Tom a' Chait

A modest forested summit in the Abernethy and Cromdale Hills northeast of the Cairngorms, standing above Glen Brown. This Dodd and Tump is largely cloaked in commercial forestry, making the ascent a quiet, uncelebrated affair best suited to those completing classification lists or exploring the quieter corners of Moray's uplands.

• •The name Tom a' Chait comes from Gaelic, with 'tom' meaning a rounded hillock or mound, and 'chat' (genitive 'chait') meaning cat – literally 'the cat's hillock', though whether this refers to a wildcat sighting, a fanciful shape, or a local character's nickname is now lost to time.
• •The summit lies within extensive commercial forestry plantations that transformed much of this landscape from open moorland during the 20th century, making navigation more about following fire breaks than reading natural terrain.
• •As a Dodd, it qualifies as one of the hills in the British Isles between 500 and 599.9 metres, a classification compiled by Alan Dawson for those seeking something beyond the more celebrated Munros and Corbetts of the nearby Cairngorms.