Under Saddle Yoke

Under Saddle Yoke is a hill in the Moffat Hills range, part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland. Despite its name, it is 10m higher than its neighbouring top, Saddle Yoke. Located in a dramatic position on a small, grassy ridge in between two deep glens, Blackhope and Carrifran, it awards excellent views into the rest of the Moffat Hills and the Ettrick Hills opposite. Although incomparable to the Scottish Highlands and not particularly precipitous, the ridge between and atop the Yokes is the narrowest summit ridge in the Southern Uplands. The electric fence that comes out of Blackshope and crosses the ridge to the north of Saddle Yoke and then continues down into Carrifran hasn't worked in 40 years. A popular round known as the Hart Fell Horseshoe begins near Blackshope and normally ascends Nether Coomb Craig first, then passing over Swatte Fell, Hart Fell and looping round Hartfell Rig to the Saddle Yokes before the descent.[4]

Under Saddle Yoke
Highest point
Elevation745 m (2,444 ft)[1]
Prominence128 m (420 ft)[2]
ListingHu,Tu,Sim, D,GT,DN,Y[3]
Geography
LocationDumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Parent rangeMoffat Hills, Southern Uplands
OS gridNT 14250 12626
Topo mapOS Landranger 77

Subsidiary SMC Summits
SummitHeight (m)Listing[5]
Saddle Yoke735.5Tu,Sim,DT,GT,DN[6]

References
  1. "Under Saddle Yoke". Hill-bagging.co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  2. "Mountain Search".
  3. "Mountain Search".
  4. "Hart Fell ridges horseshoe, near Moffat". Walkhighlands. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  5. Chris Crocker. "Database of British and Irish Hills: user guide". Hills-database.co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  6. "Saddle Yoke". Hill-bagging.co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2020.
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