Creagan na Beinne

Rising above the southern shores of Loch Tay, this broad Corbett offers a substantial day out in the quiet hills between Glen Almond and Loch Earn. While the terrain is often heathery and peat-haggish, the expansive summit plateau provides a clear, unobstructed look across the water to the towering Ben Lawers range.

• •The name is derived from the Scottish Gaelic 'Creagan na Beinne', meaning the 'little crag of the mountain'. This likely refers to the steeper, broken ground found on its eastern slopes rather than the main summit ridge.
• •Most walkers approach the summit from Ardtalnaig to the north, using a high-level landrover track that services the surrounding estates, making for a relatively straightforward ascent despite the broad, pathless nature of the plateau.
• •The summit offers a specific, celebrated perspective of the Lawers range; from here, the massive scale of Ben Lawers, An Stùc, and Meall Garbh is fully revealed across the deep trench of Loch Tay.
• •It is commonly bagged alongside its neighbour to the south, Meall na Fearna, though the high-level traverse between the two is notorious for its complex, undulating ground and numerous peat hags.
• •For a hill named after its crags, a visitor will spend a surprising amount of their day negotiating damp moss and peat hags; the 'little crags' are very much a secondary feature to the extensive Scottish bog.