Cairn of Claise

Cairn of Claise is a mountain in the Grampians of Scotland, located about three miles from the Glenshee Ski Center near Braemar.

Cairn of Claise
View up the slopes to the summit
Highest point
Elevation	1,064 m (3,491 ft)
Prominence	119 m (390 ft)
Parent peak	Glas Maol
Listing	Munro
Naming
English translation	Hill of the Hollow
Climbing
Easiest route	Walk over Carn an Tuirc

Cairn of Claise is within the MaQuaCo-line its parent Marilyn Glas Maol 1068m (this is an acronymised word for the Marilyn qualification contour line. ie the contour line 150 metres below the summit, invented in the mid 1990's by Charles Everett) that is shaped like a rabbit with its head, containing the Munro summit Carn an Tuirc p64m, facing westwards, the Munro summit of Cairn of Claise in its chest, Glas Maol Parent Marilyn summit itself, being above the hindquarters and rear legs and a long tail down the ridge of the Munro Creag Leacach 988.2m p70.7m,that extends SSW from Glas Maol. Also, within this Maquaco-line is this HuMP (hundred metres + prominence) Munro summit Cairn of Claise 1064m, p119m. Having one subsidiary HuMP summit within its Maquaco-line makes Glas Maol a Dromedary Marilyn, of which Cairn of Claise is its hump. (a list currently under research and compilation numbering approx 120 Marilyns across Britain) The area within this Maquaco-line thus contains four SIMM's (six hundred metres mountains, with minimum of 30metres of prominence) of which Cairn of Claise is the second highest and all of those SIMMs are also Munro summits.

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