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| Name: | Coinneach Mhor |
| Hill number: | 960 |
| Height: | 976m / 3202ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 956 Beinn Eighe - Spidean Coire nan Clach |
| Parent (SMC): | 956 Beinn Eighe - Spidean Coire nan Clach |
| RHB Section: | 13A: Loch Torridon to Loch Maree |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Catchment: | Ewe, Catchment Boundaries, Torridon |
| Class: | Hump, Simm, Munro Top, High Hills of Britain, Murdo, Yeaman (Hu,Tu,Sim,MT,HHB,Mur,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NG 94450 60005 |
| Summit feature: | cairn |
| Drop: | 108m |
| Col: | 868m NG951602  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 19 (1:25k) 433 |
| 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 354 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| With CB, Richard and Gillian. | JDBowers | 07/06/2023 |
| Parked at the main car park opposite the Ling Hut, alongside the resident reindeer. Path to Coire Mhic Mhearchair and the Triple Buttress. Steep ascent at the back of the coire but not as bad as feared - there is effectively a stone staircase up on the LHS of the final gully to the 868m col. From there Ruadh stac Mor, Coinneach Mhor (old and new) and Spidean. Descent off the ridge south of the trig point down a generally reasonable path apart from some steep scree/eroded sections. Another great day on Beinn Eighe with splendid views in all directions, finally completing the second munro after a gap of several decades. With Gillian, Cathy and Jim. | richard69 | 07/06/2023 |
| From parking near Loch Bharranch. Up the path into clag. Above 800 metres superb inversion. Up to trig point and the summit of Spidean Coire nan Clach then out and back to 2 eastern tops. Very rough hills. Then headed west to Coinneach Mhor both tops. Then headed down to Sail Mhor. Got over halfway down realised this was a rock climb didn’t want to be unable to reverse route and hadn’t read guides so headed back up and then on to Ruadh-stac Mor and down the scree gully to Coire Mhic Fhearchair. Beautiful place did think about going up Sail Mhor from here. Felt tired so just headed out and back to the car. Will come back to do Sail Mhor. Time taken 10 hours 25 minutes for 15.05 miles and 5456 feet of ascent. | isabelle | 04/06/2023 |
| Route over Beinn Eighe, starting with a camp in Coire Mhic Fhearchair. First climbed Sail Mor, decided against tackling the Ugly Step so descended part way from bealach and joined main path to reach the other bealach and on to Coineach Mhor (old and new summits). Continued east on the ridge to climb Spidean Coire nan Clach and descent by standard route. Near perfect conditions. | RobertP | 18/04/2023 |
| Tidying up my Munro tops, they have moved this one from the summit further east since I did it way back. Up the Coire nan Laoigh path to th 972 summit then west along the ridge to Coinnich Mhor. Plenty of time so on way back diverted to Spidean Coire nan Clach 992m summit as an out and back. | dickscroop | 12/09/2021 |
| Path through Coie Dubh Mor to Coie Mhic Fhearchair. Round loch to th right and steep up to ridge beneath Sail Mhor. An impressive top with great views. The across to Coineach Mhor via the impressively rocky bad step buttress. Difficult to make out way up at first, but found steep grassy rake leading to fairly straight forward scramble. Short of time to visit Ruadh-Stac Mor. Back via loch to start point. With B,R and Brian. | jenx | 22/06/2021 |
| Traverse of Beinne Eighe - all Munto Tops & Summits - a bit of a challenge - 9 hours to final summit - 12.5 hours incl long walk out via CMF | Scmccabe | 28/05/2021 |
| Glen Torridon - Spidean Coire nan Clach - Coinneach Mhor - Ruadh-stac Mor - Loch Coire Mhic Fhearchair - Coire Dubh Mor - Glen Torridon. | Mark Jackson | 27/05/2019 |
| Route: A896 parking near Loch Bharranch - ‘Beinn Eighe - Spidean Coire nan Clach’ - Coinneach Mhòr - ‘Beinn Eighe - Raudh-stac Mòr’ - Loch Coire Mhic Fhearchair - Coire Dubh Mòr - A896 parking near Loachan an lasgair - A896 parking near Loch Bharranch. Stats: 7hrs13, 19.9km, 1,390m ascent. Weather: glorious sunshine, clear & no wind. Notes: very steep ascent, ridge lovely with some nice scrambles, scree slope descent a bit horrific, wore knee brace. | millionmts | 19/08/2018 |
| Beinn Eighe Munros and Tops from Glen Torridon | Geoff Briggs | 28/05/2018 |
| Third ascent. | thenomad | 06/02/2018 |
| Solo | neil hutton | 08/06/2017 |
| Up from Sail Mhor. I wouldn't recommend the bad step in poor visibility. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 22/05/2017 |
| revisit for the tops, C/W round of sail mhor, coinneach mhor, ruadh stac mor, spidean coire nan clach, squrr ban, squrr nan fhir duidhe, | robertphillips | 07/05/2017 |
| Anti-clockwise route of the 2 Munros. On own. | MorecambeMonkey | 28/05/2016 |
| A fine day on Beinn Eighe around Ruadh-Stac Mor, out and back to Sail Mhor over Coinneach Mhor finishing on Spedean Coire nan Clach. | rhalstead | 23/06/2014 |
| With Andy on Beinn Eighe walk | Crib Goch | 16/06/2013 |
| with Jamie and dog Ben-Ji. NW through valley to the S and steeply up the western end of Sail Mhor. Snowy higher up as we get to the gash into it's northern side. great view of tripple buttress. A very spectacular viewpoint altogether and absolutely ought to be a Munro summit. Along and past the bad step on to Coinneach Mhor and then eventually rather steeply down to early into the valley. We should've gone further east first. | vegibagger | 09/04/2012 |
| with John Green (Beinn Eighe) | davidsbatty | 11/06/2011 |
| Ruadh stac Mor, Beinn Eighn + Tops, 19.7km, 1800m, 8.5hr | JamesSDonald | 20/02/2009 |
| estimated date | IanHHill | 15/05/2008 |
| Nice little scramble from the west. | signyred | 02/08/2007 |
| On attempt of all Munros and tops in 2007 | ancient brit | 01/08/2007 |
| Blisco | 02/07/2007 | |
| Solo walk to Spidean Coire nan Clach (972m, 993m), Sgùrr Bàn, Sgùrr nan Fhir Duibhe, Sgùrr Bàn, Spidean Coire nan Clach (993m, 972m), Còinneach Mhòr East Top, Còinneach Mhòr and via bad step to Sàil Mhòr. Descended west. Weather was fine. | pwbellarby | 11/05/2006 |
| 2 of 4: From Ruadh-stac Mor. | ChrisR | 07/08/2004 |
| Slightly tricky climb up to this from Sail Mor. See Ruadh-stac Mor. | dbb | 18/05/2003 |
| W MVW, up from Loch Bharranch car park, from the Spidean Coire along ridge and out to Ruadh stad Mor, then back and out to Sail Mhor top, descend into Coire Mhic Fhearachair and long walk out | nordicstar | 12/04/2001 |
| Solo on a clear & warm day. Walked around N side of hill via Coire Dubh Mor for the fantastic view of the triple buttress. Crossed outflow of Loch Coire Mhic Fhearchair, worked way along side of loch & ascended the eroded path to the bealach. (On another occasion in winter, thick ice covering the loch had broken up & a gale had blown it to the outflow where the jagged shards were crashing & clattering into each other.) Turned N for Ruadh-stac Mor, returned to the col & over tops to Sail Mhor. Then back along main ridge over Spidean Coire nan Clach as far as Sgurr Ban. Then found the eroded path back down to the glen & along the road to the start. (Again on 6/4/04 with Shaky, Smithy & TomP by similar route except ascended directly to Ruadh-stac Mor from side of loch & had to skip the tops & Spidean as a bright day suddenly gave way to a snow shower & then a thunderstorm crashed in from the W.) | NotReallyABagger | 05/09/2000 |
| Date unknown | paulsross | 01/01/2000 |
| CK, club | SheilaS | 12/04/1998 |
| Galltywenallt | 18/10/1997 | |
| Hot, sunny, clear, both tops. | iangalbraith | 03/06/1997 |
| ROB | Richard Tait | 06/08/1996 |
| On the Ben Eighe ridge traverse. | Aye Jimmy | 24/07/1996 |
| Solo. | MickyRoss | 11/05/1995 |
| With Mark. | Jonathan Willingham | 23/07/1994 |
| yorkielad | 23/07/1994 | |
| Round of Liathach and Beinn Eighe from Torridon hostel descending, with collapsed shufflee, to Loch Bharranch. | Eddie | 27/05/1994 |
| With D,P,S,G | 1921 | 26/05/1994 |
| Via Hamilton's Route. | jim.r | 26/05/1993 |
| Warm and sunny with Terry and Ian. | Dugswell2 | 11/06/1992 |
| Along the ridge from Sail Mhor.. a nice understatement. Given that it was key to the rest of Beinn Eighe, the 'Ugly Step' was the most committed scramble of the week and it took a bit of trial and error to find the best way. Lunch on the top of Coinneach Mhor in the sunshine. With Pete. | pwheeler | 23/05/1992 |
| from Old GR. On grassy sward to top at 14.00 Lunch. Bits of Lancaster crashed here killing 8 crew members. to Coire nan Clach. | arranc | 05/06/1991 |
| petey | 01/01/1990 | |
| Date estimated, sometime summer 1989 on uni break. | steveroberts | 01/07/1989 |
| First of two visits | Rhayader_wander | 24/06/1989 |
| with Peter Ringrose, VRMC | Rockhopper | 21/02/1989 |
| Winter climbing. | thenomad | 04/04/1988 |
| MM, RA, SA | HFB | 29/12/1987 |