Suilven, Assynt Guided Walk ✨🗻

Suilven, Assynt 🧙‍♂️🗻✨

📆 28th August 2026

🕛08:00am-17:00pm

📍Assynt, Scottish Highlands

💵 £70.00 per person

Join Sacred Mountain Guiding on a guided hike to the majestic summit of Suilven. This iconic peak, whilst only 731m heigh, is one of Scotland’s best known mountains thanks to it’s distinct shape! Lying in a beautifully wild and remote area in the west of Sutherland, the sacred mountain rises from a wilderness landscape of moorland, bogs and lochans... our journey is an out and back route of 12.5 miles (20km) and with an ascent of 947m, a good level of hill fitness is required.

Why not extend your trip to the magical Assynt by adding one of our other guided hikes -

Quinag - 29th August 2026

Ben More & Conival -30th August 2026

Or join us for the entire walking weekend -

Assynt Walking Weekend - 28th-30th August 2026

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The following extract from A Man in Assynt by Norman MacCaig sums up very well our feelings about this beautifully vast, dramatic and special landscape -

 "Who owns this landscape? Has owning anything to do with love? For it and I have a love-affair, so nearly human we even have quarrels.

When I intrude too confidently it rebuffs me with a wind like a hand or puts in my way a quaking bog or loch where no loch should be.

Or I turn stonily away, refusing to notice the rouged rocks, the mascara under a dripping ledge, even the tossed, the stony limbs waiting.

I can’t pretend it gets sick for me in my absence, though I get sick for it. Yet I love it with special gratitude, since it sends me no letters, is never jealous and, expecting nothing from me, gets nothing but cigarette packets and footprints."

🎒Kit List

Waterproof jacket & trousers

Backpack with waterproof liner or cover

Hiking trousers

Hiking boots or shoes

Gloves and warm hat

Sun cream, sun hat & sunglasses

Midlayer fleece or jacket

Insulated jacket either down or synthetic

Packed lunch, snacks and plenty of water for the day

🚅Getting there

Assynt is so far north that we would probably recommend a car for our events in Assynt as there is very little in terms of public transport to the start of our events. Sacred Mountain Guiding can offer some help in terms of lifts from local accommodation for those that are on public transport, however!

There are plenty of accommodation options including Inchnadamph Hostel, Clachtoll Beach Campsite and various hotels & AirBNBs.

✨Important Information

 We will meet in at 8:00am and hope to be back at our meeting point by 5pm, however, this is an estimate.

This is long mountain day with steep and complex terrain.

Any questions? Our frequently asked questions can be found here!

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