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| Name: | A' Chailleach |
| Hill number: | 183 |
| Height: | 902.1m / 2960ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 178 Aonach Eagach - Sgorr nam Fiannaidh |
| RHB Section: | 03A: Loch Leven to Rannoch Station |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Catchment: | Leven (Loch) |
| Class: | Hump, Simm, High Hills of Britain, Corbett Top, Yeaman (Hu,Tu,Sim,HHB,CT,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NN 18920 57934 |
| Summit feature: | cairn |
| Drop: | 137.9m |
| Col: | 764.2m NN 1805 5807  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 41 (1:25k) 384 |
| Observations: | cairn about 150m NE is about 2m lower |
| Survey: | Abney level/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 131 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From WHW and Devil's Staircase - traverse over all the tops to Am Bodach. Lovely ridge with superb views. | benalder284 | 16/10/2023 |
| See https://scotlandhills.net/east-of-the-aonach-eagach/ | hill walker | 12/10/2023 |
| Heading W along ridge to Sron Garbh. | Minto | 25/02/2023 |
| From Mhartuin and on to Sron Garbh. | sclater | 11/12/2022 |
| Third Simm of the day, ascending the Devil's Staircase from Altnafeadh. Thick cloud so no views. | NormanW | 29/10/2022 |
| Cairn on rock outcrop with steep drop NW. Suddenly warm and sunny with Aonach Eagach ridge suddenly clear and enticing. From Stob Mhic Mhartuin | Denise | 26/05/2021 |
| From the Devil's Staircase over Stob Mhic Mhartuin, and back the same way. Snow on top. Superb viewpoint. | LizH | 29/10/2019 |
| From the WHW. Pleasantly surprised to find a path all the way from the devils staircase. fantastic viewpoint, cant wait to come up here again in winter. | hils | 18/10/2019 |
| Took West Highland way frying Glen coe road then along ridge, with Ellie dog. | BLACKHILL | 12/05/2019 |
| From Stob Mhic Mhartuin. Grand scenery. On to Sron Gharbh. | Wycombe Wanderer | 04/04/2019 |
| Solo, on unofficial glencoe skyline. | amswanston | 20/07/2018 |
| Travelling back from Skye and not the planned walk for the day at all but with a broken compass the others were ruled out by cloud and this was straightforward and the cloud had lifted by the time i got here. Starting on WHW then Stob Mhic Mhartuin; A Chailleach; Sron Garbh back to WHW and across to Beinn Bheag. Started to rain just before I got to car and belted down three minutes after I had got into it. | dickscroop | 04/06/2018 |
| west east traverse clachaig gully to altnafeadh sgorr nam fiannaidh, stob coire leith, AE west top, AE east top, meall dearg, meall dearg east top, am bodach, sron garbh, A,Chailleach, stob mhic mhartuin, beinn bheag,cycled back downhill to clachaig inn. | robertphillips | 25/10/2016 |
| Glencoe Skyrace | Littledave | 18/09/2016 |
| Out and back from Devil's Staircase summit, path to Stob Mhic Mhartuin then good ground. | Eddie | 20/03/2016 |
| Alan Dawson's final new Munro using path to Am Bodach then take fainter RH path to gain ridge before Sron Gharbh with Alan, Bert, Charles, Colin, Eric, Iain, Ken, Phil, and moi. Dry until after this summit. Colin and Ken left to return to their cars leaving the magnificent seven to continue. | Dugswell2 | 01/09/2012 |
| Alan Dawson's final new Munro using path to Am Bodach then take fainter RH path to gain ridge before Sron Gharbh with Alan, Bert, Colin, Eric, Iain, Ken, Phil, and moi. Dry until after this summit. Colin and Ken left to return to their cars leaving the magnificent seven to continue. | vegibagger | 01/09/2012 |
| fine summit, fresh snow, great views. from Altnafeadh, back along the road from Allt-na-reigh | RHW | 09/04/2006 |
| petey | 30/05/2004 | |
| With Chris & Craig, the day the Swiss guy fell off the Aggy ridge. | Grinner | 12/10/2003 |
| Ascended from Allt-na-reigh. | yorkie | 23/10/2000 |
| From Am Bodach. | PeakyPete | 23/03/2000 |
| Route up to Am Bodach. | smocks and denims | 11/12/1999 |
| estimate of day. | AJR | 09/10/1998 |
| Estimated date - led Ken and Rita along entire ridge. | Aimless Rambler | 10/09/1998 |
| Estimated date - led Supergroup along entire ridge | Aimless Rambler | 01/08/1996 |
| second ascent of the ridge, but first ascent of the tops from the devils staircase, 2 in party, fine sunny day for september. climbed from lagangarbh hut, via the devils staircase, then all the tops along the ridge, descending via the clachaig gully path, steep with loose rock, to the clachaig for several pints. | rum doodle | 15/09/1995 |
| Aonach Eagach ridge from Altnafeadh to Pap of Glencoe. Hot sunny , fantastic visibility. | gary.jones4 | 23/05/1990 |
| From Devils staircase first hill on an extended Anoach Eagach ridge for a longer day | N.Morters | 21/04/1990 |
| With: ag mp ri ls ak iw jmr; Aonach Eagach in winter. Up Am Bodach from A82. Steep descent then past Chancellor to Meall Dearg. Over Aonach Eagach to Stob Coire Leith then Sg nam Fiannaidh. Hard snow throughout. Great conditions. Descent via Pap. | Ian Baines | 28/03/1983 |
| With: sj da; Camped @Red Squirrel. Up road to Am Bodach the across Aonach Eagach ridge in very warm hazy sunshine to Sgorr nam Fionnaidh. Descent by side of Clachaig Gully to Clachaig Inn & much later to campsite. | Ian Baines | 11/09/1979 |
| Ascended when heading for the Aonach Eagach, whilst walking from Kingshouse to Kinlochleven. | JohnW | 02/09/1976 |
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| Dottie | 17/04/2023 | |
| chrispine | 19/11/2022 | |
| Simon Winton | 01/09/2022 | |
| iainwalton | 31/08/2022 | |
| Matt | 08/09/2021 | |
| RichardM | 26/05/2021 | |
| Grimpeur1234 | 07/05/2021 | |
| ThickIce | 22/10/2020 | |
| brianb | 25/02/2020 | |
| curlebd | 09/11/2019 | |
| PeterAH | 29/10/2019 | |
| Toril | 25/11/2018 | |
| tgboosh | 19/11/2017 | |
| Rod M | 19/09/2017 | |
| Tony S | 20/08/2017 | |
| Chester | 13/07/2016 | |
| BaggerGutt | 30/05/2016 |