Hills of Britain and Ireland
OS Map of Creag a' Lain
Height: 609m / 1997ft • Prominence: 114m / 374ft • Summit : rock 130m NNE of cairn • Trip reports (hill-bagging)

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Spatial NI has online OSNI mapping. Click "Basemap Gallery" (4 squares icon at the top).
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The other photos have been geo-tagged as on or around the summit. For less busy mountains, it can be a little hit and miss.


Trotternish
After camping overnight in a valley in the Quiraing, continuing the Skye Trail along the Trotternish Ridge. A much colder and less sunny day than the day before.
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Dawn Colour at the Red Fox
It would be wrong to say I was woken by my alarm at 0300 as I hadn't really slept but that was when it went off. There was already some nice colour to the north east - See www.flickr.com/photos/highlandscape/52989683439/in/dateposted/ www.flickr.com/photos/highlandscape/52989683439/in/datepo... ; but we were pinning our hopes on it pushing across to be above the 'Red Fox' by sunrise. It looked unlikely as there was again very little cloud in the direction of interest but, as had happened the previous evening, we got lucky with some wispy cloud eventually catching some dawn colour; this taken almost exactly as the sun broke the horizon over my left shoulder.
17-Jun-23 • Stoates-Findhorn • flickr
2023 dawn hilloftheredfox isleofskye olympusem1mkii reeds scotland sgùrramhadaidhruaidh skye summer sunrise troternishridge reflections twilight stoates steveoates olympus steveoatesphotographycouk 53000317951

Another Evening With the Fox
For several years Iain and I have discussed doing a sunset to sunrise summer shoot. On Friday we finally got around to it, choosing The Hill of the Red Fox (Sgùrr a' Mhadaidh Ruaidh) on the Trotternish ridge as our location. Access is via several miles of dirt-track so it wasn't surprising to find we had the place to ourselves - besides several trilion midges of course!! They really were awful and very nearly spoiled the whole event. I thought I would get a couple of hours respite when we finally lost the light after sunset and returned to our tents (first camping for years!!) but was horrified to find I was sharing it with many thousand of the little blighters and am covered in bites today. Anyway, though we didn't get the amazing sunset we were hoping for, there was some lovely evening light on the mountain and the small lochans were generally calm enough for some perfect reflections.
16-Jun-23 • Stoates-Findhorn • flickr
2023 hilloftheredfox isleofskye olympusem1mkii reeds scotland sgùrramhadaidhruaidh skye summer sunset troternishridge reflections twilight stoates steveoates olympus steveoatesphotographycouk 52982551696

Videos
Filmed 28th May 2017 Episode 3 on The Skye Trail. Isle of Skye. Highlands. Scotland. UK Locations on the way Flodigarry , Loch ...
Notes
- Data: Database of British and Irish Hills v18.2
- Maps: We use OS mapping for England, Scotland, Wales, and the Isle of Man. Sadly, Channel Islands, Northern (OSNI) and Southern Ireland (OSI) mapping isn't available online, so we use Openstreetmap.