The first half of the year saw me tidying up various Grahams prior to completion on Beinn Ghobhlach (14A) in June -one of those days when the weather improves heading west across the Dirrie More and carries on improving to a cloudless, calm sunset over the Minch. Other Graham highlights were a January sunset over Arran from Cowal's Beinn Mhor (19C), a wild blast of wind and snow on Ben Venue (1C), and for complete contrast, a May heatwave camp high on Ben Armine (16D) in the open isolation that is the Sutherland interior.
Plenty of good lower hills too: Ben Hutig (16B), a first-footing replacement for Ben Hope (I was several times blown over), Kerrera in April, Ulva and Gometra in May (by boat from Arisaig by way of Coll and Lunga), reclimbing Sgurr nan Caorach in Sleat for its new highest point, and the two hills west of Glen Brittle -best of all viewpoints for the central Cuillin and a great sea view as well.
Even Wales has some good hills -the lower outlying ones on the Lleyn peninsula and in north Pembrokeshire were especially memorable on fine summer evenings. To be honest, most of the 67 summits which I climbed in ten days there were, at worst, merely pleasant, and Carneddol, Middleton Hill and Caeliber Isaf had the added frisson of pre-dawn raids. If I'd paid more attention to grid references and RHB section boundaries, I'd have known that Y Golfa and Moel y Golfa are two separate Marilyns (can hardly complain, with two Leana Mhors and three Carn Deargs down the road in Glen Roy).