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Festival News -
August 27th , 2010
1) Meat
Cove Mountain hike
scheduled on Sunday,
September 12 at 10:00 am has
been cancelled
due to recent flash flood conditions and to allow the community to
have time to rebuild &
recover. It will
be replaced with another hike to be announced next week.
2)
Money
Point Gulch,
Sept. 12 and
Money
Point Light,
Sept. 18 hikes which were
questionable
after the heavy rain storm are now a go..after being checked
by our guide David Rasmussen
3)
Sugar
Loaf Mountain and
Le
vieux du Cap Rouge
hikes will be featured in
Hike Nova Scotia Fall hikes
Schedule.
4) Professional
photographer, Wally Hayes
will be delivering two
Nature
& Landscape Photography
Workshops in this
year's Hike the Highlands
festival on Friday, Sept
10th and on Saturday, Sept.
11.
5)
Evening activities for
the 7th Annual Hike the
Highlands festival has been
updated with more
information on presentations.
6)
Join our hiking
community -
Our festival has just
developed a
facebook fan
page. Please visit our
new page and if you like it, click
like. We would like to have
you as a fan. You will
receive updates
and news on our festival as well comments from our fans.
Hikers
can also follow us on
Twitter
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7)
You
have
3 options to register
for the 2010 Hike the
Highlands festival : 1)
register and pay online, 2)
Print off the digital brochure, complete the form and mail in
with payment and 3) pay at
the registration
headquarters in Ingonish or in Cheticamp at Nature Bookstore
located in Parks Canada
Visitor
Information Centre in Cheticamp.
8)
Hikers Distance
Award Program
was a great success
last year and will be back
in 2010. Hikers will
receive a special lapel pin for hiking one of the three
distances 25, 50, 100 km
during the festival.
This program is included in your registration fee.
9) Dogs will not be
allowed on hikes in
2010 Hike the Highlands
Festival. The festival
regrets any
inconvenience this may cause however because we travelled in
groups, our festival must
also respect
the wishes of all our hikers.
10)
Our next festival e-mail
newsletter will be out
by end of August 2010. If you would like to be on
our mailing list - please click on the button below to
sign-up.
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