The times they are a changin....

From 1st April, unitary management of the Speyside Way will cease. That means that the Moray Council, who have to date managed the whole route on behalf of the other authorities (Highland Council and the Cairngorms National Park Authority) will no longer manage the route within the National Park. This role will be taken on by the National Park Authority themselves.
For one further year, however, Moray countryside staff will continue to provide a central information service for the whole route, while an alternative strategy is developed for information provision for the National Park section. For the moment, then, the point of contact for information about the whole route is still the Moray Council Countryside Section in Aberlour:

tel - 01340 881266

email - speyside.way@moray.gov.uk

web - www.speysideway.org

post - Speyside Way Visitor Centre, Broomfield Square, Aberlour AB38 9QP

No news is good news?

For those of you waiting on news of the slip at Knockando, well, there's no news really. Since it happened, we have hardly seen the area without snow cover in order to be able to assess the problem. A slow thaw of our second extraordinary dump of snow this winter has now set in - some places had even more than over Christmas and New Year, and very much determined by altitude. Higher parts have had around 3 feet (90 cm) this time, plus drifts to twice that. For the second time this winter I have found my self saying that that I have never in my life seen so much snow!
Anyway, it appears that the slip has not moved much since we saw it originally, so we are now optimistic that a serious collapse may not actually take place. We'll try to keep you posted.