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As well as having its own pony trekking centre, bowling green and challenging nine hole golf course, Carrbridge is the perfect base for a whole range of outdoor activities within the heart of the Cairngorms National Park with everything from fishing, bird watching and hill walking to mountain biking, sailing and canoeing. There is also the opportunity for every kind of snowsport with the whole area well known for its reputation as a popular summer and winter tourist destination with a whole host of activities going on right through the year.

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Welcome to Carrbridge Community - A traditional Scottish Highland village in the heart of modern Scotland Carrbridge Curling Club

CARRBRIDGE CURLING CLUB

Curling Club CarrbridgeCarr-Bridge is one of the few clubs which plays regularly outdoors. The Inverness-shire village lies a few miles north of Aviemore and has one of the best frost records in Scotland. The club is fortunate to have a purpose-built pond complete with floodlights. In the past, it depended on rain to fill the pond, and even with severe weather were sometimes unable to play due to lack of water. Now the Club has installed its own water supply, so only needs frost, and playing is possible.

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MILLENNIUM BONSPIEL
Sponsored By Glenfarclas Whisky

Carrbridge Curling Club were curling on the Outdoor Rink in the Village, throwing the last stones of 1999, and the first stones of the year 2000

To the sound of the pipes, four teams (or rinks) started competing for the specially commissioned Glenfarclas Millennium Quaich at 11pm on Hogmanay

Seconds before midnight former club president, Richard Gault, threw probably the last curling stone of the second millennium. As the stone went down the ice, the bells sounded, making it the first stone ever to have travelled across two millennia. Then as rockets exploded above, the current president, Pat Blease, played the first stone of the new third millennium.

Below the first outdoor match was held on 23rd January 2005
Below the first outdoor match was held on 23rd January 2005

Half an hour later the game finished with the rink skipped by Richard Gault being declared the winner. The Glenfarclas Quaich was immediately presented by Mrs Dorothy Wedderburn, chairman of the Local Tourist Association. She remarked that it was likely to have been the first trophy in Scottish sport to be won in the new millennium, and she was delighted that the trophy was for a sport which Scotland had given to the world. She thanked Glenfarclas for supporting this unique event, and their whisky for keeping bodies and souls insulated against the cold night.

League Champions 2002/03/04
League Champions 2002/03/04

Having filled the Quaich with a bottle of Glenfarclas whisky, Richard Gault then proposed a toast to the health of curling for the remainder of the millennium, with enthusiastic responses from the other curlers, and from the many spectators present. Everyone then adjourned to the clubhouse for a millennium feast and more Glenfarclas.

Carr-Bridge Curling Club are delighted that Glenfarclas are sponsoring the event, because there has been a long association with the Grant family. The former Chairman, George Grant, lived in Carrbridge, and was an active member of the Club for many years, still playing in an occasional Bonspiel. He mainly now curls in Inverness, where he lives.

Bookless Trophy at Brora 2005
Bookless Trophy at Brora 2005

Trophies and refreshment were generously provided by Glenfarclas, and we are also grateful to Moray, Badenoch and Strathspey Enterprise for assistance