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Name: | Creag Bheag |
Hill number: | 653 |
Height: | 487m / 1598ft |
RHB Section: | 09B: Glen Albyn and the Monadh Liath |
County/UA: | Highland |
Catchment: | Spey |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (400-499m), Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,4,Y) |
Grid ref: | NH 74600 01742 |
Summit feature: | rock 25m NNE of N cairn |
Drop: | 159m |
Col: | 328m NH734014 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 35 (1:25k) OL56 402 |
Observations: | rock by cairn 140m SSW at NH 74550 01609 is 0.4m lower; rock 340m SSW at NH 74486 01425 is of similar height |
Survey: | Abney level/Leica RX1250 |
Comments: | summit surveyed at 487.0m |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 328 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Walked along Speyside Way from Kingussie to Newtonmore, met friends then walked up through Strone, to path along forest edge, ascended west facing slopes to summit. Descent via North ridge, then back to Kingussie via golf course loop. | Bob-e | 02/03/2024 |
From the free car park in the centre of Kingussie. Waymarked trail to summit and looped around back behind the golf course. A very wet afternoon with memories of the East Highland Way trip a few years earlier. With Gillian and Jacquie | richard69 | 08/10/2023 |
From free cp in centre of Kingussie, up waymarked path to summit. Back same way. Lots of Red Squirrel. | Flatfield | 19/09/2023 |
Family holiday hillwalk - up from the free carpark beside the medical practice. Followed the waymarked trail to the top (gravel pending on the path) and then down to walk through the golf course trail and mill trail. Some forestry work but nothing that affected the trail. | ragudave | 12/07/2023 |
Parked by Kingussie caravan park and GC. Up NE ridge, Down SE ridge, heavy snow, 50 to 60 mph wind on top. With Lisa. | CJM | 19/01/2023 |
Short walk on lovely hot sunny day from Kingussie. | Stevie n Tay | 17/07/2022 |
With VARJ | VIPete28 | 11/06/2022 |
From Kingussie through a well mantained footpath, with a circular hike (up via South summit, down via golf course & St.Vincent hospital). Fine weather and beautiful panorama. Yesterday in the early morning, I had already attempted to climb this hill, but later on I noticed that I mistook its S summit for the actual summit, also due to a thik fog. | Pampuco | 06/06/2022 |
From the Duke of Gordon Hotel, up past the hospital, round the north edge of the golf course to Loch Gynack and steeply up to the summit. Continued along the ridge to return via the Terrace Trail. Well signposted, mainly good trails when off-road. | martin_hall | 10/04/2022 |
M91 bus to Kingussie, nice ascent from there. | BasherBob | 04/03/2022 |
Lovely walk up from car park. Good views. | Fife Walking | 04/10/2021 |
From near the hospital up, then coming back along Glen Gynack. Beautiful! | Missphoton | 26/09/2021 |
Parked near caravan site. Good track up from the SE. Returned via another well-built track to the N down to Loch Gynack and round the E side of the golf course. A very nice wee hill. | sclater | 26/09/2021 |
With the duo below.Lovely little hill. | ARM | 26/09/2021 |
Nice easy little walk, good practice trek. Well signposted from Kingussie, We walked from golf course walk then took the summits and back down via terrace trail. | misscosmonaut | 22/09/2021 |
Easy Ascent w/ Nadia and Preetha | Patrick Molloy | 06/09/2021 |
Smashing short walk on the locally supported Kingussie trail through woodland and on well made path. I liked all the paths they have made around the village. | nickywood1 | 06/07/2021 |
Solo, on way to grandchildren in Fife. | garbo1103 | 28/04/2021 |
A lovely circular walk from Kingussie if you take in the golf course section. A good warm up if you are heading up the A9 to the bigger hills. | summitter | 06/11/2020 |
good mapped path up from SE. Path off to west no longer exists - deep heather | carole engel | 23/09/2020 |
From car park in centre of Kingussie on signposted path. | Winterfloodian | 13/09/2020 |
Parked at the car park/infomation centre in Kingussie, followed the waymarked trail to the summit (1.5 miles 38 mins), then continued over the top and down on the circuit to meet the Golf Course trail, followed this back to Kingussie. 3 mile circuit, took about 1hr 30 mins total walking time. | JulieB | 30/08/2020 |
Chantell & I | kojak | 29/08/2020 |
Storm Dennis : too windy for anything higher. Waymarked path from Kingussie, did all three tops, good views to the flooded Spey valley, descended north to the lochan then took the longer anti-clockwise loop back to Kingussie. Two red squirrels seen on the way back. With TH, MH, PJ, AJ. | Owen B | 16/02/2020 |
My last walk of 2019 and just a short hike on a glorious day. From the golf club and then followed the finger post through the caravan park, the new stone path was excellent though the ice meant a careful descent after visiting all of the high points. | Peterb | 31/12/2019 |
Out and back ascent from the car park in Kingussie. Views and feel of the hill much wilder than a village start point might suggest. With NP | kenmorti | 18/10/2019 |
From free car park in Kingussie headed W & picked up red path | rogreeves | 24/04/2019 |
Victor, Donna, Ben, Rory and Sally. From Kingussie. | Victor | 12/04/2019 |
From Kingussie round to Loch Gynack and up. Return the same way. With Mum, Dad, Rory and Sally. | Ben | 12/04/2019 |
Exploring from Newtonmore. Up via NE ridge then down to W. | quadbarrel | 25/03/2019 |
Wee detour on return from Carn an Fhreiceadain. | clashcityrocker | 12/01/2019 |
Consolation prize alone after Mheadhoin w Malky, where we couldn’t get up the tor due to high winds and ice. Out and back from K’ussie ending in dark. | Rounsfell | 12/01/2019 |
Set off from GC CP along good way marked track. Triple summit - very windy - difficult to stand on each summit in the wind. Most southerly summit is a shapely knoll. | ger | 29/12/2018 |
Parked at the caravan park and took an anticlockwise route up to and past Loch Gynack, before ascending the hill from the west. | BigJ | 15/11/2018 |
nicely marked walk from public loos in village- then you will need to go off and on a smaller path . I made a loop around and came back on other paths. good value walk with someone that doesnt do hills | VerySlowPlodder | 01/10/2018 |
#644 Waymarked path from car park | tim747 | 13/06/2018 |
From the main car park in Kingussie, following the West Terrace self guided walk and then ascent on Creag Bheag path, also way marked | CreakingHiker | 13/06/2018 |
Quick up and down from West Terrace via marked FPs. With MN | trimarc2 | 11/05/2018 |
From CP at NH755007. | summitsup | 01/05/2018 |
After bagging 2 Corbetts earlier was going to the Coop in Kingussie and saw the info board saying 2 hours for this Marilyn and a well sign posted route. So back on with the boots and arrived at the tops in 35 minutes. Not sure what is the top, but the highest point looked to be the one without a cairn. Visted 5 places to be sure. I think this needs a good survey. | Jhimmy | 21/04/2018 |
Visited all 3 high points on a very snowy, wintery day. Weather too bad to tackle anything higher. Nice little hill, up signposted route from Kingussie car park. | Dangerous Dave | 18/03/2018 |
Parked at end of West Terrace (NH 74541 00590) following sign posted track to summit cairn (NNE 467m spot height). Rock 25m NNE looks higher and looking back at cairn noticed point way beyond to SSW looks higher than cairn. Went to this point as well approx ¼ mile to SSW (SSW 467m spot height)and indeed cairn from this point looks lower. Recommend visiting all three points as current observation is all three points are same height. So is it a candidate to be a twin/triple Marilyn summit? | mntainman | 31/01/2018 |
Pleasant hike circuit from Kingussie. About 10km. Snow cover and slippery footpaths. Fresh snow and icy. | Hammy | 29/12/2017 |
tick | chazzyboy19 | 04/12/2017 |
A nice walk on a brand new shiny path from the Golf Course. Lovely easy stroll to start the day. | Gill | 27/10/2017 |
From Kingussie. Up waymarked path through woods. Blustery but dry | N.Morters | 15/10/2017 |
KeithByTheC | 27/07/2017 | |
with Alex Thomson en route to Ullapool | davidsbatty | 01/07/2017 |
Veryhappybunny | 21/04/2017 | |
A nice circular walk from the caravan park at golf course great views | Nozzer | 08/04/2017 |