{"id":648,"date":"2011-03-12T15:22:02","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T15:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=648"},"modified":"2011-03-12T15:52:27","modified_gmt":"2011-03-12T15:52:27","slug":"active-outdoors-supplement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/12\/active-outdoors-supplement\/","title":{"rendered":"Active Outdoors supplement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk\/Launch.aspx?PBID=31f17859-df4e-4cf3-9413-e09866bae75a\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Active Outdoors supplement\" src=\"http:\/\/edition.pagesuite-professional.co.uk\/get_image.aspx?w=120&#038;pbid=31f17859-df4e-4cf3-9413-e09866bae75a\" title=\"Active Outdoors supplement\" class=\"alignleft\" width=\"120\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a>A collection of my walking and cycling routes around the Highlands went into a number of regional papers last week as an advertising supplement.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The Active Outdoors supplement was available in the Inverness Courier, the Northern Times, John o&#8217;Groat Journal, Northern Scot, Strathspey and Badenoch Herald and Ross-shire Journal.<\/p>\n<p>To read the supplement online, click the cover image on this page!<\/p>\n<p>Please note &#8211; I did notice there was an error with one of the maps which went into the supplement, so anybody looking for the Kyle of Sutherland loop map &#8211; here it is:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_649\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-649\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2011\/03\/12\/active-outdoors-supplement\/kyle_sutherland-map\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-649\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"649\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kyle_Sutherland-map.gif\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kyle_Sutherland-map.gif?fit=500%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"500,450\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Kyle_Sutherland-map\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Kyle of Sutherland loop map. Courtesy of Scottish Provincial Press.&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kyle_Sutherland-map.gif?fit=500%2C450&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kyle_Sutherland-map.gif?resize=500%2C450\" alt=\"\" title=\"Kyle_Sutherland-map\" width=\"500\" height=\"450\" class=\"size-full wp-image-649\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kyle_Sutherland-map.gif?w=500&amp;ssl=1 500w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kyle_Sutherland-map.gif?resize=150%2C135&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Kyle_Sutherland-map.gif?resize=300%2C270&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-649\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kyle of Sutherland loop map. Courtesy of Scottish Provincial Press.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A collection of my walking and cycling routes around the Highlands went into a number of regional papers last week as an advertising supplement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5M0xs-as","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14742,"url":"https:\/\/bl6.co.uk\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/04\/john-ogroats-trail-continues-to-flourish\/","url_meta":{"origin":648,"position":0},"title":"John O\u2019Groats Trail continues to flourish","author":"John Davidson","date":"May 4, 2025","format":false,"excerpt":"A new bridge over the Loth Burn in Sutherland was unveiled recently. 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