Scotland

Creise

MunroMarilynHuMPSimmMurdo

4 classifications here — Marilyn, HuMP, Simm and Murdo — belong to lists OpenFell holds only part of, so they have no list page. See how far the coverage goes.

Creise, 1100 m, Highland
Creise, 1100 m, Highland. Photo by Richard Webb, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Height
1099.8 m · 3,608 ft
Prominence
169.4 m
Grid reference
NN 23858 50636
Coordinates
56.61445, -4.87199
County / area
Highland
OS Landranger
41
OS Explorer
384
Summit feature
small rock 3m from cairn
Key col
NN 2434 5007 (930.4 m)

About Creise

Creise is a long, fairly flat ridge in the Black Mount, overlooking the northern end of Glen Etive. Its highest point had no name until 1981.

The steep, craggy northern buttress, Sron na Creise, is the feature most people see, prominent from the A82 and the Kings House Hotel. Creise is one of four Black Mount Munros alongside Meall a' Bhuiridh, Stob Ghabhar and Stob a' Choire Odhair, and its proximity to the White Corries ski area makes it a draw for cross-country skiers as well as walkers, who often pair it with Meall a' Bhuiridh.

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

Access rights here

Yes Right to roam: Statutory right of responsible access to most land and inland water.

Yes Wild camping: Wild camping is broadly lawful under the 2003 Act.

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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Daylight
Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 56.614, -4.872. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is small rock 3m from cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Leica Disto D510/Leica RX1250
Record revised
28-Jul-14
Drop measured from
NN 2434 5007 · 930.4 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 Creise group

2 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Creise as the independent hill at its head.

Listed summits in the Creise prominence group
SummitHeightDrop
Clach Leathad 1,099 m 68 m
Stob a' Ghlais Choire 996 m 26 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.

Nearest listed peaks

PeakHeightDistance
Stob a' Ghlais Choire 995.6 m 1 km
Meall a' Bhuiridh 1107.9 m 1.2 km
Clach Leathad 1099 m 1.3 km
Beinn Mhic Chasgaig 864 m 1.8 km
Buachaille Etive Mor - Stob Dearg 1021.4 m 3.9 km
Stob na Doire 1010.5 m 4.1 km