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Pen-y-Ghent (name of the little hill this is from) is apparently Cumbric language, sounds very Welsh. I'm going to read up on the etymology when I get the chance.
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Interested to hear... In Welsh that would mean ’head of the Ghent’ (you probably know that). What’s the Ghent, is it a river?
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AFAICT: no one agrees/knows what Ghent is. Most people are translating it as border, currently. A book on Celtic Culture cites a 1307 book, when it used to be called Penegent, and says that gent is 'heathen'.
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Wiki image reminds me of this local hill. The map shows a trail between the left peak and the middle one. In fact there is a deep vertical canyon there which could not be descended without expertise and equipment. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Castle_Peak_from_Andesite_Peak.jpg …
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“That’s not a problem!” I cheerfully explained to
@literalbanana who for some reason was being polite instead of pointing out that I was totally insane. “We can just descend along the canyon rim until we get to the vertical cliff, make our way down the groove between the >1 reply 0 retweets 5 likes -
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… the groove in the cliff [visible directly below middle peak on photo], walk along the base of the cliff to the groove to the right of the right peak, and ascend that to return to the trail.” Surprisingly, neither of us died.
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I guess the take-away is that anyone hiking with me should, when I say “well, we could just…”, loudly exclaim NO! and head rapidly in the opposite direction
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that was when I learned the point of hiking boots! valuable experience, plus we saw the world’s most fucked up tree
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