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| Name: | Ben Rinnes |
| Hill number: | 1489 |
| Height: | 841m / 2759ft |
| RHB Section: | 21A: Tomintoul to Banff |
| County/UA: | Moray |
| Catchment: | Spey |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Corbett, High Hills of Britain, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,C,HHB,Y,P500) |
| Grid ref: | NJ 25499 35438 |
| Summit feature: | rock tor 10m WSW of trig point |
| Drop: | 513m |
| Col: | 328m NJ250311  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 28 (1:25k) 424S |
| Observations: | 80cm higher than flush bracket of trig point (NJ 25510 35445) |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 557 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| With Gareth and jared | emily | 21/01/2024 |
| From the parking area to the east, a Eight and half mile route taking in the summit top Scurran of Lochterlandoch, Scurran of Morinish and the Scurran of Well, returning to the car via the ascent route from the distillery and then following the track North East around the base of the mountain. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 01/01/2024 |
| OMC Meet at Smugglers Hostel, Tomintoul. With Clare Andrews, Paul Morris and Gemma Andreae, we parked at the Ben Rinnes distillery near Edinvillie. We followed the track past the distillery ponds, up through the trees and on to the open hillside. We missed the path that breaks off toward the Torrs, so ended up heather bashing to reach Lady's Chair. Then into the mist for the last section up to the summit, we returned the same way, having a good nosey around the torrs on the way back. No real views, but a nice outing, 04:40hrs all in. | chillyman8 | 19/11/2023 |
| Jackie's first mountain. Got chatting to some of the volunteers who were fixing up the paths and Eric showed me the remains of the crash of a Wellington Bomber which crashed on the northern flank about 200ft below the summit on 14th Nov 1943. | w1ght | 23/10/2023 |
| Walk up from car park to the east | jedthehumanoid | 11/09/2023 |
| Standard route from parking. | rhalstead | 10/09/2023 |
| With J during a hot & sunny week based in Tomintoul. Standard route from car park. Honey bees everywhere & lots of pipits on summit. Great viewpoint with Assynt & Coigach hills clearly visible, Ben Alder too. | NotReallyABagger | 05/09/2023 |
| During Ben Rinnes 5 Tops Hill Race at the Dufftown Games. | w1ght | 31/07/2023 |
| 09.53. Fortunate morning with the weather I slept in the car park last night and it looked like it was going to be dry for the morning at least until mid day and sure enough it was although it was covered in Cloud as I started climbing but it cleared as I got to the summit I'm sitting here in almost still air on the summit. But nippy though. Highest hill of this 7 week vagabond trip and think it's my 97th Corbett | vegibagger | 05/07/2023 |
| RACE | donmeister | 01/07/2023 |
| With Regan aged 10. Late afternoon spur of thr moment decision. Her first ever mountain. Very windy but warm. | w1ght | 10/04/2023 |
| With Hannah. Parked in small carpark at Glack Harnes, up and down Ben Rinnes, then crossed the road and took the track through the Heather up to Meikle Conval. | benji_willy | 20/02/2023 |
| Grom CP to E, with Kath. | CJM | 16/02/2023 |
| 1/3. Parked at the tourist car park for Ben Rinnes, then up and down, crossed the road and up the heather path to Meikle Conval and Little Conval then used the forest tracks to get back to the road (last little bit down through the heather). Lovely September walk in sunshine. | nickywood1 | 10/09/2022 |
| Tourist route up wide well maintained track | PaulineD | 07/07/2022 |
| Up from car park to east, great views from top. Then up Meikle Conval. | PeterD | 09/06/2022 |
| Standard route up the track from the east out and back. Very straightforward. Very prominent hill gives good views. | Owen B | 24/05/2022 |
| By the standard route from car park. Lots of people returning on the way up, but had the summit to myself. Very prominent hill, good views from granite tor at summit. 8.1km. | PiranhaFish | 14/05/2022 |
| Up the “tourist route” from the car park. One of the easier Corbetts I suspect. | Crib Goch | 03/05/2022 |
| Up from Benrinnes distillery in thick mist, which failed to clear; I'd been hoping for an inversion but it wasn't to be | Colin Crawford | 23/04/2022 |
| Straight up and down, chasing the last of the light. Stunning day and fantastic views. Motorway style path helped with speed on this one! 1hr 30 for the 8km loop | Nicky C | 20/03/2022 |
| Straightforward up and down from the car park. Good views from the top. | JasonStark | 14/03/2022 |
| Climbed with Richard after staying at hotel in Tomintoul. Windy day but mostly clear, a little bit snow /ice on top. | amcculloch | 15/02/2022 |
| After Meikle Conval. Huffed and puffed up and down the track on a day that improved as it went on. | the pigguy | 06/10/2021 |
| Strait up from the car park. Inversion at top | Pilotralph | 15/09/2021 |
| Solo. From Glenlivet (Alanreid car park) Cycle to summit and descent via Scurran of Lochterlandoch and Roy's Hill. Very technical MTB. On via Miton of Laggan to Corriehabie Hill. | John Lee | 12/09/2021 |
| A nice stroll from the south side on the track E of Bridge of Tomachlaven past Newton Cottage. Easy, dry track all the way, a good thing too, given that I had forgotten to bring my fell shoes and was wearing daft girlie summer town shoes. | Gill2 | 09/08/2021 |
| 150th Marilyn. From car park in squally weather. Very poor visibility at top. 1 hr 15 mins ascent, 45 mins descent. | Longwojo | 06/08/2021 |
| With Moira, short walk up good path from car park | ColB | 04/08/2021 |
| Solo walk. I drove up from Edinburgh via A9, Grantown-on-Spey. Relieved to find a parking spot easily. The track up the hill makes for easy walking a rapid progress. I kept up a steady pace without stops and was on summit within 1h 15min. Several other groups on the hill - mainly young folk and families. I got a good view of tomorrow's target - Corryhabbie Hill. | langskill | 18/07/2021 |
| With Little Conval & Meikle Conval | jef | 05/07/2021 |
| From the Glack Harnes road, starting at NJ 28446 36028), using the track and constructed path to the summit. Return by outward route. Solo. 8.3km, with 550m of ascent. | Man of Kernow1 | 03/07/2021 |
| Full winter conditions above 600m | stephenhughes | 25/06/2021 |
| Went up tourist route | NHumes | 12/06/2021 |
| Usual car park. Basically a mountain that's impossible to get lost in. | Jhimmy | 04/06/2021 |
| Fell run from lay by at the bottom | w1ght | 03/06/2021 |
| Up n down the tourist path, taking my son's girlfriend up her first big hill. Not sure she'll make a second! | summitter | 29/05/2021 |
| Up main track then circuit of tors and down north side of hill. Found some wreckage of WW2 Wellington bomber. With PCMs | slynch | 26/01/2021 |
| From home on CX bike. | RodMcGovern | 17/09/2020 |
| With Rob. Followed standard/ SMC guidebook way to top. Fabulous views. | alexmaclennan | 08/09/2020 |
| Up and down the path from the east. | davidpettit84 | 22/08/2020 |
| With Little Conval & Meikle Conval | PDuncan82 | 05/08/2020 |
| 5am start - total time 1hr 41mins - light rain at first and claggy with low visibility above 700m, but cleared up on descent. | mproudfoot | 02/08/2020 |
| From car park up and down well made path. Very windy on the top. | SS | 28/07/2020 |
| Walked up and ran down trade route. Misty, warmish, drizzle. Slight view on way down. Summit tor slippery. On way to meet Malky & Jackie. | Rounsfell | 04/01/2020 |
| With S & H & J | Gav0268 | 03/01/2020 |
| A short quick and pleasant up and down ion an extremely windy day when anything more exposed would have been a problem | dickscroop | 02/01/2020 |
| With Sue from the CP along main track from E (Glack Harnes) via Round Hill and Roy's Hill, descent same way. Bit improvement in the weather. | Frank | 03/09/2019 |
| GHC Ballater weekend. Hail, sun and wind. Good views. | Play2End | 21/06/2019 |
| Up and down from car park | JulieB | 12/05/2019 |