Ethel Ready App - Peak District peak bagging app

[Alexinthepeaks]

Hi All,

It may be of interest to those living near the Peak District, but there is a new hill bagging app called Ethel Ready.

Its avaliable o teh app store - https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/ethel-ready/id1559545575 or on Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... n_GB&gl=US

It looks pretty impressive, heres the blurb:

Are your ready for the challenge of climbing all of the Peak District's Ethels? Named after Ethel Haythornthwaite (the pioneer behind the Peak District National Park), the Ethels are all of the Peak District hills over 400m above sea level and significant lower prominent hills. Fewer, lower, easier and (for most of the UK's population) closer than the Munros of Scotland and the Wainwrights of the Lake District.

Explore the highest hills of the Peak District. Track your progress using interactive maps from OpenStreetMap.

[Bearbonesnorm]

I assume the majority of these are only accessible by footpath?

[Alexinthepeaks]

You would need to do your own due diligence on this, however im sure alot of folk access the area on foot too.

[In Reverse]

I assume the majority of these are only accessible by footpath?

Just looking at the ones in the High Peak and I suspect anyone's who's ridden round there for a year or three will have visited most of them by bike...

[GregMay]

Would be nice if you could tick from the map, rather than the list.

[RIP]

Not many peaks ('pointed top') in the Peaks really. Think I'd vote for Parkhouse Hill as the peakiest. Maybe Shutlingsloe gets a shout. Kinder and perhaps Bleaklow the only mountains, but wouldn't say either could be called peaks.

Lots of Peacs though of course.

A peat bogging application would be fun. Which groughs are the gloopiest...

I misread the title as something to do with Ethelred the Unready. Probably the effects of vanilla oatmeal stout.

[Bearbonesnorm]

We do know the name Peak District has nothing to do with hills, mountains or high ground of any type, don't we?

[RIP]

Aye. Peacs .

Well ah'll gu ter ar ahs, one might say if surprised by that revelation

[RIP]

I've just been following up Ethelred. Being Anglo-Saxon himself he was probably related to a few Peacs. Although he was actually a wussy southerner of course, being an Essex/Wessex man.

Apparently Ethelred fled to Normandy when the Danes invaded. He was succeeded by a bloke called Cnut. Which I find anagrammatically pleasing.

[Bearbonesnorm]

He was succeeded by a bloke called Cnut.

Yes, 'our' first Dane king am I right? and yes, a name to conjure with

[frogatthefarriers]

He was succeeded by a bloke called Cnut.

Yes, 'our' first Dane king am I right? and yes, a name to conjure with

Just imagine if somebody (a weirdo hippy or some such) called their son Cnut nowadays. Imagine the fun his mates would have with this. All his life. The thought made me burst out laughing. I think he’d have more luck trying to turn back the tide - probably easier to change his name by deed poll.

[FLV]

I like it, thanks for posting

[PaulE]

I've had the app for a while, but the main issue is as Greg said - you can only tick off the tops from the list, which is fine for the obvious ones but a bit of a pain with the more obscure... Still very good though, and I'm 33 Ethels in.

[Alpinum]

We do know the name Peak District has nothing to do with hills, mountains or high ground of any type, don't we?

Err... no.
Says the Swiss lad with family roots in that very place.
Genuinely curious where the term "peak" comes from if not from above mentioned.
I thought it had the same root as eg Pic or Piz etc.

Or is it just someone trying to tie a more interesting story to where the name Peak District comes

[whitestone]

It's from the name of an ancient tribe that lived in the area.

[johnnystorm]

It's from the name of an ancient tribe that lived in the area.

Isn't it likely they took their name from being the people who settled in the area with pics/peaks?

[Alexinthepeaks]

Seems to be getting rather technical...i just thought it was summit to do?

[Alpinum]

It's from the name of an ancient tribe that lived in the area.

Isn't it likely they took their name from being the people who settled in the area with pics/peaks?

That's what I (still) think.

[ledburner]

Seems to be getting rather technical...i just thought it was summit to do?

or Did the Chieftain say to his chieftainess.
I popping ing out, 'Just got to seA to summat? '

[Bearbonesnorm]

sn't it likely they took their name from being the people who settled in the area with pics/peaks?

I could see that had they lived somewhere where there were 'peaks' worthy of note. The Peak District isn't particularly high ground when compared to many other places within the UK?

[RIP]

Yes I still contend that there are very few real peaks in the area. As I pointed out way back up there, it is generally assumed the name is derived from the Peac people.

I thought Peac predated Peak. However I might have to retract that. Peac is a short form of Old English plural 'Pecsaetan', of which, it sez ere, Pecsaeta is the singular and 'literally' means 'peak-dweller'. But did those dwellers move in and spot some hills and invent the word 'pec' to describe them, then name themselves after those pecs; or did they already name themselves pecs then use their name for the hills? If the latter, surely (water) springs would be their most useful/important local feature (an importance still commemorated today with well-dressing ceremonies of course), rather than hills, and therefore more worthy of naming after themselves?

It's all getting a bit circular and I'm not sure we're any further forward. Chicken/egg.

Whatever. Let's go and ride some bikes up and down some hills. Sorry, I mean peaks.

[johnnystorm]

sn't it likely they took their name from being the people who settled in the area with pics/peaks?

I could see that had they lived somewhere where there were 'peaks' worthy of note. The Peak District isn't particularly high ground when compared to many other places within the UK?

If they arrived in the UK via the Suffolk/Norfolk/Lincolnshire coastline and moved West then they would have been the first hills of note they'd have come across.

[Alpinum]

Thanks folks.

I gave this some thought and did a little reasearch (to be as sure as possible) and am now absolutely convinced Peak does infact come from the root I firstly thought it did.

It's simply the same as a pike or pic and piz etc. in other languages. To suggest it comes from the peaklanders is a very anglocentric point of view and also comes into history a few thousand years too late to have any impact for the term peak.

In most cultures surnames come from profession & origin (next to others). Landscapes that have been pioneered in the last couple of hundred years (and earlier) have been given names often belonging also to surnames, but turn the clock back many more hundred years and even a few thousand and the name giving was the other way round.

Our term peak might be the nothing more but the nose tip of some diety in a world filled with animism.
Or for some childish blokes the cock obv.. Feel free to choose.

There are still unpioneered landscapes out there and cultures inching forward, trying to cultivate new land. And one thing I found next to many others about farming cultures in remote areas, was that animism still plays an important role.

Ever been told the mountain you were going to climb was still a virgin? Or that it stole all the water? I go through that regularly, even in the Alps.

Orge = Eiger
Etc. Etc.
The myths of the Alps are basically the same in the Himalayas and any other mountain range. We are one species after all.

[RIP]

Seems to be getting rather technical...i just thought it was summit to do?

or Did the Chieftain say to his chieftainess.
I popping ing out, 'Just got to seA to summat? '

Very good. The very peak of hilarity in fact .

[ledburner]

Seems to be getting rather technical...i just thought it was summit to do?

or Did the Chieftain say to his chieftainess.
I popping ing out, 'Just got to seA to summat? '

Very good. The very peak of hilarity in fact .

I've already dismissed my self and left the building.. .