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| Name: | Maol Chean-dearg |
| Hill number: | 982 |
| Height: | 933m / 3061ft |
| RHB Section: | 13B: Applecross to Achnasheen |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Catchment: | Carron, Catchment Boundaries, Torridon |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Munro, High Hills of Britain, Murdo, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,M,HHB,Mur,Y,P500) |
| Grid ref: | NG 92409 49899 |
| Summit feature: | very large cairn |
| Drop: | 514m |
| Col: | 419m NG932508  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 25 (1:25k) 429 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 637 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Maol Chean-dearg from Coulags. Walkhighlands route | hummusg | 30/03/2024 |
| With Christine | Keith99 | 23/07/2023 |
| From layby parking at Annat to the NW. Followed good approach path to Loch an Eoin, then round to the W of the hill, before taking a direct ascent towards the summit, contouring round E to avoid some crags near the top and picking up the final part of the usual path up the SE ridge. Descent via the SE ridge to the bealach, picking up the (long) approach path back to Annat. Hot sunny day, with lots of views. With Gillian, Cathy and Jim. | richard69 | 03/06/2023 |
| With CB, Richard and Gillian. | JDBowers | 03/06/2023 |
| Traverse from Meall Dearg ( hump) over the summit and down over the tump. With Richard Mc. Sunny clear breezy weather . Parking at layby at Coulags. Bothy on path looked excellent. | Denise | 22/04/2023 |
| With MKG and Rob, between two nights at bothy. Soft, wet snow (on the melt) from about 450m made going tough. Glimpses of view from summit. Some drizzly rain/sleet. | Rounsfell | 04/01/2023 |
| Coulags Bridge - Maol Chean-dearg - Meall nan Ceapairean - Coulags Bridge. | Mark Jackson | 24/08/2022 |
| Maol Chean-dearg, Beinn Liath Mhor, Sgorr Ruadh from Coulags. | Geoff Briggs | 12/07/2022 |
| Weather fair. | MountainMac | 23/04/2022 |
| On way down from previous hill took the route up this Munro. | elizyanne | 02/08/2021 |
| Solo ascent is stunning sunshine, with dinner at the top - but long day after ascending Moruisg in the morning | tleach12 | 22/05/2021 |
| Straight-forward assent from Coulags. Fine weather. Good viewpoint to Lewis etc | wychwood | 17/05/2021 |
| Solo - set off at 7:30am in the dark, unsure of ground conditions so went in B3s - turned out to be a bit of a mistake, as there was not a hint of snow on the Southern Torridon mountains - so wasn't quite as comfortable a walk as it could have been. Oh well - sun came out and got some fab views over the rest of Torridon from the summit. | mproudfoot | 19/12/2020 |
| Katrina's 49th Munro | traighmhor | 07/11/2020 |
| R K | Richard Tait | 23/09/2020 |
| With D from Shieldaig. Good view around torridon from summit cairn, very windy and better shiny corbett on way to summit. | Rodge | 12/09/2020 |
| From Coulags - Walkhighlands route | Crib Goch | 30/08/2020 |
| With Sunny, Maol Chean-dearg, Sgorr Ruadh & Beinn Liath Mhor. Couldn't cross the river, had to go round the loch. | Huwel | 06/06/2020 |
| With Jack, Joe, Jim, Jon, Thea, Chris, Claire, James, Gavin NYE trip (Glenuaig) | fellie | 03/01/2020 |
| Route: Coulags (A890) – Bealach a’ Choire Ghairbh – Maol Chean-dearg – Belach a’ Choire Ghaairbh – Coulags. Stats: 6hrs10, 16.5km, 1,031m ascent. Weather: sunny to start, but hit by big weather front from behind on descent (very wet & windy). Notes: stopped in bothy on return due to poor weather. | millionmts | 04/09/2019 |
| Andrew,Chris,Craig,Gavin,Jane,Toril | NHWC | 29/06/2019 |
| Late start, very warm (shorts and trainers) looked in on bothy (tidy) and then stayed at Kinlochewe bunkhouse. | Capt Malbec | 11/06/2018 |
| My second Munro! A lot easier than Blàbheinn... | eilidh | 21/04/2018 |
| stunning day with stunning views! | FCMark | 12/04/2018 |
| Lovely day with tremendous views and good path. | akmilne | 12/04/2018 |
| From Annat with Steve Smith. Snow and spindrift made for a tough day, but sun came out briefly as we summited. Went up the NW face, some ice climbing/scrambling involved. Quite an intense day out. | jonglew | 12/02/2018 |
| Solo | Geraldine Fardon | 24/10/2017 |
| Lionel, Jennie | Chris Blake | 21/09/2017 |
| Club weekend, Friday afternoon walk | JamesSDonald | 09/06/2017 |
| Glorious sunny dry day with Tom Oldham and Russell. Standard route from Coulags along Fionn-abhain to bealach then stiff bouldery ascent/descent of Maol Chean-dearg. Back to bealach and delightful ascent/ descent of slabby An Rubh Stac. 8 hours. | alexmaclennan | 08/05/2017 |
| Circumnavigated then ascended | quadbarrel | 13/04/2017 |
| From coulags, 12.30 start weather poor but top clear for half an hour with great views,very poor ground to cover at top | geoffreybbb | 27/06/2016 |
| With Anne. Cracking day at end of superb week at Kishorn. Left Coulags car park at 11.00. On summit by 14.30. Good views all directions through slight haze. Back to car for 18.15 and long drive back to Edinburgh. | David Greaves | 04/06/2016 |
| Started and ended at Coulags Bridge. Up and down by same route. Bothy stops were very welcome. | tsharp | 16/04/2016 |
| From Coulags bridge by the standard route: Coire Fionnaraich bothy (NG 94996 47961) - coire path (starting at NG 94833 48996) - Bealach a'Choire Gharbh (NG 93121 48778) - south-east ridge - summit - return by outward route. Solo, on a beautiful warm late October day. | Man of Kernow1 | 27/10/2015 |
| Squigg's 1st Munro | mountainman277 | 22/07/2015 |
| Solo walk from Coulags in fine conditions; amazing views from summit. | barnz48 | 16/07/2015 |
| From Coulags. On own. | MorecambeMonkey | 15/06/2015 |
| Overnight trip, 3 Munroes, with Alex | Madjonny | 05/05/2015 |
| sunset on summit. camped with kiera. | Loz_mck | 11/04/2015 |
| Last day of honeymoon | amelialloyd | 17/01/2015 |
| TfL, Ben Damph | CraigW | 26/11/2014 |
| An easy ascent in cool, misty conditions from Coulags. Onto the Corbett, which looks fantastic. | Play2End | 12/10/2014 |
| with Russel & Luna | BigNick | 12/09/2014 |
| From Coulags, fine views. | rhalstead | 25/06/2014 |
| With Rod | Oik | 19/06/2014 |
| Start from the cottage at Annat, followed the track up to Loch an Eion then to Loch Coire an Ruadh Staic. then up to the bealach then to the top, returned steeply to Bealach na Lice then picked up the track back to the start. | smocks and denims | 15/06/2014 |
| Solo. Single shot. Drove up and dumped the van just before 1pm. Glorious day, totally cloud free. Follow road and take path at LHS. Excellent path, but not for bikes! 2hr50 to summit with my dodgy knee :l Back out path. 17.2km, 1040m 5hr50. | bowzi | 12/10/2013 |
| The day started heavy rain. fell asleep in car to be awoken by drizzle. fairly simple mountain to climb and a luxury bothy on the way. The Corbett next door looked hard to twin with this munro. | Jhimmy | 28/07/2013 |
| ghaley | 13/06/2013 |