Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
General => Meets, places, trips and reviews => Topic started by: LandyLiam on September 10, 2011
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Had this afternoon off and had to drive through the Mournes on the way home so decided to try a new mountain, Slievenmageogh, between Attical and Pigeon rock. Its only 316 meters high and has a 4x4 track going most of the way up it so a cracking wee mountain to take the family up. There's a car park at the bottom of the track (just below Pigeon Rock) so it couldn't be handier.
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thats Slievemageogh summit, the very left bump on that long ridge
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some great views from the top, the track up and slive muck to the right
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from left muck, doan, ben crom, lamagan, binnion (clouded out) bearnagh is in there somewhere too but covered in cloud
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a little crag just beyond the summit
I walked down to the forest on the other side of that crag
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the view from the forest
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slive muck i think
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i seem to have a thing for mushrooms now ::) here's a selection i spotted in the forest
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vandal snail
(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2011/20110909%20slievemageogh/P1080079Small.jpg)
this weird fella was growing from the side of a tree
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same one from above
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one growing from some poo :o
i also accidentally found a geocache on the summit, first time i'd ever done that :)
(there's also one at the car park and one in the quarrry on the way up ;) )
so get yourselves up this wee hill some day, well worth the (small) effort :)
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Cheers Liam, the Western Mournes really deserve more attention than they get.