Balmoral Cairns

We didn't manage any Friday walks last year but yesterday we made a start to 2025 when 5 of us - plus 2 dogs - took the noon bus out to Crathie to revisit the Balmoral Cairns. We did a slightly shortened version of the full circular, visiting just 5 of the 11 cairns, conscious of our timing to catch the bus back to Ballater for beers.

Here's the photos and the stats from a short but interesting walk:

Team line up for a selfie on the pedestrian bridge over the Dee

 
John Brown - not Billy Connolly

View of castle and hills from above

2nd cairn

3rd cairn

Approaching the largest cairn - a pyramid for Prince Albert

A cople of views from Prince Albert's cairn:



Nigel took a photo of me whilst I took one of him taking that photo:




Then we headed down the hill again to catch the bus, but, on the way, we came across our 5th cairn:


Finally, the stats:


We had a nice chat and a few beers in the dog friendly Balmoral Bar in Ballater afterwards and then headed back home on the 6 pm bus. A fine day out.

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