Congratulations to Rob
Woodall who earlier today on the 18th February 2018 completed the
Welsh mainland Tumps on a 279m map heighted hill positioned at SH 660 139 and
which overlooks the double lakes of Llynnau Cregennan, which are situated at
the north-western base of Cadair Idris.
The hill remains unnamed on Ordnance Survey maps and is known as Ffridd
Las, with the name of Pen Llynnau Cregennen used in the Tumps listing.
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| Rob and friends celebrating on the summit of Ffridd Las (SH 660 139) , having completed the Welsh mainland Tumps |
In doing so Rob became
the first person to complete this set of mainland hills, a quite phenomenal
task as there are over 2,270 mainland Tumps listed in Wales, with an overall
total including island Tumps exceeding 2,340.
The word Tump is an
acronym standing for Thirty and Upward Metre Prominences and
takes in hills that have a minimum of 30m of prominence, irrespective of their
height. The Tumps take in the whole of
Britain and were first published by Mark Jackson in 2009, but as the Welsh P30s
had been listed and published beforehand the data he duplicated and collated
for the Welsh segment of this list was reliant upon a number of other list
compilers.
Rob was joined by a
number of friends for the walk and celebrated at the summit with a bottle of
Penderyn Single Malt Whiskey, as well as an assortment of other bottled
beverages and copious amounts of cake, and even the fickle Welsh weather was
kind as the forecast rain only materialised after getting down from the hill.
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| Ffridd Las (SH 660 139), listed as Pen Llynnau Cregennen in the Tumps |
Prior to finishing the
Welsh mainland Tumps Rob was the first person to complete the 1,556 Marilyns atop
Stac an Armin on the 13th October 2014 and has bagged the 6,190 surviving
Ordnance Survey trig pillars finishing with Benarty Hill on the 16th
April 2016, he has also bagged one or two other hills in the interim!
Nicely written up Myrddyn. Quick off the mark.
ReplyDeleteThanks Ted, I've now got a video to edit (if I can remember how to do this [haven't done one in ages] [[seem to remember the last one I did was of Rob]] [[[he does seem to be celebrating an awful lot these days]]]).
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