{"id":61,"date":"2020-03-25T22:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T22:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/?p=61"},"modified":"2024-11-28T23:12:12","modified_gmt":"2024-11-28T23:12:12","slug":"marilyn-bagging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/?p=61","title":{"rendered":"Marilyn bagging"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4188-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4188-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4188-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4188-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4188-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4188-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4188-1568x1176.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Bagging hills is a common approach people take to hill walking. This involves picking a list of hills or mountains and ticking them off or \u2018bagging\u2019 them. Many people in Scotland choose Munros, in England the Wainwrights. But there are many other lists to choose from, each with their own criteria to include a hill &#8211; height, prominence, or region to name a few. Marilyns are a fairly straight forward list requiring a hill to have 150m of prominence, no minimum height, and from anywhere in Great Britain. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4180-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-63\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4180-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4180-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4180-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4180-1536x1152.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4180-2048x1536.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4180-1568x1176.jpeg 1568w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>For me, Marilyns offer several good reasons to takle them:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>150m prominence means some are really small, and can be completed when time is short, or the weather is poorer.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Some areas have several clustered together and allow for days of multi Marilyn bagging with much less effort than say a multi-Munro day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Often a Marilyn has a surprisingly good view over their surroundings. <br><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>if you\u2019re an avid list bagger then many Marilyns also appear on other lists\u2026 yes some hills are a Marilyn Munro! <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4182-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4182-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4182-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4182-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4182-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4182-1568x2091.jpeg 1568w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4182-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>March was an ideal time to get out on some small Marilyns, and since we could not leave Aberdeenshire there were a few ideally placed to bag in a day. A run up towards Huntly led us to a total of 5 Marilyns bagged in the area with a good variety of terrain. <br>The bin of Cullen was the highlight of the day, with fantastic views out to the coast. <br>The knock near Huntly was rough with very little path but a very short steep sided hill meant the ordeal to the summit took little more than 30 minutes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4189-768x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-65\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4189-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4189-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4189-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4189-1536x2048.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4189-1568x2091.jpeg 1568w, https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/IMG_4189-scaled.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Next time you\u2019re looking for something different, easier, or in passing, a small Marilyn might just be the hill to climb. Walkhighlands lists all smaller Marilyns (lower than 2000ft) on their site so finding a walk description there is an ideal place to start. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bagging hills is a common approach people take to hill walking. This involves picking a list of hills or mountains and ticking them off or \u2018bagging\u2019 them. Many people in Scotland choose Munros, in England the Wainwrights. But there are many other lists to choose from, each with their own criteria to include a hill&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/?p=61\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Marilyn bagging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-walking","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/67"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mountainwalker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}