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Loch Treig
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 Photographs of a canoe trip down Loch Treig

to climb the remote Munro Beinn na Lap

including views of Loch Ossian and Corrour


Loch Treig in the Highlands of Scotland

Loch Treig from the south

Canoe trip to climb Beinn na Lap


Loch Treig and Glen Spean in the Highlands of Scotland

Loch Treig and Glen Spean




Loch Treig and Glen Spean in the Highlands of Scotland

Loch Treig and the Mamores




Loch Treig in the Highlands of Scotland

Loch Treig





Location Map for Loch Treig and Beinn na Lap

Location Map for Loch Treig

and Beinn na Lap





Map for Loch Treig and Beinn na Lap

Map for Loch Treig

and Beinn na Lap





Beinn na Lap in the Highlands of Scotland

Beinn na Lap

Beinn na Lap lies in the heart
of the wilderness area
 to the northeast of Rannoch Moor
.

The shortest route of ascent
is from Corrour Station
 on the West Highland railway.



Summit cairn on Beinn na Lap in the Highlands of Scotland

Summit cairn on Beinn na Lap





Creag Meagaidh and Loch Treig from Beinn na Lap

Creag Meagaidh and Loch Treig

from Beinn na Lap




Loch Ossian from Beinn na Lap

Loch Ossian from Beinn na Lap




Loch Ossian from Corrour Railway Station

Loch Ossian

from Corrour Railway Station





Loch Ossian from Corrour Railway Station

Loch Ossian

from Corrour Railway Station





Loch Ossian from Corrour Railway Station

Loch Ossian

from Corrour Railway Station





Loch Ossian from Corrour Railway Station

Loch Ossian

from Corrour Railway Station





Corrour Railway Station in the Highlands of Scotland

Corrour Railway Station




Corrour Railway Station and the Mamores in the Highlands of Scotland

Corrour Railway Station

and the Mamores




Corrour Railway Station in the Highlands of Scotland

Corrour Railway Station





Corrour Railway Station in the Highlands of Scotland

Corrour Railway Station





Corrour Railway Station in the Highlands of Scotland

Corrour Railway Station






Beinn na Lap above Loch Ossian in the Highlands of Scotland

 Beinn na Lap above Loch Ossian

Loch Ossian is about 5Km long

and on the NE of Rannoch Moor.

Loch Ossian is remote from public roads

  the nearest access is from Corrour railway station.

 At the western end of the loch

is Loch Ossian youth hostel.




Youth Hostel on Loch Ossian in the Highlands of Scotland

 Youth Hostel on Loch Ossian





Youth Hostel on Loch Ossian in the Highlands of Scotland

 Youth Hostel on Loch Ossian





Glen Nevis from Loch Ossian in the Highlands of Scotland

Glen Nevis from Loch Ossian


Glen Nevis from Loch Ossian in the Highlands of Scotland

Glen Nevis and Ben Nevis

from Loch Ossian


Beinn a Chaorainn and Creag Meagaidh from Loch Ossian in the Highlands of Scotland

 Beinn a Chaorainn and Creag Meagaidh

from Loch Ossian



Loch Treig Munros - Route Description:-



Location: Lochaber
Grade: Mountain walk
Distance: 8 miles/13km
Time: 6-7 hours 

While many would suggest winter is Scotland’s best hillwalking season, my preference would be spring or autumn.
The promise of spring tends to be in your heart, uplifted by the thought of the summer ahead, but the beauty of
autumn is more immediate and on a good day lies all around you in golden splendour.
Stob Coire Sgriodain (976m/3,202ft) and Chno Dearg (1,047m/3435ft), the two Fersit hills beyond Loch Treig,
certainly make a marvellous early winter round.
The circuit of the pair also makes a fairly easy day out, although many

Munrobaggers are happy to lengthen it by adding nearby Beinn na Lap. While it’s great to get the extra Munro
it does add a big descent from the subsidiary top of Meall Garbh. That’s followed by a long climb of nearly
500m to the summit of Beinn na Lap before turning round and repeating it all over again. Alternatively, you could
drop down to Corrour station from Beinn na Lap and return to Tulloch by train.
I first visited Fersit many years ago with Hamish Brown. We had planned a day on the tops but dreadful
weather forced us into low-level sloth. We thought that afternoon tea with the late Nancy Smith at Fersit
would round off a pleasant, if wet and windy, day but Nancy wasn’t in, although a note pinned to the door
invited visitors to come in and make themselves at home.
Fersit, in those days, was one of Scotland’s early
private hostels, a role model for those to come.
Today the bunkhouse at nearby Tulloch is altogether grander,
but equally welcoming.
The roadend at Fersit is the logical starting point for the round of Stob
Coire Sgriodain.
Once past the last of the houses, the track gives way to rough pastures which in turn run into

the lower slopes of Coire an Lochain. Several burnsitumble downhill from the corrie and you can follow any of
them because they all eventually form one stream, the Allt Chaorach Beag, that begins its life high below the crags
of Sron na Garbh-bheinne in Lochan Coire an Lochain.
The first time l climbed these Munros everything was covered in

snow and the steep, craggy face of Sron na Garbh-bheinne looked fairly intimidating. Instead I opted to bypass
the crags and tackle what I thought would be the easier eastern slopes of the ridge. I eventually found a wide,
snow-filled gullv and even today I can nervously recall the trepidation I experienced as the slope got steeper
and steeper. When I eventually reached the relative safety of the ridge the exhilaration I felt was made even
sweeter by relief but the sustaining and most rewarding emotion was even greater — a sense of privilege at being
part of that magnificent scene.
Beyond Sron na Garbh-bheinne the ridge led me to the summit of
Stob Coire Sgriodain where the views beyond the head of Loch Treig were simply breathtaking.
There lay the
great, rolling mattress of Rannoch Moor, a vast and desolate place protected on all sides by uprearing mountains.
On that day it was as though perfection had been defined in mountain splendour. I wandered
round the rest of the route on a cloud of high fulfilment.
The ridge dropped down to a high
bealach and then straggled in a south-east direction to Sgriodain’s I south top. A series of bumps and
knolls rolled on southeast, over a double top and down to another wide bealach where, in summer, there is a scattering of shallow lochans.
This all sounds rather confusing but on a clear day the route is quite obvious. In mist
it can be tricky.
From Meall Garbh it’s an easy climb to the dome-like summit of Chno
Dearg where the open slopes of Coire an Lochain herald the long descent to Fersit and home.




ROUTE PLANNER

Map: OS 1:50,000 Landranger sheet 41 ( Ben Nevis ); Harveys Superwalker ( Ben Nevis )
Distance: About 8 miles/ 13km
Approx Time: 6/7 hours
Start/Finish: Fersit (GR: NN350783)

Route: Take the track east from Fersit then follow rough pastures via various sheep fanks to the south.
Climb open
slopes then craggy ridge to Sron na Garbh-bheinne.
 Follow ridge to Stob Coire
Sgriodain.
Descend south to bealach and
then SE to S top of Sgriodain.
Cross more
open ground in an ESE direction over a double top and down to another bealach.
Climb Meall Garbh.
Follow ridge NE to
Chno Dearg.
Descend easy slopes NNW
to track back to Fersit.


Map for Loch Treig Munros

Map for Loch Treig Munros


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