I went for a walk today which involved me climbing and crossing Cleeve Hill. It was pretty clear, and so I could see, way out to the West, the Skirrid and Sugarloaf Mountain near Abergavenny. Now from doing Spa2Summit I reckon that's probably 35-40 miles. Assuming that I could see the same distance in every direction (which wasn't possible with Cleeve Hill, the Malverns etc in the way) but just say I could, that would mean I could see something in the region of 3800-5000 square miles of ground. That's a lot of ground.
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I'm fairly sure it's possible to see the Brecon's and Black mountains from up there, or at least from Lecky. Also the hills up in Shropshire are visible beyond the Malverns, I think you can identify The Wreakin. That is much further than your initial calculation.
ReplyDeleteA radius of 70miles would make it around 48000 sq miles!
It is a thought all the same. Nice
In a straight line Pen-y-Fan is 60 miles from Cheltenham, so if you could see that, and on a super clear day you might just, I think that's about 11500 square miles. That's if you could see that far in every direction, which you can't :(
ReplyDeletewell you can see the moon which is 250,000 miles away, the sun which is 93,000,000 miles away, why limit yourself to two dimensions? As Jon Anderson said, "On a clear night, you can see forever". Now that is a thought!
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