Loading...
| Name: | Creag nam Fiadh |
| Hill number: | 1174 |
| Height: | 387m / 1270ft |
| RHB Section: | 16D: Altnaharra to Dornoch |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Catchment: | Helmsdale |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (300-399m), Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,3,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NC 84109 23703 |
| Summit feature: | rock 0.8m from trig point |
| Drop: | 173m |
| Col: | 214m NC794212  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 17 (1:25k) 444W |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land(*).
*For information about access rights in Scotland see the ScotWays website.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass. Please quote the hill number and hill name.
| Logged Descriptions (logged by 90 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Parked at the Borrobol turn on the A897. Considered biking up the track but too wet and windy. Excellent track to the west end of Loch Ascaig, ATV track to the loch inflow bridge, then easy grassy terrain to the summit. Descended easily NE over Windy Hill to the loch outflow bridge and back to the track, wind and rain now behind me. Straightforward and quicker than expected hill for a grotty afternoon. | Owen B | 21/09/2023 |
| Cycled to boats, crossed bridge, pretty dry underfoot. Easy hill - long drive! | iangalbraith | 21/04/2023 |
| From road end to Borrobol Lodge. Track then drop to eastern end of Lochan and bridge crossing outflow. Up Windy Hill then summit via AVT most of the way. Exceptionally dry underfoot. | N.Morters | 27/06/2021 |
| Cycled to Loch Ascaig boathouse from Borrobol road end. Headed south to top, felt longer than it looked on map. | willyross | 11/06/2021 |
| From Barrobol LC via small footbridge at east end of Loch Ascaig. | Topographer57 | 31/05/2021 |
| From the road and along the track past Borrobol to w end of Loch Ascaig. Over the wee footbridge and on to the top. Fine views, gorgeous colours after the showers. Same route back.An unhurried 3 hrs 30 mins. | David Bremner | 06/09/2020 |
| first of the day- | VerySlowPlodder | 23/07/2020 |
| From Borrobol road end to West end of Loch Ascaig. Great wee bridge, then dry underfoot all the way to the summit. Very breezy today. | NormanW | 18/07/2020 |
| Good parking at the entrance to Borrobol. Along the track past Cnoc Dubh, down a bit to a large fisherman's parking area above the NW end of Loch Ascaig. An ATV track leads down to the loch shore (beached boats) then a rough path to the bridge. Lots of snow melt had filled the loch, bridge not quite submerged but the bogs on the other side were deeper than the tops of my boots. Interminable, gruesomely boggy trudge up the hill to the steep bit, then heather, followed by more bogs and tussocks across the summit plateau. Found ATV track to return, only visible on the way down, which leads to a rushy bog further west than the bridge. Beware very deep channel though easily hopped; these bogs much less wet than those by the bridge. Estate owner waiting in landrover, had been watching concerned, as he had previously lost a cow in those bogs! Nice bloke, manages and operates the estate himself. He gave me a lift back to the level crossing. | Gill | 13/03/2020 |
| 3 of 3: From A897 at Borrobol. | ChrisR | 29/08/2017 |
| tick | chazzyboy19 | 30/04/2017 |
| An easy bike road across bridge, level crossing, and over small hill to loch. Over the little bridge, close by loch end, which was very handy over deep river there. Then straight up to top. Quite easy. | jenx | 26/03/2016 |
| With bikes loosely stashed after the Cnoc we rode on past Borrobol lodge and onto NW end of Loch Ascaig. Good ATV track down to loch shore and bridge over burn. ATV line carries on up hill to approx 260m then good going to summit, if a little steep in places. Weather beginning to break for us. | nordicstar | 26/03/2016 |
| walked along track over railway and turned for the hill at the end of the lochan. Back via Windy Hill. | AndrewFinnimore | 27/09/2014 |
| Park on the road nr the new bridge and walk along the track for 45 min when you see the end of the loch, make your way up the hill from there. | tallblond | 07/06/2014 |
| Drove up from Wormit for a 3 TuMP circuit with Jim and Trichy then back to Helmsdale Hostel. Did the HuMP, Marilyn then TuMP. | Dugswell2 | 24/05/2014 |
| Galltywenallt | 30/07/2013 | |
| From the Craggie Road to the south. Easy moorland with little feel of being on a hill. Wind farmers busy trashing land to the south, so a bit of a last chance to see job. | fasgadh | 29/07/2011 |
| Revisit. From NE, footbridge near Loch Ascaig outflow, fairly boggy approach on a wet windy day. | RHW | 23/05/2011 |
| 500h Mar | Thearlaichdubh | 16/06/2009 |
| Parked on road at entrance to Borrobol Lodge. Crossed the river and railway - one train going south. Footprints on road to find a small bridge crossing the stream flowing into Loch Ascaig at its west end. Uphill on dryish moor to heather areas and green patches. No deer, grouse or sheep. To sloping top of hill - column about 1/2 mile ahead. To trig 6874 at 11.20. No cairn. Rain came on. | arranc | 25/05/2009 |
| Bill | garbo1103 | 26/05/2008 |
| From E end and the S of loch after keeper guided me. | Eddie | 30/01/2006 |
| Date is first visit. Notes from later...pleasantish approach, dullish hill. tk from Borrobol, pass E end of loch (f/b) then boggy slopes; (2) ditto from NE see trig | RHW | 16/10/2001 |
| Rod M | 16/04/2023 | |
| Lindsay M | 16/04/2023 | |
| danpquinn | 28/01/2023 | |
| tallscottishguy | 16/10/2022 | |
| govanah | 21/04/2022 | |
| lindaross | 11/06/2021 | |
| hill walker | 28/11/2020 | |
| Gavin Theobald | 25/02/2020 | |
| Simon Winton | 06/08/2019 | |
| weaselmaster | 21/07/2019 | |
| Martyn1 | 09/04/2019 | |
| Glenysj21 | 09/04/2019 | |
| foggieclimber | 16/02/2019 | |
| AndyS | 26/07/2018 | |
| needanewdog | 30/08/2017 | |
| IainT | 09/07/2017 | |
| iainwalton | 31/05/2017 | |
| petesimpson | 16/08/2016 | |
| lordtonult | 21/07/2016 | |
| sarah mundell | 08/05/2016 | |
| Iona | 08/05/2016 | |
| Tom Mundell | 07/05/2016 | |
| Tony S | 30/03/2016 | |
| PGCE | 27/03/2016 | |
| RichardM | 07/11/2015 | |
| Arctica | 04/08/2015 |