{"id":561,"date":"2022-04-30T12:59:45","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T12:59:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/?p=561"},"modified":"2023-01-12T06:25:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-12T06:25:32","slug":"tackling-the-eastern-reeks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/tackling-the-eastern-reeks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tackling The Eastern Reeks"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Sweat was definitely pumping today! We headed to Kerry after Coderdojo, annoyingly got held up in some rally traffic around Killarney. Johnny left his car at Cronin’s Yard, where we picked him up before heading to “The Head Of The Gap” on The Black Road. By 3:30 we had set off up the boulder-sprawled slopes of Drishana. From Drishana, we headed towards our first mountain that was worth points in the championships: Cnoc na dTarbh. From there, we headed on in the same direction to Cnoc an Bhr\u00e1ca.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Black Road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Our Car<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Auger lake<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Purple Mountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cnoc na dTarbh<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cruach Mh\u00f3r, The Big Gun & Cnoc na P\u00e9iste In The Distance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cnoc an Bhr\u00e1ca<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Our 3rd mountain of the day was Cruach Mh\u00f3r, which has a distinctive square grotto marking it’s top. We were then faced with to most challenging task of the day. Logging, and more importantly, getting safely across The Big Gun, widely regarded as the most difficult to reach of Ireland\u2019s major mountaintops. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cruach Mh\u00f3r<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dangerous terrain of The Big Gun in the foreground, Carrauntoohil in the background.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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On The Big Gun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Loch Coim\u00edn Piast<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

With a lot of scrambling and over and backs, we managed it! From there it was plain sailing, logging Cnoc na P\u00e9iste, Maol\u00e1n Bu\u00ed, Cnoc an Chuillin & Cnoc na Toinne as we headed for Cronin’s Yard. We had planned to descend via the Zig-Zags, but seeing as it was such a nice day we opted for The Devil’s Ladder instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cnoc na P\u00e9iste<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Maol\u00e1n Bu\u00ed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cnoc an Chuillin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Cnoc na Toinne<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We arrived in Cronin’s Yard by 22:00, concluding round 1 of The All-Ireland Hillwalking Championships, earning a final 75 points on the Eastern Reeks Ridge securing top place on the leaderboard. We had racked up a total of 631 Points In Round 1<\/strong>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we were returning to collect the car later on we had to explain “our movements” to “An Garda S\u00edoch\u00e1na” at Kate Kearneys Cottage as they were restricting traffic to the Black Road as a result of some “messing” up there earlier by so called Rally Fans!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Our logs for the day<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The round 1 leaderboard<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Sweat was definitely pumping today! We headed to Kerry after Coderdojo, annoyingly got held up in some rally traffic around Killarney. Johnny left his car at Cronin’s Yard, where we picked him up before heading to “The Head Of The Gap” on The Black Road. By 3:30 we had set off up the boulder-sprawled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=561"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/561\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}