Poetry in the mountains
In a first for the Arran Mountain Festival, festival goers will have the opportunity to spend a day in the hills with renowned Scottish poet and mountaineer Stuart B Campbell and contribute to a poem about the experience.
In a first for the Arran Mountain Festival, festival goers will have the opportunity to spend a day in the hills with renowned Scottish poet and mountaineer Stuart B Campbell and contribute to a poem about the experience.
The eagerly anticipated Arran Mountain Festival programme for 2022 is expected to be published within days in the run up to festival booking lines opening in mid January.
Arran Mountain Festival (AMF) guides will be leading a walk up Goatfell aimed at first-timers and those that have never managed to ascend Arran’s highest peak.
The Arran hills were alive with walkers, runners and cyclists last month as the island finally emerged from lockdown.
Despite restrictions still effecting events on Arran and in spite of new ferry disruptions and reduced capacities the Arran Mountain Festival 2021 is good to go, albeit very much adapted to be compliant with government Covid requirements.
Booking lines are still open for the Arran Mountain Festival which is to be staged next month.
One event that is definitely going ahead this year is the Arran Mountain Festival.
‘Opening our booking lines closer to the event will help secure the viability of our community-run, not-for-profit festival for future years.
As 2020 draws to a close our thoughts turn to next year, and hopefully better things to come, having skipped a year for the first time in its 14 year history, the Arran Mountain Festival has confirmed it is to go ahead next year.