2020 was a year like no other in living memory. The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic spread around the world causing millions of deaths and resulting in the restriction of freedoms we used to take for granted. These restrictions, including lockdowns, hugely limited the opportunities to head for the hills.
At the start of 2020 I had 280 summits on my combined ticklist of TRAIL 100, Nuttall, WASHIS, Dawson, Dewey, Bridge and Buxton & Lewis summits.
The publication of Mark Richards’ updated and revised Fellranger guidebooks added 3 new summits to my list. TRAIL magazine’s reboot of its TRAIL 100 list added another 5.
Overall I :
went on 6 walks
walked 47.6 miles
ascended 17,890 feet
walked for 29 hrs 50 mins (including rest stops !)
reached 11 individual summits that I hadn’t been to before
reached 3 individual summits that I had been to before
reached 8 summits on my combined ticklist
reached 0 previously unclimbed TRAIL 100 summits
reached 3 previously unclimbed Nuttall summits
drove 678 miles on trips to and from walks
The only significant achievement of the year was a re-completion of the Fellrangers.
