LaurenAlexandraAgain wrote:I doubt I'll ever compleat the Munros, but if I do, I suspect one of the Skye Munros will be my final one. I'm intimidated by the hills on Skye, so I'll save them for last.
Ditto. I was intimidated by them, and ended up on Sgurr nan Eag with husband and just one friend. Had to work next day afternoon, so managed to get back to Fort William by midnight and home the following morning, I wish I had left Beinn na Lap to last, I think even my non-walking family would have managed that.
Corbetts, similarly disorganised. I finished on Sgurr Innse as it was one of the few husband had done, and I hadn't (he point blank refused to come up the tourist track when I did Ben Nevis for a charity sweepstake and did it then)
You would think I should have been better organised by the time the Grahams came along, but I kept putting of Stac Pollaidh which husband had done. Eventually I did it with a GUIDE
as I had torn my shoulder muscles.
A pattern is beginning to emerge. Husband had sneaked out and done some Donalds when he was retired and I wasn't, never thinking we might finish them, so put off to the end the ones he had done and completed on Tarmangie hill
Haven't completed the Marilyns as I can't climb the sea stacks off St. Kilda , but have just got as far as we can on Beinn Dearg near Cape Wrath which was re-measured and found to be one last year.
https://www.walkhighlands.co.uk/Forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=90532So the general theme seems to be cowardice and pot luck hills that husband had done.
I would love to have done Ben Vrackie as last Corbett...it is so convenient, which is why it was my first.
I would love to have done Suilven as my last Graham as it was my penultimate and husband could get his dodgy knee up it, which he couldn't Stac Pollaidh and it is a cracking hill.
Must sit down and see if I can't get a decent completion out of the Wainwrights....but I have been to look at The Howitzer on Helm crag, so if you have to climb it to complete (Wainwright didn't) I shall never finish.