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Slieve Beagh

Track 2168 Peter Walker a week ago
A walk over the plateau to the E Top (County Monaghan's high walk, Length:8.7km, Climb: 195m, Area: Slieve Beagh, Fermanagh/S Tyrone (Ireland) Slieve

Barraboy Mountain SE Top: Come from the ridge

Summit Comment thomas_g 2 weeks ago
There is fairly good access from the main Barraboy ridge via a grassy gully which was a bit damp at the bottom. It's possible to traverse east to this top from the Beara way, but it looks like hor...

Inca Trail

Track 2187 mcrtchly a week ago
The classic 4 day (3 night) walk to Machu Picchu in Peru is walk, Length:34.5km, Climb: 2230m, Area: Peru, Cusco ()

re Vulcano, Sicily

Forum: General simon3 a week ago
Brenno, fascinating stuff. I have come to appreciate the sparse beauty of volcanic landscapes in the Canaries and can immediately relate to the rock shapes in your picture. I have an ambition to...

Barraboy Mountain SE Top: A quick run around the possible tops

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: thomas_g 2 weeks ago
Barraboy SE is best reached Barraboy top. It's also possible to access from the east but it's a long damp walk from Priests leap. Views are very good south to the sea. Knockboy is clearly visible...

Routeburn Track - Day 2

Track 2184 march-fixer a week ago
Early start and had a good breakfast. Packed up and headed o walk, Length:5.2km, Climb: 404m, Area: New Zealand, Southland ()

Barraboy Mountain: Fine views over the bay

Summit Comment thomas_g 2 weeks ago
Parked at V93218 61229 (barely room for one car) beside Beara Way stile. Over the stile and up the track, I left the track and went straight for the peak, but it's probably best to follow the trac...

The summit question

Forum: General Conor74 a week ago
My point was not related to the height at all. As I understood, the point raised was not about the height of the south pinnacle of the Great Skellig, but whether people could consider it bagged o...

Routeburn Track - Day 1

Track 2181 march-fixer a week ago
This is the first day of one of the top walks in the world. walk, Length:13.3km, Climb: 802m, Area: New Zealand, Southland ()

Barraboy Mountain: Nicely perched above Glengarriff

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: thomas_g 2 weeks ago
Barraboy is best reached from the col between Esk and Barraboy which can be reached from the Beara way. It's also possible to access from the east but it's a long damp walk from Priests leap. Vie...

Fox Glacier

Track 2179 march-fixer a week ago
This was an opportunity to climb up Fox Glacier as far as th walk, Length:7.5km, Climb: 561m, Area: New Zealand, Westland ()

Stillbrook Hill: Sucess on Stillbrook

Summit Comment eamonoc 2 weeks ago
3/5/2013 Left road at point B, I followed an obvious boggy path with curious little plastic dams in a boggy drain alongside it, I went to the highest point on this path at 513mts. There is a ve...
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Knockbane Hill An Cnoc Bán A name in Irish
(prob. Ir. An Cnoc Bán [PDT], 'white or grassy hill') Tipperary County In Carn List

Height: 433m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 66 Grid Reference: R94259 52539 This summit has been logged as climbed by 9 members
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Longitude: -8.085459, Latitude: 52.624478 Prominence: 158m,   Isolation: 1.6km,   Has trig pillar
ITM: 594213 652586,   GPS IDs, 6 char: Knckbn, 10 char: Knockbane

A cairn at the summit is named Laghtseefin, probably from Ir. Leacht Suí Finn, 'burial monument of Fionn's seat').   Knockbane is the 681st highest summit in Ireland.
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A restricted view of the Galtys with rising forests
Short Summary created by jackill  16 Jan 2013 After a sharp bend park at a field gate(1 car only) at R94525 53427 (Point A).
Go over the gate and immediately right up an old disused forestry entrance.After a few hundred meters you will reach a new forest track, turn right and follow this to R94565 52881 (Point B), a crossroads, directly ahead look for a firebreak which will bring you to to R94538 52826 (Point C).
Turn right along an overgrown but passable track to R94603 52698 (Point D) and then up a rough ride covered in sedge grass.
As the ground flattens out towards the top of the hill go left , skirting pools and rough ground to the summit trig pillar atop a mossy cairn.
The views are restricted due to forresty however the Galty and Slievenamuck ridges to the south are worth seeing from this viewpoint.
Point A: R94525 53427 Point B: R94565 52881 Point C: R94538 52826
Point D: R94603 52698

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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Knockbane in area Shannon, Ireland
Picture: The Mysterious Object		  
Roger, roger.
by madfrankie  8 Mar 2011 Whilst visiting Knockbane last weekend, this otherwise mundane summit did have an item of interest: at the base of the trig pillar was a small metal marker with the inscription "EI/G4WSB/P".
A quick google revealed this to be part of a project called Summits To The Air Database, a programme that encourages radio amateurs who enjoy hill walking to take their radios with them and operate them from mountain tops (see http://www.sota.org.uk).
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain Knockbane in area Shannon, Ireland
Picture: Tree and Trig
by jackill  3 Feb 2009 Hopping the gate in front of my car at R94525 53427 I turned right up an old disused forestry entrance where I was confronted with the dirty side of old Ireland , abandoned rubbish and a wrecked car. I hit a new forest track and followed this to R94565 52881 , a crossroads and then scooted up a firebreak to R94538 52826, turned right along an overgrown but passable track to R94603 52698 and then up a rough gap covered in sedge grass to the summit trig pillar atop a mossy cairn. The day wasn’t the best at this stage so no views to speak of, only the promise of the fault scalp of Slievenamuck and the towering Galtys beyond Aherlow that would fill the southern horizon on a clear day
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