Meall nan Tarmachan
| Meall nan Tarmachan | ||
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 The Meall nan Tarmachan from the north |
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| height | 1044 m ASL | |
| location | Highlands , Scotland | |
| Notch height | 492 m | |
| Coordinates | 56 ° 31 ′ 18 ″ N , 4 ° 18 ′ 5 ″ W | |
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The Meall nan Tarmachan is a 1,044 meter high mountain in Scotland . Its Gaelic name means mountain of ptarmigan . The mountain classified as Munro is the highest peak and only Munro of the Tarmachan Ridge , a mountain range in Perthshire lying on the north bank of Loch Tay north of Killin . The mountain group lies west of the mountain range around the Ben Lawers , from which it is separated by the Lochan na Lairige reservoir and the Burn of Edramucky valley.
The entire Tarmachan Ridge consists of four peaks, of which the Meall nan Tarmachan is the easternmost. To the southwest, the peaks of the 1026 meter high Meall Garbh , the 1000 meter high Beinn nan Eachan and the 916 meter high Creag na Caillach, classified as so-called tops due to a lack of independence . The mountain ridge connecting the four peaks is rocky and partly steeply sloping, while the lower slopes of the mountain group consist of moorland and grassland with gentle slopes. To the southeast, the Meall nan Tarmachan has a second, somewhat lower pre-summit at 923 meters. To the north the mountain runs out into a long ridge up to the 774 meter high Creag on Lochain . While this ridge drops steeply and rocky to the east to the banks of Lochan na Lairige, on the west side there are gentler slopes, which together with a ridge running north from Beinn nan Eachan form a wide, horseshoe-shaped cirque on the north side of the Tarmachan Ridge. The south side of the entire mountain group, like the south side of the neighboring group around the Ben Lawers, belongs to the National Trust for Scotland and is designated as a National Nature Reserve .
With the Meall nan Tarmachan , the Munro-Baggern mountain group offers only one destination, but the crossing of the Tarmachan Ridge is one of the most popular mountain tours in the southern Highlands due to the view offered and the varied, easy climbing over the ridge that is always required. It also only requires a relatively short climb from a parking lot on the narrow road connecting Loch Tay and Glen Lyon . The ascent to the summit runs over the southeastern pre-summit and finally through the rocks below the summit, known as Cam Chreag .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) Munro List , accessed January 5, 2019
- ↑ National Trust for Scotland: Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve , accessed January 5, 2019
