Scottish 3000s

During COVID lockdowns, we commenced the ambitious task of #VirtualPeakBagging all 282 Munros, one per day, and researching interpretations of their names.

Given the number of Munros, it was impossible to treat them in the same way as we have the Scottish 4000s and English and Welsh 3000s, by creating a web page for each of them with 360 degree panoramas from the summits, links to Google Earth for satellite views of them and with text providing other interesting facts about the mountains and their names.

Instead, we created a spreadsheet that provides their height and prominence, interpretations of their names (up to 4), links to Google Maps Street View to view 360° panorama from their summits, links to Google Earth to view them from above, links to view the mountain on 1:25000 and 1:50000 Ordnance Survey maps, links to Geograph's gallery of photos of the mountain, and links to its entries on Wikipedia, Hill Bagging, and Walkhighlands. Help with the pronunciation of their names can be obtained from the Wikipedia link (using the International Phonetic Alphabet) and from the Walkhighlands link (by playing an audio file).

The Munros Google Sheet (part of which is shown in the image below) can be viewed full-screen by visiting virtualpeakbagging.info or by clicking on the image itself. The spreadsheet can be scrolled horizontally and vertically using the scroll bars or by using TAB, ARROWS, PAGE UP, PAGE DOWN, HOME and END, and can be searched by typing CTRL-F.

In 2022, we tweeted daily about each Munro in turn with what we thought was the most likely interpretation of its name, along with a photo of it and a quote from Bear Grylls' Soul Fuel book. The series of tweets can be viewed at: 2022 #Munro Tweets.

Screenshot of the first few rows and columns of the Munros Virtual Peak Bagging spreadsheet
Click on the image to view the spreadsheet full screen in a new window

 

 

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