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Name that Corrie!

Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Mal Grey » Sun Mar 20, 2022 9:38 pm

This impressive looking corrie?


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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Caberfeidh » Mon Mar 21, 2022 10:42 am

Corrie Leis of Ben Nevis?
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Mal Grey » Mon Mar 21, 2022 11:05 am

Caberfeidh wrote:Corrie Leis of Ben Nevis?


Not Big Bad Ben


I had to look up the name of this corrie off a better known glen, I would say its relatively obscure, but looks pretty dramatic.
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Mal Grey » Fri Mar 25, 2022 9:18 pm

Mal Grey wrote:
Caberfeidh wrote:Corrie Leis of Ben Nevis?


Not Big Bad Ben


I had to look up the name of this corrie off a better known glen, I would say its relatively obscure, but looks pretty dramatic.



There's a well known, and fairly well equipped as I understand it, bothy nearby. We're on the edge of the Cairngorms.
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Fri Mar 25, 2022 9:55 pm

Could it be Coire Garbhlach, above Glen Feshie?

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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby Mal Grey » Fri Mar 25, 2022 10:16 pm

HalfManHalfTitanium wrote:Could it be Coire Garbhlach, above Glen Feshie?

Tim



Indeed. Quite an impressive looking corrie, which I was pretty much unaware of.


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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Tue Mar 29, 2022 10:08 am

thanks!

What is the foreground corrie? (NB its name on the OS 1:25000 does not use the word "coire")

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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Wed Mar 30, 2022 10:28 pm

Clue - both the top left summits are Munros - there is a deep hidden dip between them. Other Munro summits are in the distance, and out of view to the left. I am also standing on top of a Munro.

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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Sun Apr 03, 2022 10:57 am

Extra clue - I am not far from the top of one of the highest and best known Munros, although I am on one of the peaks of the range rather than the highest summit (which isn't visible in this photo).

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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Tue Apr 05, 2022 7:53 pm

Extra extra clue - the summit I am on is easily reached. But the ascent of the next summit along the ridge is, in winter, a more serious proposition.

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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby jmarkb » Tue Apr 05, 2022 8:33 pm

Fin Glen (between Meall Garbh and An Stuc)?
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby HalfManHalfTitanium » Tue Apr 05, 2022 8:54 pm

jmarkb wrote:Fin Glen (between Meall Garbh and An Stuc)?


:clap: :clap: :clap:

spot on - over to you!
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby jmarkb » Wed Apr 06, 2022 10:01 am

Thanks Tim - stared at that for ages until it twigged!

The shallow corrie in the centre of this shot:

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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby jmarkb » Thu Apr 07, 2022 3:23 pm

A clue - the hill with the corrie and the hill I was on almost share the same name.
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Re: Name that Corrie!

Postby jmarkb » Tue Apr 12, 2022 12:32 pm

Both are Munros, one of them only just.
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