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| jop68 2012-02-22 18:01:35 |
re track
cheers that will do fine thanks dessie |
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| Dessie1 2012-02-22 09:01:08 |
Re:Track
jop68, if you click on track 788 on the track page the zig zag descent from Cnoc Na Toinne to Cronins Yard is logged on it.The track is of the Eastern Reeks so it might be a bit of a help if there are no alternatives! |
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| jop68 2012-02-21 17:53:44 |
track
love the new track section anyone one have gpx route up/down Carrantuohill via the zig-zag route? cheers |
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| Bleck Cra 2012-02-20 21:42:34 |
Path to Righteousness
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| march-fixer 2012-02-20 14:26:44 |
WAI MV Annual Event
Just to confirm Bleck Cra's comments on 2012-02-20 regarding the evening gathering. This was my first time attending this event. What struck me was the enthusiam of the speakers and the friendliness of the attendees. Irish hill and mountain walking is alive and kicking! Great night. |
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| Bleck Cra 2012-02-20 12:06:39 |
Touching Hell in the Mournes
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| Bleck Cra 2012-02-20 12:01:31 |
Touching Heaven in the Mournes
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| Bleck Cra 2012-02-20 00:20:56 |
THE TALKS ROCKS
Well Vertigo: all that written – and I mean ALL that – your talk was very excellent: clever, amusing, erudite. Simply just pretty damned good. So you can knock that stuff on the head.What is the matter with us? Are we such wusses or have we just no manners. The WAI Winter Talks was just splendid. Warm, easy-going. Nice people, nice subjects, nicely and also very well presented. Have we any idea what it takes to run a gig like that? Let’s all of us who were there and enjoyed the night, the company, the craic and all the rest laid on for us as we sat on our arses enjoying it, go that extra courageous mile and just thank the people who made it or at least let them know their efforts are appreciated. So thanks people. I appreciate it. There were many highlights – from all speakers. Interesting, informative and for me what made it was at the end, I actually wanted more. How often do you get that at one of these kind of gigs? … but just to flag up one of my faves …. Eanna ni Lamhna had been waxing most entertaining on the wildlife of the mountains and she had come to the Chough, a kind of Alice in Wonderland critter – crowy and with red legs and beak. What it did, what it ate, how it behaved. All good. Then she got to where it could be seen and identified essentially the Gaeltachs of Scotland and Ireland. Very cross, our own favourite Cornish Country Cottage burner snarled from the crowd. “And in Cornwall. Yes we have them too in Cornwall …. LUVV! It is our national symbol ….!” LUVV was a bit nonplussed I have to admit and danced around the thing a tad uncomfortably. How I wish she had said “Oh yes Cornwall – I had forgotten all about England …” There would have been a punchup…. Anyway I reached across to Johnny Jackill who was stifling a guffaw and hoping I wouldn’t say anything that would let it out - but I just said that it seemed the sixth pint was going down nicely. |
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| CaptainVertigo 2012-02-18 09:16:35 |
WAI MV Annual Event
"For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours and laugh at them in our turn?" Oh Jane forgive me! I never wholly acknowledged the universality of that truth. Mine has been a life of shallow delight in the fragility of the human psyche manifest in family, friends and fellow man.The notion that I might, in my turn, unravel, had certainly occurred to me, but I believed that any such denouement of the soul would echo my finer characteristerics: endurance, fortitude, dignity and grace. I had pictured myself in the considerable bosom of my family perhaps sharing a meal, and the youngest child would whisper to his mother "Why is Daddy dribbling?". No scene. No drama. I would simply be brought to the garden shed and left there until whatever wave coursing through my neurons had crashed on the shore of my iron will. Oh that it might have been so! Instead, Nature exacted revenge for my smugness at a time and a place of her own choosing. Last night I was due to address a convention of the nation's leading mountain folk on the subject of Upland Cinematography. A heavy cold had resulted in the consumption of an array of "over the counter drugs", with some alcohol added to lubricate my burning throat. I grabbed the microphone like a man possessed and began a Quixotic rant against windmills and telecommunications towers, spoke of "solitary activity" on the hills, and "religious experiences". I had barely gotten going when the kindly man from WAI began to tinkle the "time up" bell, and walking sticks were extended onto the stage and I was gently but firmly pulled off. Had there been an orchestra present one might have heard a titantic rendition of "Nearer my God to Thee" as my ship sank. Instead, the lights dimmed and the mcrtchly Maamturks motion picture began to roll. A soothing balm for all. |
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| jackill 2012-02-15 22:04:06 |
Finding Carrigshouk
And so it falls to me to confirm what the eagle eyed Geo has already spotted, Carrigshouk has been found and promoted to the Arderins. Also did anyone spot that Beenabrack in the Brandon group has been moved to the east and increased in height by eight meters?A little bit of history in summiteering in Ireland. But how did we get here? Last year a small band of dedicated MViewers got together and hatched a number of plans. One of these went something like "wouldn't it be nice to accurately correct and verify the summits on our lists". We went through many options from the Abney level to a Total station surveying apparatus(think modern theodolite). At the end of last year we managed to secure a Trimble GeoXH differential gps.This is an amazing piece of equipment which records position and altitude to an accuracy of 0.1 mtrs using its own readings which are then crossreferenced with data recorded by OSI at online base stations throughout the country. It takes these readings usually in under a minute. This allows Mountainviews to verify the lists it publishes and maintains. It also allows us to apply corrections with authority, something that has been up to now all but impossible to Irish list makers. We have already surveyed nine summits since January and we will work our way through a list of summits and members queries in the next year or two. It is an exciting time for summitteering in Ireland and we will be updating this site regularly with our findings. I will be at the talk in Dublin on Friday , if anyone would like more information on this project or a look at the unit please feel free to ask at the event. |
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