by Scraggygoat » Wed Jul 28, 2021 10:54 pm
Imagine relying on Mountaineering Scotland and Walkhighlands, and not being able to cope with missing one hill from a book…modern dependency walking culture encapsulated in one post!
To paraphrase Monty Python ‘What have the SMC ever done for us’
Apart from; One of the founding clubs of Mountaineering Scotland (in the now lost hope that they would actually represent walkers and climbers) & continue to fund them, compiled the very list the OP is moaning about, hold historical records, produce guide book series for walkers, climbers, ski tourers, and scrambling (often copied including by Walkhighlands) all long before they were commercially viable, added their weight to the drafting of the Land Reform act, produced one of the first schematic maps to the peaks and passes of the Cullin, foot path repairs, hut network & hut renovations, formed the charitable SMT trust mentioned above, which also supports Scottish Mountain Rescue.
Well apart from ***** what have the SMC done for us!
And no I’m not a member (though could have been if I wanted).
May I suggest you throw away the guide book never log onto Walkhighlands, take the corbett list and a stack of OS maps and just get on with it, because in reality that’s all any competent Walker needs.