INTERVIEW: Good things in small packages - Anne Butler on Bagging the Grahams

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 UKH Articles 17 Oct 2022

The 2000-foot Grahams may lack the headline appeal of Munros or even Corbetts, but this Scottish hill list deserves to be a lot more popular, says Anne Butler, a super-bagger who's done rounds of all three. We caught up with her to find out what we've been missing.

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 kinley2 17 Oct 2022
In reply to UKH Articles:

The whole division of hills into height groupings is a bit daft really, there's really not much difference in character between lower Munros, the Corbetts and higher Grahams. It's only 300m between the floor of Graham height and the floor of Munro height - that's only a 30 minute walk.

It is handy though - there's a lot of really nice hills that get almost ignored because they aren't on most peoples' lists. I do like a quiet hill.

 Flinticus 24 Oct 2022
In reply to kinley2:

Yeah. By the time you get to the summit of a graham, there's usually fuel left to go higher. The difference can be immaterial.

Of course low grahams are prefect in their own way,  for a quick overnight summer camp or for a young dog new to the hills or an old dog with limited ability.


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