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| Name: | Meall Clachach |
| Hill number: | 1653 |
| Height: | 618.8m / 2030ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1644 Uamh Bheag |
| Parent (SMC): | 1644 Uamh Bheag |
| RHB Section: | 26B: Central Scotland from Dumbarton to Montrose |
| Donald area: | Glen Artney Hills |
| County/UA: | Stirling (UA) |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Earn, Forth |
| Watershed: | Firth of Tay, Ardlamont Point to Fife Ness, Firth of Forth |
| Class: | Subsimm (DT,sSim) |
| Grid ref: | NN 68835 12583 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: ground 5m from old iron fence post |
| Drop: | 28.6m |
| Col: | 590.2m NN 6913 1224  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 57 (1:25k) OL47W 368W |
| 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 141 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Bagging the 2 Donald Tops from Church carpark clockwise. Mostly surprisingly easy ground despite all the peathags, just a couple awkward bits. | AndrewFinnimore | 06/10/2018 |
| Alone, from Glen Artney church. | Grinner | 21/10/2017 |
| With Uamh Bheag on round of Glen Artney Donalds | nickywood1 | 17/07/2017 |
| Followed SMC Grahams and Donald circuit: Am Beannan - Meall Clachach - Uamh Bheag W and E tops - Beinn Odhar - Beinn nan Eun. Rime on the ground helped with the peatier sections. Otherwise Spring-like, with a skein of geese flying North, bright sun and a cloud inversion. | Nick Down1 | 21/01/2017 |
| Weather fair. | MountainMac | 04/01/2017 |
| Wet day walk from Glen Artney | David Greaves | 09/07/2016 |
| Route as per SMC Grahams & Donalds book. 7 hours for the circuit: hard going for most of the way with no paths to speak of and lots of peat hags. | TRG318 | 07/07/2016 |
| On way down off Uamh Beag. | ngthack | 06/04/2016 |
| Solo; P at Glen Artney church, walked SW along road and through gate before bridge; continued on rough terrain beside the Water of Ruchill and across an old partial bridge over Allt Ollach, past a croft ruin and steeply up Am Beannan then on broad ridge to Meall Clachach and onward to Uamh Bheag, heading later to Beinn Odhar. Sub-zero with ground frost at start, developing into a warm day when the sun rose over the hills. | seumas | 17/10/2015 |
| Round of Uamh Beag and Beinn nan Eun. Bogfest. | Roblex | 22/07/2015 |
| See Uamh Bheag | dickscroop | 22/12/2014 |
| Another one done today. | Play2End | 07/08/2014 |
| self | davidsbatty | 07/02/2014 |
| Fantastic sunny, light wind, high cloud snowshoe around the horseshoe of all 4 hills, with Holly and Abby. | alexmaclennan | 17/02/2013 |
| Continued along the ridge from Uamh Bheag. | derekblackburn | 10/10/2010 |
| from Glenartney church car park, with Mark and John. 5hrs 30 mins, en route to Uamh Bheag. Cool, sunny and bright. Great views, and rough going. Lovely glen. | niallp | 04/10/2009 |
| Dry, high cloud, cold wind, part sun, good views. | iangalbraith | 22/02/2009 |
| ? Not 100% | N.Morters | 09/08/2008 |
| JEB, FJB, ERB | Uisdean25 | 03/06/2006 |
| Am Beannan, Meall Clachach, Uamh Beag & Tops, Beinn Odhar, Beinnan nan Eun from Auchnaseallach Kirk, back down road a short distance to cross bridge. Down ridge to track along Findhu Glen on the way back. | agentmancuso | 24/07/2004 |
| Parked in car park at end of narrow lane. On road for 1m, through gate and path by stream. Uphill to cross side stream over newly built wooden bridge and up for 750' to Am Beannan. Faint path through hags to wire fence and to top at 12.20. to U B. | arranc | 22/04/2003 |
| Date is first visit. | RHW | 13/04/1998 |
| New Donald round from Glen Artney: Meall Leathan Dhail, Meall Clachach, Uamh Bheag (repeat), Beinn Odhar and Beinn nan Eun. | Eddie | 14/03/1998 |
| With Dave, Doug | Oik | 04/06/1994 |
| briansv650s | 16/02/2019 | |
| Emma and Simon | 14/10/2018 | |
| Colin Crawford | 24/09/2018 | |
| iangpark | 19/03/2018 | |
| Jon F | 28/11/2017 | |
| weaselmaster | 19/09/2017 | |
| thenomad | 18/05/2017 | |
| bertbarnett123 | 21/01/2017 | |
| needanewdog | 30/08/2016 | |
| PaulineD | 06/08/2016 | |
| walk livi | 06/08/2016 | |
| Frogreen | 08/04/2016 | |
| hornet | 22/03/2016 | |
| nordicstar | 17/12/2015 | |
| jenx | 17/12/2015 | |
| AndyS | 28/08/2015 | |
| benarmine | 09/05/2015 | |
| ARM | 23/04/2015 | |
| Dave Geere | 03/04/2015 | |
| nicolajane | 19/03/2015 | |
| alanm | 12/02/2015 | |
| JulieB | 03/01/2015 | |
| NormanW | 07/02/2014 | |
| chrispine | 23/01/2014 | |
| Colin Crawford | 17/11/2013 | |
| robertphillips | 13/10/2013 |