Lists to tick
Entering
2014, I am doing a lot of work behind the scenes to work out walking routes to
tick the remaining summits of the lists I have chosen to pursue in my now
post-Wainwright days.
I
have decided to aim for completion of the English and Welsh 2000-foot
mountains, these being the Nuttalls.
However, there are a couple of historic lists of 2000-footers,
particularly the Bridge list and Buxton & Lewis list. As you would expect, there are a lot of
common summits across all three lists, but there are a few summits on the two
older lists that are not Nuttalls. I
have chosen Bridge and Buxton & Lewis as opposed to other similar lists for
two reasons; these classifications are included in the DoBIH spreadsheet and
many of the 2000-foot completions on the LDWA website are for these lists.
Another
long-term goal is completion of the TRAIL100 summits. Most of my remaining TRAIL100s are in
Scotland but those left in England and Wales are also Nuttalls and so should be
simple to tick.
The
WASHIS is a Welsh-specific list of 600-metre mountains. Most of these are also Nuttalls and the extra
5 that aren’t can be ticked with a little extra effort.
In the long term
If
my sums are correct, I have 324 summits to tick to complete all of the above
lists. The summits range from the very
far north of Scotland to Dartmoor and I have set myself a goal of 10 years to
finish them. It’s not very ambitious but
it does allow a large contingency for whatever life events arrive in the coming
years.
Of
444 Nuttalls I have 245 left to tick; of the 100 TRAIL summits, I have 54
unticked.
This year
In
simple numbers, 10% of my remaining summits based on my 10-year plan seems
reasonable.
Which
means I’m aiming for 33 summits, amongst which should be 25 Nuttalls and 6 TRAIL100s.
Looking
at a map of my unticked summits, I’d like to mop up the more isolated groups of
English mountains this year. These are :
- the Cheviots (6
summits)
- the Peak District (3 summits)
- the Malverns (1
summit)
- Dartmoor (3 summits)
In
addition, one English summit that I’d like to climb is Pillar Rock. Strictly speaking, it is beyond the reach of
ordinary hillwalkers but my previous rock-climbing experience gives me the
confidence that this otherwise tricky summit shouldn’t pose me too many
problems.
