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The Highland March
The Highland March is an annual expedition by supporters of Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club in the final week of the league season. The supporters walk from the penultimate match to the final league game of the season, wherever those fixtures happen to be.

The idea of Highland March was conceived in the Market Bar in Inverness on Hogmanay (31st December) 2002 when five supporters, Interthenet, Bronson, Shennachie, Seoras and Govan Jaggie were gathered to see in the new year. Interthenet announced that he would be 50 in the coming new year and proposed that the group walk to the last game of the season at Falkirk. Falkirk were top of the league at the time, with Inverness close behind in second place, so the idea of walking to a showdown fixture on the final day of the season held some appeal. The idea was subsequently floated on the club's unofficial website and the idea attracted further interest. The inaugural March left Inverness on Sunday 4th May 2003 and arrived in Falkirk six days later. Two of the marchers walked the full distance (what has since become known as an End to End) and the March was sufficiently successful to be repeated the following year and every one since.

To date, there have been seven Highland Marches:

2003   Highland March 1     Inverness to Falkirk

2004   Highland March 2     Clyde to Inverness

2005   Highland March 3     Dundee to Inverness

2006   Highland March 4     Inverness to Dunfermline

2007   Highland March 5     Inverness to St Mirren

2008   Highland March 6     Falkirk to Inverness

2009   Highland March 7     Kilmarnock to Inverness