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Four years ago when I reached my Fiftieth year, I decided to climb 50 Munros - Hills in Scotland over 3000 feet (915 metres). There were 284 Munros in the year 1997 when we climbed them together. The term Munro comes from Sir Hugh Munro of Lindertis who original compiled a list in 1891. The accepted Munro list changes occasionally.

This year when Macduffy is in her Fiftieth year she has decided to climb 50 Corbetts - Hills in Scotland over 2500 feet but below 3000 feet ( 770 to 914 metres). She says she wants to do Corbetts as she is a little smaller than myself and this will be fair. On the face of it, Corbett climbing should be easier than Munros. Shorter hills, shorter climbs, but the reality is that on preparation reading, they are spread out further around Scotland than the Munros, and therefore the target could be more difficult to achieve as it is often only possible to climb one in a day as opposed to three or four Munros. The specification of a Corbett is much tighter than a Munro and what you think would be a Corbett because it is between 2500 and 3000 feet, is not because it does not follow the criteria set out below. The Corbetts were originally collated by John Rooke Corbett. The list was not published until after his death and his criteria for a Corbett had, in addition to the height range above, that the ‘hill must have a re-ascent on all sides of 500 feet between each listed hill and any neighbouring one’. This makes them harder to find and achieve the objective. There are 221 Corbetts in Scotland.

We have only to climb 50 of them this year. This should be easy enough. Watch this space for the update as we attempt this task before 29th October 2002.

The Feature Follow the bookmark for the latest achievement or failure.

Date	11-11-01	18-11-01	24-11-01	2-12-01	15-12-01	20-01-02	11-02-02	16-02-02	19-02-02	9-03-02
Corbett	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Name	Ben-Tirran	Mount-Battack	Monamenach	White-Coomb	CreagMacRanaich	Morven	Morrone	Hart Fell	Broad Law	Conachcraig
Date	11-03-02	12-03-02	24-03-02	30-03-02	31-03-02	1-04-02	2-04-02	7-04-02	8-04-02	19-04-02
Corbett	11X	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19
Name	Farragon-Hill	Meall-Tairneachan	Ben-Gulabin	Ben-Ledi	Ben-Vane	Ben-Each	Meall-an-t-Seallaidh	The-Merrick	Cairnsmore-of-Carsphairn	Carn-Dearg(south)
Date	12-04-02	13-04-02	13-04-02	4-05-02	4-05-02	4-05-02	4-05-02	4-05-02	13-05-02	19-05-02
Corbett	20	21	22	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
Name	Carn-Dearg (North)	Corrieyairack-Hill	Gairbeann	Beinna’Chaisteil	BeinnNamFuaran	CamChreag	Beinnhaorach	BeinnOdhar	CreagNanGabhar	MeallBuidhe
Date	19-05-02	01-06-02	01-06-02	02-06-02	08-06-02	15-06-02	16-06-02	22-06-02	22-06-02	08-08-02
Corbett	30	31	32	33	34	35	36	37	38	39
Name	Sron a’Choire Chnapanich	Beinn Udlaidh	Beinn Bhreac-liath	Beinn Chuirn	Beinn Bhreac-liath	Creag Uchdag	Auchnafree Hill	The Sow of Atholl	Meall na Leitreach	Corserine
Date	09-08-02	12-08-02	13-08-02	14-08-02	15-08-02	16-08-02	25-08-02	25-08-02	02-09-02	08-09-02
Corbett	40	41	42	43	44	45	46	47	48	49
Name	Shalloch on Minnoch	Beinn a’ Chuallaich	Cam Chreag	Meall nam Maigheach	Beinn a’ Bhuiridh	Beinn Mhic-Mhonaidh	Beinn-nan Oighreag	Meall nan Subh	Beinn Dearg	The Fara

Date	14-09-02
Corbett	50
Name	Ben Vrackie

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