Devils point from Linn of Dee

[Avocetboy]

Hi. Looking to do the Devils Point from Linn of Dee. Using bikes, are we better off cycling via Derry lodge or via White Bridge? And, how far can we get on bikes? Corrour Bothy?

Thanks in advance

[prog99]

Derry Lodge every time. The white bridge approach is not great despite the path.
I’d not bother cycling further than luibeg although that’s not to say it’s not possible.

[Sunset tripper]

Yes, via Derry Lodge for me, it's better cycling and a quicker finer approach, cycling up to the Luibeg burn as already suggested. Its a while since I've been there, but there was one short lived boggy section after crossing the Derry Burn then it improves again. I find it to be a great cycle back out to the car park from Luibeg.

All the best.

[jupe1407]

Yeah Derry Lodge is a far more pleasant cycle. The boggy section after the luibeg is short and fairly tedious with a bike, but you could easily cycle another mile of so on a slightly rougher track.

Whitebridge is fine until the bridge then rougher sort of singletrack for a mile and a half or so after. We cycled that when doing Beinn Bhrotain and Monadh Mor from Glen Dee (an utterly terrible idea. Just don't).

The return journey from Derry Lodge is also much more fun with only a couple of dead easy climbs and loads of freewheeling.

[rgf101]

I've walked between White Bridge and Corrour a few times, and always enjoy it. The cyclists I've met always seem to be enjoying it much less. Especially one couple who had heavy electric mountain bikes, and no power left in their batteries.

[Avocetboy]

Many thanks for all your replies, Derry Lodge it is!!!

[al78]

Whitebridge is fine until the bridge then rougher sort of singletrack for a mile and a half or so after. We cycled that when doing Beinn Bhrotain and Monadh Mor from Glen Dee (an utterly terrible idea. Just don't).

Interesting you say that because Cameron Mcneish in his Munros book gives that route in his Southern Cairngorms chapter. It looks to be a largely pathless route. Is it bogginess or knee deep relentless heather bashing that make it unpleasant?

It looks to me from the OS map that a wild camp at Loch nan Stuirteag would be ideal for bagging those two on one day and Devils point around to Braeriach the following day.

[prog99]

The path to the north of the Dee is mostly a work of fiction on the map and out of spite occasionally pretends to be good. The south side is okish but on a bike it’s splitting hairs to see how far you can get if just doing Monadh Mor and Beinn Bhrotain.

Loch Nan Stuirteag is a pleasant spot.