Ben Klibreck
| Meaning: | From the Gaelic, hill of the speckled cliff |
| Munro Region: | Coigach to Cape Wrath |
| Munro Number: | 194 |
| Height in Metres: | 962 metres |
| OS Map Reference: | OS Sheet 16, GR: 585299 |
Ben Klibreck 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.
(Copyright The Scottish Mountaineering Club)
- 1. Loch Lomond to Loch Tay
- 2. The River Tay to Rannoch Moor
- 3. Strath Orchy to Loch Leven
- 4. Loch Linnhe to Loch Ericht
- 5. The Drumochter Hills
- 6. The West Mounth: Blair Atholl to Braemar
- 7. The East Mounth: Glen Shee to Mount Keen
- 8. The Cairngorms
- 9. Glen Roy to the Monadhliath
- 10. Loch Eil to Glen Shiel
- 11. Glen Affric and Kintail
- 12. Glen Cannich to Glen Carron
- 13. Cuillin and Torridon
- 14. Loch Maree to Loch Broom
- 15. Loch Broom to Easter Ross
- 16. Coigach to Cape Wrath
- 17. The Islands
