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Name: | Goatfell [Goat Fell] |
Hill number: | 1472 |
Height: | 875m / 2871ft |
RHB Section: | 20C: Arran and Holy Island |
County/UA: | North Ayrshire |
County (CoH): | Buteshire (CoH) |
Island: | Arran |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Corbett, High Hills of Britain, Historic County Top, Current County/UA Top, SIB, Yeaman, Trail 100 (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,C,HHB,CoH,CoU,SIB,Y,T100,P600,P500) |
Grid ref: | NR 99144 41536 |
Summit feature: | very large boulder c.3m NE of trig point |
Drop: | 875m |
Col: | Sea |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 62 69 (1:25k) 361N |
Survey: | Leica RX1250 |
Comments: | surveyed at 875.0m |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 792 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Tourist path from Cladach. | KeithByTheC | 16/04/2024 |
Walked from Brodick up the path to summit on a beautiful March day. Some snow rendered the last stretch difficult. | PhilipChaston | 24/03/2024 |
From cottage in Brodick. Low cloud to about 500 m. Will need to revisit for any kind of view. 4hr round trip. | Longwojo | 20/08/2023 |
Brodick ferry terminal-Fisherman's Walk-main path up Goatfell-North Goatfell-Mullach Buidhe-ferry terminal via Glen Rosa | campagvelocet | 22/06/2023 |
With CathyS & Luna. Run from Corrie car park NS 02126 42077. | masmith | 20/06/2023 |
Laura, jay and flo . Baking hot weather dry streams really exhausted | Lauralj84 | 07/06/2023 |
GOATFELL RACE | donmeister | 01/06/2023 |
Climb on DMC trip with Andy, Paulina, Niall. Went on to do 2 more solo | amcculloch | 19/05/2023 |
Up from Corrie, followed coastal way up to Meall Bhreac then straight up to summit. Down the same way to cairn then followed the path to Cladach. | the pigguy | 09/05/2023 |
Climbed up from Corrie met tourist path to summit. Then down the tourist path to the brewery. Lovely sunny afternoon but cloud on summit. Nice paths | nickywood1 | 01/05/2023 |
We caught the first ferry across from Ardrossan and walked from Brodick along Fisherman's walk, then ascended tourist path to summit. Good glimpses of the amazing views as the summit kept going in and out of cloud until we had some cloud inversion going on. A few people at the summit and on the way up but there was much more people going up as we descended the same way. The first SIB for a while. 927m ascent. We left enough time and went back on the 4.45pm ferry after a game of crazy golf on Brodick sea front. Recommended. | DanTrig | 18/04/2023 |
From High Corrie. 
14.5 km, 1130 m asc. 
Up by the Corrie Burn and Meall Breac paths to join the main route to Goatfell summit. 
Back by the main Brodick path to Cnocan Wood (Balmoral Ride) and by the Arran Coastal Way to Corrie. 
Dry, sunny. 
https://www.flickr.com/photos/samandjo/albums/72177720307833255 | SalmonJoe | 15/04/2023 |
With CathyS, RobN & Luna. From North Sannox car park to Cladach carpark. | masmith | 28/01/2023 |
With CathyS, ChrissyMc, BenM & CharlotteN. From Glen Rosa, up NGF ridge. Descent down into Corrie (Car Drop). | masmith | 01/01/2023 |
With AndyS. From Cladach. | masmith | 18/12/2022 |
With CathyS & Luna, CCW loop from Corrie. | masmith | 19/11/2022 |
sunny day with JD as part of a week on arran | Firesidepixie | 13/09/2022 |
Excellent cicuit from Corrie - North Goatfell, Stacach ridge and Goatfell - on a beautiful day. | milimana | 13/09/2022 |
Kong MM Day 1. Goatfell, Caisteal Abhail. | Geoff Briggs | 27/08/2022 |
Corrie - Goatfell. 
3 of 3 | thekirkie pirate | 27/07/2022 |
Round of four corbetts from Glen Rosa campsite - along the glen then up to Beinn Nuis, along the ridge to Beinn Tarsuinn, bypassed A'Chir, skirting around Cir Mhor up to Casteal Abhail, then back along and up to the summit of Cir Mhor. We then headed back down the bealach between A'Chir and Cir Mhor and down the descent path into Glen Rosa, where we contoured around the base of the slabs under Cir Mhor to the Saddle, then up to North Goat Fell and along to Goat Fell before descending the tourist path, and finally back to the campsite to pack our kit. 11h total (avoiding all technical sections where possible in the interests of speed), and we just made the last ferry by the skin of our teeth! | mproudfoot | 16/07/2022 |
Foggy and Icy at the summit, 2.5 hours in total. Straight forward path. 8.7 miles 2782 ft elevation. | nell1583 | 29/11/2021 |
From brodick castle car park. Tough assent | adriane | 21/09/2021 |
30k run. Beinn Tarsuinn, Caisteal Abhail, Cir Mhor, Goatfell. | quadbarrel | 08/09/2021 |
Walk with Steven, from Arran Ferry out & back to Ferry. Blustery day, strong westerly wind @ summit. Rain on return walk. Good pace. | Jr McG | 24/05/2021 |
Tourist route | Tonyandsue | 19/05/2021 |
from North Goatfell - rocky | Adventurers5 | 11/05/2021 |
With E. Took first ferry of the day from Ardrossan to Brodick then connecting bus to Gardners Cottage at Arran Brewery. Main path to summit. Very quiet. Clear and dry with summit cloud lifting on our way up. Outstanding 360' views from summit. Return same route and from Brewery took Fishermans Walk path back to the port although a high tide meant much of the path was under the sea! | Beeliner | 29/04/2021 |
Scrambling. North - south traverse | sarahk | 22/05/2020 |
Great hill to climb, attempted to reach summit in early March...lost track of path a few times due to snow and hidden boggy bits beneath. Weather changed rapidly as it got very windy as we neared the top. Approximately 150ft away from the summit and had to turn back as friend was literally blown off her feet. Better to be safe than sorry | ainzwils | 07/03/2020 |
We arrived on the summit, from North Goatfell, about twenty minutes after sunset. Descending the south-face was treacherous, as the melt had quickly refrozen. | RichardMurchie | 15/11/2019 |
With Debs & Tali, from Corrie and down to Brodick | Mountain Goat | 15/09/2019 |
Sannox -> Bastion -> Mullach Buidhe -> North Goatfell -> Goatfell -> Meall Breac -> Sannox | briandiggle | 08/07/2019 |
A group walk on the day of the Goatfell race, entertaining stuff and a standard walk up and down the tourist path from Brodick with no views from the shoulder up unfortunately. | Chris Mac | 18/05/2019 |
Goatfell hill race | CraigW | 18/05/2019 |
with Ramblers and Scramblers - Sannox to Brodick taking in all 4 tops and corbett along ridge - great scrambling on superb granite rock - descent via tourist path and then along to finish at pub | little al | 30/03/2019 |
Extremely wintery day. Icicles as long as my arm near the summit. | RichardMurchie | 02/02/2019 |
From Corrie via Coire Lan where we saw a rainbow, then up Meall Breac. Got soaked four times on the ascent, but well worth it for the views of the rest of the range. Descent via the tourist path to Brodick Castle. | thesweetcheat | 12/09/2018 |
CDMC Arran meet | clashcityrocker | 09/09/2018 |
Goatfell and North Goatfell from Corrie. A lovely route and much less busy than the route up from the castle. Wonderful group of hills in sunny but windy weather. With Mrs Anchovy, M & X. | Herbert Anchovy | 31/08/2018 |
Lads day out from the ferry terminal | quadbarrel | 30/08/2018 |
Beautiful day. Made the mistake of eating at the wrong time and having a beer on the ferry beforehand. Found the last part of the climb really tough. Wonderful views and an all round good day out. | Thomas McIlvaney | 25/08/2018 |
With G. S. & S. From Cladach > Goatfell > North Goatfell return via The Saddle & Glen Rosa | RT1970 | 17/07/2018 |
From Brodick castle - Goat Fell - North Goat Fell - The Saddle - Glen Rosa return. With Harriet and Gillian | richard69 | 30/05/2018 |
CK | SheilaS | 14/05/2018 |
between north goatfell and goatfell there are 4 rock bosses - the bypass path is on the east side of the ridge - a good well-defined safe path | carole engel | 07/05/2018 |
With CathyB. Icy conditions. From Brodick. | masmith | 30/03/2018 |
Glen Rosa - Beinn Nuis - Beinn Tarsuinn - Caisteal Abhail - Cir Mhor - North Goatfell - Goatfell - Glen Rosa | davidpettit84 | 05/10/2017 |
#630 Standard route from Cladach car park. | tim747 | 25/09/2017 |
From corrie | campbell386 | 12/09/2017 |