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Coed Pant y Glo (SH 767 014)
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| Coed Pant y Glo (SH 767 014) |
Coed Pant y Glo nestles
in to its landscape; almost forgotten it overlooks the flat bedded land of the
Dyffryn Dyfi to its north and the A 489 road leading toward Machynlleth to its
south. Its summit is just within the
wood where the hill takes its name from, with a number of near and attractive
tops outside of this wood and all of which are lower.
I approached from the
south-east following a public footpath beyond the grounds of Gallt-y-llan; a
substantial house at the end of the paved road.
As I clambered up beside a garage and over a rusted low gate the
afternoon’s sunshine added warmth to proceedings.
The gate gave access to
a steep brackened field where two further gates led toward the summit area of
the hill. Across the valley the summits
of Copa Shon and Pen y Graig Fawr dominated, I’d just visited each and it felt
good to look out toward them from a different perspective.
Before heading in to the
deciduous wood I assessed the high point of land outside of the wood, deciding
that the survey of this point could wait I ventured across to the boundary
fence, stretched over it and stood on the high point of the hill. The summit of this hill is easily found and
consists of land a metre from the boundary fence, beyond which the ground drops
steeply to the south.
I set the Trimble up on
top of my rucksack to give it elevation above its immediate surrounds and
measured the offset between its internal antenna and the summit of the hill at
the base of the rucksack, once the file was created in the Trimble I stood back
and hoped I would not have to wait long before the 0.1m accuracy level was
attained before data should be logged.
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| Gathering data at the summit of Coed Pant y Glo |
During this waiting
process I savoured the wood and its trees and its moss and its peacefulness;
nothing seemed to stir except for the occasional flutter of a bird. Eventually I activated the Trimble and again
stood back amongst the trees and waited until the allocated datum points were
collected and stored, once this was done I closed the equipment down, took a
few photos and headed back to the high point of ground outside of the wood.
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| Moss on tree |
This outside of the wood
high point was on a grassed mound, similar in nature to a number that sprang up
on the summit area, I placed the Trimble on the ground and waited for 300 datum
points to be collected and stored before closing the equipment down.
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| Gathering data at the high point of land outside of the wood, with the wooded summit in the background of this photo |
Leaving the summit area
of Coed Pant y Glo it was only a short walk back on my inward route toward my
car, I then headed toward Gallt y Gog; a lower forested P30 directly above
Machynlleth. Afterward I surveyed the
bwlch of each hill.
The bwlch of Coed Pant y
Glo is positioned in a field beside a drainage ditch which has a land bridge
spanning the ditch leading down from an access gate. I parked a short distance away down the road
at the entrance to a caravan park and soon found myself standing beside a
stunted tree hedge next to a bungalow, having set the Trimble up at what I
deemed to be the high point on the valley to valley traverse and which was
beside the drainage ditch.
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| Gathering data at the first Trimble set-up position at the bwlch of Coed Pant y Glo |
I spent the next five
minutes standing beside the hedge waiting for the Trimble to gather its
allotted data. On the other side of the
hedge were a greenhouse and the back garden of the bungalow.
Before heading back to
my car I took another data set from the land bridge that spans the small wet
ditch, this I decided would be the critical bwlch of the hill. As I did so I watched the lowering sun cast
colour across the opposing land, I was now in shade which only enhanced the
illuminated colour on show.
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| Gathering data at the second Trimble set-up position at the bwlch of Coed Pant y Glo |
I’d taken eleven data
sets during the day on three separate walks and had visited five P30s and been
out surveying for eight hours, it had been another good day.
Survey Result:
Coed Pant y Glo (significant name change)
Summit Height: 140.7m (converted to OSGM15, Trimble GeoXH 6000)
Summit Grid Reference: SH 76776 01435 (Trimble GeoXH 6000)
Bwlch Height: 49.05m (LIDAR)
Bwlch Grid Reference: SH 77889 01169 (LIDAR)
Drop: 91.7m (Trimble GeoXH 6000 summit and LIDAR bwlch)
Dominance: 65.15% (Trimble GeoXH 6000 summit and LIDAR bwlch)
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