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Name: | Blath Bhalg West Top |
Hill number: | 6019 |
Height: | 635.8m / 2086ft |
Parent (Ma): | 448 Blath Bhalg |
RHB Section: | 06B: Pitlochry to Braemar and Blairgowrie |
County/UA: | Perth and Kinross |
Catchment: | Tay |
Class: | Subsimm (sSim) |
Grid ref: | NO 01406 61048 |
Summit feature: | no feature: heather moorland 5m SSE of fence |
Drop: | 29.5m |
Col: | 606.3m NO 0160 6117 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 43 (1:25k) OL52S 387S |
Survey: | Abney level/Leica RX1250 |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 109 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Sunny dry day and finally views. A quick walk on the way back home after the Glasgow/ Lancaster weekend. | alexmaclennan | 17/02/2024 |
Cool down over both tops after Faskally Forest parkrun! | quadbarrel | 04/03/2023 |
Blath Bhalg & Gurlet Sims from road. 
1 of 6 | thekirkie pirate | 08/02/2023 |
see log for Blath Bhalg | carole engel | 23/07/2022 |
From road at NN 99120 61916 over the three summits. Descend through heather to the locked bothy, then track out to road. Road walk back to start | Fife Walking | 03/04/2022 |
On the way to the main top. | Owen B | 16/07/2021 |
1/2 Blath Bhalg West Top and Blath Bhalg from Dalnacarn, on a very moist day, but we dodged the worst of the weather and actually quite a pleasant short hill walk. | nickywood1 | 05/07/2021 |
Sunny, blue skies and warmer than forecast. A good ATV track for most of the way then a trod track with a fence for a handrail (if visibility poor, but it wasn't). Good all round views if a little hazy. | langskill | 23/04/2021 |
As per kdbennett. Plenty of space to park on the East side of the road. Nice views over to Ben Vrackie and Beinn a'Ghlo. | Nicky C | 02/01/2021 |
Quite a decent path to both summits and along summit ridge from the A924 car park. | summitter | 22/03/2020 |
From A924 at NN991619, E up track to where a mast used to be, continuing up Dalnacarn Craig, and following ATV track on to fence line leading to Blath Bhalg West Top, then along ridge to Blath Bhalg, descending NW to [locked] bothy at NO011624, followed track from there down to Dalnacarn and back along road | kdbennett | 05/01/2020 |
Enroute to Blath Bhalg. Cloudy but cleared just after. Solo. | bolton | 02/11/2019 |
Blath Bhalg, from transmitter at high point of road to west. Decent path all the way. | davidpettit84 | 21/07/2019 |
With trimarc2 and GFE. Lovely day, clear tops, nice track to summit. | Fionalevey | 05/05/2019 |
With FIona and Graeme from top of road | trimarc2 | 05/05/2019 |
Followed track all the way from A924 at 992619 and back same way. Great views to Beinn A'Ghlo and Ben Vrackie. | KeithByTheC | 13/04/2019 |
Up track beside Dalnacarn, branched off towards west ridge of West Top. West top followed by Main Top, then down to locked bothy at 01199 62394. Track back to road. | clashcityrocker | 12/04/2019 |
Blath Bhalg West Top and Blath Bhalg from high point on A924 (easy parking). Track or path all the way. Frozen ground, easy terrain and good views to Beinn a'Ghlo. | RobertP | 29/10/2018 |
Blath Bhalg (NO 019611) S/F NN 992620 High cloud, light winds, warm day for short ascent. Track all way to 1st summit through heather slopes. Still took 3 hours, very slow. | John Young | 18/06/2018 |
Solo. Came up the track by the mast to Dalnacarn Craig. Path all the way to top following fence. | Dangerous Dave | 25/03/2018 |
Weather fair. | MountainMac | 10/02/2016 |
En route to the main summit; the path and fence go over the west top. If you started from the radio mast and you're not sure if you visited this one, then you probably did. | Pete R | 23/01/2016 |
Dry, calm warm and sunny, good views. Parked at mast. | iangalbraith | 02/10/2015 |
1 of 4: From A924. High point at aerial. | ChrisR | 19/06/2015 |
Survey. No status change. | alda | 15/04/2015 |
Solo. Parked on roadside near lane to Dalnavaid. From further up the road on a track that leads to a bothy. At sharp bend in track up hillside to Dalnacarn Craig. Long summit ridge orientated N to S with highest point at south end. Continued to point 637m in mist and rain then point 639m. On to summit of Blath Bhalg where there is a smallish cairn. Back over point 639m and down to bothy and out along track. | pwbellarby | 27/06/2012 |
Could be a P30 hopefully, unmarked heathery, grassy top. | Dugswell2 | 23/05/2012 |
W Jenx frm highpoint on road. Fine hill, better than it may seem. Past mast / track over subsids to fence over top to summit. Back to stalkers hut and traverse back to start. Good snow conditions. | nordicstar | 20/01/2012 |
Ascended in a dusting of fresh snow from high point to the north west on A924. | JohnW | 27/10/2008 |
On a faint buggy track making for grassy areas on first prow above the heather. And on foot track to highest point. to B B | arranc | 19/04/2003 |
from A924 summit | Galltywenallt | 13/08/2001 |
Kevin29035 | 29/01/2024 | |
Am Bodach | 25/09/2023 | |
anguscow | 06/09/2023 | |
Glenford | 18/06/2022 | |
Adrian | 12/06/2022 | |
benalder50 | 15/05/2022 | |
Steve Q | 26/10/2021 | |
Sick Kid | 24/10/2021 | |
JFT_96 | 28/08/2021 | |
Trantham Clan | 10/06/2021 | |
MuckleG | 23/08/2019 | |
paz1953 | 14/08/2019 | |
Wycombe Wanderer | 28/12/2018 | |
clanbonham | 25/11/2018 | |
superstar_tradesman | 15/04/2018 | |
JimT | 07/04/2018 | |
Susan Bidwell | 30/01/2018 | |
peebs | 29/04/2017 | |
scoob | 05/03/2017 |