Meall Garbh (Càrn Mairg)
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 The Meall Garbh the neighboring Càrn Gorm seen from |
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| height | 968 m ASL | |
| location | Highlands , Scotland | |
| Notch height | 104 m | |
| Coordinates | 56 ° 38 '15 " N , 4 ° 12' 27" W | |
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The Meall Garbh is a 968 meter high mountain in Scotland . Its Gaelic name means rough mountain or rough round hill . The mountain belongs to a group of four Munros , which are in the form of a horseshoe open to the south, north of the small settlement of Invervar in Glen Lyon . The mountain group is also known as the Càrn Mairg Group after the highest peak or, due to the shape of the mountain, as the Glen Lyon Horseshoe .
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In the mountain group, only the Càrn Mairg has a rocky, quartzite summit structure that forms a small summit plateau. Like the other peaks and pre-peaks, the Meall Garbh has a comparatively inconspicuous, flat summit plateau, but in contrast to the southwestern Càrn Gorm , it is hardly overgrown. It has two summit areas of almost the same height, separated only by a shallow depression, the north-east summit is slightly higher than the south-west summit. To the southeast lies the 919 meter high pre-summit of Meall Luaidhe , between Meall Garbh and Càrn Gorm the rocky, 924 meter high pre-summit An Sgòrr . Within the mountain group around the Càrn Mairg, to which it is neighboring to the west, the Meall Garbh is comparatively the least noticeable peak, it does not have a particularly striking shape. The pre-peak of the Meall a 'Bhàrr , which lies between the two, does not stand out too much. To the south, the Meall Garbh drops with gentle, grassy rock-interspersed slopes into Glen Lyon, to the north, gently sloping moorland and forest join up to Loch Rannoch .
The Meall Garbh is climbed by many mountain hikers as part of a crossing of all four Munros of the entire mountain group, an approximately 18 km long tour.
Individual evidence
- ^ Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) Munro List , accessed January 9, 2019
- ↑ The Meall Garbh at www.munromagic.com , accessed on July 28, 2014
Web links
- The Meall Garbh to walkhighlands.co.uk (English)
- The Meall Garbh on munromagic.com (English)