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The view of Northton from Ceapabhal. The hills are Griobhal and Roineabhal .
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Ceapabhal 368m. Harris, Section 24b
OS 1:50 000 Sheet 18 : NF972924
The view of Northton from Ceapabhal. The hills are Griobhal and Roineabhal .
| Ceapabhal from Taransay. |
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| The Northton Machair, and Griobhal. |
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| Pabbay, across the sound of Harris from the foot of Ceapabhal. |
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| The Summit. Cairn and trig are about the same height with another candidate between them. |
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| Ceapabhal and Northton from Griobhal. |
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| Map Ceapabhal | |
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Once an offshore island, now joined to Harris by a strip of machair. Ceapabhal is a rather rough and steep landmark. You can begin your ascent at a white sand beach and struggle upwards through heather and boulders to a grassy summit. As you might expect the view is very fine, with North Harris and Taransay to the north and all the skerries and sandy islands of the Sound of Harris to the south. North Uist and Bernaray show well from here as well. Unfortunately this time there was no St Kilda, the islands were hiding in the clouds. I went up after 36 hours of rain, and the last rain was still falling as close as Leverburgh while I was up there. I was in sunshine, but the east was always black. |
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