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		<title>Ben Nevis navigation cairns buried in snow</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:08:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Visitors to Ben Nevis summit may be surprised to learn that some of the newly erected 1.8m high cairns constructed to aid navigation have been virtually buried in snow. 
The MCofS Mountain Safety Advisor Heather Morning, warns hillwalkers and climbers visiting the summit of Ben Nevis to be extra vigilant.  The three cairns which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mountain Marathons Announced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 08:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ This year looks set to offer gruelling mountain marathons at both ends of the country. First up is the Highlander Mountain Marathon set to take place somewhere in the north of Scotland in April, and later in the summer the Original Mountain Marathon (OMM) will be run in the south west of England.
The Highlander, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Injured climber airlifted after fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 08:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A male climber was airlifted to hospital yesterday (6 March) afternoon after a fall in the Loch Treig, near Roy Bridge in Lochaber. The police reported that the climber was in a party of three. A Sea King helicopter from RAF Lossiemouth attended the scene. The climber and his companions were located and the casualty [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Public spending on Cairngorm railway criticised</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 08:14:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MSPs heard yesterday that Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) was so keen to develop the Cairngorm funicular project that it did so without proper regard for the cost and the risk to taxpayers&#8217; money. When the railway opened in 2001, the project was nearly £5million over budget and so far funding has exceeded planned spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Walkers may subsidise Cairngorm railway</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 08:05:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Walk Highlands</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The public agency which now runs the Cairngorm funicular railway has proposed that parking charges be introduced at the car park at the funicular to help fund running costs. Approximately half the people using the car park actually go on the funicular, the others being walkers, climbers and skiers.
The Scottish Parliament is due to release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Police name climbers killed in Glencoe</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Mar 2010 07:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Police have named the two climbers killed in an avalanche on Buachaille Etive Mor as Christopher Walker, 29, an outdoor instructor from Keswick, and Robert Pritchard, 37, from New Malden. The two men were caught up in an avalanche as they climbed on Curved Ridge last wednesday.
Later in the week, two skiers had a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sign up and save the wilds, says MCofS</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:26:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the highest impacts on wildness reported to the Mountaineering Council of Scotland (MCofS) is continued construction of new hill tracks. Ugly and environmentally damaging hill tracks are built every year with no requirement that they are considered through the planning system. Beautiful wild areas, appreciated by Scotland’s residents and visitors, are being blighted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>‘Deer cull should continue’, says SWT</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 17:13:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The largest charity organisation dedicated to the protection of Scottish wildlife has called for starving deer to be culled across Scotland.  
Calling for an extension of the stalking season of female deer which ended earlier last month (15 February) in line with current legislation (Deer (Scotland) Act 1996), the Scottish Wildlife Trust (SWT) today [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Statement from SAIS on Avalanche Hazard for weekend</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 18:19:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAIS Avalanche Hazard Statement  26 February 2010
There will be a high avalanche hazard in all of the mountain areas of Scotland for the start of the weekend- in particular on slopes that are to the lee of the prevailing wind which is forecasted to remain  strong North-East to Easterly.
Therefore  slopes that face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Avalanche risk rises as snow falls across Highlands</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Feb 2010 07:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The tragic accident on Buachaille Etive Mor yesterday is being followed by large snowfalls forecast across much of the Highlands. Some of this snow is falling onto a layer of surface hoar which can lead to a very high risk of avalanches.
We would urge all walkers planning to take to the hills to take heed [...]]]></description>
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