Have been crossing the Highlands of Scotland, and then hiking in the Cairngorms National Park.  This is the highest area of mountains in the UK, and a mecca for outdoors people. Like CAMarchand.

Even the Royal family love the area with a private retreat at Balmoral.  But today commoners can use their train station.

So, this little blog contains some hiking pictures of the area .. but first some misc. pictures of our travels over the past week.

Another castle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

More Neolithic passage graves.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The locks of the Caldedonian Canal at Fort Augustus.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Morning fog filling Loch Ness.

 

 

 

 

 

And Haggis in the Butcher’s shop.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hiking in the Cairngorms.

We used the town of Aviemore as our base.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Settled in a big old Hotel with a fine Lounge Bar and Restaurant.  Even in late October the town is full of hikers and bikers.  The trails are many and over a wide area and vary from flat and easy to rough and steep.

This week it has been quite windy on the tops, but we walked every day without any serious rain (a miracle here).

The Scottish Highlands and the Cairngorms