Carn Liath
A Munro of 1,006 metres in the Creag Meagaidh range above Loch Laggan, climbed from the nature reserve's car park at Aberarder.
Carn Liath rises to 1,006 metres above Aberarder and Loch Laggan, one of the three Munros of the Creag Meagaidh range.
Stob Poite Coire Ardair is about four and a half kilometres to the west, and Creag Meagaidh itself about six to the south-west. The hill is part of the Creag Meagaidh National Nature Reserve, which NatureScot looks after, and Coire Dubh is one of its corries. It is not the Carn Liath on Beinn a' Ghlo in Atholl.
The usual way up starts from the reserve's car park at Aberarder, on the A86, the same start as Creag Meagaidh and Stob Poite Coire Ardair. It climbs through the birch wood of Coire Ardair and past Na Cnapanan to the broad summit crest, and comes back the same way. Under snow, read the Creag Meagaidh avalanche forecast, which covers this hill; when there is none, that does not mean there is no risk. Choose a day with a good forecast, and carry a map, a compass and warm clothes.
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