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Name: | Big Hill of the Baing |
Hill number: | 13240 |
Height: | 362m / 1188ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1720 Craiglee |
RHB Section: | 27B: Carrick and Galloway |
Donald area: | Galloway Hills |
County/UA: | South Ayrshire |
Catchment: | Girvan |
Class: | Tump (300-399m), Yeaman (Tu,3,Y) |
Grid ref: | NS 41201 02070 |
Summit feature: | no feature: grass |
Drop: | 86m |
Col: | 276m NS423031 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 77 (1:25k) 327 |
Observations: | outcrop 5m SW at NS 41199 02071 may be as high |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 12 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
From SE, Glenauchie, parked on verge near entrance, mapped track then straight up, dying bracken, tussocky young plantation, via the Subtump, then via the other Subtump to Shalloch, then via track down past farm. Focussed on the P80, will return for the windfarm circuit in due course | RHW | 17/10/2023 |
From Meikle Hill along nice ridge clear of newly planted trees. My 2000th hill climbed. On to Trostan Hill, skirting NNE for a bit to avoid new plantations. | agentmancuso | 07/03/2020 |
7 tump round turgeny, auldcraigoch hill, dersalloch hill, meikle hill of the shalloch, big hill of the baing, trostan hill, kildoach hill, from parking to the north at windfarm entrance, nice sunny day. | robertphillips | 11/03/2018 |
3rd hill of 11 today & 3rd of a 5 hill loop from Straiton climbing Kildoach and Trostan hill then dropping down to cross the Chapel Burn and upto the grassy summit. I followed the ridge eastwards to Meikle Hill of the Shalloch. | Dazingdale | 09/05/2017 |
P just W of Gass. Used windfarm tracks to near Trostan Hill. After TH to sheepfold at 276m then up to MH of S and then along ridge over WH of B and to BH of B. Nice ridge. Back along ridge down to sheepfold and over Knockunter then windfarm roads. | chrisbien | 08/12/2016 |
After Meikle Hill. Best hill of the day, with quad bike tracks up the east ridge, most of the way to the top | Colin Crawford | 30/11/2016 |
Straiton-Craig Hill-Doonans Hill-Kildoach Hill-Trostan Hill-Big Hill of the Baing-Meikle Hill of the Shalloch-Dersalloch Hill-Turgeny-Auldcraigoch Hill-Auchenroy Hill trig-Dalmellington | campagvelocet | 03/10/2016 |
On cross-country route from Dalcairnie to Straiton. With Slim Jim , the F.C. and others. | The Captain | 03/01/1995 |
Matt | 08/05/2022 | |
cmac | 03/07/2018 | |
Dave Geere | 24/03/2017 | |
chalky1953 | 10/09/2015 |