tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953799252258289641.post3910180792294299467..comments2023-11-29T09:15:34.894+00:00Comments on Myrddyn Phillips - Mapping Mountains: Summit Relocations – The 500-Metre Tops of England and Wales – The DeweysMyrddynhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08577197831384250538noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953799252258289641.post-15139657946693630672016-05-27T13:48:20.289+01:002016-05-27T13:48:20.289+01:00Hi John
The drop for Esgair Greolen as measured b...Hi John<br /><br />The drop for Esgair Greolen as measured by the Trimble is 30.3m. I took 16 data sets from the area of the bwlch over the two days I spent on these hills. Thankfully the weather was hospitable with lovely sunshine.Myrddynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08577197831384250538noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5953799252258289641.post-11992433918595352502016-05-27T13:44:00.849+01:002016-05-27T13:44:00.849+01:00This looks like another fine piece of measuring th...This looks like another fine piece of measuring that helps tidy up a Mountain list.<br /><br />Back in 2011 when I was wandering this area of hills collecting Dewey’s, I was aware that the “massif” had two little occurrences of the 500 metre contour, and my roughly accurate but precisely wrong home made pocket “theodo-lite” could not separate the two very similar tops.<br /><br />My main concern with the pair of tops was that of relative height. From the col 300 metres WSW of the summit of Esgair Greolen, my notes say that I thought it was not much over 28 vertical metres up to the summit tuft of rough grass.<br /><br />Knowing your diligence on such things you obviously measured it and it must have come out at over 30 metres, or we would be reading a different story!<br /><br />What was the result?<br /> <br />John Kirk.<br /> Myrddynhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08577197831384250538noreply@blogger.com