Ben Kilbreck
Meaning: Hill of the Speckled Cliff
Munro Region: Coigach to Cape Wrath
Munro Number: 190
Height in Metres: 962
Height in Feet: 3157
OS Map Reference OS Sheet 16; 585299
Description:
Ben Kilbreck is an isolated mountain of broad ridges and grassy corries in the heart of Sutherland. Its west and north-west sides are quite steep and form a long escarpment overlooking Strath Vagastie, with a steep prow of broken crags below the summit of the hill, Meall nan Con. The south-east side of Ben Klibreck drops in long grassy slopes to Loch Choire. Despite its isolation in the flat moors of Sutherland, Ben Klibreck is only 4 kilometres from the nearest public road, the A836 in Strath Vagastie, and it is from there that the ascent is usually made. Leave the road at a point due west of Meall nan Con and cross the moorland eastwards, passing Loch na Glas-choille and Loch nan Uan to the foot of the steep western escarpment of the hill. Climb this to reach the broad spine of the hill about 1 kilometre south-west of the summit and finish along the ridge and up a boulder slope to the cairn. If the River Vagastie is in spate, it will be preferable to start further south at the bridge over the river near the outflow of Loch Bad an Loch.