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Maximum height for area: 850 metres

Summits in area: 47

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Rocky Mountain Mountain	Down County
PNNI suggests that this name may have been coined in English.
Height: 524 metres	OS 1/50k Mapsheet: 29 for top
Grid Ref: J35070 25255	Latitude: 54.158568 Longitude: -5.933100
ITM: 734989 825260	Prominence: 60m Isolation: 1.4km
There are two other peaks of this name in the Mourne Mountains, and the Irish form Sliabh na gCloch, 'mountain of the stones', is attested for both. Rocky Mountain is the 408th highest summit in Ireland. Our data has reached 95% of the goal for this summit. (Details)

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Rocky Mountain in area Mourne Mountains, County Down, Ireland

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Guardian of Annalong Valley

Short Summary created by wicklore 14 May 2011 There are two Rocky Mountains in the Mourne Mountains. The lower one at 404 metres is situated in the western Mournes near Pigeon Rock and Cock Mountains. This higher one, at 534 metres, is situated in the eastern Mournes. Along with Slieve Binnian, Rocky Mountain guards the entrance to the Annalong Valley and commands fine views of the valley, surrounding mountains, the coast and the Irish sea.

One approach is to follow the Bloody Bridge track starting at J389 270 (Point A). Follow the track for about 4 kms up to the Mourne Wall and the Brandy Pad at J353 268 (Point B). Turn left and follow the wall for just under 2 kms south where it skirts beneath the summit of Rocky Mountain. At approx J353 255 (Point C) strike out uphill for the short steep climb to the top. It is best to stay to the west of the wall as you approach from the Brandy Pad as it can be very difficult to find a place to climb over it due to its height on this stretch! As well as excellent views of Binnian, Lamagan, Cove and Slieve Beg, Rocky Mountain offers a fine view of the ridge of Chimney Rock Mountain across the valley to the NE.

Point A: J389 270	Point B: J353 268	Point C: J353 255
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by Bleck Cra 19 Apr 2006 If you’re a soldier at the top of Slieve Donard you can be hit by lightning and killed, apparently. Am I interested in the story? Is Socrates’ drowning student interested in air? The winter in the Mournes, having failed to make any impression on the year - at all, resorted to a fit of pique, a couple of Saturdays ago when M. Nature told it, it was Spring’s turn. Kicking and screaming, it blitzkreiged the gentle Mournes with salvos of ice needles and despatched the aforesaid squaddie to forever sentry duty. Rocky Mountain should not be confused with Rocky Mountain or in fact with Rocky Mountain. First, up off the Annalong; second at the White Water; and third ‘round about Rostrevor; and given it’s a great get-out to coming up with an actual name for a hill, probably thousands more between here and the Dakotas. The first proves a source of bewilderment to me. Barely a kink on the contours, attack it from the Annalong and be you ingénu enough to do this in the mirk, it will drain every ounce of resolve in you, out. You will bash heather, scramble, tumble, perhaps crumble. A broken leg, a broken head and a broken spirit await. Why? Because the most natural route off/on her, has none. Traverse ‘til the cows come home; even do a kind of corkscrew thing. But can you go straight up? Probably, but take a bivvy bag just in case. From Donard and pre-Donard, unnoticeable; from the Annalong - completely memorable. The buckshot hail would have rattled Ned Kelly; it was very dodgy weather. He was leading a party. With the hood cranked fully in and eyes welded shut from the assault, he announced that it was “not a bad day between the showers”.

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by Bleck Cra 15 Nov 2004 Zeaphod 10/11 - 200 per cent, reference litter Rocky-ish and thereabouts. I like your idea about people taking litter home; I myself favour the disembowelling procedure for the perps, followed by feeding their miserable carcasses to the beetles. Alas, it being November, it is no longer suitable to stand naked with a bottle of fortified wine, so they've slipped through our hands again for another year - however if we start digging pits now, we'll be ready for next Spring. What do you think ? Incidentally, sorry about Goofy enroute to Bloody Bridge carpark or anywhere: I had him a week or so back and it's my fault for pointing him in the right direction - quite the wrong thing to do.

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by tsunami 10 Feb 2005 Natural lakes are unfortunately a rapidly disappearing feature of the Mournes. Peat Bog succession has succeeded in filling in Blue Lough between Bearnagh and Doan and Cove Lough is today very quickly disappearing into the reeds. David Kirk correctly states that only two of these natural lakes worthy of the name remain, Binnian Lough on the high platform above the Douglas Crag and Blue Lough on the shoulder between Binnian and Lamagan in the valley below. Being at the head of one of the busier Mourne thoroughfares probably contributes somewhat to the continued survival of this waterhole against the onset of Peat succession. Or just maybe, as the picture shows, as sentinal's like Rocky Mountain keep a close eye from across the Annalong Valley it has no option but to stay put!!

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by sbarany 19 May 2005 Rocky Mountain summit with Slieve Donard in the background

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by zeaphod 10 Nov 2004 Calling it a mountain seems like a wild exaggeration when you are standing next to the "bump". Of course the surrounding land is already high above the Annalong vally. The easist way there is via Round Seefin and Long Seefin, just follow the wall. Lots of evidence of quarrying activity, and a few suitable campsites in the area. Unfortunately this has led to a few bits of litter along the wall. Do us all a favour - take it home. Seriously, if everyone take one piece of litter home, we'll soon clear it up.

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