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| Name: | Mid Craig |
| Hill number: | 7348 |
| Height: | 729m / 2392ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1832 White Coomb |
| RHB Section: | 28B: The River Tweed to the English Border |
| Donald area: | Moffat Hills |
| County/UA: | Dumfries and Galloway |
| Catchment: | Annan |
| Class: | Subsimm (sSim) |
| Grid ref: | NT 16402 16437 |
| Summit feature: | no feature |
| Drop: | 21m |
| Col: | 708m NT161165  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 79 (1:25k) 330 |
| Survey: | obvious summit |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 93 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From NT car park | holtsd | 22/08/2022 |
| Circuit of Loch Skeene tops from Gray Mare's Tail. | thekirkie pirate | 23/03/2022 |
| Parked at Grey Mares Tail, then…Upper Tarnberry, Watch Knowe, Mid Craig, Firthhope Rig, White Coomb, Carrifran Gans. 11 miles. 3400ft ascent. Lots of runners going up and over the hills. We stuck to walking. Many touristy campers by the Loch, but nobody on the tops once we got there. Beautiful, sunny, 24 degrees. Perfect! | Toby-and-Dion | 24/07/2021 |
| From Grey Mare's Tail | mcbboyd | 29/06/2021 |
| From Grey Mare's Tail CP. Crossed Tail Burn at NT 1806 1515 and across rough ground to Upper Tarnberry -> White Coomb -> Carrifran Gans -> Frithhope Rig -> Firthybrig Head -> Lochcraig Head then skirted round the head of Loch Craig to here. Descended to the outflow of Loch Skeen on a good track and took path on NE side Tail Burn back to car park for a pleasant 9.5mile round. | jonglew | 27/05/2021 |
| From Scottish NT car park en route to White Comb (unable to cross burn before loch outflow) | Neil Midgley | 10/09/2020 |
| fa, solo, clear but windy on the tops and cold, conditions good, 25.2 km, 7h 52m, from grey mares cp, tail burn path to loch skeen, mid craig ridge to mid craig, to fence along pt 757, onto firth hope rig, across some fences and out to white coomb summit and visited the 2 cairns, back to f.rig and along the fence and down into rotten bottom, a soft area best to follow a old wall on the south of the fence, pt 687, pt 709, hartfell rig to hart fells summit, windy and cold, descent by arthurs seat, well rig, to the road (some new forestry and there is a deer farms fences to get through - some signs to direct you road them, along the road then annandale way along a river path back to moffat. | rum doodle | 11/06/2019 |
| Walked over on the descent from Great Hill to the Tail Burn path. | LizH | 05/05/2019 |
| Afternoon trek from the NTS car park in the December sunshine. Watch Knowe, Lochcraig Head, Nickies Knowe, Firthybrig Head, Molls Cleuch Dodd, Mid Craig, then back to Grey Mare's Tail. Top tip: bring £3 in coins for the car park. We had none so will make penance by doing the Christmas shopping in the NTS shop. Hope the wife likes tea towels! | summitter | 09/12/2018 |
| 13.1 mile walk from Talla Linnfoots, followed pass up east then lane, turned onto and climbed fairly steep slopes to top of Carlavin Hill, followed wall to Molls Cleuch Dod, descended and ascended Lochcraig Head up to summit then to edge to see the stunning view down on Loch Skeen, followed edge around to Mid Craig, climbed ridge then across to Great Hill, considerable descent to Games Hope Burn, then re-ascent of Cape Law after followed nice grassy ridge onto Din Law, Garelet Dod, shapely Erie Hill, Lairds Cleuch Rig and finally Garelet Hill with its very damaged trig, then descended very steeply back down to Car. Not a cloud in the sky all day, easy terrain mainly throughout, hot but with lovely breeze, saw about 10 people all day mostly from a far, this must be be a popular area of the Southern Uplands! | DanTrig | 30/06/2018 |
| Grey Mares Tail waterfalls | justin999 | 15/06/2018 |
| Circular walk from Grey Mare's Tail c/p. Solo. | John Lee | 21/02/2018 |
| From the Meggat Stane via Molls Cleuch Dod. Not much to look at from above, but decent profile from Lochcraig Head. Last Donald Nuttall ;-) | agentmancuso | 18/06/2016 |
| Loch Skeen Horseshoe with Goska | Mountain Goat | 28/03/2016 |
| With: hb; Circular route from Grey Mare carpark via Rough Craigs then Firthhope Rig & Donald's Cleuch Head and Firthybrig Head returning via Loch Skeen and Tail Burn. | Ian Baines | 12/10/2015 |
| With Eire, Evan, Sail, Adan's, Coel & Alfie. | Dangerous Dave | 15/04/2014 |
| An overcast and breezy day. Up and down via Grey Mare's Tail. | Walker Dan | 23/09/2012 |
| Steeply up from Grey Mare's Tail car park via Mid Craig and Firthhope Rig.Very enjoyable first walk in this area. | catman | 01/06/2012 |
| Upper Tarnberry, White Comb, Firthhope Rig, Firthybrig Head, Molls Cleuch Dod, Mid Craig | tcrannoch | 15/01/2012 |
| From Grey Mare's Tail: White Comb, then on to Firthope Rig, Firthybrig Head and Mid Craig decending via Loch Skeen. Done in snow. | jigglybones | 19/12/2010 |
| Ascended from Grey Mare's Tail via Carrifran Gans and back down over Firthhope Rig, Great Hill and Mid Craig. Lovely sunny day with some swirling mist on the tops | andy | 21/03/2009 |
| Partly sunny, breezy, good views. | iangalbraith | 15/06/2003 |
| this is the top of the 'surprisingly narrow ridge on the SW side of Loch Skeen' referred to in my White Coomb log. Recommended. | pwheeler | 05/09/1998 |
| On way back from White Coomb. | Aye Jimmy | 24/08/1997 |
| From Firthhope Rig. around Donald's Cleuch to find path to top. | arranc | 11/09/1993 |
| Climbed via falls with SW group, to reservoir, then back down steep SE slopes to car park. | nordicstar | 06/06/1987 |
| Sick Kid | 24/12/2023 | |
| weaselmaster | 24/12/2023 | |
| sclater | 04/09/2023 | |
| Graham Banks | 10/06/2023 | |
| AlanD | 30/10/2022 | |
| stevent0809 | 10/08/2022 | |
| Thorny | 09/08/2022 | |
| Clive G | 31/03/2022 | |
| dickiewren | 14/01/2022 | |
| Tricky | 27/05/2021 | |
| Graham Banks | 01/05/2021 | |
| sam.g.guthrie | 06/03/2021 | |
| Weather Prophet | 29/09/2020 | |
| andrew brown | 14/07/2020 | |
| David84 | 06/12/2019 | |
| FCL | 03/11/2019 | |
| Tony S | 08/06/2019 | |
| PeterAH | 05/05/2019 | |
| Berkscire874 | 30/08/2018 | |
| tomandivy | 17/07/2018 | |
| Christo1979 | 29/04/2018 | |
| mae | 27/08/2017 | |
| IainT | 18/06/2017 | |
| PeteF | 14/05/2017 |