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Dist:0.1km<br/>Up the embryonic Swanston Burn, this path leads under Caerketton Crags to a col between Caerketton and Allermuir Hills.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>An aircraft turns south of Edinburgh. Caerketton Hill in the foreground.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking up the Swanston Burn from the path leading down to Swanston.
©M J Richardson
Dist:0.2km<br/>A heavy pre-Christmas snowfall. Looking towards the eastern suburbs of Edinburgh and the Forth estuary.
©Keith Burns
Dist:0.2km<br/>Looking south to Caerketton Hill, left of shot. The hard route to Allermuir goes past the crags - an easier route follows the signpost.
©michael ely
Dist:0.2km<br/>This dead tree stump had caught my eye previously on a run home through the Pentlands - a gorgeous may evening enabled me to capture it with the blooming gorse behind.
©Adam Ward
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©Sarah Charlesworth
Dist:0.3km<br/>The ridge between Caerketton and Allermuir. There is fog over the west of Edinburgh.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking over Edinburgh and to Arthurs Seat from Caerketton Crags
©Calum McRoberts
Dist:0.3km<br/>Allermuir Hill looking very alpine as I descend to the narrow pass known as 'windy nook' before the climb up to the summit itself
©Calum McRoberts
Dist:0.3km<br/>Snow hides the pink screes below the crags.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km<br/>A number of walkers come to grief here in the mist or high winds
©Iain Lees
Dist:0.3km<br/>Looking along the ridge from Allermuir Hill.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.3km<br/>I did actually wonder if this area could have been a quarry at one time. There are several small areas of scree here.
©Calum McRoberts
Dist:0.3km<br/>Eastward view across the gap between Caerketton Hill and Allermuir Hill. (Reverse direction view [[2180542]] taken before crossing the col).
©Richard Webb

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