Carn Mor

Rising to 578 metres in the Cairngorms foothills northeast of the Spey Valley, this modest Dodd sits within forestry and moorland terrain. The summit, marked by a small cairn, offers a relatively straightforward ascent through mixed landscape. Its classification reflects a hill of local rather than national prominence, typical of the scattered tops in this transitional zone between highland and lowland.

• •The name Carn Mor derives from Scottish Gaelic, meaning 'big cairn' or 'great cairn', a straightforward topographical description that distinguishes it from the numerous smaller cairns and rocky outcrops scattered across this part of Moray and Aberdeenshire.
• •The hill's grid reference places it in the Glenlivet Estate area, a landscape better known for whisky distilleries than mountaineering, though the surrounding hills provided ideal conditions for illicit stills in earlier centuries.
• •As a Dodd, it qualifies under the classification requiring Scottish hills between 2000 and 2999 feet with at least 30 metres of prominence—a relatively modern list compiled by hillwalkers seeking objectives beyond the more celebrated Munros and Corbetts.