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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: May–Sep · highs 12–16 °C (54–61 °F)
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- M5°0°95
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- D3°-1°105
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
About this trail
Beautiful walk or trail run. Away from Loch an Eilein path may be more indistinct and map reading ability is required. Ideal for more capable walkers wanting to do further than the stroll around Loch an Eilein
OpenStreetMap (ODbL).
Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Easy (2/10) (hiking (T1) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL))
- Length (signed)
- 10 km · 6 mi (OSM distance tag)
- Mapped length
- 12 km · 7 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Nearest town
- 6.7 km S of Aviemore (Highland, Scotland) · GeoNames
- Best months
- May–Sep
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Region
- Highland
- Continent
- Europe
- Route type
- Local route
- Shape
- Loop (OSM roundtrip=yes)
- SAC scale (OSM)
- hiking
- Route centre
- 57.1402, -3.8377
- Route start
- 57.1390, -3.8654
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 20127869
How it’s scored
Easy (2/10). Official rating: hiking (T1) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
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