Trailwork near Mt O'Rourke
 Commencing trailwork near Mt O'Rourke
 
The Friends of the Great Divide Trail have now finished their major trail maintenance project for this season.  Sixteen volunteers spent four days camped at the Lost Creek access junction.  Roughly two-thirds of the group cleared the Trail of brush, and pruned tree limbs, for a full 14 kilometers south, linking up to the work done in the Upper Oldman last year. The remaining third of the volunteers re-routed and improved the Trail where it ascends to the Captain's Walk - even finding a way around the troublesome rock step near the top.  Look for more information and photos in the Trail Maintenance area.

Thank you to Mountain Equipment Co-op and Stihl for providing funding and support for the work.

 

About the Trail

The 1200 km-long Great Divide Trail is an informal route of hiking trails, cut lines, exploration roads and sometimes no trail at all, snaking a line along the continental watershed which forms the border between the provinces of Alberta and British Columbia, Canada.

Beginning in Waterton Lakes National Park, on the Canada/US border, and ending at Kakwa Lake Provincial Park in BC, some sections, particularly those passing through provincial or national parks, are maintained as part of other trail systems. However, no single official organization is responsible for the entire route.

 

On Rye Ridge, looking south
Rye Ridge, looking southwest to the Divide

 

This site describes the original 100km-long section of the Trail running through unprotected Alberta Crown Forest Reserve lands, from North Fork Pass to Fording River Pass, that was constructed in the 1970s and 1980s, and is undergoing renewed attention in this decade.