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Name: | Boon Hill |
Hill number: | 5097 |
Height: | 327m / 1073ft |
Parent (Ma): | 1813 Meikle Says Law |
RHB Section: | 28A: Firth of Forth to the River Tweed |
County/UA: | Scottish Borders |
Catchment: | Tweed |
Class: | Hump, Tump (300-399m), Yeaman (Hu,Tu,3,Y) |
Grid ref: | NT 57479 46543 |
Summit feature: | ground within 2m of trig point |
Drop: | 114m |
Col: | 213m NT617488 |
OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 73 74 (1:25k) 339W |
Observations: | ground 225m NW at NT 57385 46750 is as high |
Survey: | Abney level |
GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
N.B. Some hill summits are on private property or on land where there is no public right of way. Permission should be sought from the landowner where access to a hill summit is through private land(*).
*For information about access rights in Scotland see the ScotWays website.
Please report via the contact page any logs you see below which describe or encourage acts of trespass. Please quote the hill number and hill name.
Logged Descriptions (logged by 58 users, only the latest 50 shown - Show all) | By | Date of Ascent |
Parking on rough grass between gates and beside passing place (NT578459). Finger post, easy FP through fields | Isbjorn | 03/05/2023 |
From the track heading towards Old Boon. | summitter | 06/02/2023 |
Stroll up from the South on a crisp cold morning. | NormanW | 06/03/2022 |
Mizzling. Frisky cattle. With B,B and R. | jenx | 30/07/2021 |
From signpost. Farmer stopped and assured me no bulls in the fields - plenty cattle though. Went up right hand side to beyond summit then through gate and back to trig. Cattle backed off as I crossed to another gate and track down. | SS | 19/06/2021 |
As others up the farm track past some very curious bullocks warm and sunny morning. | N.Morters | 21/09/2020 |
Parking at NT 5782 4593. Farm track to top, by trig pillar. ***Re-visited 7 Oct 2023 on G2023 outing. | jonglew | 14/01/2020 |
Parked at the end of the track to the SW. Pleasant stroll to the summit. | LizH | 05/12/2019 |
Up trck rom SSE: Nice to bag another easy Hump. 
Very frisky young steers in left field, but heiffers in right field. | GordonAdshead | 07/07/2019 |
Easy access via track to SE where possible to park. Summit is close to Trig which is at the corner of two stone walls, not immediately visible. | Denise | 20/01/2019 |
From lane to SSE. A place to park and finger post directing the way - doesn't get much better than this! | RichardM | 20/01/2019 |
Up a short track from the road corner to the south. Summit on the east side of a double barbed wall; trig point is 2m away but on the west side. Fortunately there is a nearby gate. | Topographer57 | 05/11/2017 |
park at the bend in road, up the track to the top. went further north to other hp as well. | robertphillips | 28/01/2017 |
Parked at the Boon bend. Up good track. Sheep poo everywhere. Consequences of lush grass. | Campbell Singer | 03/09/2016 |
En route from Pitlochry to Leicestershire. | Barbara Singer | 03/09/2016 |
Easy from S. Parking at bend in road. | jimbloomer | 16/02/2015 |
Easy walk up through sheep pasture from S. Trig hidden behind wall on approach. | Minto | 04/01/2014 |
Easy along signposted track from South. Decent view of the mist-shrouded Eildons. | agentmancuso | 16/07/2011 |
Parked at bend in road. Sign pointing the way up | chrisbien | 19/06/2010 |
Bagging the trigpoint so Hump was a bonus. | andy | 11/07/2008 |
Pasture, just N of trig. Track from S, park at start. | RHW | 23/07/2006 |
wrose | 13/10/2023 | |
Matt | 14/09/2022 | |
Tricky | 13/11/2021 | |
Berkscire874 | 22/01/2021 | |
Crumblie2 | 05/02/2020 | |
PeterAH | 05/12/2019 | |
beckybags | 03/12/2019 | |
A Peckish | 03/12/2019 | |
Tom Mundell | 17/02/2019 | |
Trekking toes | 17/02/2019 | |
Adrian | 30/12/2018 | |
AndyS | 25/12/2017 | |
Paul and Terri | 08/10/2017 | |
carole engel | 04/09/2017 | |
thelonious | 27/05/2017 | |
Rowan | 29/04/2017 | |
Laurel | 29/04/2017 | |
irobbo | 19/11/2015 | |
Alan Whatley | 31/10/2015 | |
silverhow | 26/10/2015 | |
mae | 25/10/2015 | |
richtea5040 | 11/11/2014 | |
iaindbrown | 09/11/2013 | |
Sherlock | 09/11/2013 | |
chalky1953 | 21/07/2013 | |
Kiltie | 22/05/2013 | |
Martin R | 20/04/2013 | |
alda | 13/04/2013 | |
KRae | 02/01/2012 |