There's discussion going on about summitting on Ben Avon that seems to be generating more heat than light.
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=63866Essentially the controversy is about when can you claim you've done a summit. It seems to me that the beauty of hill-walking is that so much of it is in your head and you're at the top when you think you are. My father had been a walker from before the war. I once asked him had he been up the Cobbler. "Dozens of times". Did that mean through the Eye, I persevered. "Why would I want to do that?" he said. It's all in the point of view.
I've no intention of doing the In Pinn, so I'm willing to be purist and say you should stand on the Bolster Stone. I didn't count Ben Avon until I'd returned and climbed the tor, but I'm absolutely happy with someone who says "I reached the tor so I've done it." In fact when the SMC screwed aroud with the list in 1997 and made some ludicrous promotions, I felt they opened the gates for everyone making their own lists. I've done all the promoted peaks but I don't count them. On the other hand I do count the Affric Sgurr na Lapaich. It's an amazing hill and it was on Munro's original list. Besides, if you go back to the original list, then Sgurr Dearg is the Munro not the In Pinn, though I'm still not going.
The sadly missed Angry Corrie fanzine had another couple of controversies. Can you start your second round of Munros before you complete your first? I've a friend who's on the edge of finishing his third round. A couple of other friends, who're not yet on 200 first time around, refuse to recognise his second round as it contained about 90 Munro ascents done during his first round. I leave them to it.
The other consideration was whether you could claim two ascents of a Munro on a single trip. For instance if you do the Beinn Eibhinn ridge via the Lancet's Edge, you end up doing Aonoch Mor and Geal Charn twice. That is, on a four Munro ridge you reach Beinn Eibhinn and say "Three down, three to go!" The Angry Corrie's attitude, and I go along with it, was you just count 4. On the other hand, Hamish Brown in his first trip round all the Munros claims Braigh Coire Chruinn-bhalgain twice when he comes back across it on the ascent. I won't do a full round but I'd like to get beyond 1000 ascents so I'm throwing away quite a bit in the number of Lancet's Edges I've done.
Anyway, as I said, it's all in your head (and let's not talk about the times you thought were on the summit and you were on a top - or in my case, once on the wrong hill entirely).