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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 |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 17 users) | By | Date 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 a | StueyB | 10/09/2023 |
From Enochdhu via Creag Dubh-leitir and Blar Achaidh. Returned by the Cateran Trail. | NormanW | 04/11/2020 |
Bike from Blairgowrie, after Blar Achaid | bertbarnett123 | 11/05/2020 |
Resorting to Tumps behind my house during Coronavirus | Simon Winton | 03/04/2020 |
Wee detour while cycling on the cateran way, nice wee pointy bump. | hils | 21/10/2019 |
a good 5 tump round from enochdhu,craeg dubh leitir, blar achaidh, elrig, menachban, whitefield hill. | robertphillips | 16/09/2019 |
P Enochdhu, 3rd of 5-tump clockwise circuit. Flat outcrop 1m W of cairn slightly higher than cairn itself. Nice shapely little hill. | RHW | 31/12/2018 |
After Blar Achaidh. Overnight in lunch hut on RoW | Colin Crawford | 22/05/2016 |
Pretty good terrain on direct line from Blar Achaidh. | alda | 25/03/2016 |
Fine wee pointed hill. | Lindsay M | 17/05/2015 |
hill walker | 03/07/2022 | |
NHumes | 02/07/2020 | |
richtea5040 | 09/08/2017 | |
Rod M | 22/05/2016 | |
daviemore | 16/11/2014 | |
chalky1953 | 20/08/2009 | |
Rambling Ray | 31/05/2002 |