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Bleck Cra
2012-02-02 18:02:23
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| Do we want it? No. Do we need it? No. Do we like it? No. Did it cost us money? Yes. (Expand pics) |
MAKE DO AND MEND IN THE MOURNES
Kevin I read your piece. Thank you for your words about my contributions.
Your more important point, you make well and quietly. You are right: I do believe that doing nothing is a perfectly good option.
Do I agree with you that there is erosion and that it has to be corrected? Not comfortable with the “erosion” thing. Is it not an epithet better applied to lino or your driveway or the end of the PreCambrian era?
We have paths and tracks make by people. Once there weren’t any and now there are – is that erosion? A moniker too rich for my palate.
The clean, emptiness of the mountains is their lure; a place beyond our ordinary experience – somewhere inhabiting our minds where things are slower, cleaner, unfussy and better.
The mountains are not something you can buy from the As-Good-As-New Shop in Killarney. Do they need fixed? Don’t know but I do know that glue is not the way to do it.
I am accused of sniping. If I had an army of support I should be pleased to come out of the tree and face your own army. In the meantime if I clean the odd one of you with a well-aimed shot, I am pleased. – and most of you are fairly slow moving anyway.
The motivation and effort from volunteers is worthy but it is ultimately pointless if the purpose is not – and that is where I am most uncomfortable.
If you spoil my view or my concept of the hills, I suppose “so what?”, but in a climate of austerity and some misery, to expend so much time, effort and money on what in truth is an indulgence, is not acceptable to me and I should be surprised if it is to you. |
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Simple way up from the SW. |
simon3 an hour ago.
Park near the start off the road which was retarred in 2012. walk, Length:2.8km, Climb: 152m, Area: Knockadigeen Hill, Shannon (Ireland) Knockadigeen |
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Summit Summary
Knockane: Easy though rough to get to, great views. |
Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3, jackill an hour ago.
Park at a forest entrance R850 665 , room for 5 cars, walk into the forest right at R844 663 which will bring you through the forest onto moorland. As it peters out you have a rough 200 meter cros... |
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Summit Summary
Cooneen Hill: Briars, pines and pain |
 Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3, jackill an hour ago.
Start from the forestry entrance at R90294 66782 and walk uphill, taking two lefts and one right off the main track onto a very rough track thats almost blocked near the end with felled trees, to... |
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Thank you MV |
ahendroff a day ago.
At 5.42pm today I completed my 404th and final Arderin. Long journey to here. Delighted & overjoyed. Humbled at the challenge also. And thanks Mountain Views for that. Gougane Barra will always be... |
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Summit Comment
Soarns Hill: Forested summit |
slemish 2 days ago.
Getting to the summit of Soarns Hill is difficult and the extensive forestry means that views are severely limited. But as it qualifies under MV prominence rules, off I went to climb it. I parked ... |
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Summit Comment
Soarns Hill: Local summit visit |
Harry Goodman 2 days ago.
Climbed Soarns Hill to-day as one of the 100 listed hills nearest to my home. I used three5four0's very helpful route description. The following additional information may be useful. The second... |
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BleckCra 2 days ago.
Thank you kevin carroll. If I can put a smile on that contrary face, the Matterhorn should be a cakewalk. |
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