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| Name: | Hill of Arisdale |
| Hill number: | 1541 |
| Height: | 210m / 689ft |
| RHB Section: | 22: Shetland Islands |
| County/UA: | Shetland Islands |
| Island: | Yell |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (200-299m), SIB, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,2,SIB,Y) |
| Grid ref: | HU 49451 84158 |
| Summit feature: | large cairn |
| Drop: | 210m |
| Col: | Sea |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 1 2 3 (1:25k) 470S |
| Observations: | knoll 60m SSE (HU 49435 84105) is 1m lower and ground to N is 0.5m lower |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 122 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Otterswick, small radio mast, cairn, Ward of Otterswick, Hill of Arnisdale, Ward of Otterswick, South Burn of Otterswick, Otterswick. | Winterfloodian | 05/06/2023 |
| From Otterswick, up to aerial, to cairn, then trig and on to cairn at HP by fence. Also visited peat hag between trig on way to top.. Back a little bit more direct. | PeterD | 11/05/2023 |
| From NE over rough ground from ruined building just by church hall | SpudGunn | 05/07/2022 |
| From the hut at Otterswick.North side of burn to the trig and then a plod to the summit. Direct line back to the car. 90 minute walk in windy conditions. Solo. | bolton | 06/05/2022 |
| After early finish on Unst took the chance on fine sunny afternoon to visit the top from the chapel at Otterswick. Trig first then cairn. | N.Morters | 28/04/2022 |
| Solo. Through walk | VerySlowPlodder | 20/07/2021 |
| With KeithBytheC. This was also my 1200th HuMP | JulieB | 26/06/2021 |
| From Otterswick methodist church car park. Up next to soggy sunken track on north side of South Burn of Otterswick, then across rough ground to gain summit ridge northeast of trig point. Lovely walk to high point, then a more direct return to car park. | KeithByTheC | 26/06/2021 |
| 20.20 from V badly to NE trig first then summit | vegibagger | 17/06/2019 |
| Solo. From the shed at Otterswick. Along N side of South Burn of Otterswick then direct up to trig point. Along to cairn at summit. Cut out trig on return. Not bad going. Misty initially but it soon cleared away. | pwbellarby | 15/06/2019 |
| Parked by barn - headed W to Hill of Otterswick Then on to the Ma. | ger | 14/06/2019 |
| From the shed at Otterwick - up to the TV aerial - cairn - trig - ridge to summit cairn. Reasonable going. | Chris Peart | 11/06/2019 |
| As per Chris | curlebd | 10/06/2019 |
| Bagged when doing 15 miles round, of all Yell Hills above 150M. included a visit to the Catalina crash site. | Neil Fraser | 05/09/2018 |
| From corrugated, roadside bldg near the chapel. Direct over rough ground to Yell trig pillar first, then onto the hill top. | jonglew | 22/08/2018 |
| From the red barn at Otterswick, roughly along the line of the river to the trig and then an endless plod across the moor to the summit. Contoured along the side back to the watershed and the stream. Jon Glew says that Arisdale is ancient Norse for arse crack, and is an apt description of this brown, hairy, damp and smelly hill. | Gill | 22/08/2018 |
| From Arisdale over the top and trig and down to Otterswick. All bog, but fairly dry and smooth until the final descent. | PeteN | 14/08/2018 |
| From Otterswick via the trig. | NormanW | 23/06/2018 |
| Parked at end of lane to Otterswick and took a fairly direct line to top. Going not too bad, but a few peat hags. | PGCE | 02/05/2018 |
| Parked opposite church at Otterswick. Kept stream in sight and up onto ridge and to the summit. | Coinneach | 24/05/2017 |
| Parked at the start of the track to Arisdale farm. Followed the track and white posts up the valley (which eventually lead to an aircraft wreck which crashed when looking for the Tirpitz) but not knowning how far it was to the crash site, left these to gain the ridge that heads NE to the quartzite summit cairn. Returned more directly to the track, south of Arisdale farm. Found out later the wreck is at 481853 | mindlessflogger | 27/08/2016 |
| Parked HU515855, at tin barn in bend, followed tributary to ridge/cairn. Easy going, peat hags, warm, sunny | iangalbraith | 27/08/2014 |
| Bit of a slog after leaving track to Arisdale. Plenty of peat hags and bogs to cicumnavigate. | AndrewFinnimore | 15/08/2014 |
| Parked by church near Otterswick (17:40) and walked up moor to Ward of Otterswick trig pt (18:15) and along the broad ridge to the summit. Overcast and rather hazy. Returned more directly to the car (12:20). Fairly easy going; heather not too long. | dbb | 26/08/2013 |
| Boggy ascent from Otterswick. Rainy. | fasgadh | 08/07/2013 |
| Circuit around South Burn of Otterswick from the methodist church. | Smudge | 31/05/2013 |
| From NE, watched sunset from trig on way back. 2nd time here. | RHW | 31/05/2013 |
| Moorland yomp to summit and trig with Jenny, Rick and Tricky. | Dugswell2 | 30/05/2013 |
| W Jenx, Tricky and Doug. End of hills on Yell. Toughest so far, from nr pt 88 to NE of hill, very undulating through hags. Damp underfoot and mist swirling. Battled on to gain cairn top, descend back over trig. Back down burn line to point 51 on NE road. Would be better way up! | nordicstar | 30/05/2013 |
| Last of the day, drove about 500m up Glen Arisdale. Summitted at 1800 as the evening mist was starting to move in on the unbroken sushine. Down for the 1920 ferry with about 40 minutes to spare. | Topographer57 | 28/05/2013 |
| Parked by shed at HU515855 followed track then beeline for the cairn at HU501853, visited trig point and onward to summit cairn. RSPB worker sitting there all day counting the birds. He was surprised to see a martin. | Martin R | 03/05/2012 |
| From Arisdale fighting with bonxies over rough-ish ground. | Eddie | 26/08/2011 |
| Susan, Ghengis and myself. Also visited the 2WW plane crash. | Danny Mc Neill | 24/10/2009 |
| From Otterswick. Uphill on prow of moor, over corrie and climb the other side and to trig on visible horizon. Over wet area for 3/4 m to S W. 2 divers, probably red throats and to white quartzite cairn. 16.40. | arranc | 19/08/2003 |
| RHW | 06/08/2002 | |
| 1990s | gettingonabit | blank |
| danpquinn | 06/10/2023 | |
| beckybags | 21/05/2023 | |
| A Peckish | 21/05/2023 | |
| NickF | 26/07/2022 | |
| davefh | 27/06/2022 | |
| govanah | 07/05/2022 | |
| dave g | 25/08/2021 | |
| fionnag | 24/08/2021 | |
| iainwalton | 26/07/2021 | |
| Emma and Simon | 15/07/2021 | |
| phil101 | 26/06/2021 | |
| Simon Winton | 03/06/2021 | |
| PaulineD | 30/08/2020 | |
| walk livi | 30/08/2020 |