I read somewhere that the Isle of Arran is Scotland in miniature, it was one of my ambitions from boyhood to visit there. Whilst enjoying a remote ridge somewhere west of Goatfell an avid collector of peaks came trundling past us, breathlessly telling us we could bag something or other if we were to divert down another ridge. An alteration in route means missing something else, walking down Glen Sannox in twilight was worth more to me than completing a list.
Scotland to me was about route finding, staying in the Trossacks we took the steam boat across Loch Katrine to climb Beinn Venue and then find our own route back, no signs that this was a tourist trod. Gave Ben Lomond a miss, but found our own view point of Loch Lomond from somewhere on the ridge of Beinn a' Choin, did we actually get to the summit, I think we did but does it really matter because the real gem of that route was the way we took of the hill, back into Glen Gyle.
No list told me to do it, just looking at the hillside from ridge of Meall Mor and another hill we probably climbed, but the quality of way was 5 star and endless mile of it.
Climbed Arthur's Seat too, took the tour bus to the Scottish Parliament, had a bit of time to spare, so somehow landed up on the summit in city brogues carrying an umbrella, descended a different way and found a route through woods and side streets back into the city centre.
I suspect that the statement to ignore anything south of Glasgow is nonsense, one of my favourite books from my youth was Ian Niall's Poachers Handbook written in the 1940's about his childhood. As much about putting an illicit meal on the table the book is about exploring the countryside, I always thought it to be set in the English Shire counties, but by the power of the internet I find that Ian Niall grew up in Galloway.
Plenty to do in Scotland apart from Munro's
Arrrrr.......nearly forgot. You can't trespass in Scotland.