Skye's most famous pinnacle is a fifty-metre finger of basalt leaning out of a landslip amphitheatre, and the path up from the Storr car park takes barely ninety minutes return. The higher you climb, the stranger it gets — spires, hollows and the Sound of Raasay glittering below. Dawn is the classic move: sunrise light on the rock, an empty car park and the whole eerie place to yourself before the tour buses roll up from Portree.
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