Still in the land of the deranged. The total for the year, 102, was exactly the same as 1997 but took an extra 70 hours compiling it. A Graham count of 31 may have had something to do with this. Galloway in February brought high winds, low cloud, torrential rain and slippery conditions. In cloud on Shalloch on Minnoch, encountered some of the most grotty tussocky/boggy terrain outside Jura. The day was complete when I realised that the trig point was not the actual summit. Went back up five days later. This was as nothing to the agony of ten miles on tarmaced roads in heavy boots, returning from a fantastically wild Creag a'Mhadaidh and Stob an Aonaich Mhoir (5A), in early May.
Popped up a few Lammermuirs (surely the most depressingly tedious hills in Scotland) en route to the even more depressing draw between Berwick Rangers and my beloved Ross County.
Hunt Hill in December was a brilliant day out with the added bonus of not one but two bridges exactly where I needed them.
