Last weekend we went to Aviemore. It is a couple of years since we visited the Cairngorms which is my old stomping ground . Just walking down the main street of Aviemore brought back many memories - of finishing the Lairig Ghru race , of catching the evening train to Blair Atholl then running the 40 miles back overnight , of arriving late at the youth hostel and luxuriating in the comforts of civilization after a hard day in the hills. I have had so many great adventures in the Cairngorms!
Nowadays living on the west coast we enjoy more craggy and steeper mountains but it is hard to beat the vast rolling plateaus of the Cairngorms . It is one of the few true wilderness areas in Britain and also the coldest.
In the afternoon we ran through the forest and up into the Lairig Ghru which is a pass that clefts the range in two with Ben Macdui and the Cairngorm plateau on one side and the Braeriach , Angel's Peak and Cairn Toul on the other. I did a quick sketch of the pass before we had to head back to the car . We both decided that we had neglected the area for too long and needed to get back for some more longer visits
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| Quick sketch of the Lairig Ghru from the north |
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| Pencil drawing of the Lairig Ghru from the Braeriach with Cairn Toul on the right |
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| Looking across the Lairig Ghru to Devil's Point |
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