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· Argyll & the Isles
Beinn Achaladair, 1036 m, and Beinn a’Chreachain, 1081 m
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Beinn Achaladair Beinn Achaladair in the light of the January sun. © Edith KreutnerPhoto: Edith Kreutner, Rother Bergverlag
The Rannoch Moor exerts a special fascination on its visitors, and has done so for centuries. Robert Louis Stevenson also described this area in his novel Kidnapped: „the mist rose and died away, and showed that country lying as waste as the sea; only the moorfowl and the peewees crying upon it …“ And he is right, like a sea lies the flat Rannoch Moor, characterized by thousands of lakes and swamps, below us on this hike, and its vastness can probably best be understood from the mountain. But even if the magnificent panoramic view over the Rannoch Moor were not there, this hike still offers many highlights: deep rock walls leading to a typical Coire-Loch, adventurous river crossings, plateaus, and the chance to observe ptarmigans and snow hares.
From the hiking parking lot in Achallader, we head east on a well-trodden path through the marshy heather land (not on the farm access road!) to a wider path coming up from the farm, which leads us to the crossing of the West Highlands railway track. To our left we already have the river Allt Coire Achaladair, and on a not always clearly visible path, we climb along the brook up to the pass to our southeast. At the wide pass, to our right is the steep east flank of Beinn an Dothaidh and to our left the ascent to the first summit of our hiking day. Our path steadily gains altitude and leads along the significantly steeper and rocky west slope of Beinn Achaladair up to its first forepeak at 1002 m. The transition to the main summit at 1036 m goes over a small bealach with about 80 m of ascent. As gentle as the ascent to Beinn Achaladair was, it shows us a different face with its east shoulder: first to the southeast and then to east-northeast, we descend over rocky terrain on a clearer
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