Sgor Gaoith

About Sgor Gaoith

Sgor Gaoith, the windy peak, is the high point of a long north-south ridge in the far western Cairngorms. Gleann Eanaich and Loch Eanaich separate that ridge from the Braeriach massif to the east.

The two flanks could hardly be less alike. Steep cliffs drop from the eastern edge straight to Loch Eanaich, while the western side is heather slopes broken by shallow corries and approached from Glen Feshie. The name covers the whole mountain as well as the summit; its other tops are Sgoran Dubh Mor to the north and Carn Ban Mor to the south.

Background written from facts in the Wikipedia article on Sgòr Gaoith (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 57.069, -3.811. Plan your finish with the daylight safety planner.

Finding the summit

The recorded summit point is ground on edge of crag. On broad or flat summits the obvious cairn is not always the true high point.

Survey method

obvious summit/Leica RX1250

Record revised

28-Aug-24

Drop measured from

NN 9156 9557 · 873.2 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.

Get food nearby

3 places to eat or drink within 10 km of the summit, rated under the Food Hygiene Rating Scheme (Scotland runs its own Food Hygiene Information Scheme, a pass/fail equivalent).

Classifications and ratings are the local authority's own and can be coarse — this is a lead, not a guarantee of opening hours or that food is served to non-residents. Follow a name through to the official rating page to check, and confirm before you rely on it.

Food hygiene data from the Food Standards Agency and Food Standards Scotland (Open Government Licence v3.0). Distances and directions computed by OpenFell from the summit.

The Sgor Gaoith group

6 other listed summits sit in the same prominence group, with Sgor Gaoith as the independent hill at its head.

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