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Number 4 Gully Cairn (Photo: Martin McCrorie)<\/p><\/div>Work has now been completed on two navigation cairns on Ben Nevis. Following a public consultation process at the start of 2012, one new cairn has been erected and the Number 4 Gully cairn has been replaced.<\/p>\n
The Coire Leis cairn measures approximately two metres high with a large and distinct capstone.\u00a0 The cairn serves as a navigation marker for the descent line from the bealach into Coire Leis.<\/p>\n
The Number 4 G<\/span>ully cairn measures approximately 1.7metres high, with a large and distinct capstone which has two aluminium number 4s on it (one facing N\/NE and one facing S). The <\/span>new cairn is in the same location as the previous aluminium marker. The cairn serves as a navigation marker for the descent into Number 4 Gully.<\/span><\/p>\n Remnants of the bottom layer of the old cairn remain at the base. Particular species of a rare vascular plant assemblage, including <\/span>Cerastium ceratoides <\/em><\/span>and <\/span>Cerastium articum \u2013 <\/em><\/span>both mouse-ears<\/span> \u2013<\/em><\/span>have established themselves within the rock. Care should be taken not to disturb these.<\/span><\/p>\n The cairns were commissioned by the John Muir Trust after an extensive consultation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Work has now been completed on two navigation cairns on Ben Nevis. Following a public consultation process at the start of 2012, one new cairn has been erected and the Number 4 Gully cairn has been replaced. The Coire Leis cairn measures approximately two metres high with a large and distinct capstone.\u00a0 The cairn serves as a navigation marker for the descent line from the bealach into Coire Leis. The Number 4 Gully cairn measures approximately 1.7metres high, with a large and distinct capstone which has two aluminium number 4s on it (one facing N\/NE and one facing S). The…<\/span> <\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7809,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7807"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24286,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7807\/revisions\/24286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.walkhighlands.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}