cairnwell pass造句

• It is likely that the site at Glenshee is confused with that at the Cairnwell Pass.
• It stands near the summit of the Cairnwell Pass on the A93 road, in the midst of the Glenshee Ski Centre.
• The ski area is just north of the Cairnwell Pass at the head of Glen Shee on either side of the A93 road.
• Over the summit of the Cairnwell Pass the road enters Aberdeenshire and the standard of the carriageway improves considerably, wider and better surfaced than the 42 miles in Perthshire.
• The Glenshee Ski Centre in Glenshee ( Glenshee or Gleann Shith which translates from Gaelic as Glen of the Fairies ), is some 18 miles to the north at the Cairnwell Pass on the A93 Braemar road which is the highest public road in the UK.
• The Glenshee Ski Centre sits at the head of the Cairnwell Pass and is Scotland's biggest, with 21 lifts spread over 4 mountains and three glens and associated hire shops, cafes etc . Skiing started informally there in the 1930s with the first tow being set up by the Dundee Ski Club in 1947.
• However an alternative meaning has been put forward as  Hill of the Inn derived from the word " 騭da ", in history there was an inn at the foot of the mountain at the Sean Spittal bridge where the Cairnwell Burn flows under the main Cairnwell pass road and this is could possibly have given the mountain its name.
• The A93 road, part of General Wade's military road from Perth to Fort George, runs north through the glen and on into Glen Beag, where it crosses the Cairnwell Pass, at 2200 feet above sea level the highest public road in the UK . The road climbing to the summit is now wide and straight but until the late 1960s included two notorious hair-pin bends with a 1 in 3 ( 33 % ) gradient known as the Devil's Elbow.