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Information & Events
- Could create image for Lochaber as being outdoor capital of
UK
- Stage Mountain Festival event – Jan/Feb
- Film Festival – Jan/Feb
- Campaign to be venue in tour – Banff, Kendal, Llanberis,
Dundee Bretton Hall
- Aim for private sponsorship
- High Street information point, managed by outdoor users, working
with HOST
- Marketing
- Targeting publicity and information
- Establish an Outdoor Access Information Centre
- Walks not accessible from town
- Guides for lower level walks
- Signage to promote low level paths
- Co-ordinated sign and leaflet package, identified as Lochaber
through graphics etc
- Publications specific to access
- New path from High School to Leanachan via Glen Nevis
- Ice-climbing, Kinlochleven – competition for Jan/Feb
- Network of low-level paths from Fort William town centre
- Access problem hot line
- Website
- Webcam on popular rivers
- Webcam on CIC hut
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- Exploit the River’s profile
- Access information on river flow – SEPA, has cost implications
- Parking at 3-mile water
- Changing facilities at river sites
- Big scale development at Tail Race
- Potential at Kinlochleven for large development
- World championship kayaking – Alcan
- Roy Egress at Roy Bridge
- Spean Bridge parking – needs car park
- Paying for facilities not access
- Development at Invergarry – once a year release into river,
information not always forthcoming, landowner issues
- Freedom of choice – paying for facilities only, no compulsion
to use facilities
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Mountaineering
- West Highland link – Glencoe
- Rest stop on Pony Track
- Half-way Lochan Lodge
- Money spent on mountain paths
- Allt a’Mhuilinn – new direct path from North face
Car Park
- Road signs need to be better
- Access from Lochybridge – signs need to be better
- Shelters and toilets at all car parks
- Clarify Rights of Way
- Maintain current paths
- Glencoe Black Corries, Jacksonville Barrier – danger,
potential fatality
- Bridge at Jacksonville
- Webcam on CIC hut or close to mountain
- Toll road to Allt a’Mhuilinn
- Link from Glen Nevis to Nevis Range
- Poll Dubh – improve mountain paths at crags
- Improve path on south side of River Nevis
- Improve wire bridge
- Local paths information
- Grid reference of car parks contained in guide books
- Access over the golf course
- Information on car parks in tourist office
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Skiing
- Access and exit route for Back Corries
- Talk to Alcan
- Get Off area T-Bar
- Earth/Rock moving to enable top-to-bottom entry
- Linking run
- Specific race/race training to host international races, world
cup
- Ski touring route maps
- Linking bothies
- Snow making
- Ski bus to Nevis Range – summer and winter
- Ski racks on public transport
- Dry ski run – Aonach Mor Cow Hill
- Moving carpet – Fort William
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Air Sports
- Record-holding
- World speed event
- Hang-gliding
- Aonach Mor ‘fame'
- Hang-gliding record
- Black Corries Jacksonville – access
- Scottish open event could be staged here
- Key pad access to forestry
- Competition access
- Ensure flying doesn’t infringe on airspace
- Landing area in Nevis Range
- Landing restrictions
- Glen Gloy access
- Formalise access, leading to safe landing sites
- Quad chair access at Nevis Range
- Access to Melantee
- Leanachan access for landing hang-gliders
- Funding for a winch facilits
- Improvements to Sgur Finisgaig
- Ben Duror
- Information on dangers – site boards
- Access to real time windspeed data
- Website
- Phone lines to access data
- Light plane runway
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Mountain Biking
- Funding information / marketing
- Land ownership
- Liability
- Maintenance – what’s in it for me?
- Universal grading
- Co-operation with landowners
- Access via Golf Club
- Wades Road
- Bridge over Upper Corrour
- Link Glen Nevis with Leanachan
- Corrour bothy, head of loch
- Puggy line to Fersit
- Lundavra to 3-mile water
- Single track to Inchcree
- Glen Gloy to Glenloy
- Single track to Glenloy
- Link Fassifern to Glen Gloy
- Connaglen to Loch Sheil
- Single tracks linking major forestry roads
- Loch Lochy
- West Highland Way to Ballachulish
- West Highland Way to Inchree
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