Two New Munros Maybe?
It's a bugger for baggers with the news that two mountains may be promoted to the magic 3000-ft mark.
Posted: 26 March 2007
by Jon
It's an anxious time for Munro baggers with the news that two
mountains which were thought to fall just short of the 3000-foot
contour are being surveyed with a view to promotion.
The pair are Beinn
Dearg 914 metres or an inconvenient 2,999 feet in the NW
highlands and Foinaven
which is the same height but further north. According to the BBC, the
surveyors were called in by the Munro Society after the accuracy of
the original OS measurements was called into question.
No alterations will be made to the tables held by the Scottish
Mountaineering Club until a definite conclusion is reached using
modern high-tech equipment.
The mountains will be measured on 21/22 April and 12/13 May
respectively so baggers everywhere will be all aquiver with
anticipation, particularly 'compleaters' who've bagged all 284
current Munros and may need to add one or both of the pair to their
list.
Munromagic.com
- no relation, describes Foinaven
as 'a large complex mountain with craggy slopes ... the traverse
of the narrow ridges requires confident footwork and a head for
exposure'.
Beinn
Dearg, it says, is 'a steep-sided mountain with craggy slopes
... perhaps the most appealing feature of Beinn Dearg is its location
giving superb views of Beinn Alligin (Munro), Liathach (Munro) and
Beinn Eighe (Munro)'.
More details at www.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
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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