The Cairngorms are ‘a little piece of the arctic in Scotland’ according to the SMC Munros Guide and the area contains many of the tallest peaks in the East Highlands. Ben Macdui (1309m), Cairn Gorm (1244m) and Braeriach (1296) are probably three of the better known and the whole area is full of steep corries and high plateaux. Access to the mountains is typically from Aviemore or Braemar.
After previous day we started to make ascent up Ben MacDui and on the summit the clag came down and we were forced to use navigation technequies to continue the route. I had a problem with my compass becoming de-polarised and noticed this immedietly and used a spare compass to continue back to SKI CENTRE via CAIRN LOCHAN AND Stob Coire An T-Sneachda.
