Loch Callater Munro.

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With work being so busy just now :rolleyes: I decided to take the day off as the forecast was mint.

Plan was to drive out to Callater Car Park and ride in from there, the car park being just south of Braemar and north of the UK's highest road on the A93.

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A friend of mine did this route during the week (walking) and said I should be fine riding it on my ebike :blast and I've also watched a few (as it happens, carefully edited) mtb vids of the descent.

From the car park it's a 3 mile..ish relatively flat landy track to the Loch, then the climb up behind the lodge.

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Lodge where the arrow is......


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It was about this point where the riding ended :blast as I hauled 24 kilos of metal and rubber in the shape of a bicycle up a Scottish Mountain. :mad:

At about 800 metres I'd had enough of dragging this lump of metal and abandoned it and went seeking the summit and plane wreckage. After a fairly brutal accent it was back down to find my awesome steed still in situ for what I had hoped a good ride back down...:nenau

Nope, rode about 100 yards all in, it was horrendous and in summary I wouldn't do it again, certainly not on a bike anyway, but at least the views were nice.



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22nd November, 1956 a military plane crashed on the Munro I was heading up, although I had no idea where, anyway, mate who was up there during the week found some of the wreckage and while I was up there, I called him to point me in the direction of it.

There isn't much left tbh but there is a fair size piece of wing and other parts strewn about once you know where to go.

Anyway, here's a link to what happened if anyone is interested.

https://aviation-safety.net/wikibase/21102

Some pics of the wing and other parts, circa 3000 feet/1000 metres up in the Scottish hills.

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Finally the route/strava height gain etc.


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By the lodge looks a cracking spot for camping.

(might need a good bottle of malt for the evenings, mind)
 
great history ,love the pics too, looks like the shadow of Batman stood over the wing in one picture .
 
Great!!! Nice read. There's a bothy near the start of your walk... Supposed to be a good one.
Did the hill from the other side once (to he glen shee road) as well
Thanks for sharing
 
Great!!! Nice read. There's a bothy near the start of your walk... Supposed to be a good one.
Did the hill from the other side once (to he glen shee road) as well
Thanks for sharing

Yes the building next to the Lodge is apparently the bothy, I just had a quick cycle round there and back again as I was pooped and really wanted back to the car.
 
I visited Bramaer earlier this year and they have an aircraft engine on display there from an aircraft which crashed into the nearby hills, is this the same incident?
 
The engine is from a Vickers Wellington R1646 (crashed 19th January 1942)
 

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