During our main stalking season, 23rd September to 20th October, please use the established hill paths.

If accessing from the West (ie Carn Ban Mor, Allt Ruadh or Drakes Bothy etc) we would ask walkers to please stay on Sgor Gaoith/Argyle Stone Ridge until after 20th October rather than dropping down into Glen Einich.

If accessing from the North please use main Glen Einich track to the loch and then up the Corrie Dhontial path and Einich Cairn / Braeriach.

If accessing from the East please use Sorn na Lairige to access Braeriach.

To discuss alternative routes please contact our Rangers on T: 07887 648675 or e-mail  them. Deer stalking keeps the deer population at a level which enables the exceptional regeneration of the native forest, a protected habitat.

Our deer stalking area is narrow, which means that deer can very easily be disturbed and moved over boundaries, making it difficult to achieve our cull target.  Using established paths for a few weeks until 20th October will greatly help us carry out our work.  Your co-operation is greatly appreciated.

A team from the University of St Andrews has come back as part of their ongoing work here to snorkel for ancient, sunken logs Those that they find are then hauled out and samples taken.

Carbon dating the samples will tell us how old they are, but it is the pattern of the tree rings that is the real reason for the log ‘fishing’.  Water-logged pine trees, sunken into the suffocating peat under the surface of these cold, hill lochs, can last for many centuries.  A study of the growth rings in these logs, when combined with pollen analysis from sediment cores in the lochs can tell us a lot about the tree cover and climate of this area, even as far back as the last ice age (8,000 years or so

If the study of tree rings can give us a good picture of what the climate has been like over the last few thousand years, then it can give us a clue as to how significant today’s climate change is, along with the potential impacts of global warming. 

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