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Covid Dreams 11: The granite layers

Posted on May 2, 2020 by cairngormwanderer

There’s something hard and unforgiving about this view across the grain of the central Cairngorms. In a land where one thinks mainly in terms of plateaux riven by great glens and nibbled at the edges by corries the view this … Continue reading →

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A rubbish weekend in the Cairngorms

Posted on October 7, 2018 by cairngormwanderer

Just back from the hills after taking part in my first Real3Peaks ChallengeĀ litter pick, leaving Ben Macdui and Cairn Gorm a cleaner place. What started five years ago as an event clearing up Snowdon, Scafell Pike and Ben Nevis expanded … Continue reading →

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Real3Peaks comes to the Cairngorms

Posted on August 30, 2018 by cairngormwanderer

I’ve moaned often enough in this blog about rubbish left in bothies, and get just as annoyed seeing it scattered along paths and around the hills. So this year I decided to get involved in the Real3Peaks Challenge, a national … Continue reading →

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Bothy Life – countdown

Posted on December 1, 2015 by cairngormwanderer

Just a very brief post from a far flung outpost of the Cairngorms where the internet is frustratingly slow. For anyone who hasn’t already heard via Facebook, BBC Scotland will shortly be showing an hour-long documentary about bothies in Scotland. … Continue reading →

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Luibeg Bothy pictures

Posted on January 14, 2013 by cairngormwanderer

A quick post to let people know I’ve placed some photos of the original Bob Scott’s Bothy – Luibeg Bothy – in the bothies section. And, this time I’ve checked – these are of the original bothy. šŸ™‚ They come … Continue reading →

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Photo of the original Bob Scott’s Bothy

Posted on December 23, 2012 by cairngormwanderer

Huge red face at cairngormwanderer HQ. This post originally advertised the fact I’d added a photo of the original Bob Scott’s Bothy at Luibeg to the page devoted to the current bothy and its history. However Kenny Freeman, who well … Continue reading →

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Check the snowgates

Posted on December 21, 2012 by cairngormwanderer

Good news for folk who have to drive over the Glenshee road to get to the Cairngorms. Braemar has installed a camera at the snowgates leading up to Glenshee. It doesn’t let you know what the road is like up … Continue reading →

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Garbh Choire update

Posted on May 21, 2012 by cairngormwanderer

Haven’t heard officially yet, but I understand that both the Cairngorm Club and the Board of the Mountaineering Council of Scotland have discussed the future of the Garbh Choire Refuge and have both decided that it should be retained and … Continue reading →

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Why save the Garbh Choire Refuge?

Posted on March 13, 2012 by cairngormwanderer

  It’s small – tiny even – but the Garbh Choire Refuge has been a welcome sight for many a climber and walker, even after their joy at reaching it has been tempered by the realisation of how dilapidated it … Continue reading →

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Back again – with a new page

Posted on December 29, 2011 by cairngormwanderer

At last! Santa was good to me and a new laptop means this blog is up and running again. I’ve celebrated with a whole new page, about Corrour Bothy, partly because during my time offline I was confirmed as joint … Continue reading →

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