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Circle from the northeast, to the left Meall a 'Bhùiridh

Circle from the northeast, to the left Meall a 'Bhùiridh

height 1100  m ASL
location Highlands , Scotland
Notch height 168 m
Coordinates 56 ° 36 '52 "  N , 4 ° 52' 19"  W Coordinates: 56 ° 36 '52 "  N , 4 ° 52' 19"  W.
Creise (Scotland)
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The Creise is a 1,100 meter high mountain in the Scottish Highlands . The meaning of the Gaelic name is unclear. One guess is that the name could be derived from creas , an old Gaelic word for narrow, narrow . The mountain is in the Council Area Highland area . It has been classified as Munro since 1981 , when a new survey showed that the Creise is the highest point of the massif, which has several peaks. Previously, the 1097 meter high Clach Leathad (Gaelic for stony slope ) was classified as the highest peak and thus Munro.

View from the summit of the Creise along the summit ridge to the south to Clach Leathad, in the foreground the connecting ridge to Meall a 'Bhùiridh
View from the north into the entrance of Glen Etive, on the left the Sròn na Creise (northernmost pre-summit of the Creise), on the right the northeast face of the Buachaille Etive Mòr

In the Black Mount mountain range , which extends on the western edge of Rannoch Moor north and west of Loch Tulla and east of Glen Etive in a south-east direction, the Creise is the second highest elevation and one of four Munros. The Creise is an elongated massif in north-south direction, which has several peaks. In the north it rises prominently with the rock faces of the upstream Sròn na Creise and the 996 meter high Stob a 'Ghlais Choire above the north end of Glen Etive. In this area, the mountain slopes down on both sides with steep, rocky slopes. The narrow ridge runs south to the main summit, which is comparatively inconspicuous. Like the other peaks, it is marked with a cairn . To the south, the widening ridge joins the former main summit, Clach Leathad . About halfway between these two peaks, a ridge branches off to the east to the connecting saddle, which connects the massif of the Creise with the neighboring Meall a 'Bhùiridh to the east and separated in the north by the deeply cut Cam Ghleann and 1108 meters high . To the northwest, and separated by the Glen Etive, is the 1021 meter high Buachaille Etive Mòr , which dominates the entrance to Glen Coe and at the same time to Glen Etive.

There are several ways of climbing for mountaineers. Many Munro excavators combine the ascent with that of the Meall a 'Bhùiridh, sometimes using the chair lift that opens up the ski area on the northern slopes of the Meall a' Bhùiridh. From the summit of Meall a 'Bhùiridh the ascent then leads over the connecting saddle south of the two main peaks. There are other access options from Glen Etive to the west. Technically more demanding is the direct ascent from the north over the rocky and steep ridge to the Sròn na Creise and further over the Stob a 'Ghlais Choire to the summit ridge. As a day tour, a traverse over all four Munros of the Black Mount is very demanding, starting with the approach from Victoria Bridge at the east end of Loch Tulla to the 945 meter high Stob a 'Choire Odhair in the south of the Black Mount.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Creise on www.munromagic.com , accessed January 24, 2019
  2. ↑ Peter Drummond: Scottish Hill and Mountain Names: The Origin and Meaning of the Names of Scotland's Hills and Mountains , Scottish Mountaineering Trust, 2010, ISBN 978-0-907521-95-2 , p. 140
  3. ^ The Database of British and Irish hills: The Munros and Tops 1891-2015 (Excel list at www.hills-database.co.uk) , accessed January 24, 2019

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