Walking the Tolmounth – Jock’s Road from Glen Doll to Braemar

The Tolmounth – better known as Jock’s Road – crosses a vast and largely featureless plateau on its course between Glen Doll and Braemar. Once a vital artery for sheep farmers and cattle drovers, it is now the preserve of walkers, offering access to a clutch of Munros, including Tolmount and Tom Buidhe, Cairn Bannoch and Broad Cairn. Jock’s Road is perhaps the best known of the Mounth Roads, in part because of the key role it played in asserting the rights of the ordinary man (and woman) to walk through the mountains of Scotland. Read more…