Biking Trail Map for Fochabers area - Whiteash Hill Wood and Wood of Ordiequish
This Information sign along with quite number of others was mounted informally on the inside wall of a management shed in Newton Nursery. These obsolete signs had been removed from the various forest locations and perhaps used to brighten up an otherwise dull wooden wall. The colours have faded somewhat and the shed roof lights have added another colour variation.
The vast majority of Forestry Commission and Forest Enterprise signs were drawn up by Forest Design and Interpretation Services based in Silvan House, Corstorphine Road, Edinburgh headed by Bob Jones. Team members around the year 2002 included Alan Chalmers, Dorothy Benoy, Barry Hearse and Sarah ?
Mountain biking featured in several Forestry Commission forests and brought a new core of young visitors to the outdoors and in some areas became a prominent tourism activity with national and international competitions. This sign covers several trails in the two forests with varying degrees of difficulty and length. Trail safety inspection along with repair and maintenance of often steep gradients in difficult to access locations was often a high cost factor.
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