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| Name: | Garbh-bheinn |
| Hill number: | 1262 |
| Height: | 808.3m / 2652ft |
| RHB Section: | 17B: Minginish and the Cuillin Hills |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Island: | Skye |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Corbett, High Hills of Britain, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,C,HHB,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NG 53130 23234 |
| Summit feature: | cairn on rock |
| Drop: | 181m |
| Col: | 627m NG533225  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 32 (1:25k) 411 |
| Survey: | obvious summit/Leica RX1250 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 350 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Climbed with Richard on DMC new year meet. Soft snow on top and a bit delicate. Generally clear but windy on top at time. Decided to reverse route and walk back to Luib for party in the phone box!! before being picked up by Berenice and Andrew. Back to Kyleakin for steak pie. | amcculloch | 01/01/2024 |
| From the waterfall car park. A decent track soon develops going up the ridge. | jef | 06/09/2023 |
| From the small parking area immediately SW of the bridge over the Abhainn Ceann Loch Ainort (NG 5379 2652). Straight up the northern spur of Belig, then down and across to here. | jonglew | 05/09/2023 |
| Great round from Slapin on a warm sunny day. Last Skye Corbett! Nice scramble, but seemend easy after Sg nan Each. | davechaffey | 22/06/2023 |
| Circuit from main road. 2 of 3 | thekirkie pirate | 30/05/2023 |
| With Belig anti-clockwise from North | prwild | 24/05/2023 |
| Round of Garbh Bheinn and Belig from north, 5 hours. Some interesting scrambling on the north ridge of Garbh Bheinn, not too tricky on gabbro, though a bit wet. Great views of golden eagle from summit of Belig. Descent via screes half way down N ridge of Belig, avoiding cliffs (easier to see route going anticlockwise). | douglas_easton | 23/09/2022 |
| Following Ruadh Stac. Fine day save the torrential downpour for last 45mins, hose pipe would be drier! | N.Morters | 20/08/2022 |
| Anti-clockwise route of Garbh-bheinn and Belig with John. Started from large lay-by at the Eas a' Bhradain waterfall. No visibility and very wet rock above 600m made for an more exciting round than it otherwise might have been. Descent down from summit of Garbh-bheinn was not obvious in the clag, but we got down with great care. Descent off Belig involved some scree-ing. Total time: 4h 54min | mproudfoot | 19/06/2022 |
| Excellent clockwise round Glas Bheinn Mhor, Belig, Garbh-bheinn, Ruadh Stac, Marsco. Some steep scree but no problems for me in this direction - so everyone else should be OK too. Strenuous 11 hours. | carole engel | 01/06/2022 |
| Heather | garbo1103 | 30/10/2021 |
| Starting from the layby on the A87 at the head of Loch Ainort, ascended Garbh Bheinn via its North Ridge. Return via the North East Ridge and over Belig. | geoffh12 | 20/06/2021 |
| Horseshoe of Belig and Garbh-bheinn from the Eas a' Bhradain car park | davidpettit84 | 15/08/2020 |
| Great climb for the last 300/400 feet. Clear and sunny with good views of the Cuillins. 2 hours 20 minutes from layby. Headed to Belig. Solo. | bolton | 01/10/2019 |
| Climbed with Reg on Skye meet weekend | JamesSDonald | 13/04/2019 |
| After a week of extremely hot weather, a more normal day. There was some mist on top as I ascended, but it cleared as I climbed. However, I descended into the mist, which I didn't emerge from until just after the c. 440m col. This had the bizarre effect of making the 60m climb look more like 600m. | dal | 01/07/2018 |
| Veryhappybunny | 11/06/2018 | |
| Sublime day. An cloud inversion lasted a good 4 or 5 hours. Great photos. Very rocky on top, care needed. Steep and scree descent towards Belig. | Jhimmy | 03/06/2018 |
| A fine round of Sgurr nan Each; Garbh Bheinn and Belig. Only problems on descent from Sgurr nan Each when I got on wrong line by-passing pinnacles but sorted it out. Everything else straightforward. Another fine day. | dickscroop | 02/06/2018 |
| Round of Garbh-Bheinn, Belig and Glas Bheinn Mhor from road bend in unbroken sunshine. Care was required around the steep summit. Mobile scree prevalent down to 600m. | Topographer57 | 26/05/2018 |
| Garbh-bheinn via Druim Eadar Da Choire from the Eas a' Bhradain waterfall on A87. Grey overcast day with mist on summit. | knarf | 23/04/2018 |
| Circuit from head of Loch Ainort over Belig and Garbh-bheinn | rjf35 | 25/07/2017 |
| Corbett | cjo | 02/06/2017 |
| Done very quickly from Belig with GHC. Steep descent north back to the road. | Play2End | 02/06/2017 |
| With Rob Wight on an enjoyable clear Garbh Bhein and Belig traverse. Some easy scrambling on both ascents.6 hours. | alexmaclennan | 23/05/2017 |
| Last Graham, Corbett and Munro: ascended Belig via SE ridge; Garbh Bheinn via Bealach na Beiste and Bla Bheinn via Clach Glas. Fantastic day in the Cuillin Hills with Alasdair Raffe and Ewan Lyons (thanks to Ewan for leading the tricky sections) | raffemeister | 07/05/2017 |
| From the A87 above the head of Loch Ainort via Druim Eadar Da Choire (qv). Steep and rough in places on the N ridge,then an easy, quite exposed grassy section of the ridge. Finally the ridge turned E and needed more scrambling than the N part. The very last section was rock- mercifully, as the slope below looked very scrabbly. Amazing summit- steep drops all sides and close up views of the rocky peaks of the Blaven massif. Next, Belig; after a loose descent a good NE ridge was joined- narrow, quite grassy, and definitely best tackled on the top of the arete. This arete gave way to a long, rather featureless slope, quite fast in descent. | pwheeler | 14/06/2016 |
| JACK | donmeister | 27/04/2014 |
| A 3.5 hour walk with Jake. Cloud just on summit but enjoyed the walk up it. Company: Jake the Black Lab. | iandesbottes | 07/05/2013 |
| Overcast at first but clear for almost all of walk. Narrow ridge near the top. Cool wind with fine views all round. Golden Eagle day! | gercal53 | 20/09/2012 |
| garbh bheinn and belig from bend in road A87. | robertphillips | 13/07/2012 |
| From Loch Ainort | BLACKHILL | 07/10/2011 |
| Week in Skye with Clare College Rockclimbing | Mark Jackson | 05/07/2011 |
| Club weekend | JamesSDonald | 01/07/2011 |
| from lay-by near waterfall. with Mark, Ken. Fabulous day for October. Temp in 20s, clear skies, a welcome breeze higher up. Entertaining scrambles around Garbh Bheinn summit and down to Bealach a Beiste. to Belig, | niallp | 09/10/2010 |
| Climbed while staying at An Airigh, Portree. | Man of Kernow1 | 09/10/2010 |
| Climbed from head of Loch Ainort via Druim Eadar Da Choire. | rhalstead | 28/06/2010 |
| with lynda | jennygraham | 29/04/2010 |
| with Alex Thomson | davidsbatty | 05/09/2009 |
| neil hutton | 25/05/2009 | |
| Alone in circuit with Graham | SpudGunn | 22/05/2009 |
| Hamish, Ruth, Nick | Blisco | 24/03/2008 |
| 3 of 3: From Blaven. | ChrisR | 01/05/2007 |
| From layby, path to Sgurr nan Each. Steep and rocky; descent to Col, then steep and rocky ascent to Summit Cairn. Great views. With the Terrier, Jim Mac, S, Slim Jim and the F.C. | The Captain | 13/04/2007 |
| Circuit from head of Loch Ainort over Belig and Garbh-bhein. | benalder284 | 01/06/2006 |
| On Clach-Glas - Blaven traverse, took in Garbh-bheinn first before roped crossing - superb! | nordicstar | 20/04/2006 |
| Solo. Belig too. | Dangerous Dave | 08/07/2005 |
| R Rupert terrible weather | Richard Tait | 02/06/2005 |
| NUFWS Skye trip. Big group. | Grinner | 01/05/2005 |
| P Eas a'Bhradain, up Druim Eadar Da Choire to Garbh Bheinn, then Belig. F went back down to car, I went over Glas-Bheinn Mor and down to path over north shoulder. | agentmancuso | 09/07/2003 |