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Media Release - November 2011
Crieff & Strathearn Drovers’ Tryst 2012
The 2012 Tryst will run from 6th to 13th October, taking the festival into its 11th successful year.
Tryst participants can expect a stimulating mixture of walks - from new routes to classics and old favourites - plus a varied social programme, exciting mountain biking and of course plenty of opportunities to relax, shop, eat and drink. Something to suit all interests and abilities!
The 2012 programme of walks, mountain bike races and social events will be released in April 2012 but the Hairy Coo and the Barn Dance are already scheduled for Saturday October 13th.
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Media release May 2011
Drovers’ Tryst Walking Festival 2011 – programme launched
The tenth annual Crieff and Strathearn Drover’s Tryst Walking Festival programme is now available online at the event’s website www.droverstryst.com and in a printed brochure.
The Crieff and Strathearn Drovers' Tryst, one of Scotland’s premier walking festivals, takes place from 8-15th October, 2011. It celebrates the cattle drovers who made Crieff one of the most important places in Scotland in the 1700s, when the Crieff Tryst was the largest cattle market in the land.
The modern day walk festival offers a great choice of Perthshire walks led by local experts. The programme of more than 30 guided walks ranges from challenging mountain routes to easier walks with themes as diverse as photography, General Wade, geocaching and bats!
But the Tryst also offers many other lively and interesting events and activities during the week. There are ghost story and quiz nights, talks by author Peter Wright and by Stuart Brooks of The John Muir Trust, a mountain film on Comrie Cinema night, plus drama, poetry and traditional music, dancing and even pipes and drums to entertain festival goers.
On the opening Saturday of the Drovers’ Tryst walking festival the Hairy Coo Mountain Bike Race offers riders of all abilities a chance to have fun on Comrie Croft’s network of handmade trails.
There are plenty of bed and breakfasts, hotels and self catering in and around the Crieff area plus a wealth of places to eat, drink and shop. It all adds up to an unmissable programme for anyone looking for a walking holiday in Perthshire.
For information and bookings visit www.droverstryst.com or call +44 (0)1764 652578
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Note to Editors
The cattle were brought to Crieff by drovers, who travelled hundreds of miles from as far as The Isle of Skye. This often took weeks of walking through the remote mountains and glens of Scotland over rough and barren terrain. At that time, Crieff was one of Scotland’s most important financial centres.
In the Scots language, a ‘tryst’ (pronounced optionally with a vowel that rhymes with ‘rye’ or with ‘wrist’) is an arranged meeting place and is a word that is also linked to standard English ‘trust’. Crieff was the place where dealers ‘trysted’ to meet the cattle drovers in order to transact business.