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Name: | East Cairn Hill |
Hill number: | 1809 |
Height: | 567m / 1860ft |
RHB Section: | 28A: Firth of Forth to the River Tweed |
County/UA: | Scottish Borders, Edinburgh |
Catchment: | Triples, Catchment Boundaries, Esk (Musselburgh), Forth, Tweed |
Watershed: | Firth of Forth, Mull of Galloway to St Abb's Head, Tweedmouth |
Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Dodd (500-599m), Donald Dewey, Current County/UA Top, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,5,DDew,CoU,Y) |
Grid ref: | NT 12807 59313 |
Summit feature: | small cairn |
Drop: | 172m |
Col: | 395m NT143598 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 65 72 (1:25k) 344 |
Survey: | Abney level |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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Logged Descriptions (logged by 347 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Have not experienced such a wet walk in a long time …..under foot so many areas of water , some quite deep. Across bog to bealacah, still damp under foot,onto vairn and then back track ( in eain hail nist ) to hih point. Very tired after this. | VerySlowPlodder | 28/02/2024 |
Graham Banks | 02/12/2023 | |
nicolajane | 21/11/2023 | |
Anti-clockwise round from B.Farm with diversion to Cock Rig. Shouldn't this Marilyn be named East Cairn Hill East South East Top to distinquish it from the eponomously named nearby summit? | lordtonult | 19/11/2023 |
MMC walk with Donald's lead. Chilly but dry day. Took Rosie | alexmaclennan | 19/11/2023 |
stevent0809 | 02/10/2023 | |
Berkscire874 | 30/09/2023 | |
From Little Vantage car park on Heather's birthday. First couple of kilometres squelchier than expected. | willyross | 30/09/2023 |
lindaross | 30/09/2023 | |
East Cairn Hill and Mount Maw circuit, West Linton - Walkhighlands route | hummusg | 13/07/2023 |
RickyP | 06/05/2023 | |
JFT_96 | 01/05/2023 | |
A Peckish | 19/01/2023 | |
beckybags | 19/01/2023 | |
Lynnebe | 15/01/2023 | |
JEB, RIB, Bran | HFB | 02/01/2023 |
Trailmaister | 02/01/2023 | |
dubvine | 19/12/2022 | |
Parked at Baddinsgill. Followed Thieves Road across open moorland. After approx 3.5kms at NT118178 there is a waymaker post with an ATV track heading left uphill, not shown on OS map. This continues all the way to the summit. Followed path down wall and back up East Cairn Hill. At path junction went left to visit the shelter, then along ridge to summit (4 rocks was possibly once a cairn). Followed path which becomes an ATV track along fence doglegging off to Dodd summits, over Wether Law, The Mount, Grain Heads Mount Maw. Continued down ridge over Faw Mount on an ATV track to meet Thieves Road then the road. 10.3 miles our 5.5hrs. | JulieB | 30/10/2022 |
ThickIce | 02/10/2022 | |
AlanD | 18/08/2022 | |
Parked at little Vantage & followed cross borders drove road, thieves road then up to cairn followed by true summit. Return via path down by fence mid way between 2 tops, to cauldstane slap. Detoured on return, to track past wiers and onto A70, as we encountered 2 bulls on footpath near Gala Ford which started pawing the ground as we approached. | Hirta | 08/08/2022 |
Parked at spaces provided at Baddinsgill Farm. Round of hills - Faw Mount, Mount Maw,Grain Heads, The Mount, Wether Law and finishing at East Law hill. Extended on to the large cairn at the end of the ridge, which is worthwhile, and then descent (paths) into Cauldstone Slap and return to farm along the Thieves Road. | sarahk | 04/08/2022 |
kathyh | 02/05/2022 | |
With E. Parked at Baddinsgill. Followed Cross Borders Drove Road/Thieves Road across open moorland. After approx 3.5kms at NT1184157926 there is a waymaker post with a path heading left uphill, not shown on OS map. This continues to a stone wall and uphill to the summit trig point. We then followed wall back down to Cauldstane Slap and uphill to East Cairn Hill following fence which turns SE to summit marked with a small cairn. Returned to huge stone cairn with extensive views to Firth of Forth, Ochils and Trossachs and beyond. Descended East Cairn Hill to Cauldstane Slap and back along Drove Road. | Beeliner | 28/04/2022 |
Parked at Little Vantage. Followed Pentlands path until side path to the Cairn. From the Cairn went southwest to the summit. Back down following the fence to the Pentlands Path and then onwards to Little Vantage. | JAdair97 | 31/03/2022 |
10.3 mile circular from Baddinsgill. Followed path near farm to Baddinsgill House then climbed straight up the side of Faw Mount on ATV tracks ascending fairly easily onto Mount Maw, grassy ATV tracks took us over featureless Grain Heads to The Mount's unmarked summit. From here we descended easily to Deer Hope col and up sheep tracks to Wether Law's unmarked summit having to climb a barbed wire fence on the way. From here it is pathless heather to the fence climbing up trail onto East Cairn Hill, the summit being quite boggy. We descended to Cauldstane Slap then followed the trail up to West Cairn Hill. From here we followed ridge for a bit further followed by a pathless heather bash down by non-existent grouse butts to pick up track, we followed this over grassy Muckle Knock and descended track, then Thieves Road back to Baddinsgill. 740m ascent overall. Sunny but hazy so views were restricted. Saw 2 other people. Afterwards we drove back into Edinburgh and bagged Dunsapie. | DanTrig | 23/03/2022 |
From parking just SW of Little Vantage. Cross Borders Drove Road to the high point at Cauldstane Slap then followed the fences to the top. | JohnR | 25/02/2022 |
IainK | 19/02/2022 | |
ketzster | 21/01/2022 | |
Circuit from Baddinsgill. | thekirkie pirate | 20/12/2021 |
LDWA Central & Lowlands social walk Mount Maw, Grain Heads, The Mount, Wether Law, East Cairn Hill. | tsharp | 17/10/2021 |
Walked from Carlops to Borestane then up and back to summit. Continued on to Balerno. | the pigguy | 03/10/2021 |
Iloveducks | 11/09/2021 | |
nathan79 | 31/07/2021 | |
West and East Cairn from car park on a beautiful sunny day. Great views from top. | Ramblingpaul | 18/07/2021 |
From Balerno bus terminus via East Rigg and past Lintonshiels, then up tracks serving grouse butts. Very pleasant. Visited 561m point too. Back via Borestane and Cockburnmill to Balerno. Superb views nearly all day. | Thearlaichdubh | 18/06/2021 |
5 of 6: From Wether Law. Very windy. Following the Walk Highlands description. We continued straight on for photos at the large cairn on the spur track. With Karen. | ChrisR | 14/06/2021 |
TONY DEALL | 14/06/2021 | |
From Baddinsgill Farm (several parking places at woodmill at end of public road), continued N along Drove Road to Cauldstane Slap, then followed wall NW to ridge of East Cairn Hill and SE by wall to summit, descended directly S then SW to regain Drave Road and back to Baddinsgill | kdbennett | 12/06/2021 |
Little Vantage car park, Drover's Way to Baddinsgill Reservoir then Mount Maw, Grain Heads, The Mount, Wether Law and East Cairn Hill | tsharp | 03/06/2021 |
Crawford Lindsay | 09/04/2021 | |
wintergreen | 09/04/2021 | |
The large cairn on this hill is almost 1 km WNW of the highest point. From the large cairn there is a view that includes all the tops in the Pentland Skyline circuit. | langskill | 03/04/2021 |
benalder50 | 01/04/2021 | |
wintergreen | 08/01/2021 | |
Crawford Lindsay | 08/01/2021 | |
Set_Nights | 28/11/2020 | |
MuckleG | 12/11/2020 | |
jgregor | 18/10/2020 |