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Name:Elrig
Hill number:6025
Height:588m / 1929ft
Parent (Ma):424  Glas Tulaichean
RHB Section:06B: Pitlochry to Braemar and Blairgowrie
County/UA:Perth and Kinross
Catchment:Tay
Class:Dodd (500-599m), Highland Five
(Tu,5,HF)
Grid ref:NO 07686 66872
Summit feature:outcrop 1m W of cairn
Drop:51m
Col:537m  NO075673  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 43
(1:25k) OL52S 387S
Survey:obvious summit
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 17 users)ByDate of Ascent
Asked whether I could park up at the Home Farm but I couldn't so it was back to the road end. Followed the Cateran Trail to the open ground then up the ridge to the nice top of Elrig. More or less straight over to Blar Achaidh and Creag Dubh-leitir - the odd tussocky or heathery section but nothing bothersome. Off to the east and over the wall to a wee hole in the fence at NO064541 to get the dog through into Calamanach Wood. Followed the fence down to the 'track' marked but it's long gone though there is still a useful gap through the trees where it was. Unfortunately, at the far end of it was a padlocked gate and no way to get the dog through here - all the wires dug right into the ground. Cast up and down as bit but eventually cut down to the lower fence and found another wee hole in it but that just led into a very dense plantation. Fought my way through that to yet another deer fence at its southern edge which was similarly uncrossable. Cast up and down and finally found aStueyB10/09/2023
From Enochdhu via Creag Dubh-leitir and Blar Achaidh. Returned by the Cateran Trail.NormanW04/11/2020
Bike from Blairgowrie, after Blar Achaidbertbarnett12311/05/2020
Resorting to Tumps behind my house during CoronavirusSimon Winton03/04/2020
Wee detour while cycling on the cateran way, nice wee pointy bump.hils21/10/2019
a good 5 tump round from enochdhu,craeg dubh leitir, blar achaidh, elrig, menachban, whitefield hill.robertphillips16/09/2019
P Enochdhu, 3rd of 5-tump clockwise circuit. Flat outcrop 1m W of cairn slightly higher than cairn itself. Nice shapely little hill.RHW31/12/2018
After Blar Achaidh. Overnight in lunch hut on RoWColin Crawford22/05/2016
Pretty good terrain on direct line from Blar Achaidh.alda25/03/2016
Fine wee pointed hill.Lindsay M17/05/2015
hill walker03/07/2022
NHumes 02/07/2020
richtea504009/08/2017
Rod M22/05/2016
daviemore16/11/2014
chalky195320/08/2009
Rambling Ray31/05/2002