Ben Challum 1025m Glen Lochay/Strath Fillan, Section 2b
OS 1:50 000 Sheet 51 : NN386322
27th February 2005
Baggers Album ->Scotland->2b->Challum

The view from the South top. Summit left.

 

 Looking up Glen Lochay to Ben Challum.

 St Fillan's Cemetary

  The south ridge, looking towards Beinn Dubhchreag, Beinn Oss amd Beinn Laoigh.

 The main top from the south top.

 There is a strange cleft by the south top. Looking through to the summit.

 
 View north to Beinn a Chaisteil and Beinn Dorain.

 
 Looking down Glen Dochart over Beinn Imirean.

 

South towards Crianlarich from the summit.

  

A trip up by the usual route from Strath Fillan, on a school trip. Because of the pedestrian nature of this route the hill can get a bad press, and gives a much finer itinery from the north or from Glen Lochay. Approaches are longer of course. On a day such as this, the usual route is fine especially with the bogs being frozen.

The winter had set in by now, the going icy, but hardly any wind and sharp visibility. This was welcome as it really brought out the views for which this hill is famed.