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

Trans Canada Trail Hiking Guide and Information Atlantic to Pacific Canadian Hiking Guide and Blog Tips and Advice for Trekking Across Canada Welcome to the Come Walk With Us Trans Canada Trail hiking blog! Over the span of 556 days over the span of four years, 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 it! 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...

After walking it from the Atlantic to the Pacific and Arctic, we learned that the answer is much larger than a line on a map. Why the Trans Canada Trail is Important When we set out to walk the Trans Canada Trail , we had no idea how completely the journey would change the way we understood both the Trail and the country it crosses. Over 556 days, we walked on our #Hike4Birds   Expedition almost 14,000 kilometres from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific, becoming, to our knowledge, the first couple to complete that crossing on foot and the first to document the journey continuously as we travelled. We were also only two among a remarkably small number of people who have walked across Canada on the Trans Canada Trail, joining long-distance trekkers including Dana Meise, Sara Jackson, Dianne Whelan and Mel Vogel, who travelled with Malo. Later, we continued north toward the Arctic Ocean, following the land route through western Canada and the North. The number of people who have tra...

“You must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”   Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable   Realities and Limitations on Trans Canada Trail   People sometimes ask whether we ever wanted to quit the Trans Canada Trail, usually with the expectation that there must have been one particular dramatic moment when everything became too much. Perhaps a storm, an injury, a bear encounter, an unsafe road, or some terrible day when we looked at one another and decided we had simply had enough. Over almost six years and nearly 18,000 kilometres, however, the question was never that simple . There were certainly days when we wanted to stop walking, stretches of road we desperately wanted to get off of, areas we were ready to leave, seasons we were tired of fighting through and moments when we genuinely questioned whether we had enough left to continue the larger journey. Those feelings were not all the same, and over time we came to understand that “wanting to quit” could mean many different thin...