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Name: | Brown Muir |
Hill number: | 618 |
Height: | 339m / 1112ft |
RHB Section: | 09A: Inverness to Strathspey |
County/UA: | Moray |
Catchment: | Lossie, Catchment Boundaries, Spey |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Tump (300-399m), Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,3,Y) |
Grid ref: | NJ 25847 54866 |
Summit feature: | no feature 55m SE of trig point |
Drop: | 201m |
Col: | 138m NJ254532 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 28 (1:25k) 423 424N |
Observations: | trig point is at NJ 25812 54905 |
Survey: | obvious summit |
Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 191 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Fell run. 3x reps from the gate to the summit. 7.25 miles in total. Snowy on top, quite cold. Mild and rainy at bottom. | w1ght | 01/11/2023 |
Parked at the end of the road to the NE of the hill. Up past the pigs on a good track, passing the ruined farm at Moniemouies. Track goes all the way up to the mast. Trig has a hat! Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 30/10/2023 |
Fell run up the land rover track. Pretty flat on top, couldn't say for certain any poi t was significantly higher than the trig point but had a wander down anyway. | w1ght | 27/10/2023 |
From road end to NE. OK, but Dreich day. Used bike on first bit, not worth it though. | davechaffey | 03/08/2023 |
11.55..standard way from NE road end | vegibagger | 04/07/2023 |
Emtb from end of road to NE | PeteF | 24/06/2023 |
Parked on verge at road end (NJ275563) before pig farm, then followed tracks past Moniemouies and up to the mast, trig point and summit, returning the same way (1h20m) | kdbennett | 21/02/2023 |
Parked at NJ276563, followed track passed pig farm to trig point at transmitter tower, same way back | gary1981 | 07/01/2023 |
track to top starts at the pig farm parking at nj 276 563, track from greenside road end completely overgrown. | BLACKHILL | 26/10/2022 |
A pleasant walk after a pleasant stay at Pluscarden Abbey. | David Bremner | 07/10/2022 |
Good advice about the track from Teindland Mains to Moniemouies alongside the piggy farm. Made for a quick access and no problems this way. | nickywood1 | 11/09/2022 |
As per nicolajane | curlebd | 30/04/2022 |
Easy ascent on track from Teindland Mains. | nicolajane | 03/01/2022 |
From end of the public road via Moniemouies. Good track to the trig where I enjoyed a miniature of Johnnie Walker Red Label which someone had kindly left in a plastic box. | sclater | 28/02/2021 |
From Logieburn - but beware, the section of track marked on the map east of Humbreck is full of gorse. New track to mast comes in from the east near Moniemouies. | Winterfloodian | 16/08/2020 |
Made a mistake by taking the supposed track that starts at 261566. It started well, but ended in gorse and self-recrimination for not following the advice of others. Anyway, put my head down and thrashed straight up through the heather to the Trig and nearby summit. The sight of the hooded trig cheered me up. Went back down the track and avoided the worst of the gorse by going across lower sheep-grazed fields. You live and learn (sometimes). | summitter | 03/08/2020 |
Climbed from the A941 starting 1 km south east of the quarry. Easy walk up heathery slopes | Simon Winton | 06/01/2020 |
From Teindland (NJ275562), via Moniemouies and unmapped linking track to NJ265562, then on track to comms mast. | Isbjorn | 30/12/2018 |
From NJ 2755 5629. Good linking track (unmapped) from Moniemouies to NJ 2650 5617. | jonglew | 24/12/2018 |
From Millbuies with a bit of bushwacking to get out of trees onto moor | daviemore | 27/10/2018 |
Followed same route as Nordicstar et al. Straight forward. No issues. | assynt_bob | 09/06/2018 |
Fairly direct route from Millbuies, with track most of the way, rough descent SE via Findlay's Seat, which is a confusing area. | Chris Peart | 19/05/2018 |
via Moniemouies | Dave McG | 07/02/2018 |
The voie normale from Monimouies, with the track covered in snow ice. Cute trig point wearing a hat. The track is a bit of a mess, and it's all a bit scruffy. Not as interesting as other walks around here, though views are good. | Gill | 30/12/2017 |
tick | chazzyboy19 | 18/12/2017 |
On route to lossiemouth, up from moniemouies as others have said. good call, other track does not exist. | hils | 11/06/2017 |
Parked in a lay-by just before the junction for Teindland Mains and then walked to the ruin of Moniemouie along the track and then continued on the service track to the radio antenna to the trig and then to the actual summit a bit further SE. 
With Chris and Ben | Peterb | 16/05/2017 |
As per Peterb's account | bowlesy | 16/05/2017 |
1/5 Marilyn today. Easy walk up track from Moniemouies. Sunny fine views | N.Morters | 05/05/2017 |
From junction of track & B-road by Alstonside, to the NE, where there's good parking for large vehicles at NJ 29390 57379. Route and write-up at: http://gayleybird.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/brown-muir-marilyn-nj258548-339m.html | Gayle | 27/02/2017 |
1 of 3: From roadend at Teindland. | ChrisR | 20/01/2017 |
Weather fair. | MountainMac | 17/11/2016 |
From Logieburn. As others have said this was a mistake as path overgrown with gorse. Better to follow the Moniemouies advice below. | Lionel Bidwell | 04/11/2016 |
Climbed from Logieburn. Track shown does not exist resulting in 500m of heather bashing - no big deal especially if you are climbing in winter. Try climbing via Moniemouies as suggested by others if you prefer track. | raffemeister | 15/09/2016 |
Self, Peter and dog. Easy ascent, fine view of Ben Rinnes (which was my last Corbett 2 years ago) | Invicta14 | 16/08/2016 |
Straightforward, good track all the way. | hillsman | 16/05/2016 |
From Logieburn - horrible - see pwbellarby. | jimbloomer | 22/04/2016 |
With Jenx at end of day. As Big J and Viewfinder. Straightforward except for the ice on track and recent washout. Trig is the best high spot with Geocache, visited the lump a few yards away for the record. | nordicstar | 17/01/2016 |
From road end at Moniemouies. Very icy. 5th hill today and not the best! | jenx | 17/01/2016 |
Ascended via Moniemouies on a good track. A bit cloudy but still good views all round. Was bagging the trig. With CJW. | BigJ | 19/10/2015 |
From end of public road at 276563 via deserted steading at Moniemouies. Contrary to the 50k map, this track leads all the way to the summit, which tracks shown from other directions do not. | Topographer57 | 28/09/2015 |
Solo | HFB | 03/08/2015 |
from end of road teindland track to the summit. | robertphillips | 18/05/2015 |
Parked at 235502 and followed tracks and then hard going over rough moor to mast. NE side would be better | Thearlaichdubh | 03/05/2015 |
Here for the trigpoint. 'Findlays Seat' TP:UK log: 
 
Took totally the wrong route to this, the zig zag path from Logieburn disappears into thick gorse, impassible, had to head straight up the heather, hard going, suggest you find the route with the big track up to the mast. Another square one bagged. | thejackrustles | 31/12/2014 |
Bit annoying this one! Parked just before Logieburn and up track which disappeared (wrong again OS!) so forced to plod up northern slopes which were quite hard going - should've gone up mast track via Moniemouies. | AndrewFinnimore | 19/09/2014 |
It started off easy enough, parked right at the end of the road where this path started, but it soon became apparent that the path was really overgrown with gorse, so it was a heather bash for quite a long time. Better is the start off from the track earlier on the road, it is slightly longer, but much easier. track all the way to the top. Trig had a metal top. | tallblond | 06/06/2014 |
windy day but good views | Nozzer | 02/02/2014 |
Solo walk, from Teindland side. | amswanston | 10/11/2013 |
Solo. From end of public road near Logieburn farm, Teidland. My map showed only one track to the summit of Brown Muir so I attempted to follow it. It went SW towards a farm building called Humbeck. Just short of Humbreck there is a track junction with the track to Brown Muir turning sharp left. However, I found the track towards Brown Muir full of gorse and disused to such an extent that I could not follow the track. Walked on adjacent field until deciding to strike up the hillside. Going was tough with much thick heather. Eventually came to wide gravel track that took me to the summit cairn. OS 1:50,000 suggests the highest point is slightly SE of trig point and only 1m higher. Didn't go there. Tried a different descent route but this was even worse than the ascent. Weather dry and quite warm. | pwbellarby | 30/06/2013 |