| Name: | Sron Coire a' Chriochairein |
| Hill number: | 670 |
| Height: | 991.9m / 3254ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 658 Creag Meagaidh |
| Parent (SMC): | 662 Stob Poite Coire Ardair |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Topographical area: | HM01 Meagaidh-ruadh |
| SMC/RHB section: | 09C: Loch Lochy to Loch Laggan |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Lochy, Spey |
| Watershed: | 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: | Munro Top, High Hills of Britain, Subsimm (MT,HHB,sSim) |
| Grid ref: | NN 44796 89915 |
| Summit feature: | small cairn |
| Drop: | 25.4m |
| Col: | 966.5m NN 4450 8993  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 34 42 (1:25k) OL50 OL55 393 401 |
| Survey: | obvious summit/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 539 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| No real views, plenty deep snow, on way to Creag Meagaidh | PDuncan82 | 02/03/2024 |
| Creag Meagaidh circuit | Denise | 09/10/2023 |
| Parked at NNR Aberarder (free/by donation). Carn Liath, Meall an t-Snaim, Sron Coire a'Chriochairein, Stob Poite Coire Ardair E Top, Stob Poite Coire Ardair, Creag Meagaidh E Top, Mad Meg's cairn, Creag Meagaidh, An Cearcallach N Top, An Cearcallach, Meall Coire Choille rais, Puist Coire Ardair, Creag Mhor, Sron a'Choire. Bushwacking type descent east at the end to the fb over the Allt Coire Ardair. Good weather and reasonable views. With Gillian, Denise and Jacquie. | richard69 | 09/10/2023 |
| Carn Liath, A' Bhuidheanach, Stob Coire Dubh, Meall an t-Snaim, Sron Coire a' Chriochairein, Stob Poite Coire Ardair East Top, Stob Poite Coire Ardair, Creag Meagaidh and Creag Meagaidh East Top from parking at Aberarder. | JasonStark | 23/09/2023 |
| with sofia | sciuro | 27/08/2023 |
| Creag Meagaidh Munros loop from the car park with Alma Aurea. Carn Liath, Meall an t-Snaim, Sron Coire a' Chriochairein, Stob Poite Coire Ardair, Creag Meagaidh. Return via window and through the valley. Generally cloudy but some sun and clear throughout. | meltdiceburg | 03/06/2023 |
| With meltdiceburg. Parked in the nature reserve car park and then followed Walk Highland's Creag Meagaidh Circuit route, taking in 3 munros and 2 munro tops. Generally cloudy, with occasional sunny intervals, but good visibilty throughout. Some stunning views | Alma Aurea | 03/06/2023 |
| Up the Window and back along the top in the wind. | atreides7887 | 06/03/2023 |
| Solo | Topsaswell | 18/10/2022 |
| climbed while doing Creag Meagaidh circuit | Kevthecat | 20/04/2022 |
| Carn Liath, Stob Coire Dubh, Stob Poite Coire Ardair. With Sue, Jack & Ellie - post GMC trip. | Geoff Briggs | 08/11/2021 |
| tarted at Dail na Mine CarPark. Ascent via Allt Coire Ardair following the stream, Lochan a Choire, The Window, and over 7 summits - Creag Meagaidh East Top, Creag Meagaidh, Stob Poite Coire Ardair, Stob Poite Coire Adair East Top, Sron Coire a Chriocharein, Meall on-t-Snaim and Carn Liath. Descent via Aberarder Forest. | lindslow | 21/09/2021 |
| 21km loop over 5 hrs, taking in Carn Liath, Meall an t-Snaim, Sron Coire a'Chriochairein, Stob Poite Coire Ardair and it's east top, Creag Meagaigh and it's east top, Puist Coire Ardair, Creag Mhor, Sron a'Choire. | Nicky C | 29/08/2021 |
| Creag Meagaidh Munros circuit - Walkhighlands route | hummusg | 24/08/2021 |
| with Lorna and David as part of Creag Meagaidh route. | Skerryvore | 17/07/2021 |
| Circuit from National Nature Reserve car park | Ajm0310 | 14/07/2021 |
| Clockwise Creag Meagaidh circuit solo - was showing -1C when I set off from the car park, but sunny with blue skies by the time I hit the first summit (Creag Meagaidh) - total time car-to-car - 5h 54min | mproudfoot | 07/11/2020 |
| Aberarder (cycled from Tulloch station) - Carn Liath - Meall an t-Snaim - Sron Coire a’ Chriochairein - Stob Poite Coire Ardair E Top - Stob Poite Coire Ardair - Creag Meagaidh - Puist Coire Ardair - Creag Mhor - Sron a’ Choire - Aberarder. | Mark Jackson | 20/08/2020 |
| With Karen | Highland Days | 02/06/2020 |
| From Aberarder car park. Clockwise circuit of the three Creag Meagaidh Munros ascending through The Window. | welshyboyo | 04/01/2020 |
| A ridge walk from Aberarder. Up the path/stream ascending Na Cnapanan to Carn Liath, west to Meall an-t Snaim and Stob Coire a'Chriochairein, the east over A'Bhuideannach to Stob Coire Dubh. Below freezing on the ridge with swirling mists and stags roaring, especially the Glenshirra Forest. Trees in the Creag Meagaidh reserve looking beautiful, with Autumn pointillist leaves. | Nick Down1 | 13/10/2019 |
| Climbed from Aberarder car park to do the Creag Meagaidh circuit, with Carn Laith first, Stob Poite Coire Ardair then Creag Meagaidh, retuning down the Coire Ardair path from The Window. Once above Na Cnapanan, very thick mist pretty much throughout with very strong winds. Meet Richard on the summit of Carn Laith, thankfully we teamed up to do the other two in the circuit, as without his GPS I would have turned back to the car park. 07:10 hrs all in. | chillyman8 | 05/10/2019 |
| From Aberarder, along tracks up to Na Cnapanan, continuing on to Carn Liath, then NE over A'Bhuidheanach to Stob Coire Dubh, returning to Carn Liath, and continuing W over Meall an t-Snaim, Sron Coire a' Chriochairean to Stob Poite Coire Ardair, descent via the Window onto tracks back to Aberarder | kdbennett | 29/06/2019 |
| On TGOC 2019. A fantastic long high level walk from Tulloch via Beinn a' Chaorainn, Craig Meagaidh, Stob Poite Coire Ardair and Carn Liath to a high camp approx. 1km to the NE of A' Bhuidheanach. Sunny and extremely warm! | alistairpooler | 14/05/2019 |
| From car park at Aberarder (NN 48301 87297) - Lochan a'Choire - The Window - Creag Meagaidh East Top - Creag Meagaidh - The Window - Stob Poite Coire Ardair - Stob Poite Coire Ardair East Top - Sron Coire a'Chriochairein - Meall an-t-Snaim - Carn Liath - Na Cnapanan. Easy path to the lochan, lots of loose scree between here and The Window. | david230201 | 13/07/2018 |
| With Mark. | Jonathan Willingham | 13/07/2018 |
| Creag Meagaidh East Top, Creag Meagaidh, Stob Poite Coire Ardair, Stob Poite Coire Ardair East Top [Crom Leathad], Sron Coire a' Chriochairein, Meall an-t-Snaim and Carn Liath. Glorious day again. | Alunrees33 | 30/06/2018 |
| Debs Birthday with Phil, Talisker and Blue | Mountain Goat | 29/03/2018 |
| From Aberarder, followed path past the farmhouse, through the Coill' a'Choire woods then up slopes to E, eventually finding a track near a line of old iron fence posts that led onto the ridge a short way NW of Na Cnapanan, then continued on to summit of Carn Liath. Turned W and followed line of ridge all the way along to Stob Poite Coire Ardair, decent to 'Window', then up on to plateau E of Carn Meagaidh and across this to the summit, returning E and SE to Puist Coire Ardair and along E ridge to Sron a' Choire, descending along Allt Bealach a' Choire to ATV track and bridge across river near Aberarder | kdbennett | 08/10/2017 |
| Solo | neil hutton | 14/06/2017 |
| From Aberarder Farm over Carn Liath, Stob Poite Coire Ardair and Creag Meagaidh and back down via the window. Took 6 hrs 30 mins distance about 14.5 miles. | isabelle | 30/05/2017 |
| Revisit for the tops, CW traverse of creag liath, meall chaorainn mor, stob coire dubh, A bhuidheanach, carn liath, meall an t snaim, sron coire a chriochairein, stob poite coire ardair, meall ptarmigan, creag a bhanain, from garva bridge to melgarve | robertphillips | 16/04/2017 |
| C. Some snow | This Dog | 20/01/2017 |
| Climbed en route from Carn Liath to Creag Meagaidh. | PeakyPete | 01/09/2016 |
| Weather fair. | MountainMac | 15/08/2016 |
| yorkielad | 16/03/2016 | |
| Whilst climbing Creag Meagaidh Munros | mcbboyd | 04/10/2015 |
| With James. 7:50. 3 munros & 6 tops. | Fidget | 26/09/2015 |
| Anti-clockwise circuit of the Creag Meagaidh Munros. On own. | MorecambeMonkey | 05/09/2015 |
| Carn Liath & Stob Poite Coire Ardair - with Alasdair & Skye | Scmccabe | 18/03/2015 |
| Great winter's walk up Easy Gully to Creag Meagaidh and on to Carn Liath | AJones | 14/03/2015 |
| From Aberader, Creag Meagaidh, Stob Poite Coire and Carn Liath plus tops on route. | rhalstead | 20/06/2014 |
| With Robert Wight and John Berry. Horeshoe from Aberarder carpark clockwise from Carn Liath to Sron a Ghoire. High cloud, little wind, dry and great viz. 6 1/2 hours | alexmaclennan | 15/06/2014 |
| Traversed on way to Carn Liath from Stob Poite Coire Ardair. With JK and DM. | Man of Kernow1 | 01/06/2013 |
| Another unpronounceable and rather inconsequential top on a nice ridge. Saw a mountain hare near the top. | steveroberts | 15/09/2012 |
| On route to Stob Poite Coire Ardair from Carn Liath | Roblex | 25/07/2012 |
| Estimated date - done solo | Aimless Rambler | 11/05/2012 |
| 5 of 7: From Meall an t-Snaim. | ChrisR | 12/04/2011 |
| Along the ridge to this top | torkm | 11/10/2009 |
| By Self As part of three munros | alanm | 13/08/2009 |