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A Hillwalking Resource for Ireland
Over 800 contributors have built this site so everyone can learn and talk about walking in the hills and mountains.

For a pittance of an investment, Mweelrea gives you endless returns. A strolling start with a continuously ascending incline to a “wicked drop” to Dubhlough. In a mirky morning, these are the kind of crags that smoulder, that boil and rumble like coals in a giant’s grate. Then, the contrast of a long trail across nothingness, and suddenly beneath the mist, what everything from now until then is about, the glittering golden edge of Tir na nOg....
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Other features include a monthly newsletter, Ordnance Survey mapping, eight complementary lists for summiteers, personalised reports on where you have been, general forum, GPS data service, etc.  Mountain Views facilitates information on Irish mountains by search engines. The MountainViews community organises walks for members and friends.

Credits: The abbreviated comment top left about Mweelrea is by "Bleck Cra", the picture is of the Carrauntoohil Teeth by "lewvalton".  The Mountain Views social network site  is published by Simon Stewart (www.simonstewart.ie) with organisational assistance from an interim committee (as of Oct 2010).

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Forum: General
Re: Paul Henry Sell Off
lennyantonelli a few minutes ago.
Ah c'mon CV, Paul Henry wasn't bad at all at all. Have to say I'm a fan. Sure his paintings are a bit dull in colour, but there's a certain sense of mystery and beauty to those purples and greys, ...

  
Forum: General
The Hinde Vision
CaptainVertigo 10 hours ago.
A grateful reader has e-mailed me this old Hinde composition. Heady days on the 12 Bens

  
Forum: General
Paul Henry Sell Off
CaptainVertigo 11 hours ago.
Regular readers will be familiar with my denunciations of the entire mountain oeuvre of Paul Henry deceased, late of Achill Island. Predictably enough nervous collectors have been shedding their H...

Track
A Dam good walk!
gerrym 13 hours ago.
A grand walk through sweeping forest, open hillside, streams walk, Length:11.7km, Climb: 383m, Area: Slieveanorra, Antrim Hills (Ireland) Slieveanorr

Forum: General
Eskatariff horseshoe walk
Pazapas 14 hours ago.
This walk is "demanding" as it is written in the second edition of "Walking in Ireland" from Lonely Planet. With a good weather you can do it in 4.5 hours without stop. But with fog, the first 90 ...

  
Summit Comment
An Cnapán Mór: Justified Hyperbole
ciarraioch 14 hours ago.
Only the glorious Corca Dhuibhne could hide an undiscovered gem such as this. Views to die for in all directions. On one side, across the surprisingly green and fertile plain of Lios Póil, and be...

  
Track
Knockaterriff a direct ascent
jackill 3 days ago.
up and down the quickest way walk, Length:10.8km, Climb: 700m, Area: Knockaterriff, Galty Mountains (Ireland) Knockaterriff, Knockaterriff Beg

Forum: General
Access Issue to Beenbo (Dingle Peninsula)
ciarraioch 16 hours ago.
Lads, Just to let ye know of an access problem on the approach to Beenbo/Slievegower/Slievenalecka from Baile Dubh/Ballyduff graveyard near Cloghane. Followed Adrian Hendroff's excellent route la...

Summit Comment
An Starraicín: Diminutive yet shapely
ciarraioch 15 hours ago.
A surprisingly tedious trudge west from the saddle with Sliabh na nGabhar brings you to the diminutive but shapely peak of An Starraicín/Slievenalecka. Great views onto Loch a' Dúin to the right a...

  
Track
Carrolls Hill from the west
jackill 3 days ago.
Starting at a good coillte carpark, this ascent gets you to walk, Length:9.2km, Climb: 259m, Area: Carroll's Hill, Slieve Bloom (Ireland) Carroll's

  
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Sorrel and Black, a direct ascent
jackill 3 days ago.
starting from a good carpark next to the road an easy ascent walk, Length:6.8km, Climb: 526m, Area: Sorrel Hill, Dublin/Wicklow (Ireland) Sorrel Hill

Forum: General
Dogs on Carrauntoohil...
Conor74 4 days ago.
...not sure, but it is private property and not in the National Park, it's a commonage owned by 6 families and some are farmers and have sheep around the Reeks. Though mainly around Knockbrinnea ...


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