If you head on up to Braemar, go out the Linn O'Dee road and hike up the Lui water towards Derry Lodge. There are routes through the hills, or up into the peaks, with Scots Pine forest, rushing burns, wild moors and loads of wildlife. Same goes for Aviemore and Rothiemurchus; lots of interesting lower routes as well as impressive views form the summits. And you have the ski areas to get high up. On the west north of Fort William there is the Aonach Mor ski area, now named Nevis Ranges. You can get a gondola up to two thousand feet so you are in amongst the good bits quickly.
- Aonach Mhor
- Ryvoan from Cairngorm Ski Road near Aviemore