I finished my Munros in 1993, the Donalds in 2003, and my Corbetts in 2005, but ground to a halt with the Grahams at exactly 100 in 2007. I find many Grahams rather dull, a heresy that will probably prompt letters from Outraged of Oban. However, it was difficult to shake off the tick habit after all those hill years (nearly half a century now), so I set about the Corbetts of England, which I completed in 2008. I then moved on to Wales and two trips down there in 2011 netted half a dozen, leaving me only one to do. This is Fan Brycheiniog in the Brecon Beacons, which will be done in spring 2012, if I am spared.
Being of that lucky generation with student grants, secure jobs, and early retirement with what the Daily Mail calls the gold-plated index-linked pension, I have in 2011 been on peaks and passes in Austria's Ferwallgruppe, mountainous La Gomera in the Canaries, and Corsica, spending a week on the southern GR20. Plenty more ticks in the sea.
Meall Onfaidh, a magnificent Graham (photo: Outraged of Oban)
