Geal Charn

About Geal Charn

This Geal Charn rises from the southern shore of Loch Laggan in the Grampian Mountains, a large and sprawling hill whose most distinctive feature is the well-shaped cone of its summit. Kinloch Laggan is the nearest settlement.

The top stands at 1,050 m, giving Munro status along with Marilyn, HuMP, Simm and Murdo listings. Several Scottish hills share the name Geal Charn, so this one is usually tied to Loch Laggan.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Geal Charn (Loch Laggan) (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, -4.457. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is large cairn next to trig point. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit/Leica RX1250

Record revised

11-Jul-23

Drop measured from

NN489800 · 739 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 Geal Charn group

One other listed summit sits in the same prominence group, with Geal Charn 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