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Name: | Glower |
Hill number: | 12216 |
Height: | 102m / 335ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1555 Milldoe - Mid Tooin |
RHB Section: | 23: Orkney Islands |
County/UA: | Orkney Islands |
Island: | Orkney Mainland |
Class: | Tump (100-199m) (Tu,1) |
Grid ref: | HY 25101 25855 |
Summit feature: | no feature: 27m N of junction of derelict walls |
Drop: | 75m |
Col: | 27m HY244240 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 6 (1:25k) 463 |
Comments: | summit re-located from Ravie Hill HY262252 in September 2013 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 25 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From Birsay. Running. 16km solo. Counting bend in the road as people in at Glower and didn’t feel like trespassing. | Fionalevey | 11/08/2023 |
parked close to gate and short wander through gate to high point in field | grumpy | 28/03/2023 |
05.50 from bend in the road over two gates and up to the domed to of the field disturbing a few cows beauty rest...!! | vegibagger | 26/08/2022 |
Almost a drive up, as DD. | Minto | 30/07/2022 |
Over two gates into empty field behind house. Parked by gate to west of summit. With JW & SG. | Dangerous Dave | 30/07/2022 |
Almost a drive up, certainly, but no obvious parking so I walked from further west on the road. Easy stroll through a couple of fields | Colin Crawford | 28/07/2022 |
A ridiculously easy walk from verge parking by a gate just west of Glower. Across a field, hop a gate, then you're there. No climbing to speak of. A green pancake | Gill | 25/02/2019 |
Parked at field gate, at bend in road (HY 2498 2584). Short walk to high point in pasture behind house. | jonglew | 25/02/2019 |
From W up lane then gate into cow pasture and summit field. Fine views include Brough Head. | RichardM | 31/07/2018 |
Solo | simon and co | 01/05/2017 |
P at bend. Through two gates into crop field | chrisbien | 04/06/2014 |
From SW: field behind house, on a showery morning. | RHW | 02/06/2014 |
Easy bag from the road with Jim Bloomer and Tricky Speirs on a sunny afternoon. | Dugswell2 | 31/05/2014 |
Matt | 17/10/2023 | |
SteveG | 30/07/2022 | |
mae | 30/07/2022 | |
Simon Winton | 26/04/2022 | |
kathyh | 28/05/2021 | |
benarmine | 31/03/2019 | |
nordicstar | 30/07/2018 | |
alanm | 08/08/2014 | |
richtea5040 | 05/06/2014 | |
jimbloomer | 31/05/2014 | |
Tricky | 31/05/2014 | |
chalky1953 | 30/05/2014 |