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Under Saddle Yoke
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Highest point
Elevation 745 m (2,444 ft)
Prominence 128 m (420 ft)
Geography
Location Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
Parent range Moffat Hills, Southern Uplands
OS grid NT 14250 12626
Topo map OS Landranger 77

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. 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.

Subsidiary SMC Summits

Summit Height (m) Listing
Saddle Yoke 735.5 Tu,Sim,DT,GT,DN
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