Walking in the Cairngorms - Cicerone Press

This guidebook contains over 100 routes for walking in the Cairngorms. It includes 18 Munro summits of the region and the smaller hills outside the main range. Walks range in length from 1 to 26 miles and are graded for difficulty. For the adventurous there are the best of the area's rocky scrambles, and the classic through-routes including the Lairig Ghru. For those looking for a more gentle alternative, there are easy, sandy trails wandering among the tall pines and along the banks of the great rivers Spey, Nethy and Dee.

The routes are split into seven parts, and along with the main Cairngorm range between Speyside and Deeside, cover Lochnagar. Mountain walks are illustrated with sketch maps, while the low-level and mid-level routes have 1:50,000 mapping. A detailed 'Summit Summary' is included for five hills - Macdui, Cairn Gorm, Braeriach, Cairn Toul and Lochnagar - these are the hills you will want to ascend lots of times by many different routes. Icons at the start of each route indicate type of walk (low level, mid-level or mountain) and ratings of its length and difficulty. Information on snack stops, public transport and accommodation is provided for each area, as well as a route summary table, scrambles summary and grading.

Part 1 Aviemore and the Spey
1 Grantown and Spey
2 Spey at Boat of Garten
3 Craigellachie Birches
4 Geal-charn Mor
5 Around Loch an Eilein
6 Ord Ban
7 Argyll Stone

Part 2 Glen More
8 Gleann Einich and the Sgorans
9 Creag a’ Chalamain and the Cat Notch
10 Down Cairn Gorm
11 Lochan Uaine
12 Meall a’ Bhuachaille
13 Creag Mhor and Bynack More
14 Beinn Mheadhoin
Summit Summary: Cairn Gorm
15 Bynack More and the Saddle
16 Strath Nethy and the Saddle
17 Lairig an Lui, Loch Avon, Coire Raibert
18 Lochan na Beinne and Cnap Coire na Spreidhe
19 Coire Cas (descent)
20 Coire an t-Sneachda: Headwall (scramble Grade 1)
21 Coire an t-Sneachda: Pygmy Ridge (scramble Grade 3)
22 Coire an t-Sneachda: Goat Path
23 Fiacaill Ridge of Coire an t-Sneachda (scramble Grade 1)
24 Lurcher’s Crag
25 Plateau route from Macdui
Shelter Stone Summary
26 Strath Nethy and the Saddle
27 Lairig an Lui, Loch Avon
28 To Coire Cas or Cairn Gorm by Coire Raibert
29 From Coire Cas by Coire Domhain
30 From Linn of Dee by Loch Etchachan
31 To Ben Macdui by Loch Etchachan
32 To Carn Etchachan by Pinnacle Gully (scramble Grade 1)
33 Forefinger Pinnacle (scramble Grade 3)
34 To Ben Macdui by Avon Slabs (scramble Grade 1 or 2)
Summit Summary: Ben Macdui
35 From Lairig Ghru by Tailor Burn
36 From Derry Lodge by Carn a’ Mhaim
37 Sron Riach
38 Via Derry Cairngorm
39 Coire Etchachan
40 From Coire Cas
41 Plateau route from Cairn Gorm

Part 3 Badenoch
42 Badenoch Way
43 Insh to Aviemore
44 Druid Circle at Dalraddy
45 Take an Insh
46 Carn Dearg Mor
47 Mullach Clach a’ Bhlair by Coire Garbhlach
48 Badan Mosach waterfall
49 Summer Road to Ruthven
50 Glen Tromie: Croidh-la
51 Creag Bheag
Summit Summary: Braeriach
52 From Glenmore by Chalamain Gap and Sron na Lairige
53 From Rothiemurchus by Sron na Lairige
54 Gleann Einich and Coire Ruadh
55 Gleann Einich and Coire Dhondail
56 Coire Dhondail scramble (scramble Grade 1)
57 South Ridge of Coire Bhrochain
58 Ridge route from Cairn Toul
Summit Summary: Cairn Toul
59 Coire Odhar
60 Great Moss
61 East Ridge (scramble Grade 1)
62 Northeast Ridge of Angel’s Peak (scramble Grade 1)
63 Corrie of the Chokestone Gully
64 Ridge route from Braeriach

Part 4 Glenlivet and Tomintoul
65 Hills of Cromdale
66 Carn Daimh
67 Around the Brown
68 Glen Brown and Ailnack Ravine
69 Ben Avon by its River
70 Tors of Ben Avon
71 Cnap Chaochan Aitinn
72 Ailnack Upper Ravine

Part 5 Donside
73 Carn Ealasaid
74 Brown Cow Hill
75 Don to Ben Avon

Part 6 Deeside Braemar
76 Clais Fhearnaig
77 Derry Cairngorm by Lochan Uaine
78 The Happy Face of Beinn a’ Chaorainn
79 Dee and Derry
80 Around Glen Geusachan
81 The Devil’s Back Side
82 Glen Quoich
83 Beinn a’ Bhuird
84 Carn na Drochaide and the Fairy Glen
85 Morrone Birkwood and the Dee
86 Morrone and Glen Ey
87 Creag nan Gabhar
88 White Mounth and Jock’s Road

Part 7 Balmoral and Lochnagar
89 Balmoral Castle
90 Craigendarroch and the Dee
91 Around Loch Muick
92 Dubh Loch and Broad Cairn
93 Creag an Dubh-loch
Summit Summary: Lochnagar
94 Queen Victoria’s Ballochbuie Route
95 Byron’s scramble by the Stuic (scramble Grade 1)
96 Tracks from Balmoral
97 Meall Coire na Saobhaidhe
98 Tourist path from Spittal of Glenmuick
99 Conachcraig
100 Loch na Gaire
101 Falls of Glas Allt (descent)
102 From Loch Callater
The Long Routes
The Cairngorms 4000s
The Lairig Ghru