Glas Maol

Glas Maol prominence 194m, is the highest point in the Mounth hills, in the southeastern part of the Highlands of Scotland. The broad, flat summit is divided between the council area of Aberdeenshire, Angus and Perth and Kinross, though the highest point lies wholly within Angus; indeed Glas Maol is the highest point in that council area. Glas Maol is both a Munro (mountain summit in Scotland in the imperial list of those 3000 feet and over) and a Marilyn (a metric list of British or Irish hills of any height that has a minimum of 150 metres of prominence. As detailed in Alan Dawson'1992 book The Relative Hills of Britain)

Glas Maol
The western side of Glas Maol, from near the head of the ski area
Highest point
Elevation	1,068 m (3,504 ft) [1]
Prominence	194 m (636 ft)
Parent peak	Lochnagar
Listing	Munro, Marilyn, Council top (Angus), County top, (Angus)
Naming
English translation	Grey-green hill
Language of name	Gaelic
Pronunciation	Scottish Gaelic: [ˈkl̪ˠas̪ ˈmɯːl̪ˠ]
Geography
Location	Mounth, Scotland
OS grid	NO167765
Topo map	OS Landranger 43

The western slopes of Glas Maol form part of the Glenshee Ski Centre ski area. The most common route of ascent goes through the slopes, starting from the highest point of the A93 road, the Cairnwell pass. This is the highest public road in Scotland; hence only around 400 m of ascent is involved.

Glas Maol is often climbed in conjunction with Creag Leacach to the south or Cairn of Claise to the north. The broad ridge linking these peaks is topped by a Dry-stone dyke, which approximately corresponds to the border of the Angus council area.

Glas Maol has a MaQuaCo-line (this is an acronymised word for the Marilyn qualification contour line. ie the contour line 150 metres below the summit, invented in the mid 1990's by Charles Everett) that is shaped like a rabbit with its head, containing the Munro summit Carn an Tuirc p64m, facing westwards, the Munro summit of Cairn of Claise in its chest, Glas Maol summit itself being above the hindquarters and rear legs and a long tail down the ridge of the Munro Creag Leacach 988.2m p70.7m,that extends SSW from Glas Maol. Also, within this Maquaco-line is the HuMP (hundred metres + prominence) Munro summit Cairn of Claise 1064m, p119m. Having one subsidiary HuMP summit within its Maquaco-line makes Glas Maol a Dromedary Marilyn (a list currently under research and compilation numbering approx 120 Marilyns across Britain.) The area within this Maquaco-line thus contains four SIMM's (six hundred metres mountains, with minimum of 30metres of prominence) and all of those SIMMs are also Munro summits.

References

1. "walkhighlands Glas Maol". walkhighlands.co.uk. 2013. Retrieved 30 November 2013.