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Title: anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12
Post by: LandyLiam on April 04, 2012
Despite being in the Mournes at least once a week i haven't had a decent long wallk there since December, anyone want to join me for a long walk tomorrow? I was thinking of a 9 or 10am start, winds are to be very light tomorrow and some sunshine for the morning (but clouding over later). Could maybe park at car at each end?

Title: Re: anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12
Post by: LennyJ1 on April 05, 2012
Hope you got out in the end. was great weather this morning
Title: Re: anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12
Post by: LandyLiam on April 05, 2012
brilliant day, it was like summer up there, even when walking in the patchy snow!

started at bloody bridge car park (wanted to see what had been burnt last week) and headed up to the saddle, across the brandy pad, onto beg then cove, all to get a geocache (it was a new one and i was hoping to be the first to find it)

(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140240Small.jpg)
my partner for the day, my brother-in-laws dog molly


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140246Small.jpg)
crossed the bridge of despair


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140274Small.jpg)
ruins


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140277Small.jpg)
view from the quarry


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140304Small.jpg)
molly waiting for me as usual


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140308Small.jpg)
molly jumps onto the mourne wall


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140348Small.jpg)
cove and beg


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140369Small.jpg)
the castle of commedagh


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140372Small.jpg)
view from beg of brandy pad and slieve donard


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140377Small.jpg)
some icicles


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140419Small.jpg)
molly finds her first geocache, and yes we were the first to find it, much to chucks dismay as he was on his way to do the same thing (you snooze you lose  :P )


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140427Small.jpg)
spot of lunch on cove summit


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140430Small.jpg)
then on way down i met this fella and recognised him as fellow geocacher "mental medic" who was also on his way here hoping to find it first, i then joined him for the walk home as we had both parked at bloody bridge


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140437Small.jpg)
view of donard from the devils coachroad


(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/P1140440Small.jpg)
walking back via the brandy pad


i didn't notice any evidance of last weeks fire at all  :o

walk was about 17km and took about 6hrs including quite a few stops







Title: Re: anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12
Post by: Mourneman on April 05, 2012
 ;D super photo's ,new geocache,where was it? ps thanks for the info about Nessie's north torr cache i got F.T.F for it
Title: Re: anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12
Post by: Daithi2004 on April 06, 2012
I am curious too. Where was the geocache?
Title: Re: anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12
Post by: Mourneman on April 06, 2012
Cove mountain
Title: Re: anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12
Post by: LandyLiam on April 06, 2012
thats the one http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=258f1bb3-036a-447b-9933-48c748b5c6a4



here's the route from the gps
(http://i1222.photobucket.com/albums/dd496/landyliam/2012/gpsroute3600pw.jpg)

you can see where i had a little oops moment, stupidly i thought i'd go straight across the valley to cove, but when i got near the edge i realised how far i would have to drop down and ascend up again, so went back to the brandy pad where i was able to jog along nicely, i reckon the valley route would have added 1-2hrs to journey
Title: Re: anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12
Post by: Pudd on April 06, 2012
I assume that's your GPS log onto openstreetmap?  Or is this some gucci thing that I quite haven't got the hang of yet?  ::)
Title: Re: anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12
Post by: LandyLiam on April 06, 2012
its the garmin etrex track log loaded onto Quo using the OSM Cycle map (took me about an hour this morning!)
Title: Re: anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12
Post by: whoRya on April 06, 2012
Looks like a beezer day, they don't really get much better than that.
Title: Re: anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12
Post by: Ed on April 07, 2012
Quote from: LandyLiam on April 06, 2012
its the garmin etrex track log loaded onto Quo using the OSM Cycle map (took me about an hour this morning!)

Which etrex do you have mate?
And do you buy the sd cards (transferable) or the downloads (permanently tied to device)?
Title: Re: anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12
Post by: LandyLiam on April 07, 2012
its an etrex vista hcx, free maps downloaded from http://www.talkytoaster.info/ which i store on the sd card