Glenbrown - Kylnadrochit

Distance	Approximate Time	Height Gain	OS Map
6.75 kms	03:00 (hrs:mins)	0 metres	Explorer 404: Braemar, Tomintoul, Glen Avon

Description

Take the track eastwards from the White Bridge car park along the edge of the Tom nam Marbh plantation. About 750m from the car park, cross a stile, then continue downhill to a sharp bend where the track turns to the left and descends to rejoin the main road above Fodderletter Farm. Leave the track at the bend and head southwards, following the indistinct, waymarked path across the hillside beneath the overhead power cables.

Soon after passing beneath the power lines, turn eastwards again, following the waymarkers down to the Allt fuar burn. Cross the burn and pick up the sheep walk which meanders through the Juniper scrub. As you reach the edge of a birch woodland, take the path downhill to a gate in the trees. Stay in the woods and follow the topside of the fence, to the point where you reach the Kylnadrochit plantation. Enter the plantation at the stile, then head immediately downhill to pick up the path which leads through the trees to the forest road.

Turn right onto the forest road and continue southwards passing Kylnadrochit lodge, (�Caol na drochit� - the narrows of the bridge) on the left. This is one of two Victorian sporting lodges on the Estate, built by a locally born minister and later acquired by the Duke of Richmond and Gordon as a replacement for the Lecht Lodge which was destroyed by fire in 1915. It is now part of the Crown Estate and is occupied by the Estate�s sporting tenant. Follow the forest road past the lodge and around the right bend past the private house at the Torrans. After the bend take the left fork, continuing south-westwards. After about 2.5 km the forest road emerges from the plantation at Stronachavie. Here, leave the main track and turn northwards following the forest fence, to an old gate where the track diverges.

Take the left fork here, and head westwards, then north-westwards across the hillside overlooking Glen Brown. Keep an eye open for black grouse in the fields down by the river and among the juniper scrub on the hillsides. As you enter a field, the track disappears, then reappears close to the ruins of Tombreck farmhouse. At the ruins, pick up the rough farm track again and head north-wards, continuing through the narrow strip of the Tom Mor plantation. Follow the track to the hair-pin bend on the Tomintoul-Grantown road near the Bridge of Brown, then turn right, uphill and climb the short but steep section of the main road, back to the White Bridge car park.

Access Info

Start and Finish: GR 133 209. White Bridge car park, on A939 near Bridge of Brown.

Additional Info

Route: Relatively low level walk along a mixture of forest, farm and hill tracks. Route described here follows the walk in a clockwise direction. Dogs allowed under strict control.