| Name: | Beinn Direach |
| Hill number: | 1135 |
| Height: | 688.9m / 2260ft |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Topographical area: | HN01 Foinaven-hee |
| SMC/RHB section: | 16B: Durness to Loch Shin |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Dornoch, Eriboll |
| Watershed: | Lowestoft to Duncansby Head, Land's End to John o' Groats, Dornoch Firth, The Lizard to Dunnet Head |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Graham, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,G,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NC 40620 38048 |
| Summit feature: | embedded slabby rock 30m NNE of cairn |
| Drop: | 152m |
| Col: | 536.9m NC 40038 38550  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 16 (1:25k) 447S |
| Observations: | cairn is at NC 40612 38017 |
| Survey: | Abney level/Leica Disto D510/Leica RX1250 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 200 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| 3rd of the day and from Carn An Tionail via the col. Easy climb to the summit. Warm and sunny but clouded over. With Anne B and D. Dave | bolton | 12/05/2024 |
| Across from Carn an Tionail. Beautiful and peaceful at the head of the glen between the two Grahams. With Phil, Anne & Ralph. | Dangerous Dave | 12/05/2024 |
| West Merkland - landrover track to the 266m point. Just beyond this an atv track which goes round Meall a'Chleirich to 615m on the slopes of B.Direach. It also continues down to the bealaich between the two Corbetts. Horrible track but better than the surrounding ground. | iangalbraith | 26/04/2024 |
| From W Merkland in foul weather. A long slog up A' Ghlaise on an ATV track then Tionall, Direach and Meall a' Chleirich. Interesting descent to Loch an t-Seilg initially on a deer track, then negotiating massive boulders and holes. | sclater | 10/09/2023 |
| Cloudy and wet. If descending by the atv track from the col before Meall a`Chleirich don`t take the one indicated by the two short posts.Carry on to the next one. Too miserable weatherwise for the Hump. | ARM | 10/09/2023 |
| With Rhona and Struie. Parked on grass verge at West Merkland. Proceed north up estate track until past the marked right turn to climb Ben Hee. There is a hidden from view metal bridge to cross Allt na Glaise. Up the long, easy slope of A'Glaise and easy walking along the ridge to the first Fiona. Carn an Tionail. Head SE on easy ground to bealach and short climb to Beinn Direach. Descend SW and if you're lucky you can pick up an ATV track which goes all the way back to the original estate track, contouring around the base of Meall A'Chleirich. | DampandDusty | 23/07/2023 |
| Up the landrover track from West Merkland. From the high point of track there is a well defined atv track not shown on any maps that skirts round the west slopes of Meall a'Chleirich to the bealach between aforementioned and Beinn Direach. I missed the start of it on way up as I had come off the main track too soon not knowing that it was there to use. The atv track also continues up the south slopes of Beinn Direach for a bit and then continued over open hillside on good firm ground to top. Returned by same route with a short diversion to take in top of Meall a' Chleirich on way back. Evening climb so got back just before dark at 9pm. | Jossker | 05/05/2023 |
| From Carn an Tionail, having started at West Merkland. | benalder284 | 25/02/2023 |
| See log for Meall a'Chleirich | carole engel | 14/06/2022 |
| Solo trip, with Carn an Tionail. Ptarmigan on summit. Return ATV track can be picked up from at least 200m N of the pass between CaT and Meall a'Chleirich. It gets very faint in the bog but rejoins the main track between the two quarries marked on the 1:25k. | Invicta14 | 20/04/2022 |
| Ben Hee (C), Beinn Direach (G), Càrn an Tionail (G), Meallan Liath Coire Mhic Dhughaill (C) | Huwel | 09/11/2021 |
| Set off in cloud but all tops cleared before I got to them. Easy access via track then up to A'Ghlais and on to Carn an Tionail.No problems crossing over to Beinn Direach and down over Meall a Chlerich for an early finish. | dickscroop | 24/08/2020 |
| Via Carn an Tionail, having started at West Merkland. | willyross | 08/08/2020 |
| tick | chazzyboy19 | 07/06/2019 |
| Nice hill from West Merkland up south ridge down to bealach & 152.1m of accent to Beinn Direach. 6hours50. | rogreeves | 21/05/2019 |
| From Ben Hee. Back down the path then north to the high point of the track. Pathless and quite hard work on a warm, cloudless, hazy day up the long slope. A rather featureless hill overshadowed on both sides. | Owen B | 22/04/2019 |
| A nice White Christmas walk in soft snow. Over Carn an Tionail, then on to Beinn Direach. Nice easy descent to the bealach, then an ATV track goes down to the valley. | Gill | 25/12/2017 |
| Took a while to locate the col coming from Carn an Tionail in mist, but only problem after that was the wet slippy ground. | IanHHill | 11/08/2017 |
| with Carn an Tional. reasonable day | oatcake | 09/07/2017 |
| 2 of 5: From Meall a Chleirich. | ChrisR | 08/05/2017 |
| Second visit, collecting surrounding tops | Colin Crawford | 18/06/2016 |
| Circuit of tops from West Merkland. | Smudge | 13/05/2016 |
| Just this one for today - followed ATV track from Bealach Meirleich road. | fasgadh | 10/10/2015 |
| From West Merkland via Tionail and a pass where a heavy shower and rough terrain took their toll. Fortunately on the summit the sun and clear air returned. | Topographer57 | 21/08/2015 |
| ?? | ancient brit | 01/01/2014 |
| round of 3 from west merkland, beinn direach, carn an tionail,and mellan liath coire mhic dhughaill. | robertphillips | 07/07/2013 |
| MC JC O MH BH. ice day. Managed to avoid stalkers. | Martin66 | 07/09/2012 |
| self | davidsbatty | 23/06/2012 |
| Galltywenallt | 01/06/2012 | |
| Alone | SpudGunn | 27/05/2012 |
| alone | SheilaS | 01/05/2012 |
| Solo. After MLCMD, SB, and CaT. | amswanston | 15/04/2012 |
| Solo | HFB | 27/07/2011 |
| With Ben Hee, from West Merkland. After Hee dropped down to strath and straight up Direach. Back down ridge over top to car. | nordicstar | 24/04/2011 |
| from Tionail. Coffee sheltering from SE wind. Downhill over stone slabs with some side stepping to a low point in a very complex boiler plate col and up over more stones and boulders on largely gentle slopes to top at 13.40. M L C M D, Tionail, Hope in haze, Hee and Ben More. | arranc | 25/07/2008 |
| Ascended from West Merkland on a sunny day. | JohnW | 15/06/2008 |
| SOLO | donmeister | 25/05/2008 |
| Bill | garbo1103 | 07/06/2003 |
| Solo | fergie | 27/05/2003 |
| From West Merkland | BLACKHILL | 31/05/2001 |
| fine stony hill, superb neighbourhood. West Merkland 383329, ascend from 418367 | RHW | 26/07/2000 |
| Round from Meallan Liath Coire Mhic Dhughaill to Ben Hee that included run out to missing Graham Sabhal Beag. | Eddie | 09/06/1996 |
| A straight line from Ben Hee North Top. | Alan Moore | 25/03/1991 |
| Kevin29035 | 02/09/2024 | |
| kiltedbiggles | 30/08/2024 | |
| anguscow | 26/07/2024 | |
| dave g | 24/07/2024 | |
| Sick Kid | 15/06/2024 | |
| weaselmaster | 15/06/2024 | |
| Tricky | 25/04/2024 |