This book introduced the Marilyn (P150) concept and listed the hills for England, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man. It was influential in helping the SOTA founders develop criteria for summits to be included in the programme.
A new edition is in preparation, and as well as the hill lists and data, it will include articles and stories from Marilyn baggers over the years. A couple of us (that I know of) have received emails from Alan Dawson requesting to use items written for the MARHOFN (âMarilyns Hall of Fame Newsletterâ) over the years.
The email I received was fished out of my junk mail folder last night. It was sent on Friday. I know that several other British SOTA activators have contributed written pieces for MARHOFN over the years, so worth checking your junk mail folders.
A controversial character in recent years. Text from Walkhighlands website.
The Fionas are the mountains in Scotland between 2000 and 2500 feet high, with at least 150 metres of descent on all sides. This is the same list of hills you need to climb to register your ascent of Grahams or the Full House with the Scottish Mountaineering Club.
They are named after the late hillwalker Fiona Torbet (maiden name Graham) who came up with the idea of a list of hills from 2000â to 2500â, to add to the existing Munros and Corbetts. This extended the work of J Rooke Corbett whose list covered 2500â - 3000â (Corbettâs list was the first to include the idea of a necessary relative height before hills were considered to be separate peaks.) Her original âGrahamsâ list, which covered only Highland peaks, was published in the Great Outdoors magazine.
Later, a strict 150m separation was agreed between her and Alan Dawson, who had already created a list of all British hills of any height, but with 150m of ascent on all sides. The resulting 2000-2500â hills with 150m separation was agreed by Fiona and Alan, and now extended to the whole of Scotland - they retained the name Grahams. However, some years after Fiona had tragically been killed, Alan Dawson obtained a registered trademark on the use of the Grahams name, since 2022 use of the now trademarked Grahams name requires abandonment of the historic 2000â criterion, commercial licensing, and a mandatory split into 10 regions that he specifies.
For these reasons, and to keep with original idea of hills between 2000â and 2500â by Fiona Torbet (Graham) - these hills on Walkhighlands are now listed as the Fionas. We regret the need to legal need to use a new name, but this name - suggested to us by the SMC - retains the link to the list originator Fiona Torbet, and has no commercial trademark or ownership - it can be freely used by anyone forever.
Personally, I wouldnât have anything to do with him.
