Creag Riabhach

A modest Dodd rising to 586 metres in the far north Scottish Highlands, located in Sutherland's remote interior. The grid reference places it amid vast tracts of privately owned Highland estate land, characterised by heather moorland and isolated corries typical of this sparsely populated corner of Scotland.

• •The name Creag Riabhach derives from Scottish Gaelic, meaning 'brindled' or 'greyish crag', most likely describing the mottled appearance of the rock face created by lichen growth and weathering patterns on the exposed stone.
• •The hill sits within land owned by Danish billionaire Anders Holch Povlsen, who has become the United Kingdom's largest individual private landowner through extensive purchases across the Scottish Highlands for conservation and rewilding projects.
• •As a Dodd classification, Creag Riabhach qualifies as one of Scotland's hills between 2,000 and 2,999 feet with a drop of at least 30 metres on all sides, placing it among the country's more modest but distinctly independent summits.