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Anniversary Cairngorm Walk

Sunday, July 20th, 2014

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

Saturday 20th August 2016

Meet at Cairngorm Coire Cas Car Park, outside the Ranger Office, at 10.45am. We wait for the bus which arrives at 10.54 before setting off.

Please let us know you are coming, email: info [at] johnroystuart.org.uk (see form below)

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, midge repellent & sunscreen. Don’t forget your lunch & water to drink.

Dogs must be kept on the lead.

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

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

The Route – see sketch map

From Coire Cas Car Park up a steep and rocky path onto Sròn an Aonaich (Windy Ridge), pausing for a snack somewhere. Continue to the Ptarmigan, and then by the Marquis’ Well,to the summit of Cairngorm for the Ceremony of Unfurling the Banner, and giving the commemorative toasts.
We may return via Ciste Mhairead to observe the lingering snow patch there, (some folk like lunch there), then over to the Ptarmigan, where there is the option for any who wish to descend by the Funicular (cost about £6 adult). Otherwise retrace the ascent route.

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Anniversary Cairngorm Walk 2012 Report

Tuesday, August 28th, 2012

Sunday 19th August 2012 was a bright and breezy day, sunny & warm in the morning, but clouding over and cool by the afternoon.

Jane, David and Mary walked from the Allt Mor, David (Rose) went up on the bus to Coire Cas Car Park, where Seumas, Peter (BBC) and Ann also joined the walk. A short break was taken outside the Ptarmigan Building, before continuing via the Marquis Well to the Summit. There we met Hugh, who had been there since 11am, after a very early start, going slowly nursing his damaged knee. He needed the extra clothing he had taken, as it was quite windy on the top. Hugh gave the toast to John Roy, and Seumas sang one of his songs, and was interviewed for BBC Radio Scotland.

The party then descended to Ciste Mhearaid where Seumas measured the snow patch (he does this every year), and we all had our lunch, enjoying the panorama before us.

19th Aug 2012

wee Hamish

Ann with the Banner

Seumas Grant

David Kerr with the Banner

Jane Kerr with the Banner

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Anniversary Cairngorm Walk – 2009 report

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.