Beinn Chreagach

Rising from the moors of central Skye, this modest Marilyn offers a rugged, heathery ascent far from the island's busier honey-pots. The summit provides an excellent, earned perspective of the jagged Black Cuillin ridge to the south and the massive, rounded profiles of Glamaig and the Red Hills.

• •Derived from the Scottish Gaelic, the name translates simply as 'Rocky Hill', a fitting description for the basalt-strewn slopes and broken ground that characterise the climb.
• •Positioned at the head of Glen Drynoch, the summit acts as a natural grandstand for viewing the flat-topped MacLeod’s Tables to the west and the steep scree of the Cuillin's Great Stone Shoot to the south.
• •Because it meets the criteria for a Marilyn—having a prominence of at least 150 metres—this 326-metre hill commands a sense of isolation and scale that belies its relatively low altitude.
• •While it lacks the sheer vertical drama of the neighbouring Cuillin, it also lacks the queues, making it a rare spot on Skye where your only company is likely to be a disinterested sheep.