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| Name: | Meall Blair |
| Hill number: | 770 |
| Height: | 656.5m / 2154ft |
| RHB Section: | 10C: Loch Arkaig to Glen Moriston |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Lochy, Ness |
| Watershed: | Inner Moray Firth, Ardnamurchan Point to Lowestoft, Cardiff to Cape Wrath, Dover to Cape Wrath, Lowestoft to Duncansby Head, Land's End to John o' Groats, Greater Loch Linnhe, The Lizard to Dunnet Head |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Graham, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,G,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NN 07745 95036 |
| Summit feature: | trig point |
| Drop: | 213m |
| Col: | 443m NN100949  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 33 (1:25k) 399 |
| 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 184 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| yorkielad | 08/03/2024 | |
| Blair282 | 10/12/2023 | |
| From Arcabhi, good off road parking (NN 0539 9235). Hydro track to the dam, then ATV track to NN 0710 9447, after which reasonably good rough ground. On to Meall Lochan nan Dubh Lochan and return for a 12k round. | jonglew | 02/12/2023 |
| From the hydro at Arcabh with CM. Track to loch than an ATV track which goes most of the way to the high point. Another sunny,cold day with great views. | bolton | 01/12/2023 |
| With PM. Great views. | CJM | 01/12/2023 |
| Parked at Arcabhi. Hydro track to Loch Blair. ATV track to SW of summit, then over grass to trig pillar. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 30/11/2023 |
| Sick Kid | 22/10/2023 | |
| weaselmaster | 22/10/2023 | |
| MacAoidh | 22/09/2023 | |
| Parked at the butterfly sanctuary. West along the loch road to just beyond the building at 105914. Brief skirmish with bracken and ferns to get to the gravel track above, would have been better to go through the cleared area by the building. Up new looking track up the left of Allt Cheanna Mhuir to the small dam at the 330m contour. Then pathlessly north west to the flat area with several lochans to reach an ATV track almost to point 532. Then easily up to the summit. | Owen B | 22/08/2023 |
| anguscow | 27/06/2023 | |
| Parked in large compound at start of track NN 0538 9234 (no issues). Track continues to loch - steep, rough and stony (unpleasant in descent). At end of track head NE to pick up ATV OR head NNE to ATV start by wooden bridge NN 05666 93748. ATV takes various routes but eventually settles into one line. Mostly in an ENE direction, marked by occasional wooden posts. Appeared to end NN 06790 94236.Headed NE direct to point 646 then ENE to top - easy going. ATV made for a nice walk. | carole engel | 08/05/2023 |
| With Lesley. Via the very good track from the hydro building, circuit anticlockwise around summit plateau. | Nick Canute | 18/04/2023 |
| From Kinbreack Bothy. | Grinner | 15/04/2023 |
| Am Bodach | 04/03/2023 | |
| hils | 23/12/2022 | |
| a bog trot on a wet day! | oatcake | 28/06/2022 |
| Fi | 07/05/2022 | |
| scoob | 07/05/2022 | |
| patrick | 28/04/2022 | |
| clanbonham | 24/04/2022 | |
| Frogreen | 07/03/2022 | |
| bobhem25 | 05/03/2022 | |
| sarahk | 14/02/2022 | |
| weaselmaster | 14/01/2022 | |
| Sick Kid | 14/01/2022 | |
| As per SMC Guide, in reverse. | IanHHill | 05/07/2021 |
| SunnyAdventures | 29/06/2021 | |
| hill walker | 19/06/2021 | |
| Evening wander en route to end of road. Initial hydro track fairly horrible then ATV track helpful though convoluted | daviemore | 18/06/2021 |
| Ralph | 15/03/2021 | |
| IainK | 29/11/2020 | |
| With Meall Lochan Nan Dubh, Sgurr Choinich, Carn Dubh & Beinn Chraoibh | duchally | 27/09/2020 |
| GavinTheobald 3 | 19/09/2020 | |
| benalder50 | 23/08/2020 | |
| Parked at start of hydro road, up to Loch Blair and then Atv Track/nailed fence posts to snowline where we followed Govanah's footprints from yesterday. A superb day for self isolating. | Crumblie2 | 20/03/2020 |
| govanah | 19/03/2020 | |
| Sgurr Choinnich and Meall Blair from the Butterfly Farm in fine weather. Initially up valley for about 2 km before cutting up to ridge and Sgurr Chaoinnich. Only incident was getting lace hook on boots hooked on the deer fence which produced an interesting moment. West, initially on deer fence to Meall Blair then S back to road at forest edge and 5 km along road to car. | dickscroop | 30/10/2019 |
| From Sgurr Choinich across ground which was a lot drier than expected. Fine viewpoint of lots of old friends! Descent on direct line back to Butterfly reserve car park. | MichaelF | 24/09/2019 |
| G and A | arthurwhittaker | 19/07/2019 |
| MC O Climbed from Loch Arkaig Straight up hydro track and up beside the small stream. Deep grass and hard going. Round trip in 2h 10. Brilliant views westwards down Loch Arkaig and great autumn colours. | Martin66 | 06/10/2018 |
| highlandhillwalker | 27/07/2018 | |
| BlackPanther | 02/07/2018 | |
| Gallovidian | 03/06/2018 | |
| bertbarnett123 | 01/04/2018 | |
| Johnny Corbett | 31/03/2018 | |
| Simon Winton | 03/12/2017 | |
| From the Butterfly reserve. None seen, perhaps because of the cold. Direct to Sgurr Coinnich on an ATV track almost all the way. Lovely walk, on snow towards the top, with splendid views. Down to the col and across the rough stuff to Meall Blair. The snowy summit plateau was splendid, so promenaded along the highest part to a small cairn. Easy back to the Lochan, then a nasty, never ending descent on quagmired ATV track, and a small amount of road bash, very pleasant along Loch Arkaig. Quite a strenuous walk. In answer to the queries, the nail posts are to hang up dead animals or birds. | Gill | 11/11/2017 |
| Same route as ngthack. I think the nails in the posts are to prevent the deer/sheep scratching their backs on the posts and knocking them down. The new track is very helpful but a bit loose on the descent. | nicolajane | 29/10/2017 |
| Tricky | 18/10/2017 |