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| Name: | Bidean nam Bian |
| Hill number: | 191 |
| Height: | 1149.4m / 3771ft |
| RHB Section: | 03B: Loch Linnhe to Loch Etive |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| County (CoH): | Argyllshire (CoH) |
| Catchment: | Etive, Catchment Boundaries, Leven (Loch) |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Munro, High Hills of Britain, Historic County Top, Murdo, Yeaman, Trail 100 (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,M,HHB,CoH,Mur,Y,T100,P600,P500) |
| Grid ref: | NN 14345 54201 |
| Summit feature: | cairn |
| Drop: | 844m |
| Col: | 305m NN206560  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 41 (1:25k) 384 |
| Observations: | top 200m WNW at NN141542 is 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 1018 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| With Jack, Jim, Chris Easter FW trip (Glencoe) | fellie | 31/03/2024 |
| fellwanderer92 | 31/03/2024 | |
| T-bog | 31/12/2023 | |
| ChrisVDM | 25/11/2023 | |
| MoRaul | 11/09/2023 | |
| Stob Coire nan Lochan, Bidean nam Bian & Stob Coire Sgreamhach, using Walkhighlands anti-clockwise route. Passed a number of people doing the route in reverse. | TRG318 | 06/09/2023 |
| Andrew Stalker | 31/08/2023 | |
| gavinmcc | 12/08/2023 | |
| Delyoung | 23/07/2023 | |
| ChrisShaw1993 | 05/06/2023 | |
| rox.a.k | 03/06/2023 | |
| With Alasdair & James | duchally | 01/06/2023 |
| vgiorgio | 31/05/2023 | |
| PDuncan82 | 20/05/2023 | |
| Up the Coire nan Lochan onto Stob Coire nan Lochan, up and down Bidean nam Bean. Bealach Dearg under snow descended into Coire Gabhail. | Arbie | 20/04/2023 |
| anguscow | 03/04/2023 | |
| Ascent on Winter ML Training course; snow above ~700m | tleach12 | 22/02/2023 |
| webbdj | 13/02/2023 | |
| Winter | ChrisVDM | 28/01/2023 |
| took the path into the lost valley at Three sisters then walked to the far corie and up. the path was hidden by snow so just made a beeline to go up to the bealach. the pull up to the summit was a bit tough in the snow no views. | Aristotle Chip | 07/01/2023 |
| Joshauge | 31/12/2022 | |
| ChrisVDM | 27/11/2022 | |
| stuartgreig | 12/11/2022 | |
| Dave McG | 24/09/2022 | |
| weaselmaster | 23/09/2022 | |
| Sick Kid | 23/09/2022 | |
| On own. Parked in Three Sisters car park Glen Coe and followed Walk Highlands route. Coire nan Lochan > Stob Coire nan Lochan > Bidean nam Bian > Bealach Dearg > Lost Valley. The descent from Bealach Dearg is probably the scariest I have ever done, especially when the scree starts slipping away. After the Lost Valley ended up rock hopping slippery large boulders of dry river bed, not recommended! Eventually found path out. A beautiful walking day with stunning views throughout. I felt very privileged to be a tiny dot amongst these awesome mountains. | Beeliner | 31/08/2022 |
| PVokes | 29/08/2022 | |
| ALHEJ Wilkins | 16/08/2022 | |
| Bidean and Sgreamhach (w/ all tops) via Zig Zags and Dorsal Arete via Highland Saxifrage. Caused a bit of a rockslide in the corrie. Short, low-grade, bypassable Mod routes my absolute maximum. First time in Lost Valley - lots of tourists and some of those bloody stone-stackers. | iangpark | 10/08/2022 |
| Fifiphysio | 10/08/2022 | |
| stuartgreig | 30/07/2022 | |
| David123 | 25/07/2022 | |
| From the car park just west of the helipad. Lovely walk up into the Lost Valley. Good path up to Bealach Dearg the last bit on the scree was a bit poor and wouldn’t be great in wet weather. It was then an easy walk up to Stob Coire Sgreamhach’s cairn. The top was in cloud. I returned to the bealach and headed up easy slopes to the summit of Bidean. I did get some views which was great. It was then down to the col with Stob Coire Nan Lochan and up to the summit. This was a bit scrambly but easy. From the summit I headed down through the boulder fields of the north west ridge and then down into the Coire Nan Lochan where I followed the good path to the car park. Time taken including stops 6.5 hours for 8 miles. | isabelle | 07/06/2022 |
| jamesaitken42 | 02/06/2022 | |
| Pete R | 28/05/2022 | |
| Following Dorsal Arete, a great day. | atreides7887 | 18/03/2022 |
| McNeill | 01/03/2022 | |
| anguscow | 17/10/2021 | |
| One of most difficult munros. Very scary launching self off summit into the Lost Valley and back to the car. An 11 hour day and walking back in darkness. | Skerryvore | 15/10/2021 |
| via scnl with John H and Gordon | HardenC | 28/09/2021 |
| Up Lost Valley to Bealach Dearg, out & back to Stob Coire Sgreamhach, then Bidean nam Bian, Stob Coire nan Loch, descent via Coire nan Lochan. Tops in cloud, chilly wind. Solo | richard69 | 14/09/2021 |
| IainPaterson | 12/09/2021 | |
| Stavanger Toestub | 04/09/2021 | |
| Spent the weekend at the Ochils Mountaineering Club cottage in Crianlarich. Sunday 29/08/21, I met up with Alex McBride and we headed up Bidean nan Bain. Starting up the steep east slope of Beinn Fhada, to bag its two Munro Tops. Followed by the appropriately named 'bad step', which was a bit airy for comfort, on the ascent to the 1st Munro of Stob Coire Sgreamhach (1072m). Then Bidean nan Bain (1150m, 2nd Munro), from where I ventured west for the Munro Top of Stob Coire nam Beith (1107m) and then back up to Bidean. The return to the car meant we had to ascent the fourth and final Munro Top of the day Stob Coire nan Lochan (1115m), then around the west side of Coire nan Lochan and back to the Three Sisters car park 10:50hrs after leaving the Beehive Cairn car park, both of us suitably knackered. | chillyman8 | 29/08/2021 |
| Fantastic walk through Lost Valley . | Mark Sims | 24/08/2021 |
| ScottyBoy76 | 23/08/2021 | |
| Lizzie | 23/08/2021 | |
| Bidean nam Bian via Coire nan Lochain and the Lost Valley, Walkhighlands route | hummusg | 10/08/2021 |
| Climbed at as part of horseshoe finishing with steep descent An t-Srom to Clachaig Inn. | PeakyPete | 01/08/2021 |