Having crossed the Hall of Fame threshold early in the year on Robinson, I began to run out of 'easily accessible from home' Marilyns, resulting in my smallest annual total since I started counting them about ten years ago. Thank goodness for Humps, which had the benefit of taking me back to unfamiliar corners of already well-known areas closer to home.
Highlights for the year were undoubtedly a long-anticipated traverse of the Rum Cuillin in fantastic weather in April, with the added bonus of being completely away from all media sources on the days before and after the royal wedding, and a Kinlochewe to Poolewe traverse over Beinn Lair in June with no other living soul seen for 11 hours.
Lochan Fada and Beinn Lair (photo: Alan Dawson)
Plans for 2012 are to finish the few remaining unclimbed Corbetts and Grahams within a two-hour drive of home and to crack on with the Humps in my local regions.
