Category: walking
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Hares and aeroplanes on Lochnagar, Cairngorms, Scotland – September
We made a 9.10am start from a car park a few miles east our of Braemar. We had intended to follow a circular walk going up to Lochnagar, but were asked by the representative of a big group of stalkers in several 4x4s to keep to paths and come back the same way from the…
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A very mixed weather day on the Linn of Dee circuit, Cairngorms, Scotland – September
The weather kept changing from sunny to rainy and back again on this 16-mile, 8-hour walk along glens that took us north up Glen Dee, which meets the Lairig Ghru at the Pools of Dee, from the southern end. We started walking from the Linn of Dee car park, and early on, we came across…
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Wind and rain over Meall a’ Bhuachaille, Cairngorms, Scotland – September
It was another very windy day. We took the track that goes through Glenmore Lodge, stopped to appreciate the greenish water of the An Lochan Uaine, then headed up the ridge from the Ryvoan bothy after first having a look inside. It was another sloggy ascent up to the first top of Meall a’ Bhuachaille;…