Our Self-Guided Backcountry Tour Library serves to provide specific itineraries in support of experiences for all disciplines and every skill level. If you have a route or tour that you love, and are willing to share, please consider making a submission and helping us grow our library.
Below are our submission guidelines.
Please send submissions and questions to Greg Maino, gmaino@catamounttrail.org.
What makes for an acceptable tour?
- Tours should be on established trails or backcountry zones. We prefer that AT/Tele/Split tours focus on chapter managed backcountry zones, but will accept tours in other locations so long as they are on public land, or on private land where specific permission has been granted.
- We also have to consider parking capacity, and the potential impacts to the terrain and neighboring communities that could result from sharing this type of info. If you have questions regarding a potential tour, but aren’t sure it will meet our acceptability standards please get in touch with us.
Required Information to Submit a BC Route
- Route Name – Can be official or something you made up
- Intro – A short description about the route, the local area, and the tour experience
- Route Info – This includes trailhead location, route length, elevation gain, required skill level (Beg/Int/Adv), recommended equipment (XCD/AT/Tele/Split)
- Need To Know – This is info that would help ensure a user has a good time and should include things like parking location and any special parking considerations, notes about trail fees, special safety considerations, cell service or lack thereof, any relevant instructions to help navigate confusing sections, are dogs allowed, etc…
- Nice To Know – restaurants, breweries, other attractions, interesting route facts/history, etc…
- Navigation Resources – All route submissions must include an accurate GPS track of the tour. We will use this to build a route on CalTopo which will then be made available on the tour webpage. If there are other navigation resources available for an area such as online maps or a trail system website… Please provide those links as well.
- Photos of the tour
