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Name:Windy Standard
Hill number:1744
Height:697.9m / 2290ft
RHB Section:27C: The Glenkens to Annandale
Donald area:Carsphairn Hills
County/UA:Dumfries and Galloway
Catchment:Dee (Kirkcudbright)
Class:Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Graham, Donald,
Yeaman
(Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,G,D,DN,Y)
Grid ref:NS 62014 01467
Summit feature:trig point
Drop:212m
Col:486m  NS632014  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 77
(1:25k) 328S
Survey:Abney level/Leica RX1250
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 348 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
jgregor03/03/2024
weaselmaster06/01/2024
Sick Kid06/01/2024
SunnyAdventures206/01/2024
weaselmaster05/01/2024
Sick Kid05/01/2024
https://www.strava.com/activities/10499490004Graham22b04/01/2024
Parked near Glen Afton Water Works then using mainly wind farm tracks to Windy Standard and Dugland via Wedder Hill, Millaneoch Hill then onto Keoch Rig and Moorbrock HillLongwojo29/08/2023
Chris Mac18/06/2023
Tonester31/05/2023
RIB, Bran HFB25/02/2023
Snow on summit, Baltic, with ChrisHutchie19/01/2023
Delyoung19/11/2022
From Keogh Rig. Wind farm road then grassy track by fence up to plateau. More wind farm road then grass to summit trig. Solo.Dangerous Dave03/10/2022
fedupofuserids02/10/2022
easers28/09/2022
From Afton Reservoir car park on wind farm tracks to Wedder Hill then along ridge to summit.Winterfloodian21/09/2022
saas01/09/2022
Parked at the entrance to the Moorbrock Estate, hiked to Moorbrock House, then took the track above the treeline and around the west slope of Green Hill. Followed a grassy track up the North slope of Green Hill and onto Moorbrock Hill. Then down to meet the Windy Rig windfarm (just completed, turbines are massive, though sparsely spaced out) tracks over to Keoch Rig. Followed a fenceline up to Windy Standard, then used the tracks of that older windfarm (these turbines are tiny in comparison), to gain Dugland. From I dropped down to Clennoch bothy for some lunch out of the sunshine. Hiked straight back along the track to regain my outward route. Very sunny day with modest gusts, but the flies were out in force, 06:35hrs all in.chillyman818/07/2022
Limited verge parking at start of new road to Moorbrock (NX640953). Moorbrock. If you take the first track after the residences on W side of Poltie Burn (unmapped), you can still get onto the track around Green Hill via some wide firebreaks which snake up towards it, then a short brush through the trees. ATV track to Moorbrock Hill, Alwhat, then new wind farm road over Keoch Rig, Windy Standard, Trostan Hill, Dugland on old wind farm roads, back to Windy Standard, down new wind farm road to Hags of Poljargen, then scree and pathless deep grass to Mid Hill of Glenhead, An Tx and deep grass on to Dodd Hill. Descended W on obnoxious veg to get to new wind farm road ASAP, which led back to the entrance gate to the Moorbrock estate.Isbjorn15/06/2022
stevent080907/06/2022
IMacd4506/06/2022
Wind turbine central!! Climbed while doing a round of the Grahams/Donald's around Afton Reservoir.Jossker14/05/2022
From parking area just south of Afton water station, walked 100-200m then found minor signposted path uphill to right which joined wind turbines access track, followed all way to Wedder Hill, then paths across to summit.willyross06/05/2022
lindaross06/05/2022
From Cairnsmore of Carsphairn. From CoC descended north then east to the col (point 465), involving a couple of deer fences and some churned up ground. Better ground towards the col south of Alwhat, where the new wind turbines start. Over Keoch Rig with a turbine virtually on the summit, then initially gravel then grassy tracks to the older wind farm on Windy Standard summit. Descended over Bawnhead and yet more new wind turbine roads to the dammed lochan at the head of Polliferie Burn, then good tracks back to Craigengillan.Owen B17/04/2022
From Blackcraig Farm for a round of Blackcraig Hill, Blacklorg Hill, Meikledodd Hill, Alwhat, Alhang, Windy Standard, Black Hill and Struther's Brae.rhalstead17/04/2022
MuckleG19/03/2022
scoob22/01/2022
Fi22/01/2022
georgeh6001/01/2022
CK SheilaS31/12/2021
clanbonham27/11/2021
MuckleG11/11/2021
From Alhang on Glen Afton round. Low cloud prevented a view.PeterD12/10/2021
davezeking07/09/2021
3 of 8: From Millaneoch Hill using the SMC book route. Note the electric fence. With Karen.ChrisR02/09/2021
 yorkielad02/09/2021
MKInnes02/08/2021
davezeking09/07/2021
AlanD28/06/2021
Stavanger Toestub19/06/2021
ThickIce15/06/2021
Robin5603/06/2021
Weather fair.MountainMac30/05/2021
PM30/05/2021
Round of six Donalds from Glen Afton - Blackcraig, Blacklorg, Meikledodd, Alwhat, Alhang, Windy Standard - back using wind farm tracksColin Crawford22/05/2021
Drove wind farm road from NX547984, parked at a turbine (NS 6195 0135).jonglew09/05/2021
Round of Afton Water from car park 300m from damsarahk01/05/2021
Alan17/04/2021