Scotland

Beinn na Socaich

Height
1007 m · 3,304 ft
Grid reference
NN 23632 73476
Coordinates
56.81929, -4.89136
County / area
Highland
OS Landranger
41
OS Explorer
392
Summit feature
outcrop 8m SSW of cairn
Key col
NN236731 (988 m)

Access rights here

Yes Right to roam: Statutory right of responsible access to most land and inland water.

Yes Wild camping: Wild camping is broadly lawful under the 2003 Act.

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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Civil twilight ends

Computed astronomically for 56.819, -4.891. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Summit weather live

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Forecast adjusted to summit altitude. Weather data from MET Norway (CC BY 4.0).

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is outcrop 8m SSW of cairn. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method
Abney level
Record revised
28-Oct-01
Drop measured from
NN236731 · 988 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

Beinn na Socaich is not counted as an independent hill in its own right. In prominence terms it belongs to Stob Choire Claurigh (1,177 m) — the nearest Marilyn you can reach from this summit without first dropping below its key col, 988 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

PeakHeightDistance
Stob Coire Easain 1080 m 0.8 km
Stob Coire an Laoigh 1116 m 1 km
Caisteal 1106 m 1.2 km
Stob Coire Cath na Sine 1082.4 m 1.7 km
Stob a' Choire Leith 1105 m 2 km
Sgurr Choinnich Mor 1094 m 2.2 km