Mourne Way - Jan 2012

[Spud]

Im gonna try and meet u guys at fofanny on the sat night and do the walk on the sunday with yous, as am working on the sat, and also the small matter of Liverpool vs Utd in the cup!!  lol

Who are they, is there netball teams in liverpool? 

Oooh!  

[Rumblebum]

Im gonna try and meet u guys at fofanny on the sat night and do the walk on the sunday with yous, as am working on the sat, and also the small matter of Liverpool vs Utd in the cup!!  lol

Who are they, is there netball teams in liverpool? 

Oooh!  

Dont worry spud, he'l not be laughin when he finds the rocks in his rucksack 

[cerbera147]

Im gonna try and meet u guys at fofanny on the sat night and do the walk on the sunday with yous, as am working on the sat, and also the small matter of Liverpool vs Utd in the cup!!  lol

Who are they, is there netball teams in liverpool? 

Oooh!  

Dont worry spud, he'l not be laughin when he finds the rocks in his rucksack 

They'd better be weighed beforehand 


Whereabouts is the camp on Saturday night? I'm toying with the idea of coming to the camp and walking the Sunday route 

[Rumblebum]

The camps at Fofanny dam which is quite near meelmore lodge. Instead of going left to meelmore lodge from the bryansford road, take the next left onto the slievenaman road and stay  straight on it till you see the dam on your left. You could park at the entrance to the dam overnight and then go to the camp, the next day move your car to the ott carpark, go for the walk and we can leave you back to it later on.

[Matthew]

Without putting the cat amongst the pigeons, did anyone consider parking a car a Meelmore and staying the night there? This would allow access to toilets and hot water for washing and cleaning. We could also leave a nice feed in the car and it would reduce the weight of kit. With careful planning, someone could park in Newcastle and ferry the drivers back to Meelmore.

For an additional 1.3 miles, I thought it was worth putting it out there.

[Mourneman]

Without putting the cat amongst the pigeons, did anyone consider parking a car a Meelmore and staying the night there? This would allow access to toilets and hot water for washing and cleaning. We could also leave a nice feed in the car and it would reduce the weight of kit. With careful planning, someone could park in Newcastle and ferry the drivers back to Meelmore.

For an additional 1.3 miles, I thought it was worth putting it out there.

MATE,thats a classic,how dumb are we

[Rumblebum]

Yeah i dont mind really, i still quite like the idea of camping at Fofanny as its somewhere i havnt stayed at yet, somewhere a wee bit remote appeals to me,but like i say i dont mind.

Wine, steak, and a fire and im happy 

[LennyJ1]

Thanks for bring it up Matt. My personnel option would be to keep this wild as this is a training trip for the TGO. When Dave and I are in the middle of Scotland we won't have such luxurys.

However if the people who are coming would like to stay at meelmore lodge then we could put it to a vote or the people who want to stay at fofanny could walk 200 yards round the Corner to silent valley car park and camp near there. There is a great spot about 50m past the stile at silent valley car park.

[Matthew]

Me too, I am just not sure of the legalities of staying the night there.

i still quite like the idea of camping at Fofanny

Thanks for bring it up Matt. My personnel option would be to keep this wild as this is a training trip for the TGO. When Dave and I are in the middle of Scotland we won't have such luxurys.
However if the people who are coming would like to stay at meelmore lodge then we could put it to a vote or the people who want to stay at fofanny could walk 200 yards round the Corner to silent valley car park and camp near there. There is a great spot about 50m past the stile at silent valley car park.

Of course, I actually don't mind where we stay I was looking at it today and thought Meelmore would be perfect.

[Mourneman]

parking a car at Meelmore  would be ideal for me,don't think i'll be able to carry much more than a daysac,so maybe leave all my kit either in a car at Meelmore or with the folk and the lodge,but i must say i do believe camping at fofanny would be ' wilder'

[twentyclicks]

You mean Happy Valley car park Lenny?

I'm not even going, just being nosey 

[LennyJ1]

You mean Happy Valley car park Lenny?

I'm not even going, just being nosey 

yes

[whoRya]

You mean Happy Valley car park Lenny?

I'm not even going, just being nosey 

I haven't looked at the viewing stats 20c but I'm sure you're not alone!  Well I've just proved you're not since I ain't going either.  Don't even know why I'm bothering to look in here anyway, since all it does is make me depressed that I'm not going!

[LandyLiam]

I hope to be making an appearance at some point, hopefully at the campsite, would prefer fofanny myself but only because i haven't camped there yet, meelmore does make much more sense though.

[Spud]

Some views of fofanny, my choice would be to camp here, such a spot!