Marilyn Hall of Fame News

MARHOFN 58.03 - MAY 2001

The Newsletter for Marilyn Baggers

This is the third edition of Marhofn, the Marilyn Hall of Fame newsletter. A Marilyn is a hill of any height with a drop of 150 metres or more on all sides. In other words, a relatively high hill. There are 1552 Marilyns in Britain, and this newsletter is for people who like to climb them, especially people who have climbed 600 or more, and so are eligible for membership of the Marilyn Hall of Fame. The Marilyns are all listed in a book called The Relative Hills of Britain (RHB) by Alan Dawson, published by Cicerone Press in April 1992. Details of subsequent changes to the list of Marilyns have been published in a series of update sheets, most recently in April 1999. There is no update sheet for 2000 or 2001.

• RHB Update and Front Page News

    Baystones Is Back
    Late News: Corbett Moves
    2000 Landmarks
    Marhofn Meeting 2001
    SMC Corbetts Call
    Yahoo For You
• Hall Highlights 2000

    13 members looks back in anguish
• Corridor Corner and Cellar Field

    Wannabes have their say
• Candidates for Change and Potential Renominations

    What might (or might not) have moved
• Island Hoping

    Holy Island, Shetland, Bardsey, Wight, St Kilda
• First Fifteen

    First lady Ann Bowker describes how she started bagging
• Bloody Ticks

    Hamish Brown gets ticks in his blood and in his bones
• Marilyn Hall of Fame - 31 December 2000

    Essential numbers about 58 members
• Excuse Me I've Not Been Bagging

    Hot new list: best non-bagging excuses
• The British Rail Peaks: How I Trained To Be A Bagger

    Training session with Phil Cooper
• Babies and Marilyns

    Lynda Woods takes her baby to the top
• Hall of Shame

    Big Boring Bogs, Excess Tree Density
    Pretty But Painful, Get Off My Land
• Ethical Bagging

    Carlton Willits and David Purchase suggest how to bag good
• Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal

    Members' tips for the tops
• Cheesecake No More

    Helen McLaren's futile attempt to make us talk proper
• Things Come In Threes (or fours)

    More Hamish Brown, on Brown Muir
• Going the way of all flush brackets

    Trig Bagging from 2m to 8m, with Dave Hewitt
• Obituary: John Allen

Marhofn is distributed free of charge to Hall of Fame members and anyone else interested, although contributions such as stamps and cheques are very welcome. Many thanks to everyone who has already assisted - it is very much appreciated. The next issue will probably appear in April 2002. All members and prospective members are encouraged to send in articles, comments and numbers by the end of January 2002.

Post: Alan Dawson, 49 Airthrey Avenue, Glasgow G14 9LY
Phone: 0141 576 7564
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