What are the roads like up round the mournes

[LandyLiam]

I'll be up there somewhere with a wee collie dog, not sure where yet 

[LandyLiam]

Had a great day up there, went up one of the snowy gulleys to the don/comm saddle, some waist deep snow in places. Conditions were wild at the saddle so we didn't try and summit Donard. Met jonny2324 on the way down (recognised his dogs then asked him if he was Big Dod  ) then lost my dog and had to run back up to find her (well a wee 100m jog  ) finsihed up with a lovely tea and scone in niki's cafe at donard park entrance (highly recommended  )

[clairebear]

We found it mental too, idid keep an eye out for a man with 2 dogs too.....lovely day up there though, met 5/6 people heading up with cameras and tripods must be proper professionals lol!

[Daithi2004]

We had a great day n Kilbroney Forest. We were going to venture out towards Slieve Martin but it was to wild. Snow was being blown into my face. Didn't have any goggles.

See some photos on this thread:
http://www.ni-wild.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3913.msg42881;topicseen#new

[LandyLiam]

here's my pics


first signs of snow up the glen river path between the 2nd and 3rd bridge



looks promising at the ice house



molly considers going for a drink



testing the ice axes at the bottom of the gulley



up the gulley we go



quite busy today



molly wonders whats keeping us all



hitting the deep stuff



then the steep stuff



some lovely sights up here




up and the saddle and we find the wall is nearly covered (drifted on both side so no shelter and the weather was fierce)



as you can see the weather was fierce, the snow felt like pellets being shot at your face



so we got the bothy bag out while we had our tea and scones 



then this was waiting for me when i got home 

[Big Dod]

Great photos Liam.
Looked like a bloody good session
That'll probably be me somewhere between Glasgow and Perth tomorrow on my way to Aberdeen right after the bus breaks down

[whoRya]

Brilliant Liam.  Tells the whole story from start to finish.  I'm a little jealous 

[clairebear]

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Few pics from Sunday 20th. Up trassey track to the gap, tried to get up to commedagh but it got too much to bare in the wind.  Wild day but great.

editted my me to try and show the rest of the pics but something not quite right with the codes  did get one more of the pics to show 

[wmoulds]

Great pictures. I'm jealous, them type of trips make you feel so invigorated and alive and you can't beat the satisfaction of getting down to a fire lit dinner and beer.

Where abouts is that gulley by the way?

[LandyLiam]

I'm jealous,

i know the feeling, i saw pics on facebook of a few friends up the hills on saturday when i was working and was gutted not to be out with them, sunday made up for it though with this trip (then the saturday hikers wish they had waited a day  )

Where abouts is that gulley by the way?

go up the glen river path, but instead of crossing the river to go up the steps to the saddle, bear slightly right (towards commedagh and you'll see the gully) not very obvious normally, but in the snow it really stands out


picture added of the gps route to make it a bit more obvious