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Beinn Odhar
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Photographs of an ascent of Beinn Odhar - a prominent Corbett above Auch Glean

and the West Highland Way on route from Tyndrum to Glen Coe



Beinn Dorain and Beinn Odhar above the West Highland Way to the north of Tyndrum

Beinn Dorain and Beinn Odhar ( 2955ft, 901m )

 above the West Highland Way

The West Highland Way follows the Old Military Road,

built by Major William Caulfield in the early 1750s

 as a means to transport troops between Fort William and Stirling





Beinn Dorain and Beinn Odhar

Beinn Dorain and Beinn Odhar ( 2955ft, 901m )





Beinn Dorain and Beinn Odhar

Beinn Dorain and Beinn Odhar ( 2955ft, 901m )






Tyndrum and the West Highland Way beneath Beinn Dubhchraig and Beinn Oss on ascent of Beinn Odhar

Tyndrum and the West Highland Way 

beneath Beinn Dubhchraig and Beinn Oss

on ascent of Beinn Odhar





Ben Lui on ascent of Beinn Odhar

Ben Lui

on ascent of Beinn Odhar





Ben Cruachan above Corbetts Beinn Udlaidh and Beinn Bhreac-liath from Beinn Odhar

Ben Cruachan

above Corbetts Beinn Udlaidh and Beinn Bhreac-liath 

from Beinn Odhar




Beinn Dorain from Beinn Bhreac-liath

Ben More and Stob Binnein

from summit cairn on Beinn Odhar 





Ben Challum from summit cairn on Beinn Odhar

Ben Challum

from summit cairn on Beinn Odhar 




Beinn Dorain from summit of Beinn Odhar

Beinn Dorain

from summit of Beinn Odhar






Beinn Dorain from summit of Beinn Odhar






Beinn Odhar from summit of Beinn Dorain

Beinn Odhar

from summit of Beinn Dorain





Beinn Odhar and Beinn a Chaisteil above Auch Glean from Beinn Bhreac-liath

Beinn a Chaisteil and Beinn Odhar

above Auch Glean and West Highland Way


from Beinn Bhreac-liath





Beinn Odhar in winter from Beinn Bhreac-liath

Beinn Odhar in winter

from Beinn Bhreac-liath





Beinn a Chaisteil from summit of Beinn Odhar

Beinn a Chaisteil

from summit of Beinn Odhar






Stob Ghabhar in the Black Mount and Ben Nevis from Beinn Odhar

 Stob Ghabhar in the Black Mount and Ben Nevis

from Beinn Odhar






West Highland Way across Auch Glen from Beinn Odhar

West Highland Way across Auch Glen

from Beinn Odhar






Black Mount from West Highland Way across Auch Glen beneath Beinn Odhar

Black Mount from West Highland Way across Auch Glen

beneath Beinn Odhar






Beinn Dorain from West Highland Way beneath Beinn Odhar

Beinn Dorain

from West Highland Way beneath Beinn Odhar






Beinn Dorain from West Highland Way beneath Beinn Odhar

Beinn Dorain

 from West Highland Way beneath Beinn Odhar






Beinn Odhar from Beinn Dorain

Beinn Odhar

from Beinn Dorain






Beinn Dorain, Beinn a'Chaisteal and Beinn Odhar

Beinn DorainBeinn a'Chaisteil and Beinn Odhar 






Map of Beinn Odhar, Beinn a Chaisteil and Beinn Dorain

Map of Beinn Odhar, Beinn a Chaisteil and Beinn Dorain

above the West Highland Way across Auch Gleann






Route map for Beinn Odhar

Route map for Beinn Odhar




 

Route map of West Highland Way from Tyndrum to Bridge of Orchy




WHW - TYNDRUM TO BRIDGE OF ORCHY - ROUTE DESCRIPTION:


Location: Glen Orchy & Loch Etive
Map: OS Landranger 50
Distance: 7 miles / 11 km
Time: 3-4 hours
Terrain: Moderate trail walk

Much of the West Highland Way has good transport links and lends itself well to day walks and this section is no exception. It is also one of the finest sections of the Way and a grand walk in its own right.
For much of the route you follow the line of the Military Road engineered by Major William Caulfeild between 1750 and 1752 as part of the road building programme intended to make it easier for British govemment forces to move between barracks and thus help to subdue any uprisings.
These roads were commissioned following a survey by General Wade after the London government had been given a severe fright by the advance of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army as far south as Derby in the winter of 1745/46.
Caulfeild's road remains impressively sound, with moderate gradients and a good firm surface, allowing you to enioy the surrounding landscape to the full. The only exception is a fairly short section where the Military Road is blocked and you have to go uphill, along and then down on a rough, stony path.
Leaving Tyndrum, note the amusing wooden sculptures carved from local wood and then pass the newish Tyndrum cemetery. The track continues steadily uphill past a water treatment works and then breaks out into the open. To the right Beinn Odhar { appropriately "dun coloured hill”) rises steeply. Your route is shared by the A82 road and the West Highland Railway.
Before long the centrepiece of the walk comes more prominently into view ahead of you — the imposing bulk of Beinn Dorain, celebrated in verse by the Gaelic poet Duncan Ban Macintyre, who was born at Inverveigh in 1724. A translation does not do Macintyre’s sonorous verse full justice but hillwalkers will identify with him when he speaks of being:

 “... away to climb rough country, and late would I be coming home;
the clean rain and the air on the peaks of the high mountains helped me to grow,
and gave me robustness and vitality”.

Beinn Dorain (probably “hill of streams”) looks like a conical peak from here but what you see is actually the end of its summit ridge, which rises to I076 metres. With this glorious scene ahead of you, and the Blackmount hills appearing to its left, you can stride easily down past the farm at Auch and cross the Allt Chonoglais by a lovely old bridge. To the right, the railway takes a huge swing round the glen to maintain its height with several viaducts — a fine piece of civil engineering.
From here to Bridge of Orchy the going is easy but you should note that there is no shelter of any kind and given that the area has a high average rainfall figure of more than 2000mm, good waterproofs are a must.
As you approach Bridge of Orchy, you can see on the right the corrie between Beinn Dorain and its neighbouring Munro, Beinn an Dothaidh (1004m); this is the usual line of approach for those climbing the two hills and also provides a way through to Glen Lyon in the east.
The Way runs down past the station to the Bridge of Orchy Hotel which has a “Walkers Welcome” sign on its doors and offers accommodation and refreshment in comfortable surroundings before your journey back by bus or train.

Route:
Follow
West Highland Way signs trom beside Brodie's Stores in Tyndrum uphill on road then track.
Go through gate and follow track. ln about 2.5km go uphill on rough stony path as signed.
Traverse hillside tor about 400m then drop steeply down to pass under railway and rejoin track.
Follow track past Auch Farm and on to Bridge ol Orchy. descending past the station to the Bridge of Orchy Hotel.




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