http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news News and reviews from Walkhighlands Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:26:13 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/trump-attacks-salmond-over-offshore-windfarm-plan/006301/ http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/trump-attacks-salmond-over-offshore-windfarm-plan/006301/#comments Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:30:49 +0000 Walkhighlands http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/?p=6301 http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/trump-attacks-salmond-over-offshore-windfarm-plan/006301/feed/ 0 http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/information-appeal-for-glencoe-lochan-plaques/006156/ http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/information-appeal-for-glencoe-lochan-plaques/006156/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2012 08:47:30 +0000 Walkhighlands http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/?p=6156 Forestry Commission Scotland is appealing to people across the area for help in tracing anyone who might have a connection with memorial plaques at Glencoe Lochan. The plea comes as the Commission’s Lochaber team prepare to carry out upgrade work to the Glencoe Lochan trails. This will include replacing some of the benches and picnic [...]]]> http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/information-appeal-for-glencoe-lochan-plaques/006156/feed/ 0 http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/galloway-stargazing-nights-for-january/006098/ http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/galloway-stargazing-nights-for-january/006098/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 10:25:17 +0000 Walkhighlands http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/?p=6098 Anyone looking for a stunning way to get over the January blues is invited to join one of a series of night time trips to Galloway Dark Sky Park and be star-struck. Forestry Commission Scotland’s Galloway team says that although we’re half way through the 2011/12 observing season (October to April), it’s not yet too [...]]]> http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/galloway-stargazing-nights-for-january/006098/feed/ 0 http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/st-kilda-mailboat-lands-in-norway/006091/ http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/st-kilda-mailboat-lands-in-norway/006091/#comments Tue, 10 Jan 2012 14:06:31 +0000 Walkhighlands http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/?p=6091 The contents of a mailboat launched from St Kilda on 29 July 2011 have been discovered on the Norwegian island of Frøya. The postcards were found by local farmer Knut Wågø, as he walked his dogs on the beach on 2 January 2012. The cards, which had been placed in a traditional St Kildan mailboat, [...]]]> http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/st-kilda-mailboat-lands-in-norway/006091/feed/ 0 http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/council-defers-decision-on-allt-duine-windfarm/005983/ http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/council-defers-decision-on-allt-duine-windfarm/005983/#comments Tue, 20 Dec 2011 16:19:18 +0000 Walkhighlands http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/?p=5983 Highland Council’s planning committee members today deferred their decision on the controversial Allt Duine wind farm and will carry out a site visit in the New Year. Supporters of the Save the Monadhliath Mountains (SMM) campaign who have fought the plans welcomed the pause, although they stressed that this would not distract them from their [...]]]> http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/council-defers-decision-on-allt-duine-windfarm/005983/feed/ 0 http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/into-the-wild-series-on-bbc-alba/005894/ http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/into-the-wild-series-on-bbc-alba/005894/#comments Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:37:52 +0000 Walkhighlands http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/?p=5894 BBC Alba’s outdoors series, Into the Wild, will feature Walkhighlands’ Gear Editor Phil Turner next week. The Gaelic language programme (shown with English subtitles) followed Phil as he researched walks on Arran for Walkhighlands and Pocket Mountains guidebooks. The series explores the benefits of getting back in touch with the natural landscape and the lure [...]]]> http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/into-the-wild-series-on-bbc-alba/005894/feed/ 0 http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/cheaper-island-ferry-fares-here-to-stay/005855/ http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/cheaper-island-ferry-fares-here-to-stay/005855/#comments Wed, 30 Nov 2011 08:58:03 +0000 Walkhighlands http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/?p=5855 A scheme to reduce the cost of Scottish ferry travel is to be extended, the Scottish government has announced. The road equivalent tariff (RET) has been operating on a pilot basis and is now to become permanent on services to the Western Isles and Coll and Tiree and will also be extended to Sounds of [...]]]> http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/cheaper-island-ferry-fares-here-to-stay/005855/feed/ 0 http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/dundee-mountain-film-festival-this-weekend/005801/ http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/dundee-mountain-film-festival-this-weekend/005801/#comments Thu, 24 Nov 2011 07:48:42 +0000 Walkhighlands http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/?p=5801 This year’s Dundee Mountain Film Festival boasts a glittering array of varied films covering caving, climbing, kayaking, mountaineering, running and cycling. In addition there will be talks by round the world cyclist, Mark Beaumont, hillwalking writer Ian Mitchell, and Peter Habeler, who climbed Everest without oxygen with Reinhold Messner in 1978. Art work and photographs [...]]]> http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/dundee-mountain-film-festival-this-weekend/005801/feed/ 0 http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/first-great-climb-re-created-for-tv/005806/ http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/first-great-climb-re-created-for-tv/005806/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 11:07:51 +0000 Walkhighlands http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/?p=5806 Tonight (Tues 22 November) BBC Scotland will be showing a programme that aims to show that rock climbing started in the Northwest of Scotland rather than the English Lake District as is usually claimed. On The First Great Climb three of Scotland’s best climbers embark on a challenging mission to scale the Great Stac of [...]]]> http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/first-great-climb-re-created-for-tv/005806/feed/ 0 http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/cameron-mcneish-talk-in-inverness/005731/ http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/cameron-mcneish-talk-in-inverness/005731/#comments Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:01:57 +0000 Walkhighlands http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/?p=5731 Cameron McNeish will give an illustrated talk, sponsored by Tiso, in Inverness on 25 November. Over the past twenty years writer and broadcaster Cameron McNeish has made a number of television programmes for the BBC including the highly successful series The Edge: 100 Years of Scottish Mountaineering and Wilderness Walks. More recently he has appeared [...]]]> http://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/cameron-mcneish-talk-in-inverness/005731/feed/ 0