Bann's road trek

[Mourneman]

Helping my daughter with her D.O.E training today.We started at 11am at the Bann's road,with a collection time of 5.30 pm at the Donard carpark.

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The trek starts out with crossing over two stile's before taking a lesser trek on the right towards the end of Silent valley dam,the ground becomes very boggy after crossing a ford & with the long grass & hidden holes i tumbled over more than once 


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the sundue plant,sorry if the spellings wrong,BigE has me looking for plants now 


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it was liam that first noticed these gate posts,nice one


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these stuff was pure class,not even one bite 



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our first break at the second stile


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LOST again 


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found this during one of my falls ,lol


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view along the Banns road


8 a by jimmysurg, on Flickr

view back along silent valley


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the mourneman trademark


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the scramble along ben crom dam


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Super girl


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towards the end of ben crom dam we climbed back onto the bank


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the start of the gorge leading towards the Brandy pad


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some really cool rock formations


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here's a photo of the screen slope we climbed out of the gorge,wee bit hairy 


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we both nearly collapsed at the top of the gorge


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getting near the saddle,we quickened our pace,with a run from the saddle down to donard forest,a real cracker of a day

    here's some footage---     http://youtu.be/LWA2Wjn15GU

[LandyLiam]

gaiters for the banns road john    admit it, your trousers shrank in the wash and you have to wear gaiters to hide the shrinkage 

love the pineaple pic, makes my mouth water

[twentyclicks]

Flip - I've been along that side of Ben Crom dam once. Fair play...It's a nightmare. I was close to trying swimming as the progress was so slow on the rocks. The trail on the other side is 100x quicker!

[Paul72]

Insect repellent that works!!  Where did you get it?

Great photos as always John

[Mourneman]

Insect repellent that works!!  Where did you get it?

Great photos as always John

Think i got it on Ebay,leaves the skin a bit oily,but works a treat & cost around £6.00,so a must have bit of kit