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| Name: | Cairn Hill |
| Hill number: | 7332 |
| Height: | 499m / 1637ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 1800 Windlestraw Law |
| RHB Section: | 28A: Firth of Forth to the River Tweed |
| Donald area: | Moorfoot Hills |
| County/UA: | Scottish Borders |
| Catchment: | Tweed |
| Class: | Tump (400-499m) (Tu,4) |
| Grid ref: | NT 36508 38654 |
| Summit feature: | cairn |
| Drop: | 50m |
| Col: | 449m NT364391  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 73 (1:25k) 337 |
| Observations: | ground to N is lower |
| Survey: | Abney level |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 41 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| Parked on Caberston Road, Walkerburn. Footpath behind cafe onto forest road to junction at Priesthope ruin. Continued on forest road to south ridge. Good path up through trees to summit. Solo. | Dangerous Dave | 09/01/2024 |
| Biked up the track from walkerburn then bike trail to the top. | robertphillips | 01/10/2023 |
| Parking just S of metal bridge over R Tweed in Walkerburn (NT361368). Lane adjacent to farm café shop N and up to Priesthope ruins. Forest track SE then steeply straight up S ridge of Cairn Hill. Thin FP in heather to Scawd Law. Angled down to East Grain (tough heather) to contour around south flank of Middle Hill to West Grain, then steeply up to col at Priesthope Sware. Steeply up to Priesthope Hill. MTB tracks down to and over Kirnie Law, down SW to bend in forest track NT342380. Followed this E to Purvis Hill – do not try and shortcut NE here down to Walkerburn – there is massive windblow | Isbjorn | 01/05/2023 |
| Parking on A72 just into entrance to new track (NT 3720 3769). Mapped track heading SW close to the road doesn't exist, followed new track heading NE then made it up, heading for a mapped break at NT 3681 3810 which was followed all the way to the top, although less than halfway along it deviated NNW so not meeting up with the mapped track as expected. Rough, steep ground. Here for the trig surface block, but happily bagging the hill too. | jonglew | 19/11/2022 |
| Revisit for trig, from SE | RHW | 19/11/2022 |
| Parked at Holylee. ATV track up to ridge from approx 375 390. Along ridge to Scawd Law. Back along ridge to Cairn Hill. Direct descent through mature trees to col and over Early Knowe to return. | PGCE | 16/03/2021 |
| A round of the Gatehopeknowe hills from the A72. Along the estate track to Kill Brae, startling several hundred partridge as we passed. Found a gate and ATV track NE of Pyat Hill which allowed a relatively easy climb to Early Knowe. North from here, alongside the thick forest through bracken and carex, to join the main route up to the dip between Scawd Law and Cairn Hill. Bagged both on pretty good footpaths before tackling Bareback Knowe and Windlestraw Law. A slight detour to Mossy Rig before re-joining the main ridge below Redscar Law. Headed home over Maiden Law, Seathope Law and Stony Knowe before re-joining the estate track at Kill Brae. A mix of stone track, ATV route and animal tracks throughout kept the heather and bracken bashing to a minimum. | summitter | 18/07/2020 |
| From Walkerburn through old mansion and fire break. | iangpark | 13/08/2019 |
| Bagging the OS bolt near the summit. Came up from Old Caberston and descent via Priesthope and the Walker Burn. | BigJ | 24/12/2018 |
| From Walkerburn out to Priesthope then forest tracks to Kirnie Law and on to Priesthope Hill. From there bit of a trudge out to Windlestraw Law picking up top on return and out over Scawd Law can Cairn Hill. Sun kept trying but never got there. | SS | 18/11/2018 |
| Ascended ridiculously steep slope to WSW of summit as had no better idea on how to get up thanks to limited sketch map and no (mobile) data. Would not advise unless particularly hardcore! Very overgrown 'path' that seems to go straight up for a very long time. | IainHillHunter | 03/02/2018 |
| Weather fair. | MountainMac | 05/11/2017 |
| From Early Knowe. I ignored the faint track slanting north and went directly up through the trees - reasonably problem free. All that remains of the mast is a breeze block ruin. Descent was by a muddy path to the south then a serene firebreak dropping to Walkerburn | Colin Crawford | 22/09/2017 |
| A round of Gate Hope: Stony Knowe, Seathope Law, Maiden Law, Windlestraw Law, Bareback Knowe, Scawd Law, Cairn Hill and Early Knowe. Pleasant walking on a day of swirling cloud and sun. Erno Rubik designed the gates hereabouts: don't even think of opening them with gloved hands. A coil of wire mesh at the corner of the wall at 370384 can be rolled back to gain access to the western slopes of Early Knowe. | Nick Down1 | 21/05/2017 |
| Windlestraw Law circuit | sam.g.guthrie | 20/04/2016 |
| Pleasant clockwise round of Priesthope Hill, Windlestraw SW Top, Scawd Law and Cairn Hill from Walkerburn. | agentmancuso | 29/09/2012 |
| Track from A72 nr Old Caberston. Track on map is hardly there. Track (more like path) through forest then along ridge to Scawd Law and back via Cairn Hill. | chrisbien | 21/07/2012 |
| cairn, good track from N along spine, descended NW, then W down good narrow ride. Standing on cairn with GPS at chest ht, failed to register >499m!. circuit from Walkerburn incl Windlestraw | RHW | 18/07/2010 |
| Walkhighlands route from Leithen Road CP with SHC. Excellent and straightforward route. | TRG318 | blank |
| FCL | 23/08/2023 | |
| dunx2005 | 07/04/2023 | |
| pnecelt | 02/04/2023 | |
| Matt | 02/03/2022 | |
| Graham Banks | 28/11/2020 | |
| Anton | 17/09/2020 | |
| AlanD | 16/08/2020 | |
| tenerifebilly | 15/07/2019 | |
| russell61 | 15/07/2019 | |
| Berkscire874 | 24/03/2019 | |
| hillhunter | 09/03/2019 | |
| Adrian | 29/12/2018 | |
| silverhow | 22/07/2016 | |
| mae | 20/05/2016 | |
| tomandivy | 12/10/2015 | |
| Moore100 | 27/04/2014 | |
| Andrew Simmons | 29/01/2012 | |
| Trailmaister | 05/09/2011 | |
| hughbagger | 28/08/2007 | |
| mainnirnamfiadh | 04/05/1968 | |
| Ennoch | blank | |
| gavinmcc | blank |