Deeside Way - Aboyne to Banchory - Dinnie Traditional Geocache
Deeside Way - Aboyne to Banchory - Dinnie
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This cache used to be part of the Royal Deesiders Geotour. The Geotour has now finished but the cache can still be logged as part of the Deeside Way series
This section of the Deeside Way, from Potarch Bridge to Kincardine O'Neil, runs through the Kincardine estate and the original path would have been used by local lad Donald Dinnie, who once carried two boulders with a combined weight of 775 pounds (352 kg) across the bridge.
He then 'grew into his strength', as they say, and went on to be Scotland's greatest athlete ,and World Champion Wrestler. In fact, throughout the latter half of the 19th century he so excelled in sports, winning title after title (and a fortune in prize money) he came to be known simply as Donald Dinnie, Greatest Athlete in the World. And in 1903 he was given the ultimate accolade, when he was invited to endorse Barr's Irn Bru; Scotland's other national drink. 
Donald continued appearing in strong man acts on stage into his 70s. He died in 1916.
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