Rucksack
Club Journal Vol. II, No. 2, 61-65 (1912)
Original
Optical Character Read with corrections.
EXCURSIONS.
TWENTY-FIVES.—The article on this subject which
appeared in last year’s Rucksack Club Journal has provoked certain
members of the Club to make a thorough and exhaustive examination of the map of
England and Wales, with the result that the following omissions from the list
have been brought to light:-
Pillar Rock, Ennerdale;
Black Dub, on Cross Fell;
Mickle Fell (second summit on the
county boundary).
The Knowe, on Harter Fell (this is
believed to be the only twenty-five Mr. Minor has not been up);
Browncove Crags, on Helvellyn;
Cader
Pen-y-Nantllyn, between Gader Fawr
and Waun Fach.
There is also the case of Gallt-y-Gogof, which,
owing to its proximity to Capel Curig, excited much interest during the Easter
Meet. The Ordnance Surveyors put the height of the mountain at only 2,499 feet,
but members who passed over this summitt on their way to the Glyders were
naturally reluctant to let it be excluded from the list for the sake of twelve
miserable inches. The argument that the mountain was in fact more than 2,500
feet above sea-level at low tide was held to be unsatisfactory, because it is
always low tide at some point on the British coast and always high tide at some
other point. More weight, however, attached to the argument that any person
more than two feet in height who ascended this peak was entitled to count it as
a twenty-five on the ground that the greater part of his anatomy had attained
the required altitude ; but, in order to place the matter beyond dispute, it was
finally agreed that this peak might be counted as a twenty-five by any climber
who, when standing on the topmost summit, should leap at least one foot
into
the air. J.
R. C.