mourne summit camp - chimney rock - 14th april 2012- now fri 20th

[Rumblebum]

Folks im not gonna be able to make this one now, im having to come into work for a while tomorrow.

>:(arghhhhhhhhhhhhh.

Enjoy cus the weather looks great.

[Kayakgirl]

Sure just leave early.. Wuss..

[LandyLiam]

sure you'll be getting up early anyway to make my fry

weather looking good, any rain about will die away, min of 5 deg, wind 5mph, chance of a cloudy start to the night but clearing after midnight (although as always in the mournes anything can happen with the cloud)

looking like my first bivvy of the year  , but may bring tent just in case 

so whats for dinner then?

[Kayakgirl]

What are you bringing and more to the point what are you drinking?

[LandyLiam]

i'm not much of a cook so maybe just a little spaghetti and sauce, assuming i can drive by all the takeaways in newcastle without succumbing to temptation! as for drink it'll be a last minute choice in the off licence, always have the dilema of whether to get something tasty like magners, but i'll drink it too fast, or some horrible old beer in which i can make each tin last an hour 

[Kayakgirl]

Ooh Magners sounds good.. Haven't had cider since the last camp.

[LandyLiam]

well as long as your not trying to get into a hammock you will be allowed cider 

[Kayakgirl]

Woot, woot!!

[LandyLiam]

Great night, weather was lovely but it was a hard slog up the hill  , arrived at top about 11.15pm (was tempted to pitch up at the saddle instead), then got the dinner on a few beers in me and at 1am went off geocaching   

Rained a bit during the night with quite a bit of wind and the lichfield treklite tent didn't fair too well, not helped by the fact it wasn't pegged down too well. Ended up with a puddle at the bottom and it felt like a windtunnel inside. But i slept ok and was warm enough (min of 2deg overnight).

Next morning we went off to find another geocache and some WW2 plane wreckage.


the gps plot (15km total, 5hrs moving, total ascent 1218m)



the happy campers


view from the saddle









shamar huddles over the firelog, took us a while and a lot of matches to get this lit, fortunately i had brough a wee firelighter too 



1am on the summit (and a bit pissed)







kg finds her first geocache













happy to be going downhill again (chimney rock mtn in the background)






morning view from the north torr (true summit in distance)



interesting pools on top of the north torr



this tube of pringles stood there all night without falling over 



small piece of plane wreckage



engine of a B26 Maurader http://www.chimneyrockb26crash.com/



rocky mountain in the background



spotted these lads on the way home, if only they had saddles!

[Rumblebum]

Nice pics Liam. Thats another one of your and Shamaras summit list.

We found it quite hard finding a good spot for the tents, granted it was pitch black when we got to the summit, what did youse think? I wonder is it more suited to a bivy?

[Kayakgirl]

It's definitely more a bivvi summit.. We looked at several places that would be good for bivving..

[LandyLiam]

i reckon we could have got at least 1 more tent up at the north torr, bivvying, as always, would open up so many more possibilities, this mountain is particulary rocky, fortunately i had been up here earlier in the week an eyed this place as a possibility, and the wind was blowing in just the right direct 

[greensprite]

Lovely photos

[mregan]

Brilliant photos really put me in the mood for doing that sometime. 

[whoRya]

Good stuff peeps.  The view down to the sea is great in the morning, (well the limited glimpses I got of it the last time I was there).

The torr does give great shelter to spend the evening, even offering sufficient protection on a damp night.

Thanks for sharing the pics, I haven't got out this month at all. It feels like a long month!