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The Munros are mountains in Scotland over 3,000 feet (914.4 m). The list was originally compiled by Sir Hugh Munro in 1891, and is modified from time to time by the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC). "Munro bagging" is the activity of climbing all the listed Munros (and ditto for Corbetts, Fionas, Donalds, etc etc). The number has been amended several times since Sir Hugh's original list, there are currently 282 Munros listed by the SMC. Some of my personal yearly and monthly Munro bagging statistics are listed/shown below.
#1 Ben Lomond, 19th March 2022.
#282 Sgurr Alasdair, 27th July 2026.
Munroist #8362
Living in Scotland made compleating the Munro round in 4 years and 4 months feasible.
36 of the hills were accessed using a bike, since I'm not a camping/bothy fan. The last 7 of these used an e-MTB, I wish the previous 29 had 😀
The 4 Loch Mullardoch hills were accessed by boat (in one trip), as were the 3 Knoydart hills (in two trips).
The majority of the hills were done in summer conditions, as can be seen from the monthly totals, but 25 or so required full winter gear. The earliest date in the year a hill was climbed was 7th January 2024 (Ben Wyvis) and the latest date in the year a hill was climbed was 29th December 2025 (Bruach na Frithe).
The largest number of hills climbed in a single day was 7 on 3rd May 2025 (The South Glen Shiel Ridge).
Most of the hills were climbed solo, apart from The Cuillin where excellent guiding help from Micheal Murphy, Gillian Parker and Morag Skelton got me up and down 9 of the hills on the ridge. Work colleague Brian Dolan took me up Ben Wyvis in winter conditions for some ice axe practice and Steve Houston and friends also tolerated me tagging along at the EICA at Ratho for some climbing sessions.
A surprising number of the hills were climbed in good weather (this is Scotland, after all), but I had the considerable privilege of being able to pick and choose the odd day here and there. 28 hills had no summit views, the rest were clear. 4 hills were repeated along the way to get to other hills that weren't climbed first time round, either because of the weather or indolence.
It is also interesting to look at the Scottish Mountaineering Club (SMC) list of compleators for Munros over the years. A cumulative total graph shows that the rate of completion has plateaued at around 200-250 per year. The dip caused by the COVID pandemic is also apparent.
Providing your age at compleation and the time taken to compleat in the SMC database is optional, but for those who have chosen to do so the data in recent years is shown below:
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