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Name: | Culardoch |
Hill number: | 593 |
Height: | 900m / 2953ft |
RHB Section: | 08B: Cairngorms |
County/UA: | Aberdeenshire |
Catchment: | Dee (Aberdeen) |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Corbett, High Hills of Britain, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,C,HHB,Y) |
Grid ref: | NO 19351 98817 |
Summit feature: | trig point |
Drop: | 312m |
Col: | 588m NO139971 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 36 43 (1:25k) OL58S 404S |
Survey: | obvious summit |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 395 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Easy but long track fr Keiloch to base of summit dome, then quite a clear path with some slippery fresh snow to the summit Trig Point, where no views, sadly. Easy jog back down to track... | NorfolkPT21 | 20/03/2024 |
Descended Meall Gorm to NW then followed road N to highest point then up atv tracks then path to trig. In clag at top. | 187lenny | 20/11/2022 |
as a guest of Grampian club | TamCollie | 12/11/2022 |
From Keiloch CP. Used the red route clockwise to start. NB Where the orange and red routes diverge the red arrow is faded to orange. Very windy at the top. With Karen. | ChrisR | 25/09/2022 |
Both Culardoch and Creag an Dail Bheag from Keiloch car park £3. Culardoch is just a lump, very easy with tracks almost all the way to the top. Strange greenhouse experimentation near by. Looks like someone's studying heather! | Jhimmy | 11/07/2022 |
From Keiloch car park for a round of Culardoch, Carn Liath and Creag an Dail Bheag. | rhalstead | 25/06/2022 |
Culardoch and Creag an Dail Bheag from Keiloch. Pleasant walk in in ever-changing conditions - sun, then clouds, then some drizzle, though calm down on the track and windy on the tops. Not the most exciting hills, but a good wee walk - 5h 32min total time. | mproudfoot | 12/06/2022 |
Keiloch, up tracks through woods, path from high point of track to summit, very windy. Returned to track and descended to path west up Cairn Liath, on to Craig an Dail Bheag. Back over Cairn Liath to track and back to start. | Flatfield | 18/05/2022 |
From Keiloch. Excellent track through the beautiful woodland plus calm, sunny, dry, not too warm weather made for good progress and great views. Then on to the other Corbett. | Owen B | 19/04/2022 |
Climbed with Richard, mixed day quite windy and poor visibility/snow on top | amcculloch | 14/02/2022 |
With Sue from car park at Keiloch, cycle along estate roads to Bealach Dearg. climb E should to summit of Carn Liath. Working off old 222 Corbett list, adding new surveyed. Walked two tops (Creag an Dail Beheag) and returned to Bealach and ascend Cullardoch. Return same way to bikes. | Frank | 19/09/2021 |
Cycled about 5 miles from Invercauld Estates walkers car park £3. Straightforward ascent on short heather with some trodden paths. Top was covered in cloud. Passed a young couple of walkers on bike but they were on the top not long after me. | langskill | 26/06/2021 |
With Kat | j_com | 26/06/2021 |
Culardoch & Creag an Dail Bheag from Keiloch | Huwel | 27/04/2021 |
With Craig an Dail Bheag. Cycled from Keilloch to high point of track. V windy, showers missed me (just), many other summits in cloud, but both my hills clear (and Morrone). Occasional weak sunshine. | Rounsfell | 28/10/2020 |
From the Keiloch car park via an excellent track. Dry, breezy, 6 miles to the summit. Headed to Carn Liath. Solo. | bolton | 14/09/2020 |
Climbed from Keiloch with Creag an Dail Beag. Lovely early autumn walk in sunshine and light winds. Plenty bilberries and cow berries foraged | Rockdoctor | 06/09/2020 |
With L and no bikes -unlike most of the other 10 folk we met today bagging the 2 close Corbetts with their long approach tracks on this lovely sunny Sunday. Tony & Darren went off from the same busy car park for the wanted Ben Avon Munros instead (one with a bike, one on foot in running shoes for their approach track before re-joining each other). We all later (much later for them) met up back at the Ballater cottage which Tony had booked for the week -luckily the week before the Covid rule of 6 came in as we were 4 from 3 households which would not have been allowed. | Chris Pearson | 06/09/2020 |
From track to West. Very easy climb over short vegetation and stony outcrops. Path from hairpin bend to W but soon peters out | carole engel | 09/07/2020 |
Alan, Gavin | NHWC | 12/09/2019 |
From car park at Keiloch, along estate roads to W of Altdourie, then tracks N in glen of Glas Allt Beag, continuing to col between Creag an Dail Bheag and Carn Liath, W to the first, then E to the second, descending to Loch Builg track, following that to a sharp bend W of Culardoch, continuing on small tracks and paths up Culardoch, descending S to track that then rejoins Loch Builg track, thence S to Invercauld and return to Keiloch | kdbennett | 13/04/2019 |
DR | Vin | 20/11/2018 |
During a week in Tomintoul. With Smithy from the car park (£3) at Keiloch. Followed the RoW NE from just short of Invercauld House. Just before exiting the trees, put my sack down on a nest of quite gigantic ants! Took track all way to high point due W of Culardoch & then slanted up the final slope into a very stiff wind to the top. Swift retreat down to col, back along track for about 1km & then took an obvious path just past a small cairn to Carn Liath/Creag An Dail Bheag. Wandered over every lump & bump like a proper bagger just to be sure. Strangely not as windy as Culardoch. Then made a total mess of the descent by initially following the wall & then changing tack, heather bashing over to the outward track & back to the car. | NotReallyABagger | 09/09/2018 |
From Keiloch, by the track to the bealach and then up to the top. Another superb day. | dal | 06/07/2018 |
TGO Challenge 2018 | twg27 | 20/05/2018 |
From Keiloch via good tracks to bealach and up obvious path. Then Carn Lithe. | trimarc2 | 18/05/2018 |
From Keiloch via tracks and south ridge. Then on to Carn Liath. | davidpettit84 | 31/03/2018 |
AGSFP gang | slynch | 30/09/2017 |
ghaley | 04/08/2017 | |
SMHC Sunday walk Gloves in July Brrrr. Managed to get the Key for Auchtavan Hingin Lum so stopped in past on the way to the summit. 
Wildlife spotted 
Golden Eagle 
Leverets 
Kestrel 
A bit windy on the top, but no rain so all is good 
From Thidtledae to Auchtavan, followed a track that makes the grouse butts more accessible up the shoulder then a baggers track to the summit our descent made it a circular trip descending via Creag Bhalg to have some fun on the large flat rocks. | LizzieG | 16/07/2017 |
With: hb; From Invercauld CP up through snowy woods (where we saw Capercaillie tracks - huge!) almost to Bealach Dearg then E ridge to summit to avoid as much snow as possible. Across to Creag an Dail Bheag then down & up Culardoch. Returned via track. | Ian Baines | 26/04/2017 |
With: ib; From Invercauld CP up through snowy woods (where we saw Capercaillie tracks - huge!) almost to Bealach Dearg then E ridge to summit to avoid as much snow as possible. Across to Creag an Dail Bheag then down & up Culardoch. Returned via track. | Helen Baines | 26/04/2017 |
Weather fair with clag patches, snow on ground. | MountainMac | 29/01/2017 |
Solo. From Keiloch. Having ascended Creag a' Chait, descended from its summit to the track that is right of way to Tomintoul. Followed track and then up hillside to summit of Culardoch. Continued to Bad nan Cuileag and Leac Ghorm. | pwbellarby | 20/05/2016 |
Second round ascent. | pwbellarby 2nd | 20/05/2016 |
Glorious Spring day for the walk. | kenmorti | 16/03/2016 |
Invercauld house to gairnshiel lodge, via river gairn, 17 miles walked | wendy.calder | 19/07/2015 |
Debs and Goska, windy puffs! | Mountain Goat | 28/03/2015 |
CK | SheilaS | 05/03/2015 |
With Will & Suz, staying in Ballater. | Grinner | 08/11/2014 |
Fabulous solo walk, with a major sting in the tail. Up through wonderful open scots pine woods, fluffy cumulus and blue sky above, ocassional interesting fungi, grass heads dancing in an ocasional light breeze. Long track north. Eight mountain bikers working with BP from 5 different counties struggle in low gear uphill. Cullardoch summiit 12.50. Across to Carn liath, many topped plateau with two tops 150/200m noth of the mrked highest cairn that look higher. On to newly re-confirmed Corbett Creag an Dail Beag. then contouring round the western side of Carn Liaths slopes en route to southern spur and SE to SIM Creag a'Chait. Before getting there, while contouring across a very gently angled slope boulder field, I experienced myself being conscious of feeling I was hopping across the boulder field fairly fast and feeling double edged, both happy with what I percieved as fairly good sense of balance, but also conscious of how easy it was for boulders to move under my feet ...but..but....b | vegibagger | 18/07/2014 |
Did after Carn Liath | duchally | 15/07/2014 |
SMHC club walk. 9 in party. With Lyndsay. Very windy and cold but dry all day. | amunro2907 | 15/12/2013 |
Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 03/10/2013 |
Adding old logs | Angelaf | 07/06/2012 |
First hill of another very warm day. | Dugswell2 | 27/05/2012 |
self | davidsbatty | 20/03/2012 |
culardoch and carn liath both tops cycled in to below creag a chait. | robertphillips | 26/02/2012 |
Trig revisit. Cold wind - glad of the stone shelter, such as it is. From S, Invercauld car park. Phoned estate previous day - no stalking / shooting issues. Excellent track - 2h to the summit. Detoured 3km E for the Graham Top on the way back. | RHW | 24/09/2011 |
KeithByTheC | 29/05/2011 |