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Anniversary Cairngorm Walk

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

According to the Rev William Forsyth, one of John Roy’s men took the ‘Green Banner of Kincardine’ to the summit of Cairngorm on the anniversary of the Raising of the Standard at Glenfinnan 19th August.

Anail a’ Ghaidheil, air a’ mhullach

Walk to the summit of Cairngorm

Thursday 19th August 2010

Meeting at Allt Mòr Car Park, on the Cairngorm Ski road, at 10am
Bring your waterproofs, midge repellent, sun cream etc, and your lunch & water to drink.

Please let us know you are coming, email: info [at] johnroystuart.org.uk

The Walk (click to enlarge, ESC to exit viewer)

Dogs must be kept on the lead.

The walk is over rough terrain. Bring your own Map and compass – you will need OS 1:50 sheet 36 or OS 1: 25 Explorer sheet 403 and a compass, and know how to use it.

Walking boots are needed and waterproof jacket and trousers, warm clothes, hat & gloves, food & drink should be carried, also midge repellent & sunscreen.

Persons improperly clad or equipped will be advised NOT to take part.

The Route – see sketch map

Allt Mòr Car Park by good track to Coire Cas Car Park.
Up a steep and rocky path onto Sròn an Aonaich (Windy Ridge), pausing for a picnic somewhere. Continue to the Ptarmigan, and then by the Marquis’ Well,to the summit of Cairngorm for our Ceremony of Unfurling the Banner.
We will return directly down to the Ptarmigan, where there is the option for any who wish to, to descend by the Funicular (cost about £6 adult). Otherwise retrace the ascent route.

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Anniversary Cairngorm Walk

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Anail a’ Ghaidheil, air a’ mhullach

Walk to the summit of Cairngorm

Saturday 15th August 2009

Deoch-shlainte

Hugh Stewart delivered a short address in Gaelic [with translation] on a theme, taken from the toast below, of the immortality of heroism. Appropriately enough, that toast was used originally by the Seaforth Highlanders, one of the three regiments in which Hugh served half a century ago. The Seaforth were numbered among those Highland regiments recruited by former Jacobite ruling families then anxious to ingratiate themselves with the Hanoverian establishment. Many Highlanders were thus enlisted after Wolfe had sought their service in the Seven Years War in Canada/America, with the recommendation that they were “hardy and bold, very patient of cold and hunger, habituated to a rough country and NO GREAT MISCHIEF IF THEY FALL [i.e. expendable]. The toast is made appropriate by replacing the Seaforth slogan “Cabar Feidh” with “An Suaicheantas Ban” as follows:-

Tir nam Beann, nan Gleann, ’s nan Gaisgeach
Land of mountains, glens and warriors

Far am faighear an t-eun fionn
Where the white bird is got

’S far am faigh am fiadh fasgadh
And where the deer find shelter

Cho fada ’s a chitear ceo mu bheann
So long as mist is seen round a mountain

’S a ruitheas uisge le gleann
And water runs through a glen

Mairidh cuimhne air éuchd nan treun
Memory will endure of the brave’s feats

Slainte agus buaidh gu brath
Health and victory for ever

Le gillean An Suaicheantais Bain!
With the lads of the White Cockade!

An Suaicheantas Ban gu brath!
The White Cockade for ever!

The unmodified toast is still used by the 3^rd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Scotland [72, 78, 79 and 92nd]. The regiment at large now sounds like a military millipede after a surfeit of amalgamations. It is collectively the 1^st, 21^st, 25^th, 42^nd, 72^nd, 74^th, 78^th, 92^nd and 93^rd of Foot.