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Name:Cruach nan Caorach
Hill number:6969
Height:578m / 1896ft
Parent (Ma):1434  Cruach Neuran
RHB Section:19C: Loch Fyne to Bute and the Firth of Clyde
County/UA:Argyll and Bute
Catchment:Striven
Class:Dodd (500-599m), Highland Five
(Tu,5,HF)
Grid ref:NS 07402 81108
Summit feature:outcrop by cairn
Drop:77m
Col:501m  NS077812  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 63
(1:25k) OL37S 362N 363S
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 20 users)ByDate of Ascent
Over the intervening tops from Cruach Neuran and down via the lochan to catch the atv track down to the forest road.ARM23/09/2023
Parked at west dam and followed forestry track and ATV track as described by others. Cruach Neuran then Cruach nan Caorach, and short diversion to Cnoc Madaidh on return.RobertP17/05/2023
Cnoc Madaidh-Cruach nan Caorach-Cruach Neuran (rpt)-Cruach nan Capull (rpt)-562m trig-Finnart Point-road to Toward Quay.campagvelocet02/06/2022
From track SW of western dam, past Cnoc Madaidh, then left up a steep ATV track which takes you through the trees and pretty high up the hill. On to Cruach Neuran.sclater08/12/2021
From NS068829 (about 300m W of dam car park) where a pull-in has a ‘hammerhead’ of two forest roads. L branch climbs steadily up to just SE of point 311. Muddy track laying vehicle track starts steeply up NE, fading in and out to shoulder at about NS073819 where it vanishes in tough heather. Take GPS reading because this shoulder is your key point in descent and terrain features are unremarkable in descent as the ATV track cannot be relied upon as a handrail when it vanishes. Very arduous vegetation and multiple false tops to Cruach Neuran. Back to Cruach nan Caorach from where gravity assist eases the terrain down via the tiny lochan and back to the hard-to-locate ATV track end.Isbjorn17/10/2020
this was dodd nr 500 left car at gourock, ferry over to dunoon,bus to sandhaven,along road and took upper track in glen kin, leacann nan gall, cruach nan capull, cruach neuran south top, cruach neuran, cruach nan caorach, cnoc madaith, along track and road to ardtaraig for the bus back to dunoon.robertphillips21/12/2019
En route to Cruach Neuran via track from W dam.Chris Peart26/03/2019
Forest track from the road to it's end at NS 0664 8121, then a left turn and very steeply up through conifer plantation.jonglew13/11/2017
Came this way from Cruach Neuran with hope (in vain) that I might find a way that did not involve pinetree thrashing. Please do not snitch on me that I have done a Hawaii 5-0. Dont want to be arrested under the 2001 Hill List Encroachment (Scotland) Act.Martin R09/04/2012
Fine grassy hill, fine view. RHW11/07/2009
StueyB27/08/2022
weaselmaster27/06/2020
49pp03/01/2020
Gallovidian07/09/2019
fergie17/12/2016
Gavin Theobald22/10/2016
chalky195306/06/2016
interloper10/03/2015
ajwxyzt12/02/2011
Sunhat16/10/2009