Advice on good Munro for wild Camping

[chadboehne]

Hello,

American living in Fife here that is new to Munro bagging. I've been up a few Munros since I have been here and was wondering if anyone could provide advice on a pretty Munro that I can camp on. Looking for just a 1 night stay. I would like to take my dog as well but not a requirement. I have a good bit of experience from the Rockies and the Smokes in the US and am prior military, so I have some decent outdoor skill.

Thanks

[asbotastic]

Hi there,

I have camped on a good few munro bagging trips. Camping on the top can be difficult due to terrain and most of the time I find a place at the bottom to camp and walk up. - Glas Tulichean has a wee loch with about 4 munros around it to walk up. Ben Cruachan has a flat spot at the bottom end of the loch. Ben Lawers range has loads of space at the front of the dam.

However, if you want to camp right up the top the best place I;ve been is Lochnagar. There is the plateau with 5 munros around it. Up on the plateau there over looking the cliff is a wonderful place. You just need to watch the weather - and I mean the wind.... The thing about Scotland that makes the mountains dangerous is the changeable weather not the height or terrain really.

Consider bivy bagging it - not need to worry about getting those tent pegs in if it's a bit rocky.......did that on the Ring of Steall near Ben Nevis.

Enjoy!

[berenos]

Hi,

I have wild camped on a bunch of hills in Scotland over the last few years, as photography is one of the reasons I'm up in the hills. Many hills will have enough near-flat space on or near the summit to pitch a small tent, though it may be boggy or very stoney. Suggestions and Munros I've camped on: Beinn Alligin or Beinn Eighe, An Teallach or A’ Mhaighdean just last week.

Cheers,

C

[kaiserstein]

Only done it a couple of times. Its not at the very top but the bealach of Buachaille Etive Beag has a nice flat, grassy area to pitch and a pretty straightforward ascent.

Had an evening stroll up Stob Coire Raineach and a very early morning stroll up Stob Dubh. Great views and amazing experience. Should really do it more often.

[alanhid90]

The Mamores offer some great high camp opportunities with some fantastic views of the Ben and the surrounding hills.

[naepace]

The other night I camped just a few metres off the summit of Ben Vrackie, not a Munro but a great hill none the less, and close enough to Fife.

[irishwasa]

10m below the summit of Stobh Coire Raineach. Not a big spot, but just flat enough to lie down

[summerhill]

Hi there, what about the shelter stone area in the Cairngorm . I've seen the odd tent at the head of Loch Avon. The two Munros are Cairngorm itself along with Beinn Mheadhoin ( Vee-an )
Cheers
Colin

[berenos]

Not a munro, as a top just next to Binnein Mor, but a recent summit camp on Sgor Eilde Beag in the Mamores

[baja]

Camped just off devils point. That was good spot

[Caberfeidh]

Hi there, what about the shelter stone area in the Cairngorm . I've seen the odd tent at the head of Loch Avon. The two Munros are Cairngorm itself along with Beinn Mheadhoin ( Vee-an ) Cheers, Colin

I camped there one winter's night; the snow lay thick all about and my tent was pitched near a burn so I didn't have to go far for water. Over night the wind changed to a milder, strong gale from the South West. The snow melted, the burn rose and inundated the tent. It was a hairy escape, quite an epic retreat down Glen Derry where every burn had swollen from shallow streams I could splash through to raging torrents which would have killed me. I could hear large rocks being knocked together as they rolled down in the flood. I had to clamber away up the hillside each time I encountered a burn in spate in order to find an area where the burn was narrow enough to leap across. I guess the lessons learned were: 1. Check the weather forecast and behave accordingly. 2.Don't camp next to a burn in case it floods. 3. If there is a perfectly good shelter stone nearby, use it.

[Robinho08]

You can camp on or just off the summit on a lot of Murnos. For planning I use the 25k mapping on here (GPS on the blue menu bar above). Take a look at the contours and water sources. Geograph website is handy to gauge how rocky or flat the summit is.

A lot of the Cairngorms are great for wild camping, flat grassy tundra on the plateau, Ben Avon for example. Aonach Mor was a good summit camp as was the Grey Corries.

https://www.geograph.org.uk/

[Phil the Hill]

Ben Starav is good and has fine views. I didn't camp at the top, as I ran out of time before it got dark, but I noted some flattish grassy ground just below the summit which would have been ideal. https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=23276

[Ben Nachie]

A bit of a drive, but I've camped just to the north of the summit of Ben Hope. Good views!