{"id":3176,"date":"2015-05-20T06:00:06","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T06:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/?p=3176"},"modified":"2015-05-21T13:37:39","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T13:37:39","slug":"old-knees-new-gaiters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/05\/old-knees-new-gaiters\/","title":{"rendered":"Old knees, new gaiters"},"content":{"rendered":"

So back when I introduced myself, Redleader suggested the Antrim Hills as a fine local stomping ground. Last weekend I threw caution to the wind and set myself the challenge of walking from Ballyboley Forest outside Larne to Glenarm, over the hills. Ambitious, but I wanted to see how I’d cope at long(ish) distance.<\/p>\n

The answer was… surprisingly well. After a week of rain the ground was seriously boggy, so the new gaiters were a wise move. I’d drawn up a route plan with guesstimated timings, and I wasn’t far off, so that was good. But I hadn’t packed anything like enough grub, and skipped breakfast, and my energy levels towards the end (say, from Black Hill on) weren’t great.<\/p>\n

Fantastic views, though, and encounters with wildlife (and one masochist who ran past me on Ballygilbert Hill – what’s wrong with these people?!?!?) The downhill into Glenarm was murder on the knees, but the big trickly pint in the village was reward enough.<\/p>\n

Some pics…<\/p>\n

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Into the woods<\/p><\/div>\n

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Hills behind me<\/p><\/div>\n

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Cairn<\/p><\/div>\n

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Ancient Ireland<\/p><\/div>\n

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Strange ground – anyone have an explanation for this formation?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Sallagh Braes<\/p><\/div>\n

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Larne Lough from Sallagh Braes<\/p><\/div>\n

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Standing stone<\/p><\/div>\n

With thanks to\u00a0Martin. Original thread here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So back when I introduced myself, Redleader suggested the Antrim Hills as a fine local stomping ground. Last weekend I threw caution to the wind and set myself the challenge of walking from Ballyboley Forest outside Larne to Glenarm, over the hills. Ambitious, but I wanted to see how I’d cope at long(ish) distance. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3180,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8],"tags":[78,118,119,120],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3176"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3187,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3176\/revisions\/3187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ni-wild.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}