This is a TB/Coins Hotel. A chance to drop off/swap/retrieve a
traveller whilst travelling north. There are also the usual swaps
in the cache.
Scottish crofts were typically built with thick stone walls, low
doors, small windows, and a roof made of thatched reeds, turf or
even heather, weighted down by hanging rocks.
The Pass of Drumochter (Bealach Druim Uachdair) is the main
mountain pass between the northern and southern central Scottish
Highlands. The A9 and the Inverness Railway pass through here, as
does the Sustrans National Cycle Route 7 - from Glasgow to
Inverness.
It is the highest point on the A9 - 460m (1508 ft. In winter
this road can be subject to severe weather conditions, ocassionaly
resulting in its closure by means of snow gates located near
Dalwhinnie and Dalnacardoch.
The summit of the railway line is 452m (1480 ft.), making it the
highest in Scotland and the UK.
This pass is probably the most isolated stretch of both road and
rail, the nearest village being Dalwhinnie. The route through the
pass has been used since prehistoric times.
From layby 81, head south along the cycle track till you reach a
small tree on your right, 9 posts down from the tree cross the
fence and head west to the cache. When released this cache
contained 18 travellers.
