To borrow a quote from the Scottish born naturalist John Muir (http://www.jmt.org/) Via travel writer Bill Bryson's epic tale of adventure 'a walk in the woods;
'Who has not felt the urge to throw a loaf of bread and a pound of tea in an old sack and jump over the back fence'
I live in a second story flat and we dont have a garden let alone a fence to jump over, I just bought myself a new rucksack and I intend to take a little more than bread and tea (not that those two items shall not constitue an important section of my bag's packed contents. But it is with such a victorian sense of boyish enthusiasm and a fetching pair of shorts (albeit not flannel ones) that I hope to jump into my firend Chris hoskins* car next thursday to make my first official summit of one of scotlands Munros namely Mount Keen the most easterly of these fabled hills.
Munromap.co.uk (the online ascent logging software I will use to record my adventures officially) defines a Munro thus;
A Munro is a mountain in Scotland with a height over 3,000 ft (914.4 m). They are named after Sir Hugh Munro, 4th Baronet (1856–1919), who produced the first list of such hills, known as Munros Tables, in 1891. As of the 2009 revision of the tables, published by the Scottish Mountaineering Club, there are 283 Munros.
Ironically Sir Hugh Munro never actually managed to ascend all of the hills on his infamous list missing out on his last two peaks when he died.
I however hope to be more sucessful if a little long winded in my efforts to 'bag' all of these hills. I certainly shant be worrying the current record for a contiuous round trip of all the peaks which stands at under 40 days.
But that is my plan for the coming years, and posts on here may be infrequent depending on when I get the chance to ascend these hills. but I will post as often as I can and I hope you enjoy the tales that shall follow......
*check out his various blogs at http://community.cotswoldoutdoor.com/users/chris_hoskins/blogs/ and http://choskins.co.uk/)
