025 Virtual Hike-a-thon - Harry Kuril's Fundraiser on Donorbox

Join the TCT Virtual Hike-a-thon! From May 1 – 31, we’re hosting the first TCT Hike-a-thon, a global hiking challenge to bring together supporters of the Transcaucasian Trail and raise $15,000 to support the building and maintenance of the trail....

-English below-

#Wanderwege entstehen nicht von selbst.
Die #TranscaucasianTrailAssociation braucht unsere Hilfe!

Seit ich im Sommer 2022 in #Georgien eine Woche lang mit anpacken durfte, schaue ich ganz anders auf gut gepflegte #trails , weil ich nun weiß, wieviel Arbeit dahinter steckt.

Um so erschütternder ist es, lesen zu müssen, dass der Organisation im wunderschönen #Kaukasus dank der AmericaFirst-Politik die finanziellen Mittel komplett gestrichen wurden.

Seit gestern läuft deshalb bis zum Monatsende eine #Spendenaktion , die ich hiermit etwas promoten möchte.

Das Trail-Projekt wird von sehr engagierten und netten Menschen aus Amerika sowie vor Ort im Kaukasus vorangetrieben, anvisiert wird ein 3000Km Trail durch #Armenien , #Azerbaijan und #Georgien.
Ein Muss für jede Weitwandererin und Weitwanderer.

English:

#Hiking trails do not develop by themselves.
The TranscaucasianTrailAssociation needs our help!

Since I was able to help out for a week in #Georgia in the summer of 2022, I look at well-maintained trails in a completely different way because I now know how much work goes into them.

It is all the more shocking to read that the organization in the beautiful #Caucasus has had its funding completely cut thanks to the America First policy.

As a result, a fundraising campaign has been running since yesterday until the end of the month, which I would like to promote here.

The trail project is being driven forward by very committed and friendly people from America and locally in the Caucasus. The aim is to complete a 3000km trail through Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia.
A must for every long-distance hiker.

https://transcaucasiantrail.org/en/hike-a-thon/

#HikeforTCT #tct #transcaucasiantrail #trailbuilding #naturelovers #mountainlovers #crowdfunding #LongDistanceHiking

Hike-a-thon

Transcaucasian Trail - Building a world-class hiking trail network across the Caucasus
First day of planning for the TransCaucasian Trail in August. Planning to do the Georgia Upper Svaneti section, a 10 day hike over 5 mountain passes. Better get training!

#georgia #tct #tct2025 #transcaucasiantrail #hiking #adventure #planning
An interactive map of the #TranscaucasianTrail: https://hkuril.com/html/en/articles/2023_tct/tct_route.html#map. It’s my first #Leaflet map, using COG topography and vector data from #OpenStreetMap served from a single #ProtoMaps tile, allowing the labels to easily switch between English and Spanish. It’s rendered in two stages to allow labels to float above the route line, which is a #GeoJSON layer. Extra #JavaScript is used for a side panel showing elevation profiles and route descriptions.
Harry Kuril: Transcaucasian Trail route information