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Silent Sunday

Bikepacking in the Cairngorms (with regular pauses to get the socks and shoes off to ford rivers)

#SilentSunday #Cairngorms #BikeToot

Silent Sunday

Bikepacking in the Cairngorms (with regular pauses to get the socks and shoes off to ford rivers)

#SilentSunday #Cairngorms #BikeToot

Silent Sunday

Bikepacking in the Cairngorms (with regular pauses to get the socks and shoes off to ford rivers)

#SilentSunday #Cairngorms #BikeToot

Silent Sunday

Bikepacking in the Cairngorms (with regular pauses to get the socks and shoes off to ford rivers)

#SilentSunday #Cairngorms #BikeToot

Silent Sunday

Bikepacking in the Cairngorms (with regular pauses to get the socks and shoes off to ford rivers)

#SilentSunday #Cairngorms #BikeToot

Field work half-time for #BEN_EAF! ⛰️

We took small and larger soil samples from whom hashtag#SoilFauna will be heat-extracted in the soil lab at the Aberdeen campus of the #JamesHuttonInstitute. This is mainly springtails (#Collembola), mites (#Acari), and hopeful more small critters!

Further, we did also collect the soil fauna from the pitfall traps: mainly ground beetles (#Carabidae), wolf spiders (#Lycosidae), and harvestmen (#Phalangiidae). 🕷️🪲

Thanks again to Andrea Britton and Debbie Fielding for the help in the field work!

#SoilBiodiversity #AlpineSoils #MountainSoils #Cairngorms #Scotland

A day out back in my old office with Moray. Our old office, because Moray usually came to work with me.

Hot hazy sunshine above an inversion. Lurcher's Crag and the Northern Corries to Cairn Gorm. I used to be up here several times a week, now love just wandering without any particular objectives.

#Cairngorms National Park #Scotland #LurchersCrag #CairnGorm #LairigGhru #NorthernCorries #HikingWithDogs #DogsOfMastodon #Kelpie

#ThrowbackThursday
From 12 years ago this week:

Moray's first time through the Lairig Ghru, fun in the Dee at Corrour.

And his first (I think) overnight expedition, onto the Cairngorm plateau.
🐾🐾
#LairigGhru #Corrour #CorrourBothy #Cairngorms #Scotland #HikingWithDogs #DogsOfMastodon #Kelpie

Wildcat kittens born outside captivity in Cairngorms a ‘major milestone’ | Wildlife | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/jun/24/wildcat-kittens-birth-cairngorms-national-park

#Wildcats
#ScottishWildcats
#HighlandTiger
#Kittens
#WildBornKittens
#Cairngorms

Happy Old Year's Day, Happy Hogmanay, and Happy New Year when it comes.

Some earlier ones:
1. 2016, Ryvoan.
2. 1981, Ben Alder from Culra.
3. 1977 Coire an Lochain, although Hogmanay itself was at the Shelter Stone.
4. 1978, Lairig Ghru, trying (& failing) to get to Corrour from the Sinclair Hut.

#Cairngorms (except #BenAlder) #ScotWinter #Bothies #LairigGhru #Ryvoan #Culra #Corrour #SinclairHut #ShelterStone #NorthernCorries #Hogmanay #HappyNewYear

And if you don't photograph this tree, have you actually done the Lairig Ghru? 🤔

#Cairngorms #Rothiemurchus #LairigGhru #ScotsPine

Moray was a bit put out that the vet referred to him as an elderly dog last week, so we felt we had to prove her wrong.

First overnighter of the year, a low level two day trek, up Glen Feshie, then the Geldie and the Dee and back via the Lairig Ghru. Camp by the Geldie Burn. Summer conditions at this level, but still some snow on the high ground.

#Cairngorms #GlenFeshie #LairigGhru #PoolsOfDee #DogsOfMastodon #HikingWithDogs #Kelpie

The ice carved, high mountain pass of the #LairigGhru in #Cairngorms at it's beautiful best today.