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Name:Top of the Battery [Carn Damhaireach]
Hill number:3083
Height:784m / 2572ft
Parent (Ma):432  Carn Bhac
RHB Section:06B: Pitlochry to Braemar and Blairgowrie
County/UA:Aberdeenshire
Catchment:Dee (Aberdeen)
Class:Simm, Corbett Top
(Tu,Sim,CT)
Grid ref:NO 05888 85883
Summit feature:ground 2m SE of cairn
Drop:80m
Col:704m  NO049848  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 43
(1:25k) OL52N 387N
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 59 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all)ByDate of Ascent
On foot from Inverey, then down heathery slopes and up to the Dodd Carn Bhithir, descending initially on a good path down it's NE ridge. Path lost in heather eventually.NormanW24/08/2023
#13 of 13 from Inverey. The last of my Glen Ey Simms, lovely sunny breezy dayRHW01/06/2021
carn liath, geal charn NE top, geal charn far north top, buachaille breige, buachaille breige west top, geal charn north top, geal charn, top of the battery from inverey biked in 4km to near allt cristie beag.robertphillips19/08/2019
Biked in from Inverey phone box then to Geal Charn NE top; round to Carn Liath; west across to Buachille Breige WE top; back to Buachille breige; over the 801m top and finally Top of the Battery to drop back down to the bike and out.dickscroop19/02/2019
Solo HFB07/05/2018
Good trek from Geal Charn - having a tail wind helped us enormously.summitter02/07/2017
Sunny, warm, strong wind, good views.iangalbraith09/06/2005
on descent from Carn Bhac to InvereyFlatfield02/01/2003
Circuit from Invereyrjf3531/12/1996
First hill on a circuit including Carn Bhac.Aye Jimmy25/07/1995
With: lw; From Inverey up track onto Top of Battery then ridge to Carn Bhac SW top. ENE to Carn Bhac summit & E to Carn Creagach. Descent down into Allt Connie. Les kept falling through snow into burn!Ian Baines08/04/1984
Ascended in good autumn weather on the way to Carn Bhac, having first walked from Braemar.JohnW01/11/1979
AUES HFB14/10/1979
Simon Winton27/03/2023
Alan Whatley26/10/2022
iainwalton11/05/2022
BaggerGutt02/12/2021
Dave McG13/10/2021
govanah14/03/2021
richtea504031/07/2020
daviemore10/11/2018
GaryJones28/06/2018
duchally16/08/2017
Alan Moore24/01/2017
Tony S29/10/2016
interloper28/07/2016
Fletch28/07/2016
alda26/07/2016
mae12/05/2016
Lindsay M17/04/2016
oatcake13/08/2015
FCL27/06/2015
neilsan10/10/2014
Gavin Theobald31/07/2014
hill walker14/07/2014
Ibex07/06/2014
Moorponder20/10/2013
thelonious01/07/2012
chalky195325/08/2009
john steel27/06/2009
kinley06/03/2009
Fear-allabain03/03/2009
Colin Crawford16/02/2009
fasgadh24/06/2008
kathyh22/04/2007
bertbarnett12321/01/2006
Sandman06/12/2003
bertbarnett12324/02/2003
Rod M07/07/2002
IainT20/06/2002