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.

History

One source indicates that the club was founded at Clach Dhion - the Shelter Stone above Loch Avon in the Cairngorms on 24 June 1887. The club's website records the same year, while another source indicates that the club was founded in 1889. Its founders included Reverend Robert Lippe and a group of his friends. Reverend Lippe served as the first Vice President.
For a 40 year period, from 1889 until the 1930s, the Cairngorm Club and the Scottish Mountaineering Club were the main climbing organisations in Scotland.

Cairngorm Club Journal

The Cairngorm Club Journal has been published since 1893, currently in its 11th volume, and refers to many articles in the form :. 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:

Volume I

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 Rothiemurchus Forrest. Known as the Iron Bridge, the construction is largely mild steel, with cast iron upstands.