June 2017- By the AFLMT Board of directors Dear Friend of the Lebanon Mountain Trail: It is with great pleasure that we announce the successful completion of the LMT Run by U.S. athlete and trail runner Patrick Vaughan, who just ran the entire length of the LMT (294...
I’M NOT SURE WHEN I HAD THE BRIGHT IDEA OF WALKING FROM ONE END OF LEBANON TO THE OTHER… 470 kilometres long, the Lebanon Mountain Trail runs from Marjayoun, a sleepy town in formerly Israeli-occupied southern Lebanon that looks over a vertiginous escarpment...
At its end-of-year meeting, December 3, the board of directors of the American Friends of the Lebanon Mountain Trail (AFLMT) approved a $10,000 grant to the Lebanon Mountain Trail Association (LMTA) to support its signposting program. The grant followed on an earlier...
By Dan Milner Adventure Tourism returns to Lebanon (…) It was a journey of hopes, doubts, anxieties and realizations, starting with a photo hanging in a Lebanese restaurant and ending with a push of my pedals in a country that–at least for most of my life–has...
It was a pleasantly warm, partly cloudy day as Gilbert Moukheiber and I pulled off the road at a wayside to examine more closely the outskirts of the village of Baskinta, bordering the prospective route of the Lebanon Mountain Trail. Gilbert expressed concern, and I...
