Carn Aosda

About Carn Aosda

Càrn Aosda stands about 12.5 kilometres south of Braemar in Aberdeenshire, near the top of the Cairnwell Pass on the A93 and surrounded by the workings of the Glenshee Ski Centre. At 915 metres it is a Munro, and it sits within the Cairngorms National Park.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Càrn Aosda (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for Scotland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Scotland · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Civil twilight ends

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Computed astronomically for 56.896, -3.423. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small embedded rock on SW edge of cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica NA730/Leica GS15/Leica RX1250

Record revised

28-Aug-24

Drop measured from

NO 1278 7857 · 793.2 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Which hill this one belongs to

Carn Aosda is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Carn a' Gheoidh (976 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 793 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks