Great to meet so many of you at the Backpackers Club AGM and Lightweight Festival last weekend. A few years ago, before we had the Festival part of the AGM weekend, we used to get less than 50 people at the meeting. For a club with over a thousand membership that’s not great. Numbers on Saturday were over 120, so a big improvement. Great that so many other people come along to the Festival too and discover something about the Backpackers Club. We even got a dozen or so new members, so all in all a very good weekend.

This Saturday coming I’ll be leading one of the Smugglers Trail walks at the Speyside Whisky Festival. What could be a better combination - walking and malt whisky! We’ll be meeting at the Glenlivet Distillery at about 9.30 and the walk isn’t too difficult - a very pleasant stroll of 11km round some of the landmarks that are historically significant in the tales of the old whisky smugglers who distilled their own illegal hooch in the glen before the days of commercial whisky distilling. I’ll have a few folk with me who know much more about whisky distilling than I do - my only expertise is in drinking the stuff. Hope some of you may be able to join us.

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