Stob Diamh
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Stob daimh
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 View from the A85 at the northeast end of Loch Awe towards the Stob Diamh |
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| height | 998 m ASL | |
| location | Highlands , Scotland | |
| Notch height | 134 m | |
| Coordinates | 56 ° 25 '53 " N , 5 ° 5' 29" W | |
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The Stob Diamh (sometimes also spelled Stob Daimh ) is a 988 meter high mountain in the Scottish Highlands . Its Gaelic name can be translated as the tip of the deer . The mountain is in the Argyll and Bute Council Area and is classified as Munro .
In the mountain range towering north of Loch Awe , the highest point of which is the Ben Cruachan , the Stob Diamh, which is particularly rocky in the summit area, is the central, somewhat detached summit of the north-eastern part. Similar to the south-west neighboring Ben Cruachan the two form south and north-east extending ridges a horseshoe-shaped, hole to be openable awe Kar , the Chur Chreachainn . Both ridges end in pre-peaks, the south ridge in the 980 meter high Stob Garbh ; the northeast ridge in the 966 meter high Sron on Isean . To the north, the Stob Diamh drops steeply with rocky walls and several small ridges into Glen Noe , which adjoins Loch Etive .
Most Munro excavators climb the Stob Diamh as part of a tour of the Cruachan horseshoe in combination with an ascent of the Ben Cruachan. The ascent takes place either via the connecting ridge between the two peaks with the 1009 meter high Drochard Ghlas , a pre-summit assigned to Ben Cruachan, or via the south ridge, which with an ascent starting from Loch Awe east past the Cruachan Reservoir , the upper storage basin of the Cruachan pumped storage power station Power Station is reached. In both cases, the starting point is the Falls of Cruachan railway station on the branch of the West Highland Line to Oban, which is only served in summer . The ascent from the east is less popular, starting from a parking lot on the A85 west of Dalmally .
Web links
- The Stob Diamh on walkhighlands.co.uk
- The Stob Diamh on munromagic.com (English)
- Hill Bagging - the online version of the Database of British and Irish Hills: Stob Diamh (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ According to the hiking website walkhighlands.co.uk , “Daimh” is the correct spelling and “Diamh” is just a typo on the Ordnance Survey maps.
- ↑ Stob Diamh at www.munromagic.com , accessed June 20, 2019