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| Name: | Geallaig Hill |
| Hill number: | 603 |
| Height: | 743.2m / 2438ft |
| RHB Section: | 08B: Cairngorms |
| County/UA: | Aberdeenshire |
| Catchment: | Dee (Aberdeen) |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Graham, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,G,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NO 29792 98173 |
| Summit feature: | trig point in shelter |
| Drop: | 312m |
| Col: | 431m NO255983  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 37 44 (1:25k) OL59W 405W |
| Survey: | Leica RX1250 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 346 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From A93 by Wester Micras. Planned Brown Cow Hill but car struggled on A939 with all the snow, A93 was clear so looked for a route. Decent track over The Maim to Geallaig Hill, deep snow most of the way today and no views. 6.3 miles out and back. | PDuncan82 | 10/02/2024 |
| From parking area near Braenaloin. | JasonStark | 16/07/2023 |
| ELMA | donmeister | 08/07/2023 |
| Family hillwalk - up from Braenaloin then to pt 568 and down The Strone back to the car. Around 3 hours and with hardly any rain. | ragudave | 03/07/2023 |
| On day 10 of TGOC 2023, between Corndavon Lodge and Shiel of Glentanar | alistairpooler | 21/05/2023 |
| With Will, Suz, Housechild, Vicky & Keith. | Grinner | 10/04/2023 |
| Followed the track from the west. Very busy hill. | Adrian | 14/08/2022 |
| Sunny day with stiff breeze, some cloud. 1:50 did not show footpath as driveable track or might have cycled. Wished had cycled. After sleeping in van at Glenshee Ski Ctr. | Rounsfell | 08/08/2022 |
| From Braenaloin (ample parking) on what was a cold August day. Later, hailstones fell in Ballater. Easy track to summit. Returned via track to west then walk back along the road. | Fife Walking | 04/08/2022 |
| The 4th Graham today. Parked at NO 28060 99989 at large area. Track to the top starts 30m at large information board. | Jhimmy | 09/07/2022 |
| From track at NO267987 N of cairn. Ample parking on layby to S. The 601m top ( 6182 The Maim) is now an Un but worth the small detour. | Galltywenallt | 21/06/2022 |
| Straight up and down from Braenaloin. | rhalstead | 18/06/2022 |
| Walked up from the normal car parking spot. Started off well with light winds but soon 45mph + at the top. I was going to do the other three official summits but with the conditions it was back to the car. | Pilotralph | 04/02/2022 |
| By eMTB | PeteF | 20/08/2021 |
| Knock of Lawsie, The Maim, Geallaig Hill and Creag na Creiche from The Strone road. Also detoured to the prominent cairn at the western end of Geallaig's summit ridge. Glorious views of Lochnagar's snowy Northern corrie. | Nick Down1 | 07/05/2021 |
| Finished teaching at 3pm down at Crathie and was ready to set off by 3.20pm for a 2 hr - 12 km gentle track jog along the 4 tops and back from the lonely Strone road high point. (Had earlier enjoyed a quirky tradition with the children by waving goodbye to the Queen & Philip as they drove away from Balmoral after their summer stay). No one to wave to up here - royal or otherwise - just miles of heathery empty hills -just the brooding Old Man of Lochnagar across the Dee to the south with its superb corrie harbouring memories of many climbing adventures in summer and winter. Today 55 mins to summit then 25 min out and back to add the eastern sub-simm top. There is a sharp prominent peak on the west approach ridge when seen from the road - surprisingly prominent.. but only has a few metres of drop - made the minor detour there on descent. | Chris Pearson | 16/09/2020 |
| From the Old Military Road, following the tracks in a circular route as they went over or by Geallaig, Creag na Creiche, The Maim, and Knock of Lawsie. Very impressed by the amount of pine and birch re-asserting itself on this otherwise barren hillside. | summitter | 05/09/2020 |
| From Braenaloin up tracks to summit, descended W by tracks to near high point on B976, N down road (by bike) back to Braenaloin. With JAS. | kdbennett | 25/01/2020 |
| SMMC Ballater meet, with Bill B, Jim J + Bob McQ. Started at 267 987, Knock of Lawsie, The Maim + Geallaig. Solo over Creag na Creiche, finishing down track to road at 319 002. | clashcityrocker | 08/11/2019 |
| Trudged around the path from Braenaloin, mostly in the pouring rain. Thankful of shelter area around the trig point at summit. | mcbboyd | 03/11/2019 |
| Andrew, Fiona | NHWC | 09/09/2019 |
| From Braenaloin up and down track late afternoon following Corbett and Graham earlier in the day. Great views although Lochnagar was just covered. Saw an adder well up the track. | SS | 29/07/2019 |
| 2nd Repeat | chalky1953 | 25/06/2019 |
| From Braenaloin. Easy parking and vehicle track right to summit. | Crib Goch | 31/05/2019 |
| From B 976 up track. Excellent views in all directions. Close encounter with mountain hares! | MichaelF | 19/05/2019 |
| Delightfully easy walk on tracks from The Strone road summit, via WSW ridge, then returned NW to Braenaloin. Beautiful views right down to Dee and over to Lochnagar round to Morven and Ben Avon/ Ben a'Buird. Just right as we were on our way from Tomintoul to Braemar. Had we given it more thought, we would have gone over Cnoc Chalmac, which looked appealing, rather than walked back along the road. nevertheless, a fine walk to an enjoyable summit. With Pete. | pwheeler | 23/03/2019 |
| Done as part of circular route from Braenaloin on a snowy day. Ascended directly to Geallaig, then W along past Knock of Lawsie, down to the road and across to the River Gairn which we followed on tracks back to the layby. With HFS. 17km. | PiranhaFish | 17/03/2019 |
| During a windy week in Tomintoul. After dropping Smithy at Inverey for attempt #2 of the week on Carn Bhac, moped around in Braemar resting the ankle I'd damaged two days earlier on Sgor Mor before noticing Craigendarroch above Ballater. Ankle feeling good after that, so quick look on Hill Bagging turned up Geallaig Hill. Plenty of offroad parking near Braenaloin. Through gate & up the track to the summit. Back by the same way & then back to Inverey to wait for hours for Smithy who was busy avoiding getting bagged by shooting parties on Carn Bhac... | NotReallyABagger | 14/09/2018 |
| TGO Challenge 2018 | twg27 | 21/05/2018 |
| Easy walk from Brenaloin with GN | trimarc2 | 15/05/2018 |
| up and down track on misty /damp day - sunshine by late pm on way home! | rdhumble | 07/05/2018 |
| With Dave Roeder. From Brenaloin up track to summit. Weather clear though windy. Good views of Gairn valley and Deeside. Start 15L:10, finish 16:40. | dbb | 20/04/2018 |
| a quick walk up from road good views down Deeside and to the East | Nozzer | 25/10/2017 |
| Bagging the trig. | BigJ | 25/10/2017 |
| Walked along track from Knock of Lawsie. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 22/09/2017 |
| ghaley | 03/08/2017 | |
| Parked at lower track, at Braemaloin on B976. Followed track to Summit, taking the left track where it branches. Dry stane dyke around Trig. Fine, dry day. With the F.C. | The Captain | 20/06/2017 |
| tick | chazzyboy19 | 28/04/2017 |
| After lunch stroll from the track end shown on the map by the cottage. Just over two hours out and back the same way. A pleasant afternoon. | kenmorti | 19/03/2017 |
| With Peterb. Started from the usual access point opposite Braenaloin and followed the vehicle track to the summit. Clear skies and good views but strong, buffeting wind throughout. Reversed route to return. | bowlesy | 03/01/2017 |
| From Braenaloin. A sharpish scamper up the track to beat the rain blowing in from the west. Somewhat breezy on the top, so I was awfully glad of that shabby cairn! Didn't quite beat the rain on the way down...fantastic views until the clouds descended. | Gill | 31/12/2016 |
| Almost the worst cairn ever | alda | 17/09/2016 |
| from Balmoral Castle car park, but first bit was full of awkward rocks and vegetation and rather lacking in real path. Once up on the hillside, it was fine. | IanHHill | 29/08/2016 |
| With GHC. An easy plod up from the main road. The best cairn ever! | Play2End | 27/08/2016 |
| G and A with Kate, Gordon, Alice, David and Elspeth | arthurwhittaker | 21/08/2016 |
| Track all way to summit from west (longer) with mora. | BLACKHILL | 01/07/2016 |
| Lovely walk at 0530 from Braenaloin up the landrover track on a cold crisp icy morning. Great views to Morvern,Lochnagar, Ben Avon and Beinn a Bhuird. 2 hours | alexmaclennan | 20/04/2016 |
| Parked at 267987 and took the longer walk in pleasant and sunny conditions. 6 miles and 2 and a quarter hours solo. | bolton | 16/11/2015 |
| 1 of 4: From B976 at Braenaloin cottage: 280000 | ChrisR | 03/11/2015 |
| Parked on B road high point 470m. Used the track for long route on good tracks. Back shorter way down and then up road to start. | nordicstar | 20/10/2015 |