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Name:Canup
Hill number:8369
Height:451m / 1480ft
Parent (Ma):457  Lochnagar - Cac Carn Beag
RHB Section:07A: Braemar to Montrose
County/UA:Aberdeenshire
Catchment:Dee (Aberdeen)
Class:Tump (400-499m)
(Tu,4)
Grid ref:NO 23886 92883
Summit feature:memorial cairn on outcrop
Drop:88m
Col:363m  NO233919  
OS map sheet(s):(1:50k) 44
(1:25k) OL53N OL58S 388N 404S
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Logged Descriptions  (logged by 23 users)ByDate of Ascent
Round of 4 hills from distillery low cloud today so decided not to venture up high. Some great woodland and intresting cairns. Take care to avoid steep cliffs/outcrops to east side.cjo10/03/2024
Creag an Lurachain, Canup and Craig Gowan from parking at Crathie.JasonStark13/02/2023
GMCGeoff Briggs06/11/2021
6 tops from easter balmoral, craig gowan, canup, ripe hill, creag nan gall south top, creag nan gall, creag an lurachain.robertphillips02/07/2021
After school run following a supply teaching day at Cathie. Strong winds suggested this sheltered forest outing - first visiting Prince Albert's Cairn from where forest tracks led to an old granite quarry - blocky ledges remain- was this where the building material for Balmoral Castle came from? A nice open pine forest with pine needle carpet becoming bilberry and heather before summit cairn. Got a phone call from L saying we had been invited to dinner in Aberdeen at 6pm and asking where I was?! It was now 4.45pm. Got my skates on - dined at 7pm.Chris Pearson09/09/2020
Parked just up the hill from Easter Balmoral for free. Easy path to Prince Albert's cairn and Creag an Lurachain. On to Canup to avoid the swarms of Covid-breath tourists, over the Gelder Burn bridge and the logging track. Interesting route up a faint path getting steep through deep vegetables to the top. Easy descent along a mown path, towards the Dee at first but curves round to join the logging track not far from the upward route. Would be an easy route up. On to Craig Gowan via Princess Alice's cairn, up the W side, down the E, easy path back.Gill29/07/2020
These so-called royals must have had big egos judging by the size of all their memorials.alda23/03/2019
LSjohn steel24/02/2019
Tall wide meml cairn on outcrop, hence exact natural HP location unclear. After Gowan, from Easter Balmoral. Then to RipeRHW07/10/2018
Easy stroll through open woodland. The Princess Royal's cairn is probably the top but there are a couple of other contending bumpsColin Crawford03/11/2015
Debs and GoskaMountain Goat17/06/2015
Dave McG16/03/2024
sarahk02/12/2023
DaveO15/01/2023
Gonk28/05/2022
Jenn25/04/2022
thelonious07/11/2021
govanah18/04/2020
Bob6701/06/2019
hill walker31/01/2019
RichardM04/03/2017
chalky195302/01/2017
elma spencer23/10/2015