Scrinadle

This rugged Marilyn occupies a wild corner of Jura, overlooking the deep indentation of West Loch Tarbert. Climbing it requires navigating the island’s signature rough heather and boggy troughs, but the reward is a grandstand view of the Knapdale coast and the formidable Paps of Jura to the south.

• •The name likely stems from the Old Norse 'skrinn', meaning barren or stony, and 'dalr' for valley, a fitting description of the quartzite-strewn landscape common across the northern Hebrides.
• •Its position near the narrow 'waist' of Jura provides a superb perspective on the island's geography, specifically how West Loch Tarbert nearly slices the island in two.
• •The ascent is typically made from the Lagg area to the east, though like much of Jura, the ground is notoriously trackless and requires navigating through dense bracken and deep peat hags.
• •On an island where red deer outnumber human residents by roughly thirty to one, you are significantly more likely to be watched by a curious stag than to encounter another walker on these slopes.