Beinn Fhada
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Beinn Fhada or Ben Attow is a mountain
in the Scottish Highlands
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The finest route up Beinn Fhada is from Morvich to the north-west. There is a direct line up a grassy, and rather boggy slope, from the east side of the River Croe. This leads eventually to a craggy and undulating ridge, which begins in a southerly direction over Sgurr a' Choire Ghairbh and then turns east across the wider expanse of the Plaide Mhòr to the summit. There is one short tricky section of downward scrambling on this ridge. An easy line of descent can be found, north-westwards from the summit, into Gleann Choinneachain. Total distance from Morvich
is about 7 km, with around 1100 metres of ascent, including undulations.
Beinn Fhada has been dismissed by some guide writers as boring. It has two remarkable features: the Plaide Mor is the largest extent of ancient (preglacial) land surface to survive in the western Highlands, and is of Cairngorm character. And its SW slopes into Gleann Lichd are seamed for 3 km with trenches reaching 10m high and 800m long, a slope deformation which is the largest 'rock slope failure'in the Highlands. See Ballantyne CK and Jarman D (2007) in Mass Movements in Great Britain, JNCC, p56-62. Also article by David Jarman in The Scottish Mountaineer 2007/8.
Mountain
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in the Scottish Highlands
Scottish Highlands
The Highlands is an historic region of Scotland. The area is sometimes referred to as the "Scottish Highlands". It was culturally distinguishable from the Lowlands from the later Middle Ages into the modern period, when Lowland Scots replaced Scottish Gaelic throughout most of the Lowlands...
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The finest route up Beinn Fhada is from Morvich to the north-west. There is a direct line up a grassy, and rather boggy slope, from the east side of the River Croe. This leads eventually to a craggy and undulating ridge, which begins in a southerly direction over Sgurr a' Choire Ghairbh and then turns east across the wider expanse of the Plaide Mhòr to the summit. There is one short tricky section of downward scrambling on this ridge. An easy line of descent can be found, north-westwards from the summit, into Gleann Choinneachain. Total distance from Morvich
Morvich, Highland
Morvich is a very small settlement near the southern end of Loch Duich, and to the north of Kintail, in Lochalsh, in the Highland council area of Scotland...
is about 7 km, with around 1100 metres of ascent, including undulations.
Beinn Fhada has been dismissed by some guide writers as boring. It has two remarkable features: the Plaide Mor is the largest extent of ancient (preglacial) land surface to survive in the western Highlands, and is of Cairngorm character. And its SW slopes into Gleann Lichd are seamed for 3 km with trenches reaching 10m high and 800m long, a slope deformation which is the largest 'rock slope failure'in the Highlands. See Ballantyne CK and Jarman D (2007) in Mass Movements in Great Britain, JNCC, p56-62. Also article by David Jarman in The Scottish Mountaineer 2007/8.