A quiet grassy Munro above Glen Spean, and one of the last hills to be promoted into that famous list
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Beinn Teallach is a big, rounded, grassy hill on the north side of Glen Spean, west of Loch Laggan. At 915 metres it just clears 3,000 feet, which makes it a Munro, one of the Scottish mountains over that height that hillwalkers set out to climb their way through. Beinn Teallach only joined the list in the 1980s, when a resurvey found it a little taller than everyone had thought, and it stays one of the quieter, less-trodden ones.
The usual approach starts near Roy Bridge in the glen below and heads up over boggy, tussocky ground, often paired with its higher neighbour Beinn a’ Chaorainn next door. There is no dramatic ridge or rock here, just a long steady pull to a broad summit, but the reward is a wide view across to the bigger hills around, including the bulk of Creag Meagaidh to the east.
This is proper Highland country, so treat it as a full mountain day: the weather can close in fast and there is no shelter up top, so take a map, warm layers and food, and keep an eye on the forecast. While you are in the glen, the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy are worth a look — a set of natural terraces left along the hillsides by the shorelines of a vanished ice-age loch.
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