This route has been waiting to complete since last autumn. This Wednesday the day was long enough and the forecast encouraging, so I started at 7am from Linn of Dee car park (pay & display – £2 a car per day). The road to Derry Lodge is wide and even, but not particularly impressive – music from a player helped…
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Mount Keen is the most easterly Munro. And that’s probably the only one important feature of it. The location is quite remote, the height and shape are not particularly impressive, but… it’s a Munro! I started from a car park in Glen Tanar Estate (pay & display) and followed the Old Pine path southward. About a half of the route…
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This route was the first in the Cairngorms taken from the south. Hopefully, it wasn’t the last.
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I planned to do this route for several weeks. Problematic weather kept me away till the end of August. Finally, I managed to pass almost all the planned routes on 1 September 2010. 1: Starting and finishing point at the car park called Sugar Bowl. From that place, I went along a comfortably wide dirt track to reach Chalamain Gap.…
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Because I have been to the summit of Cairn Gorm, I decided to go along a ridge called Fiacaill a’ Choire Chais. This move let me save some time and cover the same path twice. I did the route on 16 June 2010.