Walk: Climbing the Ladder Hills
Moray | Ladder Hills | Full day walk | ★★★ [Looking back down the Ladder Burn from the ascent to Dun Muir] Where are the Ladder Hills? Hidden behind the main bulk of the Cairngorms and close to the world's whisky capital of Speyside, this gentle range of heather-clad summits take their name from The Ladder pass historically connecting Moray to inland Aberdeenshire. The remote location allowed Catholicism to continue uninterrupted during the Reformation, with the hidden College of Scalan and the (later) Our Lady of Perpetual Succour the surviving outposts today. This circuit passes both, also climbing the old pass en route to the highest summit in the area. Most people seem to overlook these rolling hills just as Protestantism did - the result should be a peaceful walk with grouse and mountain hares for company. [Our Lady of Perpetual Succour] 📌 Walk: Climbing the Ladder Hills ★★★ Start / finish at minor road end just south of Chapeltown of Glenlivet, G.R.: NJ 24520