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| Name: | Mount Battock |
| Hill number: | 496 |
| Height: | 778m / 2552ft |
| RHB Section: | 07B: Braemar to Montrose |
| County/UA: | Angus, Aberdeenshire |
| County (CoH): | Kincardineshire (CoH) |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Dee (Aberdeen), North Esk |
| Watershed: | Aberdeen Bay |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Corbett, Historic County Top, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,C,CoH,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NO 54964 84461 |
| Summit feature: | trig point |
| Drop: | 286m |
| Col: | 492m NO537854  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 44 (1:25k) OL54 395 |
| Observations: | one of several rocks in the immediate summit area may be as high or higher |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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*For information about access rights in Scotland see the ScotWays website.
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 435 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Mount Battock from Glen Esk, Walkhighlands route | hummusg | 01/01/2024 |
| TommyG | 17/12/2023 | |
| With E. A sunny day but chilly wind on higher ground meant we didn't linger at summit. From small car park in Millden, note telephone box has been removed. Past Mill of Aucheen and Muir Lodge along estate tracks via Black Crag, where track really rises up steeply, over Wester Cairn to summit. Return via Hill of Saughs, Hill of Turret, across Burn of Turret to rejoin outward track back to car park. | Beeliner | 13/09/2023 |
| highlandrock | 14/08/2023 | |
| Gallovidian | 04/08/2023 | |
| anguscow | 19/07/2023 | |
| weaselmaster | 01/07/2023 | |
| Sick Kid | 01/07/2023 | |
| yorkielad | 15/06/2023 | |
| On day 12 of TGOC 2023, between Shiel of Glentanar and Clachnaben. Visited trig point and several nearby rocks that appeared to be higher than the trig base. | alistairpooler | 23/05/2023 |
| Machyde | 05/05/2023 | |
| Machyde | 04/05/2023 | |
| Stavanger Toestub | 22/04/2023 | |
| gomezhdm | 10/04/2023 | |
| Grand day for an outing to Mount Battock mainly on tracks via Wester Cairn with return via Hill of Saughs from parking area (now without a telephone box) near Millden Lodge. | RobB | 27/03/2023 |
| With Eve, Nikki, and Marianthi. Very mild February day allowed for relaxed stroll across the moorland. Clear views across the Mounth to Mount Keen and Lochnagar. | RufusHodge | 12/02/2023 |
| Clachnaben, Hill of Edendocher, Sandy Hill and Mount Battock from Glen Dye parking. | JasonStark | 28/12/2022 |
| gettingonabit | 12/11/2022 | |
| ScottyBoy76 | 29/10/2022 | |
| hhjj | 26/09/2022 | |
| Pleasant stroll up the tracks from Millden. Not a soul around | Rockdoctor | 27/08/2022 |
| Veryhappybunny | 09/08/2022 | |
| Pete R | 06/08/2022 | |
| AlanD | 31/07/2022 | |
| From Glen Esk, clockwise route up the track to the summit, then back down via Hill of Saughs and Hill of Turret. Clagged out above 500m so no views. 3h 16min total time. | mproudfoot | 30/07/2022 |
| Second visit, this time under cloudless skies. | Windy Corner | 04/06/2022 |
| Land of bulldozed tracks (and sore feet). Clockwise circuit from Milden over Wester Cairn and returning via Hill of Saughs. Quite a few other people out on the hill. | Fife Walking | 23/04/2022 |
| From Milden Lodge. Good track past Whups Craig, Hill of Turret, to Hill of Saughs, then grassy path to the summit. Descended by the good track south from Wester Cairn, then the grassy track along the east side of the Burn of Turret for the last km. Excellent weather, distant views to Lochnagar and the Cairngorms, slight haze towards the coast. | Owen B | 22/04/2022 |
| From the phone box in milden then across the next two summits before descending into the glen | Pilotralph | 15/11/2021 |
| SunnyAdventures | 06/10/2021 | |
| With Sue from car park with phone box in Glen Esk, cycled/pushed for 4km ,then over Wester Cairn, summit good visibility. Return same way to bikes and free ride back. Taking care on fine gritty track. | Frank | 20/09/2021 |
| 9.2 mile circular from phonebox at Millden Lodge. Up minor road to Muir Cottage then along grouse shooting tracks by Burn of Turret contouring the Allrey ridge onto Wester Cairn and Mount Battock summit. From here we descended through a boggy area to Hill of Saughs down track over Hill of Turret contouring Whups Craig back to car. Sunny/high cloud with great views eventhough the munros to the west were in the cloud. We saw 3 other people. 689m ascent overall. | DanTrig | 15/09/2021 |
| With old school gang. From Milden Lodge. Back over hill of Saughs. | slynch | 23/08/2021 |
| By EMTB from Glen Dye | PeteF | 19/08/2021 |
| AFD90 | 11/07/2021 | |
| booboowalking | 04/07/2021 | |
| GoldenBhoy | 02/07/2021 | |
| From car park with phone box in Glen Esk over Wester Cairn, summit in cloud and zero visibility, quickly down by the Hill of Saughs through peat to shelter from wind and back down by good path | PDuncan82 | 26/05/2021 |
| DotMP | 17/05/2021 | |
| Valeriemac8 | 09/05/2021 | |
| With Kat | j_com | 17/04/2021 |
| From overnight camp at Spittal Cottage. Cycled up Glen Dye to Charr bothy and Burn of Badymicks to shooting hut on good tracks steep in places. Continued on bike on poorer tracks to summit. Decent over Hill of Badymicks and onto Clachnaben. Down via Hill of Edendocher Charr and high track from Charr to Spital Cottage. Excellent day on MTB. | John Lee | 22/10/2020 |
| davefh | 17/09/2020 | |
| Up the track from Millden Lodge in the evening, then half way back down to wild camp before finishing the descent in the morning. | davidpettit84 | 23/08/2020 |
| Cycled in from bridge of Dye up glen Dye with a bit of bike pushing to get up on the ridge, after topping out cycled back to Clachnaben. With big J Not bad views | Nozzer | 24/07/2020 |
| Bagging the trig. With Nozzer. | BigJ | 24/07/2020 |
| stalky14 | 19/07/2020 | |
| RodMcGovern | 16/07/2020 | |
| Ledi | 30/05/2020 | |
| gary1981 | 30/05/2020 |