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Mourne Wall Walk

Started by harveymt, April 17, 2013, 01:14:01 PM

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paulocon

Quote from: Mourneman on May 15, 2013, 09:15:49 PM
That was a great write up paulocon,read it a few weeks ago

Cheers,

Did you send me an email by the way re. swapping articles?
Apologies as I've been on top of my head and didn't get back to you on it - I will do over the weekend..

sjh1

Did the wall for the third year in a row on Saturday. Eight of us set out from Annalong Wood heading clockwise, three quit at halfway point and got bus back, five completed it. We did it in 12.5 hours which is a record for us, last year was 17 hours (various mishaps ensued) and year before was 14 hours.

We're thinking next year we'll leave it and try Ben Nevis instead, but I love doing the wall.
What would the world be, once bereft
Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left,
O let them be left, wildness and wet;
Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.

... from 'Inversnaid' by Gerard Manley Hopkins.