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Name: | Kerloch |
Hill number: | 507 |
Height: | 534m / 1752ft |
RHB Section: | 07B: Braemar to Montrose |
County/UA: | Aberdeenshire |
Catchment: | Dee (Aberdeen) |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Dodd (500-599m), Highland Five, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,5,HF,Y) |
Grid ref: | NO 69653 87879 |
Summit feature: | trig point |
Drop: | 181m |
Col: | 353m NO671826 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 45 (1:25k) 396 |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 239 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
The voie normale from the car park at West Knockhill. Very sad to see that the bothy has been demolished. The logging road is smooth and easy but the hill track is a right old mess, washed out, crumbly and stony. No problems with fallen trees. I think there were 2 or 3 but you can walk under them easily. | Gill2 | 24/02/2024 |
From the north via forestry roads | rjf35 | 24/02/2024 |
From carpark above Bridge of Dye. Outward route included river crossing (map showed non-existent foot bridge) and rough ground over Little Kerloch. Return by path and track. | clashcityrocker | 04/02/2024 |
After Cock Hill/Baudnacauner, Hill of Duchery/Black Moss/Carnferg/ Brackenstake. Drove up the potholed road to north a bit and parked by gate at bend - muddy section after this and particularly so after next gate, much forestry work so track very churned up. Up to the very stony track/river bed which leads up to the top. | StueyB | 14/12/2023 |
From car park to north. Forestry operations ongoing to west of forest road. Back same way. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 05/10/2023 |
Nice chilled hike with N | ainzwils | 27/08/2023 |
Drove through the CP and up the track from the N, parking in lots of space next to the sand and gravel works. Feeling smug for saving some boot tread it was a a lovely walk further along the track ESE of Kerloch summit, from where a well worn path strikes a direct line to the summit. | summitter | 29/07/2023 |
As others, drove S. along track & easy parking by track junction at 699904 - Up tracks & then WNW on well-worn path through heather & bilberry to trig point. Section of forest track that heads SW from 707888 has been badly eroded in places due to surface runoff. | gerrybowes | 08/07/2023 |
Solo trip from the north. Bike as far as the bottom of the steep bit. Blaeberries around summit. | Invicta14 | 12/08/2022 |
Up the track from the north. | Windy Corner | 16/07/2022 |
From the North. 
A fairly easy walk up. Paths covered in snow but top clear. | Pilotralph | 25/02/2022 |
Quite unknown summit considering how popular Clachnaben is. Little car park was deserted in the morning. Couple of trees still down across the path, but easily passable. Dogs have to be on leads in the first part (cattle). Middle section of the path is eroded, but it has been like that (unchanged) for the past 5 years. Overall a great walk, not too difficult,and a very sparsely visited hill. | Beer Badger | 16/01/2022 |
Parked in the car park at the end of the track to the north, and followed path straight to the summit. Some fallen trees to watch out for on the section through the forest, however nothing significant that can't be overcome. Descended via the same route. | JasonStark | 21/12/2021 |
From end of the track at 699916, followed track all the way to summit. Track good at start but once turn right off main right of way to go up hill it's a bit churned up, though still not difficult walking. Back the same way. 6.3 miles 2hrs 25mins walking time. | JulieB | 03/11/2021 |
Parked at 9 Stanes Car Park, went past Knockburn, the model aicraft field and to the Kerloch summit. Returned via the shoulder of Shillofad and Garrol Hill. About 18km including a forest navigation overshoot! | ragudave | 03/10/2021 |
From parking area at NO699916, followed excellent track S, through the forest, up the stony zig-zags and out to the summit, return same way | kdbennett | 11/09/2021 |
By eMTB from North. Zig zag track is very rough and washed out. Tough descent. | PeteF | 23/08/2021 |
From car park at Knockburn. Up track through fields, and into forest. Turned off to go up hill, path becomes muddy on this stretch. Emerge onto hill track and towards the summit. Windy. 10.2km. | PiranhaFish | 26/03/2021 |
With B. First ascent for ? 40 years. Walked in from north along good track then washed out path to the top. 65 mins to the summit . Great views of the Cairngorms and 7 seprate wind farms visible from the top | slynch | 26/11/2020 |
Parked to north of hill. Track good if washed out in places. Sunny, cold wind. | iangalbraith | 03/11/2020 |
From parking area at end of decent track to the north of the hill. | willyross | 15/10/2020 |
Parking 716913. easy round using tracks to Kerloch and then easy walking onto Little Kerloch and Melmannoch. Rtn by Pitreadie Farm and along road | sarahk | 12/09/2020 |
Morning ascent with L, Richard and the 3 dogs. Finally met near neighbour Craig for a friendly chat after a year of us walking past his new build house. He was busy enjoying himself moving soil by digger to landscape his garden. | Chris Pearson | 07/08/2020 |
Afternoon ascent with L and the dogs. Sunny. | Chris Pearson | 05/08/2020 |
My 20th ascent (more like 30+ for L). With L and the dogs but this time the long way round the back forest tracks -up past the 'house that changes colour'. The forest tracks climb and dip such that we climbed 540m to reach the 530m high summit even with our 100m starting altitude. 20km steady walk there and back in 5hrs 20mins -excellent strengthening my calf rehab. | Chris Pearson | 26/07/2020 |
3 and half hrs up and down our well travelled usual route with L and neighbour R and the 3 dogs. A Hot morning in an often damp showery July. Met a party of student types heading up - most dressed as superman or superheroes - but their superpowers appeared to be ebbing as the incline steepened. | Chris Pearson | 24/07/2020 |
Running ascent with L and the 2 dogs -on their stretchy leads - they seemed to love it and kept going well -only digging their heels in a few times to sniff 'something important'. Up in under an hour from the house. Sunny -windy - hint of rain. | Chris Pearson | 06/07/2020 |
With L, Richard and the 3 dogs. 4.5 hours chatty outing from the house -up the longer way along the curving path from the east;. A dry day in a wet drizzly week. The start of my OMM training - just entered Long Score with Darren- only 4 months to go - Argyle & Bute - if it goes ahead due to Covid. | Chris Pearson | 02/07/2020 |
Hot sunshine and summer green lushness. Up again from the house at a slow chatty walk pace with L and our two new charges - two 'desert hunting dogs' from Abu Dhabi -on their first intro to a Scottish Hill - kept them on their stretchy leads - they loved it -and from snarling at us the day before are now our friends for life. Neighbour Richard, and his dog Stan joined us. Then back down to respond to pupil home learning online posts as Covid school closures trundle on - but news just in of aim for full return from August. | Chris Pearson | 24/06/2020 |
Ciovid-19 Lockdown -Day 20. Walk from the house with L and Stanley the dog again. Trying to fight through fatigue tiredness that has plagued me for 2 weeks -but not a cough or fever - unlike Boris who is now out of ICU and back home (well Chequers)resting. Warm Easter Sunday morning - lovely spring buds and greenery and flowers finally starting to show - a great uplift - much needed. My 15th ascent of 'our hill'. More like 25th for L. | Chris Pearson | 12/04/2020 |
Ciovid-19 Lockdown -Day 2. Our local hill of frequent normally carefree ascents- walkable from the house for the allowable 'one form of daily exercise'. With L for a 4 hr outing. Our normal route up (cabin has just been demolished) but then as a trial, not to repeated, came straight down the N front - fence line -deep heather (Stanley the terrier out of his depth gamely leaping along) then forest planting ruts, bog & deer fences. Washed Stanley in the stream then back home to wash our hands and stare at the internet like everyone else for more Covid updates, and heart rending emails from recently retired doctor friends being recalled with dread to fight the infection -facing 12 exhausting dehydrated hours in a hazmat suit deciding who to ventilate or not - with the clear high risk to themselves. | Chris Pearson | 25/03/2020 |
Snowstorm and sunshine and howling wind -perfect for a run up testing my new OMM winter running tights (v good). Walked up the snow covered washed out track whilst L ran ahead. Met by chance fellow hillrunning tribe members on the summit - a gang of Cosmic runners on their saturday morning run. | Chris Pearson | 22/02/2020 |
Was left behind at home like Cinders (to do e-mails) whilst L set off to run up and down. Decided she should not have all the fun on a lovely frosty calm morning so, now that my running kit had dried out from yesterday, I ran half way to the cabin to meet her for her return. No summit for me but a nice 4 mile run. | Chris Pearson | 02/02/2020 |
12th ascent. 2nd ascent of the week -with L -our usual 7m run from the house -on a Saturday morning. 'Light rain' felt very icy and wet in a strong wind higher up -soon wet through in inadequate windproof - we've started so we'll finish' determination to reach the top. Touch the trig and turn. Lovely and calm once back down in the sheltered forest -with thoughts focused on a well earned hot shower, closely followed by cheese and beans on toast and mug of tea not far away. | Chris Pearson | 01/02/2020 |
Crunchy overnight snow glistening in the beautiful dazzling sunshine -and happily coinciding with my day off. With L on our 7 mile run up and down from the house -adding our footprints to the dainty animal tracks in the snow. 11th ascent. | Chris Pearson | 28/01/2020 |
10th ascent, with L, John & Becks - very windy but our tactics of a morning ascent worked as the rain stated just 5 mins before we got back to the house for lunch, after a 3 hr outing. Enjoyed showing them the cabin with its wide range of utensils and unused food and even alcohol supplies - we gave it a tidy up by collecting a bag full of rubbish. | Chris Pearson | 02/01/2020 |
Our favourite walk from the door. 3 hr round trip. Rehab for my still painful back. Eye watering SW wind (guests of 40mph today) from a brightening sky with unseasonably mild temps of 11 degrees up from minus two just 5 days ago when last up here. | Chris Pearson | 29/12/2019 |
8th ascent over the last 4 months since arriving to live in a house that faces this hill -so a fitting choice for a daybreak ascent on Christmas Day on a beautiful frosty sunny clam day with lovely sharp crystal clear view from mountains to sea. Bitter temps in the frozen shady woods. I walked up as rehab for my pulled lower back muscles - L ran up setting off 30 mins after me - caught me just before summit - which I reached in 1hr 20m rather than 55m when running. I was carrying her duvet jacket for her. Oddly a family down below were stood around a christmas morning bonfire(?) with the smoke hanging low hugging the valley in the cold temps. | Chris Pearson | 25/12/2019 |
Iron hard and icy ground in sub zero temps, on a beautiful sunny day for my 7th ascent of our local hill with L from our front door. Views from the snowy Cairngorms to the sea all crystal clear. Watched the bustling cyclecross taped loop race down at Knockburn and put up with the bleating PA System most of the way up the hill. One announcement called for volunteers to hack at the ice/ frozen ground to make it safer for cyclists. Could have done with this squad ahead of me as I took a tumble of my own coming down- slipping on black ice on a rock near summit. | Chris Pearson | 01/12/2019 |
Beautiful day with elder bro, sunny and chilly with no hint of breeze, excellent views to snowy Cairngorms and all the way to Aberdeen beach | PDuncan82 | 30/11/2019 |
11am remembrance and reflection soon after setting off up frozen ground thawing in weak sun. 3 and half hr walk made longer by coming up longer path from NE through Garrol Wood - with low sun in our faces - a problem we were more than happy to put up with up. L suggested the detour to the summit through the icy sunless forest for the exercise and fine views. Hard effort for me as I was still recovering from this mornings energy sapping battle to trap and inject one of the llamas -which escaped from its pen over / onto my shoulder at our first try. | Chris Pearson | 10/11/2019 |
=tick | chazzyboy19 | 08/11/2019 |
floated up on cloud nine after returning last night from a successful OMM at Largs. Flu had gone, calf muscle had held up -and we won Short Score. Despite midnight return home ,this was a slow morning ascent with L to recuperate, and it was a beautiful sunny morning- but bitterly cold cutting NW wind. Warm soup and a sit in the boiler room to warm up once back! Passed a couple whose car at gate had marilyns and submarilyns neatly marked with triangles on a road atlas with ticks next to the ones they had done - possibly Lionel Bidwell - looking at hb entry. | Chris Pearson | 28/10/2019 |
Parked at first big gate as Isbjorn. | Lionel Bidwell | 28/10/2019 |
A post flu - pre OMM -make or break run to decide if I have a fighting chance of competing or collapsing this weekend down in Clyde Muirshield. Despite just a steady jog and uphill fast walk surprisingly reached the top in my equal best time of 58 mins - so a cautious green light for the OMM. Glorious views and autumnal sunshine today. L still flu-ey walked 4/5 of the way up ! | Chris Pearson | 24/10/2019 |
With Craig of Dalfro - separate log. From NO 693 915 not a good start as the track after the farm house (new building going up) is non-existant and hard going thru' lush vegetation. Totally different by NO 701 897 - good, well-used vehicle track. So start at NO 699 916 | carole engel | 18/10/2019 |
Morning run to summit from house with L - All out effort by me on upper slopes to beat the hour - just 59m 15s. 1 min slower than in rain and wind 2 weeks ago ! A lovely calm sunny morning with no hint yet of the heralded arrival this evening of the strong winds and rain allegedly being the tail end of Hurricane Dorian that has hit the Bahamas and USA. Upper path awfully loose stones -not a great running surface - best to walk down this bit. | Chris Pearson | 10/09/2019 |
Ahh - rain and wind -much more normal than our roasting ascent 5 days ago. Running shoes, shorts and windproof for a quick blast from our housesit which faces it just 5.5kms away and 420m lower than the summit. Could we do it in under an hour? just -58m 30sec, with only 10 walking steps near the top. (33 mins to the hut). Descent 40 mins (loose eroded stony path worse to run down than up). Promising recovery of strained back muscle and hamstring. L cruised along as usual. Start delayed whilst freeing ram stuck in wire fence whose horns have grown inward into its head! Vet (or an old farmer?) required to 'cheesewire' off ends of horns if we can trap it first? | Chris Pearson | 30/08/2019 |
Back 5 days later for a 5 hour walk with L on a perfect cloudless hot summer's morning. L never thought she could be this hot in Scotland! 1hr 33m to summit at a walk for our housesit which looks across to this hill. My half way Marilyn tilting the balance from 49.7% done to 50.03 -almost as close as the Brexit vote - now with Boris at the helm with an end of Oct deadline approaching we are told. Fantastic view of everything -hills in all directions. Used forests tracks to make a circuit of it and to add Craig of Dalfro. Afternoon of decreasing enjoyment followed - fixing bikes, 
 only squashing the grass as sit on mower not cutting (?), and cleaning the hen house. | Chris Pearson | 25/08/2019 |
Fooled by fleeting sunshine into setting off from our housesit which faces the hill, for an ambitious afternoon 5 hour 5 tump circuit, but after an hour the black clouds gathered and the heavens opened. Fortuitously took shelter in the fascinating quirky,and leaky, Glenskinnan deer hunters bothy, and decided to retreat for another day. Despite being mid-summer the new very large and smart Knockburn Loch Conference/ Activity/ Sporting Loch at the northern foot of the hill was seemingly deserted - with no open water swimmers, paddleboarders, youth groups camping or anything going on, and all facilities unbooked for this week on their web page. They do host sporadic triathlons and the like - but is it financially sustainable? L wondered if they would have been better off building a Lidr?A flock of looping oystercatchers provided great free entertainment , as had the model aircraft alongside the approach path before the rain. | Chris Pearson | 20/08/2019 |