Carn Sgriobhaich

Rising to 547 metres in the western Highlands, this Dodd occupies remote ground north of Loch Duich. The Gaelic name translates as 'scree hill', reflecting the broken, rocky character of its slopes. Its modest height belies a genuinely wild setting in country where isolation is the main currency.

• •The name Carn Sgriobhaich derives from Scottish Gaelic, meaning 'hill of scree' or 'scree cairn', from 'carn' (a pile of stones or rocky hill) and 'sgriobhaich' (scree or loose stony debris), accurately describing the broken terrain underfoot.
• •The hill sits in Kintail country, sharing its watershed with better-known neighbours to the south including the Five Sisters ridge and the cluster of Munros around Glen Shiel.
• •Its grid reference places it in the NG square, the central sheet of the National Grid covering much of Skye and the adjacent mainland coast—territory where maritime weather systems arrive with little warning.