Note: I finished hiking the TCT on August 15th 2023. I continued to do a second hike in northeast Georgia. Both are shown on this live tracker, which I will keep online for the time being. However, my TCT route map has more information. It is part of my Guide to hiking the TCT.
Last updated: 09/11/2023, 07:30:06 UTC (no change)
The Transcaucasian Trail is actually two hiking routes in the Caucasus region. The East-West Route joins the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea via Georgia and Azerbaijan, but it currently only exists in fragments. In contrast, the North-South Route is nearing completion after eight years of development, and I hope to be one of the first people to through-hike it (walk from one end to the other in a single trip). This route joins the Greater and Lesser Caucasus mountain ranges through Armenia and Georgia.
I will be starting at the southern end in Meghri, Armenia, on the border with Iran, around June 15th. The walk is around 1,600 km (1,000 miles) and I expect it to take 10 to 14 weeks, so I hope to reach the end point near Anaklia, Georgia some time in September.
My progress will be shown as a red line on this map, which will update every 15 minutes. You have to refresh the page to see any updates (if the page doesn’t seem to be refreshing, it may be loading from your cache. Try re-opening the page or doing a “hard refresh”). Note that points are only shown after 30-hour delay, to prevent ambushes. Use the button in the top-right corner to launch full-screen mode (it is necessary to click twice to close full-screen mode).