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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
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Observations:trig point 65m W at NS 95287 34366 is lower
Survey:Leica RX1250
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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.SootAndShale09/03/2024
Tinto from the North (Walkhighlands route)hummusg16/02/2024
Approx 40th Xmas Day morning ascentThearlaichdubh25/12/2023
Cold clear day. Ran up with Sarah from the excellent car park - NS 9648 3736. Great views. Good obvious track. Also visited Scaut Hill.HardenC29/11/2023
First Grahamm11chael11/09/2023
With Sue from the free car park taking in Scaut hill on our return. Excellent views on a clear warm day.Frank14/08/2023
With Marion and Alan for their joint birthday bashColin Crawford17/07/2023
Alan-s and Marion-s Birthday. Bub's Meets.softsquare17/07/2023
Quick ascent from Winston to try and beat incoming bad weather. Nice views but soaked on descent!! With Mart.John Eley25/06/2023
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.langskill26/02/2023
Climbed with Galloway Mountaineering ClubRO-702302/01/2023
From the Fallburn car park; up and down in 1h30m trying to avoid the incoming storm. Extremely windy on the summitRockdoctor09/10/2022
Fellburn cp, main path an back. Amazing views.Flatfield16/09/2022
Quick up and down, tried to beat the rain, but failed. 1hr 20 for the 7kmNicky C05/08/2022
Quick up and down on a cold day.jigglybones17/02/2022
Tinto: the usual route from the north. Walkhighlands routehummusg30/01/2022
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 descendedNick Canute14/01/2022
Path a little boggy but nothing a pair of walking boots can't cope with. One portaloo in the car park. Not icy.RoslynClimbsHills30/12/2021
From Fallburn. Really biting E gale 8:30-10:30. Lovely views as usual. Not icy.Thearlaichdubh25/12/2021
Solo walk very good path from the car park to the summit.colinfielding22/11/2021
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.SS21/11/2021
Up and back from North car parkprwild18/09/2021
solojordanwalmsley198708/09/2021
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.PeterD24/07/2021
Ascent from Wiston, down via Lochlyoch Hill. Mobbed at top, overwise nobody.Iloveducks17/07/2021
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.Vin21/06/2021
Main track from Car Park North, with Jane.jef08/06/2021
From main car park at NS964374, along made tracks to summit and returnkdbennett24/05/2021
With Julia. First Donald for both of us. Just before meeting puppy.stewartbb22/05/2021
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.tsharp18/05/2021
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 summitColin Crawford26/04/2021
Good path from the north.robertphillips15/04/2021
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)gerrybowes02/10/2020
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 ROWLETT02/10/2020
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 B23/08/2020
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.mntainman31/07/2020
With Ben, Rory and Sally. Very busy with other people, got last space in the car park.Victor02/07/2020
With Dad, Rory and Sally.Ben02/07/2020
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).PGCE19/03/2020
Climbed many times but tend to avoid “the tourist route”DrumalbinView02/02/2020
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.langskill26/01/2020
From southemily24/01/2020
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.Thearlaichdubh25/12/2019
Parked at road junction 1.5km west of Wiston. Wiston - Tinto - Lochlyoch Hill - Howgate Mouth - Greenhill. Nice little circuit although top 50m in cloud.davidpettit8407/11/2019
Climbed after work, from the Tea room car park on north side, up and down in 2hrs. Beautiful sunny evening.chillyman828/08/2019
Hot and tiring but had 2 pleasant chats on the way down.chrisbien02/08/2019
Break during the long drive south.David Bremner26/07/2019
from north, up the tourist path. with K.IanHHill24/07/2019
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.GraceMul20/07/2019