Adventurous Scots who love to walk enjoy what they call “bagging a munro.” A munro is any peak over 3,000 feet. According to Sir Hugh Munro (1856-1919), there are 283 of them.

And according to the Visit Scotland website, there are more than 6,000 people who’ve hiked them all.

Today we got almost halfway up the tallest Munro — Ben Nevis, the highest mountain in the British Isles. It was raining when we started but soon cleared up. This was good for many reasons, including the fact that the rocks in our path had dried out when we made our way down, making them slightly less slippery. 

We certainly didn’t bag a Munro today. But we almost half-bagged one.