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Name that Corrie!

Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Mal Grey » Wed May 10, 2017 9:01 pm

Coire Liath Mhor / Toll a Meitheach on Liathach?
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby jmarkb » Wed May 10, 2017 9:18 pm

Mal Grey wrote:Coire Liath Mhor / Toll a Meitheach on Liathach?


Spot on: that was quick! :clap:
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Mal Grey » Wed May 10, 2017 9:26 pm

jmarkb wrote:
Mal Grey wrote:Coire Liath Mhor / Toll a Meitheach on Liathach?


Spot on: that was quick! :clap:


Sorry, that Torridonian sandstone is just too recognisable, and the "two names" thing soon had me confirming my first thought....
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Mal Grey » Wed May 10, 2017 9:28 pm

OK, this snowy coire, middle right.


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Unlike the last one which has 2 names on the map, this doesn't have anything on the map, but has a lochan which suggests the coire name. Or just name the mountain and which approx slope this lies on.
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Caberfeidh » Thu May 11, 2017 9:17 am

Is it on Arkle?
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Mal Grey » Thu May 11, 2017 9:42 am

Caberfeidh wrote:Is it on Arkle?


Nope, sorry
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Mal Grey » Fri May 12, 2017 11:25 am

The foreground mountain is one of the more remote ones in the Highlands.

The mountain peeping over the top in the background is much better known and is one of Scotland's "iconic" hills.
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby BlackPanther » Fri May 12, 2017 1:39 pm

Beinn Tharsuinn and Slioch(behind)?
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Mal Grey » Fri May 12, 2017 1:46 pm

BlackPanther wrote:Beinn Tharsuinn and Slioch(behind)?



Yep. The lochan in the coire is called Loch na Coireachan Odhara, so I think we can assume the Corrie is loosely "Odhara". Lower down, the wider corrie is Ciore An Fhraoich.
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby BlackPanther » Mon May 15, 2017 10:15 am

Mal Grey wrote:Yep. The lochan in the coire is called Loch na Coireachan Odhara, so I think we can assume the Corrie is loosely "Odhara". Lower down, the wider corrie is Ciore An Fhraoich.


Apologies for delay, I was out hillwalking yesterday (what a surprise :lol: )

I had a familiar itch "I've seen this view before" - in this case before meant only a week earlier, but the hills look so different without snow.

Now, to the next photo. Continuing the theme: this corrie is not named on 1-25k map, so just name the peaks on both sides. The loch is named, too.
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Mal Grey » Mon May 15, 2017 10:30 am

I don't know where it is, but I'd like to camp on that bit of grass by the lochan! :D

Will have to look at maps and see if I can guess...
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Caberfeidh » Mon May 15, 2017 11:15 am

Lochan Uaine above upper Glen Derry, with Derry Cairngorm one of the peaks above it?
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby BlackPanther » Mon May 15, 2017 12:38 pm

Caberfeidh wrote:Lochan Uaine above upper Glen Derry, with Derry Cairngorm one of the peaks above it?


Not there, I'm afraid, further west :D

Mal Grey wrote:I don't know where it is, but I'd like to camp on that bit of grass by the lochan! :D


According to your Munro map, you have been to a Munro only 4.5km away (as crow flies) from this spot :D
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby GillSte » Mon May 15, 2017 3:43 pm

Coire an Lochain, below Beinn a'Creachain? Bit of a wild guess, it was a long time ago and rather misty when I was there! But this might be wrong, as I just saw the bit about the coire not being named...
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby BlackPanther » Mon May 15, 2017 5:36 pm

GillSte wrote:Coire an Lochain, below Beinn a'Creachain? Bit of a wild guess, it was a long time ago and rather misty when I was there! But this might be wrong, as I just saw the bit about the coire not being named...



Nowhere near Beinn a'Creachain, I'm afraid. Much further north...
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