Hills of Britain and Ireland
OS Map of Mam na Gualainn
Height: 797m / 2613ft • Prominence: 461m / 1512ft • Summit : cairn 6m E of trig point • Trip reports (hill-bagging)
A textured tapestry as light dances its mesmeric dance along this heavenly shore to mercurial effect. Loch Leven reflections from the northern Inverness-shire shore, Scotland.
Commentary. No-one talks of fjords in Scotland. Here, they are known as sea-lochs. There could be regarded as up to fourteen “fjords” in Scotland and two or three former fjords, cut off from the sea since previous Ice Ages. Some are a mere three miles long, several 15-20 miles long and one, Loch Fyne, up to fifty miles long. Loch Leven is one such fjord or sea-loch. It is sumptuously beautiful, colourful, ancient and wooded. All the sea-lochs are sufficiently varied to deserve multiple visits and endless awe and wonder. In this image the mountain range known as Beinn a Bheithir forms a backcloth to Loch Leven, where it narrows and is bridged, at Ballachulish. Sgorr Dearg and Sgorr Dhonnuill are linked by a horseshoe arete that is often completed as one climb. The Pap of Glencoe, left, is a peak that always catches the eye. Autumn often enriches the colour, textures and tones of such sea-lochs as Leven, making it spectacularly impressive. The shapely mountains often reflect in its calm waters and add a gleaming symmetry to a superb landscape.
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
54299252693
A texture tapestry as light dances its mesmeric dance along this heavenly shore to mercurial effect. Loch Leven reflections from the northern Inverness-shire shore, Scotland.
Commentary. No-one talks of fjords in Scotland. Here, they are known as sea-lochs. There could be regarded as up to fourteen “fjords” in Scotland and two or three former fjords, cut off from the sea since previous Ice Ages. Some are a mere three miles long, several 15-20 miles long and one, Loch Fyne, up to fifty miles long. Loch Leven is one such fjord or sea-loch. It is sumptuously beautiful, colourful, ancient and wooded. All the sea-lochs are sufficiently varied to deserve multiple visits and endless awe and wonder. In this image the mountain range known as Beinn a Bheithir forms a backcloth to Loch Leven, where it narrows and is bridged, at Ballachulish. Sgorr Dearg and Sgorr Dhonnuill are linked by a horseshoe arete that is often completed as one climb. The Pap of Glencoe, left, is a peak that always catches the eye. Autumn often enriches the colour, textures and tones of such sea-lochs as Leven, making it spectacularly impressive. The shapely mountains often reflect in its calm waters and add a gleaming symmetry to a superb landscape.
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
54063881515
Magical scenes of consummate beauty. Loch Leven, Argyll, Scotland.
Commentary. Sgorr Dhonhuill, 1,001 metres, 3,284 feet and Sgorr Dhearg, 1,024 metres, 3,360 feet stand as proud sentinels, bastions of Loch Leven, over which they tower. Since the Ballachulish replaced the ferry many years ago few visitors circumnavigate this mercurial location via the road to Kinlochleven. Verdant, acute, wooded headlands reach out into the calm blue waters, where an anchored Oban fishing boat floats frozen in time by the power of the shutter. But the family of ducklings are still too young to understand that such beauty deserves their attention, or maybe lunch is more important!
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
fortwilliam scotland unitedkingdom 54364303837
Magical scenes of consummate beauty. Loch Leven, Argyll, Scotland.
Commentary. Sgorr Dhonhuill, 1,001 metres, 3,284 feet and Sgorr Dhearg, 1,024 metres, 3,360 feet stand as proud sentinels, bastions of Loch Leven, over which they tower. Since the Ballachulish Bridge replaced the ferry many years ago few visitors circumnavigate this mercurial location via the road to Kinlochleven. Verdant, acute, wooded headlands reach out into the calm blue waters, where an anchored Oban fishing boat floats frozen in time by the power of the shutter. But the family of ducklings are still too young to understand that such beauty deserves their attention, or maybe lunch is more important!
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
fortwilliam scotland unitedkingdom 54329295898
Magical scenes of consummate beauty. Loch Leven, Argyll, Scotland.
Commentary. Sgorr Dhonhuill, 1,001 metres, 3,284 feet and Sgorr Dhearg, 1,024 metres, 3,360 feet stand as proud sentinels, bastions of Loch Leven, over which they tower. Since the Ballachulish replaced the ferry many years ago few visitors circumnavigate this mercurial location via the road to Kinlochleven. Verdant, acute, wooded headlands reach out into the calm blue waters, where an anchored Oban fishing boat floats frozen in time by the power of the shutter. But the family of ducklings are still too young to understand that such beauty deserves their attention, or maybe lunch is more important!
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
54185233538
Magical scenes of consummate beauty. Loch Leven, Argyll, Scotland.
Commentary. No-one talks of fjords in Scotland. Here, they are known as sea-lochs. There could be regarded as up to fourteen “fjords” in Scotland and two or three former fjords, cut off from the sea since previous Ice Ages. Some are a mere three miles long, several 15-20 miles long and one, Loch Fyne, up to fifty miles long. Loch Leven is one such fjord or sea-loch. It is sumptuously beautiful, colourful, ancient and wooded. All the sea-lochs are sufficiently varied to deserve multiple visits and endless awe and wonder. In this image the mountain range known as Beinn a Bheithir forms a backcloth to Loch Leven, where it narrows and is bridged, at Ballachulish. Sgorr Dearg and Sgorr Dhonnuill are linked by a horseshoe arete that is often completed as one climb. Autumn often enriches the colour, textures and tones of such sea-lochs as Leven, making it spectacularly impressive. The shapely mountains often reflect in its calm waters and add a gleaming symmetry to a superb landscape.
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
54111065186
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Photos
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A textured tapestry as light dances its mesmeric dance along this heavenly shore to mercurial effect. Loch Leven reflections from the northern Inverness-shire shore, Scotland.
Commentary. No-one talks of fjords in Scotland. Here, they are known as sea-lochs. There could be regarded as up to fourteen “fjords” in Scotland and two or three former fjords, cut off from the sea since previous Ice Ages. Some are a mere three miles long, several 15-20 miles long and one, Loch Fyne, up to fifty miles long. Loch Leven is one such fjord or sea-loch. It is sumptuously beautiful, colourful, ancient and wooded. All the sea-lochs are sufficiently varied to deserve multiple visits and endless awe and wonder. In this image the mountain range known as Beinn a Bheithir forms a backcloth to Loch Leven, where it narrows and is bridged, at Ballachulish. Sgorr Dearg and Sgorr Dhonnuill are linked by a horseshoe arete that is often completed as one climb. The Pap of Glencoe, left, is a peak that always catches the eye. Autumn often enriches the colour, textures and tones of such sea-lochs as Leven, making it spectacularly impressive. The shapely mountains often reflect in its calm waters and add a gleaming symmetry to a superb landscape.
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
54299252693
A texture tapestry as light dances its mesmeric dance along this heavenly shore to mercurial effect. Loch Leven reflections from the northern Inverness-shire shore, Scotland.
Commentary. No-one talks of fjords in Scotland. Here, they are known as sea-lochs. There could be regarded as up to fourteen “fjords” in Scotland and two or three former fjords, cut off from the sea since previous Ice Ages. Some are a mere three miles long, several 15-20 miles long and one, Loch Fyne, up to fifty miles long. Loch Leven is one such fjord or sea-loch. It is sumptuously beautiful, colourful, ancient and wooded. All the sea-lochs are sufficiently varied to deserve multiple visits and endless awe and wonder. In this image the mountain range known as Beinn a Bheithir forms a backcloth to Loch Leven, where it narrows and is bridged, at Ballachulish. Sgorr Dearg and Sgorr Dhonnuill are linked by a horseshoe arete that is often completed as one climb. The Pap of Glencoe, left, is a peak that always catches the eye. Autumn often enriches the colour, textures and tones of such sea-lochs as Leven, making it spectacularly impressive. The shapely mountains often reflect in its calm waters and add a gleaming symmetry to a superb landscape.
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
54063881515
Magical scenes of consummate beauty. Loch Leven, Argyll, Scotland.
Commentary. Sgorr Dhonhuill, 1,001 metres, 3,284 feet and Sgorr Dhearg, 1,024 metres, 3,360 feet stand as proud sentinels, bastions of Loch Leven, over which they tower. Since the Ballachulish replaced the ferry many years ago few visitors circumnavigate this mercurial location via the road to Kinlochleven. Verdant, acute, wooded headlands reach out into the calm blue waters, where an anchored Oban fishing boat floats frozen in time by the power of the shutter. But the family of ducklings are still too young to understand that such beauty deserves their attention, or maybe lunch is more important!
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
fortwilliam scotland unitedkingdom 54364303837
Magical scenes of consummate beauty. Loch Leven, Argyll, Scotland.
Commentary. Sgorr Dhonhuill, 1,001 metres, 3,284 feet and Sgorr Dhearg, 1,024 metres, 3,360 feet stand as proud sentinels, bastions of Loch Leven, over which they tower. Since the Ballachulish Bridge replaced the ferry many years ago few visitors circumnavigate this mercurial location via the road to Kinlochleven. Verdant, acute, wooded headlands reach out into the calm blue waters, where an anchored Oban fishing boat floats frozen in time by the power of the shutter. But the family of ducklings are still too young to understand that such beauty deserves their attention, or maybe lunch is more important!
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
fortwilliam scotland unitedkingdom 54329295898
Magical scenes of consummate beauty. Loch Leven, Argyll, Scotland.
Commentary. Sgorr Dhonhuill, 1,001 metres, 3,284 feet and Sgorr Dhearg, 1,024 metres, 3,360 feet stand as proud sentinels, bastions of Loch Leven, over which they tower. Since the Ballachulish replaced the ferry many years ago few visitors circumnavigate this mercurial location via the road to Kinlochleven. Verdant, acute, wooded headlands reach out into the calm blue waters, where an anchored Oban fishing boat floats frozen in time by the power of the shutter. But the family of ducklings are still too young to understand that such beauty deserves their attention, or maybe lunch is more important!
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
54185233538
Magical scenes of consummate beauty. Loch Leven, Argyll, Scotland.
Commentary. No-one talks of fjords in Scotland. Here, they are known as sea-lochs. There could be regarded as up to fourteen “fjords” in Scotland and two or three former fjords, cut off from the sea since previous Ice Ages. Some are a mere three miles long, several 15-20 miles long and one, Loch Fyne, up to fifty miles long. Loch Leven is one such fjord or sea-loch. It is sumptuously beautiful, colourful, ancient and wooded. All the sea-lochs are sufficiently varied to deserve multiple visits and endless awe and wonder. In this image the mountain range known as Beinn a Bheithir forms a backcloth to Loch Leven, where it narrows and is bridged, at Ballachulish. Sgorr Dearg and Sgorr Dhonnuill are linked by a horseshoe arete that is often completed as one climb. Autumn often enriches the colour, textures and tones of such sea-lochs as Leven, making it spectacularly impressive. The shapely mountains often reflect in its calm waters and add a gleaming symmetry to a superb landscape.
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
54111065186
Magical scenes of consummate beauty. Loch Leven, Argyll, Scotland.
Commentary. No-one talks of fjords in Scotland. Here, they are known as sea-lochs. There could be regarded as up to fourteen “fjords” in Scotland and two or three former fjords, cut off from the sea since previous Ice Ages. Some are a mere three miles long, several 15-20 miles long and one, Loch Fyne, up to fifty miles long. Loch Leven is one such fjord or sea-loch. It is sumptuously beautiful, colourful, ancient and wooded. All the sea-lochs are sufficiently varied to deserve multiple visits and endless awe and wonder. In this image the mountain range known as Beinn a Bheithir forms a backcloth to Loch Leven, where it narrows and is bridged, at Ballachulish. Sgorr Dearg and Sgorr Dhonnuill are linked by a horseshoe arete that is often completed as one climb. Autumn often enriches the colour, textures and tones of such sea-lochs as Leven, making it spectacularly impressive. The shapely mountains often reflect in its calm waters and add a gleaming symmetry to a superb landscape.
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
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Autumn colours begin to frame and enhance the lustrous waters of Loch Leven with the mountains of Beinn a Bheithir on the horizon in Argyll, from Lochaber, Inverness-shire, Scotland
Commentary. No-one talks of fjords in Scotland. Here, they are known as sea-lochs. There could be regarded as up to fourteen “fjords” in Scotland and two or three former fjords, cut off from the sea since previous Ice Ages. Some are a mere three miles long, several 15-20 miles long and one, Loch Fyne, up to fifty miles long. Loch Leven is one such fjord or sea-loch. It is sumptuously beautiful, colourful, ancient and wooded. All the sea-lochs are sufficiently varied to deserve multiple visits and endless awe and wonder. In this image the mountain range known as Beinn a Bheithir forms a backcloth to Loch Leven, where it narrows and is bridged, at Ballachulish. Sgorr Dearg and Sgorr Dhonnuill are linked by a horseshoe arete that is often completed as one climb. Autumn often enriches the colour, textures and tones of such sea-lochs as Leven, making it spectacularly impressive. The shapely mountains often reflect in its calm waters and add a gleaming symmetry to a superb landscape.
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
53987511324
Autumn colours begin to frame and enhance the lustrous waters of Loch Leven with the mountains of Beinn a Bheithir on the horizon, Argyll, Scotland
Commentary. No-one talks of fjords in Scotland. Here, they are known as sea-lochs. There could be regarded as up to fourteen “fjords” in Scotland and two or three former fjords, cut off from the sea since previous Ice Ages. Some are a mere three miles long, several 15-20 miles long and one, Loch Fyne, up to fifty miles long. Loch Leven is one such fjord or sea-loch. It is sumptuously beautiful, colourful, ancient and wooded. All the sea-lochs are sufficiently varied to deserve multiple visits and endless awe and wonder. In this image the mountain range known as Beinn a Bheithir forms a backcloth to Loch Leven, where it narrows and is bridged, at Ballachulish. Sgorr Dearg and Sgorr Dhonnuill are linked by a horseshoe arete that is often completed as one climb. Autumn often enriches the colour, textures and tones of such sea-lochs as Leven, making it spectacularly impressive. The shapely mountains often reflect in its calm waters and add a gleaming symmetry to a superb landscape.
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
53929957376
Autumn colours begin to frame and enhance the lustrous waters of Loch Leven with the mountains of Beinn a Bheithir on the horizon, Argyll, Scotland
Commentary. No-one talks of fjords in Scotland. Here, they are known as sea-lochs. There could be regarded as up to fourteen “fjords” in Scotland and two or three former fjords, cut off from the sea since previous Ice Ages. Some are a mere three miles long, several 15-20 miles long and one, Loch Fyne, up to fifty miles long. Loch Leven is one such fjord or sea-loch. It is sumptuously beautiful, colourful, ancient and wooded. All the sea-lochs are sufficiently varied to deserve multiple visits and endless awe and wonder. In this image the mountain range known as Beinn a Bheithir forms a backcloth to Loch Leven, where it narrows and is bridged, at Ballachulish. Sgorr Dearg and Sgorr Dhonnuill are linked by a horseshoe arete that is often completed as one climb. Autumn often enriches the colour, textures and tones of such sea-lochs as Leven, making it spectacularly impressive. The shapely mountains often reflect in its calm waters and add a gleaming symmetry to a superb landscape.
08-Sep-23 • Scotland by NJC. • flickr
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Videos
Panoramic shot from the top of Mam na Gualainn.
Myself and Jager head to the Mamore's area, our first outing of 2022 to hike up the Corbett Mam na Gualainn (Peak of the ...
First new hills of 2023 saw me venture to one of my favourite parts of Scotland and head up a Graham and Corbett high above ...
An Gearanch 982m Munro in The Mamores, Grid Ref. NN 18767 66985 24.03.2012 @ 15.37.
Notes
- Data: Database of British and Irish Hills v18.2
- Maps: We use OS mapping for England, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of Man. Sadly, Channel Islands, Northern (OSNI) and Southern Ireland (OSI) mapping isn't available online, so we use Openstreetmap.