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Pete Crane
@petecrane.bsky.social
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Stravaiging & posting about Scotland's great outdoors, ancient & modern, & other stuff .. inc life in the #Cairngorms

Director Mountaineering Scotland & MBA vmo
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A crazy amount of snow up on Lochnagar today. Thigh deep in places going up The Ladder and deep drifts on the plateau #Lochnagar #Cairngorms
An image of a snow covered mountain scape with a blue sky above. Lochnagar. The Cairngorms NP, Scotland
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Cairn Toul and the Lairig Ghru today. #Cairngorms #snow
Mountain landscape covered in snow under a blue sky with touches of orange as sunset approaches.
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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The large slab that forms the back of Tomfat Chambered Cairn south of Inverness #TombTuesday

More wintery pics on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...
November 25, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Orwell overlooking the Lomonds of Fife. The stone in the foreground was re-erected in 1972. #StandingStoneSunday

More pics & info of this dramatic burial site on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...
Two large standing stones left and right-hand side of the photo with a range of hills in the distance. The stone on the left has a concrete base used to re-erect it.
November 23, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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Indoors outdoors today helping team MBA improve Ryvoan #Bothy in the #Cairngorms
November 22, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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The #Cairngorms at their beautiful winter best … -10C….out this morning enjoying the low snow with my friend .... #XCountrySkiing #NordicSkiing
Lone cross-country skier in a snow-covered field, with conifer trees in the background and a white snow mountain in the far distance.
November 21, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Colourful start to a cold day ... -10C .... this mornings #sunrise in the #Cairngorms
November 21, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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Out again today enjoying a 7km slide on the low-lying snow around Nethy Bridge in the #Cairngorms. If the forecasts are right, it’ll be gone by the weekend.

#NordicSkiing #XCountrySkiing
November 20, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Daylight coming to a colourful end in the #Cairngorms just before 4 O'clock this afternoon ... #Sunset
November 20, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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Making the most of the recent snowfall in the #Cairngorms
#NordicSkiing #XCountrySkiing
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I think my mid morning coffee will be indoors ..... todays snowfall in the #Cairngorms
A picnic table with 10cm of snow on it
November 19, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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The glory that once was, in 1996 an HES archaeological survey of Avielochan Farm in #Cairngorms found this site that “may well be a ring cairn”. Inset is what it might once have looked like #TombTuesday
Location & pics on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...
Centre picture is a grassy raised circle highlighted by a white circle added to the picture. Inset top left is a ring cairn photo taken at Clava.
November 18, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Winter high in the #Cairngorms today .... 'enjoying' a walk round the Northern Corries
Two walkers in the cloud on a snow covered mountain
November 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Our eight hours of daylight in the #Cairngorms coming to a colourful end ... tonight's #sunset over the Old Kirk, Nethy Bridge.
November 15, 2025 at 4:54 PM
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James Hamilton Maxwell died, aged 22, at Ypres in 1915 - two lasting tributes from his parents were to open a nursery in Edinburgh where he grew up & this 'hidden' #Cairngorms memorial where he 'loved these hills' Photo taken today … #RemembranceDay
A memorial stone standing in an opening in Scots pine woodland.
November 11, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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A tomb with a view …. Avielochan Clava Cairn looking down the passage to the #Cairngorms (on a clear day) #TombTuesday

Location & more pics on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...
In the front of the picture is a circular, stone walled, burial chamber with a walled passage leading out. A bridge over the nearby railway is in the background with cloud covered mountains beyond.
November 11, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Colourful start to the day ....this morning's #sunrise in the #Cairngorms
November 11, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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A circle of beauty; the kerb stones of Aviemore Clava …. One of five cairns in and around the village #StandingStoneSunday

More pics on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...
A 13m wide circle of many boulders on grassland with a single leafless tree and a tall evergreen hedge in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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This morning's #sunrise in the #Cairngorms
November 9, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Glen Roy's "parallel roads", north of Roybridge in Lochaber. Long held in folklore to be hunting paths used by the Celtic warrior Fingal, they actually mark different shore lines of a vast ancient loch created by glacial ice. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #GlenRoy #Lochaber
Glen Roy's "parallel roads". The image shows a grassy area in the foreground with a stone plinth and information panel. Beyond, the land descends into a broad glen that leads away from us before curving to the right. The hilltops are covered in snow. Parallel lines can be seen stretching across the left-hand side of the glen. The scene is in sunlight.
November 8, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Simple pleasures; enjoying the last of our daylight … tonight’s #sunset in the #Cairngorms
November 6, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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Tonight's #sunset colouring #BynackMore in the #Cairngorms
November 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Ballinluig Cairn, the remains of one of at least seven Clava Cairns in Strathspey in the western #Cairngorms … #TombTuesday

More pics & location on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...
A part circle of large boulders forming the western side of the ring cairn …. The cairn itself is largely gone.
November 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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The intricately carved 21ft high Sueno's Stone, standing on the edge of Forres in Moray, is the largest and most spectacular of the many carved stones that have survived from the early medieval period in Scotland. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...

#Scotland #SuenosStone #Forres #Moray
Sueno's Stone. The image shows a view from slightly below of a tall transparent box supported by metal corner pillars and frame. Within the box is a tall carved stone with row upon row of carved figures in a very complex arrangement. There’s a low wall to the left with a seat and houses in the background. The scene is in sunlight.
November 3, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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With only six stones still standing it’s hard to covey the sheer size of Sheldon …. A circle 24m in diameter #StandingStoneSunday

More pics doing a better job on @megalithic.bsky.social here www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?...
A large standing stone in the centre of the picture with three others on the horizon either side.
November 2, 2025 at 8:31 AM