Summary
The Munros represent the grand-daddy of mountain-completist challenges, tempting obsessive-compulsive outdoorsmen and women since 1891, when Sir Hugh Munro published a list of every mountain in the Scottish Highlands over 3,000 feet above sea level. (That's 914.4 metres, but you may as well use imperial measurements in a country that refuses to adopt the metric system.)
We'd visited castles and ruins and a whisky distillery, walked the melancholy battlefield of Culloden, eaten haggis, petted a long-haired Highland calf, listened to bagpipers and Gaelic singers, fished for sea trout, and biked, paddled and hiked in settings straight out of Braveheart. But still, without a Munro I'd feel as if my trip was incomplete. When we finally reached the summit cairn, just as a blustery wind and rain blew in from Ben Macdui, I had the feeling of satisfaction that only a list-making hiker can feel. Even the thought of that octogenarian Scot's Munro-bagging mutt couldn't detract from the experience.See the full content of this document
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A Magnet for Hikers
Highland's Munros
Bob ArmstrongI was feeling pretty good about my progress up Scotland's sixth highest mountain, until my wife and I began chatting with an 80-something Scot who was hiking up the trail with his dog.As we paused for a sandwich halfway up the 1,245-metre (4,084 foot) Cairn Gorm, the gentleman ...See the full content of this document
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