Stob Ban

You can't believe everything you read. Early editions of The Munro Book described Stob Ban as a shy retiring mountain, out of sight from any public road. Driving west on the A86 from the east end of Loch Laggan to Tulloch it is the most prominent and graceful peak on a wonderful sky line.
"Stob" normally describes a pointed peak and "Ban" means white. Appropriate today  in the covering of sparkling snow but even in summer the mountain can be mistaken for having a covering of snow because of the white quartzite summit. It is a beautiful conical mountain and is classed as one of the Grey Corrie group. Being a Munro it is greater than 3000 feet (though as I have said before this logic does not work in reverse). From here it looks tiny among its higher neighbours. To the left you see the Loch Trieg Mountains and to the right the east end of the Grey Corrie ridge; Stob Coire na Ceannain (higher but not a Munro) then Stob Coire Claurigh the highest of the Grey Corries and 14 th highest Munro.
Without Laggan Dam's inundation I would be standing on the bank of the upper River Spean. This is the view from a very full Laggan Resevoir which today is just 6 inches short of spilling over at the dam. I know this because I measured it with my theodolite.