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| Name: | Geal Charn |
| Hill number: | 624 |
| Height: | 926m / 3038ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 621 Carn Dearg |
| RHB Section: | 09B: Glen Albyn and the Monadh Liath |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Catchment: | Spey |
| Class: | Hump, Simm, Munro, High Hills of Britain, Murdo, Yeaman (Hu,Tu,Sim,M,HHB,Mur,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NN 56145 98759 |
| Summit feature: | 2m high cairn |
| Drop: | 100m |
| Col: | 826m NN569998  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 35 (1:25k) OL55 401 |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 717 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From parking at Garva bridge. Path all the way. Cross river at NN544968. Continue to Beinn Sgiath. With Walkers, Sparkes and Gordons. Showery grey day. Large summit cairn in cloud. | Denise | 05/10/2023 |
| Parked at Garva Bridge. Geal Charn, Beinn Sgiath, Meall an Domhnaich. Wet underfoot and showery with tops in cloud. Allt Coire nan Deareag required careful crossing. With Gillian, Denise, Tony, Zoe , Bernard and Sarah | richard69 | 05/10/2023 |
| Simple Munro 10miles a pleasant half day. | Rob Pen y Garn | 25/06/2023 |
| G R From Garva Bridge | Idris | 25/06/2023 |
| Solo with Struie from Garva Bridge car park. Very hot day. Up and down on path all the way in just over 4 hrs. Was necessary for the doggie to have a swim in the Spey to cool off at the end!! | DampandDusty | 10/06/2023 |
| Second visit. | richtea5040 | 24/05/2023 |
| On day 6 of TGOC 2023, from Fèith Talagain to Allt Mòr. | alistairpooler | 17/05/2023 |
| From Garva Bridge | geoffh12 | 01/05/2023 |
| From the double bridge car park. Easy walk but a great one for when the ground is frozen. A lovely valley. | emily | 11/03/2023 |
| From parking at Garva Bridge. | JasonStark | 08/01/2023 |
| Ascent of Gael Charn from Garva Bridge. After the hideous conditions the day before on Ben Klibreck, we had clear blue skies and only light winds. | Lazylizzie | 07/08/2022 |
| With Paul.Cycled up Gen Markie. Mist on the top which cleared- a much better Moaning Liath than the the other three! | younggl | 22/06/2022 |
| 2 hrs 45 for the 12.5km out and back. Thought it was possible for a mid week adventure and it was a beauty. lots of wildlife and wish i'd brought a tent as the river was beautiful too. | Nicky C | 15/06/2022 |
| Straightforward 3 hour out and back from Garva Bridge. Ptarmigan. | Geoff Briggs | 31/05/2022 |
| From Garva Bridge. Took ATV track instead of boggy path on way up. Incessant, but fortunately not very strong, wind. 3.5hrs. | iangpark | 07/03/2022 |
| Single boggy slog that was made better as there was snow and ice | supermario | 02/12/2021 |
| With Jack Post-GMC trip (Roybridge) | fellie | 09/11/2021 |
| Cracking day out with Brian Smith, great weather but a bog fest! | Kevthecat | 02/11/2021 |
| Geal Chàrn from Garva Bridge. Walkhighlands route | hummusg | 19/10/2021 |
| With M. 6th stunning day in a row. 2nd ascent, only disappointment from last time was the wind farms, renewable energy is essential but wind farms here do detract from the landscape. Still a beautiful area, many birds along the river: wheatear, grey wagtail, buzzard, heron, house martin.. | douglas_easton | 02/07/2021 |
| A 9 top round from garva bridge, meall an domhnaich, beinn sgiath, geal charn repeat, carn na criche, carn fraoich, creag an dearg lochain, meall na h aisre repeat,leathad gaothach, an torr. | robertphillips | 15/05/2021 |
| 4 of 5: From Carn na Criche. 3rd visit; top in cloud as on 2nd. With Karen. | ChrisR | 16/09/2020 |
| With John and Harrison - claggy summit and light rain on return | mproudfoot | 19/07/2020 |
| Start at Garva Bridge, after summit descend down into Glen Markie. Snowy above 600m. Cloudy at the top, no views | Huwel | 12/01/2020 |
| Calm and clear anticlockwise round the hill | Capt Malbec | 01/12/2019 |
| With Lynn | nix_snilloc | 22/09/2019 |
| Ascent of Gael Charn from Garva Bridge with Beinn Sgiath added on the descent. A day in the clag and descended due to a thunderstorm rather than continue to An Torr. | welshyboyo | 24/06/2019 |
| Alan,Chris,Gavin,Jan,Willie | NHWC | 22/06/2019 |
| Ski tour from Spey Dam, up Glen Markie. CCMC Laggan meet, with Paul, Jane, Jon, John + Gintas. | clashcityrocker | 02/02/2019 |
| Geal Charn Circuit from Garva Bridge | Ajm0310 | 20/11/2018 |
| From kingussie | Rodge | 10/11/2018 |
| From Sherramore. Watched two deer cross the Spey as I crossed the bridge. By tracks great and small through the woodland to Meall and Domhnaich, then enjoyably along the ridge to Beinn Sgiath (the summit cairn is surprisingly difficult to find as broad, diverging slopes conceal it until quite close) and Geal Charn. An ATV track makes for a quick return to Sherramore. | Nick Down1 | 04/08/2018 |
| From Garva Bridge (NN 52218 94730). Followed path alongside Feith Talagain then alongside Allt Coire nan Dearcag for a short distance before heading up the broad ridge to the summit plateau. Path indistinct at times. | david230201 | 10/07/2018 |
| TGO Challenge 2018 | twg27 | 16/05/2018 |
| From Garva; continued on to Beinn Sgiath and Meall an Domhnaich | callumblack | 08/05/2018 |
| JimT | 09/03/2018 | |
| 43 - From Garva bridge. Struggled with this one. Very boggy pretty much all the way, and path non-existent in places. New utility company track is quite an eyesore to the West too. | huwthomas | 08/08/2017 |
| Huge cairn! | thekirkie pirate | 23/07/2017 |
| Solo | neil hutton | 15/06/2017 |
| Solo effort on way home from Inverness MHTS hearing. Easy climb. Big cairn set back on summit plateau. | dave neilson | 12/05/2017 |
| Lionel | Chris Blake | 07/04/2017 |
| From Spey dam, over Markie Burn via new bridge (currently enclosed as a construction site - road apparently being built to west - might not be accessible if site closed), up Beinn Sgiath to Geal Charn, down to Glen Markie via lower parts of Piper's Burn, return along track | kdbennett | 01/04/2017 |
| Weather clag on summit. | MountainMac | 28/11/2016 |
| Out & back from Garva Bridge. On own. | MorecambeMonkey | 05/06/2016 |
| From Garva bridge. Sunshine, light wind and snow on top made this a easy but enjoyable walk. | mindlessflogger | 29/03/2016 |
| I had been deliberating for a long while over whether i had climbed this Munro back in the 70's or 80's, Therefore i refused to tick it until certain. Ascended from Garva Bridge where i had slept in the camper overnight. Dry but clagged in on the summit. Still none the wiser re: its legitimate date for ascent but at least its officially done now. | thenomad | 06/10/2015 |
| With Carol and baby Jess | munromurph | 19/04/2015 |
| Used a bike to get up Glen Markie from Laggan. Steep climb on a wet day. | jigglybones | 29/08/2014 |
| KeithByTheC | 07/08/2014 | |
| 2nd time. | PGCE | 18/05/2014 |