I must admit to never thinking 'Marilyn', but on writing to Dave Hewitt after completing the Corbetts he sent us a copy of the 2001 newsletter and suggested that we were probably well on our way to 600. As we had done all the Welsh 2000ft tops, all the Wainwrights, and sundry other tops in the Pennines and Peak District, we thought we had probably done about 700. On purchasing The Relative Hills and adding up we were surprised that we had only done 593 and 594 respectively. We had both tramped around mountain areas before we met, and have since repeated all our individual tops together except the actual summit of Kinder Scout, which had been my first. We quickly did a few more Marilyns in Wales to total 598 and 599, then on 4 October 2001 we both went up Penycloddiau in the early morning (my 600th) and then drove to Edale and did Kinder Scout (Syl's 600th). Our current project is high points of Scottish islands, but the Marilyns have given us something else to do which we may not have done otherwise.
