Moyle Way - 24th & 25th March 2012

[LennyJ1]

Not jealous one bit looking at the weather. Have fun guys

[Kayakgirl]

My weekend work was cancelled at short notice.. Tis a shame as it would have been a cracker day to be up in the hills. Enjoy guys.. See you next weekend.

[Craigy123]

What a truly great 2 days. We faced forests, bogs, rivers, hills, roads and paths. Turned out the wee camping spot was really good in the end, i'm the the guys who went will agree when they wake up tomorrow. This is a pretty hard walk, I'm guessing we covered about 14 or 15 miles on day one so camp was well deserved. Everyone was good craic and spirits stayed high. I'd put this one in the epic walks category for sure. Now i'm tired, sore, sunburned and have a long day at work tomorrow to look forward to. Cheers for making this walk happen guys!!!.

[Rumblebum]

Ok so we all made it back in one piece and i have to say that i had another great time with the NI wild gang. Spud, Craigy123, Whorya, Wolf Larson and myself.

That was one mother of a long slog!!

We decided to set off from ballycastle and by the time we had made the arrangements for the cars it was 11 oclock before we started the walk. It was a completey different walk to what alot of us are uase to with the majority of it being on roads and stoned forest paths, we didnt get the views we had hoped for on the first day as it was quite misty but today more than made up for it.

What a belter!

Its been years since ive seen such scenery, today was glorous sunshine,  rediculous waterfalls, and cracking countryside. Not to mention the sore feet, man oh man we all felt the pain   

A big thankyou to craigy and the gang for making it such a good weekend, i have to make a special mention for Wolf ( Dave),  most people for their first trip would do a quick overnighter or jaunt up Donard, this nutter just walked 26 miles and didnt complain once, wel apart from running out of cigs lol, fair play to ya mate. Craigy, spud, hope youse got home ok and put the feet up, well done for completing the walk as i know both of youse were carrying injuries.

Well done lads and bring on next weekend

[Mourneman]

Well done guys,sounds like one tough one

[Spud]

What an epic weekend, thanks to all the guys involved, all real gents, karma to you all! Tough tough walk, probably the hardest thing I have ever done physically!  but I would do it again, hopefully when im a lot fitter! will chat more about it tomorrow, and fire up some pics, but now I'm off to bed, work tomorrow!  bruises and sore muscles heal, but I'll never forget NI wild doing the moyle way! Night all! 

[Wolf_Larson]

1st of all thanks to the guys for taking the time to make this truley amazing 26 mile happen over the glens of antrim happen it is something i will do again for sure. The walk had everything from forests montians bogs rivers and holes to fall down  Best of all we where the only people on that path until about 20 mile we seen an old couple near Glenariff forest. It was like we had the whole of the north coast to are selfs. The camp site was a cracker also tucked in of a track with a little river runing beside it where i could wash mess tin and brush teeth ETC... "nice one Chris" Everyone in the team made this something i can not forget, im very proud to have shared this with 4 other hard working guys that may have had sore feet and other little things but no one said a thing as the scenery round you on the 2nd day took are minds of are tried bodys. When we got to Waterfoot Spirits where very high "as Alan said i took off and told the shop keeper to give me fags NOW!!"  after we all got to Waterfoot we jumped in the car to balleycastle to get fish and chips then a pint. But the girl made a mistake with my order and give me a great white shark never seen a bigger fish in my life  then we got a pint "well i got 2 pints and a shot of Whiskey"  Every thing was timed and worked out lovely on this trip, well done lads.

What a weekend would do it in a heart beat again, thanks to all that made this happen and a big shout out to all the hard work and walking the team put in, roll on the next camp !!!!

[Dowser]

Top Stuff Guys - I'm well impressed

Three words though...

Photos, Photos, Photos

[Spud]

Top Stuff Guys - I'm well impressed

Three words though...

Photos, Photos, Photos

Cheers Dowser, I took some photos, I'll be sticking them up later, I know whorya and rumblebum took a few as well, so I'm sure there is a good photographic record of the proceedings, lol

[Dowser]

Top Stuff Guys - I'm well impressed

Three words though...

Photos, Photos, Photos

Cheers Dowser, I took some photos, I'll be sticking them up later, I know whorya and rumblebum took a few as well, so I'm sure there is a good photographic record of the proceedings, lol

Excellent... Really looking forward to seeing the pics 

[LandyLiam]

[Wolf_Larson]

I had a disposeable camera so i cant help 

[Spud]

pics as promised! (ok liam?  )

Quick map check at the stash point before setting off!



Wolf realises how far he has to walk! 





On the way through ballycastle (got a few strange looks! lol)





Near the start



another quick map check



On the first road section



This guy didnt make it...







Wolf dodging the bog!



Well waymarked the whole time



Mcquillans grave (great wee campsite beside here)



Happy campers (think there might have been drink taken?)





Wolf keeps the fire going!



The coveted steak...



Morning has broken...



Great wee campsite (great work craigy!)



Starting up trostan (antrims highest mountain)





Top of trostan





View from the top, was a bit hazy tho but still fantastic!







coming down off trostan



Lunch anyone?



Interesting waymarker in the forest.... 







Down through glenariff



glenariff waterfall

[Wolf_Larson]

Lmao Spud "wolf realises how far he haas to walk"

wolf was also eating beans while Spud cooked a steak 

Great pictures mate, you done very well mate.

[whoRya]

Man what a busy weekend, I could have done without having a meeting to go last night.  I could barely walk...literally!!

The walk was as long a walk as I have done in a very long time.  Boy was it a great trip.  Despite being on a few NI Wild trips before I hadn't met most of the guys going on this trip.  It's great to have the opportunity to hook-up with some like-minded individuals.   

Special shouts go out to Craigy for bringing heaps of wood, Spud for not letting a long journey put him off, Wolf for taking on a tough challenge (and blasting through it) for his first NI Wild trip and Rumblebum for buying the tent I slept in, bringing the food I ate and driving the car I travelled in (helluva guy).  Cheers for a good weekend lads. 

The road sections did take it out on the feet a bit, but the scenery made it all bearable.  The rest of the guys have pretty much given a flavour of the trip, so I'll just throw another few pics up.