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Name: | Candle Hill |
Hill number: | 11718 |
Height: | 204m / 669ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1516 Lord Arthur's Hill |
RHB Section: | 21B: Fraserburgh to the Dee Valley |
County/UA: | Aberdeenshire |
Catchment: | Don (Aberdeen) |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | NJ661266 (est) |
Drop: | 70m |
Col: | 134m NJ645267 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 38 (1:25k) OL62E 420E 421W |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 7 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
Came prepared with old heavyweight waterproofs and working gloves. Best approach into the gorse seems to be from 661266, very dense initially then barbed wire fence to cross. After that gorse is higher but less dense and ok to get through. Top easier to locate than thought it would be (66174 26627 measured on phone). | Dave McG | 05/02/2022 |
Gorse all round the summit- very unpleasant. | dave g | 18/01/2021 |
Without doubt the most unpleasant hill I've ever climbed! Even Strathgyle in the Dee catchment was better than this.. Previous report is inaccurate, the gorse is at least 8ft high in places. Though this can work in your favour as it's easier to go under the 'canopy' and avoid the prickles but you still have to fight through tangled stems. The gorse seems to extend about 100m in all direction from the summit with virtually no breaks. Parked at 'Smile' on the B9002, west along pavement for 100m, under railway, right along road past houses, under another bridge then easily across fields, over a low wall, then the battle begins....went prepared wearing old gardening clothes but a suit of armour might have been better.... even then there is still the sheer effort of pushing through, over or under the bushes. Summmit was a little better than expected - there are a couple of piles of rocks, covered in moss and gorse, probably old cairns, near the centre of the ring contour. Field to the west | govanah | 09/10/2020 |
Gorse alert ! | Gonk | 11/02/2020 |
Horrendous gorse covers the summit some of it 6 feet high, never again! | hill walker | 15/04/2018 |
Matt | 02/03/2023 | |
fionnag | 18/01/2021 |