Map 44, Grid Ref 310851
\n\u201cEngland! thy beauties are tame and domestic, to one who has roved o\u2019er the mountains afar. Oh, for the crags that is wild and majestic! The steep frowning glories of dark Lochnagar!\u201d So wrote Lord Byron who climbed Lochnagar from Invercauld by the Garbh Allt, accompanied by a ghillie when only a boy of 15 years. Queen Victoria often wrote about Lochnagar in \u2018Leaves from the Journal of our Life in the Highlands\u2019. She commemorated saving Ballochbuie Forest in 1878 by having a cairn built on Craig Doin which overlooks the forest.
\nIts inscription ends with \u201cThe Bonniest Plaid in Scotland\u201d from the old legend that McGregor, the last laird of Ballochbuie, sold the forest to Farquharson of Invercauld for a tartan plaid. Winter will likely be upon us by then, so ice axe and crampons are a likely must. Variations to Lochnagar include Broad Cairn and any number of lower hills should the weather be truly inclement.<\/p>\n
Station hotel afterwards for high tea.<\/p>\n
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Map 44, Grid Ref 310851 \u201cEngland! thy beauties are tame and domestic, to one who has roved o\u2019er the mountains afar. Oh, for the crags that is wild and majestic! The steep frowning glories of dark Lochnagar!\u201d So wrote Lord Byron who climbed Lochnagar from Invercauld by the Garbh Allt, …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[60,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-60","category-day-meets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thesmhc.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}