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15/09/07 Sarah
15/09/07 Sarah
Followed Dave's route to the top. I found a lovely cairn at the N end (near a collapsed fire tower), which I reckon is the real top. Returned through the trees and eventually hit a track that took me back to the second junction where Dave turned L on the way up. Nice enough running through the trees, but I did have a brief panic that I'd done a 180 somewhere, as it seemed a long way along the hillside.
14/09/07 Dave H
I came here from p96, like D+E, but took a better route. Instead of following the track along the edge of the trees, I went left just after the tree line turns right, 650943, then again a bit further on, then at the top of the rise there is a ride going off to the right (ie east). At the moment there is a forestry warning sign there. From here it is an easy 10 mins run to the top (and it's even easier if you go into the woods on the right hand side of the ride). Most of Blackhall forest is the dullest of dull plantations, but here at the top of Goauch hill is a lovely remnent of old pine-birch-juniper forest. You would never guess it was here. There are (or at least were) capercaillie here, though I didn't see any today. Great place if you like forests. Lots of blaeberries at the moment as well. There is a small cairn at what may or may not be the highest point.05/08/07 Evelyn and Derek
No obvious route into this one so its a guess. We carried on from Tillylair, taking the right fork at NO 650 942. Its a nice track, punctuated by three fallen trees which you have to portage around - but they are close together so you are soon in the saddle again. We biked on until we reached the closest point to the hill, parked up and started uphill through head-high bracken and wet grass. Reached trees and a wall and still climbing. We eventually got to the GPS point but couldn't see any trig points or suchlike.
Took another guess on descending (cos we'd not marked our uphill) but miraculously came back out only 50 metres from the bikes.
Set off back to the car - very wet and getting hungry.
The route back gives great views over Feughside and the hills beyond - certainly a case of this point being better in the Going and Coming than the arriving.
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05/07/07 Denise (Hazel's mum)
I remembered the challenge when I took Hazel to training on Tuesday. This one seemed achievable so I just extended my usual Thursday morning jog up Scolty along the saddle to Goauch. Ground still very wet and hard going over very uneven ground covered by heather as you get nearer the top. A few false summits but the actually top is about 200m after crossing the wall and fence into the forest. Came back down the same way to make the most of the views. Beautiful morning and its made a great start to the day.
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