Cairngorm Club

The Cairngorm Club is a mountaineering club, based in Aberdeen, Scotland. It is one of the clubs with a claim to being the oldest in Scotland, formed around 1887.

One source says that the club was founded at Clach Dhion - the Shelter Stone above Loch Avon in the Cairngorms on 24 June 1887. The club's own website records the same year (only), while another source says that the club was founded in 1889.

For a forty year period, from 1889 until the 1930s, the Cairngorm Club and the Scottish Mountaineering Club were the main climbing organisations in Scotland.

The Cairngorm Club Journal has been published since 1893, currently in its eleventh volume at his time of writing, and refers to many articles in the form : (C.C.J., vol. iii. p. 370). The first editor of the CCJ was Alexander Inkson McConnochie.

Each edition of the CCJ comprises a number of articles usually, but not always, focused on some aspect of the Cairngorms - for example:

In 1950 the club reconstructed the Corrour Bothy. The Cairngorm Club are responsible for the construction of many bridges throughout the Cairngorms including those over the Luibeg Burn at Preas nam Meirleach, and over the River Dee at Corrour Bothy. Probably the most famous is the Cairngorm Club Footbrige over the Am Beanaidh in Rotheimurchus Forrest.

Footbridge over Luibeg Burn

Footbridge over River Dee

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