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So, how many Munros have you been to the top of?
Have you compleated?
When?
Me - 8 years ago. #4721
I honestly don't know. Around 50 maybe? I have never bothered recording them - which has led to me twice going up the drumochter munros in winter in bad weather 'cos the folk I was with wanted to tick them off the list! Described as something like "dull hills with substandard views"!
I very much do0ubt I ill ever compleat
Done about 60 odd probably.
Doubtful I'd ever compleat, as I return to the ones I like multiple times.
Double figures on the Saddle for instance, An Teallach lots, Wyvis lots as it's close by.
I recently counted about 30, which was more thane expected. it nearly got me excited to start making an effort to do more...
About 20 left so should finish this year in time for my 40th. Heading up there in May to mop up the remaining ones I need down the West side, finishing up on Knoydart. Then it's just the 6 at Ben Alder left which should hopefully come later in the summer.
My wife is already getting worried that I'll be announcing intentions to start on the Corbetts next!
Munros 5
Corbetts: 1
Grahams: 2
Sub 2000: 4
Donalds 10
New to this walking up and down a hill without a bike lark so I've got a long way to go. Tend to spend more time in the Borders Hills as that's where I need to be familiar.
16 Munros,started counting again a couple of years ago and hopefully a few more this year too. Not a bagger as such but I'd read something that said it's a good guide and that's what I'm using it for. Mind you I live just across from Arran and the hills there are as good as any.
Munros 0
Corbetts 1
Won’t get any further as my leg doesn’t allow me to traverse anything remotely rough, or steep.
Take any chance you get to enjoy them i say.
Ive done a few but no interest in ticking them off as I'm a fair weather walker, no view from the top then I would head somewhere else, can't be arsed with too long a drive so its Perthshire Angus Cairngorms Glencoe and a wee bit Lochaber. On a good day it can be cracking
Munros - 1
summits - quite a few
cols - lots
really ought to get the Munro count up a bit, rather than Marilyn (a whopping 6), Wainright (42), etc.
No intention of doing a complete round of any, but just remembering which ones I've done, which are worthy of repeat visits, and which are proper boring and not worth doing at all (either by bike of by foot).
Somewhere between 65 & 70, can't quite remember the exact number but it's just about a quarter of the total. Only taken me forty years to get that lot done!
Tend to have sporadic bouts of Munro bagging then nowt for a couple of years. The early ticks were associated with climbing, usually winter climbing, so: Ben Nevis; Buachaille Etive Mor; Creag Meaghaidh; etc.
There's a lot of (very) boring Munros and a lot of very good sub-3000' hills/mountains. A couple of years ago I headed up Conival (the one by Ben More Assynt), not a bad hill in itself but when you look south and west there's all those fantastic hills like Quinaig; Suilven; Stac Pollaidh that aren't Munros.
completed mine just before I turned 30, which I was quite chuffed with. #1122.
My dad finished his in 1984, was #321.
[ oh, and I finished off on Beinn Alligin, in October, winter conditions, kind of fitting as it was also my first Munro, aged about 9 months (in a full on canvas and metal backpack).
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29 so far, started in Nov 2017. Can't see me completing a full round, but it provides some good options.
About 400 🙂
1992
I shall toast Sir Hugh this evening.
I remember that day. Well, some of it..
Just over 100. Aiming to finish them at some point but suspect that's still at least a decade away.
I've done exactly 200 (of which 30 odd on a bike), got a bit more keen in the last few years since I gave up rock climbing. My mrs has done more but could only complete the Cuillin if she were carried up blindfold, strapped into a stretcher...
172 munros and 19 Corbetts.
As a proportion of the total I'm probably closer to completing a round of the MBA bothies 😆
Taking a couple of years off though, have lost the magic a bit, think I overdid it a bit pre-baby.
Getting my kicks 'ticking' new roads in Fife and the Central Belt on the road bike, and looking forward to getting into some of the bigger Trossachs and Perthshire Glens on the gravel bike. Strava heatmap replacing the Walkhighlands pin board!
I never set out to do all the Munros but the effort of ticking them off certainly got me back into hillwalking post-baby and took me to places I'd likely not have visited otherwise. Of course, once you get past half way and start counting down instead of up the incentive only increases.
Ian - if you are looking for a way of ticking off stuff on a road bike, you might want to look at Veloviewer.
Thanks Colin, I said Strava heatmap but it's actually Veloviewer I use, quite possibly on a previous recommendation of yours!
Hmm. Maybe time for another Veloviewer thread... 😁
Compleated 1996 on Ben Lomond.
Compleated again 2017 on Ben More (Mull).
I don't quite know how it's happened, but I seem to be more than half way through my third round. Perhaps it's just because I love being on and around the Scottish hills.
I’ve done exactly 200 too. Rate slowed a lot after wee ones arrived - at current rate I’ll not complete until I’m about 100. But the kids are now getting just about big enough to go up them...fingers crossed they want to.
I'm on about 190. Must've done Cairngorm 50 times and Ben Nevis at least 30 though! Suspect I will complete at some point but it's not a priority right now.
Had this conversation with Scotroutes before, but I have done approx 600 Munros ( been doing them since I was 6) I have done 276 DIFFERENT ones...so for me; 5 to go.😉 In the tradition of mentioning our Dads, mine compleated in the 80's and curmudgeonly old bugger that he is, wouldn't let us put it through till his 60th. I love meeting the professional baggers in the pubs and during their bunkhouse takeovers who tell me how quickly they have done their first hundred. Most have never kipped in an old doss,or even seen a brokken spectre, or worse; gone back to a previously climbed hill.
@duckman - I suppose if you basically just fell walk then such a list can become an obsession, not too few in number that there's no "challenge" but not so many that it's a near impossible task.
Many of my early ones were incidental to other activities but even some of my more recent ones like the western Fannaichs and Seanna Braigh still had the thought in the back of my head that I'd never seen particular crags hidden away in the coires. I've got some ski mountaineering kit that hasn't been used for years which may make some of the less interesting ones a bit more fun.
Brocken Spectres are one of those things that a lot of people just don't notice. When I did the Aonach Eagach we had a Brocken Spectre plus glory all the way along the ridge.
The Japanese TV connection to my compleation is that author Kyūya Fukada wrote tales of his 100 favourite mountains. The book became a best seller in Japan and folk started to tick them off. It has attracted a similar scene to Munro bagging and there have been similar tales of folk going out unprepared etc. Although only one person's opinion, the list is not predicated on height alone. An equivalent Scottish list might be found in Ralph Storers books and would then include Suilven etc.
I love meeting the professional baggers in the pubs and during their bunkhouse takeovers who tell me how quickly they have done their first hundred. Most have never kipped in an old doss,or even seen a brokken spectre, or worse; gone back to a previously climbed hill.
It's vital in any activity to find another group of participants one can look down on...
Still, glad to hear you did your round the right way. 😉
Whitestone, Seanna Briagh is one I have to do and will this Summer, lets me bike in a good way as well. Other than that, two of the three across from the Cluanie (filthy weather/hangover) Angels Peak ( it was late to the party, I have walked around it.) One at the Braemore Junction (better days to be had there) I think Ben Lomond is the one I will leave out, never fancied it. I have been picking off sections of the SNT each Summer hols and camping, visiting local attractions etc, taking my time.
I’ve got some ski mountaineering kit that hasn’t been used for years which may make some of the less interesting ones a bit more fun.
When all I did was climb I hardly ever did a new Munro. Since starting skiing and running I've done loads more.
I think I've done about 40, I know I'll never complete them as you'll never get me up the In Pin...
Still like to try and do a couple a year if I can.
For someone with no head for heights, the Inn Pin was by no means the worst. We climbed up the face and abseiled off 😉
My dad has no head for heights but managed the inn pin. My dad is also a compleatist.
@duckman - getting in to remote Munros was the primary reason I got my hardtail. I used it for everything else but that for four years! Seana Braigh's a good 'un especially if you do the Creag an Duine ridge. I think there's a walker's car park at Corriemulzie Lodge these days.
I'm trying to work my way down from the north, just have two: Am Faochagach and Ben Wyvis, to do north of the Inverness to Ullapool road. Looking at the map and Google Earth there looks to be a landrover/quad bike track a good way up the former to about 830m.
Spin, your attempt to score or make some point is kind of diluted by a) I haven't completed and never intend to. b) If you are contributing to this thread you would probably also/should know that there are(currently) 282 NOT the 281 I allude to.
Whitestone, I was the same, a few years back we had parts stripped off bikes at Derry lodge, brakes and a rear shock. I bought a sacrificial junker of a Kona ( hope I can single out Kona without incurring Spins wrath) but you know how things are...can't risk a mechanical/steel is comfier/29 rolls better. Doing the Barra half at the end of June and going after, we are going to camp and do it via the ridge, if you have gone that far you might as well enjoy it.
Am Faochagach I remember as being really, really, boggy early on. And 6 years ago, I can't remember a decent track.
For someone with no head for heights, the Inn Pin was by no means the worst.
Oh well I'm even less likely to complete them 😆
135 different ones for me. Of those i've done many ascents of the showy ones, like An teallach, the cuillin, Torridon, and vast swathes of the central highlands and grampians have been left alone. No new ones for about 10 years, living in Yorkshire, family etc cramps the long hill days style a bit. Retirement should see a burst of enthusiasm and might do them all by my 70th!
Sir Hugh didn't complete them mind...
I've been sat close to 200 for a few years now, as other 'stuff' just gets in the way (in a good way). I think I'm keener to run, ride or ski as many of the remainder as I can - some of the long approach walks can be a little dull.
2 or 3 maybe, not really interested, even on a bike.
Why "compleat" not "complete"?
Pleat as in pleat of a kilt? I think that's why.
Alternative spelling. I don't know which spelling the monroists generally use or why but "the compleat angler" is an old book where I first found this spelling. As scotroutes used compleat I guessed thats the monroists term hence I used it
226 done, so slightly fewer than 60 left. However, at the recent rate of 3 or 4 a year, I'll likely be well into my 70s, so I might have to pick things up a bit. The other main problem is that my mate Trevor compleated in 2014, and has also done all the tops now too... so whenever we head north of the border, we're tending towards the Corbetts now which he's working through.
Bikes have been used on approaches a few times, but we often aim to include a night out wild camping, so taking them up & over hasn't been tried yet as we're carrying plenty of kit as it is. But we see tracks much more frequently these days, implying someone's at it a lot of the time (hello Scotroutes and Munrobiker, I guess)
Maybe it was a typo in the first ever report? When...slip of the chisel on the stone tablet then.
Hmm, well getting up Beinn nan Aighenan has suddenly taken on a new urgency, have yet to explore the glens and rivers on the Glen Etive side of Starav, best do it soon before they start driving hydro tracks up them 🙁
I love meeting the professional baggers in the pubs and during their bunkhouse takeovers who tell me how quickly they have done their first hundred. Most have never kipped in an old doss,or even seen a brokken spectre, or worse; gone back to a previously climbed hill.
I totally agree these sad losers that have only done 100 Munros deserve your scorn. Can I just check one thing though, I presume you ridicule them to their faces instead of hiding behind a keyboard?
Not the point I was making on a thread about enjoying them rather than just ticking them off, hence the last sentence. But take it out of context to (try and) ridicule me from behind a keyboard if you like. Thanks for taking the time, there is another INDY thread for you to try and derail, so I realise you are probably busy over there.
Not the point I was making
If that's the case then you need to work on how you express yourself because that's how I understood your comment too.
That's ok Spin, it obviously gives you something to do.
Currently on 213, having added Beinn Avon, Beinn a Chaorainn and Beinn Bhreac a couple of weekends ago, split by an overnight in Faindouran Lodge bothy. Current rate of progress is limited to a couple of trips a year, but still love the isolation and the chance of an amazing weather day at pretty much any point in the year. Will finish one day, but still a long way to go....