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Name: | An Lean-charn |
Hill number: | 1140 |
Height: | 521m / 1709ft |
RHB Section: | 16B: Durness to Loch Shin |
County/UA: | Highland |
Catchment: | Eriboll |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Dodd (500-599m), Highland Five, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,5,HF,Y) |
Grid ref: | NC 41980 52568 |
Summit feature: | rock adjacent to cairn |
Drop: | 328m |
Col: | 193m NC402457 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 9 (1:25k) 446 |
Observations: | rock 15m N at NC 41982 52582 is as high |
Survey: | Abney level |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 87 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Parked at track end, very tight. Past the cliffs, a track through bracken to the tributary of the main river, difficult to cross after the rains. Stayed on the left bank of the main river until the loch under the summit, and then straight up. | iangalbraith | 27/08/2023 |
danpquinn | 07/01/2023 | |
Parked on the verge by the side of the road just opposite and up from the passing place just past the track (plenty space and not in the passing place. Already 2 cars parked at the end of the track and no room for any more without blocking it. There bizzarley was also a car parked a little way up the track (wouldn;t have liked to take my car up there). Took track to end of cliffs then took non bracken line over the fence and up to the lochans (sort of following the Hugh's book but a bit more wiggly). Stayed left on heading up to the top set of cliffs and plenty easy grassy routes. Could go right or left. Turned out at 3.2 miles to the top. On the way back we took a much more direct line down to the left of the first lochan and made way easily down the slopes to cross the fence just down from it's corner (just up from the collapsed gate). Stuck to a line that avoided all bracken by largely just keeping to the left of it all the way down. Only 2.8 miles back. Dry underfoot and easy going | JulieB | 24/06/2022 |
WokingMike | 24/06/2022 | |
Parked at 393539 at the start of the track south to Strabeg. Headed directly east from 393527 were an uphill track from a fallen gate keeps on the northside of the burn. April is a good month to do this... no bracken, short grass and very dry. 3 hour 15 minutes return, solo. | bolton | 24/04/2022 |
From Strabeg track with Kevin via two tumps to fine rocky summit. Returned by leaving top in [wrong] direction to avoid and admire crags. | lordtonult | 07/06/2021 |
Sick Kid | 19/08/2020 | |
weaselmaster | 19/08/2020 | |
From the Strabeg road end. After the initial cliffs, there are two areas of bracken to wade through on the way to the lochans. Took an unorthodox route up through the crags to the summit and descended North along the ridge. Took much longer than the minimum time suggested in the Hughs book. I made it 10.9k in total. | NormanW | 08/07/2020 |
Simon Winton | 15/11/2019 | |
Tricky | 13/10/2019 | |
Am I allowed to hate a hill? Wonderful weather, beautiful wilderness, horribly tough going. Not my favourite Marilyn although with my favourite co-bagger trimarc2. The Boost bar at the end was the best tasting chocolate I’ve ever had. | Fionalevey | 11/05/2019 |
trimarc2 | 11/05/2019 | |
A great day and great views of my own homeland from the top. It took longer than I anticipated (three and a half hours in total)but glad I selected a time when the vegetation was low and the hill relatively dry. there is a gate in the fence at NC 39244 52762 then follow the burn selecting the tributaries running from the east. | elizyanne | 26/04/2019 |
VerySlowPlodder | 01/04/2019 | |
AndyS | 20/11/2018 | |
Erik B | 29/07/2018 | |
Dave McG | 29/07/2018 | |
Tom Mundell | 05/07/2018 | |
Trekking toes | 05/07/2018 | |
From road south of Loch Eriboll, track west of cliffs then up mostly easy slopes on good ground. Summit cliffs look imposing but there are plenty of safe ways up. Main issue was the warm and still humidity. | Topographer57 | 02/06/2018 |
Parked on the verge next to the track at the head of Loch Eriboll and followed the track below Creag na Faolin. Contoured up on dryish grassy ground, crossing a fence, to join the stream draining the lochan, and then through a notch to the left of a vague waterfall. Past the lochan onto boggy flats with deer tracks across to steeper hillside, with short grass leading easily up. Traverse up across a broad and very vague, shallow coire, on the side of the broad ridge. Onto a small top (post) above a small lochan, down to the lochan, then up to an even smaller unmapped peaty lochan. Up to the right of quartzite crags then to an easy gully through the summit crags and on to the top. Misty, but route finding is straightforward, and it’s easy getting down, one bearing does the job. | Gill | 07/05/2018 |
As others, track to Bothy from head of a Loch Eriboll. Once cliffs give way to slopes easy walk past a few lochans to summit, blocky rocks on top. Wild strong wind made hard work but clear. Good views all round esp. Ben Hope. 2/2 | N.Morters | 05/05/2018 |
2 of 4: From Loch Eribol, Strathbeag track. | ChrisR | 19/04/2018 |
iainwalton | 13/04/2018 | |
Along the track round the west side of Cread na Faoilinn, left the track at 39129 53105 and headed towards the top picking a route through the complex terrain. Returned via a route initially slightly further to the south for an easier descent. | martin_hall | 02/04/2018 |
Martyn1 | 15/03/2018 | |
tallscottishguy | 31/05/2017 | |
From the bend at south end of Loch Eriboll. Initially good track around crag then up easy heather and moss slopes with a craggy last push to summit. Extremely windy all the way. | Campbell Singer | 15/05/2017 |
petesimpson | 16/04/2017 | |
grumpy | 24/07/2016 | |
From lochside, old track leading to bothy in Alladale. Cut up hill once round the crag and easy line all way to summit. Good underfoot. | nordicstar | 19/06/2016 |
A nice valley start then a good way up to the craggy top. | jenx | 19/06/2016 |
Jim.Fothergill | 25/05/2016 | |
From Meall an Ceirileach and then to Cnoc Dubhaidh. | Alan Moore | 15/05/2016 |
Via Strabeg bothy. Boggy path even after recent dry weather. | Tony S | 13/05/2016 |
Lorna S | 13/05/2016 | |
PGCE | 23/03/2016 | |
IainK | 13/03/2016 | |
interloper | 24/06/2015 | |
Fletch | 24/06/2015 | |
Track beneath crags then up easy ground to summit. Nice one! | AndrewFinnimore | 27/08/2014 |
LizH | 26/07/2014 | |
PeterAH | 26/07/2014 | |
aul-fogie | 07/07/2014 | |
Interesting top with a complicated ascent route that can be simplified the further you go up the boggy estate road. | Martin R | 26/05/2014 |
cjs | 26/05/2014 | |
RichardM | 02/06/2013 | |
Denise | 02/06/2013 | |
neilsan | 28/04/2013 |