Quote Originally Posted by Alan H View Post

It could work out that taking a bus/train from Edinburgh to Blairgowrie, and then hoisting on a pack for the 100 miles or so up to Aberlour would be a good trip as well. That would be about 10-12 days, and my guess is that it gets pretty remote out there.
Looks like a lot of this route passes through Cairngorm National Park, at least from Braemar to the River Spey. "National Park" means something rather different in Scotland than it does here in the USA, I might guess, tho.