I noticed big flagstones at the Aviemore end years ago, with rocks fallen on top. The route seems to have been quite substantial with a very good track of flagstones. I guess the clearance stopped sometime after the Great War, probably before the Second World War, when cattle droving had ceased and there were fewer men around to do the work. I wonder if we could get people to start doing it again? On a related historical note, there is a lintel stone now used as a bridge across a ditch beside Ryvoan Bothy, (which may have been a drovers stop at one time) with a date inscribed on it - 1781.
- Ryvoan lintel stone