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| Name: | Cow Hill |
| Hill number: | 8272 |
| Height: | 298m / 978ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 342 Bidean Bad na h-Iolaire [Bidein Bad na h-Iolaire] |
| RHB Section: | 04A: Fort William to Loch Treig and Loch Leven |
| County/UA: | Highland |
| Catchment: | Nevis |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | NN 10994 72827 |
| Summit feature: | cairn |
| Drop: | 72m |
| Col: | 226m NN114723  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 41 (1:25k) 392 |
| 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 88 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From lay-by at high point of Upper Achintore road. 5.6km round trip | Rockdoctor | 27/03/2024 |
| See https://scotlandhills.net/nevis-range-and-fort-william/ | hill walker | 17/07/2023 |
| With Bob. Easy on good track. Busy for a TUMP. | Play2End | 17/05/2023 |
| https://strava.app.link/QsvSsrNQPyb | John | 08/04/2023 |
| Walk from Braveheart Car Park with NM. Return by Peat Track. | kenmorti | 14/11/2022 |
| With Alma Aurea. Druim na h-Earba and Cow Hill. Cloud well down on the munros but clear on these lower summits and good views. | meltdiceburg | 08/08/2022 |
| Parked opposite the start of the path to west. Good path up to fence then along its line to top. Views of Ben Nevis hindered by cloud at around 600ms. | Campbell Singer | 10/05/2022 |
| From track to the west. | robertphillips | 26/02/2022 |
| Caught bus to Upper Achintore from Banavie. Followed track almost to mast and then across moor to summit. Small cairn. | chriswatson | 18/09/2021 |
| From free Braveheart Carpark on Glen Nevis Rd, N of Ben Nevis Visitor Centre. Waymarked path on forest track to Cow Hill. Turn off west before end of track (with aerial) over pathless boggy tussocky ground to reach indistinct summit with small cairn, today in low cloud. Continued to An Dun. | Denise | 17/09/2021 |
| From high point of track to E. rough grass/heather to vague ridge then SSW crossing BWF before reaching medium cairn at high point. Misty. | RichardM | 17/09/2021 |
| From SW, viewpoint car park, tussocky ground until mapped track reached. In descent good beeline SW then followed track down and short walk back up road. | RHW | 27/06/2021 |
| Had been up to the 'summit' before but to the mast, prior to tump bagging. Easy walk from the summit path to reach the true summit, then continued on the very pleasant Cow Hill circuit path. | nicolajane | 23/12/2020 |
| Lovely easy walk from Fort William High Street via marked paths. With Trimarc 2. Good views of Glen Nevis and Ben Nevis | r1 | 18/09/2020 |
| Lovely walk from Fort William which was only possible thanks to very helpful staff at Off Beat Bikes in the High Street. With Philippa | trimarc2 | 18/09/2020 |
| Fort William station - track S of Cow Hill - N 'ridge' to Bidean Bad na h-Iolaire - Cow Hill - path down W flank to Fort William streets. | Mark Jackson | 21/08/2020 |
| Cow Hill, Bidean Bad na h-Iolaire, Druim na h-Earba | keithouk | 20/02/2020 |
| Walked from Glen Nevis Youth Hostel along the road and up the little minor road and track, to join the West Highland Way for a short distance, then up the forest track. Mistakenly went right on the Cow Hill Circuit, then over rough ground to rejoin the track to the mast. Returned south on the track, then detoured to the true summit. Followed the track to link with our upward route. Pleasant New Year's Day walk. | LizH | 01/01/2020 |
| Steady ascent with crutches from car parked at start of track to WSW. Got to high point without much difficulty, but found the short SW walk back to the top very rough. | GordonAdshead | 30/12/2019 |
| 19.8 miles, 3271ft walk. | stephenbuda | 09/09/2019 |
| Parked at Braveheart Car Park. Very enjoyable hill to bag. Took us about 2.5 hours up and down, which included a fair bit of poking around and stopping to take photos. | sjb | 04/04/2019 |
| From Bidean Bad na h-loaire. Sunny. Ben Nevis with fresh dusting of snow appearing from cloud. Beeline to start. | Wycombe Wanderer | 02/04/2019 |
| Nae coos today. | summitter | 20/01/2019 |
| After new job induction | BigNick | 05/09/2018 |
| Ran up from Fort William with Sophie, Nic and Chris. | zoob | 08/04/2018 |
| Runduro | CraigW | 24/02/2018 |
| 3 of 3: From Bidean Bad na h-Iolaire. | ChrisR | 09/10/2017 |
| After Druim na h-Earba. From edge of built-up area along maintenance road for transmission mast (long, but easily graded) to gate near top, then south-westwards on faint (and muddy) path to small cairn at summit. Rain started on top, discouraging any visit to mast. Back down road to new junction about 102724, then on paths following yellow waymarkers and finger posts towards “Town Centre”, “Braveheart car park”, and “Henderson Row” in turn, then down sundry back streets to bus station, and back to Oban. | mainnirnamfiadh | 05/08/2017 |
| Visitor Centre CP. Path/track then left at cow gate to top of Cow Hill. Back down to WHW and headed S then path up to An Dun. | chrisbien | 21/05/2017 |
| Day before MBA meeting. Late start, getting dark but still a good walk. With Ben. | hillsman | 30/11/2016 |
| Did summit near mast. Near enough for me! | Mountain Goat | 19/02/2016 |
| snow | cjo | 16/01/2016 |
| Enjoyed this short walk up Cow Hill. Great to see the Highland Cattle too. | PaulJN | 19/08/2015 |
| Nice after tea stroll. Pity about the light drizzle! | Alan Caine | 28/07/2015 |
| Tiddler to test out a recovering hamstring, affords excellent views down glen Nevis to Big Ben and the Mamores! Summit is not where the main path takes you but is 100m to the left of the gate with the cow sign on it. A quartzite cairn marks the spot. | Columba | 29/09/2013 |
| Did lots of geocaches around here and reached summit mast via track that crosses the ring contour that is higher than where the supposed 'top' is marked on the map! | signyred | 17/02/2012 |
| Reached as part of circular walk: 062511 Fort William_Cow Hill Circt Trk 6.9ml | Castile | 25/06/2011 |
| With RobN, IzziC. Did not pass summit. From Glen Nevis campsite. | masmith | 30/04/2011 |
| SR, AS | Frank | 06/02/2005 |
| Cow Hill race from Fort William. | Eddie | 30/07/1984 |
| I've been to the mast several times when staying in Fort William as it is such a good lookout point. Once was on 04/03/2007. I remember at least once leaving the main track and going to the highest point but I can't remember when. | Alan Moore | blank |
| hughbagger | 17/09/2023 | |
| ChrisShaw1993 | 14/05/2023 | |
| Tony S | 24/04/2023 | |
| Lorna S | 24/04/2023 | |
| clanbonham | 20/11/2022 | |
| Neil Midgley | 23/05/2022 | |
| greenandblue | 29/03/2022 | |
| trianglegirl | 29/03/2022 | |
| Rambling Ray | 30/06/2021 |