An Riabhachan West Top

About An Riabhachan West Top

An Riabhachan West Top is a Munro Top of An Riabhachan, reaching 1,038 metres and also ranking as a Simm and a Murdo. The parent mountain lies in Highland's Skye and Lochalsh district, standing in isolation at the western end of Loch Mullardoch, around 35 kilometres east of Kyle of Lochalsh and ten kilometres from any public road.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on An Riabhachan (CC BY-SA 4.0). Heights, prominence and grid references come from the Database of British & Irish Hills, not from Wikipedia.

Access rights here

General position for Scotland — local byelaws, seasonal restrictions and closures can override it. Full details: access rights in Scotland ·check another location.

Daylight at this summit today

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Computed astronomically for 57.355, -5.131. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is tiny cairn by rock. That distinction matters on broad or flat tops, where the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

Abney level

Record revised

12-Dec-14

Drop measured from

NH119336 · 1001 m

Survey notes are field observations recorded in the Database of British & Irish Hills (v18.3, CC BY 4.0) by the hill-surveying community.

Which hill this one belongs to

An Riabhachan West Top is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to An Riabhachan (1,129 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 1,001 m.

Grouping is by prominence alone: a summit belongs to the nearest higher Marilyn it connects to without a deeper intervening col. Over a large massif that can gather hills no one would walk in a single day, and which few would describe as parts of the same mountain — it is a measure of independence, not a suggested route.

Nearest listed peaks