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| Name: | Hill of Sandwick |
| Hill number: | 12041 |
| Height: | 65m / 213ft |
| Parent (Ma): | none |
| RHB Section: | 22: Shetland Islands |
| County/UA: | Shetland Islands |
| Island: | West Burra |
| Class: | Tump (0-99m), SIB (Tu,0,SIB) |
| Grid ref: | HU 36136 32754 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 65m |
| Col: | Sea |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 4 (1:25k) 466N |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 49 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Exactly as PeterD 10/5/23. Lovely short walk. | Crib Goch | 24/05/2023 |
| From road end at Sandwick, seals on beach, around to north of house through gates and then up the hill. | PeterD | 10/05/2023 |
| Parked close to the church. Walked towards Sandwick, through two gates and then a wonderful walk to this summit. Superb views out to Foula on a great day. Solo. | bolton | 07/05/2022 |
| Lunch on island near Papil. | N.Morters | 26/04/2022 |
| A great 2hr run with L - on a lovely calm-ish warm-ish morning. Down the road from Meal to Minn road end then back along these familiar cliff tops and hills. Felt like we were saying goodbye to friends as we have to leave Burra in 2 weeks after 5 wonderful months living here. So long and thanks for all the fish (as Douglas Adams wrote when the dolphins left planet earth) - but we will be back. Great grassy running on short cropped grass. Magical. | Chris Pearson | 12/05/2021 |
| With L on our favourite short 2 hr walk from the house along the road down the island to Hill of Sandwick and back. Sunshine and occasional 15 min fierce sideways snow showers in a bitter NW wind. We took shelter behind the last house to let one blizzard pass over whilst the nearby seals on the beach and Shetland ponies snoozed and munched on -impervious. My ski googles a great help to combat weeping eyes in the wind and to face head on the next snow storm on the return walk. Back by lunchtime to hear of death of Prince Philip - which raised fond memories of the superb D of E Award - an excellent legacy. | Chris Pearson | 09/04/2021 |
| 10th ascent. 2 hr wal from the house with L on a grey, windy (cold NW), overcast day. Highlights being the animals en-route, throwing a ball for ever keen Mickey the sheepdog, stroking the Miniature Shetland ponies who tried to eat our jacket cords, and seeing the seals hauled out on their beach. | Chris Pearson | 03/04/2021 |
| With L on a lovely sunny and calm spring like wander down the coast to Sandwick Hill and back. After 10 weeks of such outings finally no need to wear over-trousers or jacket against the wind today. Spring confirmed by 1st of the early lambs in the fields and daffodils just showing their yellow tips, and buds on bushes noticeable. Apparently 5.5 degrees is the critical temp for growth to begin on Shetland -normally mid March -earlier in sheltered places.Even the seals hauled out at Sandwick were vocal today. Detoured down the slabby rocks to carefully find the big sea arch well seen from Meal -2 miles to the N. Decided not to risk crossing the arch top as easy but slabby slide-offs on both sides. | Chris Pearson | 07/03/2021 |
| Sunny and a whopping 8 degrees thanks to S winds -so nice - but into a near-gale headwind for the 3 miles road walk to Minn which made for exhausting forward leaning progress. L felt like we were in a infinity pool where you swim against a current without actually going anywhere. Eyeballs feel the most tired from the wind! Non-the-less a useful walk down as we identified 26 different houses we would like to buy! Back along the cliff tops -magnificent with the noisy crashing waves in the noisy wind - hard to hear the phone call telling me dad's falls alarm had (wrongly) gone off. Hitched back with friendly Brian the Brough crofter. Later revisited the honesty cake shed at Minn. | Chris Pearson | 22/02/2021 |
| Walk from the house to the summit and back with L. Frozen grass gave enough grip as long as we kept away from the sheets & streaks of water ice. Kept well back from cliff edge. Icy grass and steep drops not a good combination. Crept up close to view the seals on the beach below without disturbing them - they are so fat ! Sadly a family later came along and went onto the beach and off the seals went. Got an ice- cream headache in the icy cold N breeze and zero temps -but well worth it. | Chris Pearson | 31/01/2021 |
| Frozen water everywhere. Bogs, streams. lakes, ground . All solid now for 3 days. Walk from house with L. Huge lake to SW of hill solid - resisted(just) the magnetic pull to walk out onto the middle having recently watched a dramatic video of people doing just that in US with predictable results. The flows and sheets of ice draining the boggy lower ground resembled glaciers. I'm sure I have read that snow and ice on Shetland is rare! Over Virda and down to Minn beach -then the 3 mile enjoyable minor road walk back -although frozen cheeks being into the wind. | Chris Pearson | 29/01/2021 |
| The most perfect morning -hard overnight frost, ground frozen hard. BUT BEST OF ALL NO WIND. Hills snow dusted and the low morning sun giving magnificent light to the views which are magnificent anyway. There is a big scary geo to the west of the summit -keep well back-the playground of enigmatic fulmers. Followed fence again to end view the stacks. | Chris Pearson | 25/01/2021 |
| Icy Westerlies driving stinging hail showers backing North Westerlies increasing from fresh breeze to gale. Perfect for a determined well wrapped up lurch with L from Meal along the frothing coast south of Brough Hill -where the sloping bog and grass meets the low tilted rocks - with a small arch filling today with booming waves . Family sledging on the icy grass above Meal. Seals hauled out on beach before grassy ascent of Sandwick Hill -then storm force winds and stinging hail into our faces to go and re-photo the arched West Sandwick Stack... and then the sun came out -such is Shetland in winter. | Chris Pearson | 10/01/2021 |
| A favourite dramatic coastal walk along to Minn beach with L, taking photos - particularly of the spectacular West and East Sandwick Stack Tumps. Sadly, the overnight snow had mostly melted from these lower coastal hills whilst the rest of Shetland remained white above @100m. Also sadly the low winter morning sun failed to dazzle through or under the cloud (until the afternoon). Non-the- less we were treated to folded geology, big scary drops, views of snow on Foula, seals hauled out close by, and our first two otters. | Chris Pearson | 08/01/2021 |
| Set off in the cold half light of daybreak at 8.15 am with L for a 5 mile run down the island before her online work meeting. Chill N wind with temps around 4 degrees then wind chill. Magical to be by the sea and above cliffs with views out to misty Foula -with its lighthouse still flashing . Nice smooth grassy hill -esp. if you keep right of the last cottage approaching from Sandwick. Tiptoed over the half frozen crunchy bogs to return over Mid-Field. | Chris Pearson | 29/12/2020 |
| A lovely grassy coastal gentle run with L from Virda. Watched 2 seals bobbing in one of the inlets who equally engrossed in watching us. Fresh breeze was blowing airborne sea froth over the summit. Lovely smooth grassy run down to Bridge End and back to 'civilisation'. | Chris Pearson | 21/12/2020 |
| As jonglew. | Campbell Singer | 21/06/2019 |
| From road end (Sandwick). Pleasant hill - nice location. | ger | 20/06/2019 |
| Solo. From end of public road, Passed N of Loch of Sandwick. | pwbellarby | 12/06/2019 |
| With A Whatley | Thearlaichdubh | 11/06/2019 |
| From road end near the beach to the NE Good cliffs and rock flora on western side | vegibagger | 08/06/2019 |
| A drop dead gorgeous little hill, climbed from Bridge End. | Gill | 29/08/2018 |
| Parked at end of the minor road. Walked down track to last house, across a damp pasture and straight up the hill. Splendid views greet the summiter. | jonglew | 29/08/2018 |
| From minor road to NE | NormanW | 29/06/2018 |
| Bagged with Tricky Speirs. | Dugswell2 | 08/06/2013 |
| Bagged w Jenx on Burra trip. | nordicstar | 04/06/2013 |
| RHW | 04/06/2013 | |
| GaryJones | 11/10/2023 | |
| alda | 15/08/2023 | |
| govanah | 11/05/2022 | |
| Pete R | 23/04/2022 | |
| Simon Winton | 31/05/2021 | |
| samblackburn | 27/01/2020 | |
| PM | 15/06/2019 | |
| richtea5040 | 13/06/2019 | |
| Alan Whatley | 11/06/2019 | |
| AndyS | 09/06/2019 | |
| SteveG | 09/06/2019 | |
| Martin R | 15/05/2019 | |
| mae | 08/07/2018 | |
| jimbloomer | 08/07/2018 | |
| softsquare | 25/07/2017 | |
| Tricky | 08/06/2013 | |
| bjewing | 07/06/2013 | |
| Colin Crawford | 06/06/2013 | |
| Adrian | 04/06/2013 | |
| ajwxyzt | 04/06/2013 | |
| chalky1953 | 31/05/2013 | |
| Sherlock | 28/05/2013 |