Buchaille Etive Mor
and
Buchaille Etive Beag

 

Buchaille Etive Mor is one of the most famous mountains and views in all of Scotland, indeed it is pictured on the front of the "Glencoe whisky bottle and exported all over the world".

Buchaille Etive Beag is it's neighbour and is also a ridge of two Munro's.  It is a smaller ridge in terms of both height and distance, but is still a very good walk.

 

 

Buchaille Etive Mor

 

 

is this view the most famous mountain view in Scotland ?

 

Buchaille Etive Mor is really a ridge which has four peaks, the two at each end are the two Munro's of Stob Dearg and Stob na Broige.

The peak of Stob Dearg is the famous peak that is often referred to as "Buchaille Etive Mor" in it's own right.  It is translated to "the big Herdsman"

Buchaille Etive Mor
main ridge

the ridge between
Stob Dubh &
Stob na Broige

Stob na Broige

the recently
promoted
Munro

1997 Munro changes

Stob na Broige

pictured right is
the view from Agags grove climb
on the Buachaille
looking towards the A82
& Rannoch moor

rannoch moor from the Buachille

left is Corrour station
the other side of Rannoch moor

 

abseiling down great gully after an ascent of Curved ridge on my first ascent of the Buachaille
taken from a scanned pictured

 

bellow
the Buachaille
in both spring during the thaw,
again taken from a scanned pictured
of a very old prints

you can't resist taking more shots
of this famous view

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Buchaille Etive Beag

 

 

the first of the two Munro's

 

 

The higher of the two Munro's

 

 

in the valley to the east of Buchaille Etive Mor is the scenic Loch Etive

 

 

Aonach Eagach ridge
one of the classic ridges in British mountaineering

more pictures of the
Aonach Eagach ridge

 

 more Glencoe mountains

 

 

Scottish mountains