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Huntly Walking Festival 16-18 April 2010

16 April 2010

Huntly, the town with "room to roam", plans an annual Walking Festival in April to raise the profile of the town as an ideal base for walking holidays.

Huntly, the town with "room to roam", launches annual Walking Festival

The town of Huntly – motto "room to roam" - sits in the heart of rural Aberdeenshire. It boasts a plethora of high and low level country walks which are complemented by town heritage and art trails. To encourage more local residents to enjoy the glories of their local landscape and to raise the profile of the town as an ideal base for walking holidays Huntly is to hold its first ever Walking Festival in the Spring of 2010. A joint venture between the Huntly Development Trust, Huntly and District Tourism Action Group and Deveron Arts, the event will see a programme of walking based events taking place in and around the town over the weekend of 16 – 18 April 2010.

Programme

16 April

wheelchair walk (Norma)

17 April

10 am Can Walking be art? Arts Breakfast with Hamish Fulton

2 pm 2 hr choreographed walk with Hamish on the Square

7 pm Walker's ceilidh in Gordon Arms Hotel

As part of the Walking Festival Deveron Arts will host a visit by Hamish Fulton. His latest walk will set out from Huntly and end in Tomintoul thus linking the town to the Cairngorms National Park.
(In 1969 Fulton followed in the footsteps of Sitting Bull, in a walk over the Little Big Horn battlefield in Montana since which time he has crossed vast tracts of the planet, visiting some of the remotest places on earth documenting them only in photographs and text.

"Other artists pick up a paintbrush or reach for the camera when they want to start work. Hamish Fulton puts on his walking boots." The Guardian

18 April

10 am: Hamish will start his walk to the Cairngorms; who likes can join the start of the walk.

The Festival will culminate in a mass sponsored walk to raise money for a range of local charities.

Sponsored by:

GetAbout, Forestry Commission, Ricola, Dean's, Sangs and Hilltrek Outdoor Clothing.

!!Charity organisations wishing more support, walkers and walking groups wishing to participate should go to http://www.huntly.net/events/page.php?event_id=92

Full details of the Festival programme will be unveiled in the coming weeks.

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