Come Walk With Us on the Trans Canada Trail (TCT)

Welcome to the Come Walk With Us Trans Canada Trail hiking blog! Over the span of 556 days between 2019 and 2022 we hiked 14,000 km from Cape Spear, Newfoundland to Victoria, British Columbia on the world's longest recreational pathway. In this travel and adventure blog we share photos and stories from our long-distance walk across Canada on the Trans Canada Trail (formerly the Great Trail), as well as gear reviews, trail information, and advice for planning your own thru-hikes. Epic landscapes, stunning wildlife, fascinating histories, daunting challenges, and countless acts of random kindness were all part of our journey across Canada. We hope you enjoy! NEWFOUNDLAND Our #Hike4Birds across Canada on the 28,000 km long Trans Canada Trail began at Cape Spear, Newfoundland on June 1, 2019. Atlantic Puffins, whales, icebergs, and caribou were highlights as we walked the coastal footpaths of the East Coast Trail and the 800 km T'Railway Trail.

Trans Canada Trail #Hike4Birds Update Over the past few weeks since the publication of an article in Reader’s Digest Our Canada   magazine   about our #Hike4Birds we have gotten a lot of emails from people asking whether we are on the Trans Canada Trail , where we are in the Arctic and how we are doing.  We want to thank everyone for their concern and curiosity.   While many have wondered if we simply were not posting due yet to the lack of WIFI connectivity in the arctic others have speculated that perhaps we had quit our coast to coast to coast trek all together. Unfortunately the answer isn’t as simple as either of these answers. Atlantic to Pacific, 2019-2022 As you know, on November 22 2022 we arrived at Clover Point in Victoria and officially concluded the 14,000 km long Atlantic to Pacific portion of the Great Trail. In 2023 we had planned to have hiked from Fort Saskatchewan Alberta north through British Columbia, the Yukon, and into the Arctic to get to Tuktoyaktuk Northwest

While we have a great deal to still share about our ongoing adventure across Canada we thought we would also post about something new - the Bruce Trail.    Long before we set out onto the Great Trail or onto the Camino Frances to Santiago we set out onto the famous Bruce Trail in Ontario.   The Bruce Trail is 890 km in length tracing the Niagara Escarpment from Queenston Heights to Tobermory.   It is where our love of long-distance hiking began, where we completed our first thru hike, and where we learned so much about backpacking.   Trekked from 2014-2022 it took us nearly 10 years to complete the Bruce Trail in a series of day hikes, organized end-to-end events, and an educational thru-hike of the Peninsula Section. To be honest, when we took those first tentative steps onto the Bruce Trail we had no idea what we were doing, carrying a 4-person tent that weighed 12 lbs, enough outfits to have clean clothes for a week, and 12 days of food for 3 people.  Somehow we managed to survive

Trans Canada Trail in British Columbia Over a year ago now, in October and November 2022 we hiked into British Columbia on the Trans Canada Trail.   Owing to a combination and exhaustion over the past year we had yet to release blogs detailing our reflections on the TCT in a number of provinces.  Over the coming few weeks we hope to rectify this oversight and provide a general overview of each region, detail a few thoughts on our experiences in each, and perhaps help future hikers.  Much like Alberta the Great Trail in British Columbia has two distinct routes.   One of these routes traces along the southern border from Elkford to Vancouver and then across to Vancouver Island.   While the other, ventures north out of Alberta along the Dawson Highway to the Yukon where the trek to the Arctic Ocean begins in earnest.     The southern stretch of the TCT navigates from Alberta to Vancouver Island, is more than 1750 km in length, and includes mountain passes, train tunnels, rail trails, lon