Maps not keeping up with the changes on the ground.
Posted: Sat May 30, 2020 8:53 am
Well it appears so with the extensions and changes to the Speyside Way route. Maybe it just that my maps and Memory map and the OS maps that I have on the phone are greatly out of date. The website for the route/map still shows Aviemore as the southern start or finish although since 2015 Kincraig has been way-pointed and has new paths etc. much of the way includes paths used by the Badenoch Way that began at the Dalraddy holiday park and continued on towards Kingussie.
Now even that route out to Kingussie from Kincraig has been way-pointed up as an extension to the Speyside Way.
I cycled the upgraded paths and also uses some of the ancient paths and the scraped out ones used by I guess the now dismissed Badenoch way. The new path takes the walker/rider out to link with the West Glen Feshie road on a path beside the tarred surface and then into the Uath Lochans area and up onto Creag Far-leitire. After a lung busting pedal up to the summit on an old trail, now waypointed as the official route, I connected with the new route basically a new track linking with a rather loose surfaced wide forestry road to descend and link to the old paths used on the Badenoch Way and onwards to the Bird Hide overlooking the wet area of Badenoch just a couple of Kilometres from Kingussie.
Next time that I travel the route I will avoid the new link from Far-leitire and use the old upgraded path to reach the same place as previously described....if now it is still useable.
I have the feeling that the new path up from Kincraig and into the Lochans and up to Far-leitire will probably become one of the new highlights on the Speyside Way. It is a pleasant area to walk.
Now even that route out to Kingussie from Kincraig has been way-pointed up as an extension to the Speyside Way.
I cycled the upgraded paths and also uses some of the ancient paths and the scraped out ones used by I guess the now dismissed Badenoch way. The new path takes the walker/rider out to link with the West Glen Feshie road on a path beside the tarred surface and then into the Uath Lochans area and up onto Creag Far-leitire. After a lung busting pedal up to the summit on an old trail, now waypointed as the official route, I connected with the new route basically a new track linking with a rather loose surfaced wide forestry road to descend and link to the old paths used on the Badenoch Way and onwards to the Bird Hide overlooking the wet area of Badenoch just a couple of Kilometres from Kingussie.
Next time that I travel the route I will avoid the new link from Far-leitire and use the old upgraded path to reach the same place as previously described....if now it is still useable.
I have the feeling that the new path up from Kincraig and into the Lochans and up to Far-leitire will probably become one of the new highlights on the Speyside Way. It is a pleasant area to walk.