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I think it is an accurate statement, as far as it goes. Perhaps it fails to acknowledge historical nuance. As far as I recall the SMC changed their own ground rules regarding Donalds a few years ago - altering from accepting the Donald summits as a "compleation" to requiring the Tops as w...

The SMC has dictated that to compleat (sic) the Donalds to their satisfaction you need to ascend all the Donalds and Donald Tops. I'm not an expert on anything, but Donalds and the people who have climbed them has long been perhaps my main interest in terms of hill research, and I don't think what'...

There's been a couple of doses of snow already - I was out in a reasonable amount (not heaps, but more than a dusting) above 900m on some of the Lawers Munros on 16 October. I took an axe but never used it. Skies cleared and all sorts of things to the north were white on their upper third. There was...

was the hydro track there when you did Chabhair ? I used that track to great effect a few years back before heading over a bit of a bog fest towards the ridge The hydro track was pretty new when I had the Caisteal/Chabhair day in Oct 2016 - part of the reason I went to those hills was to have a loo...

I've done this quite a few times over the years, first in Oct 1985 and most recently in Oct 2016 (oddly on 23 Oct both times). Various other visits in between, sometimes all three Munros, sometimes just Caisteal/Chabhair, sometimes five or all seven. There certainly used to be a thin path on at leas...

If you'd not doubled back on yourself after Carn a'Tuirc but instead dropped down to the road you could have added on Carn Aosda & The Cairnwell for about the same amount of effort. (Have done this before and theres even a path if you look hard enough) Beat me to it - I was about to say the sam...

Found today, a pair of gaiters in good nick on an Ochils summit. Say what brand and what hill if you think they're yours.

you could have a scenario where somebody has climbed every munro 10 times apart from the Cairnwell which they haven't climbed at all. That would give a quotient of 281/2529 which equals 0.11 If that person then climbs the Cairnwell 10 times in 1 day they have then completed 10 different rounds on t...

I question how that is even possible. This kind of thing appears to be surprisingly common. Just from my own experience, over the years I've met people who were on Harrison Stickle (just below the top) which they thought was Bowfell, a bloke who was on Creag Gharbh the Graham south of Loch Tay who ...

I wonder if anyone has done all the same hills twice by (nearly) all the same routes... That might well have happened longer-term, although someone doing all 282 Munros just once by a particular route then all 282 again by the exact same route probably hasn't - if nothing else weather and underfoot...

I reckon if you make it to 100 with no repeats, that's starting to look suspicious! Another version of it (again quite common) is people who do a round of Munros during which they climb just two or three Corbetts, then immediately do a round of Corbetts during which they climb just two or three rep...

Well, I'm at 19/19 = 1, and I'm not hardcore at all! I don't think it works so well at the lower ends. No, although there will be people who are 282/282 = 1, and I seem to have come across lots of people who will be 0.95 or higher for a round. In a way the BQ idea works best and most logically for ...

I was in those parts again today - did a crossing from Blackford to Alva in very pleasant conditions (and encountering about half the field of the Ochil 2000s race when I was on the Ben Buck / Ben Cleuch stretch). I did the usual approach to Glen Bee then down towards the northwestern arm of the res...

WalkWithWallace wrote:Interesting, I got Anne to put through her stats and she got:

1410+233/1913 = 1.410

Which would suggest I'm more of a bagger than her, which isn't the case.

Something wrong there, surely? 1643 divided by 1913 comes to 0.86. One's BQ can't be more than 1.

Going by that calculation, mine currently is (282+105)/404 = 0.95. That doesn't really mean anything. :? Surely it would be more realistic to divide your current Munro count with your number of trips to get an average of Munros bagged per trip. So for example mine would be 282 / 135 = 2.088 Munros ...

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