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| Name: | Five Sisters Bing |
| Hill number: | 18962 |
| Height: | 231m / 758ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1809 East Cairn Hill |
| RHB Section: | 28A: Firth of Forth to the River Tweed |
| County/UA: | West Lothian |
| Catchment: | Forth |
| Class: | Tump (200-299m) (Tu,2) |
| Grid ref: | NT 00750 64052 |
| Summit feature: | knoll |
| Drop: | 73m |
| Col: | 158m NT006639  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 65 (1:25k) 344 |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 41 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| From usual track to West. All 5 climbed N to S from East. Reward for suffering Christmas shopping at Livingston. | Lynnebe | 18/11/2023 |
| From parking at the end of the old track W of the bings. A few yards then crossed the field to the main track circumnavigating the bings to the S side and then E to find a path up shale to join easy grassy track to the northernmost bing, good views. Back down and a less good narrow path to the highest bing. Back down to join the main track near the works, then back around the N side to complete the circuit. | Gill | 17/10/2023 |
| My 7000th British P30, only a 1000 more to upgrade my hof entry. From gate at NT00756 64311,turn right at NT01085 64130, right again at NT01010 64079, then furthest left of paths up the 'escarpment' at NT00900 64213. No need for heroics or steep scrambling, a steady gradient all the way. | Martin R | 19/07/2023 |
| Parked at gate NW. Cows in field but to the back. A steep clamber up to the top. | colazione | 25/06/2023 |
| Second visit, over all five sisters. Very notably, much more heavily vegetated than on my first visit twelve years ago | Colin Crawford | 04/03/2023 |
| Parked off the road at track entrance to NW (NT 0051 6416). Went steeply up and down all 5 bings - seemed rude not to as they all looked so nice. | jonglew | 08/02/2023 |
| From B7015 to the NW. Very quick up and back in 30 minutes | Andrew Simmons | 20/07/2022 |
| Parked at a gate to the north-west. Followed the track south, jumped a fence and then straight up to the summit of the second from the north. Fourth looked pretty close in height from the summit but second clearly taller from afar. | JAdair97 | 04/06/2022 |
| From W Calder station over bridge north of Burnbrae to tackle all 5 from south. Surprised only #4 merits Tump status. On to Seafield Law. | lordtonult | 25/01/2022 |
| Parked at gate to NW. Did all 5 tops which are being colonised by broom, hawthorn and hares. As enjoyable as the other bings in the central belt - rapid height gain and great views. | sclater | 13/01/2022 |
| P old track junct to NW, followed track down to style then up SW edge of southernmost top, then zigzaged northwards over the other 4, before dropping down to E to pick up old track. Great place to spend an hour on a dreich winter's day, wind & rain the whole way, with a 30 second sunshower just before reaching the car. | agentmancuso | 12/11/2021 |
| From W Calder train station in 1-5 order S to N. To avoid a lot of the coo mess head E after the style and go up 1 from the back. Round took 1hr 55mins so 15 mins early for the hourly train back to Edinburgh. | Thearlaichdubh | 14/05/2021 |
| With Iain. As summiteer but in numerical order. Sweaty blue sky afternoon and much more height gain than expected inbetween each sibling. Also apparently my 350th new top. | iangpark | 17/09/2020 |
| As per summitter but did them in order 1,2,3,4 and 5. Saw a deer on my way down from the 5th. | curlebd | 29/02/2020 |
| As others, broom and hawthorn on highest bing | hillsman | 06/02/2020 |
| Came at it from the west, via a small lay-by on the B7015 and a NW-SE track to Burnbrae. Soon left the track to head between the first and second Sisters, making the highest top then completing her siblings. Given their prominence I was surprised by the lack of a ridge path - maybe the locals are not as summit-fever daft as those on this page! | summitter | 01/06/2019 |
| From north over all 5. 2nd is highest. After third thought I was going up 4th but found the natural path took me up 5th without realising so I went up 1,2,3,5,4...! | vegibagger | 02/07/2018 |
| From W Calder station, paths to Burnbrae farm then N along track past dunghill and over bridge, then 600m of cattle mud. Climbed sisters in order of 2,5,4,3,1 (S to N). 4 and 2 best. Great views into prison and elsewhere. 2nd best bing in W Lothian. | Thearlaichdubh | 09/04/2018 |
| Parked at end of path at NT0050964172 and walked along busyish B7015 to turn in gate at 00676427 and followed track round east side until it opens out to an industrial site. From there paths lead onwards and upwards. Summit is well defended by a sea of broom with the addition on many hawthorns for extra jagginess. | Jubilado | 22/03/2018 |
| Parked to the NW then walked around to the east but not far enough and ended up climbing the northerly sister first before dropping down then up the gentle vegetated slope to the summit and second sister covered in broom which is less prickly than gorse Adrian. | Dugswell2 | 20/03/2018 |
| Steepest Bing so far! Cows about! | Play2End | 11/07/2017 |
| From NW, track, pasture hp with watery sunset over Camel estuary. | RHW | 13/05/2017 |
| as others parked at barrier, straight up 2nd bing. | robertphillips | 08/02/2017 |
| From West Calder. (Had intended to combine with Seafield Law but ran out of time because footbridge at NT004651 doesn't exist.) | campagvelocet | 01/06/2016 |
| The B7015 was closed (crime scene). So we decided to drive round to the B792 and parked by the gate to Addiewell Bing Nature Reserve. From there, paths took us through the wood to a footbridge and across to the bing. The Google satellite view shows that each of the five tops has an easy grassy route, all starting from about the same point on the east side. The local views are extremely industrial, and the failed retail park to the west looks more like a POW camp. | Pete R | 02/01/2016 |
| Two borderline p30s (the southernmost pair), a p26 and p18 my etrex 30 reckoned. Worth a survey? Summit of the higher one isn't gorse, just broom - no spikiness. Visiting the cols involves taking each sister by the steepest route - great workout! N to S: 1) 230m P26 at NT 00733 64141 204m col at NT 00744 64101 2) 230m [P45] at NT 00750 64052 200m col at NT 00814 64030 3) 220m P18 at NT 00832 63987 202m col at NT 00851 63962 4) 230m P30 at NT 00854 63911 (visually 1-2m lower than 2) 201m col at NT 00897 63886 5) 230m NT 00934 63848 P29 (visually lower than 4) | RHW | 26/04/2015 |
| From N, best parking at large barrier + boulder. Direct ascent of northernmost top is possible. Better to follow track round to left / east, and climb up one of the gentler ridges or valleys. Lots of broom on summit. Industrial and retail wasteland spoils immediate view to E + W. | Minto | 31/12/2014 |
| From N. Did all 5 sisters. 2nd one the highest. This one has gorse bush summit. | Adrian | 15/11/2014 |
| P to N. Track and path to top. | chrisbien | 21/09/2014 |
| Better than you would think ! | ARM | 20/02/2010 |
| stevent0809 | 05/01/2022 | |
| Biggerbagger | 03/08/2021 | |
| Babybagger | 10/10/2020 | |
| hillhunter | 01/06/2020 | |
| PM | 28/07/2019 | |
| iaindbrown | 20/12/2016 | |
| interloper | 20/12/2016 | |
| Fletch | 20/12/2016 | |
| Colin Crawford | 01/02/2010 | |
| JockTamson | 05/05/1987 | |
| Belfarm | blank |