A 2023 Summary

2023 got off to a promising start and I managed to have at least one day out in the first five months of the year; the best strike rate in over a decade.

But health issues within the family had to be dealt with and the impact on my ability to head for the hills was curtailment.  I didn't manage another walk for the rest of the year.

At the start of 2023 I had 239 summits on my own collated ticklist, mostly containing TRAIL 100 and Nuttall summits.

Overall I :

            went on             9                                  walks

            walked              53.9                              miles

            ascended          14,406                          feet

            walked for         38 hrs 33 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            1                                   previously unclimbed TRAIL 100 summit

            reached            6                                 previously unclimbed Nuttall summits

            drove                1924                             miles on trips to and from walks

Most of this year's walking occurred in the Yorkshire Dales but the most significant summit of the year was Schiehallion.  Just 1 TRAIL 100 summit was ticked in this overall inactive year.

All of this meant that at the end of 2022, my ongoing ticklist dropped to 231 summits.

A 2022 Summary

2022 was a poor year for my walking.  Domestic circumstances hugely influenced my ability to find the time to go walking.

At the start of 2022 I had 255 summits on my own collated ticklist, mostly containing TRAIL 100 and Nuttall summits.

Overall I :

            went on             8                                  walks

            walked              58.2                              miles

            ascended          18,429                          feet

            walked for         46 hrs 34 mins            (including rest stops !)

            reached            22                                 individual summits that I hadn’t been to before

            reached            2                                   individual summits that I had been to before

            reached            16                                 summits on my combined ticklist

            reached            3                                   previously unclimbed TRAIL 100 summits

            reached            12                                 previously unclimbed Nuttall summits

            drove                1519                             miles on trips to and from walks

Most of this year's walking occurred in Eryri (Snowdonia) but the most significant summit of the year was Ben More overlooking Crianlarich.  3 TRAIL 100 and 2 ex-TRAIL 100 summits were ticked in this rather sparse year.

All of this meant that at the end of 2022, my ongoing ticklist dropped to 239 summits.