Brown Cow Hill

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Brown Cow Hill is the highest of the rolling, featureless moorland hills between Glen Gairn and Cock Bridge. It offers great solitude and emptyness.

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Region: Cairngorms

Altitude: 829 metres

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Detailed route description and map

Brown Cow Hill circular from Cock Bridge

Other routes and challenges

The above route is the shortest, but the rolling heathery terrain permits an ascent from any direction. Other options include via Glen Gairn and Corndavon Lodge, or from Loch Builg - a very remote place on a tributary of the River Avon.

Panoramic summit view (click to open)

Users' walk reports for Brown Cow Hill

There are 1194 Walkhighlanders who have climbed Brown Cow Hill. They have contributed 20 public walk reports including this summit. These are ordered below with the most popular ones first. The rightmost column shows how many summits were included in their report, which may help you to find the most relevant reports.

Walk report	Author	Date walked	Likes	Hills
Zombie Apocalypse at The Lecht	weaselmaster	17/5/15	8	C5
Joy on Brown Cow Hill	dogplodder	15/10/21	6	C1
Lochbuilg Lodge and Brown Cow Hill	go spazieren	14/1/25	5	C1
How Now? Ben Avon to Brown Cow	weaselmaster	4/7/21	5	M2C1
Grim Biscuits	weaselmaster	11/8/19	4	C6
Brown Cow Hill, taking the wrong turning again, beware!	The Rodmiester	19/2/17	4	C1
A trip to the north eastern hills	rockhopper	17/7/16	3	C10
Brown Cow Hill	Auld Bagger	3/7/22	2	C1
2 heathery lumps - Brown Cow Hill and Carn Easalaid	gld73	3/8/21	2	C2
Brown Coo and an overdose of heather....	Jaxter	6/8/18	2	C2
Brown Cow Hill On A Sunny Night	Gordie12	27/6/16	2	C1
Brown Cow Hill from Braenaloin	Johnny Corbett	7/10/12	2	C1
Brown Cow Hill - the white world	BlackPanther	19/3/11	2	C1
Brown Cow and Kids on Brown Cow Hill	WalkingWithKids	27/8/22	1	C1
Spring has arrived, time for a Brownie ;p	BlackPanther	23/3/19	1	C1
Brownie Points	Yorjick	4/12/16	1	C1
Brown [and white] Cow Hill	Lastofthesummerwine	9/1/12	1	C1
Glen Avon and some Eastern hills	malky_c	16/5/10	1	C3
Brown Cow Hill, following in Gordie's footsteps	The Rodmiester	1/7/16	0	C1
A final fling in the eastern Gorms - Day 1 (The warm-up)	Graeme D	13/8/10	0	C2

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