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Name: | Conachcraig |
Hill number: | 492 |
Height: | 862.5m / 2830ft |
RHB Section: | 07A: Braemar to Montrose |
County/UA: | Aberdeenshire |
Catchment: | Dee (Aberdeen) |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Corbett, High Hills of Britain, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,C,HHB,Y) |
Grid ref: | NO 27950 86513 |
Summit feature: | rock tor 40m W of cairn |
Drop: | 185m |
Col: | 678m NO272861 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 44 (1:25k) OL53N 388N |
Observations: | rock tor 40cm higher than cairn at NO 27990 86520. Rock tor 100m S is 2m lower. |
Survey: | Abney level/Leica RX1250 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 447 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Bitterly cold W gale today, showers early then some good views pm. Dep Glen Muick car park 1:30pm, river in spate so had to wade, very good track and path to summit though. Less than an hour back to car park, jogging. | NorfolkPT21 | 13/03/2024 |
From Spittal of Glenmuick car park via Clais Rathadan. | Winterfloodian | 12/01/2024 |
With J on a hot & sunny week based in Tomintoul. Standard Lochnagar path from Spittal of Glenmuick (currently £5 cash/card) as far as the large cairn at the col where a clear path leads quickly to the summit. Pipits everywhere at the top. Returned to the col to continue to Lochnagar. | NotReallyABagger | 04/09/2023 |
Solo from Spittal of Glenmuick. Easy ascent direct from the west slope. Great views to Lochnagar. | DampandDusty | 24/06/2023 |
Conachcraig, Lochnager and the 4 other White Mounth Munros from Bridge of Muick, 20 miles. | Gary Heath | 30/05/2023 |
With John from Crathie. Parked at a nearly empty car park at Crathie (£5 / day) at 7:30am, headed straight over the bridge and followed the road to the Distillery, cutting off by a large estate house with a gate marked Cairn Walks. Followed the track south to a split over to Lochnagar and Gelder Shiel. Followed a slightly bogger path for a while before rejoining the main track. At a high point, (across from a track up to Meikle Pap), a path took us up to the summit area of Conachcraig. Hopped up onto all the tors (just in case), before heading over to the other top. Descended down heathery grass and rejoined the main track back out. Took a wee detour up to Prince Albert's cairn. Car park was absolutely full on our return. Nice day with sun & some light cloud. Total time 4h 57min | mproudfoot | 27/05/2023 |
Conachcraig, Caisteal na Caillich South Top & Caisteal na Caillich from Spittal of Glenmuick | JasonStark | 06/04/2023 |
Veryhappybunny | 11/08/2022 | |
From Spittal of Glen Muick with Moira on hottest day | ColB | 19/07/2022 |
Bagged after a very hot, sunny and humid walkin from Easter Balmoral. Original plan was to also re-do Lochnagar but the heat got the better of me. | Jhimmy | 10/07/2022 |
From Spittal of Glenmuick for a round of 	Conachcraig, Meikle Pap, Meall Coire na Saobhaidhe, Cuidhe Crom and Little Pap. | rhalstead | 24/06/2022 |
From Spittal of Glenmuick 1/4 | PDuncan82 | 12/06/2022 |
From Spittal of Glenmuick. Left the track at about 640m asl and headed straight up on reasonable heathery ground. Retraced steps. Easy and very pleasant bag with excellent weather. | Owen B | 21/04/2022 |
Climbed with Richard after staying at Tomintoul. Calm before the storm, windy on top but generally an ok day. | amcculloch | 16/02/2022 |
GMC - from Loch Muick | Geoff Briggs | 07/11/2021 |
hot weather! | jef | 24/08/2021 |
10 tops from birkhill, craig of loinmuie, meall dubh, the coyles of muick repeat, craig megen, craig of inchnabobart, meall gorm, carn an daimh, caisteal na caillich south top, caisteal na caillich, conachcraig repeat, down to glen muick to pick up the bike for a downhill run back to the car. | robertphillips | 03/07/2021 |
Climbed with Reg | JamesSDonald | 26/05/2021 |
With Sandy. From Spital car park via main Lochnagar drag. Return via E ridge ftrom 850m point | slynch | 17/05/2021 |
Conacraig, Lochnagar and White Mounth with Tom Oldham on a perfect sunny day. | alexmaclennan | 30/10/2020 |
With DH. Climbed from Spittal of Genmuick after visit to Lchnagar/Meikle Pap col for photos in excelent, cold sunny coditions. | John Lee | 13/03/2020 |
With two friends. From Spittal of Glenmuick. On tracks to Allt-na-guibhsaich then NE and N. On emerging from forest near Allt Vitch went up the east ridge of Conachcraig/Caisteal na Caillich over Càrn an Daimh. Went to summit of Caisteal na Caillich first before continuing to Conachcraig. Descended SW to join track back to Spittal of Glenmuick. A bright sunny day, cold but little wind. Excellent views of snow covered Lochnagar and the peaks to the north of the River Dee. | pwbellarby | 06/02/2020 |
Lochnagar 5 from Spitall of Glenmuick, plus this one. | quadbarrel | 02/02/2020 |
From Spittal of Glenmuick car park, along tracks through woods to N, then up Carn na Daimh from E, continuing to Caisteal na Caillich via S top, then S to Conachcraig, descending SW to Lochnagar track and followed to the ford at NO291858, which was impassable (for me, at the time), so continued N of the burn back to the tracks and return to Spittal of Glenmuick | kdbennett | 24/11/2019 |
Spittal of Glenmuick CP now £4 | carole engel | 13/10/2019 |
Alan, Gavin | NHWC | 08/09/2019 |
Spittal of Glenmuick - Conachraig - Cac Carn Mor - Spittal of Glenmuick | davidpettit84 | 28/10/2018 |
With Kat | j_com | 30/06/2018 |
Simple and enjoyable walk from Spittal car park. Great views of Lochnagar | trimarc2 | 19/05/2018 |
Solo from the car park at the Spittal. An easy and fast walk, under 3 hours return. 
Still plenty of snow but hard packed. | bolton | 25/02/2018 |
Thick snow and thin sunshine. | summitter | 17/02/2018 |
With Sim after Lochnagar. Walked out to Gelder Shiel in rain, cycled to Easter Balmoral. | Rounsfell | 13/11/2017 |
Visited all 3 summit rock tors, cairned tor appears to be the highest. | Robinho08 | 06/08/2017 |
ghaley | 30/07/2017 | |
I'm a little confused by the summit description: I think there may now be a cairn on the highest tor. But I visited them all anyway. An easy path up from the col for Lochnagar. | Pete R | 06/04/2017 |
Weather fair. | MountainMac | 19/11/2016 |
Track up from Glen Muick to col then faint path to summit. Back down by a more direct route through thick and pathless heather. | Topographer57 | 14/07/2016 |
RBS HWC Ballater weekend; also spent some time near top with Jim & Mark Paterson and Luigi and Greg | langskill | 28/05/2016 |
Struck lucky with the weather. Easy walk up from the Loch Muick car park following the Lochnagar path before breaking off and ascending the top -unnamed on the 1:50000. Two other peaks on the hill before heading down from 'Conachcraig' back to the ascent path. | kenmorti | 14/03/2016 |
From Gelder Shiel bothy a morning round of three tops out as far as An t-Sron | dickscroop | 20/06/2015 |
With Emma. Snow was covering the top of lochnagar only the 2 of June | Nozzer | 02/06/2015 |
With Jon, on way to Will & Suz's in Aberdeen. | Grinner | 14/03/2015 |
Very strong north westerly wind made ascent tough as we struggled to stay on our feet! Ascended from Spittal of Glenmuick following the Lochnagar path before ascending south west end of hill. Descended from Conachraig top south east to return to track | raffemeister | 08/02/2015 |
Just a slight diversion on the way to Lochnagar. | sotabagger | 24/08/2014 |
On the way to Cac Carn Beag. | adamkw | 24/08/2014 |
On TGO Challenge 2014. | alistairpooler | 19/05/2014 |
Low cloud. Stewart & Ian J. Maisie | brangie | 02/04/2014 |
From Glen Muick car park | neimcv | 27/09/2013 |
Adding old logs | Angelaf | 29/07/2013 |
With Brian and Les. Tough slog through the heather. Windy on the summit. 4 hours. Also Marylin between ballater and braemar. | gercal53 | 01/09/2012 |