Archives for 2011
A great year for mountain paths
The first year of the Cairngorms Mountain Heritage Project has gone exceptionally well. We successfully completed 13 contracts on sections of the Lairig Ghru, Lairig an Laoigh, Bynack More, Coire Raibeirt and Ben Macdui with work on the popular Windy Ridge path now complete.This work will make a huge difference to the control of erosion […]...
Lumphanan Health Walk Group starts
Six people enjoyed a short health walk from the village centre out towards the Peel. A cuppa in the tearoom was taken and a commitment to meet every Friday at 10.30am while the weather lasts…everyone welcome!...
Volunteer Event in November 2011
Paths for All held a networking event for volunteers in Perth on the 22nd November 2011. The event was attended by COAT Walking to Health volunteer leaders Martin, Molly, Sandra and Ailsa and proved a valuable forum for exchanges of ideas and experiences....
Volunteer Training at Nethy Bridge
Ten participants from Torphins, Aboyne, Ordie, Nethy Bridge, Carrbridge, Boat of Garten and Kingussie attended the Volunteer Walk Leader Training Course held in Nethy Bridge on Saturday 29 October. Participants can be seen enjoying their demonstration health walk in the Dell Woods and a collective shot with their certificates. Well done to all!...
New Bridge ensures a future for Kingussie river crossing
Kingussie Community Development Company had been championing a replacement crossing at Strathlynn, Kingussie over the Gynack burn before a bridge closure – which occured at another location on the same path network only a few hundred metres downstream. COAT employed a civil engineer to draw-up plans for a ‘Ranger’ aerial-mast bridge similar to the one […]...
Upper Gynack Bridge, Kingussie
The Upper Gynack Bridge in Kingussie forms an important link across the Gynack burn and is a key part of the Paths Around Kingussie network of informal paths. The bridge structure was inspected a few years ago at the same time that COAT was working with KCDC to replace the bridge further downstream; it was […]...
Heron Trail
Pupils from Deshar Primary School, Boat of Garten were the first to try-out a new pond-dipping platform and ‘most-abilities’ path upgrades at the newly revamped Heron Trail in Boat of Garten, when they visited the site for its official opening in May 2011. The Heron Trail comprises 450m of aggregate path and 15m of boardwalk […]...
Wildcat Trail Bridges
July 2011 saw the Wildcat Trail near Newtonmore go from strength to strength as an award-winning construction team bridged the Allt na Féithe Buidhe and Allt Mor with a pair of steel-beam bridges. Strong Bridges Ltd had been engaged by COAT to replace an existing timber-beam bridge over the Allt na Féithe Buidhe and install […]...
Welcome to our new trainees
We had a fantastic response to the course advert for the 2011 Path Skills Training Course with over 230 application forms sent out giving us the near impossible task of narrowing it down to the 8 places on offer. We invited 45 candidates to be interviewed over 3 days at the Aviemore Mountain Resort resulting […]...
CMHP – Update
A quick news update on Cairngorm Mountain Hertitage Project. We now have two contractors on site, McGowan Outdoor Access (MOA) on Carn Ban Mor and Upland Access Ltd on the Cairngorm Plateau. The works on the plateau consist of “light touch techniques” where the team are subtly moving boulders and landscaping to define and create a […]...
