[pct-l] international trails

[Saskia]

Hi Earl,

Trails around the world are different, but there are long trails that  
are more or less maintained and used in the same way. In Sweden the  
trails are maintained by a government body, for example... In the  
Netherlands volunteer groups do most of the work. All these systems  
differ, I guess.

Just a few in Europe:
- Nordkalottleden in Scandinavia, or its much easier little brother  
the Kungsleden
- France has a huge system of trails, the big ones are either the GR5  
going from the Netherlands to Nice on the Mediterranean. A trail that  
really goes from village to village.
- Pyrenees: GR10 on the French side, GR11 on the Spanish side and the  
High Route in between. All three go from Atlantic to Mediterranean in  
a little less than a month.
- Via Alpina: crosses all the countries of the alps (France, Italy,  
Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia)
A lot of the trails have been linked up to form extremely long trails  
that noone really tries to hike in one season. They are the 'E-routes'.

In New Zealand they are working hard to make one continuous trail  
from the North to the extreme south of the  country, called Te Araroa.

I'm sure there's more, but those come to my mind. If you want to read  
about the Pyrenees or Sweden, you can check out my site www.xs4all.nl/ 
~darudiva. For the other one's: check google.
On trailjournals you can find a few of the international trails too.

Best wishes,
Saskia/Sauce

On 13-jan-2007, at 8:16, Earl wrote:

> In the US we have several long trails, are there any other long  
> hiking trails elsewhere in the world, Canada, Europe, anywhere,  
> that are maintained and used like ours?
>
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