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| Name: | The Cobbler South Peak |
| Hill number: | 2952 |
| Height: | 858.4m / 2816ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 79 The Cobbler [Ben Arthur] |
| RHB Section: | 01D: Inveraray to Crianlarich |
| County/UA: | Argyll and Bute |
| Catchment: | Long & Goil |
| Class: | High Hills of Britain, Subsimm (HHB,sSim) |
| Grid ref: | NN 26051 05708 |
| Summit feature: | rocky pinnacle |
| Drop: | 27.6m |
| Col: | 830.8m NN 2602 0572  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 56 (1:25k) OL39S 364S |
| Survey: | 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 139 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| After revisiting the main summit, took path down to col, didn't like the look of that route so descended path beside it to access S ridge, good path all the way with 4 brief scrambles, the lowest most difficult, the highest most exposed (look for nice big quartz crystal on otherwise fairly holdless little slab). Noted an abseil anchor above the col, looked a bit old... Pleased to have got this done, my last difficult HHB. | RHW | 08/04/2023 |
| Solo | HFB | 13/09/2022 |
| A wet day. Spent 4 hours watching my companions successfully bag this one. Direct communication proved difficult for climbers. Turns out quite helpful to have another team member on the col who can relay messages. Wet climb is only for those who desperately need to bag a Simm | Oh no I forgot... | 16/08/2021 |
| A 4 hour epic in deteriorating weather with abseil ropes jamming, but hey we’re safely down now… | BaggerGutt | 16/08/2021 |
| Run over the three Cobbler summits and Beinn Ime. Ascended this from S at Grade 3, easy enough in the dry but wouldn't fancy reversing it in the wet. | quadbarrel | 21/07/2021 |
| Tricky little scramble with three awkward moves, easier with long legs, not much exposure though | alda | 28/05/2020 |
| LUUHC Good skies, clear day, slight chill, frost on tops | CallumS | 06/11/2017 |
| Davy | Davy | 14/10/2017 |
| All three tops starting with SE ridge of S Peak, over the top and abseil down the 'normal' route. would not have fancied climbing down. Rock a bit wet though weather fine for our afternoon start. | dickscroop | 21/09/2017 |
| Took a good look at this one after descending the path to its saddle from the main top. It looks clear enough where the easiest route is, but must be a grade 2/3 scramble and I didn't fancy it as the rock was wet, there was no-one around, and I would have had to descend the same way I came up. Maybe next time... | Mark Jackson | 20/08/2017 |
| C/W round of an t sron, cobbler south peak, a good scramble to the top of this, the cobbler, the cobbler north peak, beinn narnain, creag tharsuinn, a chrois west top, A, Chrois, | robertphillips | 27/04/2017 |
| Scrambled up and down from the col. Subsequently saw it's graded diff in IainT's guidebook - sometimes ignorance is bliss. The awkward bit and the exposed bit don't coincide so it didn't feel as hard as that. | mae | 28/05/2016 |
| SUMMIT NOT ATTEMPTED. The path is 30 very steep metres below this summit. The south peak is OK for genuine climbers but it's much harder than the Cobbler main summit tower. If you don't remember visiting the south summit, you definitely didn't. | Pete R | 19/09/2015 |
| Walk with Ben Grove | byron2302 | 03/01/2015 |
| Blisco | 07/05/2013 | |
| First off the three peaks climbed, extremely gusty. | Craigieboy44 | 11/10/2011 |
| With Tony, Sophie, Nic Gordon, Andy, Peter, Becca Hardy & Graham Bromley. Scrambling traverse of all 3 peaks, south peak, summit then north peak. | zoob | 19/04/2011 |
| Climbing practice with friends. Found the 'airy step' described in the guide book! Approx date. | Louise | 14/07/2010 |
| After Central Peak. | Wheelsy | 25/08/2009 |
| Wet | nosdrahcir | 16/05/2009 |
| Estimated date - Done with James and Claire Although done solo on a previous occasion | Aimless Rambler | 20/06/2008 |
| With WBMC | signyred | 28/07/2007 |
| With Eric in mist | dchill | 13/04/2001 |
| With Eric in mist. | dchill01 | 13/04/2001 |
| In Cobbler circuit with Narnain. Up from A83 road at Laigh Glencroe. Repeat early May 2005. | nordicstar | 14/10/1999 |
| On way back from an ascent of The Cobbler and the North Peak. | Aye Jimmy | 21/10/1997 |
| NB. From Loch Long via Allt a'Bhalachain, Ben Arthur (3 tops), Bealach a'Mhaim, Beinn Narnain & Cruach nam Miseag. A fine bright day. | Vin | 08/04/1995 |
| To be honest the step up defeated me, I could not get my leg high enough | Whithaugh | 12/09/1993 |
| With Toby and Adam Nelson. caught 6.30am train from Glasgow, climbed Cobbler and Beinn Narnain. Aborted an attempt at Beinn Ime because of daylight. Camped beneath the snow line nr Loch Sloy. | jigglybones | 24/11/1992 |
| Evening run up old tramway in, up and down the Needle in a blizzard little knowing that this was to become a regular summer evening climbing playground for Steff and I. | Eddie | 26/03/1992 |
| Many visits to this top while winter climbing there in the 90s. | Dave McG | 24/01/1992 |
| petey | 01/01/1990 | |
| From the Pier, Loch Long. | Victor | 14/08/1989 |
| approx date and solo----foolishly | lordtonult | 12/08/1989 |
| Circuit of the Cobbler and Beinn Narnain from Arrochar | rjf35 | 24/01/1987 |
| I ticked this at some point but seems likely I went up it. Unticked. | RHW | 08/08/1981 |
| Approximate date.Ardgartan Arete. | ARM | 01/01/1980 |
| I did it by the short way. I also attempted the long way but backed off. | Alan Moore | 18/03/1979 |
| With: lw pt cb; From Ardgarten YH Allt a'Bhalachain then up on to Cobbler. Climbed all three peaks despite the complete snow cover. | Ian Baines | 20/03/1976 |
| PeteN | 01/01/1970 | |
| Arbitrary date to enable inclusion - possibly 1960 or 1961. | mainnirnamfiadh | 03/05/1961 |
| JimT | blank | |
| Climbed on several occasions | Theflyingrabbit | blank |
| ryancomet | 22/04/2023 | |
| wcroasdell | 17/06/2021 | |
| pwithnall | 24/08/2020 | |
| Grimpeur1234 | 06/05/2020 | |
| steven morrice | 22/10/2018 | |
| WOORSIE | 22/09/2016 | |
| Dave Geere | 12/05/2016 |