I guess that you have me down as a book ticking hill bagger.... No just a diary keeper of my trips in the hills over a period of nearly sixty enjoyable years.
Ben Stack came into the frame during a day out with my wife on Ben Hee and the long windedly named Meallan Liath Coire Mhic Dhughaill on a day when Ben Stack was visible and dominating the view to the North west for most of the period that we were out on the hills. After an overnight in the Scourie camping perched above the sea we just had to pay the Stack a visit. That visit too was a memorable day with very fine views of the Quinag Hills and of course the group including Foinaven and we too found that the summit area to be a bit underwhelming but by continuing out to the slightly lower peak overlooking the sea was a more worthy top for this hill. On the way down we were hit with the full force of an early summer rain storm saw us arriving at the motor water with pouring out of our boots. I guess that every hill-day has a wee story to be told.
I'm an avid journal keeper too; not quite stretching back 60 years though. I started mine when I joined my university mountaineering club in 1984, and I suppose my trip reports are an extension of this.
I've been as guilty of 'bagging' as anyone in the past, and I do know how many Munros that I have climbed (not that many), but I no longer plan walks based upon wanting to tick a peak off some list. Perhaps I no longer need that kind of motivation, and I'm just as happy climbing a peak and then coming down via some out of the way corrie or glen as I am bagging multiple tops on a trip - equally satisfying.
I do remember Ben Stack being a good day; we went up from the west and descended down the eastern side, returning along the minor road, which in some respects I enjoyed the most, but as I said, it felt second best when looking at the likes of Arkle and Quinaig.