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 Berwyn, on the Berwyn Ridge; and

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.