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Name:Hill of Goauch
Hill number:516
Height:337.2m / 1106ft
Parent (Ma):485  Mount Keen
RHB Section:07B: Braemar to Montrose
County/UA:Aberdeenshire
Catchment:Dee (Aberdeen)
Class:Hump, Tump (300-399m), Submarilyn, Yeaman
(Hu,Tu,3,sMa,Y)
Grid ref:NO 66307 94171
Summit feature:heathery rocky mound
Drop:148.7m
Col:188.6m  NO 6331 9430  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 38 45
(1:25k) 406W
Observations:cairn near demolished tower at NO 66197 94271 (336.6m), rock in clearing at NO 66224 94207 (336.8m) & base of tree at NO 6625 9417 (336.7m) are all lower
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Traversed as part of a walk from Peterculter to Feughside Inn visiting family, solo 18.5 mile. Saw a few people on lower slopes of Scolty but not a soul up Hill of Goauch. Beautiful day, still a bit of snow up the top.PDuncan8213/02/2024
After Scolty. There is a good path, running along the north side of the stone wall, that takes you all the way to the summit area. Visited other potential high points. Tried to take a shortcut back directly to the car park but it was awful! Fallen trees, high bracken & tall heather. I would suggest backtracking by the wall. Solo.Dangerous Dave05/10/2023
Gravel bike along forest tracks then walked up final MTB trails.AndyS14/07/2023
Weather fair.MountainMac16/10/2022
Took the track from Scolty, S then W. Tracks continued into the forest and eventually to the summit. To descend, continued following bike tracks, keeping right as much as possible. Found the track descended the N ridge to the Deeside way track, then right and back to the Scolty car park.LizH21/11/2021
2nd ascent. Walk with L & neighbour R and the 3 dogs between us. Main path up Scolty then linked with Hill of Goauch on good thin path through the head high bracken which involved dropping 100m more than the col - to reclimb steeply on good path inside lovely pine forest. Non stop science theories chat from R - all fascinating complex stuff. Mountain bikers more common than walkers on these steep thin paths twisting through the trees. Back alongside Deeside Way track.Chris Pearson20/07/2020
a Bit of geocaching and hill baggingPilotralph 30/10/2019
Ascended from track to the west by a path/cycle route, which starts by an old stone wall. Checked various tops including the cairn.JohnW22/10/2019
Beautiful early morning run with L. 1 hr out and back from car park to west via trig pillar on lovely runnable forest tracks and paths twisting between the pines, cold but sun warming up the day -shorts, hat and gloves - akin to a cool Alpine morning with a hot day soon to come. Soon sweating from the effort and warming temperature. Then crossed the road to tackle the much rougher heather, bog and long grass of Tom's Cairn -before orienteering at 11 am down at Potarch Bridge - coaching Neil's children on a Come and Try It event.Chris Pearson08/09/2019
From West past Tillylair trig.NormanW02/04/2017
From Banchory by cycle route diverting up to NO670944. Then a well worn trod followed by many possible summits at cairns, demolished and rotting tower and clearing, thanks as per current 'Observations ...'. Top of an upturned tree-root system by the ex-tower today, for my 50p.Eddie15/03/2017
Self, Peter and dog in soft snowInvicta1424/02/2017
From the west after the nice S5600 trig easy tracks and open forest....expected might by a sitka spruce horror but delightful open Caledonian pine forestvegibagger22/10/2015
MTB routesnix_snilloc14/01/2014
Dad and KarenGrah-tfun14/07/2013
With dogAlastair S05/05/2012
Solo run over Tillylair, Goauch and Scolty, back beside the Dee.amswanston01/06/2006
Strongly suspect that there is higher ground than the quoted summit.fasgadh27/11/2005
open wdld; cairn & boulder nr summit. RHW26/03/2003
Tom Mundell14/05/2023
Trekking toes14/05/2023
interloper29/04/2023
Fletch29/04/2023
DaveO16/01/2023
PeterAH21/11/2021
Ibex12/03/2021
dave g02/01/2021
fionnag02/01/2021
govanah19/11/2019
Tricky21/08/2019
Dave McG20/08/2019
PGCE26/02/2019
bertbarnett12326/12/2017
Tony S03/09/2016
bjewing16/07/2016
BaggerGutt30/05/2016
Martin R05/04/2016
elma spencer10/10/2015
Kiltie16/02/2015
PM21/06/2014
Ibex12/03/2014
Lindsay M09/02/2014
Louise09/02/2014
Janet M09/02/2014
ajwxyzt09/02/2014
hill walker29/12/2013
iaindbrown12/11/2013
alda12/11/2013
alda07/08/2013
mae10/07/2013