Pocket Mountain Unisex Red/Grey/Blue Aviemore And Cairngorms Short Walks

Name: Pocket Mountain Unisex Red/Grey/Blue Aviemore And Cairngorms Short Walks
Brand: Pocket Mountain

Pocket Mountain

The Cairngorms make up Britains largest National Park. Four of the five highest Scottish mountains rise from a vast wilderness of high plateaux, deep corries and empty glens, a place where only the fittest venture. However, this is encircled by equally stunning landscapes - heather moors, marshes and floodplains, lochs and rivers - within the reach of the average rambler. Most celebrated are the pinewoods - the largest fragments of the great Caledonian forest which once cloaked Scotland. It is hardly surprising that the Cairngorms are unrivalled for wildlife: 25 percent of Britains most threatened species make their homes here. The range takes its modern name from Cairn Gorm - the best known, though not the highest, of the summits. But to Gaelic speakers, this is Am Monadh Ruadh, 'the Red Hill Range', as distinct from Am Monadh Liath, or 'the Grey Hill Range', rising on the other side of the Spey. Cairn Gorm actually means 'Blue Hill'. The confusion is perhaps testament to how the mou...