Walk: 5-star views at soggy Score Horan

📌 Waternish, Isle of Skye
★★★

There aren’t too many vistas which take the breath away like Score Horan does. Descending from Cnoc Breac, you break through a final line of trees to be greeted with magnificent cliffs plunging 100 metres to a raised beach, beyond which the Ascrib Islands and Trotternish break the mirrored surface of Loch Snizort. Unfortunately the rest of the route, across featureless moorland, fails to measure up to the climax. In particular, the middle section is navigated by a sodden path which is barely worthy of the name in places; we hope your boots are waterproof!

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish at minor road end, south side of Gillen, Skye

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NG 268595

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 57.542697,-6.567726

❌ No public transport within 1 mi

🚗 Car park (don’t block turning area)

📝 Key info

▶ 5 km / 3 mi | ▲ 180 m | ⌛ 2-2.5 hr

Features: △ Cnoc Breac (233 m); ⛰️ Score Horan cliffs / Beinn an Sguirr

⬤ Moderate | Excellent tracks for first half and last section. Path over Cnoc Breac to cliffs is intermittent and very boggy, marked with very infrequent posts; clifftop section mostly gives better going.

➡️ Anticlockwise circuit: start – track south then east to quarry on Cnoc Breac – Cnoc Breac summits – Biod a’ Ghoill – Score Horan – start

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Horses near the finish; butterflies and moths once the drizzle cleared.

Weather: Dreich at first, drizzle fading, temperature in mid teens.

August 2019