01.08.18 Mountain Park (SN 171 120)
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| Mountain Park (SN 171 120) |
The delights of easily
bagged summits that are near conveniently placed roads with parking space, and
for the lower heighted hills those with access through near gates, can be
viewed as little gems giving road side ticks when only a minute or two are
required to park, step out on to terra-firma, walk down the road through the
gate and stomp around a bit in a relatively flat field until ones conscious
dictates that the highest point has probably been walked over. Many hill baggers have probably done this during
their visits to many varied summits, the worth of such an endeavour is
debatable, but it is extremely convenient and affords a number of summits to be
visited when ticks a-plenty can be gathered, and to a large extent this is what
Suzanne and I were doing today, however it also had the element of a road trip
added in for fun, and it proved interesting as my bagging colleague did not know
what a Munro was, let alone a Marilyn, Hump or Tump, for me this was
enlightening and Suzanne’s view of the day was not hindered by any form of
bagging notion, she was out for a good day, and so was I.
Our fifth hill of the
day is given the rather eloquent name of Mountain Park on the Tithe map for the
field where its summit is situated, and this is the name this hill is now
listed by in the 200m Twmpau.
I parked in a small
lay-by near the entrance track to a covered reservoir having driven a Google
car on this road two nights previous. As
we sauntered across the road to an access gate a tractor chugged its way in to
the opposing field trimming its boundary hedge, I thought about making
place-name enquiries but as we now had limited time before heading back to
Caerfyrddin (Carmarthen) where Ben; Suzanne’s youngest son was waiting for us,
I decided that a quick visit and survey of the summit was the order of the day.
I’d previously analysed
this hill’s summit via LIDAR and came prepared with a ten figure grid reference
for its high point, Suzanne chuckled away behind me as I marched this way and
that, forever playing a merry dance until the Trimble zeroed in to the high
point, once at the summit I set the Trimble up atop my rucksack, measured the
offset between its internal antenna and the ground below, waited for the 0.1m
accuracy level to be attained before data should be logged, and once this was
achieved I pressed ‘Log’ and joined Suzanne who was flat out in the field
relaxing.
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| Gathering data at the summit of Mountain Park |
Our conversation whizzed
along and when I next looked at my watch 11 minutes of data were gathered, so I
quickly pressed ‘Done’, closed the equipment down, packed it away and off we
went toward our last hill of the day; Castell Meherin (SN 146 117).
Survey Result:
Mountain Park (significant name change)
Summit Height: 203.7m (converted to OSGM15)
Summit Grid Reference: SN 17181 12029
Bwlch Height: 173.5m (LIDAR)
Bwlch Grid Reference: SN 15693 11421 (LIDAR)
Dominance: 14.85%
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