Graham compleation on the isle of mull

[robertphillips]

Left the house on friday morning heading up to oban to catch the afternoon ferry to mull for my final graham creach beinn on sunday.

Had plenty of time to spare done a couple of easy marilyns while we waited for the ferry beinn mhor and cruach lerags.

Saturday **** of rain all day again walked a couple of easy marilyns s airde beinn and tom nam fitheach.

Attendees robert, renee and rocky.

Sunday set from the hotel weather wasnt looking great again, rain most of the day, parked at a area called stone circle room for a couple of cars, followed a path for 0.5 km then up over pathless boggy terrain over 3 small tops to the ridge line then up to the summit just east of the trig point, a bit of hailstones met us at the top. had a quick lunch and time for some compleation photos and headed down same route of ascent,happy days.

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[Sgurr]

I don't know if you spotted Dave Hewitts's comments on your last TR

Sounds like Robert's been cracking on - congrats on the Munro and Corbett rounds and hope this weekend's going well for the Grahams.

In terms of fast rounds of the three categories combined, these kind of stats are never definitive because people quite often do notable and interesting things without saying much about it. However, there are a couple of known benchmarks - although I'm unclear whether the 3 years 11 months quoted is the time taken for the rounds themselves, or from when Robert climbed his first hill in any of the categories - is it a start-afresh job or a start-from-scratch one?

At least two people have done continuous or near-continuous rounds of the Munro/Corbett/Graham categories: Peter Lincoln who finished on Morrone in July 1998 (I was there, lovely day), and Andrew Allum who finished somewhere up north (not sure where offhand) the previous summer. His was a somewhat mysterious but mightily impressive outing which also took in Donalds and E+W 2000ers. Both these rounds were faster than the Robert's timespan: Peter took 359 days and I've a feeling Andrew might have been slightly faster for the Scottish section of his walk (although I'm not sure I have stats that break it down in that way - I'll have a rummage when I get chance). Both of them however took considerably longer overall in terms of from their first ever hill - Peter's first Corbett, for example, was in 1979 and Andrew's was in 1987.

Looks as if this round could be a record setter?
Nice hill to end on.

[weaselmaster]

Yay - congratulations Robert
Enjoy your remaining Marilyns
Al

[Dave Hewitt]

Looks as if this round could be a record setter?

Partly answering my own query, I see from the Corbetteers list that Robert started that category with Cairnsmore of Carsphairn on 29 Dec 2010 (and completed the set with Sail Mhor on 21 Oct 2013), so if the first Munro and/or the first Graham was climbed around the same time then that fits with the three years 11 months timeframe mentioned.

Incidentally, in terms of just Graham rounds, looking at the published list here:
http://www.rhb.org.uk/grahamists/
there only appear to have been two people previously who have taken under four years from first to last: the Baldwins, Barry and Jon, who took three years eight months. Unless I missed something on my skim through the list, the only other people to have taken under five years are Michael Earnshaw (four years eight months) and Roger Greeves (four years 11 months).

[Johnny Corbett]

Well done Robert. Great effort Shame you didn't get a better day for it. I'll be looking over my shoulder now watching you catch me up on the Subs

[rockhopper]

Many congratulations - despite the weather, nice way to finish - cheers

[foggieclimber]

Congratulations. Great Effort.

[Beaner001]

Congratulations Robert, that's a great achievement

[gammy leg walker]

Awesome effort

[malky_c]

Congratulations. What a great place to finish too, not to mention a crazily short timescale

[Collaciotach]

Glé mhath a bhalaich .....

I have had the pleasure of your company on two random occasions the bizzarest being meeting you on the bealach between Druim Garbh and Sgurr Domhnuill the chances of that on a December morning must have been pretty long .

Next time your over give me a shout for that dram and mind there is a caravan that will help you get those Sunart Bumps , Lumps and all the other categories I have found on the hill bagging website ...#wholenewworld .

That is quite a record you have set

[scottishkennyg]

A1

[Fife Flyer]

Well done & many congrats

[mrssanta]

Well done Robert you are a legend in your own time! And good to see your good lady out on the hill

[robertphillips]

Thanks everyone