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confusing route guide

Route: Càrn Gorm, Meall Garbh, Càrn Mairg & Creag Mhòr

Munros: Càrn Gorm, Càrn Mairg, Creag Mhòr (Meall na Aighean), Meall Garbh (Càrn Mairg)

Date walked: 19/08/2018

Time taken: 6.5 hours

Distance: 17.5km

second visit to carn gorm after making a navigation error last time I was there and ended up on wrong trail.

we where doing fine this visit despite low cloud and poor visibility till we headed to last summit when it started to go wrong as last munro on os map was meal na aighean but gpx plotter had us going to creah mhor,

standard view
glen lyon 1.png


and zoomed in
glen lyon 2a.png


on standard view guide shows two creag mhor summits and a meal na aighean summit which did not correspond to os map we had or gps unit, but if you zoom in on guide it show final summit as meal na aighean.

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Comments: 4



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Runci21


Activity: Mountaineer
Pub: Cockburnspath club
Mountain: Ben nevis
Place: Scottish borders

Munros: 82
Corbetts: 4
Donalds: 7
Sub 2000: 10
Islands: 6



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2018

Trips: 3
Distance: 17.5 km
Munros: 4
Sub2000s: 2


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