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Beinn Fhada

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Beinn Fhada has been dismissed by some guide writers as boring. It has two remarkable features: the Plaide Mor is the largest extent of ancient (preglacial) land surface to survive in the western Highlands, and is of Cairngorm character. Secondly, its SW slopes into Gleann Lichd are seamed for
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to the summit. There is one short tricky section of downward scrambling on this ridge. An easy line of descent can be found, north-westwards from the summit, into
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3 km with trenches reaching 10m high and 800m long, a slope deformation that is the largest 'rock slope failure' in the Highlands.
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is from Morvich to the north-west. There is a direct line up a grassy, and rather boggy, slope from the east side of the
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is about 7 km, with around 1100 metres of ascent, including undulations.
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Elevation
Prominence
Parent peak
Carn Eige
Listing
Marilyn
Munro
Scottish Gaelic
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bayn AT
Highland
Scotland
Parent range
Kintail
OS grid
NH018192
Scottish Gaelic
mountain
Scottish Highlands
River Croe
Gleann Choinneachain
Morvich
"walkhighlands Beinn Fhada"
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Munros
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