Scotland-Landscapes.com - The Foinaven and Reay Forest Hills Group

The group of hills comprising of Foinaven and the Reay Forest areas are exceptionally wild and remote and include the Corbetts: Foinaven, Arkle, Meall Horn, Meallan Liath Mhic Dhughaill, Ben Hee, Cranstackie and Beinn Spionnaidh. This is a great area, well worth exploration and much less frequented than either Ben Hope or the more popular Assynt hills. The group occupies a huge area between the A838 Lairg to Durness road in the west and the A836 Lairg to Tongue and Altnaharra to Hope roads in the east with several main access points around these roads.

A track between Allnabad, on the Altnaharra to Hope road, and West Merkland traverses the range between Ben Hee and Beinn Direach over the Bealach nam Meirleach providing good access to the southern hills.

The A838 gives access to Ben Hee from West Merkland; Meallan Liath Mhic Dhughaill from Kinloch; Arkle and Meall Horn from near Achfary; Foinaven from Gualin House between Rhiconich and Durness; and Cranstackie and Beinn Spionnaidh from either Rhigolter or Polla.

Ben Hee

Ben Hee is a fine Corbett, a big mass of a hill with several ridges and corries radiating from its ...
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Winter Afternoon - Arkle & Foinaven from Ben Hope, Northern Sutherland

Foinaven (Foinne Bhein) and Arkle

Foinaven and its neighbour Arkle are amongst Scotland's finest and starkly beautiful mountains; Foinaven is one of the highest Corbetts ...
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A panorama of the southern Reay Forest hills from the southern slopes of Ben Hope, Northern Sutherland — A panorama of the southern Reay Forest hills from the southern slopes of Ben Hope

A panorama of the northern Reay Forest hills from the southern slopes of Ben Hope, Northern Sutherland — A panorama of the southern Reay Forest hills from the southern slopes of Ben Hope

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Late afternoon on beautiful Ceannabeinne beach (Traigh Allt Chailgeag)

Ceannabeinne Durness – Grey November Day but Still Beautiful

Saturday was a grey day in the far north, there was some mizzle in Caithness to start. The forecast had seemed okay so I set out with my boy to head west and do something. No firm plans, just a need (on my part) to get out of the house ...
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Dawn Over the Kyle of Tongue, Northern Sutherland

Ben Hope Summit Camp

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Photo of a Puffin surveying the geo around Wester Clett, "Puffin Island"

Puffin Colony – Wester Clett, Sutherland

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