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I had been looking at doing this walk along the Carn a'Mhaim ridge for some time and the opportunity arose when I got offered a lift through to the Linn o Dee. I got a lift from a couple of folk who have helped me out a lot over the years, though they were heading in that general direction anyway
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Mum & Dad at Linn o DeeThe plan was to walk to Aviemore and catch the train to Inverness even though it was a train strike day it worked out ok.
Now on my own at the start point.
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A short path from Linn o Dee car park takes you on to the Land Rover track to Derry Lodge
Bob Scott's bothy near Derry LodgeA few folk had passed me on bikes on the way In to Derry Lodge but after that I saw few people. At the ford at the Luibeg burn I chatted with a couple from Perth and we all decided the fording of the river was doable though another chap behind us opted for the bridge upstream. The couple were off to the Devils Point and I left them shortly after the burn to climb Carn a'Mhaim. It had taken me 2 hours to get to the burn and another hour to reach the top of the munro from there. I walked over the top of the cairn in a kind of slow motion walk and punched the air like I had scored a goal. Not sure why I do this (its happened a few times now
) and someone told me its bad luck to damage a cairn
does anyone else do this? No probably not
Great views from the top and views towards a place I camped a few years back beside the Geusachan burn
Old photo (though not as old as I have made it look) looking down Glen Geusachan towards the Devils Point on the left and Carn a'Mhaim straight ahead. Our two tents in the bottom left of the picture
Great view of Corrour bothy and the Devils Point from the ridge.
The ridge was a nice walk and straightforward though a wee bit rough to walk down beside the burn and back on to the Lairig Ghru path
The River Dee not far from its source. I like the look of the ridge up to the Angels peak maybe some other time
I stopped near the Pools of Dee and had a tin of beer - the joys of being car free
My pal Colin tells me there are little trout in this pool. How do they survive the winter?
Near the summit of the pass
Aviemore now in view but it never seems to get any closer
After the rough walk through the top of the pass the walk on the path down through the forest was a joy
Nearly there
Arrived in Aviemore about 6 o clock so nine hours in total. A great day and the navigation was easy due to the clear weather, I didn't need to unfurl my map at all and I now had a 4g connection on my phone so I knew the Virgin train London to Inverness was running as normal and I had nearly a hour and a half in the Old Bridge before grabbing something from the chip shop for the train home washed down by my last can of beer.
Maybe the best view of the day but it didn't last long