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Name: | Creag na Caillich |
Hill number: | 167 |
Height: | 914.3m / 3000ft |
Parent (Ma): | 149 Meall nan Tarmachan |
Parent (SMC): | 149 Meall nan Tarmachan |
RHB Section: | 02B: Glen Lyon to Glen Dochart and Loch Tay |
County/UA: | Stirling |
Catchment: | Tay |
Class: | Simm, High Hills of Britain, Corbett Top, Deleted Munro Top (Tu,Sim,HHB,CT,xMT) |
Grid ref: | NN 56288 37692 |
Summit feature: | no feature |
Drop: | 69.3m |
Col: | 845m NN 5652 3807 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 51 (1:25k) OL48W 378W |
Survey: | Leica NA730/Leica GS15/Leica RX1250 Surveys of Creag na Caillich and Carn na Caim South Top.pdf |
Comments: | Removed from list of Munro Tops in September 2015; col height measured to be 845.0m; alternative col at NN 5656 3812 is 0.1m higher. |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 416 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
9.4 miles 2925ft walk, start at Tarmachan Ridge carpark to Meall Nan Tarmachan, Meall Garbh, Beinn Nan Eachan and Creag Na Caillich. | stephenbuda | 15/09/2023 |
Meall nan Tarmachan South Top, Meall nan Tarmachan, Meall Garbh, Beinn nan Eachan East Top, Beinn nan Eachan and Creag na Caillich from parking. | JasonStark | 02/09/2023 |
10 hills today, should have been 11, but I didn't cross the deer fence. From Ben Lawers car park (£3). Meall nan Tarmachan S Top, Meall nan Tarmachan, Meall Garbh, Beinn nan Eachan E Top, Beinn nan Eachan, Creag na Caillich, all on Munro motorway. Then went NW on faint animal track to Meall Ton Eich, and back to .796 Creag na Caillich W Top, no real path but grassy hillside, no heather so easy going. Straight down to Beallach & up Meall Dhuin Croisg E Top & Meall Dhuin Croisg. Back to Beallach trying to avoid Crags. SE then to pick up path to Dam. Made the effort to climb Meall Liath on walk out but failed to cross deer fence so missed it by about 20m. There was a ladder stile too. 21km, 1100m climb 10/11 hills un sunshine with friends. Not too bad. | Lynnebe | 19/07/2023 |
First Munro in six weeks. Today I did the Tarmachan Ridge, with Karen Webber and Mark Atkins on an OMC Meet at the club cottage. 
 
We headed west along the track before gaining the ridge and return east along the ridge. The strong westerly wind buffeted us a few times and the heavy showers were unpleasant. 
 
Summits in order; 
1) Creag na Caillich, 914m, Ex Munro Top 
2) Beinn nan Eachan, 1000m, Munro Top 
3) Meall Garbh, 1026m, Munro Top 
4) Meall nan Tarmachan, 1043m, Munro 
5) Meall nan Tarmachan South Top, 921m, Munro Top | chillyman8 | 01/07/2023 |
stuartgreig | 12/06/2023 | |
Final top of the ridge walk then back down to Ben Lawers car park | colinfielding | 22/05/2023 |
andy.painter | 20/05/2023 | |
Crossed over from Meall Dhuin Croisg in soft snow. Ascended from WNW. Fabulous view point. On to Meall Ton Eich. | LizH | 15/04/2023 |
PeterAH | 15/04/2023 | |
anguscow | 04/04/2023 | |
Colin Crawford | 14/02/2023 | |
dickiewren | 28/11/2022 | |
From higher car park for a traverse of Meall nan Tarmachan and tops. | rhalstead | 11/09/2022 |
With ridge & Meall Ton Eich. Descended to south. | duchally | 01/09/2022 |
Parked at the NTS car park, for a revisit to the Meall nan Tarmachan ridge, last walked in 1991. Route followed the popular route from E to W, visiting Meall nan Tarmachan S Top, Meall nan Tarmachan, Meall Garbh (and its scramble down) (1026.7), Beinn nan Eachan E Top, Beinn nan Eachan and Creag na Caillich. Then rather than backtracking to the col and down to the quarry, I carried on along the smaller path right to the end of the ridge and down to the lower Land Rover track, to follow it back to the NTS car park, with a small diversion to bag Meall Liath on the way. A 16km walk with over 1100m of ascent, taking 6h 20m, with sadly little in the way of views due to the misty conditions. | silveracorn_alan | 22/08/2022 |
Steve Clark | 03/06/2022 | |
try9fan | 08/05/2022 | |
Oik | 27/04/2022 | |
PVokes | 28/01/2022 | |
Flindblad | 05/09/2021 | |
Trotticus | 25/08/2021 | |
ScottyBoy76 | 18/08/2021 | |
Start of track just N of Ben Lawers car park - tracks to quarry - path to Creag na Caillich - Beinn nan Eachan - Beinn nan Eachan East Top - Meall Garbh - Meall nan Tarmachan - Meall nan Tarmachan South Top - path back to road. | Mark Jackson | 15/08/2021 |
gingernut | 01/01/2021 | |
NicholasDavidson | 08/11/2020 | |
samblackburn | 28/08/2020 | |
Anti-clockwise loop of the Tarmachan ridge from the NT Car Park | geoffh12 | 16/08/2020 |
Badders | 01/08/2020 | |
Loop of the Tarmachan ridge on a beautiful evening. | Nicky C | 24/06/2020 |
Simon Winton | 15/06/2020 | |
Hot day, great walk. Drove up the Glen Lochay hydro road as far as possible then followed the old drovers road across meadow, railroad sleepers and steel girders to the ghost village of Shielings, then an easy steady ascent along the southern ridge of Beinn nan Oighreag. Took a direct easterly descent to, the probably boggy most of the year, Lairig Bhreislich, which was straightforward in super dry conditions, to enable an assault on the northern ridge of Meall Ton Eich. From there it was onwards to Creag na Caillich, giving a spectacular view of the Tarmachan ridge. But, we headed home via the less dramatic but equally undulating Creag na Caillich west and the two Meall Dhuin Croisg tops. A westwards descent got us back to the drovers track and the eventual mid-summer delights of an ice-cold diet coke and choc-ice in Killin. | summitter | 30/05/2020 |
A cracking walk today. Very clear views. Meall nan Tarmachan plus 4 other tops (SE top, Meall Garbh, Beinn nan Eachan and Cread na Caillich). Discovered after Meall Garbh that the rocky scramble off there was avoidable by going down the Grassy slope – never mind. Just over 5 hours. | tsharp | 17/09/2019 |
rossdrossd | 26/08/2019 | |
Debs & Tali, Tarmachan Ridge day. | Mountain Goat | 16/06/2019 |
Along with Meall nan Tarmachan | Huwel | 20/03/2019 |
From NTS Ben Lawers car park along tracks up to Meall nan Tarmachan via SE Top, then along ridge to Creag na Caillich, descending E to tracks near disused quarry and return to car park | kdbennett | 15/09/2018 |
Toril | 30/08/2018 | |
Ibex | 27/06/2018 | |
daviemore | 19/11/2017 | |
thekirkie pirate | 18/08/2017 | |
lovely hill, lovely ridge. | hils | 24/07/2017 |
Traverse of Tarmachan ridge, broken cloud, sunshine and patches of soft snow. | RichardM | 12/11/2016 |
traverse from killin power station to the north end of lochan na lairige,meall dhuin croisg, meall dhuinn croisg east top, meall ton eich,creag na caillich,beinn nan eachan, beinn nan eachan east top, meall garbh,meall nan tarmachan, meall nan tarmachan SE top,meall nan tarmachan east top, meall nan tarmachan NE top, creag an lochain, cycled downhill back to the power station. | robertphillips | 30/10/2016 |
oatcake | 27/10/2016 | |
Alone | Rob Pen y Garn | 05/08/2016 |
Tarmachan Ring. | justin999 | 28/07/2016 |
BaggerGutt | 30/05/2016 | |
As part of ridge walk | Stevend1 | 07/05/2016 |
Dave Geere | 30/04/2016 | |
great ridge walk in snow | iannotts | 10/03/2016 |