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A great article, Sean, written with real passion. You describe really well the slow burning growth of the Munro obsession, once the fuse has been lit. I especially enjoyed your reminiscences about Mick Geddes, who I knew at Cambridge. Perhaps you also remember the howff in Coire Ardair, below Creag Meagaidh? Geddes and I, and a number of other CUMC people stayed there in winter in the early 1970s, and enjoyed the luxury of foam mattresses (soaking wet, of course) upstairs (upstairs! In a howff!), and the paraffin heater downstairs - no paraffin, but we found a tin of Cuprinol in a dark corner, and that burnt with a beautiful green flame. The next day we bagged Meagaidh, with Geddes sharing round his frozen Jaffa cakes with a fox-like grin. Happy days, and like you I haven't quite finished.
Steve