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Neil Reid
@cairngormwanderer.bsky.social
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Hill walker, ex-climber. Love the Cairngorms. Retired editor of Scottish Mountaineer mag, MO & Hon Life Member w MBA & trustee w Bob Scott's Bothy Assoc. High altitude lavvy cleaner at Corrour Bothy. Mountain litter picker.
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Fingers crossed for a classic winter - we're long overdue one. Here's a great guide for the off-piste and mountain skiers amongst you.
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November 15, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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One of those perfect days. Several times almost moved to tears by the beauty.
Near the top of Sron Riach of Ben McDui Looking through cloud into the massive complexity of the Garbh Choire Big sky over the granite and grit landscape of the McDui plateau The cliffs of Coire Sputan Dearg of Ben McDui
October 12, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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Always interesting to catch up with what Mountaineering Scotland have been up to. Read their annual report here.
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September 9, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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So thrilled and moved to receive this for my birthday. It's a lovely piece of art in its own right, but especially important to me because I've known Corrour Bothy for almost 60 years and been privileged to help look after it for almost 20.
#CorrourBothy #Cairngorms
Watercolour painting of a mountain bothy painted on an Ordnance Survey map of the relevant area. #Corrour Bothy #Cairngorms
September 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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Great weekend at Corrour Bothy in the #Cairngorms, preparing the toilet storage area for waste removal and doing maintenance work on the toilet. Thanks to a great crew of volunteers for all their hard work.
Two people in ppe striking a pose beside a helicopter bag full of human waste. A group of people in front of Corrour Bothy in the Cairngorms, under a clear blue sky A volunteer in ppe suit working underneath a bothy toilet A volunteer on a ladder using a long paint brush to apply woodstain to a bothy toilet in the Cairngorms
August 3, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Note to self: when removing a grapefruit-sized wasp nest from the tight confines of a bothy toilet, don't assume that because it looks damaged there are no wasps there.
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There were.😬
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And quite upset as it turned out.
July 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Seems it's six years since I was last at the Barns of Bynack in the #Cairngorms. Always worth another trip though @frankhennessy.bsky.social
July 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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It was one of those days that was an absolute delight from start to finish. The landscape, the flowers, the peregrine encounter and even a mountain rescue fly-past... A cracking day in the Cairngorms!
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July 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Some starry saxifrage. Not a great pic, but a rather too sensational situation which required concentration not to fall off, so please excuse.
High on the side of Coire Etchachan in the #Cairngorms on Saturday.
July 6, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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A skyline walk has a particular satisfaction. Started up Ben Starav to see if I still could and just kept going, to go over Glas Bheinn Mhor and (out of sight to the left) Stob Coir' an Albannaich. A magical day, but, oh my, have my legs paid the price!
June 22, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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After a damp Saturday the weekend was looking a washout - until I decided to go home over Sgor Dubh instead of round it.
#Cairngorms #Bothies
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A steeply sloping hillside with new trees in the foreground and mature trees in the middle distance. Mountains in the background. #Cairngorms
June 9, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Ah, the Cairngorms. You don't even need to be high up to have a great wander. Walked between Loch Malachie and Loch Gartan in last week's sunny weather, enjoying the cool shade of the trees.
Dead pine tree in the foreground of a photo of a very still Loch Malachie in the Cairngorms, with blue sky above. A spread of bog cotton in 'flower' amonst pine trees near Loch Gartan in the Cairngorms.
May 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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It's taken me shamefully long to get round to reading this absolute gem. Between a Rock & a Hard Place, by Davy Gunn, mountaineer and rescuer. What a life!
A fault? Far too short - could have been twice as long. I just wanted to keep reading his stories.
Book cover for Between a Rock & a Hard Place: Life, History, Climbing & Mountain Rescue in Glencoe, by Davy Gunn
May 18, 2025 at 7:51 AM
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Another great weekend in the Cairngorms with some unorthodox choices of route and a 'backstage' view of some favourite hills.
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The screes of Coire an t-Sabhail below the summit of Cairn Toul in the Cairngorms. From the head of Glen Geusachan in the Cairngorms, looking into Coire Cath nam Fionn of Beinn Bhrotain.
May 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Just because. This is one of the iconic views of the Cairngorms and I can seldom pass without taking another photo.
Coire Sputan Dearg from just above the Luibeg Ford.
May 11, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Disappearing archaeology. Both pics show cross section of hole dug in Mesolithic & then filled in & buried under peat. Excavated some years ago, it is being eroded by the river & will soon be gone. First pic several days ago, second two years ago.
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Sandy river bank showing faint outline of a hole dug in the mesolithic era and subsequently covered over by peat before being eroded by the river. Clear outline of a mesolithic era hole, seen in cross section in a sandy river bank.
April 30, 2025 at 9:51 AM
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In search of some of the disappearing stories of the #Cairngorms. Hidden corners explored.
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Remains of the wall and floor of an old illicit whisky still in the #Cairngorms. A walking pole gives scale.
April 29, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Now that I've decided to get the Cairngormwanderer blog going again I've added a 'new' bothy - The Redhouse, on the Geldie Burn.
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Photo of Redhouse Bothy by the Geldie Burn in the Cairngorms. The building behind is the toilet.
April 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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Moonrise over Carn a Mhaim.
A half moon rising over a rocky hill in a blue, daytime sky.
April 10, 2025 at 9:36 PM
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What weather! What a view! I love the #Cairngorms.
A view of The Devil's Point, taken from Carn a Mhaim on a sunny day in the Cairngorms
April 10, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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You'll have to click onto this and blow it up to pick out the tiny Corrour Bothy, dwarfed by the cliffs of Devil's Point and Beinn Bhrotain beyond. A tiny speck of human presence in the Cairngorms.
The cliffs of Devil's Point and, beyond, Beinn Bhrotain, towering over the tiny Corrour Bothy in the #Cairngorms, under a blue sky.
April 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
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Love the rock outcrops on Carn Crom in the #Cairngorms. Nothing very big, but always very scenic.
Rock outcrop on Carn Crom, Cairngorms, under a blue morning sky, with a slight dusting of snow. Rock outcrops surrounded by snow on the summit ridge of Carn Crom, Cairngorms. A descending line of rock outcrops on Carn Crom, Cairngorms, with naturally regenerating trees adding a touch of colour.
March 17, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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Too much cloud to be worth getting the camera out? Not a bit of it. The Coire an Fhir Bhoga ridge of Beinn Bhreac, snow showers in Glen Dee and hidden giants beyond the Allt a Carn a Mhaim.
Low cloud hides all but the snow-covered Coire an Fhir Bhogha ridge of Beinn Bhreac. #Cairngorms Looking from Carn Crom down Glen Lui to snow showers highlighted by the sun in Glen Dee. #Cairngorms Looking up a snowy Allt a Carn a Mhaim towards where Cairn Toul and Braerich are hidden in low cloud.
March 16, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Did you leave an ice axe or a dog harness at #CorrourBothy in the #Cairngorms on or before February 28?
I have both if you'd like to get your property back.
Ice axe with identifying mark covered up Dog harness
March 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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You know it's been a good bothy night when everyone wants their picture taken together in the morning before going their separate ways. I love bothy life. #CorrourBothy #Cairngorms
Group of people standing outside Corrour Bothy in the Cairngorms
February 13, 2025 at 9:21 PM