A 2021 Summary

2021 carried on in a manner similar to 2020.  Pandemic lockdowns and travel restrictions lessened opportunities for time on the hills with some days out feeling almost subversive.

At the start of 2021 I had 280 summits on my rather eclectic ticklist of ticklists with TRAIL 100 and Nuttall summits making up the bulk of desired tops.  2021 was very quiet from a point of view of additions to my list with no “new” summits being discovered.

Overall I :

            went on             9                                  walks

            walked              94.6                              miles

            ascended          23,192                          feet

            walked for         61 hrs 29 mins            (including rest stops !)

            reached            29                                 individual summits that I hadn’t been to before

            reached            0                                   individual summits that I had been to before

            reached            25                                 summits on my combined ticklist

            reached            1                                   previously unclimbed TRAIL 100 summits

            reached            20                                 previously unclimbed Nuttall summits

            drove                1942                             miles on trips to and from walks

The vast majority of this year’s walking occurred on the Pennines and Cheviots resulting in a significant increase of my expertise of traversing rolling peat moorland .  I completed the English TRAIL 100 summits on The Cheviot.

All of this meant that at the end of 2021, my ongoing ticklist dropped to 255 summits.

A 2020 Summary

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.

All of this meant that after additions and my walks, my ongoing ticklist remained static at 280 summits.