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I had heard many times that Beinn Damh was a good day out. We got to it seven years ago.
We started up the wrong side of the burn at the bridge. Must have been thinking about the rough route that we had planned for the day. We wanted to travel on the left side of the burn to reach the lochan at the top of coire Roill and ascend by the steep NE slopes and reach the summit that way. The track on the wrong side begins o.k. then after a bit you are bumbling through the vegetation. You eventually reach the path which has forked just before crossing the burn....the right fork is it that which gets you onto the usual route to the mountain which would be ours on descent.
The route up the steep ground has many short craglets which can be shinned up or avoided by short traverses depending on how you feel and then you can survey the next one. A pleasant fairly rapid way up to a fine wee platform ideal for a drink and a bite and of course to take in the interesting mountains to the East.
![0 Top of NE rocky slopes of Beinn Damh. Maol Chean-dearg and An Ruadh-Stac behind (2) (640x480).jpg]()
- A fine viewing of Maol Chean-dearg and An Ruadh-Stac.
![1 .903 Main summit Beinn Damh (640x478).jpg]()
- The main Summit of Beinn Damh.
![2 The descent from Beinn Damh..the lower summit 868m with the main top behind (640x480).jpg]()
- On the descent from the main top the lower top at 868m. with the main summit behind.
Then downwards to a wide saddle and later to gain the good path which can be followed through some grand pine woods back to the road. A very fine day out in the hills.
