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The Northern Cairngorms

Landsat view of Cairngorms.

Coire Cas.

Coire Cas, Cairngorm.

Fiachaill a Coire an Lochan across Coire an t-Sneachda.

Coire an t-Sneachda and Cairn Lochan from Fiachaill a Coire Cas.

Coire an t-Sneachd,a and Cairn Lochan from Fiachaill a Coire Cas.

Snowboarding Cairgorm The Scottish Mountain Photo Gallery's trip to the slopes.

Note the poise and edge control, despite increasing age and infirmity. Note also the empty slopes. Those who know the SMPG staff appreciate that we do not queue, not for tows, not for the Inn Pin, not even for petrol. (We recently drove all the way from Fort William to Broadford on empty rather than join a queue.) We seek solitude in the mountains not the companionship of a queue. However, it has to be said that the SMPG position seems to be a rather isolated minority view. On May Bank Holiday Saturday, 2002, scores of happy seekers of companionship were enjoying each other's company for 5 hours or more before they were able to start their ascent of the Inaccessible Pinnacle. Not so for the recent SMPG visit

.Last down the Traverse, Coire Cas.

Coire an t-Sneachda

Northern Corries Coire an t-Sneachda and Coire an Lochan from the path from Coire Cas.

Coire an t-Sneachda Coire an t-Sneachda.

Coire an Lochain

Approach to Coire an Lochain.

Coire an Lochain The first lochan, Coire an Lochan.

The second lochan, Coire an Lochain. To give an idea of scale, this image is assembled from two rows of 5 pictures taken with a 35mm lens.

Coire an Lochain: a short ice step.

Coire an Lochain: then a short chimney.

Coire an Lochain: mixed ground.

Coire an Lochain: looking over to the Fiacaill ridge with Loch Morlich below.

Coire an Lochain: the final snows.

The Couloir of Cairn Lochan

Cairngorm and the plateau from Cairn Lochan.

South West from Cairn Lochan.

Traversing under the Stag Rocks.

Afterthought Arete.

Stag Rocks, Loch Avon from Afterthought Arete.

Bottom wall of Afterthought Arete, Stag Rocks, August.

Bottom wall of Afterthought Arete, Stag Rocks, March. Where's the snow?

Afterthought Arete, Stag Rocks.

Loch Avon, Carn Etachan and Shelter Stone Crag from Stag Rocks, August.

Loch Avon, Carn Etachan and Shelter Stone Crag from Stag Rocks, March. Where's the snow?

A short bike run from Nethy Bridge to Loch Inch via Gleann Einich:

Climbing towards Ryvoan pass from Abernethy.

Mountain biking Scottish style.

Looking down Glen More past Ryvoan bothy.

Glen More, fortunately the start of snow meant the rain stopped.

Loch an Uaine (Green loch).

Creag Loigste, juniper, Scots Pine and birch.

Cairngorm1.JPG (4653 bytes) Northern corries of the Cairngorms from Loch Morlich. May 78.

Northern corries of the Cairngorms. March 00. Where's the snow?

March 01, it's back.

Rothiemurchus Estate.

Lochan an Geadas.

Rothiemurchus Forest.

Allt Druidh, deep in the Rothiemurchus Forest.

Cycling up Gleann Einich towards Braeriach.

Upper Gleann Einich from the top of the LandRover track, a crazy descent wore out our brake pads. This track was built to bypass the old track which had land-slipped.

You can see Glean Einich LandRover track's scar from space in the Landsat picture. Our skid marks didn't do it!

Lower Gleann Einich.

Loch an Eilein.

Inchriach bothy.

Loch Insh.

The River Spey flowing out of Loch Insh from the Kincraig bridge.

Loch Insh Church.

Loch Insh Watersports. The Boathouse serves a damn fine pint of cold Guinness!

South of the Cairngorms

Glen Prossen, half way round a 36 mile route which started in Glen Isla, crossed to Glen Prossen then up to the watershed with Glen Finlet then back down to Glen Isla. Last two hours were off-road, in the dark with torches.

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