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Name: | Tinto |
Hill number: | 1678 |
Height: | 711.6m / 2335ft |
RHB Section: | 27A: Ayr to the River Clyde |
Donald area: | Culter Hills and Tinto |
County/UA: | South Lanarkshire |
Catchment: | Clyde |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Graham, Donald, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,G,D,DN,Y) |
Grid ref: | NS 95322 34368 |
Summit feature: | very large cairn |
Drop: | 443m |
Col: | 269m NS840201 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 72 (1:25k) 335 |
Observations: | trig point 65m W at NS 95287 34366 is lower |
Survey: | Leica RX1250 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 777 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Parked at the car park to the north and hiked up. Clear paths with other hikers too, but very cold and snowing at the top so didn't stop for long before heading back down. | SootAndShale | 09/03/2024 |
Tinto from the North (Walkhighlands route) | hummusg | 16/02/2024 |
Approx 40th Xmas Day morning ascent | Thearlaichdubh | 25/12/2023 |
Cold clear day. Ran up with Sarah from the excellent car park - NS 9648 3736. Great views. Good obvious track. Also visited Scaut Hill. | HardenC | 29/11/2023 |
First Graham | m11chael | 11/09/2023 |
With Sue from the free car park taking in Scaut hill on our return. Excellent views on a clear warm day. | Frank | 14/08/2023 |
With Marion and Alan for their joint birthday bash | Colin Crawford | 17/07/2023 |
Alan-s and Marion-s Birthday. Bub's Meets. | softsquare | 17/07/2023 |
Quick ascent from Winston to try and beat incoming bad weather. Nice views but soaked on descent!! With Mart. | John Eley | 25/06/2023 |
RBS HWC lunch outing with Jim P, Jim McF, Kenny & Claire, Alison A, Derek & Sean?, Frances, Ian R and Brody the dog. 2 hours up, 1 h 12 min down. Dry, light wind and excellent lunch in Elphinstone afterwards. | langskill | 26/02/2023 |
Climbed with Galloway Mountaineering Club | RO-7023 | 02/01/2023 |
From the Fallburn car park; up and down in 1h30m trying to avoid the incoming storm. Extremely windy on the summit | Rockdoctor | 09/10/2022 |
Fellburn cp, main path an back. Amazing views. | Flatfield | 16/09/2022 |
Quick up and down, tried to beat the rain, but failed. 1hr 20 for the 7km | Nicky C | 05/08/2022 |
Quick up and down on a cold day. | jigglybones | 17/02/2022 |
Tinto: the usual route from the north. Walkhighlands route | hummusg | 30/01/2022 |
Murky day. Northern path, return same way with 2 local lads, discussing UFC and Lanark pub recommendations. Fogbow and brocken spectre on summit, at times very intense. Other visible hills above cloud inversion were White Coomb, Broad Law and Culter groups. At dawn an entire flock of about a hundred sheep on the hillside were sleeping/resting in a long line single file.. from a distance it looked like a trench had been filled with white gravel. They had all dispersed by time I descended | Nick Canute | 14/01/2022 |
Path a little boggy but nothing a pair of walking boots can't cope with. One portaloo in the car park. Not icy. | RoslynClimbsHills | 30/12/2021 |
From Fallburn. Really biting E gale 8:30-10:30. Lovely views as usual. Not icy. | Thearlaichdubh | 25/12/2021 |
Solo walk very good path from the car park to the summit. | colinfielding | 22/11/2021 |
With Cat in glorious crisp conditions. Just under an hour to the top but that was me - Cat would have smashed 45 minutes! Enjoyed the views for twenty minutes then back with a bitter north wind but well worth the effort. | SS | 21/11/2021 |
Up and back from North car park | prwild | 18/09/2021 |
solo | jordanwalmsley1987 | 08/09/2021 |
From main car park in the afternoon, muck quieter than expected. Up the Tourist route. Great views at top.optimistic Toposcope with some of the hills named. | PeterD | 24/07/2021 |
Ascent from Wiston, down via Lochlyoch Hill. Mobbed at top, overwise nobody. | Iloveducks | 17/07/2021 |
Tinto hill from Wiston where there is little car parking. A pleasant route following the path northwards thro' the YMCA Centre then the zig-zags by Pap Craig. Returned the same way. Fine, dry, mild,calm & sunny. Just a thought that if we don't tread down the vegetation in the middle of the well built zig-zags & paths we will lose our best routes... Not only here but everywhere. | Vin | 21/06/2021 |
Main track from Car Park North, with Jane. | jef | 08/06/2021 |
From main car park at NS964374, along made tracks to summit and return | kdbennett | 24/05/2021 |
With Julia. First Donald for both of us. Just before meeting puppy. | stewartbb | 22/05/2021 |
Walked along road from main car park to Howgate Mouth. Up to Lochlyloch and Tinto and down via main track. Approx 4 hours. Sadly, the tea shop was shut. | tsharp | 18/05/2021 |
I drove past Fallburn car park a couple of days before and was staggered at the vast overflow of cars from the car park. Ascent from Wiston avoided the crowds and I saw not a soul until the summit | Colin Crawford | 26/04/2021 |
Good path from the north. | robertphillips | 15/04/2021 |
From the car park at 964374, up wide, well-worn path to the impressive summit cairn & toposcope. On return, good view looking down on the well-preserved Iron Age hillfort. My final Donald. Headed across to Selkirkshire to Fastheugh Hill, my final Donald Dewey. (S) | gerrybowes | 02/10/2020 |
Parked in the car park near Fallburn to the north which on this occasion had a couple of porta loos, and followed the horde up the tourist route, continued on to Lochlyoch hill returned the same way all in three hours for just over seven miles. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 02/10/2020 |
Detour on the long drive down south. Fallburn car park full so drove round to Wiston. Slightly confusing and not very well waymarked series of tracks and paths through Wiston Lodge but no real difficulties. Many narrow paths through the short heather, grass and loose stones on the steep slopes. Emerged at the trig to quite large numbers of people. Didn't hang around long. | Owen B | 23/08/2020 |
From car park up the main track. | the pigguy | 11/08/2020 |
Took 2 hours from Dungavel Hill to reach Tinto summit at 18:41 via the steeper southerly route past Wallace's Seat and Pap Craig, though I did not see either. 
So my estimate was nearly correct I thought it would only be an extra 2 hours to include Tinto. Trouble was that was to be back at van. 
As campsite does not allow check-ins after 20:00 I had to get down pretty smartish and not bother with Lochlyoch Hill. 
No chance got back to the van at 20:05, so ended up paying £15 just to park in Abington Service station. Should have wild camped at cattle grid. | mntainman | 31/07/2020 |
With Ben, Rory and Sally. Very busy with other people, got last space in the car park. | Victor | 02/07/2020 |
With Dad, Rory and Sally. | Ben | 02/07/2020 |
From north. Solo, due to Coronavirus restrictions. This summit Compleats all 1557 Marilyns and all the SMC lists (Munros (twice), Munro Tops, Corbetts, Grahams, Donalds, Donald Tops, Furths). | PGCE | 19/03/2020 |
Climbed many times but tend to avoid “the tourist route” | DrumalbinView | 02/02/2020 |
A wet walk with Frances and RBS HWC. My car needed a jump start at the end of the walk. We ate in Biggar afterwards, little knowing it would be the last outing for many months. | langskill | 26/01/2020 |
From south | emily | 24/01/2020 |
From Fallburn. Not too muddy at bottom and snow on top. Sun didn't manager to penetrate the mist so no views from the top. | Thearlaichdubh | 25/12/2019 |
Parked at road junction 1.5km west of Wiston. Wiston - Tinto - Lochlyoch Hill - Howgate Mouth - Greenhill. Nice little circuit although top 50m in cloud. | davidpettit84 | 07/11/2019 |
Climbed after work, from the Tea room car park on north side, up and down in 2hrs. Beautiful sunny evening. | chillyman8 | 28/08/2019 |
Hot and tiring but had 2 pleasant chats on the way down. | chrisbien | 02/08/2019 |
Break during the long drive south. | David Bremner | 26/07/2019 |
from north, up the tourist path. with K. | IanHHill | 24/07/2019 |
Climbed Tinto with our Margaret. Fab views. Good work out. Remembered the cairn from when we climbed as wee weans over 50 years ago and first time back since then. | GraceMul | 20/07/2019 |