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Our First Overnight Stay
We were headed down to Kerry again, planning to complete the Purple Mountains & The MacGillycuddy’s Reeks, with a sleep in-between! We logged Musheramore and Mullaghanish on our way to The Black Valley (Our start point for The Purple Mountains). We set off for The Purples from just below Black Lake, following the road for […]
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The Blackstairs Mountains Challenge – And A Lot More!
First up on our agenda for the day, The Blackstairs Mountains Challenge! We had Mount Leinster logged before 07:45 and Mount Leinster East Top by 08:12. Not bad! To conclude The Blackstairs Mountains Challenge we headed over to Blackstairs Mountain. We were trying our best to stay ahead of the bad weather, so speed was […]
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The Galtee Crossing
Our first full crossing of the Galty Range, completing The Galtee Mountains Challenge. We dropped Dad’s car at Kilcoran Lodge for later and Mam drove us to Anglesboro, where we set off from. It was a beautiful day, we had lots of water packed. It took us an hour and 20 minutes to get to […]
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The Comeragh Mountains Challenge
I had a half day at school, so Dad collected me and we decided to head to the Comeraghs to try The Comeragh Mountains Challenge. I ate a bit of Dinner en route and we met up with my uncle Johnny, joining us for this one, at the entrance to the bog close to our […]
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The Mweelrea Mountains Challenge
We decided to tackle our second Irish Mountain Challenge, and The Mweelrea Mountains Challenge seemed a good fit. We needed to do a trial run of Mweelrea anyway for our 4 Peaks Challenge on the 18th of June. The challenge also seemed straightforward enough, an out an back route from Silver Strand This was only […]
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A Sunny Day Out In The Knockmealdowns
Lured in by the attractive double points awarded by completing a Mountain Challenge within 24 hours, we set off at 9am on Sunday morning for Knocknafallia East, one of the 8 locations that we had to log on Peakhunter to claim the bonus points. The 8 Sport hillwalking locations in The Knockmealdown Mountains Challenge are: ​After logging both Knocknafallia East & […]