Culardoch & Carn Liath by bike & foot.

[Johnny Corbett]

Mainly followed the Walkhighlands route for these two, leaving from Keiloch then taking the right of way path towards Meall Gorm before joining the main track. I used my bike with a bit of pushing along the as far as the marker cairn for Carn Liath, this is where a path heads off to the left. Leaving the bike there i continued up the track on foot, taking a fainter track up towards Culardoch and then a path where another marker cairn marked the start of the short climb to the summit. I returned to where i had left the bike and and was on this path for minutes before leaving it to climb Carn Liath. There is a path, although faint at times, that leads upto the first cairn. There are four cairns on this mountain all similar in height so i decided to visit them all as no doubt in the future they will all get measured again and only one will be the summit. After cairn no.3 i had lunch at a shelter at the end of the wall and from here made my way across to the westerly top before returning to my bike. I returned round the north side of Carn Liath rather than go back over again and after reaching my bike i was back at the car in 35mins. The cycle/walk in took just over 1 hour, although i returned a slightly differant way, staying on the track all the way back to the car, freewheeling most of the way.

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Track & Carn Liath

Culardoch

Creag Bhalg

Lochnagar

Morven

Carn Liath from Culardoch

Ben Avon

Summit

Carn Liath

The track

Culardoch

Ben Avon

Cairn no.3 for me from cairn no.1

Ben Avon from cairn no.2

Lochnagar from cairn no.3

Glenshee from no.3

Me on no.3

On my way to fourth cairn

Beinn a' Bhuirdh from no.4

Braemar

[rockhopper]

another good wee trip johnny - and as for the cairns, bet we've all done that at some time when finding multiple cairns....just have to visit them all just in case - cheers

[JB likes a beer]

well done johnny on multiple cairn count,nice wee day oot

[ChrisW]

That looks like a great day JC, particularly the free-wheeling out Not sure what to make of the scattered cairns but you certainly made sure you got the right one

[jonny616]

Some parts of the world are full of them, cairns that is, the Atholl area is littered with them. Nice walk by the looks of it.

[Johnny Corbett]

Cheers, cairns 2 & 4 are marked the same height on the map with the other two unmarked, so allways best to visit them all.