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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
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  • Edinburgh current county/UA top

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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.VerySlowPlodder28/02/2024
Graham Banks02/12/2023
nicolajane21/11/2023
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?lordtonult19/11/2023
MMC walk with Donald's lead. Chilly but dry day. Took Rosiealexmaclennan19/11/2023
stevent080902/10/2023
Berkscire87430/09/2023
From Little Vantage car park on Heather's birthday. First couple of kilometres squelchier than expected.willyross30/09/2023
lindaross30/09/2023
East Cairn Hill and Mount Maw circuit, West Linton - Walkhighlands routehummusg13/07/2023
RickyP06/05/2023
JFT_9601/05/2023
A Peckish19/01/2023
beckybags19/01/2023
Lynnebe15/01/2023
JEB, RIB, Bran HFB02/01/2023
Trailmaister02/01/2023
dubvine19/12/2022
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.JulieB30/10/2022
ThickIce02/10/2022
AlanD18/08/2022
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.Hirta08/08/2022
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.sarahk04/08/2022
kathyh02/05/2022
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.Beeliner28/04/2022
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.JAdair9731/03/2022
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.DanTrig23/03/2022
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.JohnR25/02/2022
IainK19/02/2022
ketzster21/01/2022
Circuit from Baddinsgill.thekirkie pirate20/12/2021
LDWA Central & Lowlands social walk Mount Maw, Grain Heads, The Mount, Wether Law, East Cairn Hill.tsharp17/10/2021
Walked from Carlops to Borestane then up and back to summit. Continued on to Balerno.the pigguy 03/10/2021
Iloveducks11/09/2021
nathan7931/07/2021
West and East Cairn from car park on a beautiful sunny day. Great views from top.Ramblingpaul18/07/2021
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.Thearlaichdubh18/06/2021
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.ChrisR14/06/2021
TONY DEALL14/06/2021
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 Baddinsgillkdbennett12/06/2021
Little Vantage car park, Drover's Way to Baddinsgill Reservoir then Mount Maw, Grain Heads, The Mount, Wether Law and East Cairn Hilltsharp03/06/2021
Crawford Lindsay09/04/2021
wintergreen09/04/2021
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.langskill03/04/2021
benalder5001/04/2021
wintergreen08/01/2021
Crawford Lindsay08/01/2021
Set_Nights28/11/2020
MuckleG12/11/2020
jgregor18/10/2020