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Name: | Windy Hill |
Hill number: | 1447 |
Height: | 278m / 912ft |
RHB Section: | 19C: Loch Fyne to Bute and the Firth of Clyde |
County/UA: | Argyll and Bute |
Island: | Bute |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (200-299m), SIB, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,2,SIB,Y) |
Grid ref: | NS 04358 69854 |
Summit feature: | no feature: ground 10m N of trig point |
Drop: | 278m |
Col: | Sea |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 63 (1:25k) 362S |
Observations: | trig point is at NS 04355 69845 |
Survey: | Abney level |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 158 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
JFT_96 | 27/02/2024 | |
Windy Hill, it was! From the wonderful West Island Way track. | DavieRuts | 31/10/2023 |
aul-fogie | 26/04/2023 | |
Stickman | 05/03/2023 | |
Day trip doon the watter. 
2 of 3 | thekirkie pirate | 20/01/2023 |
Rothesay-Kames Bay-Kames Hill-Windy Hill-Kilbride Hill-Torran Turach-Glecknabae Hill-Kames Bay-Rothesay. Very wet col between Kames Hill and Windy Hill. | campagvelocet | 26/09/2022 |
curlebd | 28/08/2022 | |
Followed Gill's route past Shalunt. Annoying BWF a few hundred metres from top. | willyross | 19/07/2022 |
lindaross | 19/07/2022 | |
SteveG | 15/06/2022 | |
AlanD | 10/04/2022 | |
Bran | HFB | 13/10/2021 |
From Kames Bay on West Island Way to small bridge beyond Peat Hill, up to gate at fence junction, then SW over heather to summit. | Winterfloodian | 24/05/2021 |
3rd top of 4 on a circular from 
Kames Bay and my penultimate Bute tump. Climbed Kilbride and Cnocanalt then descent to col for a forced coffee before continuing with the wind's ferocity making the name of this hill very appropriate. Fortunately the terrain is easier-going. Descent to West Island Way taking me close to my final Bute tump of Kames hill... | Dazingdale | 20/05/2021 |
Bogfest. Colintraive ferry then road to just S of Rhubodach. Up forest road to its end at NS041711 then mega-squelch on forced moorland path to high point of West Island Way at about NS049701, then struck uphill; not the most direct route but crosses the minimum of purgatorial vegetation. BWF to negotiate. Promising path going NNE from summit soon dumps you back in purgatory. | Isbjorn | 15/10/2020 |
Left car at wemyss bay, ferry over to isle of bute, biked up to near kilbride farm, glecknabae hill, torran turach, badlia hill, kilbride hill, windy hill repeat, kames hill. | robertphillips | 13/03/2020 |
49pp | 29/11/2019 | |
After Kames Hill; before Muirton Hill. Scotch Argus metropolis. | iangpark | 06/08/2019 |
Christo1979 | 21/07/2019 | |
iainwalton | 21/07/2019 | |
Day trip ferry...slowed by shredded tyre valve so quick pit stop to the Bike Hut for new inner. Cycled to Shalunt and took the track up and down. The island trail path waymarked helps but does miss out the summit and needs a diversion at the fence. Finished with triple scoop at Zavaroni’s | N.Morters | 16/07/2019 |
wintergreen | 25/04/2019 | |
Crawford Lindsay | 25/04/2019 | |
From Colintraive Ferry followed West Island Way almost to summit - just a short thrash across the heather to reach trig. | Chris Peart | 30/03/2019 |
Simon Winton | 11/01/2019 | |
Crumblie2 | 18/11/2018 | |
mksayers | 15/09/2018 | |
thelonious | 06/06/2018 | |
Bagged en route from Ayrshire to Cowal; the ferries are cheap enough to make this practical. There's a decent path all the way, making this an easy stroll. Park opposite the entrance to Shalunt, walk up the track, past the turn to the farm, and go through the gate into the field above the farm. Follow an ATV track to a second gate, where an even better track heads right towards the stream, then up alongside it. There's a marker for the West Island way, and the ATV track continues up the hill, past a second marker and across a bog. The hill rises more steeply above, a grassy slope, so head rightwards up this (don't go to the next marker post). Follow a grassy edge; cross the fence and pick up another ATV track along the edge, which leads across the boggy col to the top. Easy peasy!!! Fabulous views. | Gill | 26/03/2018 |
From Shalunt. 90 minute bogfest! | Crib Goch | 13/03/2018 |
govanah | 10/03/2018 | |
tallscottishguy | 10/03/2018 | |
Barry Smith | 26/02/2018 | |
weaselmaster | 30/08/2017 | |
Sick Kid | 30/08/2017 | |
Layby parking opp track to Shalunt. Short round of Cnocanallt first, here, then on to Kames Hill. Bogfest at the col between Windy and Kames. | jonglew | 27/08/2017 |
carole engel | 27/08/2017 | |
From Shalunt. through gate to right of house, then straight up, mucky horrid day with cloud even down to this level. mucky horrid terrain as well ): | hils | 14/08/2017 |
andy macp | 07/07/2017 | |
cmacpherson | 07/07/2017 | |
From Shalunt. | Topographer57 | 26/06/2017 |
Approached from Shalunt. | ger | 04/05/2017 |
PeteN | 10/04/2017 | |
After Kames Hill. On to Kilbride Hill | Colin Crawford | 26/03/2017 |
S/F Shalunt. Veer to the east to avoid boggy ground below trig. | AndrewFinnimore | 24/03/2017 |
NormanW | 13/03/2017 | |
From Kames with Charlie. Down to Shalunt and along the road to Kames marina and the car. | chrisbien | 04/12/2016 |
Came across on the 07:55 ferry from Wemyss Bay, parked in the lay-by below Shalunt. Up track and onto hill to Windy Hill and trig then onto Kames Hill before heading done to the road and back to the car. | Dugswell2 | 28/11/2016 |
Shalunt track, through gate to right of house and a half decent vehicle track before picking up a way marked path which leads to the NE of the summit. Warm, sunny and breezy. Solo but with Marli the dog. | bolton | 14/06/2016 |
chalky1953 | 04/06/2016 |