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| Name: | Auchterhouse Hill |
| Hill number: | 12824 |
| Height: | 424m / 1391ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1665 Craigowl Hill |
| RHB Section: | 26A: Central Scotland from Dumbarton to Montrose |
| County/UA: | Angus |
| Catchment: | Tay |
| Class: | Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4) |
| Grid ref: | NO 35450 39726 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: bare stony ground |
| Drop: | 81m |
| Col: | 343m NO365397  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 54 (1:25k) 380E |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 89 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From track near North Balluderon, circuit with Balkello Hill first. | clashcityrocker | 26/02/2024 |
| jaizinho | 31/12/2023 | |
| Sidlaws: Craigowl and Auchterhouse hill. Walkhighlands route | hummusg | 26/12/2023 |
| 49pp | 22/08/2023 | |
| Walk in the Sidlaw hills. Round of 3. | sarahk | 14/08/2023 |
| clashcityrocker | 12/07/2023 | |
| Crumblie2 | 28/01/2023 | |
| govanah | 25/01/2023 | |
| With Eve. Took path around to the West of the hill before ascending up this side. It became gusty at the top, though the summit itself was sheltered by a group of well placed, windswept trees. Descended East towards Scroggie. | RufusHodge | 14/01/2023 |
| From SW, path initially as per OpenStreetMap and signed Denoon then good paths to summit. Snowing steadily and a little icy | RHW | 27/12/2022 |
| nicolajane | 05/12/2022 | |
| clashcityrocker | 29/11/2022 | |
| 10km loop around the Sidlaws - Auchterhouse Hill, Balkello Hill, Craigowl Hill in just over 2 hours. Beautiful views all around. Schehallion, Ben Lawers and the Cairngorms were looking splendid to the north as were the Lomonds to the south and the coast to the east | Nicky C | 22/04/2022 |
| Ben Rinnes | 21/04/2022 | |
| Circuit of three Sidlaw Hills from Balkello Community Woodland car park. Fairly straightforward ascent in cold and windy conditions. retrace steps to find path down into col for Balkello Hill next. | Jubilado | 11/04/2022 |
| From Balkello community woodland car park. West under the quarries then up a steep heathery track to the summit where a D of E groupn were enjoying the top. Then on to the Syd Scroggie memorial cairn on the viewpoint. | NormanW | 27/03/2022 |
| Circuit from Balkello car park. | thekirkie pirate | 02/03/2022 |
| nix_snilloc | 23/01/2022 | |
| thelonious | 04/01/2022 | |
| clashcityrocker | 28/11/2021 | |
| Jossker | 19/11/2021 | |
| AlanD | 04/08/2021 | |
| Good day out in the Sidlaws. Starting from Balkello Woodland up to Craigowl. Then over to Kinpurney Hill (avoiding Boggy Seat). Back to Auchterhouse Hill and finishing up with Balkello Hill. | Fife Walking | 31/07/2021 |
| russell61 | 03/07/2021 | |
| stalky14 | 14/05/2021 | |
| With Craigowl and Balkello. From CP to SW. There are remains of a makeshift stile into the compound with the trig (Craigowl) at NO 3772 3997 Good paths continue to Balkello and Auchterhouse Hills. Excellent walk | carole engel | 11/05/2021 |
| First of trio on second half of Dundee day. | iangpark | 30/03/2021 |
| Weather fair. | MountainMac | 20/03/2021 |
| SteveeMac | 24/01/2021 | |
| clashcityrocker | 22/01/2021 | |
| clashcityrocker | 18/01/2021 | |
| Tony S | 25/10/2020 | |
| Lorna S | 25/10/2020 | |
| Tricky | 11/10/2020 | |
| duchally | 13/03/2020 | |
| Balkello hill and auchterhouse hill from the cp. | robertphillips | 25/02/2020 |
| From CP. Many tracks, thick fog, little fun. A great hill once there. | Play2End | 24/11/2019 |
| Second visit; TGOC 19 | Colin Crawford | 22/05/2019 |
| Craigowl Hill, Balkello Hill and Auchterhouse Hill (respectively) from P in Balkello Woodland at NO364385. | summitsup | 09/05/2019 |
| tsmart | 08/01/2019 | |
| Walk from Balkello wood car park to Auchterhouse hill, Balkello hill and Craigowl hill. Good paths and good conditions. | PsyCrow | 24/07/2018 |
| hils | 07/04/2018 | |
| hill walker | 15/12/2017 | |
| After Balkello Hill from country park car park. Good paths all the way. | Minto | 23/09/2017 |
| With cubs. Daddy didnt give me anything to drink. I was hoping it would rain to get some water on my tongue :) | david_bain | 28/08/2017 |
| WOORSIE | 29/07/2017 | |
| Ascent from the north, descent to the east. | brandybordeaux | 21/07/2017 |
| daviemore | 16/04/2017 | |
| Round of Auchterhouse and Balkello from Balkello CP. Tracks all thew way, via 358390. | Topographer57 | 02/04/2017 |
| walk livi | 29/01/2017 |