The Westminster and Holyrood Governments have had a serious bust up over access to paths at Balmoral resulting in a humiliating climbdown by a Scottish Minister. It is understood that the Home Office put Roseanna Cunningham, Scottish Environment Minister, under pressure to scrap plans to include two paths near Balmoral Castle on a new paths [...]
The UK’s fastest growing outdoor retailer GO Outdoors is to open five new superstores in Scotland in the next two years. The expansion will begin in March when its second Scottish superstore opens in Clydebank. In a break with traditional outdoor store layouts the new store will feature a centre-piece family-friendly five-metre high indoor climbing [...]
Perth and Kinross councillors will today meet to decide whether to approve plans for the construction of the UK’s first dedicated bungee jumping platform. The structure would be built from the Garry Bridge (on Walkhighlands’ Bealach na Searmoin walk between Pitlochry and Killiecrankie). A company, Highland Fling, has been set up especially to promote the [...]
The Scottish Parliament will soon get the chance to debate whether the cutting of new tracks in Scotland’s hills and mountains should be more tightly controlled. Following lobbying from the Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) previously reported on Walkhighlands, a Labour MSP has lodged a motion in the Scottish Parliament to control such hill tracks. [...]
Highland Council and the Cairngorms National Park Authority are at loggerheads over who should pay for the upkeep of a 30 mile section of the Speyside Way. Most of the Speyside Way, which runs from Aviemore and Ballindalloch to Spey Bay, is in Moray. However part of the Aviemore branch, which opened in 2000, is [...]
Following two days of snow and strong winds, the Cairngorm ski-centre has been forced to close. Operations manager Colin Matthew said that the access roads were blocked by fifteen foot snow drifts. He told the BBC that “further up the mountain the drifting has buried our funicular railway track in about 10 places, and the [...]