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| Name: | Creag an Lurachain |
| Hill number: | 8373 |
| Height: | 442m / 1450ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 492 Conachcraig |
| RHB Section: | 07A: Braemar to Montrose |
| County/UA: | Aberdeenshire |
| Catchment: | Dee (Aberdeen) |
| Class: | Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4) |
| Grid ref: | NO 25944 93338 |
| Summit feature: | no feature: ground in clearing |
| Drop: | 37m |
| Col: | 405m NO257928  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 37 44 (1:25k) OL53N OL58S 388N 404S |
| Observations: | flat summit area |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 64 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Walk from car park to see a couple of the cairns. | jedthehumanoid | 12/09/2023 |
| From Crathie carpark on Cairns walk. Hilltop easy in open woodland. | Lynnebe | 19/06/2023 |
| From Crathie car park (£5) on the Walk Highlands route 'The Balmoral Cairns'. Unlike in 2021, reached the HP on Creag an Lurachain, as well as Prince Albert's Cairn. With DB, BC and RP. 10.2km, with 330m of ascent. | Man of Kernow1 | 16/05/2023 |
| In the Cairngorms for a few days with the hiking group. A day exploring the cairns in Balmoral with some great views up by the pyramid a little further along the path. Hill top rather less impressive. | MysteriousSue | 07/05/2023 |
| Creag an Lurachain, Canup and Craig Gowan from parking at Crathie. | JasonStark | 13/02/2023 |
| Near Albert's Pyramid on Balmoral Cairns Walk from Easter Balmoral. | willyross | 03/06/2022 |
| GMC | Geoff Briggs | 07/11/2021 |
| Done as part of Balmoral Cairns walk through beautiful pinewoods. Got dark as we were returning to the car, had to use headtorches. With AP&J. 10.1km. | PiranhaFish | 01/11/2021 |
| With big J | Nozzer | 25/08/2021 |
| Visited the pyramid cairn then took in the actual top, 100m to the SW. Had intended doing the other cairns, but these were out of bounds today. With Nozzer. | BigJ | 25/08/2021 |
| From Crathie car park (£3) on the Walk Highlands route 'The Balmoral Cairns'. Took 200m hike through the pine forest to reach the boulder on the summit of Craig Gowan, but only to Prince Albert's Cairn on Creag an Lurachain, not the HP in the forest. Descent via Easter Balmoral. With ALT. 11.7km, with 390m of ascent. | Man of Kernow1 | 07/07/2021 |
| 6 tops from easter balmoral, craig gowan, canup, ripe hill, creag nan gall south top, creag nan gall, creag an lurachain. | robertphillips | 02/07/2021 |
| After school run following a supply teaching day across the road at Cathie. Strong winds suggested this sheltered forest outing -combined with Canup. Was going to be late for dinner in Aberdeen and locked gate and no pedestrian sign prevented my adding Craig Gowan (access closed to this hill every Aug & Sept I later read -which coincides with the Queen's annual visit to Balmoral . Presumably for security to keep people well back from the castle. The large pyramid cairn of Prince Albert can be seen from miles around sticking out of the trees. With a climber's eye -an ascent to the top (and back down!) in rock boots looks like a good challenge as there seem to be enough gaps and edges in the masonry maybe 4b-5a -hard to say -but certainly tempting despite the height and must have been done, or layaway up one of slanting corners? | Chris Pearson | 09/09/2020 |
| 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. | Gill | 29/07/2020 |
| Reached summit with Hannah, Megan, Sammy & Niamh. Nice family walk | benji_willy | 19/02/2020 |
| Interesting use of the word 'cairn'. Plaque said that it was erected by someone called Victoria R. Wonder if she was another Richardson. She did a neat job but got carried away and forgot to stop. Probably had some help. | alda | 23/03/2019 |
| LS | john steel | 24/02/2019 |
| Run around the cairns | PreCambrianLife | 11/01/2019 |
| Last in a 6 hill circuit from Easter Balmoral, windy morning. Mossy 1ft mound S of pyramid more or less the HP (Albert meml pyramid 4m lower on 10k map). Beatrice cairn on descent made it 5 weddings and a funeral. Rain held off til I got down - then a brutal drive home. | RHW | 07/10/2018 |
| The actual summit is somewhere in the trees to the South of the Pyramid. i just wandered around over the blaeberry hoping I hit it. | summitter | 22/07/2018 |
| Visited the trigpoint cairn from distillery | cjo | 16/09/2016 |
| Easy path up through the woods though it skirts the top, somewhere in fairly open trees. Albert's cairn is a well constructed pyramid; I chickened out of ascending it due to the greasy stone | Colin Crawford | 02/11/2015 |
| Debs and Goska | Mountain Goat | 17/06/2015 |
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| Dave McG | 16/03/2024 | |
| Minto | 01/10/2023 | |
| dave g | 29/09/2023 | |
| Chris Mac | 29/07/2023 | |
| Adventurers5 | 15/06/2023 | |
| Biggerbagger | 13/02/2023 | |
| Dottie | 13/02/2023 | |
| StueyB | 03/11/2022 | |
| Blair282 | 17/09/2022 | |
| David Bell | 07/09/2022 | |
| lindaross | 03/06/2022 | |
| Gonk | 12/05/2022 | |
| granitegirl | 20/02/2022 | |
| holyshist | 16/01/2022 | |
| Jenn | 16/01/2022 | |
| Jossker | 31/12/2021 | |
| BaggerGutt | 29/11/2021 | |
| vgiorgio | 05/08/2021 | |
| ragan.main85 | 11/07/2021 | |
| coldfeet7 | 25/06/2021 | |
| vikita16 | 25/06/2021 | |
| GoldenCloud | 25/06/2021 | |
| Valeriemac8 | 18/04/2021 | |
| Gill2 | 05/03/2021 | |
| Bob67 | 16/10/2020 | |
| sarah mundell | 25/09/2020 |