TR - Grey Corries

On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 22:10:50 +0100, "theo" <[email hidden]>

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"Stuart" <[email hidden]> schreef in bericht
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....., produce your list and the group will decide
what hills on your "Done List" should be demoted to "Yet to do"

Please don't go *democratic*. A man has got to do what a man has got to do.
And if some people don't agree with his list, then that's bad luck for them.

It's entirely personal, as you say. But I'd be a bit dismissive of
someone who claimed to have climbed Snowdon if they started where the
transport system stopped...

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Rooney said:

It's entirely personal, as you say. But I'd be a bit dismissive of
someone who claimed to have climbed Snowdon if they started where the
transport system stopped...

A friend's mother (aged 70) was delighted to have climbed Snowdon from
the summit station. But I do agree with the essence of your post.
However, I would like to assert that an ascent of a Munro from a
bealach with another Munro is always valid and thus my second ascent
of Aonach Mor, however much a 'gentle bimble', was a valid bag. For
this not to be the case, a traverse of the Cullin would only count as
one tick.

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A friend's mother (aged 70) was delighted to have climbed Snowdon from
the summit station. But I do agree with the essence of your post.
However, I would like to assert that an ascent of a Munro from a
bealach with another Munro is always valid and thus my second ascent
of Aonach Mor, however much a 'gentle bimble', was a valid bag. For
this not to be the case, a traverse of the Cullin would only count as
one tick.

You can assert as much as you like but as far as I am concerned you
logic is irredeemably faulty. But as I have said before it is your
conscience. If you want to hire a helicopter to give yourself an easy
passage up the rest for the Munros go ahead. By your rules return to the
landing site from an adjacent top will automatically validate the ascent
of the summit you landed on. The only thing you will devalue is
yourself. The SMC won't ask for validation when you claim your position
as number 10000 on the list.

--
Roger Chapman so far this year 17 summits
New - 11 (Marilyns 0, Sweats 1, Outlying Fells 10)
Repeats - 6 (Marilyns 1, Sweats 2, Wainwrights 6, Outlying Fells 0)

Roger said:

The message <[email hidden]>
from C L Imber <[email hidden]> contains these words:

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A friend's mother (aged 70) was delighted to have climbed Snowdon from
the summit station. But I do agree with the essence of your post.
However, I would like to assert that an ascent of a Munro from a
bealach with another Munro is always valid and thus my second ascent
of Aonach Mor, however much a 'gentle bimble', was a valid bag. For
this not to be the case, a traverse of the Cullin would only count as
one tick.

You can assert as much as you like but as far as I am concerned you
logic is irredeemably faulty.... ...The only thing you will devalue is
yourself. The SMC won't ask for validation when you claim your position
as number 10000 on the list.

You can probably add another 0 in there Roger, they have come a long
way since number 400.

--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

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A friend's mother (aged 70) was delighted to have climbed Snowdon from
the summit station. But I do agree with the essence of your post.
However, I would like to assert that an ascent of a Munro from a
bealach with another Munro is always valid and thus my second ascent
of Aonach Mor, however much a 'gentle bimble', was a valid bag. For
this not to be the case, a traverse of the Cullin would only count as
one tick.

A good ploy is to try and do them all as singles... You dont need to
go down again after one, just repeat ones in groups..
7 south sheil ridge days or a couple on Ben More and Stobinien.....

One for a post completion project and I am half heartedly following
it...

Richard Webb

ne tick.

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You can assert as much as you like but as far as I am concerned you
logic is irredeemably faulty. But as I have said before it is your
conscience. If you want to hire a helicopter to give yourself an easy
passage up the rest for the Munros go ahead. By your rules return to the
landing site from an adjacent top will automatically validate the ascent
of the summit you landed on. The only thing you will devalue is
yourself. The SMC won't ask for validation when you claim your position
as number 10000 on the list.

You may have cheated yourself in one way.. but what fun....!

Not that I am advocating noisy choppers on joy rides.

As a Yeaman bagger (OK too many and I dont climb 5b for the Old Man of
How, but I'll try for a few).... Stack of HAnda by Tyrolean? Legit?

Richard Webb - still one of the thousands that share 284 in the list.

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The SMC won't ask for validation when you claim your position
as number 10000 on the list.

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You can probably add another 0 in there Roger, they have come a long
way since number 400.

They have indeed but not anywhere approaching 100,000. I would expect
the latest number issued is probably around the 3400-3500 mark.

--
Roger Chapman so far this year 17 summits
New - 11 (Marilyns 0, Sweats 1, Outlying Fells 10)
Repeats - 6 (Marilyns 1, Sweats 2, Wainwrights 6, Outlying Fells 0)

Roger said:

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from Phil Cook <[email hidden]> contains these words:

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The SMC won't ask for validation when you claim your position
as number 10000 on the list.

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You can probably add another 0 in there Roger, they have come a long
way since number 400.

They have indeed but not anywhere approaching 100,000. I would expect
the latest number issued is probably around the 3400-3500 mark.

Have you been cheating by looking it up?
http://www.smc.org.uk/compleatists/compleatist_14a.htm

I wonder how many people have ascended at least one Munro and could
therefore claim to have a round on the go?
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster Gasworks"

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You can probably add another 0 in there Roger, they have come a long
way since number 400.

They have indeed but not anywhere approaching 100,000. I would expect
the latest number issued is probably around the 3400-3500 mark.

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Have you been cheating by looking it up?
http://www.smc.org.uk/compleatists/compleatist_14a.htm

Yes, but not there. 2004 SMC Journal (3119) plus that years total (235)
rounded up.

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I wonder how many people have ascended at least one Munro and could
therefore claim to have a round on the go?

My brother-in-law and I did The Ben by the Tourist Track in August 1961
(or more likely 1962) on a foul day. He got to the summit quicker than
me and beat me down as well (and I only took 3 hours 30 minutes). It was
my first Munro. It remains his only Munro.

It used to be said that there as at least as many unrecorded Munroists
as recorded by the SMC but now Munro bashing is not considered a
perversion most of those have probably come out of the woodwork by now.
There are usually a few late arrivals in the list every year. In the
latest Journal out of the 235 listed there are 9 from the 1990s and 2
from the 1980a. No 3101 finished only a year after I did. I wonder if I
ever met him. In my last few years most of the walkers I met (not very
many) seemed to be like myself on the final stretch.

--
Roger Chapman so far this year 17 summits
New - 11 (Marilyns 0, Sweats 1, Outlying Fells 10)
Repeats - 6 (Marilyns 1, Sweats 2, Wainwrights 6, Outlying Fells 0)