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7-day forecast
Open-Meteo (CC BY 4.0)Best time to hike
Best months: May–Aug · highs 12–16 °C (54–61 °F)
- J5°2°272
- F6°2°214
- M7°3°213
- A9°4°128
- M12°6°113
- J14°9°114
- J16°11°127
- A16°11°159
- S14°9°214
- O11°7°244
- N8°4°262
- D6°2°237
Average high °C · low °C · precipitation mm per month. Highlighted: best months.
How we pick months
Best months are those where the 1981–2010 average daily high is 10–27 °C (50–81 °F), the average overnight low is 0 °C (32 °F) or warmer, and average precipitation is 200 mm (7.9 in) or less. Values are long-term monthly averages for the ~1 km cell at the trail point on the map, from CHELSA V2.1 climatologies (Karger et al., CC0), not a forecast. Higher or more exposed parts of a route can be colder, wetter or snowier.
About this trail
Historic route used by the postie to deliver mail to Achiltibuie
OpenStreetMap (ODbL).
Trail facts
- Difficulty
- Moderate (4/10) (mountain_hiking (T2) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL))
- Mapped length
- 8.9 km · 5.5 mi (OSM route, Waymarked Trails)
- Mountain range
- Northwest Highlands (Northwest European Highlands; GMBA)
- Nearest town
- 7.2 km N of Ullapool (Highland, Scotland) · GeoNames
- Best months
- May–Aug
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Region
- Highland
- Continent
- Europe
- Route type
- Local route
- SAC scale (OSM)
- mountain hiking
- Route centre
- 57.9686, -5.2129
- Route start
- 57.9634, -5.1547
- OpenStreetMap
- relation 17528421
How it’s scored
Moderate (4/10). Official rating: mountain_hiking (T2) · OpenStreetMap SAC scale (ODbL).
A score is omitted when we do not have an official rating or enough measured length and elevation gain to compute one. Nothing is guessed. Read the NPS method: https://www.nps.gov/shen/planyourvisit/how-to-determine-hiking-difficulty.htm
Hikers can rate difficulty from 1 to 10 (1 = flat, short, easy walk for anyone; 3 = gentle hills, a little effort; 5 = moderate climbs, some fitness needed; 7 = steep or long, solid fitness required; 10 = extremely strenuous or technical; long steep climbing; experienced hikers only). The community average is shown once at least 3 people have rated the trail; until then the official or computed score is used when we have one.
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