Organisations throughout the Cairngorms National Park joining forces this week to celebrate National Parks Week 2006. A series of events took place throughout the Park with something to suit all ages and abilities.
National Parks Week is being marked at National Parks the length and breadth of Great Britain and this year’s theme is ‘Stretch your legs, stretch your mind’. One of the Cairngorms National Park’s highlights this year was Journey for the Wild 2006. The John Muir Trust; – the country’s leading wild land conservation organisation – is behind the Journey for the Wild, which consists of four routes totaling about 2,500 miles. Participants walk, run, cycle, paddle kayaks and canoes, and sail yachts to complete the journey, traveling light and with the least possible impact on the environment through some of Britain’s wildest places and most spectacular scenery. Their aim is to pass on a message baton across 70 legs of the journey and four different routes. The eastern route baton entered the Park on the 24 July near Dinnet.
Staff from the Cairngorms National Park Authority also took part in their own Journey...