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4 December 05
News - Ride 4th December - Dunnet Beach
Some members of the CRAG committee are planning to meet up for a ride on
Dunnet Beach at 11am on Sunday December 4th, weather permitting, parking
at the Pavillion. Please feel free to come and join us if you would like
to do so and we will hope for a good day with no gales or snow!'
News - UPDATE ON TRACKS
The surface of the new
track that goes from the Thrumster-Wick side to join the Camster-Achairn
forest road is to be up-graded this month so that the Forestry Commission
can harvest their Christmas trees. There will be some obvious disruption
while this work is in progress and during the extraction of the trees but
we should end up with a much better surface on this track, which up until
now has been rough and stony. Watch this space for a CRAG ride there next
spring.
News - 10th October
05 -
Rumster Ride 17th September
A few locals riders turned out for the rumster ride. Everyone throughly
enjoyed the hack.
CRAG AGM Sat 13th
August 2005 8pm
Brown Trout at Watten
It is that time of year again- the CRAG AGM! Sadly, this year we are
losing some of our existing committee members due to various other
commitments so if we are to continue, we need to attract some fresh faces
with new ideas on Access to come along and join us. As you all know, or
maybe some of you don't, we were set up in August 2002 with the aim of
improving off road access for horse riders. Since then we have been very
successful in acting as a pressure group to facilitate the opening up of a
number of tracks with the co-operation of land owners, the Highland
Council and various other parties. At the moment, we are working on other
tracks and paths around the county to provide more safe off road access,
not only for horse riders but
for all outdoor users.
You may think it is all
hard work and no play but this is certainly not the case. We organise
various fun rides and most recently we held a series of sponsored rides
for the Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust which is a member of the 2005
charitable initiative, Make Poverty History Campaign. Between the
sponsored ride and selling the charity's white rosettes, we raised well
over £500.
So if you enjoy meeting
new people and a challenge please come along, join our committee and make
a difference to your off road access. Our AGM is being held in the Brown
Trout at Watten on Sat 13th August @8pm. We look forward to seeing you
there!!!
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January 05
Caithness Riders Access Group (CRAGS) was set up in August 2002 to address
the problem of riding out on todays busy roads.
With help from Forest Enterprise and land owners the group has now got
some safe off road riding. The web site will give details of tracks that
are open and others will be added as they become available to ride. The
group is also affiliated to the BHS. You can join the group by filling in
a form and returning to us MEMBERSHIP is FREE. If you would like more info
please see our website
http://www.caithnessridersaccessgroup.co.uk/
Committee Details :-
Office Bearers
Chairperson : David More
Vice chairperson: Ali Sangster
Treasurer : Nicky Belford
Secretary : Janine Wilbraham -
janine_wilbraham@hotmail.com
- 07739842517
Rest of Committee
Cath Whittles, Fiona Sinclair,
Flora Gunn, Gail Baker, Kate Beaton,
Janet Macleod, Jayshea Wilbraham,
Sandie Mackay, Theresa MacGregor
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February 04
New Bridge At
Loch More Opens Circular Route
For Riders And Walkers
 Ali Sangster Fiona
Sinclair and David More enjoy a circular route ride at Loch More. with the
help of David Barclay who funded the cover through Highland Access Panel
(HAP). the group are now able to have one of the first circular routes for
horses in Caithness. the route is almost 20 miles and takes in some
breathtaking countryside. For anyone wanting to contact the
group in the first instance get in touch with the secretary Janine at
janine_wilbraham@handbag.com
The group also have their
own website with information of tracks etc.
Loch
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Strathmore Forest Pictures
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