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Name: | Hill of Goauch |
Hill number: | 516 |
Height: | 337.2m / 1106ft |
Parent (Ma): | 485 Mount Keen |
RHB Section: | 07B: Braemar to Montrose |
County/UA: | Aberdeenshire |
Catchment: | Dee (Aberdeen) |
Class: | Hump, Tump (300-399m), Submarilyn, Yeaman (Hu,Tu,3,sMa,Y) |
Grid ref: | NO 66307 94171 |
Summit feature: | heathery rocky mound |
Drop: | 148.7m |
Col: | 188.6m NO 6331 9430 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 38 45 (1:25k) 406W |
Observations: | cairn near demolished tower at NO 66197 94271 (336.6m), rock in clearing at NO 66224 94207 (336.8m) & base of tree at NO 6625 9417 (336.7m) are all lower |
Survey: | 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 66 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Traversed as part of a walk from Peterculter to Feughside Inn visiting family, solo 18.5 mile. Saw a few people on lower slopes of Scolty but not a soul up Hill of Goauch. Beautiful day, still a bit of snow up the top. | PDuncan82 | 13/02/2024 |
After Scolty. There is a good path, running along the north side of the stone wall, that takes you all the way to the summit area. Visited other potential high points. Tried to take a shortcut back directly to the car park but it was awful! Fallen trees, high bracken & tall heather. I would suggest backtracking by the wall. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 05/10/2023 |
Gravel bike along forest tracks then walked up final MTB trails. | AndyS | 14/07/2023 |
Weather fair. | MountainMac | 16/10/2022 |
Took the track from Scolty, S then W. Tracks continued into the forest and eventually to the summit. To descend, continued following bike tracks, keeping right as much as possible. Found the track descended the N ridge to the Deeside way track, then right and back to the Scolty car park. | LizH | 21/11/2021 |
2nd ascent. Walk with L & neighbour R and the 3 dogs between us. Main path up Scolty then linked with Hill of Goauch on good thin path through the head high bracken which involved dropping 100m more than the col - to reclimb steeply on good path inside lovely pine forest. Non stop science theories chat from R - all fascinating complex stuff. Mountain bikers more common than walkers on these steep thin paths twisting through the trees. Back alongside Deeside Way track. | Chris Pearson | 20/07/2020 |
a Bit of geocaching and hill bagging | Pilotralph | 30/10/2019 |
Ascended from track to the west by a path/cycle route, which starts by an old stone wall. Checked various tops including the cairn. | JohnW | 22/10/2019 |
Beautiful early morning run with L. 1 hr out and back from car park to west via trig pillar on lovely runnable forest tracks and paths twisting between the pines, cold but sun warming up the day -shorts, hat and gloves - akin to a cool Alpine morning with a hot day soon to come. Soon sweating from the effort and warming temperature. Then crossed the road to tackle the much rougher heather, bog and long grass of Tom's Cairn -before orienteering at 11 am down at Potarch Bridge - coaching Neil's children on a Come and Try It event. | Chris Pearson | 08/09/2019 |
From West past Tillylair trig. | NormanW | 02/04/2017 |
From Banchory by cycle route diverting up to NO670944. Then a well worn trod followed by many possible summits at cairns, demolished and rotting tower and clearing, thanks as per current 'Observations ...'. Top of an upturned tree-root system by the ex-tower today, for my 50p. | Eddie | 15/03/2017 |
Self, Peter and dog in soft snow | Invicta14 | 24/02/2017 |
From the west after the nice S5600 trig easy tracks and open forest....expected might by a sitka spruce horror but delightful open Caledonian pine forest | vegibagger | 22/10/2015 |
MTB routes | nix_snilloc | 14/01/2014 |
Dad and Karen | Grah-tfun | 14/07/2013 |
With dog | Alastair S | 05/05/2012 |
Solo run over Tillylair, Goauch and Scolty, back beside the Dee. | amswanston | 01/06/2006 |
Strongly suspect that there is higher ground than the quoted summit. | fasgadh | 27/11/2005 |
open wdld; cairn & boulder nr summit. | RHW | 26/03/2003 |
Tom Mundell | 14/05/2023 | |
Trekking toes | 14/05/2023 | |
interloper | 29/04/2023 | |
Fletch | 29/04/2023 | |
DaveO | 16/01/2023 | |
PeterAH | 21/11/2021 | |
Ibex | 12/03/2021 | |
dave g | 02/01/2021 | |
fionnag | 02/01/2021 | |
govanah | 19/11/2019 | |
Tricky | 21/08/2019 | |
Dave McG | 20/08/2019 | |
PGCE | 26/02/2019 | |
bertbarnett123 | 26/12/2017 | |
Tony S | 03/09/2016 | |
bjewing | 16/07/2016 | |
BaggerGutt | 30/05/2016 | |
Martin R | 05/04/2016 | |
elma spencer | 10/10/2015 | |
Kiltie | 16/02/2015 | |
PM | 21/06/2014 | |
Ibex | 12/03/2014 | |
Lindsay M | 09/02/2014 | |
Louise | 09/02/2014 | |
Janet M | 09/02/2014 | |
ajwxyzt | 09/02/2014 | |
hill walker | 29/12/2013 | |
iaindbrown | 12/11/2013 | |
alda | 12/11/2013 | |
alda | 07/08/2013 | |
mae | 10/07/2013 |