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I decided to do these two hills together and set off from Little Vantage on a warm sunny day
It's quite an impressive view looking up to the pass between the two hills. One can well imagine the drovers slight trepidation as they wondered what (or who) might we waiting for them in the wilds beyondLooking L to Scald Law and its neighbours in the distanceThe track is very well maintained with board walks across all the ditches - though they were unneccessary today as the ground was very dry. After descending the first field the track heads into a section of recently planted trees - not yet on the mapThe bridge over the burn at the low pointView from the bridge Across the bridge a herd of cows and calves were grazing on the farmland. I talked nicely to them and they ambled away. I guess they must be used to walkers by now. Beyond here the track becomes heathery and starts to climb gently.
Some views of West Cairn hill and Harperrig reservoir from the trackA close up of East Cairn hill - the top covered in scattered exotic pine trees 
The narrow path on the L climbs steeply up to East Cairn hill,, but I decided to do the slightly more remote West Cairn first and descend this wayFrom the same point the easy angled slopes to the passAt the pass I went through the gate and headed R along a fence and then a wall: the path was not always distinct and would clearly be boggy in wetter conditionsThe wall made a sharp R turn and the path became drier and more distinctThe summit of West Cairn is complicated by the junction of two fences - the trig point being separated from the summit cairn. A red flag waved above a notice warning you to keep out. I gathered later that there is a rifle range somewhere below
Detail of the noticeI returned the same way: looking down to the pass from the wall cornerFrom the pass the hills to the South I crossed to the North side and followed the path beside the fence up East Cairn hill Looking back down from near the topScald Law and co from the summit cairni was feeling quite tired by now, and in the strong wind couldn't be bothered to trog over to the slightly higher top around a km further East
. The same wind kept blowing my sunhat off, so I stuffed it in my pocket and descended the steep path back West. It headed straight down with no zig-zags and I found it quite hard work. At the bottom the sunhat was gone
but there was no way I was returning to look for it.
I returned to Little Vantage and drove home.
Two weeks later needing some exercise and feeling slightly guilty about omitting the high point I returned, but this time climbed the steep path to the 561m cairn, ambled over the boggy tract to the tiny cairn that marks the 567m summit, and returned the gentler way to the pass. I found this a much easier way to do the hill
Another view of Scald Law the Kips etc. from the 561 cairnAnd from the 567m oneSouth to Baddingsgill reservoir