Ben Avon - Leabaidh an Daimh Bhuidhe

About Ben Avon - Leabaidh an Daimh Bhuidhe

Ben Avon, Beinn Athfhinn or 'mountain of the Avon', is a sprawling Cairngorms hill with a wide summit plateau studded with granite tors. One of them, Leabaidh an Daimh Bhuidhe — 'bed of the yellow stag', also called Stob Easaidh Mòr — is the high point, and the tor itself has to be climbed, an easy scramble, to claim the summit.

Ridges run off the plateau in nearly every direction, giving lines in from Glen Avon to the north, Beinn a' Bhùird to the west and Gleann an t-Slugain to the south. West of the top is the large corrie of Slochd Mòr with its rocky cliffs, and the southern and western approaches pass close to its rim. Most ascents use the path in the deep glen between Ben Avon and Beinn a' Bhùird, or come over from Beinn a' Bhùird itself.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Ben Avon (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for Scotland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Scotland · check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 57.099, -3.434. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is tor. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level/Leica RX1250

Record revised

24-Dec-20

Drop measured from

NJ118010 · 974 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

The Ben Avon - Leabaidh an Daimh Bhuidhe group

4 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Ben Avon - Leabaidh an Daimh Bhuidhe as the independent hill at its head.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks