Latest News on route
From Barry Parker 240406.
"Thank you for your enquiry and apologies for the delay in getting back to you, we were on a short break after Easter madness! Unfortunately, the Altnaharrie ferry is not operational due to the previous ferry boat not meeting new MCA operational requirements last year. It is a great loss but the cost of running and insuring the service now seem very prohibitive".
Regards, Shona Osborne, Ullapool Tourism
The alternative route is via Lael forest.
Cautionary note
There have been a couple of reports of walkers being injured by Highland Cattle along the CWT. Although Highland Cattle are normally very docile they will take steps to protect their calves.When passing Cows with calves please for your own safety do not position yourself between calf and mother.
Three New Foodstops on CWT
Two new foodstop Cafes have recently opened up on the CWT.
The first one is at Achnashellach Station, excellent cafe and B&B, see section 1 for details.
The second is,The Whistlestop Cafe Kinlochewe, in the Old Village Hall, no need to book, open 8am till 8pm
for breakfast,lunch and evening meals. Excellent reports, excellent food at reasonable price, "A" plus food stop for Kinlochewe.
The third is The Ozone Cafe at Cape Wrath Lighthouse, open 24/7 except during military exercises. A welcome food stop at the
top end of the Cape Wrath Trail.
IAT Welcomes 9 New European Chapters
On October 7, during the Adventure Travel World Summit in Aviemore, Scotland, the International Appalachian Trail welcomed nine new European chapters to its growing international trail network.
Coast Alive partners in Norway, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands and England, along with partners in Ireland, Wales, the Faroe Islands, and Iceland, joined what is quickly becoming one of the largest trail networks and premier outdoor adventure brands in the world.
The goal of the IAT is to extend its trail network to all countries and regions once united by the supercontinent Pangea more than 250 million years ago, when the Appalachian, Caledonian, and Atlas Mountains were formed by earth's plate tectonics. As Hugh Barron of the British Geological Survey eloquently pointed out, the IAT is a movement bringing these separate and distinct regions together again.
The October meeting was held at the Cairngorm Hotel in Aviemore.
During the meeting, BGS gave a short presentation on the 500 million+ year geological history of the Appalachian and Caledonian tectonic plates, after which Coast Alive's Magne Haugseng and Greenland Tourism's Mads Skifte gave photo presentations of their respective regions. Mark Flager followed with his short 6.5 minute IAT Newfoundland Labrador promotional video produced in 2009, using it to discuss plans for a 3-hour television documentary of the IAT, to follow the huge success of his 2-hour adventure documentary Appalachian Impressions, viewed by more than one million US households on the American PBS television network.