Carn na Caim South Top · Mullach Coire nan Cisteachan

About Carn na Caim South Top

Carn na Caim South Top, also known as Mullach Coire nan Cisteachan, is a 914.6-metre subsidiary summit of Carn na Caim, a 941-metre peak of Scotland's Grampian Mountains. It stands on the boundary of the Highland and Perth and Kinross council areas within the Cairngorms National Park and is classified as a Munro Top, a Simm and a Murdo.

The parent mountain occupies a high plateau east of the Pass of Drumochter and is the higher of the two Munros overlooking the pass. The ground around the peak is soggy in many places on the climb to the summit.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Càrn na Caim (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 56.898, -4.195. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small cairn near path. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Leica Disto D510/Leica NA730/Leica GS15/Leica RX1250

Record revised

14-Dec-15

Drop measured from

NN 6696 8130 · 884.2 m

Classification history: Reclassified from Corbett Top to Murdo April 2015 and to Munro Top September 2015.

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

Reaching Carn na Caim South Top by train

One National Rail station sits within 8 km of the summit — close enough to make a car-free day of it. Distances are straight lines, not walking routes.

Each station page lists every hill in its reach, long-distance paths from the door and a live-times link — see all stations with hills in reach. Station positions from NaPTAN (OGL v3.0).

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

Which hill this one belongs to

Carn na Caim South Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Carn na Caim (941 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 884 m.

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.

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