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Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and counting

Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby LobeyD » Tue Sep 15, 2020 4:56 pm

I fear it's only a matter of time before the 'I was conceived on a Munro summit, does that count?' post :shock: :D.
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby KeithS » Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:15 pm

Thanks for the feedback. It would appear that I have two options:

Option 1.
I've not got much planned for November so I could go for the quickest round. Does anyone know where I can hire a helicopter cheaply for a month? I'm not bothering walking, cycling, swimming, kayaking, or even inflatable lilo between them.
Helicopter straight from summit to summit! I don't see how that can be classed as cheating. Surely not.

Option 2.
Wait. And wait. And wait... until I am 85, although perhaps 86 just to make sure. Anyone fancy a compleation party in 2047? I'm not certain if the rules would discount me being carried up to the summit of An Teallach, either in a wheelchair or a box

rockhopper wrote:Ben Lomond...21.6.1986 and Slioch...23.7.2014
So, only 10,259 days :lol:

You'll have to learn to slow down mate, you'll give yourself a hernia racing around like that.
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gaffr wrote:Hello... 14,600 approximately for me 1959-1999.....Cairngorm with a finish on the upgraded Sgurr na Carnach.

That's more like it, steady as you go.

Regarding the changes over the past 40 years: No question about it. Far more paths which is a double edged sword. I do like to go off piste now and again and that is becoming harder, although certainly not impossible. I do still get some days on the hills without seeing anyone (not just because of cloud) but they are fewer and far between.

Sgurr wrote:I think people should post photos of themselves at the age they climbed their first and last Munro. This is husband 1966

Sgurr, if you seriously think I am going to post a picture of my hairstyle when I was 21 in 1981, then you have got another think coming! :lol:
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby KeithS » Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:30 pm

LobeyD wrote:I fear it's only a matter of time before the 'I was conceived on a Munro summit, does that count?' post :shock: :D.

Only accepted if accompanied by photographic evidence :shock:
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby CharlesT » Tue Sep 15, 2020 5:45 pm

KeithS wrote:
LobeyD wrote:I fear it's only a matter of time before the 'I was conceived on a Munro summit, does that count?' post :shock: :D.

Only accepted if accompanied by photographic evidence :shock:

Would that be a de-bagging then?🤔
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby akiggins » Wed Sep 16, 2020 7:55 pm

Ben Ime - 1981, 48.58% complete (apparently).Trying to get in the tougher one in the next few years before the knees go completely, and I have to mountain bike them. Off to the Fannichs this week to boost the numbers.
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby rohan » Wed Sep 16, 2020 10:29 pm

I must have met Sgurr and Hubby somewhere along the way. My first was Ben Lawers summer 1965 (I was 11), my last Aonach Mor 14th September 2003. roughly 13,950 days give or take a few days. I had only climbed 2 by the time I was 40, the 2nd being Lochnagar when I was 13/14. I am currently on track for being the slowest ( and possibly the oldest) person to complete the Scottish Watershed.
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby Lightfoot2017 » Thu Sep 17, 2020 10:37 pm

Loving this thread! :lol:

35 years so far (c.12,775 days) and counting

And only 171 done! I might deliberately slow down so I nudge past the 60yr mark. That'll put me in line to Compleat in 2045 when I'll be 78yrs old.

[ Thinks: has anyone done in InnPinn with a Zimmer frame?] :?
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby Graeme D » Thu Sep 17, 2020 11:00 pm

For the love of God man, have you still not done Bidein a'Ghlas Thuill!!!!????? Stop looking out the bleeding window at it and get up it so I can overtake you in the attempt at the slowest ever Munro round! :lol:
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby CharlesT » Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:53 am

Lightfoot2017 wrote:Loving this thread! :lol:

35 years so far (c.12,775 days) and counting

And only 171 done! I might deliberately slow down so I nudge past the 60yr mark. That'll put me in line to Compleat in 2045 when I'll be 78yrs old.

[ Thinks: has anyone done in InnPinn with a Zimmer frame?] :?


Personally regret not doing the In Pinn when I had the chance, it was heaving with all manner of bodies, so I thought there'll be another time, and there hasn't been. If I ever do get round to it now I'll probably need some sort of block and tackle system.

Like many others I guess I know I shall never complete my round, having just passed my 75th birthday by which time I thought I might finish. But I'll keep plodding on more in hope than expectation.

Digressing, I could make a bid for the slowest Wainwright round, having first climbed Bowfell in 1959 and finishing on The Nab in 2005. Quite a bit happened between those years I recall. 😄
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby KeithS » Fri Sep 18, 2020 10:00 pm

akiggins wrote:Ben Ime - 1981, 48.58% complete (apparently).

You should be finished by around 2060. Good luck.

CharlesT wrote: having just passed my 75th birthday

I never realised your profile picture was a selfie :lol:

Graeme D wrote:For the love of God man, have you still not done Bidein a'Ghlas Thuill!!!!????? Stop looking out the bleeding window at it and get up it so I can overtake you in the attempt at the slowest ever Munro round! :lol:

Graeme,
I like looking at it out of my bleeding window, just waiting for me.
As you know An Teallach is the love of my life (after MrsS of course)
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=24867
but I really do have a genuine reluctance to climb Fiona's sister. I have been about 400 ft from the summit and climbed two of it's tops but have managed to avoid the summit itself, and compleation.
Once it has been bagged it can never be unbagged and that would be it. A lifetime's ambition - compleated. What then? I don't want to start another list. There are loads of other walks I want to do but once I have compleated the Munros, a challenge which has so far taken over two thirds of my life, that can never be undone.
Has anyone else had the same reluctance to compleat?
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby CharlesT » Sat Sep 19, 2020 7:24 am

KeithS wrote:
CharlesT wrote: having just passed my 75th birthday

I never realised your profile picture was a selfie :lol:


Bloody cheek! My Berserker ancestors would have your head on a stick. 👹
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby Walkinmyfootsteps » Sun Sep 20, 2020 9:04 pm

I climbed Ben Lomond, my first Munro at seven years of age.
If I compleat it will be getting on for a fifty year round.
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby vuirich » Tue Sep 22, 2020 1:45 pm

I climbed Ben Nevis in July 1970, and completed on Ben Hope on 26th August 2019, giving a Munro round in just over 49 years - 17,931 days (+/- 7 days, as I can't remember the exact date in 1970 :oops: ). That equates to over 1.5 billion seconds. :lol: :lol:

The time between my earliest un-reclimbed Munro (Sgurr Fiona, July 1981) and my completion is just over 38 years (c.13,921 days).

CharlesT wrote:Digressing, I could make a bid for the slowest Wainwright round, having first climbed Bowfell in 1959 and finishing on The Nab in 2005. Quite a bit happened between those years I recall. 😄

My first Wainwright, Catbells, was in July 1969, and I finished on Kirk Fell in July 2016, so almost exactly 47 years. Somehow the rest of life got in the way. :roll: :roll:
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby CharlesT » Tue Sep 22, 2020 3:27 pm

vuirich wrote:
CharlesT wrote:Digressing, I could make a bid for the slowest Wainwright round, having first climbed Bowfell in 1959 and finishing on The Nab in 2005. Quite a bit happened between those years I recall. 😄

My first Wainwright, Catbells, was in July 1969, and I finished on Kirk Fell in July 2016, so almost exactly 47 years. Somehow the rest of life got in the way. :roll: :roll:

Ah! You win. My round was only 46 years. ☹
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Re: Record attempt: Slowest compleation, 14349 days and coun

Postby Gythral » Sun Sep 27, 2020 11:03 am

When I see a compeltionist that avaged 1 per year - I'll think they were slow :D
Take your time and really enjoy them...
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