Walking in the Cairngorms
Title | Walking in the Cairngorms PDF eBook |
Author | Ronald Turnbull |
Publisher | Cicerone Press Limited |
Total Pages | 412 |
Release | 2023-04-25 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 1783625260 |
This guidebook contains over 100 routes for walking in the Cairngorms and Lochnagar, including 18 Munro summits, smaller hills, and trekking options. Walks range in length from 1 to 26 miles and are graded for difficulty. Classic summits include Macdui, Cairn Gorm, Braeriach, Cairn Toul and Lochnagar and this comprehensive guidebook also describes easier sandy trails through pine woodland and riverside walks along the Spey, Nethy and Dee. The routes are split into seven parts, and along with the main Cairngorm range between Speyside and Deeside, cover Lochnagar. Mountain walks are illustrated with sketch maps, while the low-level and mid-level routes have 1:50,000 mapping. Icons at the start of each route indicate type of walk (low level, mid-level or mountain) and ratings of its length and difficulty. Information on snack stops, public transport and accommodation is provided for each area, as well as a route summary table, scrambles summary and grading. A detailed 'Summit Summary' is included for five hills - Macdui, Cairn Gorm, Braeriach, Cairn Toul and Lochnagar - these are the hills you will want to ascend lots of times by many different routes.
Aviemore and the Cairngorms
Title | Aviemore and the Cairngorms PDF eBook |
Author | Paul Webster |
Publisher | Pocket Mountains S. |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 2009-03 |
Genre | Aviemore (Scotland) |
ISBN | 9780955454875 |
'Aviemore and the Cairngorms' features 40 shorter walks, including many perfect for families, stretching from the ancient region of Badenoch and the uppermost reaches of the Spey Valley, through the outdoor hub of Aviemore to Grantown and Tomintoul, then over Ballater and Royal Deeside to Braemar.
The Cairngorms
Title | The Cairngorms PDF eBook |
Author | Nick Williams |
Publisher | Pocket Mountains |
Total Pages | 96 |
Release | 2003-05-01 |
Genre | Mountaineering |
ISBN | 9780954421724 |
Scottish Hill Tracks
Title | Scottish Hill Tracks PDF eBook |
Author | Scottish Rights Of Way And Access Society |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 252 |
Release | 2011-01-15 |
Genre | Mountains |
ISBN | 9781907233166 |
This text provides a useful source of information for walkers, providing details of 350 routes in Scotland's high countryside. The accompanying map shows the routes described and graphically illustrates the wealth of long-distance cross-country walks across the hills and moors of Scotland.
The Living Mountain
Title | The Living Mountain PDF eBook |
Author | Nan Shepherd |
Publisher | Canongate Books |
Total Pages | 140 |
Release | 2008-11-15 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0857863606 |
AS SEEN ON BBC’S WINTERWATCH WITH CHRIS PACKHAM AND MICHAELA STRACHAN 'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece of nature writing, Nan Shepherd describes her journeys into the Cairngorm mountains of Scotland. There she encounters a world that can be breathtakingly beautiful at times and shockingly harsh at others. Her intense, poetic prose explores and records the rocks, rivers, creatures and hidden aspects of this remarkable landscape. Shepherd spent a lifetime in search of the 'essential nature' of the Cairngorms; her quest led her to write this classic meditation on the magnificence of mountains, and on our imaginative relationship with the wild world around us. Composed during the Second World War, the manuscript of The Living Mountain lay untouched for more than thirty years before it was finally published.
In the Cairngorms
Title | In the Cairngorms PDF eBook |
Author | Nan Shepherd |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019-03-10 |
Genre | Poetry |
ISBN | 9781903385333 |
Hill-walking was Shepherd's great love; her single collection of poetry, 'In the Cairngorms', expresses an intensity of deep kinship with nature. They are poems written with the perception of one who has climbed the mountains and truly knows them.
The Cairngorms
Title | The Cairngorms PDF eBook |
Author | Patrick Baker |
Publisher | Birlinn |
Total Pages | 216 |
Release | 2014-05-15 |
Genre | Travel |
ISBN | 085790809X |
Cairngorms: A Secret History is a series of journeys exploring barely known human and natural stories of the Cairngorm Mountains. It looks at a unique British landscape, its last great wilderness, with new eyes. History combines with travelogue in a vivid account of this elemental scenery. There have been rare human incursions into the Cairngorm plateau, and Patrick Baker tracks them down. He traces elusive wildlife and relives ghostly sightings on the summit of Ben Macdui. From the search for a long-forgotten climbing shelter and the locating of ancient gem mines, to the discovery of skeletal aircraft remains and the hunt for a mysterious nineteenth-century aristocratic settlement, he seeks out the unlikeliest and most interesting of features in places far off the beaten track. The cultural and human impact of this stunning landscape and reflections on the history of mountaineering are the threads which bind this compelling narrative together.