C#56: Corserine

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Total distance walked: 16.5km
Total ascent: 714m
Time: 1145 – 1700, Friday 13 June 2008
A pleasant enough little hill, I suppose. The tracks through the forest bore little resemblance to the map, though. On the way up it it seemed rather straight forward. On the way down it resulted in us fighting our way through a dense [...]

In the beginning there was the tally

Once upon a time I climbed mountains. Little ones, big ones, but never with very much enthusiasm. and certainly never regularly.
Then came the tally: 284. The Munros, just 284 mountains in Scotland over 914.4m in height. And so I began inching up the tally, much as I inched ever upwards to this or that elusive [...]