The Hills is Lonely... or Are They? How busy are/were the Scottish Mountains? Between 1959-1978 a lady under the name of Lillian Beckwith wrote a light hearted series of books about life on the Hebrides. The first was called “The Hills is Lonely” ... I have borrowed the title, as its a good title for what I wish to write about... My topic for today, is about the density of walkers you may come across on the Scottish Hills. It includes some observations from 1980 up

Over 70 years of climbing there are only a handful of days where we failed to meet our Summit. But there were some... where the weather or map-reading errors serve as a lesson, even for hardened climbers... Most notably:- 1. Ben Griam Mor and Ben Griam Beg (not even Grahams). 2. Am Faochagach (a Munro). 3. Cruach nan Capull, (a Graham) ... The Munro Am Faochagach... We stayed at the Aultguish Inn around 1985 shortly after they had started to operate a bunkhouse adjacent to th

As you draw closer to completing a round of the Scottish Munros, you will probably start wondering “What's next?”. How do we follow that? You will probably have very mixed feelings, with the excitement and achievement of having successfully completed a considerable challenge, and nagging doubts about how to fill all those hill days still to come.

Having completed a round of the Munros and also a round of the Corbetts and being a Chartered Accountant, I thought about the Statistics.... Over the years I naturally kept a brief diary of hills done, height gain, time taken, weather etc etc... One obvious question stuck out a mile...