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Photos of an ascent of Creag Mhor above Glen Lochay.

An initial bike ride alongside the River Lochay,

with Ben Challum at the end of the glen,

 a steep ascent above Batavaime through rock crags

to a broad ridge and onwards to the summit cairn

and a fine viewpoint:-

 Beinn Heasgarnich, Ben Challum, Ben More & Stob Binnein,

 the Ben Lui Group, Ben Dorain & Beinn an Dothaid, Beinn a' Chreachain


Ben Challum above River Lochay

Ben Challum

above River Lochay





Ben Challum above River Lochay

Cottage

above River Lochay





Ben Challum from Batavaime

Ben Challum

from

Batavaime

at start of

ascent

"Get on Your Bike to climb Munros"





Creag Mhor above Glen Lochay

Creag Mhor

 above Glen Lochay







Rock crags on Creag Mhor

Rock crags

on Creag Mhor





Beinn Heasgarnaich on ascent of Creag Mhor

Beinn Heasgarnich

on ascent of Creag Mhor





Ben Challum on ascent of Creag Mhor

Ben Challum

on ascent of Creag Mhor





Stob nan Clach from Creag Mhor

Stob nan Clach

a Muro top

on ascent of Creag Mhor





Creag Mhor

Summit Cone

 of Creag Mhor






Summit cone of Creag Mhor

Summit Cone

 of Creag Mhor





Beinn Heasgarnaich on ascent of Creag Mhor

Beinn Heasgarnich

on ascent of Creag Mhor





Beinn Heasgarnaich from cairn on Creag Mhor

Beinn Heasgarnich

from cairn on

 Creag Mhor





Beinn a' Chreachain and Loch Lyon from Creag Mhor

Beinn a' Chreachain

 and Loch Lyon

from Creag Mhor





Beinn Heasgarnaich from Creag Mhor

Beinn Heasgarnich

from  Creag Mhor





Ben Dorain and Beinn an Dothaidh from Creag Mhor

Ben Dorain and Beinn an Dothaid

from  Creag Mhor





Ben More and Stob Binnein from Creag Mhor

Ben More & Stob Binnein

from  Creag Mhor





Ben Lui Group from Creag Mhor

Ben Lui Group

from  Creag Mhor






Ben Lui Group from Creag Mhor

Meall nan Sudh

and Tarmachan Ridge

beyond Glen Lochay





Creag Mhor from Beinn nan Imirean

Creag Mhor ( 1047m, 3435ft )

- from Beinn nan Imirean

 
on an ascent of Meall Glas





Ben Challum at the head of Glen Lochay

Ben Challum

at the head of Glen Lochay




Loch Lyon and Creag Mhor from Beinn a'Chreachain

Loch Lyon

and
Beinn Heasgarnich

from Beinn a'Chreachain




Map of Creag Mhor

Map of Creag Mhor







Map of Creag Mhor

Map of Creag Mhor






Map of Creag Mhor

Map of Creag Mhor




CREAG MHOR ROUTE DESCRIPTION:

Location: Glen Lochay
Map: OS Landranger 63 ( GR260591 )
Distance: 16 miles ( 26km )
Time: 8 hours
Terrain: track and hillside



This Munro lies at the West end of Glen Lochay and it’s commonly linked with its higher neighbour Beinn Heasgarnich.
However you approach the hill, it’s a long way from the road head and linking it with Heasgarnich just makes for an even bigger
round, with moreascent too.
There’s really only one way to avoid sore feet and blisters and that’s to use a bicycle.
Fortuitously, Glen Lochay has an excellent, mostly level gravel track right to  the foot of Creag Mhor.
A road bike might struggle on the stony track, but any simple off-roader will be fine.
Recent deciduous tree planting and track work at the head of the glen means the old car park is no longer available at Kenknock,
where the public road ends, and a new car park has been created a kilometre or so before this point.
Going down the glen, Creag Mhor and
Beinn Heasgarnich are too close to appear anything other than craggy and massive
and it’s Ben Challum at the head of the glen which is the revelation, its impressively pointed profile imploring you to climb it.
 If you are walking, then it’s just another reason to buy or borrow a bike.
At the byres and house of Betavaime the track divides, the left hand branch continuing up the glen to Lochan Chailein,
below
Ben Challum, and the right-hand branch zig-zagging up the hillside to join a higher track contouring the hillside below Creag Mhor.
Leave the bikes, climb to the higher track and follow it left.
A short distance along, below Sron nan Eun, keep an eye out up on the right for a wooden gate which gives access through the wire fencing.
Continue to a gate from where an intermittent path ascends towards the boulder-strewn corrie forming the frontal face, which is
neither as far away or as steep as it looks.
Keep close to the burn draining the corrie to gain the ridge and follow it to the top.
The next objective is the Stob nan Clach, to the south, which is gained by descending grassy and rocky slopes to the bealach
Frith a’ Choirean, followed by a short, grassy ridge to the top.
After a short section of horizontal it is downhill all the way on a crag-scattered grassy ridge to the last top, named Sail Dhubh.




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