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Silvermine Mountains East Top: East Top is Easy Top

Summit Comment Leatra 2 weeks ago
You can make it to the top in 15 minutes, as I did, if you don't mind being short of breath for your attack on the West Top. If you ran it'd be even less.

Coppanagh: I'd go now if I were you.

Summit Comment chelman7 3 weeks ago
Still relatively easy to get to, the forest is reclaiming the trig. Will require hacking in 18-24 months I'd guess.

Silvermine Mountains West Top: Fab hill

Summit Comment Leatra 2 weeks ago
Nothing much else needs to be said about the West Top. The views of Keeper to its immediate south, Lough Derg to the northwest and across the tumbled landscape of north Munster, all the way t...

Dargle Gorge near Enniskerry, North Side.

Track 5370 simon3 3 weeks ago
This is a route that starts in Enniskerry and follows the top of the deep gorge in which the river Dargle runs towards walk, Len: 5.9km, Climb: 97m, Area: Wicklow (Ireland) ||

Hell or high water

Forum: General Colin Murphy a month ago
I visited Powerscourt Waterfall during the summer as part of a 15 km walk, and the place was packed with tourists having picnics, few of them paying much attention to the waterfall, which was...

Bree Hill: Bree no longer a breeze

Summit Comment chelman7 3 weeks ago
There are many fine tracks around this hill, including a couple that go close enough to the summit to lure you into a false sense of security. But that last summit push through undergrowth an...

Rostrevor: Kilbroney Forest Park with description

Track 5369 Onzy 3 weeks ago
Nice outing in the lower Mournes in the varied, scenic and very well kept forest park above Rostrevor. walk, Len: 17.3km, Climb: 659m, Area: Slievemartin, Mourne Mountains (Ireland) ...

Binn Chaonaigh: Havoc on the Maamturks!

Summit Comment jackill a month ago
In late September I was acting as staff on a Scouting Ireland event called "Mountain Havoc" in Connemara.Mountain Havoc is a series of 4 challenge events for older scouts(15-18 years) where t...

Mount Kid: A small grassy hill top with amazing views towards the sea and beyond

Summit Comment Superterence a month ago
Parking also available at the forest entrance W03378 40976. Walk up towards the cross roads, 100m or so, then enter the mountain field on your right and follow a small duel track all the way ...

Corraun Hill: Corraun at the double

Summit Comment Colin Murphy a month ago
Shot shows the trig pillar and large cairn that mark the summit of this mountain, which was our second stop on a Corraun East Top-Corraun walk. Set off along the track recommended by darrenf ...

Errisbeg Loop from Dog's Bay Beach

Track 5368 simoburn 3 weeks ago
We walked from Dog's Bag beach over the headland to Gurteen beach and followed the road in towards Roundstone vil... walk, Len: 10.0km, Climb: 361m, Area: Iorras Beag, South Connemara (Ireland) ||

Knocknacloghoge: Viewed across Lough Dan

Summit Comment melohara a month ago
Knocknacloghoge viewed across Lough Dan
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Onzy: Track 2399 in area near Bentee, Iveragh NW (Ireland)
Half Bentee Loop, Iveragh
Length: 4.3km, Creator time taken: 2h16m, Ascent: 438m,
Descent: 381m

Places: Start at V4643179075, Beentee, end at V4660278357 738m S from Start
Logged as completed by 1

Out and back to Bentee in 40 knots of wind!

A long planned trip to the SW this Friday and Saturday for johnstna and I saw us change plans a number of times. Plan A was the southern half of the Glenbeigh Horseshoe. Looking at windguru a week out, it was clear that this was going to be a big ask - 59 knots forecast - that's 110 km/hr!!

So plan B was hatched, a route over Eagle Hill and Mullaghbeg.

Having just been almost blown off Cnoc an Bhraca, we mulled over this on Friday night in Cahirciveen and decided on a Plan C. Basically this involved identifying a hill, any hill, in the area, we could get up and down safely - in fact we got three low ones in the end.

Johnstna's new anemometer had its first outing too - toy of the weekend!

So to Bentee; the track follows the Bentee Loop, quite well marked - out and return. The time shown here is wrong - the trip took about 1.15 with a climb of about 350m.

Uploaded on: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 (23:24:37)
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