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BEINN TARSUINN

“…and the one in the middle goes hey diddle diddle/God, he’s just a pretty face”

Manfred Mann

ACTUALLY, Beinn Tarsuinn does have an extremely pretty face. It’s called the Meadow Face, is 800 feet high, distinguished by three soaring cracklines, looks into Coire a’ Bhradain with its large, wary flocks of red deer, and is composed for the most part – excepting the occasional loose block or sugary surface skin – of massive grey granite. Coire a’ Bhradain’s a prime place in the Scottish hills: an impressive hanging valley at an altitude of 400 metres, debouching into Glen Rosa, the longest, quaggiest, most impressive of Arran’s valleys.

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