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Name:Keoch Rig
Hill number:1768
Height:612.4m / 2009ft
Parent (Ma):1744  Windy Standard
Parent (SMC):1744  Windy Standard
RHB Section:27C: The Glenkens to Annandale
Donald area:Carsphairn Hills
County/UA:Dumfries and Galloway
Catchment:Dee (Kirkcudbright)
Class:
(DT)
Grid ref:NX 61706 99981
Summit feature:no feature
Drop:18.3m
Col:594.1m  NS 6186 0026  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 77
(1:25k) 328S
Observations:very flat summit area
Survey:Abney level/Leica RX1250
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 192 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
jgregor03/03/2024
weaselmaster06/01/2024
Sick Kid06/01/2024
SunnyAdventures206/01/2024
https://www.strava.com/activities/10499495345Graham22b05/01/2024
govanah08/10/2023
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
From Moorbrock Hill via its North Top and wind farm road. Summit quite close to a turbine.Crumblie202/08/2023
Tonester31/05/2023
Summit is now in the midst of wind turbines so make sure you have an up-to-date map.49pp18/04/2023
JFT_9608/04/2023
Delyoung19/11/2022
From Moorbrock Hill N Top. Down grass slope to join wind farm road. Followed road to summit area. Solo.Dangerous Dave03/10/2022
gingernut01/09/2022
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
stevent080922/06/2022
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
IMacd4506/06/2022
highlandhillwalker17/05/2022
Parked at Moorbrock Estate/Windy Rig Wind Farm entrance (Water of Ken) for round of Moorbrock Hill, Moorbrock Hill North Top, Keoch Rig, Mid Hill of Glenhead and Dodd Hill. Now possible to return from Keoch Rig entirely on wind farm tracks!RobB02/05/2022
From Cairnsmore of Carsphairn. Now in the middle of a wind farm.Owen B17/04/2022
scoob22/01/2022
Fi22/01/2022
Moorbrock, Keoch Rig, Dugland, Cairnsmore of Carsphairn and Beninner from CraigengillanJimT12/01/2022
Simon Winton13/11/2021
easers26/10/2021
davezeking07/09/2021
Parked at start of new wind farm (NX 6405 9528). Took WF road for 1.33km before cutting across WSW to pick up a logging road for Craigengillan Hill. Cut back to Moorbrock to pick up a good track that went round Green Hill and almost all the way up to Moorbrock Hill then on to its North Top. Dropped down ~110m to pick up an unmapped WF road on the way up Alwhat and continued on it to here. Continued on to Mid Hill of Glenhead (using some of the new WF roads) -> Dodd Hill, returning to road at Strahanna Bridge (last leg from Dodd Hill over very poor ground) for a 19km round.jonglew05/09/2021
 yorkielad02/09/2021
MKInnes02/08/2021
kiltedbiggles02/08/2021
davezeking09/07/2021
AlanD28/06/2021
Trailmaister27/06/2021
ThickIce22/06/2021
Stavanger Toestub19/06/2021
PM30/05/2021
Much construction work and the summit area has been completely disrupted with a turbine and numerous areas of spoil, very difficult to discern the natural high pointColin Crawford29/05/2021
euanbell12327/03/2021
Windy Standard Round 11. 34.5km, 1834km ascent, 10.5hrs. One to forgetHuwel27/02/2021
SunnyAdventures27/02/2021
Dugland, Tristan, Jedburgh Knees, Windy Standard, Keoch Rig, Moorbrock. Beautiful day. Such a shame about the wind farm devastation. With R, B and Brian.jenx27/09/2020
Tricky21/09/2020
jfwilson23/08/2020
Approx 40km round from Glen Afton, starting near Craigdarroch. Direct ascent to Yarngallows Knowe, then Struther's Brae, Black Hill (also visiting tops similar in height to the summit), Black Hill, Wedder Hill, Millaneoch Hill, Keoch Rigg, Moorbrock Hill N Top, Moorbrock Hill, Dodd Hill (+ nearby mounds of similar height), Mid Hill of Glenhhead, camped near summit off Alhang. Continued short distance to Alhang summit, then Ewe Hill N Top, Ewe Hill, Alwhat, Meikledodd Hill, Blacklorg Hill, Cannock Hill and Craigbraneoch Hill, descending to cross bridge at Craigdarroch. Rain for much of route, and wet underfoot.RobertP22/08/2020
Mark Hodgson24/07/2020
Parked at Craigengillan (just space for one car off road). Moorbrock Hill, Keoch Rig, Dugland, Benniner.PGCE18/11/2019
Christo197915/09/2019
fa, solo, sunny and breeze on the tops, wet underfoot on the hills, with some land rover tracks, 25.5km, 9hr from clennoch bothy to new cumnock via, tracks, hillside to keoch rig with a new mast on its top, past the putting stone to windy standard along the wind farm tracks, down to a col and along a fence then up to Alhang, alwhat , meikledodd hill, then across a new track not marked on the maps or viewranger, blacklorg hill, blackcraig hill and down to quintin knowe to pick up the track down to blackcraig farm, then the minor road all the way to the train station in new cumnockrum doodle 07/06/2019
Came across from Beninner via a slightly wet col, although walking not too bad this time of year. Followed messy tracks made by large tracked vehicles. Some new wind turbines are being considered here. Out over Moorbrock Hill, and via the main Moorbrock Estate track.LizH10/04/2019