Stefan Durkacz spends 24 hours in the foothills of the Cairngorms
HE FRINGES of the high Cairngorms are easy to overlook. This is a shame because there’s a lot of scope for exploration in the hill country around the main massif. Here the perspectives are often dramatic and unusual, and the twin Corbetts of Carn Liath and Culardoch between Deeside to the south and the high plateaux of Beinn a’ Bhuird and Ben Avon to the north exemplify this. Carn Liath especially is a great vantage point for Ben Avon’s undulating plateau
