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ROUTE 3

Meall Cumhann

Start/Finish	Glen Nevis top car park (NN 168 691)
Distance	6.5km/4 miles
Total ascent	600m/2000ft
Time	3½hr
Terrain	Rough hillsides
Max altitude	Meall Cumhann 698m

If Nevis Gorge on its own isn’t magnificent enough, take in this viewpoint 500m higher up. Meall Cumhann (Hill of the Gorge) is a fine little top in its own right, and if you can bring yourself to turn round has views eastwards up Glen Nevis as well as down onto the gorge and across to Steall Falls.

For map see Route 2. Start along Route 2 to the meadow below Steall Falls. After playing around on the wire footbridge (but returning to the original side), take the path that continues up Glen Nevis. After 1km, just before a footbridge, turn up left into Coire Giubhsachan, on a rough path to left of its stream. After 1.5km it reaches a flat, boggy section of valley. Here turn up left, slanting right to avoid outcrops, to the summit of Meall Cumhann.

Head north along a fine little ridge and down to Bealach Cumhann col. Head southwest, slantwise down a steep slope towards the long waterslide of Allt Coire Eoghainn. The slabs of the waterslide itself are smooth and slippery, and there have been accidents there, so take care. A path runs down on the near side of the waterslide, to the car park.

Nevis Gorge and Polldubh Crags