Banchory

Cairnshee: This Tump was located south-east of Banchory and was accessed from an unclassified road to the west where I parked at the start of a vehicle track. This track was followed into Cairnshee Wood later leaving the track and walking through an area where the trees had been thinned[…]

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Hill of Noth

Parked in the car park on the north side of the A941 Rhynie to Dufftown Road just west of Rhynie and walked north along the marked path through a gate in the deer fence before heading east along the fence edge. The vehicle track became overgrown then just a mark[…]

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Alford

Hill of Airlie – This Tump was located to the north-east of Alford. I parked on the east side of the unclassified road between Old and North Keig to the west of the hill. I then entered the trees and followed animal trails round fallen timber and gorse bushes. This[…]

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Glen Tanar

Black Craig, Slain a Gour and Creag na Slice – I parked in the designated car park at the end of the public road in Glen Tanar, beside the nearby Glen Tanar House, accessed from the B976 South Deeside Road west of Aboyne. I then set out for the long[…]

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Huntly

The Bin: Parked just off the A96 Huntly to Keith Road, north-west of Huntly, and walked along tracks later marked with yellow then white marker posts to the summit of this Hump. The return was by the upward route. Boddum Hill: Parked in the ‘Forest Walks’ car park, on the[…]

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Aboyne

Drumgesk Hill: This Tump was located east of Aboyne so I parked just off the A93 Banchory to Aboyne Road beside the access road to Drumgesk Farm. I then walked south along this road then west on the path that ran below the north side of Drumgesk Hill. I later[…]

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Rannoch

After camping on the sand at the east end of Dubh Lochan, an extension of Loch Laidon, just to the west of Rannoch Station and the B846 road end, we returned to the vehicle track on the north side of the lochs and walked west through the forest gradually gaining[…]

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Sron Smeur

Earlier In the day I climbed the Marilyn, Leagag on the south side of Loch Rannoch, then drove west along the B846 towards Rannoch Station and parked to its east and opposite the vehicle track known as the Road to The Isles and sign-posted Corrour. Immediately after the start of[…]

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Leagag

I arrived in Bridge of Gaur at the south-west end of Loch Rannoch and left my vehicle in the parking area adjacent to Georgetown Hall then walked the short distance east to the road bridge over the Allt an Fheadain. Here I passed through a pedestrian gate and headed south[…]

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Donside

Glenshalg Hill – B9119 Aberdeen to Tarland Road east of Tullochvenus and the A980 Lumphanan to Alford Road crossed a locked gate and walked south along a vehicle track which took me to within a few metres of the summit. After visiting the high point of this Tump I returned[…]

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