Mount Keen
| Mount Keen | ||
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 South side of Mount Keen |
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| height | 939 m ASL | |
| location | Aberdeenshire | |
| Mountains | Grampian Mountains | |
| Notch height | 314 m | |
| Coordinates | 56 ° 58 '10 " N , 2 ° 58' 25" W | |
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| particularities | Easternmost Munro | |
The Mount Keen ( Gaelic : Monadh Caoin , German : the rolling hills ) is a mountain in the Scottish Highlands . It is located about 50 km southwest of Aberdeen on the border between Aberdeenshire and Angus . The next larger town is Ballater, about ten kilometers to the north . Its altitude is given as 939 m ASL (3081 feet ), making it one of the 282 Munros in Scotland.
geography
Mount Keen stands in the far east of the southern highlands, also known as the Grampian Mountains . In the broader sense, it is assigned to the group of mountains of the Cairngorms , whose main chain lies northwest across the River Dee . The surrounding mountains are on the edge of the Highlands and therefore rather hilly, there are hardly any steep slopes and great differences in altitude between valleys and mountains. Mount Keen rises together with its lower neighbor, the Braid Cairn ( 887 m ) (coordinates of the Braid Cairn: 56 ° 58 ′ 22 ″ N , 2 ° 56 ′ 44 ″ W ) as the only prominent elevation visible from afar from the treeless landscape out. The next higher mountain is Lochnagar, about 15 km to the west .
It extends as a flat mountain ridge about two kilometers approximately in a north-south direction and towers over the immediate surroundings by about 200 m. On the eastern side of the mountain, a 765 m high saddle connects it to the Braid Cairn .
Ascent
In principle, the mountain can be climbed from two sides, from the south from Glen Mark and from the north from Glen Tanar .
In the south, the path starts at the parking lot of the Auchronie homestead and initially follows Glen Mark for about an hour to the abandoned farm of the same name. Shortly before, the enclosed source Queen's Well is passed, which is spanned by an approximately three meter high, crown-shaped monument. It was once built in honor of Queen Victoria . From the farm the path climbs steeply for about an hour in the valley of the Ladder Burn to a high plateau, from which the summit of Mount Keen can be seen for the first time. The path now runs almost straight on to the southern flank of the mountain and follows it in another hour to the summit.
The northern path is much longer and starts at the parking lot of the hamlet of Millfield , from where the Home Farm and the Glen Tanar House are passed in a southerly direction . The wooded path follows the stream to the Half way hut , the “hut half way”, which is reached after about two hours. After another two hours, the path leads on the left over a bridge that was washed away by a strong flood in 2002, but was rebuilt to make the mountain easier to access. The path leaves Glen Tanar and climbs steeply to the summit of Mount Keen, which is reached after about 1.5 hours.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Ordnance Survey Explorer Map 1: 25000 Sheet 395
- ↑ Munro list of the SMC ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (As of July 16, 2013)
Web links
- Mount Keen on www.walkhighlands.co.uk