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| Name: | Glas Bheinn Mhor |
| Hill number: | 1268 |
| Height: | 569m / 1867ft |
| RHB Section: | 17B: Minginish and the Cuillin Hills |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Island: | Skye |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Dodd (500-599m), Highland Five, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,5,HF,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NG 55392 25751 |
| Summit feature: | no feature; rock 3m W of wall |
| Drop: | 188m |
| Col: | 381m NG549246  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 32 (1:25k) 411 412 |
| Observations: | ground is 25m South of cairn (NG 55405 25770); ground to East of wall is lower |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 136 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Parked by green shed and up from north - very cold and clear, great views. | StueyB | 09/01/2024 |
| Great round from Slapin on a warm sunny day. Bit of a slog after the other hills. | davechaffey | 22/06/2023 |
| With Eilidh & Luna | BigNick | 07/08/2022 |
| see log Garbh-bheinn | carole engel | 01/06/2022 |
| My last Marilyn in Skye. The usual route from the lay-by next to the Luib sign, then over the gates by the green shed, then the very wet fields out to the open hill, then plod up the fence and the wall higher up, quite steep in places. A rather wild day, wet and windy, but, surprisingly, the summit area was less windy. No views at the top but not bad lower down. The wind picked up during my walk and it was exceptionally difficult getting down the steepest part of the ridge. Thank you, Met Office, not. | Gill | 27/05/2022 |
| From Loch Ainort stunning morning up onto north ridge. Wall to wall sunshine. | N.Morters | 15/05/2022 |
| MC JC O. From the green barn. Straight up the ridge in a strong NE wind. Good views to the Black Cuillin and Marsco. | Martin66 | 27/04/2021 |
| driving South, from the car parking spot just after the green shed, just before the Luib sign on the A87 559278. Through the gate by the green shed, straight up leads to another gate, just by the countouring track, then straight up the ridge over another old BWF,then just follow the ridge along the line of the old rusty fenceposts and an old wall, which becomes a real wall at about 420m. Lower section of hill short heather and bits of paths after a short steep bit you meet the wall and it becomes nice and grassy. Summit is a great viewpoint. Returned same way 3 miles total, took me just over an hour to the top, but the speedy will do it much quicker. | JulieB | 17/09/2020 |
| From Luib via north ridge. | Winterfloodian | 06/09/2020 |
| From Belig down north ridge and then east from grassy part towards the col. Easy climb to summit as showers moved in after a glorious early part to the day. Descended into Coire Choinnich. Rough going through heather and bog. Reached the bridge on the A850. Solo in 6 hours 40 minutes for the 3 marilyns. | bolton | 01/10/2019 |
| From the green barn at Luib. Up by the fence then following the big dilapidated wall to the summit. Very blustery and showery. | NormanW | 16/09/2019 |
| SUILVEN | donmeister | 08/07/2019 |
| Continued to Belig,Garbh Bheinn & Druim Eadar Da Choire | duchally | 22/06/2019 |
| Alone, staying at Glen Brittle campsite. | Grinner | 26/05/2019 |
| From green metal barn, at W edge of Luib and up the NNE ridge, two gates and one rusty old PWF. Luckily the awful quagmire above the barn was frozen solid. No path, but the grass and heather was relatively short. 5cm of fresh powder snow. | Isbjorn | 23/01/2019 |
| Round of Garbh-Bheinn, Belig and Glas Bheinn Mhor frim road bend in unbroken sunshine. Easy ascent and descent from col. Wind dropped unexpectedly, ran seriously low in liquid supply in the heat. | Topographer57 | 26/05/2018 |
| Parked near the Waterfall then headed over and straight up. Hard slog. Low cloud on summit, followed wall to Belig for a bit. Company: Solo | iandesbottes | 07/05/2018 |
| with Matt & Luna | BigNick | 01/04/2018 |
| BWA with George and Robert as an alternative to Belig that looked too serious for the day. | softsquare | 21/02/2018 |
| ACW round of glas bheinn mhor, ben na cro, glas bheinn bheag, am meall from luib. | robertphillips | 23/07/2017 |
| End of classic garb bheiin and belig traverse. Long slog out to car. | cjo | 02/06/2017 |
| With Rob Wight on an enjoyable clear Garbh Bhein and Belig traverse. Some easy scrambling on both ascents.Finished on this Marilyn. 6 hours. | alexmaclennan | 23/05/2017 |
| self, at TMS meet in Syke | davidsbatty | 15/05/2017 |
| First Marilyn of Skye trip with Jon Glew along Sratha Mor starting from head of Loch Slapin. Then on to Beinn na Cró. | mntainman | 29/04/2017 |
| From head of Loch Slapin. Descended scree on east side and up on Ben na Cro. With Steve Smith. | jonglew | 29/04/2017 |
| 1 of 3: From A87 layby 1km past Luib. | ChrisR | 13/02/2017 |
| From the slopes of Belig it looked like it would be easy underfoot, encouraging me to add this summit to the round starting with Garbh-bheinn. So it proved... going up. The views were a delight, in the early evening light, near the sea and with Raasay and Trotternish in front. The ridge was impressively airy. Unfortunately the path that had been worn on the S ridge didn't continue on the N side and there was a lot of trying to link thinner patches of heather and avoid hidden block of rubble. There was a 2 km roadside walk by the A87 to get back up from the shore to the parking place and it was an advantage of being rather slow that most of the busy traffic had gone | pwheeler | 14/06/2016 |
| 1,000th Scottish Marilyn. After Beinn na Cro. Crossed the river and diagonally up to main ridge which is very steep at bottom, posts then wall along the crest to the summit. Very windy but a good 1,000 er. | Thearlaichdubh | 21/08/2015 |
| Parking off main road at minor rd 542268. Nice view of pod of Minke whale. Use small burn opposite to make way onto hill, aiming for col between Belig and Glas Bheinn Mhor. Rough going to 200m then eases up. Took the NE ridge of Belig to gain summit with superb views in great weather. Down the NNW ridge to 500m then cut back into corrie and along wall to summit of second Marilyn. Grand half day trip. | nordicstar | 11/06/2015 |
| NG558278 Field access from A87, Glas Bheinn Mhòr, Snow climb up corrie to Belig, Belach na Beiste, Descend and cross Eas a' Chait/Allt Coire ná Selig, Druim Eadar Dà Choire to 489m spot height, 323m col, Marsco, Descend fence line from NG512249, Allt Màm a' Phobuill, Allt Coire nam Bruadaran, CP NG534267. Fellwanderers Easter Tour | Edgemaster | 02/04/2015 |
| Solo, from Luib. Traverse over GBM and Belig to Loch Slapin, back via BnC | amswanston | 12/11/2012 |
| From Loch Ainort | BLACKHILL | 07/10/2011 |
| Week in Skye with Clare College Rockclimbing | Mark Jackson | 05/07/2011 |
| Alan | Glenford | 04/05/2009 |
| Ascended by southern ridge in sunny weather, having first ascended Beinn na Cro. Descended north back to Luib. | JohnW | 28/04/2009 |
| Parked on verge of busy A87. Old track just above road. After 1/2 mile made for ridge comimg down from R to L. under pylons. to ridge at 14.05 and followed old fence posts uphill. Over stout stone wall to top at 14.45. B D Mhor, Glamaig, Tianavaig, Mhaoil, Dun Caan, Scalpay, Caillich, Cro and Loch Slappin. | arranc | 05/10/2007 |
| 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 |
| RHW | 22/04/2000 | |
| five Marilyn day over Glas Bheinn Mhor, belig, Garbh Bheinn, Duadh Stac and finally an ultra tired pull up Marsco | vegibagger | 25/05/1997 |
| Balven SW top to Belig and down to Luib. | Eddie | 01/06/1988 |
| kanderson | 21/07/2023 | |
| drmp | 15/05/2023 | |
| NickF | 09/07/2021 | |
| TONY DEALL | 18/09/2020 | |
| iainwalton | 29/08/2020 | |
| GaryJones | 03/05/2019 | |
| Simon Winton | 26/03/2019 | |
| Kevin29035 | 23/09/2017 | |
| Johnny Corbett | 25/06/2017 | |
| Tom Mundell | 03/06/2017 |