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Cambus o' May - Aboyne

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Another well attended walk on yet another beautiful Deeside day yesterday included the first appearance for a while of Gary Grant (albeit only for the latter part of the walk from Burn o' Vat back to Aboyne). It was also our leader, Ken's first outing of the year, and he, being the only non-bus pass holder on yesterday's walk, arranged for Bev to drop him off at our start point at the Cambus o' May trails. The rest of us - Ian, Colin, Jeb, Nigel and I - all caught the 201 from Banchory. Whenever Jeb joins our walks, it's becoming traditional that he has to find a sandwich shop before he starts the walk. He was in luck yesterday as there was somewhere to oblige him adjacent to our start point - albeit it seemed to take them a while to make up his sandwich. We decided on a mini team photo to pass the time whilst the rest of us waited: It's still winter - although you would never have known it yesterday - so the plan was to avoid the higher slopes in case o...