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| Name: | North Goatfell |
| Hill number: | 3313 |
| Height: | 818m / 2684ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1472 Goatfell [Goat Fell] |
| RHB Section: | 20C: Arran and Holy Island |
| County/UA: | North Ayrshire |
| Island: | Arran |
| Class: | Simm, High Hills of Britain, Corbett Top (Tu,Sim,HHB,CT) |
| Grid ref: | NR 99004 42272 |
| Summit feature: | sloping outcrop |
| Drop: | 58m |
| Col: | 760m NR990421  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 62 69 (1:25k) 361N |
| Observations: | high point is above nearby boulders |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 293 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From High Corrie for this hill and Mullach Buidhe. Cloud down, so no views. Residual snow above 750m, used microspikes for last few metres to summit. | NormanW | 11/03/2024 |
| Brodick ferry terminal-Fisherman's Walk-main path up Goatfell-North Goatfell-Mullach Buidhe-ferry terminal via Glen Rosa | campagvelocet | 22/06/2023 |
| Glen Sannox horseshoe on clear hot day. Good scrambling up to the Bastion, on to Mullach Buidhe along ridge, North Goatfell, descended to The Saddle, up Cir Mhor, along to Caisteall Abhail, ridge to Witches Step, down gully then along to Suidhe Fearghas. | PeterD | 14/06/2023 |
| With CathyS, RobN & Luna. From North Sannox car park to Cladach carpark. | masmith | 28/01/2023 |
| With CathyS & Luna, CCW loop from Corrie. | masmith | 19/11/2022 |
| Excellent cicuit from Corrie - North Goatfell, Stacach ridge and Goatfell - on a beautiful day. | milimana | 13/09/2022 |
| Mullach Buidhe, North Goatfell and Goatfell from Corrie | Gary Heath | 29/08/2022 |
| Kong MM Day 1. Goatfell, Caisteal Abhail. | Geoff Briggs | 27/08/2022 |
| Corrie - Goatfell. 2 of 3 | thekirkie pirate | 27/07/2022 |
| Lovely walk up from Corrie :) | Havenchris | 30/10/2021 |
| 30k run. Beinn Tarsuinn, Caisteal Abhail, Cir Mhor, Goatfell. | quadbarrel | 08/09/2021 |
| Great Rocky to Goatfell | Adventurers5 | 11/05/2021 |
| With Debs & Tali, from Corrie and down to Brodick | Mountain Goat | 15/09/2019 |
| Sannox -> Bastion -> Mullach Buidhe -> North Goatfell -> Goatfell -> Meall Breac -> Sannox | briandiggle | 08/07/2019 |
| Repeat | chalky1953 | 20/04/2019 |
| with Ramblers and Scramblers | little al | 30/03/2019 |
| Goatfell and North Goatfell from Corrie. A lovely route and much less busy than the route up from the castle. Wonderful group of hills in sunny but windy weather. With Mrs Anchovy, M & X. | Herbert Anchovy | 31/08/2018 |
| high corrie to north sannox walk, mullach buidhe, north goatfell, cir mhor, caisteal abhail, caisteal abhail east top, caisteal abhail far east top, suidhe fhearghas. | robertphillips | 11/08/2018 |
| With G. S. & S. From Cladach > Goatfell > North Goatfell return via The Saddle & Glen Rosa | RT1970 | 17/07/2018 |
| From Brodick castle - Goat Fell - North Goat Fell - The Saddle - Glen Rosa return. With Harriet and Gillian | richard69 | 30/05/2018 |
| North Sannox to Merkland Bridge linear walk over 3 of the island's Corbetts and some Sims. With Carole Engel. | jonglew | 07/05/2018 |
| With CathyB. Part Glen Sannox horseshoe CCW, becuase of icy conditions on Caisteal Abhail. From Sannox, hitched back on A841. | masmith | 29/03/2018 |
| Revisit in passing, from Corrie, then to Cir Mhor | RHW | 19/11/2017 |
| W Jenx and Bryher from Corrie, drive up road signposted Goat Fell to water storage inc parking. Fine path all way to headwall of GF North ridge, cut up to Mullach Bhuidhe on good path, then route reversed to scramble to GF North top, interesting route finding over rocks greasy from recent snow melt. Onwards to Goat Fell proper and easy descent down East ridge back to Corrie | nordicstar | 15/11/2017 |
| Glen Rosa - Beinn Nuis - Beinn Tarsuinn - Caisteal Abhail - Cir Mhor - North Goatfell - Goatfell - Glen Rosa | davidpettit84 | 05/10/2017 |
| Glen Rosa Horseshoe with Debs, Phil & Blue | Mountain Goat | 14/06/2017 |
| Night walk on the way to Goat Fell | jpitches | 20/05/2017 |
| A flying visit with Fraser. Got afternoon ferry across and completed Goat Fell in evening dropping down to the saddle where we camped overnight.Next morning completed Cir Mhor and Caisteal Abhail, due to heavy rain called it a day. Will return to complete Ben Tarsuinn and A-Chir | JamesSDonald | 19/05/2017 |
| From Goat Fell. Minor scrambling around huge boulders. | Owen B | 14/05/2017 |
| Brodick Castle Car Park - Through Castle Grounds to pick up main path - Summit of Goat Fell (& Trig)- Ridge to Summit of North Goat Fell. Sublime mountain-scape, a place to sit and stare. | briandavies | 22/04/2017 |
| Corrieburn Bridge, Corrie Burn, Meall Breac, Goat Fell, North Goat Fell, Coire Lan, back. | callumorr | 19/10/2016 |
| From Corrie. The path up has seen a lot of work and is excellent. No bogs! | David Bell | 13/10/2016 |
| After GF. At the time, potentially the scariest ascent of any hill I had done. | iangpark | 01/09/2016 |
| Steep but straightforward ascent of Goatfell from Corrie. Proceeded to North Goatfell, Saddle & Cir Mhor then retrace and very tough scramble off of Saddle into Glen Sannox & back on road to Corrie. | Argentum66 | 24/08/2016 |
| My 4th hill of five on a long and arduous hike from Lochranza to Brodick via Torr Meadhonach, Creag Ghlas Laggan, down to N Sannox bridge, over Cnocan Donna, down to Glen Sannox, over and then up Cioch na h-oige and along the ridge to Mullach Buidhe, continuing onto N Goatfell. It has a fantastic aspect with the summit being one of the granite boulders | Dazingdale | 12/05/2016 |
| The fifth hill climbed while doing all four Arran Corbetts (6 tops in total) in one day. | Chris Mac | 26/07/2015 |
| With Tony, Sophie, Nic Gordon, Andy, Peter, Becca Hardy, Graham Bromley. From Glen Sannox, scrambled up Cioch na h-Oighe and along to Mullach Buidhe. More scrambling onto N Goatfell then along to Goat's Fell. Excellent views. Descended to Corrie. | zoob | 07/04/2015 |
| See Goat fell | dickscroop | 17/05/2014 |
| Ascend from Brodick Castle and Goat Fell, summit in cloud, heavy rain on decesnt. | rossdrummond | 07/09/2013 |
| From Corrie with Team Bob. Unbelieveable wind and driving snow / hail prevented a crossing of the Stachan ridge to Goatfell summit | nosdrahcir | 11/05/2013 |
| Annettes pre birthday Debs and Goska | Mountain Goat | 14/10/2012 |
| good day at the start of a relatively wet week in Arran | langskill | 01/07/2012 |
| Walked up from Corrie where I was staying. Took the left hand ridge route up Goat Fell then the ridge across to Goat Fell N Top and Mullach Buidhe and down the main path back down the valley to Corrie. | clivevilla | 16/10/2011 |
| On own, on walk from Goatfell to Cir Mhor | Crib Goch | 22/08/2011 |
| RH Rup | Richard Tait | 07/08/2011 |
| On the way to the main top. | robertphillips | 27/06/2011 |
| Circuit of Glen Rosa with JV. (estimated date) | John Lee | 15/05/2010 |
| Glen Sannox round | lordtonult | 08/11/2009 |
| With Brian, Pauline, Mel | alwaysinshorts | 13/04/2009 |
| Estimated date. With James. Day 1: Sannox - Cioch na h-Oighe - Mullach Buidhe - North Goatfell - the Saddle - camped in Glen Rosa. Day 2: Goatfell, up and down by main path. Quickly, so that we caught the ferry! | killiedaft | 03/08/2006 |