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Ben Macdui [Beinn Macduibh]

1309 m in Aberdeenshire and Moray. Its summit pillar is Ben Macdhui, station PP302.

Height
1309 m
Drop
950 m
Position
57.07037, -3.66910
DoBIH number
518

The hill

The 2nd highest in Scotland.

1309 m, with 950 m of drop — 8th most prominent of the 2,342 hills on a list here. Classed as Marilyn, HuMP, Simm, Munro, historic county top, current county top and administrative county top.

In the log books

The pages for your Ben Macdui day are already printed.

The top of the Ben Macdui page in The Munros log book
The Munros · page 169

Its contours, height and rank, the three nearest Munros with their bearings, and the lines to fill in: the date, who was with you, the route, the weather, how it felt on top. One page for each of the 282, in a book that stays on the shelf long after the round is done.

The top of the Ben Macdui page in The County Tops log book
The County Tops · page 22

The contours around it, the historic county, height and rank, the three nearest county tops with their distance and bearing, and the lines to fill in: the date, companions, route, times and weather. One page for each of the 85, in a book that stays on the shelf long after the round is done.

Summit pillar

Ben Macdhui stands here.

Station PP302 stands 1 m from the recorded summit, at 1311 m. Ordnance Survey last recorded work on it in July 1983.

Ben Macdhui

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