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24th Jun 2024  16:30  by ConcreteFan

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Great views, easy to find. Circular walk from the top of Keirhill Road up through the farm and then back round via the golf course.

Aerial view

19th Apr 2024  12:00  by burnieboozle

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Walked up the path and through the farm from the aptly named Keirhill Road. It felt rather private, but nobody seemed to be about. Nice views over Westhill from the trig. Not so much in the other direction. Trig is in generally good condition. Some sort of stone circle is adjacent.

31st Mar 2024  12:30  by John D Stewart

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Good walk up to this one, starting from Blacklaws Brae in Westhill. A bit of works going on near the top (as at March 2024), but provision is in place for walking around it (we made the mistake of thinking the way was blocked, and went through a nearby field to get past the works, having to jump over dykes and barbed wire). No matter, not too difficult a route. Lovely views in most directions from the trig point, including Loch Skene - worth a visit!

13th Mar 2024  15:25  by allyonthepiste

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Great 360deg views

20th Jan 2023  13:19  by RoccosAdventures

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Nice Trig very easy to find and great walk up - very icy for our visit- didn’t spoil the fun though.

19th Feb 2022  00:00  by Jason Stark

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

29th Dec 2021  16:17  by Robert Phillips

FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

9th Aug 2021  11:00  by Loswalks

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

8th Aug 2021  00:00  by caroleengel

Gridref: NJ 81754 08309   FB Number: Not logged  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Gate to overgrown track NJ 8162 0890 to wood edge (field easier walking)

13th May 2020  15:02  by COVID Trig Point Challenge

Gridref: NJ 81755 08327   FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

13th May 2020  15:02  by sneakybagger

Gridref: NJ 81755 08327   FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

We meet at last! 2nd attempt at this one. Bit of a climb out of Westhill but worth the effort.
Hill of Keir TP3883 Flush Bracket
We meet at last! 2nd attempt at this one. Hill of Keir TP3883
GPS where would we be without it? Screenshot of Memory Map at TP3883

31st Jan 2020  09:17  by Sealf4

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 6/10

Went up from Westhill via Souterhill, back via Berryhill. Easy one for bus routes. (X17)

14th Oct 2019  13:30  by Wubbleyew

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

Decided to tackle this one from the north-west direction as it seemed to be the shortest and quickest route. There is handy parking (NJ813085) in a lay-by close to the Auchronie Hill turning. I crossed the road (B979) and clambered over a farm gate, and walked around the field in a clockwise direction, as something (grass?) was growing there, to find a wooden fence to leap over onto a grassy path leading up through trees to reach the pillar which is surrounded by a stone circle. This was a very pleasant setting. Noticed the just-climbed Brimmond Hill in the near distance. Pillar has its cap with stamped lettering, and one sight-hole open.

9th Jan 2019  14:43  by Sandrax2

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 8/10

2nd Jul 2017  12:01  by thejackrustles

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 10/10

Had read previous log "Parked at gate and walked up and past resr to stone circle", however didn't know where the gate was and couldn't see the farm track from the main road. Parked at some green gates and headed up a track in the general direction of the trig to find myself in another cow field with them all following me. Then once a little higher I could see the farm road I should have been on, so crossed barbed wire fence onto this and headed up to the farm at Souterhill, no one about here so could possibly have driven up to farm or at least to waterworks half way up track. Anyhow I was here now and faced with a gate and a note "cattle in field", I could see that, they didn't bother me going up thankfully and once in the reservoir at the top I spotted some lose barbed wire in the top corner and was soon over at the trig point. Lovely stone circle, great spot. The cows on my return became my best pals and got very close and personal, I tried the hands up making myself look as big as possible and this didn't work. I have never climbed a gate so fast.

Hill Of Keir selfie ©thejackrustles
Hill Of Keir and stone circle ©thejackrustles
Hill Of Keir

17th Apr 2017  13:30  by Mickandkim

Gridref: NJ 81754 08318   FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

Parked at gate and walked up and past resr to stone circle

23rd Mar 2015  11:30  by vegibagger

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

999 th trig beautiful day and view west to Morven, my first Corbett and proudly BenAvon beyond and behind the hill of Fayre, Lochnagar Munro of my teens climbed five times before 15. lots of nostalgia

trig pillock!! ©vegibagger
within stone circle ©vegibagger

6th Apr 2007  12:00  by peregrinus

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

vgc, metal cap, shallow letters, rough grass, scattered Larch, just W of covered resr.

6th Dec 2004  12:00  by iainmac

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 5/10

S5262
S5262
S5262

7th May 2002  14:12  by clochandighter

FB Number: S5262  Condition: Good  Score: 7/10

HISTORY: Pillar completed 17th March 1949 costing £9.15s.0d. Computed as tertiary triangulation station NO89/T35 within the Aberdeen block during 1950. Levelled for height in 1968. Last maintained by the OS in October 1999. SITE VISIT: Trig pillar in good condition. This pillar is not leaning, the 'photographer' must have leaned. Spider retains OS plug with stamped lettering. The flush bracket faces east.

S5262 - Hill Of Keir This pillar is not leaning, the photographer must have leaned.