Meall Lochan nan Dubh Lochan

A modest Dodd rising to 567 metres in the West Highlands, distinguished primarily by its wonderfully descriptive Gaelic name. The hill overlooks a landscape pocketed with dark lochans, terrain typical of this glacially scoured country west of Loch Arkaig. Remote and rarely visited as a specific objective, it offers solitude in a region better known for its higher neighbours.

• •The name translates from Gaelic as 'hill of the little loch of the dark lochans', a pleasingly recursive piece of nomenclature that reflects the heavily water-logged nature of this part of the West Highlands where lochans dot nearly every corrie and hollow.
• •The hill sits in country carved during successive glaciations, when ice sheets gouged out the glens and deposited moraines that now trap water in countless shallow basins, creating the dark lochans referenced in the name.
• •At 567 metres, it falls just short of the 610-metre threshold required for Graham classification, consigning it to the less-travelled realm of Dodds and Tumps where solitude is virtually guaranteed.