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Foinaven Munro Verdict Out...

Is there a new addition to the list of Scotland's 3000-footers?


Posted: 8 June 2007
by Jon

Munro baggers can rest easy with the news that Foinaven has failed to make the 3000-foot grade after being re-measured by surveyors last month.


Short-arse Corbett, Foinaven by Oot n' aboot - OM album

Instead the mountain is officially just 2,988 feet high, some 12 feet below the magic level. Surveyors used satellite technology to check the height of the hill.

The decision will come as a relief to many baggers who assumed that they'd 'compleated' all Scotland's 3000-foot hills, but the jury is still out on Beinn Dearg in Torridon...

Since Foinaven is actually 11 feet shorter than previously thought, it begs the question of whether marginal Munros should all be re-measured?

More details at www.news.bbc.co.uk


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Surveyors have been called in by the Munro Society to determine whether a couple of "borderline" hills can be promoted to Munro status. Details on the Beeb website here.

Posted: 25/03/2007 at 13:41

"But of course that then means that all these people who can claim to have climbed all of Scotland's Munros will have more work to do."

Wrong. I suggest that the majority of people who have climbed all the munros will have already climbed the two mentioned in the article, they being magnificent mountains in their own right. Or am I wrong, in which case do baggers ignore on principle any peak below the golden height ?

Posted: 26/03/2007 at 10:49

These two have been waverers for ages. I'd probably call myself a bagger (though not done them all yet) and I must admit these two have also been on my mental list of hills to do for ages as well. They look superb, Foinaven is massive! I've not done them yet but have done loads below the 'magic' 3000ft. If I'm in an area I'd rather do a new hill than repeat something done already.
Hmmm new edition of the SMC 'The munros' coming out soon?

Posted: 26/03/2007 at 10:58

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