News From Fred 65

The Cairngorms .....Bynack Stable

Back to Aviemore the first week in january and after my first day regular 'tour de Loch Morlich - now a 45 minute gentle jog- went later in the week for a jog in the very late afternoon from Glenmore Lodge to the bridge at Strathnethy and back. Bynack Mor is in the distance. The Bynack stable isn't where it should have been of course as it had blown down in the gales this time last year and been totally removed (I knew that so wasn't surprised). As I arrived back in darkness at the Lodge two walkers to my surprise were heading off fully kitted out for an expedition. I didn't ask them where to but if they didn't head for the RSPB Ryvoan bothy at the foot of Meall a' Bhuachaille (on the way to Nethybridge) and instead, as I had, turned right towards the wilderness, they wouldn't (any more since the stable blew down) find shelter until the stepping stones near Loch Avon - which is about half way to Linn of Dee which is about 6 miles from Braemar. Quite a long way across the hills in low cloud in the dark and cold in the middle of the night (would have been motn by the time they reached it). They didn't look like twitchers. Perhaps they were going climbing about Loch Avon the next day and wanted an early start.

posted by Fred 65 @ 2:01 PM