Cairngorm Club

The Cairngorm Club is the oldest mountaineering club in Scotland.

Founding

One source says that the club was founded at Clach Dhion - the Shelter Stone above Loch Avon in the Cairngorms on 24 June 1887.[1] The club's own website records the same year (only), while another source says that the club was founded in 1889.[2]

Cairngorm Club Journal

The Cairngorm Club Journal has been published since 1893, currently in its eleventh volume at his time of writing, and refers to many articles in the form : (C.C.J., vol. iii. p. 370).[2] The first editor of the CCJ was Alexander Inkson McConnochie.

Each edition of the CCJ comprises a number of articles usually, but not always, focused on some aspect of the Cairngorms - for example:

Volume I

Volume II

Cairngorm Club Bridges

The Cairngorm Club are responsible for the construction of many bridges throughout the Cairngorms including those over the Luibeg Burn at Preas nam Meirleach, and over the River Dee at Corrour Bothy. Probably the most famous is the Cairngorm Club Footbrige over the Am Beanaidh in Rotheimurchus Forrest.

References

  1. Watson, Adam (1975). The Cairngorms. Edinburgh: The Scottish Mountaineering Trust.
  2. 1 2 Alexander, Henry (1928). The Cairngorms. Edinburgh: The Scottish Mountaineering Club.

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