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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 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 348 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
jgregor | 03/03/2024 | |
weaselmaster | 06/01/2024 | |
Sick Kid | 06/01/2024 | |
SunnyAdventures2 | 06/01/2024 | |
weaselmaster | 05/01/2024 | |
Sick Kid | 05/01/2024 | |
https://www.strava.com/activities/10499490004 | Graham22b | 04/01/2024 |
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 Hill | Longwojo | 29/08/2023 |
Chris Mac | 18/06/2023 | |
Tonester | 31/05/2023 | |
RIB, Bran | HFB | 25/02/2023 |
Snow on summit, Baltic, with Chris | Hutchie | 19/01/2023 |
Delyoung | 19/11/2022 | |
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 Dave | 03/10/2022 |
fedupofuserids | 02/10/2022 | |
easers | 28/09/2022 | |
From Afton Reservoir car park on wind farm tracks to Wedder Hill then along ridge to summit. | Winterfloodian | 21/09/2022 |
saas | 01/09/2022 | |
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. | chillyman8 | 18/07/2022 |
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. | Isbjorn | 15/06/2022 |
stevent0809 | 07/06/2022 | |
IMacd45 | 06/06/2022 | |
Wind turbine central!! Climbed while doing a round of the Grahams/Donald's around Afton Reservoir. | Jossker | 14/05/2022 |
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. | willyross | 06/05/2022 |
lindaross | 06/05/2022 | |
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 B | 17/04/2022 |
From Blackcraig Farm for a round of Blackcraig Hill, Blacklorg Hill, Meikledodd Hill, Alwhat, 	Alhang, Windy Standard, Black Hill and Struther's Brae. | rhalstead | 17/04/2022 |
MuckleG | 19/03/2022 | |
scoob | 22/01/2022 | |
Fi | 22/01/2022 | |
georgeh60 | 01/01/2022 | |
CK | SheilaS | 31/12/2021 |
clanbonham | 27/11/2021 | |
MuckleG | 11/11/2021 | |
From Alhang on Glen Afton round. Low cloud prevented a view. | PeterD | 12/10/2021 |
davezeking | 07/09/2021 | |
3 of 8: From Millaneoch Hill using the SMC book route. Note the electric fence. With Karen. | ChrisR | 02/09/2021 |
yorkielad | 02/09/2021 | |
MKInnes | 02/08/2021 | |
davezeking | 09/07/2021 | |
AlanD | 28/06/2021 | |
Stavanger Toestub | 19/06/2021 | |
ThickIce | 15/06/2021 | |
Robin56 | 03/06/2021 | |
Weather fair. | MountainMac | 30/05/2021 |
PM | 30/05/2021 | |
Round of six Donalds from Glen Afton - Blackcraig, Blacklorg, Meikledodd, Alwhat, Alhang, Windy Standard - back using wind farm tracks | Colin Crawford | 22/05/2021 |
Drove wind farm road from NX547984, parked at a turbine (NS 6195 0135). | jonglew | 09/05/2021 |
Round of Afton Water from car park 300m from dam | sarahk | 01/05/2021 |
Alan | 17/04/2021 |