Scottish Highlands Munro Bagging

Check-in at the hotel is available from 16:00. If you are a member you can arrive at the house from 14:00. Enjoy a complimentary cream tea at 16:30 and meet other guests.

Distance: 8.5 miles (13.5km) 

Ascent: 3,850ft (1,160m) 

Stob Ban (White Peak) can look as if it is covered in snow in a certain light, but the whiteness is really caused by its quartzite summit. Mullach nan Coirean (Summit of the Corries) is more of a reddish colour and is the broad summit at the western end of the range. 

Starting in Glen Nevis, we ascend through a beautiful valley on a good but stony path to the Mamores ridge. We ascend next to a cliff, to the summit of Stob Ban. There then follows a pleasant two mile ridge walk with great views on a clear day, to Mullach nan Coirean, taking in a Munro Top along the way before descending to a forest path that takes us back to our starting point.

Distance: 7.5 miles (12km) 

Ascent: 4,400ft (1,340m) 

Starting in Kinlochleven, we follow the West Highland Way for a short distance before heading north to the main ridge through a high corrie (Coire na h-Eirghe). We ascend Am Bodach (The Old Man) then retrace our steps and ascend Sgurr an Iubhair (Peak of the Yew Tree) which was a Munro until 1997 but is now a ‘Top’. At this point we turn north west and ascend Stob Choire a Mhail. 

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Distance: 11.5 miles (18.5 km) 

Ascent: 4,550ft (1,380m) 

Starting in Kinlochleven, we walk through a beautiful deciduous wood and pass several waterfalls before ascending to the pipeline that takes water from Loch Eilde Mor to the Blackwater Reservoir. We follow this as it traverses across the hillside with views along Loch Leven and out to sea. We then walk alongside Loch Eilde Mor and ascend by a different route from day 6, to Coire an Lochain. 

We follow a delightful zig-zag stalkers’ path up to Sgurr Eilde Beag and Binnein Mor South Top before following a narrow ridge out to Binnein Mor (Big Peak), the highest of the Mamores. From here we can gaze across at Ben Nevis and look down into the depths of Glen Nevis. 

We retrace our steps a little before following another ridge that is narrow in places to the first of the twin summits of Na Gruagaichean (The Maidens), which is a Munro. We descend south to re-join the Old Military Road and a path back down into Kinlochleven.

Distance: 12 miles (19.5km) 

Ascent: 5,000ft (1,520m) 

This is a long day spent tackling the two outlier Munros. Starting in Kinlochleven, we take a look at the magnificent Grey Mare’s waterfall before following a good but eroded track up to the Old Military Road built in the 18th Century. We then have a stalkers’ path to follow, up to the splendid Coire an Lochain.

Another stalkers’ path takes us to the base of Binnein Beag (Small peak) with hopefully, views across to the Grey Corries. We ascend this stony conical peak over scree and schistose boulders before returning to Coire an Lochain and ascending Sgurr Eilde Mor (Big Peak of the Hind) on similar terrain, before re-tracing our steps back to Kinlochleven.

Distance: 8 miles (13 km) 

Ascent: 3,500 feet (1,060m) 

We are dropped off at the top car park in Glen Nevis. Then we have a beautiful gorge walk into the hanging valley at Steall where the third highest waterfall in Scotland cascades down above a wire bridge, which we balance across. We walk below the waterfall and ascend on a steep winding path to the summit of An Gearanach at which point we might understand its name (The Complainer)! 

We continue along a narrow ridge to An Garbhanach (The Rough One), descending and re-ascending onto Stob Coire a’ Chairn (Peak of the Corrie of the Cairn) before following a delightful engineered path tramped by generations of deerstalkers into Coire na Ba and then descend into Kinlochleven for a well earned drink.

Enjoy a leisurely breakfast before making your way home.