Carn a' Chiaraidh Perthshire

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Featureless plateau near the summit of Beinn Mheadhonach

The tundra-like plateau area that forms the higher part of Beinn Mheadhonach ('middle hill') is looking very bare of snow for the time of year, as a persistent cell of high pressure centred around the British Isles has led to dry conditions through much of January.

Alan O'Dowd

Cairn on summit ridge of Beinn Mheadhonach

Beinn Mheadhonach has a long narrow summit ridge with maps showing two contour rings of 900m. The northern location has a spot height at 901m and seems to be the accepted summit; the cairn seen here however at the other position is larger and may well occupy the highest ground. There's very little in it and hill baggers will surely visit both tops! Carn a’ Chlamain and Beinn a’ Ghlo are the distant mountains with the triple Munro of Beinn a' Ghlo being the hill group to the right.

Trevor Littlewood

Beinn Mheadhonach - the 901m area

Beinn Mheadhonach is mapped as having two contour rings at 900m; this is the northern position where a spot height of 901m is recorded on OS maps; it may or may not be the higher of the two locations. Certainly the larger cairn is at the southern, (the other) location which suggests that visitors on the whole may regard that as the actual summit - not that that is conclusive! The surrounding area is stony and very sparsely vegetated. Distantly can be seen Carn a’ Chlamain (behind the climber's head) and Beinn a’ Ghlo, the snowed domes to the right.

Trevor Littlewood

Carn a' Chiaraidh

Taken from close to the summit of Carn a' Chiaraidh, looking towards Beinn Mheadhonach.

Callum Black

On the slopes of Carn a' Chiaraidh

Looking towards the valley of the Fèith an Lochain. This is rough countryside.

Callum Black

FÃ¨ith an Lochain

A tributary joins the Fèith an Lochain from the west.

Callum Black

Beinn Dearg above the Allt a' Chama Choire

Looking across the boggy coire to the eastern slopes of the Munro Beinn Dearg

Nick Bramhall

Allt Mhairc

The steep banking of the Allt Mhairc in Gleann Mhairc on the route taken from Carn a' Chlamain to Beinn Mheadhonach. My camera & phone thankfully in a dry bag bounced down the banking into the river and headed downstream. Thankfully one of the group rescued it a bit further downstream before the waterfall.

Liz Gray

Summit ridge, Beinn Mheadhonach

David Brown

Summit of Beinn Mheadhonach

Despite the thick cloud, the nature of nearly all this square can be seen clearly. It's just tundra, a flat expanse of gravels with mosses and hardy grasses. Just to the north of here, the rock turns from schist to granite. This is almost certainly the summit at 902m. , although the books state it's further north. If this hill were 13m higher, there would no longer be vegetation surrounding the cairn.

Richard Webb

Beinn Mheadhonach, the book summit.

A small pile of granite boulders marks a candidate for summit of Beinn Mheadhonach, although I am sure it's the other 900m ring contour just to the south. This is the reality of Scottish hill walking. It's not all sunshine and blue skies. Even with the cloud, the nature of this tundra square is clear.

Richard Webb