Bennachie plans

From http://bvhill-walkers.blogspot.com/

Dave is heading there directly from Potarch on Sunday and has suggested we Banchory-ites travel together. Ken has volunteered to drive and his car is big enough for the five of us - and it's a fairly short journey.

I suggest, in the view of the fact that it is Easter Sunday and most folk will want to get back fairly promptly, that we go on route 3 - the Mither Tap Quarry Trail. It's a circular route that is described as follows:

"The longest route to the Mither Tap, this trail leads

through the forest up onto the hill. It climbs Little

Oxen Craig where the remains of a nineteenthcentury

granite quarry still stand, and continues

over Bennachie’s highest peak, Oxen Craig."

The walk is 5.5 miles and is estimated to take 3.5 hours. It starts at the Back of Bennachie, just off the B9002 (not the Bennachie Visitor Centre which is south east of where we start).