Peak Bagging

At best peak bagging is a harmless activity deriving from the natural instinct of people to note their achievements in lists.

This becomes true peak bagging when a walker decides to climb every hill within a given list, refuses to consider climbing hills not on the list and will happily climb such hills in any weather just to tick them off.

Munros
While such extreme peak bagging is quite rare, the 'sport' of Munro bagging is amazingly popular. Munros are defined as Scottish hills over 3000ft of which there are currently considered to be 284. Over 3000 people have climbed all of these, and many more have climbed a large subset.

This has led to a rather strange situation where excellent hills just under 3000ft are neglected while any shapeless summit over 3000ft is quite popular.

The most amusing Munro is without doubt the Inaccessible Pinnacle - a rock pinnacle on the Isle of Skye which just happens to be higher than the mountain it is attached to. Anyone silly enough to regard this as the true mountain top deserves to have to climb it! (It requires a rock climb, albeit a very easy one in good weather, and being a munro sometimes a queue before doing so). At least this all provides good income for local guides :)