My (obsessive) ambition

Quoted message said:

Trouble is, would this leave me with nothing else to live for? :-)

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439
Nuttalls - 0%

to go

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42/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
442/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

What about your life long hobby of cairn bashing? Haven't
you demolished a 1000 yet?

Jhimmy.

Martin Richardson said:

As you can see from my signature I now have 45 Munros to go
- I reckon this will take me a couple of years. So will
probably try to finish on my birthday in June 2006 with the
traditional Ben More, Mull.

However, I am also thinking of trying to bag one of the
Donald/Graham/Marilyns on the way home the next day

What happens if the celebration goes on a bit? Or are you
still on the waggon?
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the
"Westminster Gasworks"
95/284 5/219 c.100/300 (>900m with drop>100m )

In message <[email hidden]>, Jhimmy
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

Trouble is, would this leave me with nothing else to live
for? :-)

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439
Nuttalls - 0%

to go

Quoted message said:

42/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
442/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

What about your life long hobby of cairn bashing? Haven't
you demolished a 1000 yet?

'Tis a pity I've not kept count. No idea how many I've
removed and continue to remove whenever I can.

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

In message
<[email hidden]>, Phil Cook
<[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

Martin Richardson said:

As you can see from my signature I now have 45 Munros to
go - I reckon this will take me a couple of years. So will
probably try to finish on my birthday in June 2006 with
the traditional Ben More, Mull.

However, I am also thinking of trying to bag one of the
Donald/Graham/Marilyns on the way home the next day

What happens if the celebration goes on a bit? Or are you
still on the waggon?

Yes. But others are welcome to get [censored] for me. Doesn't
literally have to be the very next day - but the same
weekend would be cool.

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

Martin Richardson said:

Trouble is, would this leave me with nothing else to live
for? :-)

There are other countries with hills...

Paul
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In message <[email hidden]>, Paul Saunders
<[email hidden]> writes

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Martin Richardson said:

Trouble is, would this leave me with nothing else to live
for? :-)

There are other countries with hills...

Groan. Look it is expensive enough without adding ferry or
flight costs to weekend walks.

I'll still have the Welsh and southern England Dewey 500s;
the under 400m Marilyns in Wales; the Corbetts and Marilyns
north of the Highland Fault. Or if I get desperate - finish
off the Dewey notables.

Or move address - everything within 200k of, say, Pitlochry
would have me looking for the longevity pills.

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

In article <[email hidden]>, [email hidden]

.co.uk (Martin Richardson) said:

Trouble is, would this leave me with nothing else to live
for? :-)

The Corbetts ... and have you done all 113 peaks with 2,000
ft prominence in the UK?

Following up to Martin Richardson

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Trouble is, would this leave me with nothing else to
live for? :-)

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/? Himalayans - 100% to go

you said it :-)
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In message
<[email hidden]>, Rob Milne
<[email hidden]> writes

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In article <[email hidden]>,

.co.uk (Martin Richardson) said:

Trouble is, would this leave me with nothing else to live
for? :-)

The Corbetts ... and have you done all 113 peaks with 2,000
ft prominence in the UK?

I've thought of the Corbetts. What are the 113 peaks - and
then I'll tell you? I'm intrigued. Do they all involve a
long drive from my home in Yorkshire?

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

In message <[email hidden]>, The
Reids <[email hidden]> writes

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Following up to Martin Richardson

Quoted message said:

Trouble is, would this leave me with nothing else to live
for? :-)

Quoted message said:

/? Himalayans - 100% to go

you said it :-)

:-)

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

In message <[email hidden]>, Paul
Saunders <[email hidden]> writes

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Jhimmy said:

Don't you mean taking blackmail photos for future
monetery gains? Tut tut, Paul, how could you!

Hey, that's an idea! I suspect that cairn demolishing
photographs are quite rare. Do you think there's much
demand for them? Do you think Martin will sign a model
release form or should I blur him or take the shots from
angles which don't show his face?

I've not had a shave for four weeks - so there is an element
of a disguise at present. However, since when is cairn
removal something that is morally or legally wrong - and
hence how could I be blackmailed. Not like unfortunate
pictures involving sheep - but I deny that story.

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

In message <[email hidden]>, Paul Saunders
<[email hidden]> writes

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AC said:

I live Upper hill - but I generally drive up it

I've driven over Townhill in Swansea many times but never
actually walked up to the summit. I've walked over it a
number of times but never specifically to the actual
summit, usually missing it by a few hundred yards.

Wherever I have lived I have always been to the top of every
hill within the borough - regardless. How could you resist
the summit of Townhill - are there any cairns there?

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

In message <[email hidden]>, Paul Saunders
<[email hidden]> writes

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Martin Richardson said:

Quoted message said:

Do you think Martin will sign a model release form or
should I blur him or take the shots from angles which
don't show his face?

However, since when is cairn removal something that is
morally or legally wrong - and hence how could I be
blackmailed.

Never said there was anything wrong with it, merely that if
your face was clearly recognisable I'd need you to sign a
model release form in order to sell it, and you might
decide that you were due a share of my sale!!!

If there's money involved - then lets go build some cairns
for me to demolish and get earning.

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Quoted message said:

Not like unfortunate pictures involving sheep - but I
deny that story.

Now there's probably a market for those! How much would the
tabloids pay me for such a pic?

Denials all round.

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

In message <[email hidden]>, Paul
Saunders <[email hidden]> writes

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Martin Richardson said:

Wherever I have lived I have always been to the top of
every hill within the borough - regardless. How could
you resist the summit of Townhill - are there any
cairns there?

No, but there's a housing estate. There's also a police
station within a few dozen yards, a speed camera and
traffic lights outside a school (and the traffic lights
have an annoying habit of turning red *every* time I
approach - only for a few seconds, then they turn back to
green - I suspect they are automatically triggered by the
approach of cars).

I'm not entirely sure if the summit is on the road or
underneath the house right next to it. Would I need to
climb up onto their roof to make sure?

You could touch the roof with your walking pole.

--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

In article <[email hidden]>, Roger
<[email hidden]> writes

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The message
<[email hidden]> from
[email hidden] (Rob Milne) contains these words:

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and have you done all 113 peaks with 2,000 ft prominence
in the UK?

Stewart Hinsley has a list of 111 hills
(meden.demon.co.uk600m ht.htmlOpen ↗) with
reascent of over 600m but that includes 23 in Ireland and
one on The Isle of Man so what is on your list but not his?

I've done the 4 in England and the 7 in Wales but only
about 52 of the 75 Scottish ones.

I would have thought my list would have been
superseded by now.
--
Stewart Robert Hinsley

In message <[email hidden]>, Adrian Tupper
<[email hidden]> writes

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And, IMO, the only non-subjective list of all. All the
others require arbitrary thresholds like 3000' or 150m
somewhere in their definitions. Yours, in theory, ranks
*all* summits from Ben Nevis to a sandcastle. I assume
the 600m was a way of preventing yourself from speanding
a lifetime classifying every summit in the UK.

Not sure how this list is any more objective than the
Marilyn list. Stewart's reascent criteria is arbitrarily
600m - Alan Dawson's criteria is arbitrarily 150m. And there
is a Marilyn list available for Ireland, if the point you
were making that the Dawson list does not cover the whole
British Isles.

And I don't see any sandcastles in the list - now if there
were, I could get back to list-ticking more locally (not
sure the kids would be happy with me jumping on them wearing
four season boots).

Mind you I'm not very technical - so I may have missed
the point.
--
Martin Richardson
239/284 Munros - 15% to go 34/34 'Furths' & 439/439 Nuttalls
- 0% to go
240/89 Donalds - 53% to go 0/? Himalayans - 100% to go
241/1552 Marilyns - 72% to go

The message <[email hidden]>
from [email hidden] (Rob Milne) contains these words:

Quoted message said:

and have you done all 113 peaks with 2,000 ft prominence
in the UK?

Stewart Hinsley has a list of 111 hills
(meden.demon.co.uk600m ht.htmlOpen ↗) with
reascent of over 600m but that includes 23 in Ireland and
one on The Isle of Man so what is on your list but not his?

I've done the 4 in England and the 7 in Wales but only about
52 of the 75 Scottish ones.

--
Roger Chapman so far this year 27 summits New - 16 (Marilyns
4, Sweats 1, Outlying Fells 11) Repeats - 11( Marilyns 2,
Sweats 6, Wainwrights 11) Knackered knee - 3 times

Martin Richardson said:

Quoted message said:

What about your life long hobby of cairn bashing? Haven't
you demolished a 1000 yet?

'Tis a pity I've not kept count. No idea how many I've
removed and continue to remove whenever I can.

Gives him something to do while I'm taking photos!

Paul
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Martin Richardson said:

Quoted message said:

There are other countries with hills...

Groan. Look it is expensive enough without adding ferry or
flight costs to weekend walks.

You could always emigrate.

Quoted message said:

I'll still have the Welsh and southern England Dewey 500s;
the under 400m Marilyns in Wales; the Corbetts and
Marilyns north of the Highland Fault. Or if I get
desperate - finish off the Dewey notables.

Or move address - everything within 200k of, say,
Pitlochry would have me looking for the longevity pills.

Why not just climb every hill in Britain, of any size,
whether it's on a list or not? Why not compile such a list?
Could be the biggest hill list ever.

Paul
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