Stob a' Choire Odhair

Stob a' Choire Odhair is a Scottish mountain eight kilometres north-west of Bridge of Orchy. It stands on the border of Argyll and Bute and Highland. The mountain reaches 945 metres and is classed as a Munro and a Marilyn. It lies in the Black Mount deer forest, where dark peat hags give the moorland its name. The hills name means ‘Peak of the dun-coloured corrie’ in Gaelic. Stob a' Choire Odhair is often climbed with its near neighbour Stob Ghabhar. The two are well seen from the A82 road across Rannoch Moor. The summit sits where three ridges meet. The western ridge links to Stob Ghabhar three kilometres away via a col at 668 metres. The north-eastern ridge drops steeply to the moorland of Black Mount and Rannoch Moor. The south-eastern ridge connects to the subsidiary peak Beinn Toaig at 834 metres. A col at 802 metres separates the two. Coire Odhair lies to the north of this col, while Coire Toaig to the south has a good stalkers track leading to the main summit. The lower eastern slopes carry two old roads of historic importance. Major William Caulfeild built a military road here in the early 1750s after the Jacobite rising. Further east runs an ancient drovers’ road improved by Thomas Telford in 1803. Telford’s road once carried the main route to Fort William until 1933. Now it forms part of the West Highland Way. The mountain offers an extensive view across Rannoch Moor and the Bridge of Orchy Munros.