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| Name: | Ettrick Pen |
| Hill number: | 1865 |
| Height: | 691.8m / 2270ft |
| RHB Section: | 28B: The River Tweed to the English Border |
| Donald area: | Ettrick Hills |
| County/UA: | Scottish Borders, Dumfries and Galloway |
| Catchment: | Catchment Boundaries, Esk (Gretna), Tweed |
| Watershed: | Tweedmouth, Ardnamurchan Point to Lowestoft, Cardiff to Cape Wrath, Dover to Cape Wrath, Lowestoft to Duncansby Head, Land's End to John o' Groats, Solway Firth, The Lizard to Dunnet Head |
| Class: | Marilyn, Hump, Simm, Graham, Donald, Yeaman (Ma,Hu,Tu,Sim,G,D,DN,Y) |
| Grid ref: | NT 19991 07635 |
| Summit feature: | large cairn |
| Drop: | 358m |
| Col: | 334m NT202161  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 79 (1:25k) 330 |
| Survey: | Leica RX1250 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 398 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
| GE05FUN | 26/02/2024 | |
| Croft Head, Loch Fell, Wind Fell, Hopetoun Craig, Ettrick Pen, Bodesbeck Law, White Shank, Smidhope Hill and Capel Fell from Selcoth | hummusg | 19/02/2024 |
| weaselmaster | 22/12/2023 | |
| Sick Kid | 22/12/2023 | |
| clanbonham | 05/11/2023 | |
| Climbed Ettrick Pen from the Ettrick Road End via Over Phawhope, Wind Hill and Hopetoun Craig. Descent direct back to car with a river crossing. | jigglybones | 29/10/2023 |
| From parking area at end of public road in Ettrick Glen. Up forest track past the Pawhope Bothy onto western slopes of EP and up to top. 1st in clockwise circuit of the Ettrick Hills. | Jossker | 16/10/2023 |
| Jim B | 15/10/2023 | |
| anguscow | 14/10/2023 | |
| solitaryfellwanderer | 03/09/2023 | |
| BrianMatthews | 17/08/2023 | |
| Parked at the end of the long lane from Ettrick. Quick inspection of the bothy and then the climb up Ettrick Pen, the 2 easy hits of Hopetoun Craig and Wind Fell. Up to Loch Fell and West Knowe. A steep descent down to the sheep pen and then along the SUW to cross the stream and then Capel Fell, Smidhope Hill, White Shank and back down to the car. | tsharp | 20/07/2023 |
| AlanD | 26/06/2023 | |
| prwild | 01/06/2023 | |
| 3 of 4: From Hopetoun Craig. Then down to Over Phawhope and SUW back over Croft Head. With Karen. | ChrisR | 24/05/2023 |
| GavinTheobald 3 | 21/05/2023 | |
| Bus to Nether Cassock then out tracks to quarry at NT 203060 where an unmarked track leads to open hill and atv to Ettrick Pen. Along ridge over Hopetoun Craig and Wind Fell then on to West Knowe and Loch Fell. Return to Samye-Ling for bus via tracks passing Kiddamhill. | SS | 19/04/2023 |
| Sailfoot - Capel Fell - White Shank - Potburn - Ettrick Pen - Loch Fell - Croft Head - Sailfoot | davidpettit84 | 07/04/2023 |
| Colin Crawford | 22/03/2023 | |
| Livi2020 | 11/02/2023 | |
| Pommyjon | 28/01/2023 | |
| Iloveducks | 05/01/2023 | |
| Circuit of Marilyns and tops from Sailforth. 4 of 6 | thekirkie pirate | 13/11/2022 |
| mntainman | 29/10/2022 | |
| In cloud unfortunately for the time we were up on top here but it did clear quite nicely for a while by the time we made it over to Wind Fell. | Alex C | 29/10/2022 |
| From Ettrick road end, past bothy, up forest road and path to summit. With JR, SS, & AC. | Minto | 29/10/2022 |
| Round of 4 from Fishery to N. 2/4. Good to mee 4 from RHSoc on summit and share the route back for a bit. | davechaffey | 29/10/2022 |
| Jill Robertson | 29/10/2022 | |
| From road end for a round of White Shank, Smidhope Hill, Capel Fell, Wind Fell, Hopetoun Craig and Ettrick Pen. | rhalstead | 08/10/2022 |
| With L & R | Janet M | 19/09/2022 |
| fedupofuserids | 19/09/2022 | |
| Lindsay M | 19/09/2022 | |
| Rod M | 19/09/2022 | |
| Parked at end of public road near Potburn for the Ettrick Horseshoe. Counter clockwise taking in White Shank, Smidhope Hill and Capel Fell. I wasn't looking forward to the outlier of Croft Head, but the ascent up West Knowe, was worse, as there is decent zig zag path up Cat Shoulder. From it was easy over Loch Fell, Wind Fell then Hopetoun Craig and one final pull up Ettrick Pen. Which had the first proper summit feature of the whole day, a large cairn. Dropped down to the NW to pick up the forestry track, then past Over Phawhope bothy and back to the car 8hrs after setting off. | chillyman8 | 31/07/2022 |
| Huwel | 31/07/2022 | |
| stevent0809 | 11/07/2022 | |
| Graham Banks | 08/05/2022 | |
| Started from the turning circle at the end of the minor road leading to the head of the Ettrick valley and followed the SMC route taking in the summits of Ettrick Pen, Hopetoun Craig, Wind fell, Loch fell, West Knowe, Croft head, Capel fell, Smidhope hill and White shank. A tough and long walk taking seven and half hours for the Twelve and half mile with 4000ft of ascent. Route finding was generally easy following fencing but a brutal descent of West Knowe is needed to reach the valley floor. | WAYNE ROWLETT | 01/05/2022 |
| jfwilson | 21/04/2022 | |
| Ettrick Head Horseshoe is a great walk for wide open views in lots of directions across to hills by Grey Mares Tail, Cheviots, Pennines, Lake District, Criffle, Dumfries and Galloway and Lead Hills. 10 miles. Start at the end of the road past Ettrick. Up White Shank, Smidhope Hill, Capel Fell, Wind Fell, Hopetoun Crag, Ettrick Pen. Did not see anyone all day, with Sally. | Victor | 09/04/2022 |
| AFD90 | 03/04/2022 | |
| Delyoung | 22/03/2022 | |
| jgregor | 20/03/2022 | |
| ScottyBoy76 | 10/11/2021 | |
| alda | 22/10/2021 | |
| Parked at Ettrick public road end at 1892 0926 (space for four cars). Along SUW to check out the bothy at Over Phawhope. Big sitting room with two comfy couches, stove, coal, kindling. Not too shabby. Then west along SUW to link up with our previously completed section at the bottom of Cat Shoulder. With that done we returned via the hills - up Wind Fell from Ettrick Head. Great views. Over Hopetoun Craig (impressive cairn) and up Ettrick Pen. Descended directly to bothy. Clear paths all the way. No bogs, fences, cows. Just 9 miles, 2100ft ascent. | Toby-and-Dion | 18/09/2021 |
| Colin Crawford | 15/09/2021 | |
| Robin56 | 12/09/2021 | |
| Crawford Lindsay | 07/09/2021 | |
| wintergreen | 07/09/2021 |