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Experimental track of a trip to Keeper Hill and 2 nearby summits.

Track 2171 simon3 14 hours ago
This may not be at all an optimum route. walk, Length:20.8km, Climb: 859m, Area: Knockfune, Shannon (Ireland) Knockfune, Knockane, Keeper Hill

Thank you MV

Forum: General ahendroff 16 hours 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...

Soarns Hill: Forested summit

Summit Comment slemish a day 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 ...

Varied, strenuous wild Bluestacks walk.

Track 2209 simon3 2 days ago
This varied route explores the two Ardnageers, Croaghbane, C walk, Length:21.0km, Climb: 999m, Area: Ardnageer SW Top, Bluestack Mountains (Ireland)

Soarns Hill: Local summit visit

Summit Comment Harry Goodman a day 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...

Re Main Area Display, logging

Forum: Suggestions simon3 2 days ago
The suggestion is that the list of summits for a mountain area obtained by asking for More Detail for the mountain area show whether or not the summit has been climbed. This has now been implement...

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Forum: General BleckCra a day ago
Thank you kevin carroll. If I can put a smile on that contrary face, the Matterhorn should be a cakewalk.

A circuit of the eastern Knockmeal hills

Track 2206 mcrtchly 3 days ago
Park at S112081 and walk north along the road for about 170m walk, Length:11.7km, Climb: 620m, Area: Crohan West, Knockmealdown Mountains (Ireland) C

Meenanea: Bump on ridge with good views.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 2 days ago
Meenanea is a summit of low prominence on the ridge from Cronamuck to Croaghbarnes. It is most likely that it will be reached as part of a traverse along this ridge. It has excellent views towa...

Walks Around Port 2

Track 2197 gerrym 4 days ago
http://youtu.be/jq7O1tarPuQ A second walk starting and fini walk, Length:17.0km, Climb: 578m, Area: Donegal SW (Ireland)

Cronamuck: Granite knob at the end of a ridge.

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: simon3 2 days ago
This summit can be reached using the ridge extending NE from Croaghbarnes and there are suggestions it could be reached from Commeen to the north on the R253. Cronamuck has views over towards Gau...

A Cloon Horseshoe "mini Scavvy"?

Forum: General Conor74 a day ago
Think none of the Scavvies so far have tackled the Dunkerrons, and the Cloon Horseshoe at its heart - Mullaghanattin, Beann, Finnararagh and then moving all the way on to Knocknagantee and swingin...
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The Bones Mountain Kerry County In Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam Lists

Height: 956.5m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 78 Grid Reference: V80070 84680 This summit has been logged as climbed by 332 members
I have climbed this summit: NO (You need to be a logged-in member to change this.)

Longitude: -9.747055, Latitude: 52.001711 Prominence: 37m,   Isolation: 0.4km
ITM: 480046 584739,   GPS IDs, 6 char: ThBns, 10 char: The Bones

A rocky arete between Carrauntoohil and Beenkeeragh. Previously Carrauntoohil Tooth in MV.   The Bones is the 8th highest summit in Ireland.
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by seano  1 Apr 2003 The Hag's Tooth?
This is a spectacular Gendarme, the most obvious feature on the Hag's Tooth Ridge leading up to Beenkeragh from the Hag's Glen. This is a hard scramble offering a bit of 'diff' rock climbing on some pretty exposed rock. Amazing views to be had on a good day from some very fine vantage points along the way.
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain The Bones in area MacGillycuddy
Picture: The airiest summit in Ireland?		  
by madfrankie  25 Apr 2006 Ireland's answer to the Inaccessible Pinnacle? Thankfully, no. Approaching from Beenkeeragh, the ridge path winds its way (with minimal handwork) to the top. A tiny platform of grass amidst rocky outcrops, the summit is no place for horsing around (or in my case, even standing up).
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain The Bones in area MacGillycuddy
by josvanderlinden  1 Nov 2009 The Bones, this is definitely on my list of most beautiful places in Ireland. With Carrauntoohil covered in the clouds behind it. A place to remember!
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain The Bones in area MacGillycuddy
Picture: Hags Glen with Lough Leane visible top left		  
by eflanaga  18 Jul 2006 Carrauntoohill Tooth (The Bones). Having abandoned the notion of getting decent pictures from the summit of Carrauntoohill IV80358 84424 (Point A) I descended the steep and rocky slope to the base of the ‘Tooth’. Care and some use of hand is needed on the descent, and even more so as you engage in a spot of scrambling up and across the rocky ridged ascent the short distance to the top of the Tooth. Despite the fact that the weather had cleared there was still a reasonably forceful wind blowing across the ridge, so a bit of extra care was required especially while stationary on the summit taking pictures. Views from here down into the Hags Glen and beyond to Lough Leane & Killarney to my right and left into the coum and the three lochs of Eagher, Com Lathair & Iochtair as well as the sheer walls of the coum around the Caher tops and the peaks of Beenkeeragh, Stuaic Bharr na H-Abhann, Skregmore and Cnoc Iochtair and west as far as the eye could see were spectacular in the afternoon sunshine. From the top of the tooth a decision has to be made, whether to strike out along the short but nerve-testing arête to the start of the climb to Beenkeeragh or to drop a few metres and take the track running along the coum side of the ridge – the next stage in this Coumloughra Horseshoe walk.
Point A: V80358 84424
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MountainViews.ie Picture about mountain The Bones in area MacGillycuddy
by Peter Walker  12 Sep 2007 Having managed to stand up AND look through a viewfinder whilst on top of The Bones, I only succeeded in proving that exposure is really difficult to capture on camera! Ah well. As noted by others, if continuing to Carrauntoohil, the path moves over to the left side here, which seems illogical (because that's the really steep side) until you actually see it.
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Or the Tooth?
by Conor74  22 Apr 2011 I note the info section states that this was previously known as Carrauntoohil Tooth here.

Richard Mersey describes the route from Beenkeragh to Carrauntoohil involving a traverse of 'a three-pronged minor summit that Sean O'Suilleabhain calls the Tooth'. Much as I like his book, think 'minor' was the wrong adjective, evidently he meant relative to its neighbours.

Jkforde notes the Bone spur to the Eastern Reeks which can lead to a little confusion. Every time I bring some family member or friend up Carrauntoohil you see the puzzled look on their face as you swing into view of the Bones and they think you can't even bother to change the names you're making up! On the other hand, if I was pointing out the Hag's Tooth followed by the Tooth, it may not have been much better...
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