{"id":2643,"date":"2010-10-13T06:50:37","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T06:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2021-01-17T13:12:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-17T13:12:04","slug":"winter-walking-safety-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/winter-walking-safety-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter walking safety talks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/tombuidhe2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"tombuidhe\" width=\"310\" height=\"207\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2645\" \/>The Scottish charity, Mountain Aid, has announced dates for some of its winter walkling safety talks. Mick Tighe, mountain guide and former member of Lochaber MRT, will present illustrated talks on winter hillwalking safety, offering advice and guidance for anyone wishing to extend their hillwalking activities into the winter months. These talks are completely free and are open to everyone. Mountain Aid says that this year&#8217;s talks will be different from last years so repeat visitors are welcome. <\/p>\n<p>The talk dates organised so far are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Monday 15th November, Edinburgh<br \/>\nTuesday 16th November, Dundee<br \/>\nWednesday 17th November, Cupar<br \/>\nThursday 18th November, Stirling<br \/>\nMonday 22nd November, Carluke<br \/>\nTuesday 23rd November, Alexandria<br \/>\nWednesday 24th November, Irvine<br \/>\nThursday 25th November, Glasgow<\/p>\n<p>The talks are free, although donations to Mountain Aid are welcome. Most of the talks will start at 7pm and last about two hours with a break. Details of times and venues can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mountainaid.org.uk\/Events\/WinterTalks.php\">Mountain Aid website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Scottish charity, Mountain Aid, has announced dates for some of its winter walkling safety talks. Mick Tighe, mountain guide and former member of Lochaber MRT, will present illustrated talks on winter hillwalking safety, offering advice and guidance for anyone wishing to extend their hillwalking activities into the winter months. These talks are completely free and are open to everyone. Mountain Aid says that this year&#8217;s talks will be different from last years so repeat visitors are welcome. The talk dates organised so far are as follows: Monday 15th November, Edinburgh Tuesday 16th November, Dundee Wednesday 17th November, Cupar Thursday<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/winter-walking-safety-talks\/\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\">Read more &#8250;<\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2645,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22488,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions\/22488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}