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2024 Volunteer Awards: Sweep

  The Sweep award is presented to volunteers for tireless work and achievements behind the scenes on behalf of the trail or the NCTA. Tim Bauer Tim is a dedicated outdoorsman who hikes and rides a bike year-round in all types of weather (even North Dakota and Minnesota winters). Nearly a decade ago, one of […]

2024 Volunteer Awards: Boots on the Trail

  The Boots on the Trail award is presented to volunteers who regularly lead hikes that are well-advertised and promoted to the public as a way of building NCTA membership and support for the trail. Recipients typically lead more than one hike per year, make them interesting by sharing their knowledge or being helpful to […]

2025 NCTA Staff Introductions

  Matt Davis, Regional Trail Coordinator Trails have held significance for Matt long before he came to the NCTA in 2006. Not only did he spent three years working for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy in North Carolina and three years for the University of Wisconsin Extension, but he met his wife atop Springer Mountain in 1998 […]