You know you are a mad hillwalker ....

[Graeme D]

Yep, guilty as charged Your Honour - especially the one about looking at maps. I'm thinking of setting up a Book Club ...... for OS sheets!

When part of your morning wake up is checking the WH forums before the work e-mail

Check work email? Do people really still do that?

[lackie14]

When you go to accident emergency with your Munro book for the wait and the doctor tells you they have the same book start a conversation about which Munros they have done , ten minutes later start dealing with your problem?

[Graeme D]

When you go to accident emergency with your Munro book for the wait and the doctor tells you they have the same book start a conversation about which Munros they have done , ten minutes later start dealing with your problem?

And still there are those who say the NHS is wasteful, ineffective and going down the pan!

[lackie14]

When you go to accident emergency with your Munro book for the wait and the doctor tells you they have the same book start a conversation about which Munros they have done , ten minutes later start dealing with your problem?

And still there are those who say the NHS is wasteful, ineffective and going down the pan!

Nothing but praise for everyone in nhs who helped me

[Clach Liath]

When you count hills done/to be done rather than sheep in an effort to get to sleep.

When you are at the summit of Ladhar Bheinn at 2pm on a Sunday with a business meeting in Yorkshire at 9.30am the following day.

When you are moved on by police at Waverley station at 3am trying to kip on a bench having missed the last train south the previous evening having had a fab weekend in the Ben Alder area.

Persuading myself that the 90 per cent of behaviours listed in this thread that do apply to me are things any normal person would do anyway. That's right isn't it?

[Mountainlove]

When you get confused how you can surround yourself with loved ones at Christmas, when your friends and family refuse to spend the 24th - 26th of December surrounded by mountains

[tina bonar]

When you walk to lidls every thursday night to stock up on chocolate,wine gums,pain au chocolat etc and the woman on the checkout asks where you are heading this weekend

[meangarry]

When you sit at the summit of a hill you have climbed more than once and find yourself having a wee chat with the hill as if its an old friend.

When you get all defensive when someone says a certain hill is boring.

When a nature dump is no longer weird.

[brpro26]

When you take your Munro book to the loo, even though you've read it inside out...but you still manage to find a wee snippit(sorry for the pun) to last the duration.

[dawnfoth]

brpro26 - very good I have taken my guidebook with me many places - camping, on the train and to the pub, but never to the loo.....

you know you are a mad hillwalker when....

you don't give a **** what you look like, so long as you can get warm and have a hot cuppa.... then eventually a bath or a wash in Loch Quoich....

when you put up with midge hell camping in Glen Etive (never again I promise) just to be outdoors and bag more hills the folowing day....

[lackie14]

When you take your Munro book to the loo, even though you've read it inside out...but you still manage to find a wee snippit(sorry for the pun) to last the duration.

Or as i call it the library, the other half and the kids are alway finding my Munro book there

[hakirby]

When you're having a standard conversation with someone and you muse about how you're going to get up a certain part of the path and then go back to whatever the conversation was actually about. you do this several times.

when you read maps more than books

when someone comments their computer is freezing and your first thought is it probably needs another layer.

When your kids find out that real cakes don't come from Kendal nor do they taste of mint

[AlisonFox66]

you can read a map easier than you can a book
when you go away for the weekend to somewhere without internet access , you curl up with a good map


when you go round to visit a hillwalking friend and her dog picks up a map in her mouth and gives it to you - it was the right map for the hills I was suggesting as well

[yellowbelly]

when Hamish Brown's books "Mountain Walk" and "Groats End" are required loo reading matter.

One day from Hamish's diary per visit usually does it!

Now supplemented by the new Munros book of course.