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Name: | Blacklaw Hill West Top |
Hill number: | 12899 |
Height: | 273m / 896ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1670 King's Seat |
RHB Section: | 26A: Central Scotland from Dumbarton to Montrose |
County/UA: | Angus |
Catchment: | Tay |
Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
Grid ref: | NO 27525 34905 |
Summit feature: | rock by track |
Drop: | 34m |
Col: | 239m NO280347 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 53 (1:25k) 380E 380W |
Survey: | Leica Disto D510 |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 30 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From the Ledyatt Loch CP. A gate besides the cattle grid gives access to a field, enabling the skirting of Ledyatt Wood. A gate/broken fence E of Balshando Hill then provides a reasonable walk through Naiad Wood to the summit. I then went S and over a fence into a field, exiting again NE of Blacklaw Hill West Top. Bit of a heather bash to the summit ridge, where a vehicle track goes to the summit and then pretty much all the way to Blacklaw Hill proper. From the trig I went N down to a gorse-lined burn, but easy to jump across where there are gaps in the gorse. Kept to the edge of the field until reaching a pylon line. This has created a ride in Ledyatt Wood along which a footpath leads all the way to the wood's west side and then can be skirted all the way around back to the car. | summitter | 19/12/2023 |
With Blacklaw Hill from Piper Dam | hillsman | 26/11/2023 |
From fab parking at Piperdam Loch, along good path N side then signposted route up Blacklaw Hill and Trig. ATV tracks to BH W Top. More good track curling N, NW, S to gate and path through forest to track to minor road. Up Ballo Hill from mast track opp Thrawparts. Short grass W down to wooden fence at hole in wall. Easy to cross under bw. Grass and track SW to South Ballo. NW down to visible wall gap to cross stream to forest track. Anticlockwise loop, all pathed to Northballo Hill. Retraced steps then zigzag down to Lairds Loch. At W end of loch carry on N ish over low fence and up soon obvious track near edge of wood. Cross easy fence to summit Hill of Dores. Retrace return to Loch lovely lunch spot. Out to Tullybaccart CP then S down road to Littleton. Good track E to Redmyre. Here we crossed 2 fences but if we had stayed N of fence maybe better. Past Redmyre Cott and easy gates to Dron Hill. Rtn N of Dron , Balruddery to Piperdam. Superb 22km, 500m ascent. | Lynnebe | 22/11/2023 |
Good track links it with Blacklaw Hill. Track thru Ledyatt wood heading south doesn’t exist but possible to force a way thru. | govanah | 18/11/2023 |
Easy track to top. | Play2End | 24/09/2023 |
Weather fair. | MountainMac | 20/03/2021 |
From Piper Dam. Good path from west end of loch, then choice of tracks along ridge. | daviemore | 23/11/2020 |
blacklaw hill west top, and blacklaw hill,from the west little ballo cp. | robertphillips | 11/03/2019 |
Parked at Little Ballo forest car park, then easy passage through trees to the Blacklaw tops. Tracks on ridge useful but rather muddy | Colin Crawford | 25/10/2017 |
Rd of Blacklaw W, Blacklaw and Balshando from the west. | Topographer57 | 14/10/2017 |
From parking at forest entry to West. Up steeply through heather to summit. Then found an ATV track which led all the way to the main summit, Blacklaw Hill. | NormanW | 25/08/2017 |
As chrisbein. Forest rd then path to ditch & bridge. Round to W of hill on path by fence. Up through heather. High point doesn't appear to match 1:25K spot height. Loads of quad bike tracks over to Blacklaw Hill. Met 3 bikes, several times, leader very friendly. | Minto | 16/07/2017 |
With alda. 12 of 32. | Lindsay M | 30/05/2015 |
Track all the way from trig on Blacklaw Hill. Highest point appears to be at NO 27524 34905 according to laser level. 12 of 32. | alda | 30/05/2015 |
P by bend on minor rd to W. Track goes round to W then across top of BHWT and onto BH. Note that there is a multitude of tracks. Back round S side of BHWT. | chrisbien | 08/11/2014 |
hill walker | 10/10/2021 | |
AFD90 | 09/06/2021 | |
carole engel | 12/05/2021 | |
Tony S | 14/03/2021 | |
Tricky | 21/10/2020 | |
benarmine | 09/07/2020 | |
richtea5040 | 07/09/2019 | |
hillhunter | 04/03/2019 | |
duchally | 21/02/2019 | |
Waterlog | 08/08/2017 | |
Oik | 11/01/2017 | |
IainT | 01/09/2016 | |
oriolefan101 | 31/10/2015 | |
clashcityrocker | 21/04/2015 | |
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