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Some photos from Iceland in the winter. These are quite old (shot on fast film). pic.twitter.com/uUvcYg8ygz
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Mi'sen
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Mi'sen
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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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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo
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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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Mi'sen
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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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David Chapman
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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. upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm…
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David Chapman
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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 >
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David Chapman
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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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Mi'sen
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Woah! Well I’m glad you both survived. My mother tumbled down some scree head first once — not a great idea really — and was lucky to have only broken an arm I think.
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo
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Scree fields are particularly memorable, often exposed, high, with good views. I like them. There’s a scree field at the top of Caer Idris that we’ve bushwhacked a couple of times and I remember some cool ones in Norway.
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Brian Marick
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I recommend Iceland if you're a fan of scree. This mountain (described as a "moderate" hike) appeared to be scree all the way up. We gave up. pic.twitter.com/mcexhhA6Wp
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Brian Marick
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The hot springs in the first picture look familiar. North?
If you do scuba, the north coast has the only hydrothermal rift vents that I think are reachable with normal gear. xray-mag.com/content/str%C3…
Sadly, Dawn didn't have enough experience with drysuits to make it all the way.
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo
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Somewhere in Vatnajökull iirc. I haven’t made it to the north yet.
I should try scuba diving again. I went once and was very sick and saw a lot of seaweed.
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Raymond
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film always looks so good 😍
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Charlie El. Awbery a.k.a. Rin’dzin Pamo
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I think I was experimenting with ISO 400 at the time, which worked well for the winter half-light in Iceland, but it’s long enough ago that I’m not sure of the details.
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David Chapman
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yes I want to go there
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