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Trig Point on the Corbett Beinn Damh in the Torridon Region of the NW Highlands of Scotland

Trig Point on the Corbett Beinn Damh

 in the Torridon region





Bienn Damh above Loch Torridon in the NW Highlands of Scotland

Bienn Damh ( 903m, 2,963ft )

above Loch Torridon







Bienn Damh above Loch Torridon in the NW Highlands of Scotland

Bienn Damh ( 903m, 2,963ft )

above Loch Torridon






Bienn Damh  in the NW Highlands of Scotland

Bienn Damh ( 903m, 2,963ft )






Bienn Damh  in the NW Highlands of Scotland

Bienn Damh ( 903m, 2,963ft )







Beinn Alligin above Loch Torridon from Bienn Damh

Beinn Alligin above Loch Torridon

 from Bienn Damh





Beinn Alligin above Loch Torridon from Bienn Damh

Beinn Alligin above Loch Torridon

 from Bienn Damh







Loch Torridon from Bienn Damh

Loch Torridon from Bienn Damh







Bienn Damh above Loch Torridon in the NW Highlands of Scotland

Bienn Damh ( 903m, 2,963ft )

above Loch Torridon






Beinn Damh above Loch Torridon from Beinn Alligin

Beinn Damh above Loch Torridon

from Beinn Alligin





Bienn na h'Eaglaise and Bienn Damh above Loch Torridon in the NW Highlands of Scotland

Bienn na h'Eaglaise and Beinn Damh

above Loch Torridon






Bienn Damh in winter

Bienn Damh ( 903m, 2,963ft ) in winter





Beinn Damh - Route Description:


Location: Wester Ross
Grade: Moderate mountain walk
Distance: 7miles/12km
Time: 5/6 hours



Above Loch Torridon the dark sandstone tiers of Beinn Damh give way to steep flanks, beautifully scooped corries and craggy shoulders that give this 903 metre Corbett such character.
Most visitors to Beinn Damh park at the Loch Torridon Hotel where the hotel has provided a walking trail through the gardens to the A896 road near the bridge over the Allt Coire Roill. Across the road a gate gives access to a stalker’s path which climbs uphill through the typical Torridonian forest of pines and rhododendrons. After about half a mile the rhododendrons fade out and the trees became smaller. Beyond the treeline the footpath divides: the left branch follows the Allt Coire Roill and the right fork climbs into the Toll Ban, the “white corrie" of Beinn Damh, and well named today.
The latter route climbs steeply up towards the broad ool that separates Beinn Damh proper from its northern outlier, Sgurr na Bana Mhoraire.
This saddle itself is pretty featureless and in the hard, granular snow the path had vanished. The first of two subsidiary tops is easily bypassed on its west ‘side. Great quartzite boulders fill the dip between these two tops and from the second a narrow ridge makes an airy staircase to the main summit where the cairn sits on the very edge of the steep Coir’ an Laoigh, a high eyrie with dramatic views.
The north-east ridge, the Stuc Toll nam Biast, makes for a steep line of descent to the pass of the Drochaid Coire Roill where the left fork of the earlier ascent route runs across the foot of Coire Roill - if descending by the Stuc Toll narn Biast, most of the difficulties can be avoided on the right - or return via ascent route.



ROUTE PLANNER

Map: OS 1:50,000 Landranger sheet 24 ( Raasay & Applecross ).
Distance: 7 miles/12.5km
Approx Time: 5-6 hours
Start / finish: The Loch Torridon Hotel ( GR: NG888542 )
Public transport: Occasional buses to Torridon from Strathcarron ( service 702, DMK Motors ).
Details from https://bustimes.org/operators/dmk-motors
Information: www.visittorridon.co.uk ; www.walkhighlands.co.uk/corbettsfbeinrrdamh




Route:

Follow the signposts for Beinn
Damh through the grounds of the Loch Torridon Hotel.
Cross the A896 and go
through a gate. A stalker’s path climbsthrough woodland beside the river's gorge.
Follow this path until it divides.
Go
R, in a SW direction to the Toll Ban corrie.
Climb to the col between Sgurr na Bana Mhoraire and Beinn Damh.
Continue SE
to the first of the false summits which is bypassed on the right.
Cross a
boulder-strewn dip to the next summit from where a narrowing ridge leads to the true summit.
Return by the same
route.





Ascent route map for Beinn Damh in the Torridon region of the North West Highlands of Scotland

Ascent route map for Beinn Damh







Ascent route map for Beinn Damh in the Torridon region of the North West Highlands of Scotland

Ascent route map for Beinn Damh






Location Map for Beinn Damh in the Torridon region of the North West Highlands of Scotland

Location Map for Beinn Damh


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