{"id":774,"date":"2022-06-10T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T06:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/?p=774"},"modified":"2023-01-15T06:46:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-15T06:46:57","slug":"the-blackstairs-mountains-challenge-and-a-lot-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/the-blackstairs-mountains-challenge-and-a-lot-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Blackstairs Mountains Challenge – And A Lot More!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mount Leinster Trig<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mount Leinster logged<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mount Leinster East Top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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heading away from Mount Leinster East Top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back towards Mount Leinster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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 of the essence!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Blackstairs Mountain<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now that we had completed The Blackstairs Mountains Challenge, we paid a visit to the highest point of county Kilkenny, Brandon Hill. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cross on Brandon Hill<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Brandon Hill Logged<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Next, we headed over to The Comeraghs to log Knocksheegowna & Knockanaffrin. By logging these now, it would cut out a lot of walking when we return to log the rest of The Comeraghs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Knocksheegowna<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Knockanaffrin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We drove over to The Knockmealdowns with a similar tactic. By logging Knocknafallia East, Knocknafallia West, & Knocknagnauv, cutting off the eastern side of the Knockmealdowns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Knocknafallia East<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Knocknafallia West<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Knocknagnauv<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Then, to conclude the day, it was over to the other side of the Knockmealdowns for Knockshanahullion & Knocknalougha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Nice blue skies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Mountain art?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Knockshanahullion Cairn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Sun rays<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking towards the Galtees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Knockmealdown, to the right<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The beginnings of Araglin River.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774"}],"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=774"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/774\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/the-all-ireland-hillwalking-championships-dillons-adventures.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}