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Cryne Corse

Date walked: 08/06/2020

Time taken: 3 hours

Distance: 12km

Ascent: 240m

Haven't posted a walk report for a long time, but walked a nice historic route today. Keeping within the current 'lockdown' rules, this is a local walk for me in Fetteresso Forest in Aberdeenshire, starting from near Auchenblae.

The Cryne Corse is an ancient crossing from Deeside into Aberdeenshire and was once a drove road, an option to the nearby Slug Road which is now the A957.

http://www.heritagepaths.co.uk/pathdetails.php?path=125

With my two cocker spaniels in tow, we started off around 0930 from the forest lay-by above Upper Quithel. As expected, it started dry and with light winds.

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Fetteresso is a massive forest with miles of groomed forest tracks. The Cryne Corse is on these tracks for the first couple of miles. I could make out the Durris Transmitter in the distance, which was where I was heading.

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Soon, the Right of Way sign posts take you off the main forest tracks onto the old route. Sadly, quite overgrown and would be very boggy in wet weather. Felt a bit like a firebreak or a clearing for the power lines. Sad really, considering the history associated with this road.

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Crossed another forest road where the road improved quite a bit. Rough but a lot clearer.

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We then joined another forest road which led up to the 300m high Durris TV Transmitter.

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Stopped for a cheese sandwich and admired the huge scale of this structure and its massive anchors. Took a zoomed shot at the rather vertigo inducing aerials on top!

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This is where we turned round and retraced our steps back to the car, around 4 miles back. A really nice walk with quite long ascents and descents. One surprise though was the midges. Not that common here, but they were biting bad!

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2020

Trips: 1
Distance: 12 km
Ascent: 240m

2013

Trips: 4
Distance: 50.75 km
Ascent: 2541m
Munros: 1

2012

Trips: 2
Distance: 29.61 km
Ascent: 1893m
Munros: 2

2011

Trips: 3
Distance: 54 km
Ascent: 900m
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2010

Trips: 2
Munros: 2
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2009

Trips: 23
Distance: 52 km
Ascent: 2700m
Munros: 20
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Fionas: 4
Donalds: 4

2008

Trips: 1
Distance: 38 km
Munros: 2


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