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My eldest son was home on leave and we wanted to do a hill (or more) together. The forecast was for Glales, especially later in the day, and stronger in the west and on top of the high Cairngorm plateaus, so I decided on something easier. Plus I had only been back two days after doing a more arduous route. As it was, the weather was sunny and dry. There has hardly any wind. We would have appreciated more due to the large number of insects on the summit area, especially around the Jubilee Cairn. My son does not like me publishing photographs of him so there is only a photograph of the cairns and me.
My son is 19 and very fit so I did not take many photographs as I would not be able to catch him back up!
- The Coronation Cairn, built to commemorate the crowning of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra at Westminster Abbey in 1902.
- The Jubilee Cairn, built to mark Queen Victoria’s Golden Jubilee in 1887.
- Marked as Clach nam Piobair – the Piper’s Stone , it is linked to the Battle of Cromdale in 1690 which saw the end of the first Jacobite rising. Legend has it that a fatally wounded Jacobite soldier stood on the rock and played the bagpipes to his comrades.
