Sunset tripper wrote:
I will have a look again when I have a chance. Are you counting out from the SMC list? I got more than that for the last decade but not a significant amount more.
I wasn't counting 2nd or 3rd rounds of corbetts either which I imagine there has been more of in the last decade.
Yes not sure if anyone has data on amount of folk on the hills outwith the completion list.
I had another look as promised regarding corbett completions, and this is what I came up with unless I'm missing something? - which is entirely possible I must add.
The 10 years 2002 - 2011 = 278 completions +10 2nd or 3rd rounds Total 288
The 10 years 2012 - 2021 = 291 completions +17 2nd or 3rd rounds Total 308
So not much in it really though there was only 5 completions in Covid struck 2020
Interesting to look through the list. I know a few folk who have done the munros, 1 person with multiple rounds and just a few hills short of a 3rd corbett round.
One thing for sure, before the SMC corbett bible came out in 1990 next to no one was doing the Corbetts with only around 30 completers. It seems even back then the vast majority of hill goers didn't operate without a guide.
Corbett bagging has taken off since then, accelerating fast in the 90s but still slowly getting busier.
Where's Dave Hewitt when you need him, to make sense of it all.