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Media release May 2010
Drovers’ Tryst Walking Festival 2010 – programme and new website launched
The ninth annual Crieff and Strathearn Drover’s Tryst Walking Festival programme is now available online at the event’s new look website www.droverstryst.com and a printed brochure with programme details is also available.
The Crieff and Strathearn Drovers' Tryst, one of Scotland’s premier walking festivals, takes place from 7-19 October, 2010. 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.
Today’s walk festival offers a great choice of Perthshire walks led by local experts. The guided walks range from challenging mountain routes to easier walks with themes as diverse as General Wade, photography, bush craft and even bats.
But the events programme isn’t all about walking (and it isn’t even totally about the outdoors!). There is a ghost story night, Comrie Cinema is showing a mountain film and there will be plenty of traditional music, dancing and even pipes and drums to entertain festival goers: these are just a selection of activities available during the week.
Then on the final Sunday 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 with a vowel that rhymes with ‘rye’) 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 owners in order to transact business.