With all this unexpected snow I was chomping at the bit to have an adventure in the hills & with our planned Donard summit camp cancelled due to severe weather I just had to take advantage of Eamons offer to scale Bernagh. Leaving the house at around 9am the conditions were pefect,the sky was clear […]
After the last attempt in the snow I was determined to get up and defeat commedagh. I have it in my head that the first three summits of this year will be bernagh, Binnian and commedagh (bbc). So after a hard weekend on the liver I needed to blow off some cobwebs, careful planning ensued […]
I did a brief pre-review of the Exped SynMat Ultralight 7 back in 2011 and have been using it solidly since then for bivvying and tent camping (but not hammocking) and it has proven to be an excellent piece of kit. It packs nice and small, is a great weight for the gram conscious and most […]
By Typo-On So on the receipt of a call on Thursday asking if I was up for taking a stab at Donard again I literally jumped at the chance. With most of our little summit camp bagging crew going to attend how could I resist! So a swift plan was concocted with the aim being […]
It was a long day at work on Tuesday (5.30am to 10pm), so decided i needed to take a day off and make the most of the snow before it disappears. A quick check of the forecast showed Wednesday evening to have light winds and a potential of broken cloud, that would be handy with […]
By Typo-On Well we didnt make i up by choice more than weather. Claire text me on the way down to say she had made it to the river crossing and was heading back to the forest as it was pretty unpleasant. I met her in the forest and made a half hearted stab at it […]
After a pretty grim wet day in and around Belfast the hope was that it would be snowing rather than raining up where we were heading. Snow on the Belfast Hills and Slieve Croob on the way down gave us great encouragement. The lower lying ground in and around the Mournes was pretty clear but […]
Hello all, last night I almost bit off more than I could chew. (For the shorter version, skip to ‘Lessons Learned’.) If you care to read, my first solo camping trip went as follows; I woke up on Friday morning and deliberated about wether or not I could be bothered to hike the mournes and […]
Myself the son and specimanYak had a great first time up at the Spinkwee river on Saturday 2nd March. Made or way down to the Meelmore Lodge campsite for about lunch time on Saturday (first time here aswell) as i had learnt from the forum that they offer secure parking for overnight stays, nothing like […]
Having had a number of gentle nights around the campfire in Annalong Wood, we had increasingly found ourselves gazing across the valley at Round Seefin, Long Seefin and Rocky Mountain thinking it looked like a great place for a night out. Santa had brought one of the kids a bivvy bag for Christmas so a […]
