Description

Adventurous Mountain bouldering and peaceful padding with unparalleled views of the Strath, plus one of the best stand-alone blocs in the Glen.

The Bean and the upper blocs lie above the tree line on the northern shoulder of Creag Dudh Flichity, overlooking the impressive baronial hunting lodge of Flichity House and its grounds that lie to the West.

Flichity tends to get a breeze and is Northwest facing, this adds up to being cooler in summer with less midge.

The Bean and upper blocs get the sun in the afternoon even on a winter’s day. The G is an absolute “Must Do”.

💎 Top problems
• Beans for Hands🔝
• Missing Sid🔝
• The G🔝
• Jeely Piece🔝
• Epimetheus🔝

History

The name Flichity was recorded as Flechate in 1860 and comes from the Gaelic fluich, meaning wet. The blocs look down on Flichity House, a baronial hunting lodge refurbished in 1901 by William Beardmore, 1st Baron Invernairn of Strathnairn. Beardmore was an industrialist who sponsored one of Shackleton's early Antarctic expeditions, and the Beardmore Glacier is named after him. Most of the recorded climbing was developed in 2022 and 2023. The first ascensionists were Benjy Wilcock & Rob Thomas.

Routes on Flichity
3 Trad 48 Boulder 1 Likes
Browse topos
Photos
Premium topo by Strathnairn Bouldering by Rob Thomas.
Rob Thomas
R. Thomas
from Scottish Highlands
The Topo
T. Topo
from Jyvaskyla
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Flichity

Access is sensitive!

Forest Operation still active- please avoid if machinery is operating in felled area.

Town: Farr
Sat Nav: IV2 6XE
Parking ///fidgeting.downhill.consumed , NH676293
Blocs ///comedians.however.props , NH682292

🚗 DIRECTIONS
Turn off the A9 5 miles south of Inverness onto the B851 for Fort Augustus. Drive through Inverarnie and Farr.
Carry on past the Charles Rennie Mackintosh houses until you pass the Eagle crested gates of Flichity estate on
your left {Do Not enter here}, a couple of hundred metres further on take a left up the gravel track to The Mains
of Flichity,

🅿️ Parking is situated in the large open ground at the back of the farm buildings in front of a wee stake in the
ground.
The Head Keeper and Tenant farmer have agreed to the use of 2 spaces to gain access to the climbing if there
are already 2 vehicles parked drop yer pads and walk back in from Brin.
The gravel track that allows us to get closer to Flichity is a private road Please behave respectfully and responsibly
while on Flichity Estate Grounds.

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From the parking head past the wee white stalkers croft on your left and over the tarmac estate road up the
hill on the gravel track and through the gate, veer left along the good forestry track and follow the green swathe over the ditch and up the hill keeping the deer fence on your left and the cleared plantation on your right, White slab and Top Hat should be visible among the stumps higher up the hill.
The Bean is the first huge bloc you see through the nearly broken gate on the walk up the hill, follow the fence along the hill to get to Top Hat and white slab. The rest of the blocs are up and right of the Bean.