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Beinn Eighe

14🟡 Marginal

United Kingdom · Takeoff 840 m

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2026-05-2049

Condiciones marginales, base de cúmulos ~111 m, viento fuerte (32 km/h), con precipitación 1.6 mm.

Wind max: 32 km/h
Base: 111 m
CAPE: 120
LI: 2.3
2026-05-2111

No recomendable para volar, viento fuerte (31 km/h), con precipitación 4.9 mm.

Wind max: 31 km/h
CAPE: 0
LI: 8.0
2026-05-2256

Día volable, condiciones decentes, base de cúmulos ~444 m, viento fuerte (27 km/h), con precipitación 1.8 mm.

Wind max: 27 km/h
Base: 444 m
CAPE: 110
LI: 2.8
2026-05-2318

No recomendable para volar, base de cúmulos ~625 m, viento fuerte (36 km/h), con precipitación 0.9 mm.

Wind max: 36 km/h
Base: 625 m
CAPE: 60
LI: 8.9

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Takeoff description

Although the walk from the parking area to the usual take off area is short, there’s no denying it is rather brutal, requiring 2500ft of ascent in 2.4km! The path is well marked and leads up past the plantation into Coire an Laoigh. Once in the coire proper the way up is obvious and it tackles the steep western slopes of the coire directly, before emerging onto a col that separates the spur of Stuc Coire an Laoigh from Spidean Coire nan Clach (993m), one of the main summits of the Beinn Eighe ridge. This col is grassy and forms a quite small, but still excellent, area from which to launch in either a south west or south easterly direction.