At
the start of 2015 I had 307 summits on my combined ticklist of TRAIL 100
summits, Nuttalls, WASHIS, Bridges and Buxton & Lewis summits. 2015 was the second year of my 10-year
completion target and had aimed to tick 34 summits on my combined list which
would include 26 Nuttalls and 6 TRAIL 100s.
For
the second year in a row I fell short, but not by so much.
Overall
I :
went on 17 walks
walked 118.5 miles
ascended 34,304 feet
walked for 70 hrs 36 mins (including
rest stops !)
reached 29 individual summits that I hadn’t
been to before
reached 12 individual summits that I had been to
before
reached 25 summits on my
combined ticklist
reached 8 previously
unclimbed TRAIL 100 summits
reached 15 previously
unclimbed Nuttall summits
drove 4254 miles
on trips to and from walks
As
the year progressed and the numbers of targeted summits decreased, a Nuttall
was demoted following a survey and a WASHIS was added due to a list compilation
oversight. But I added a number of
unclimbed Scottish 4000-foot and Irish
3000-foot summits as well as some Lake District 2000-foot summits from a
historic list known as the Simpsons.
So
following a demotion, an addition, the ticking of 29 summits as well as the
expansion of my target list, what started as 307 summits ended as a list of 349
! Still quite a bit of walking needed !
Of
the specific summits that I stated were 2015 targets, I did manage to tick the
3 Dartmoor summits and Worcestershire Beacon which was quite a challenge to do
on a single day out from just north of Liverpool ! And again I didn’t manage to get near the 6
Cheviot Nuttalls and Pillar Rock.
Although
2015’s figures are quite a bit better than 2014’s, it didn’t feel that I’d got
out very much and the high mileage was due to a couple of family holidays being
taken advantage of to get a single hill day on both of them. Highlights of the year were Suilven, Pen y
Fan, Cross Fell and Merrick – all well-worth the travelling and except for Pen
y Fan, devoid of crowds.
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