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Name:Hill of Tain
Hill number:9306
Height:288m / 945ft
Parent (Ma):1108  Cnoc an t-Sabhail
RHB Section:15B: Loch Vaich to Moray Firth
County/UA:Highland
Catchment:Dornoch
Class:Tump (200-299m)
(Tu,2)
Grid ref:NH 73958 81131
Summit feature:vegetated mound
Drop:33m
Col:255m  NH736814  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 21
(1:25k) 438W
Observations:heather mound 30m NE at NH 73969 81157 may be as high
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 13 users)ByDate of Ascent
Up from Pulpit Rock & across felled area. Easier descent as joined RHW's track at 74376/81294. It joins lower path at 74591/81344.duchally29/08/2023
From E, path NW out of car park to Pulpit Rock, path R for 100m then unmapped track L for 450m, then R across replanted felled area to summit. Another mild sunny afternoonRHW28/03/2022
Suggest you get to NH 7547 8104 and approach the summit from there. I didn't and is wasn't great.jimbloomer06/05/2021
Approached from Pulpit Rock. Watched the aircraft practice bombing on Tain Range.BigJ01/04/2021
1 of 3: From Tain Hill CP at 753813. Waymarked path to Pulpit Rock then across a felled area. Solitary post at the HP.ChrisR16/09/2019
Easy after Cnoc an t Sabhail once you get to the forest road, through tidy clear fell and back to Tain Hill CP.Thearlaichdubh21/05/2017
hill walker25/12/2022
Gemzc01/03/2020
keithpostie15/02/2016
Martin R26/09/2015
Arctica30/01/2015
grumpy07/06/2010
Adrian25/01/2010