Loch Ossian - Facilities & Information

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The Essentials

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  • 20 beds

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Information

 

Dates:  2nd April - 9 October 2010

Tel:  01397 732 207

 

NB: A sleep sheet & pillow case are required  - duvets and pillows supplied. Please be environmentally aware and take your litter to the nearest place with proper rubbish collection. Walkers are requested to use footpaths during the stalking season from August to October.

 

 

Scotland Outdoors magazine rates Loch Ossian Youth Hostel as being one of the top get-back-to-nature self-catering accommodation options in Scotland: Read Article

 

Please note that we do not accept stag or hen parties at any of our hostels.

 

Local Activities

 

Courrour Estate
Horse riding, clay pigeon shooting, boat and canoe hire and mountain bike hire. For a small charge you can also be delivered and picked up from the hostel to do these activities
Tel: 01397 732200

 

 

Eating and drinking

 

Corrour Station House
Restaurant and Cafe
Corrour Station
Tel: 01397 732236
Visit Website

 

Walkers

NB: Glen Nevis hostel is 15-20 miles away

 

Munros to conquer in the area include:

 

Beinn Na Lap
937m, 4hrs

 

Carn Dearg
941m, 4hrs

 

Sgor Gaibrhre
955m, 6hrs (with Carn Dearg)

 

Beinn Eibhinn
1102m, 6hrs

 

Aonach Beag
1116m, 8hrs (with Beinn Eibhinn)

 

Geal Charn
1107m, 10hrs(with Eibhinn,Aonach)

 

Carn Dearg
1034m, 12hrs(with Eibhinn,Aonach,Geal)

 

Ben Alder
1148m, 12hrs

 

Beinn Bheoil
1019m, 14hrs(with Ben Alder)

 

Chno Dearg
1046m, 6hrs

 

Stob Coire Sgriodan
979m, 8hrs(with Chno Dearg)

 

Stob Coire Easain
1115m

 

Stob A Choire Mheadhoin
1105m, 8hrs with Easain and a train back from Tulloch

Corrour also has a very beautiful Corbett in fact probably the most enjoyable hill walk on the estate

 

Leum Uilleim
906m, 5hrs


Carn Dearg (3080ft/939m)
View Route

 

Beinn na Lap (3068ft/935m)
View Route

 

Disclaimer: All walking routes are hosted on external sites, therefore SYHA can hold no responsibility towards their accuracy. SYHA would also like to acknowledge the British Mountaineering Council Participation Statement: "The BMC recognises that climbing and mountaineering are activities with a danger of personal injury or death. Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks and be responsible for their own actions".

Wildlife

Wildlife is an extremely significant part of Loch Ossian. There were 103 species of birds counted here last year including the golden eagle, peregrine falcon, short eared owl, corncrake, crested tit, cross bill and many more. Mammals living in the area include red deer, roe deer, otter, pine marten, wild cat, red squirrell, fox, badger, water voles, short tailed voles, pygmy shrew, pippestrellebats, daubenton’s bats, mountain hare and weasel. There are also lizards, slow worms and adders, frogs, newts and toads. Trout and pike are plentiful in the rivers and lochs for fishing


Fishing
Available on all the lochs and rivers for a permit charge of £5.00 for 34 hours, this can be bought at the hostel

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


Staff Recommendations

Nick Priest, Manager

 

"If you are looking to walk up a hill and aren't bothered if it is a Munro or not then Leum Uilleim,just to the West of Corrour Station, at 909m, climbed from the South ridge and descending on the North ridge via Beinn a Bhric is a really great walk with some fantastic views of Ben Nevis,the Grey Corries,the Mamores ,Glen Coe and Rannoch Moor"

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