Braeriach, Midsummer 2008

A long ridge walk with a singular purpose. I wanted to deliver the last of Dad's ashes to the highest headwaters of the River Dee so that his beloved river would carry him on to Aberdeen. Thus began the last stage of his long, final journey home.

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One of the feeder streams of Allt a Gharbh-Choire, and thus of the river Dee, flowing across the summit plateau of Braeriach from the Wells of Dee. Just beyond sight, the stream dives beneath a lingering snowfield and emerges in a long waterfall to fall most of the height of the Choire