The ninth annual Crieff and Strathearn Drovers’ Tryst Walking Festival is under way as the area again looks to the past for a massive tourist boost.
The tryst has built up to become one of Scotland’s premier walking festivals, celebrating the cattle drovers who made Crieff one of the most important places in the country in the 1700s, when the Crieff Tryst was one of the largest cattle markets in the land.
Today’s walking festival offers a choice of Perthshire walks led by local experts ranging from challenging mountain routes to easier walks with themes as diverse as General Wade, photography, bush craft and bats.
The events programme also features indoor action with a ghost story night, Comrie Cinema showing a mountain film and plenty of traditional music and dancing to entertain festival-goers.
Sunday again features the Hairy Coo Mountain Bike Race where riders of all abilities have a chance to have fun on Comrie Croft’s network of handmade trails.
