A cairn is a pile of stones which marks a boundary, a route across rough ground, or the top of a mountain. A cairn is sometimes also built in memory of someone. A mound of stones erected as a memorial or marker.cairned adj. a pile of stones that marks a particular place, especially at the top of a mountain (carn)
A pile of stones heaped up as a landmark, to guide travelers on land or at sea, or to arrest attention, as in surveying, or in leaving traces of an exploring party, etc
a pile of stones, commonly used to mark the summit of a hill, or the route up a hill carn/cairn - a cairn, heap of stones; a hill of this shape, as in Cairn Bannoch or Carn Dearg clach - a stone cnap - a little hill, a knob, a lump cnoc - a hillock or smallish hill coire - a corrie col - a pass (see pass) contouring - walking across a hillside so as to keep at that same height, as if walking on a contour line contour line - line on map drawn through places of same height Corbetts, The - list of Scottish mountains over 2500 feet in height but under 3000 feet with a re-ascent of 500 feet on all sides The list was first compiled by Mr J Rooke Corbett There are 220 Corbetts cornice - a consolidated snow bank projecting over the edge of a ridge, plateau or corrie, and formed by prevailing winds corrie - circular hollow on hillside creag - a rock or a crag crevasse - a crack in the surface of a glacier cruach - a stack-shaped hill