An alternative look at the great outdoors...
This table depicts all my forays into the Scottish hills up to the date of my final Munro, 21st of July 2001. Apart from the first entry, where {} is a best guess, the following list is accurate in terms of the dates and the Munros but is often incomplete in terms of the recorded times. I have used n/r (not recorded) to denote this. Where a Munro is climbed for the first time its name is emboldened and the height, in feet, follows in brackets. Those Munros I climbed for a second, or even third, time are shown in italics. A peak that was formerly a Munro, but now demoted, is shown underlined. Some Munros took a few goes; for example An Stuc only yielded on the fourth attempt. For completeness I have included all abandoned attempts. Occasionally I recorded the departure times from a summit. I have denoted these by ‘Departed summit’. Where ‘Departed summit’ is not shown no assumption can be made that I left immediately. If it was a nice day I might have sat awhile, if poor weather I might only have stood on the summit, or crawl in high wind, for a matter of a second or so. Some of the memories have faded but the experience will forever be in my soul.