This cache is set along one of
several waymarked forest walks that are accessed from the Glen Doll
car park (parking fee £2 per day)
This spot just as the Scorrie Path emerges from the trees is one
of our favourite views in the glen. So much so that this is the 3rd
reincarnation of the cache and the 4th box we have placed here.
Hope this one lasts!
Scorrie Path is a route which leads
out past The Doll cottage and up into Winter Corrie on the NE slope
of Driesh. Winter Corrie is named after Jock Winter, a local
shepherd who defied the ban on crossing the land imposed by the
owner of Glen Doll estate. This eventually resulted in the Scottish
Right of Way Society becoming involved. A party
from the Society led by Walter Smith set out on an expedition
through the Mounth and Cairngorms to signpost rights of way. In
Glen Doll they were intercepted by the gamekeepers of the
landowner, Duncan Macpherson, and the subsequent lawsuit was only
finally settled in the House of Lords. The final ruling in 1888
confirmed the status of Jock's Road as a right of way, but it left
both the Society and Macpherson bankrupt, such was the cost of
litigation.
Cache is a 350ml lock and lock box
