anyone up for a walk in the mournes - thursday 5/4/12

[LandyLiam]

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?

[LennyJ1]

Hope you got out in the end. was great weather this morning

[LandyLiam]

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)


my partner for the day, my brother-in-laws dog molly



crossed the bridge of despair



ruins



view from the quarry



molly waiting for me as usual



molly jumps onto the mourne wall



cove and beg



the castle of commedagh



view from beg of brandy pad and slieve donard



some icicles



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  )



spot of lunch on cove summit



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



view of donard from the devils coachroad



walking back via the brandy pad


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

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

[Mourneman]

  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

[Daithi2004]

I am curious too. Where was the geocache?

[Mourneman]

Cove mountain

[LandyLiam]

thats the one http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=258f1bb3-036a-447b-9933-48c748b5c6a4



here's the route from the gps


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

[Pudd]

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? 

[LandyLiam]

its the garmin etrex track log loaded onto Quo using the OSM Cycle map (took me about an hour this morning!)

[whoRya]

Looks like a beezer day, they don't really get much better than that.

[Ed]

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)?

[LandyLiam]

its an etrex vista hcx, free maps downloaded from http://www.talkytoaster.info/ which i store on the sd card