Cicerone The Cairngorms: Walks, Trails And Scrambles Guidebook

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In over 100 walks this first Cicerone walking guide to the Cairngorms explores the region's 23 Munro summits & also the smaller viewpoint hills outside the main range. For the adventurous there are the best of the area's rocky scrambles, & the classic through-routes used by cattle-drovers & Queen Victoria. For others there are easy, sandy trails wandering among the tall pines & along the banks of the great rivers Spey, Nethy & Dee. Britain's biggest mountain range is special in several ways. There's the granite plateau, & an Arctic ecosystem of gravel, boulders & late-lying snow. There are the glacial glens & high corries, where green lochans lie below great crags of the plateau rim. & at the hill foot grows the ancient Caledonian forest. Along with the main Cairngorm range between Speyside & Deeside the book covers Lochnagar. It complements Cicerone's winter climbing guide to the region.