Na h-Uamhachan

About Na h-Uamhachan

Tucked away in the wild country between Glen Spean and Loch Treig, this rugged Hump offers a quiet escape from the busier Grey Corries. The terrain is typical of the region: a mix of boggy lower slopes and rocky outcrops. It serves as an excellent vantage point for surveying the remote expanse of the Monadhliath.

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• •The name is Gaelic for 'The Place of the Little Caves.' This likely refers to the small fissures and rocky recesses found among the crags on its eastern and southern flanks, rather than any significant cavern system.
• •Most walkers approach from the hamlet of Fersit, often using the same starting point as the popular Munros, Chno Dearg and Stob Coire Sgriodain, which dominate the skyline to the west.
• •From the summit, you are rewarded with a focused view south-west directly down the deep, glacial trench of Loch Treig, with the remote railway station at Corrour just visible at the far end.
• •The hill sits above the path of the Lochaber hydroelectric scheme; an enormous 15-mile-long tunnel, hand-cut in the 1920s, passes deep beneath the nearby glens to carry water from Loch Treig to the aluminium smelter at Fort William.
• •Given its Gaelic name translates to 'The Little Caves,' it is a point of local irony that you are far more likely to get soaked in a peat hag than find a dry cave to hide in.