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 subtle 05 Dec 2018

Hmm, is Foel Penolau a hill or a mountain then?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46441129

Sure a bigger debate then the grade of 3 pebble slab, or even Brexit?

 

 malky_c 05 Dec 2018
In reply to subtle:

Regardless, it's an arse of a hill

Removed User 05 Dec 2018
In reply to subtle:

There are no mountains in Britain.

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In reply to Removed User:

What do you think that is? -

http://torridonblog.sais.gov.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/IMG_0539-1024x57...

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Moley 05 Dec 2018
In reply to subtle:

If Myrddyn says it is a mountain, then it is a mountain. Great place, so long as you don't lose the path!

 alan moore 05 Dec 2018
In reply to Removed User:

In Wales everything vertiginous is a mountain.

In Scotland it's always hill.

Usually always anyway.

 malky_c 05 Dec 2018
In reply to Gordon Stainforth:

Liathach - nice hill!

 Andy Mullett 06 Dec 2018
In reply to Moley:

Path....hahahahaha.  See you up there soon. A

 

 Blue Straggler 06 Dec 2018
In reply to subtle:

I have spent my life until yesterday when i saw the story, convinced that the height criterion for a mountain was 3000 feet, not 2000 feet!

Moley 06 Dec 2018
In reply to Andy Mullett:

> Path....hahahahaha.  See you up there soon. A

Well, goat track!!

Must get back there this summer, currently both full of "lurgy". Keep well.

OP subtle 06 Dec 2018
In reply to Blue Straggler:

> I have spent my life until yesterday when i saw the story, convinced that the height criterion for a mountain was 3000 feet, not 2000 feet!

I blame brexit for lowering the criteria, the expectation now being everything over 2000 feet will be classed as a mountain

 girlymonkey 06 Dec 2018
In reply to subtle:

I never thought there was a difference! I always thought it was 2 words for the same thing, I tend to use hill if I'm walking and mountain if I am mountaineering! 

OP subtle 06 Dec 2018
In reply to girlymonkey:

> I never thought there was a difference! I always thought it was 2 words for the same thing, I tend to use hill if I'm walking and mountain if I am mountaineering! 

By that definition then most in the UK would be both -  hills (walk up them on path) and mountains (to go mountaineering on them away from the path up them)

 Sir Chasm 06 Dec 2018
In reply to subtle:

If some people call them hills and some people call them mountains then they're already both. In any event, they're all hills and some are mountains too.

 mnyateley 06 Dec 2018
In reply to subtle:

> Hmm, is Foel Penolau a hill or a mountain then?

> https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-46441129

> Sure a bigger debate then the grade of 3 pebble slab, or even Brexit?

Hill or Mountain? I think it was the Ordnance Survey, in its wisdom, that defined a mountain as being over 2000 ft which equates to being above 600 metres these days.

OP subtle 06 Dec 2018
In reply to mnyateley:

> Hill or Mountain? I think it was the Ordnance Survey, in its wisdom, that defined a mountain as being over 2000 ft which equates to being above 600 metres these days.

Hmm, what about the Douglas Boulder then?

Boulder/Hill/Mountain?

 john arran 06 Dec 2018
In reply to subtle:

Clearly neither. It's a Peaks

OP subtle 06 Dec 2018
In reply to john arran:

> Clearly neither. It's a Peaks

Its only a singular boulder though so no plural. The Douglas Peak?

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 girlymonkey 06 Dec 2018
In reply to subtle:

Indeed, I refer to the same mass of raised ground by both names.i see them as synonymous. So if I am mountaineering, I usually talk about going up the mountain. If I'm walking, I usually refer to the hill

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