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| Name: | Torr Achilty |
| Hill number: | 925 |
| Height: | 256m / 840ft |
| RHB Section: | 12A: Kyle of Lochalsh to Garve |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Catchment: | Cromarty |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (200-299m), Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,2,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NH 44765 55077 |
| Summit feature: | cairn by Broom bush |
| Drop: | 218m |
| Col: | 38m NH422562  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 26 (1:25k) 431 |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 171 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| With Dangerous Dave. Visited Contin Island afterwards. | Jill Robertson | 19/01/2024 |
| Parked by the bins at the entrance to Achilty Quarry. Up through the woods just after Honeysuckle Cottage. With Jill. Visited Contin Island afterwards. | Dangerous Dave | 18/01/2024 |
| Parked at quarry entrance. Up right hand side of first house and headed up through woods. Lovely wood anemones. Not so easy later as higher up we hit deep heather on steep slopes. Hard work but a most rewarding summit. | Crumblie2 | 18/04/2023 |
| Parked at bins across A832 from house. Along track and just after 1st house on right, crossed fence beside dodgy gate then more or less straight up. Bracken on lower slopes would make it a bit more awkward later in year. | duchally | 14/04/2023 |
| Parked as others opposite the bins on the quarry road. Followed the farm track past the first house over the fence and straight up. A nice two hours spent bagging this hill. | Andrew Simmons | 21/11/2022 |
| Solo jog from Contin | amswanston | 13/05/2022 |
| Walked from Contin along farm track until east of hill. Just before the final farm building along the track I headed up through the dreaded bracken and heather, keeping within the trees as much as possible and following deer tracks where available. Lots of blaeberry to keep the energy levels high as the rain came on. Reached the summit pile of rocks and descended by the same route. Met the farmer on the track back, who not only gave me a lift back to my camper van, but also advised on an easier route from the cottages NE of the hill. Longer but less brackeny apparently. | summitter | 15/09/2021 |
| With Malky from Contin. Nice day but not direct sunlight. Very rough wee beastie. Picked a cep and some chanterelles on descent. | Rounsfell | 29/08/2021 |
| Parked opposite bins at start of quarry road. As others, past first house, step across fence beside gate, then up through beautiful woods on animal tracks. Fortunately, the bracken hadn't yet grown. Thick heather and bilberry on the upper slopes. Good viewpoint. | vuirich | 26/05/2021 |
| Parked opposite the bins at start of quarry road. Then took farm track to 100m past first house. Over fence by gate and then followed path by fence which avoided the worst of the head high bracken. Once in trees deer tracks could be taken to the 180m contour. From there heather not to bad to summit. | garyhoney | 24/07/2020 |
| Parked at the beginning of the road to the quarry, cycled about 1 km then headed up through the open trees to the top. Long heather but only for a short distance. | Simon Winton | 23/03/2020 |
| Parked in quarry car park, permission given without trouble. Round to the right of the quarry through woods, head for the pale yellow house. Through gate and up gravel road to approx 100m. Back through gate, heather and woods to top. Heather hard going. | iangalbraith | 16/01/2020 |
| Tried to access from Loch Achonachie dam, not able to cross dam. Drove round to forestry commission car park at W end of Loch Achilty and followed W fork of track, then rough going through forest and then deep heather to summit. | PeteF | 20/04/2019 |
| An afternoon stroll from a parking space by the bins at the A835 end of the quarry road. Along the farm track and past the first house, hop a fence near a gate, and an easy stroll up grass with many wood anemones and primroses into the woods. Easily up these across a couple of streams on grassy animal tracks, emerging into nastier heather and lanky bilberry among scattered trees towards the top. The top is a fine view point. A nice walk if you avoid the bracken and midge season. Note: I wasn't aware that there is no access across the dam on the S side of the hill until I found out the hard way. | Gill | 05/04/2019 |
| Parked close to quarry entrance. Headed off up the hill soon after the first house. Good going until the last 300m - 400m when it gets tough through the deep heather. Great views from the summit. Definitely one for winter without bracken. 80 minute solo return. | bolton | 10/02/2019 |
| Beautiful evening. Parked near quarry and followed farm road. Went onto the hill just past the first house on the right. The heather near the top was challenging and in a few days the bracken will make it really tough. No bog, great view and completed it in an hour! Took my own route TN! | elizyanne | 24/05/2018 |
| Solo trip, park in wide road entrance to Achilty quarry. Definitely one for the winter/spring before the bracken gets going. Impressive amount of natural tree regeneration. | Invicta14 | 18/05/2018 |
| Second of three today. I parked just off the road on the side of the entrance to the quarry as the Hotel Achilty appears to have reopened and was Residents only parking. I walked through the cattle farm towards the dam and took a steep route up over the dead bracken and heather. It was quite a tricky ascent but not too bad due to the lack of live bracken though I wouldn’t fancy heading up here when it is growing. Took a northerly descent through the birch back to the road. | Peterb | 20/02/2018 |
| Parked at the west end of Loch Achilty. Long flog through dense forest, deep heather and bog. One for the dedicated bagger. Great view once on top. Steep descent to the south and back along the track. | BigJ | 14/02/2018 |
| visited with Big J | Nozzer | 14/02/2018 |
| Heather | garbo1103 | 01/02/2018 |
| From Contin car park near bridge. Looks nice but hellish thrash up bracken and thick scrub..so glad much of the bracken died back. Lunch run, autumn colours. | N.Morters | 23/10/2017 |
| 4/4. No chance of a quick wizz up and down this one: very vegetated. Mid summer after a heavy shower probably not the best timing: 6 foot high bracken makes you very wet! Not one to be repeated. | PGCE | 02/07/2017 |
| Parked in CP at W end of Loch, walked round N side of hill until end of trees, then thrash up fairly horrible stuff to summit | Thearlaichdubh | 14/05/2017 |
| It's just the usual heather clad little Marilyn. Hard work for the last 300m. Up and down in an hour from near Torr Achilty farm. | NormanW | 12/04/2017 |
| From Loch Achilty CP. | ChrisR | 15/02/2017 |
| followed game trail through woods, final 50m rough going. From A832 | cjo | 29/09/2016 |
| tick | chazzyboy19 | 12/04/2016 |
| From Contin, drove minor road to farm at Torachilty. Tried to find someone to ask permission to park but no one around. Parked on verge and direct line up hill though dead bracken, young birch then nuisance deep heather. Good viewpoint from a scrappy cairn. | nordicstar | 05/02/2016 |
| Good birch woodland most of the way. Stay in the trees even when they thin out or you are in to deep heather. | jenx | 05/02/2016 |
| From Torachilty, deciduous forestry almost all the way. A bit of bracken basing lower down but adequate animal tracks. Try to stay in the trees, on open hillside the heather is very long. Still plenty of tasty berries up there, albeit several dozen fewer than before my ascent:) Outstanding autumn colour views from summit. | Topographer57 | 20/10/2015 |
| From picnic area to West. Hard going. Back by forest road to south - very overgrown | PeteN | 04/08/2015 |
| Good parking next to cottage on the Quarry road in. Then through the trees to the top. Awful deep heather, dead bracken and swamp conditions made this a memorable hill. | Play2End | 15/04/2015 |
| parked at quarry entrance track to past 1st house then up through woods. | robertphillips | 06/04/2015 |
| Picked off on drive from Kinlochewe to Inverness. Parked in entrance to Achilty Hotel which was closed and for sale. Crossed road and followed track all way yound hill to gate at dam entrance, then turned right and head straight up south side of hill to summit through dead fern, heather & broom. Reckon it would be harder in summer when fern is in full growth. Carried on past cairn and descended down north side. | mntainman | 09/02/2015 |
| With Tom Bain + Dougie Tweedie, on way to SMMC meet in Torridon. | clashcityrocker | 15/10/2014 |
| Parked near the quarry entrance at NH 45216 56605, then walked along the track. Just past the first house went though the gate and followed the path alongside the fence above the second house, then picked my way through the pleasant woodland up to the summit - good views all round. | martin_hall | 23/05/2014 |
| Climbed from Contin, followed track and took to woods at first opportunity - a straightforward ascent. | Chris Peart | 18/11/2013 |
| A little hill but quite hard work, Drove along rough farm track to near river and up the south side. No paths, and even at this time of year the bracken lower down was high and thick. | AndrewFinnimore | 06/11/2013 |
| Not sure why so much swearing about this pretty wooded hill. If you accept the dam crossing is closed, start from the Contin end, avoid the blasted quarry, there is just a bit of sodden wet bracken and heather. | Martin R | 22/10/2013 |
| i chose to park at Loch Achilty, which was a mistake as i had to fight through a dense wood. But this hill gets very few ascents. | thenomad | 02/05/2013 |
| Pleasant ascent from the north. Horrendous descent to the south. | lordtonult | 25/03/2013 |
| MC and DS from quarry entrance in last light of the day. | Martin66 | 04/01/2013 |
| KeithByTheC | 28/10/2008 | |
| Climber from Contin - track to power station then by SE ridge - lots of vegetation and knobbly slabs. Top has a small cairn with a bush growing out of it. An adventure! | maknipe | 25/07/2007 |
| Walked up from Loch Achilty, which is not a good idea in autumn as the bracken is high and on this occasion wet. | JohnW | 21/10/2006 |
| Sort and sharp, across the dam and up and down from the power station. | Eddie | 29/10/2005 |
| 1st of a 3 Marilyn day off of the big Hills. Solo. | The Captain | 03/08/2005 |
| Parked off A832 beyond Contin. Used bike to get to dam on River Conon. Very adventurous clamber up steep hillside to top at 12.15. Small pile of stones as cairn. | arranc | 27/06/2005 |
| a little marilyn with a sting in it's tail as Jamie and I both in shorts picked up loads of ticks each, by the time we were back at the car, an experience I've never experienced before or since. | vegibagger | 05/06/2004 |