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Cairn Gorm

1245 m in Highland and Moray. The nearest trig pillar stands on Ben Macdui [Beinn Macduibh], 5.4 km away.

Height
1245 m
Drop
146 m
Position
57.11671, -3.64448
DoBIH number
525

The hill

The 6th highest in Scotland.

1245 m, with 146 m of drop — 1567th most prominent of the 2,342 hills on a list here. It is tall but not especially prominent: a high point on a bigger ridge rather than a hill standing alone. Classed as HuMP, Simm and Munro.

In the log book · page 173

The page for your Cairn Gorm day is already printed.

The top of the Cairn Gorm page in The Munros log book
The rest of the page is yours to fill in.

Its contours, height and rank, the three nearest Munros with their bearings, and the lines to fill in: the date, who was with you, the route, the weather, how it felt on top. One page for each of the 282, in a book that stays on the shelf long after the round is done.

A5 paperback · 282 hill pages · A gift for anyone with a round on the go

Summit pillar

No pillar on this summit.

The nearest stands on Ben Macdui [Beinn Macduibh], station PP302, 5.4 km away.

Ben Macdhui

Also on

One list.

Nearby

One pillar within ten kilometres.