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Name: | Ben Thrush |
Hill number: | 12814 |
Height: | 456m / 1496ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1662 Steele's Knowe |
RHB Section: | 26A: Central Scotland from Dumbarton to Montrose |
Donald area: | Ochil Hills |
County/UA: | Perth and Kinross |
Catchment: | Forth |
Class: | Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4) |
Grid ref: | NN 98675 05816 |
Summit feature: | cairn |
Drop: | 47m |
Col: | 409m NN987064 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 58 (1:25k) 366E 369 |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 78 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
From the north with Bob. Winter weather on this TUMP today. | Play2End | 13/02/2024 |
Last hill of the day, stayed dry until the last 15mins. With Ian. | BasherBob | 13/02/2024 |
Frosty, sunny, now wind | dmacdo10 | 13/01/2024 |
Quick up and down after work, using the windfarm track... | hils | 01/08/2022 |
After Rowantree Craig on the way back down to Glen Sherup car park. Boggy and tussocky as you get to the foot of the hill. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 07/03/2022 |
Parked at the Glen Sherrup car park and biked in some way up the Glen Devon to Auchterarder track. Got a puncture instantly, even before getting on bike due to thorn cuttings in the car park. Dreich day, claggy but still an enjoyable round up to the ridge fence and back down the old road in Glen Boreland to the bike. | fasgadh | 12/12/2021 |
First hill of trio for final E Ochil Marilyn. First time with only tshirt on for my uppers in a very, very long time. Fine, windless summit. | iangpark | 16/04/2021 |
Circuit of Steele's Knowe and associated tops from Glen Devon. | thekirkie pirate | 25/03/2021 |
Circuit from home. | richtea5040 | 20/06/2020 |
Circuit from wind farm entrance, up Ben Thrush, return via Long Craig and Glendevon Castle. | TRG318 | 19/02/2020 |
Up the Greenknowe windfarm road past Turbine 18 and a short walk to the top, just as a snow shower arrived. | NormanW | 26/01/2020 |
up the windfarm track. | robertphillips | 09/12/2019 |
With Ben. Used windfarm road. | hillsman | 21/04/2018 |
Afternoon solo walk round the wind turbines from Tormaukin via Borland Glen; good visibility, despite rain which was not forecast. | barnz48 | 17/09/2017 |
From Rowantree Craig. Down the ridge, then R to the windfarm road. | Minto | 30/05/2017 |
Solo. From Glen Sherup carpark at NN971051. Circuit over Steele’s Knowe. Went along road from carpark, up windfarm access track and up SW slopes to reach the summit of Ben Thrush for the first top of the day. A nice well defined summit with a cairn and a good view. | pwbellarby | 12/03/2017 |
Steele's Knowe trig and second OS 485m spot height (which seems lower), Rowantree Craig, Ben Thrush. A dreich day after a week of rain, so the windfarm access road was the dry option, its tediousness relieved by what may be the planet's only 19 mph speed limit sign. For the first time in a dozen years of hill walking, I fell into a cattle grid, both boots slipping on the snow covered grid at the turbine 5 turning, and my shins rattling like xylophones against the metal as I made the short and inglorious descent into the cattle grid's basin. | Nick Down1 | 05/02/2017 |
Up the windmill track until the first windmill. Significant cairn on summit. New ASX. | Play2End | 21/08/2016 |
Debs and Goska, from Glen Devon on way home from Aviemore | Mountain Goat | 23/03/2016 |
From Glendevon church via windfarm road north as far as the col. Soft snow on icy base, would have struggled without spikes. Back south over the summit, chilling north wind with some nasty drifts. Down the south west ridge. | Topographer57 | 14/02/2016 |
On the way down from Steele's Knowe using the wind farm road. Heavy fog so no views. Head for turbines 17 and 18 then an easy walk beyond 18 to the summit. | Stevend1 | 02/01/2016 |
I used the Green Knowe wind farm access road to bag Ben Thrust, Rowantree Craig and Steele's Knowe. | Dugswell2 | 22/07/2015 |
Continuation of walk from Rowantree Creag. Followed fence south to join track up to wind turbine on the north ridge of the hill, then ATV track steeply up to summit cairn. To descend, I descended east into Borland Glen, picking up a grassy track round the east flank of the hill. Then followed a wall round south flank of the hill, descending to a portakabin to rejoin the windfarm track down to the road. | Man of Kernow1 | 18/04/2015 |
An excellent hill with a great view down Glen Devon | Lindsay M | 01/03/2015 |
Picked up on way back from Steele's Knowe. 
Dare I say I was itching to bag this one. | mntainman | 10/02/2015 |
Parked hotel car park - notice says, private car park, walkers welcome. Took the old right of way track, wind farm road soulless. Overcast then sunny, mild, calm, good views. | iangalbraith | 29/10/2014 |
Used the windfarm road - Rowantree Craig then Ben Thrush 
 
Cairn at top | chrisbien | 20/07/2013 |
On way back down to Glendevon YH from Steele's Knowe. | agentmancuso | 16/07/2004 |
On return from Steele's Knowe to Gelndevon. | Eddie | 22/08/2003 |
Date is first visit. Notes from later...super compact summit, fine flanking glens, 2 ?quarries nr summit. Glendevon YH (Glenfoot cattery) 989046, via Borland pass summit | RHW | 18/11/2001 |
Tricky | 29/12/2023 | |
nicolajane | 20/09/2023 | |
alanm | 29/08/2023 | |
Lynnebe | 31/08/2022 | |
Llondon | 21/03/2022 | |
Tonester | 18/01/2022 | |
Steve Q | 28/10/2021 | |
tcrannoch | 11/09/2021 | |
jimbloomer | 01/05/2021 | |
kathyh | 21/02/2021 | |
ArdrossanWintonRover | 20/02/2021 | |
The Fife Flyer | 28/12/2020 | |
Crumblie2 | 17/12/2020 | |
Simon Winton | 09/12/2020 | |
MKInnes | 29/07/2020 | |
Robin56 | 05/07/2020 | |
Ben Rinnes | 09/12/2019 | |
Isbjorn | 19/03/2019 | |
ARM | 10/05/2018 | |
Gallovidian | 11/02/2018 |