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| Name: | Cairn Broadlands |
| Hill number: | 6058 |
| Height: | 852m / 2795ft |
| Parent (Ma): | 457 Lochnagar - Cac Carn Beag |
| County/UA: | Angus |
| Topographical area: | HE12 Lochnagar-mellon |
| SMC/RHB section: | 07A: Braemar to Montrose |
| Catchment: | South Esk |
| Class: | High Hills of Britain, Subsimm (HHB,sSim) |
| Grid ref: | NO 27101 77747 |
| Summit feature: | small embedded rock 24m SSE of cairn |
| Drop: | 27.6m |
| Col: | 824.4m NO 2669 7757  |
| OS map sheet(s): | (1:50k) 44 (1:25k) OL53N OL53S 388N 388S |
| Survey: | Leica Disto D510/Leica RX1250 |
| Comments: | summit measured as 852.0m |
| Change log: | show changes for this hill entry |
| GPS data: | show GPS entries for this hill |
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| Logged Descriptions (logged by 45 users) | By | Date of Ascent |
| 32km circuit from Glen Doll. 1/15. | PGCE | 24/02/2024 |
| Up forest tracks from just after Glen Doll visitor centre and a faint path, some windblown trees at upper reaches of forest. Hill 1/5, on to the the 2 Simms and 2 Sub-Simms and back down Jock's road. | NormanW | 26/07/2023 |
| From the Glen Doll CP, through a gate just before the Acharn road junction,to a very muddy track used to clear the wind blow devastation from the forest SE of the summit. The gate was padlocked, and no ongoing work today. Followed the track towards the top of the woods, then no track around some fallen tree debris near the top. Found the track along the top edge of the wood, then up on deer tracks (lots of stags roaring nearby) to the col, and NE to the summit. Great viewpoint over Moulzie. On to Craig Mellon. | LizH | 18/10/2022 |
| From Acharn, took forest track NE from start of Glendoll Lodge track, and followed up to forest edge, contouring W along forest edge to an old made path leading up to SE ridge of Cairn Broadlands, up to that summit, then along ridge top to Craig Mellon, Craig Damff, descended steeply NW to near 738m point, up slopes to Craigs of Loch Esk (including its E top), then round to Cairn Lunkard, mostly on a good track not marked on map, descended NW to Jock's Road and followed that back to Acharn | kdbennett | 10/08/2021 |
| Solo | HFB | 27/06/2021 |
| From the glen doll CP track and path to cairn broadlands, craig mellon, west corrie top, craig damff, criags of loch esk, cairn lunkard, crow craigies south top, sandy hillock, dog hillock, ferrowie, down the capel mounth path back to the CP. | robertphillips | 17/07/2020 |
| Solo. A varied day, beginning with climb up to Corrie Fee and then a circular walk up to Craig Mellon (866m) via Bachnagairn. | meltdiceburg | 17/08/2019 |
| From the visitor centre car park we followed the track alongside the west side of the burn towards Moulzie. Once out of the forest, from the bridge headed straight up to Cairn Broadlands, then easy walk to Craig Mellon (including the cairned top), over the ice and snow to West Corrie, and then SW to Craig Damff. The conditions were so good (no wind, lots of sunshine, easy-going snow) that we carried on over Cairn Damff, across Den of Altduthrie, and up the southern flank of Craigs of Loch Esk. From there it was a simple hop over to Crow Craigies (South Top) and a final summit at Cairn Lunkard. A snow-slide down to the Shelter and a homeward trek along the well constructed Jock's road through Glen Doll ended a superb day (about 6 hrs in total). | summitter | 18/03/2019 |
| Followed forest track and stalker's path as for Craig Mellon. | JohnW | 02/08/2017 |
| Track then good path almost to summit, but it's easy to miss start of path at NO 2796 7659 as the track carries on north along the firebreak. | alda | 13/09/2015 |
| Have climbed before | clashcityrocker | 03/12/2013 |
| With Craig Mellon: preferred Broadlands as the better viewpoint. cw circuit from Clova car park | RHW | 11/04/2004 |
| With Jim Mackintosh. Date guessed, but much snow and baby's bib round my neck in photo gives a good clue | bertbarnett123 | 17/03/1976 |
| interloper | 28/08/2024 | |
| govanah | 18/08/2024 | |
| Jenn | 18/08/2024 | |
| Dave McG | 14/07/2024 | |
| dave g | 18/05/2024 | |
| duchally | 17/07/2023 | |
| PeterAH | 18/10/2022 | |
| BaggerGutt | 02/11/2021 | |
| Tricky | 16/08/2021 | |
| richtea5040 | 04/06/2021 | |
| AndyS | 27/05/2021 | |
| Oik | 05/05/2021 | |
| Rannoch_Monkey | 06/02/2019 | |
| vgiorgio | 10/01/2019 | |
| Martin R | 27/10/2017 | |
| mae | 31/10/2016 | |
| Alan Whatley | 09/07/2016 | |
| Kiltie | 03/06/2016 | |
| Mudskipper | 30/08/2015 | |
| hill walker | 28/12/2014 | |
| Lorna S | 10/12/2011 | |
| PeteF | 25/06/2011 | |
| GaryJones | 01/01/2011 | |
| chalky1953 | 16/10/2009 | |
| Colin Crawford | 12/08/2009 | |
| fasgadh | 30/08/2008 | |
| KennyB | 13/06/1998 | |
| amblemark | 09/08/1997 | |
| Tony S | 04/12/1994 | |
| IainT | 02/04/1987 | |
| benarmine | 01/03/1985 | |
| eddieh | 11/08/1983 |