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Click on walk to see details of walk statistics, peaks bagged, map of route taken, photographs and walk description.

Objectives for the year
This years focus as in all previous years is still going to be the Nuttalls, however for the first time a new more challenging objective is seducing me away from the Nuttalls.
Completion of all 1556 GB Marilyns including the Isle of Man.
Easy when you just say it but a feat that, as of time of writing (Jan 2016), a goal that only 4 people have achieved, with Rob Woodhall and Eddie Dealtry being the first in October 2014 on Stac Lee, a 172m sea stack in the Outer Hebrides on the archipelago of St. Kilda.
It is also a commitment to climb every Corbet due to their 500' (152.4m) prominence criterion and 202 Munros, however after Nuttalls completion the Munros will be the secondary focus anyway. Get them done whilst I still can.
This is going to be a 10 year minimum project but before I can concentrate fully, giving it my full attention I first want to complete all of the 443 Nuttalls of England and Wales.
Last years target was to complete them before my 60^th birthday and with 126 left at the beginning of 2015 it was a reasonable target to spread these over the two years remaining before the big six O.
However after 6 months out last year forced by the infamous bad back, managing only 26 Nuttalls, 103 (of which only 37 are Marilyns) in the remaining 10 months and 18 days seems a tall order. It is certainly more Nuttalls than I have climbed in any one year since starting in 2008. 2009 was the most prolific year with 84 being climbed.
True to form I have not changed this objective, however maybe due to my new found wisdom and to ensure focus on a single goal I am opting for the long game and declaring the Marilyns as the primary focus.
Part of that focus includes qualifying for the MarHoF 2017 meet by climbing 600 Marilyns. So let's see where we are with the Nuttalls by say mid Summer before I start planning any Nuttall completion parties in November 2016.
The Nuttall rate will be approx. 10 per month and the Marilyn rate with 416 to do in 17 months will be 24.4706, lets say 25 per month 

January

 06^th Ysgyryd Fawr, Sugar Loaf & Bryn Arw
 07^th Allt yr Esgair, Myarth & Graig Syfyrddin [Edmund's Tump]
 08^th Three Marilyns between Llangattock and Newport
 10^th Mynydds y Lan & Machen
 11^th Craig y Allt,Cefn Eglwysilan & Mynydd y Glyn
 12^th Garth Hill & Coity Mountain, GB Marilyn 200
 15^th Mynydd y Betws
 16^th Pumlumon Nuttalls
 17^th Ffridd Cocyn & Gamallt
 18^th Tarrenhendre & Tarren y Gesail
 19^th Y Garn (The Rhinogs)

February

 23^rd The Wrekin, Corndon Hill, Caeliber Isaf & Beacon Hill (Long Mountain)
 24^th Upper Park, Y Golfa, Stingwern Hill & Allt y Main
 25^th Moel y Golfa
 26^th Moel y Cerrig Duon
 26^th Pen y Brynfforchog, Nuttall No 350
 28^th Foel Cae'rberllan & Craig Goch [Mynydd Cwmcelli]
 29^th Rhayader Marilyns

March
 01^st Carn Gafallt & Gwastedyn Hill
 09^th Cadair Idris Nuttalls east of A487
 10^th Mynydd Moel & Gau Graig
 11^th Craig y Castell
 12^th Cadair Idris + two outliers to the west from YHA Kings
 14^th Cwm Cywarch ring from Glasgwm to Pen yr Allt Uchaf

April
 06^th Brown Clee Hill - Shropshire's Historic County Top
 08^th Moel Sych & Cadair Berwyn - Montgomeryshire's & Denbighshire's Historic County Tops
 12^th Craig y Llyn - Glamorgan's Historic County Top Foel Fynyddau & Mynydd Dinas
 14^th Mynydd Allt-y-grug & Mynydd Uchaf

 21^st Y Garn to Carnedd y Filiast ridge
 22^nd Gallt yr Ogof & Y Foel Goch
 23^th Mynydd Mawr

 24^th Moels Eilio & Cynghorion, Foel Gron and Llechog from YHA Llanberis
 26^th Nantlle Ridge north to south

Objectives for the Year review so far
March and April walks now added. Lack of hyper links testament to how much time away walking as well as how much catching up to do with walk reports

May
 21^th Foel Penolau & Moel Ysgyfarnogod
 23^th Snowdon Horseshoe
 25^th Moelwyns Mawr & Bach and two other nearby Nuttalls from Tanygrisiau
 26^th The Ysgafell Wens, Moel Druman & Allt-Fawr from Tal-y-waenydd

June
 19^th Mynydd Nodol
 20^th Pendle Hill, Lad Law & Freeholds Top
 21^st Hutton Roof Crags & Arnside Knott
 22^nd Pillar Rock - The 254th and final English Nuttall

July

None

August

 15^th Central Arenigs
 16^th North Arenigs
 18^th North East Arans

September

None

October

 07^th Calf Top
 08^th Moel Siabod
 09^th Yr Aran and Gallt y Wenallt
 11^th The Manods & Moel Penamnen from Blaenau Ffestiniog
 12^th The Cnichts

 13^th Moel Hebog - The Beddgelert Three
 14^th Moel-y-Gest
 15^th Five Nuttalls of the Central Rhinogs
 18^th Rhobell Fawr & Dduallt
 19^th Rhinog Fawr from Cwm-bychan Farm
 21^st Gorllwyn & Drygarn Fawr
 22^nd Pen y Garn
 22^nd Bryn y Fan
 24^th Foel Goch and the four Deweys from Bala C&CC campsite
 25^th North West Arans

November

 06^th Arenig Fach
 22^nd Gwaunceste Hill
 22^nd Carneddau
 22^nd The Begwns
 22^nd Pen y Garn-goch
 23^rd Aberedw Hill
 23^rd Mynydd Epynt [Mynydd Eppynt]
 23^rd Crugiau Merched
 23^rd Mynydd Cynros
 24^th Frenni Fawr
 24^th Mynydd Carningli
 24^th Foel Cwmcerwyn
 24^th Brandy Hill
 25^th Rhos Ymryson
 25^th Pen-crug-melyn
 25^th Trichrug

December
 06^th Birch Hill
 18^th Crowborough
 18^th Chanctonbury Ring [Chanctonbury Hill]
 19^th Butser Hill
 19^th Nine Barrow Down
 19^th Hardown Hill
 19^th Lewesdon Hill
 20^th Selworthy Beacon
 20^th Periton Hill
 20^th Dunkery Beacon
 20^th Wills Neck
 21^st Staple Hill


Year end review
Here we are at the end of yet once again is the year I was going to give this peak bagging malarki a real go.
Here are the highlights:-
• With 225 (223 excluding those minor TuMP thingies) peaks logged on www.hill-bagging.co.uk it is my most prolific year in terms of hill numbers bagged.
• 105 unclimbed Nuttalls visited to complete all 446 English & Welsh Nuttalls.
• 300 GB Marilyn milestone reached, half way to MarHoF.
• Claimed my first overseas summit in Portugal on Foia 
So where does the feeling of frustration come from that I have not done enough hill-bagging and want to do more in 2017. If anyone can answer that question please let me know.
Completion of the Nuttalls was the primary focus for 2016 on the basis it was the hill list that got me in to peak bagging back in 2008 and I wanted to complete that list before embarking on the more challenging GB Marilyns in terms of both scope and scale.
I did briefly concentrate on Marilyns during the first two months of the year but this was more to do with not attempting too strenuous walks as part of rehabilitation from a back injury that kept me out of the hills for 6 months of 2015. Reassurance that no matter what physical capabilities you have there will always be a hill to climb.
Once rehabilitated the focus rightly returned to Nuttalls, with the objective of completing them all before my 60th birthday. This was achieved on 06 November (12 days before my birthday) on Arenig Fach with wife, friends and new found hill bagging buddies. Thanks to all who turned out in what were less than ideal weather conditions with the first snow of the year, poor visibility and cold north easterly winds. Apart from that it was perfect.
With the year’s main objective complete and nearly two months of the year remaining the choice was to stay at home and find some jobs or find a new focus. Could not think of any jobs that needed doing so decided to finish years Marilyn total on 300, which was conveniently achieved on Staple Hill on 21 December. This leaves the way open to introduce the closed objective for 2017 to qualify for MarHof by the end of the year. Quite a target considering it involves doubling the number of Marilyns visited during my entire 8 year peak bagging journey. Well if you don’t set an objective you don’t have anything to work towards. We will see. 

So here is the years total with Nuttalls being the main focus the total for P15’s was 102
Britain
116 - P150 Marilyns
127 - P100 HuMPs
  84 - 600m/P30 Simms
189 - P30 TUMPs

Here also are the years total for prominence lists on a world scale. Only 5 visited this year with 4 of them being in GB, all of those in Wales. 
World (total in brackets)
0   (0) - P1500
1   (1) - P1000 (Snowdon)
5 (22) - P600 (4 GB, 1 Portugal) 

Seems appropriate (to me anyway) that 2016 was my first foreign bagged summit and it is the year that RHSoc is interested in international yearend totals. 
It is also the year I decided to add some foreign summits to my priority hill lists. To that end I have 4 weeks (2 weeks in June 2017 and 2 weeks in July 2017) peak bagging planned in Spain, returning through France. If anyone wants to join me for a few days you are most welcome. Hoping to start the P1500 list as well as significantly increase the P1000’s visited. These are lists where there is simply no chance of completing. Of course we all know what No 1 is on these lists.
Just hope it is not too much of a distraction for me working on the GB Marilyns.
One thing for sure, if there was any risk you are going to run out of hills in GB there is not a chance if you venture beyond our shores.