Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
General => General Chat => Topic started by: Mourneman on May 30, 2012
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few hours to spare this morning so i joined Lenny & his brotheir Alan to do the Slieve Bernagh circular route,weather forecast was sunny with heavy showers ??? only in Ireland,Parked the car at the Cecil Newman carkpark & made our way along the Trassey trek.
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P5300001 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301804142/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
We noticed a Southern walker getting his pack ready & Lenny approached him,just welcoming him & chatting about route's,the chap had arranged a pick up in Newcastle otherwise he said he would have been delighted to join us for a day walking,nice one lenny ;D
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1 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301525778/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
the gate-post at Hares gap
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12 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301518402/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
the view toward Spellack
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10 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301519624/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
the view from Hare's gap back down the Trassey
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11 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301520728/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
the view on the start off the climb up Bernagh
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6 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301523576/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
Lenny ;D
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5 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301524062/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
An interesting section of wall
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2 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301525316/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
getting it tight
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4 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301524568/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
this photo really shows how steep Bernagh is
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7 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301522794/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
lenny & alan on the summit
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8 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301522354/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
tea-time
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14 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301521240/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
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9 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301518904/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
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12 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75601656@N07/7301521872/) by paul surginor (http://www.flickr.com/people/75601656@N07/), on Flickr
Always time for a geocache ;D
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you'll be the death of Lenny dragging him up all those hills ;D , nice to see the BWC gate, i notice that one has a wee border round the letters so another different one, oh no, i'm becoming a gate anorak :o