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BleckCra
2014-05-11 22:09:41

Answers please

According to the way MountainViews records things, it is now 2 weeks since I flagged up a couple of issues.
I am far from the first to flag them up.
Firstly the matter of the Message Service on the site not saving messages out - and secondly the matter of MountainViews' "summit" Jonesborough Mtn not existing, at least under that MountainViews title.
In that no one has got back to me by that message service, by email, by phone, by Facebook, by pigeon or by anything else - I have concluded that no one has got back to me - or it seems intends to.
Perhaps someone might.

osullivanm
2014-05-11 16:45:31

Lost GPS - Crone Wood area .. Sun 11 May

Garmin GPSMap76CSx fell off top of car in Crone Car park or on road from there to Enniskerry. The opening screen says "Hello Simon". If you happen to find it, please contact mob ph: 0879630994

BleckCra
2014-05-11 00:02:10

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REMEMBER THE VIEW?

I wonder if some of the elite on this site would be interested in coming together, to remind ourselves of the more traditional features of high level hillwalking. Unique characteristics - not marathon running, not fell running, not particularly bagging (whatever any of these are), not scrambling (at least not by that name), not ropes but endorphin driven, pub closing-time driven, lad-ism and lass-ism driven, by Wednesday craving for the mountains driven ............. behaviour.
I am talking about filling a couple of cars enroute to wherever - every cupla weeks or so - or as it takes us.
No measuring heights. No measuring distances. No ticking off. No congratulations. No recollection of any of it other than the experience, the thrill, the buzz and the craic.
In my travels through the mountains of this land, the walking clubs, the festivals, the challenge walks, I can identify maybe up to 50 of the kind of "us" I am talking about.
If any or others are on this website and would be interested in something like the above, give me a shout on the members message service under "Community".

BleckCra
2014-05-10 17:42:27

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1+1=?

Ah thomas-g. The black art of MountainViews mountain measuring. "A mystery" one might say. You make a good point and we await Zzzzzz an answer.

thomas_g
2014-05-10 11:00:40

Binnions

Maybe I missed it, but was there a post on how the Binnions were chosen? The reason I ask is that I was looking at Clashabeema (137m) this morning and noticed Ballyscanlan 3km south of it which is 148m, has similar prominence and even a trig point. So the question is, why Clashabeema and not Ballyscanlan? thanks

jackill
2014-05-10 07:56:57

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Irish Met Society Public Lecture, May 29,

1)5.30-6pm: Registration with tea/coffee.

2)6-7.30pm: Introduction then Public lecture by Dr Will Lang, Chief Meteorologist, The UK Met Office followed by questions/debate.

3)7.30 to 8pm: AGM Irish Meteorological Society.

A new committee for 2014-2015 will be elected. There are four vacancies and volunteers are invited.

The objectives of the Irish Met Society are:

The promotion of an interest in meteorology inIreland
The dissemination of meteorological knowledge, pure and applied.

Membership is open to all who have an interest in meteorology, ranging from those whose scientific speciality is meteorology or a related area to those whose work or leisure activities lead to a desire to be well informed about weather and climate.

Activities of the Irish Met Society:

The Met society hosts monthly lectures open to the public and available on www.irishmetsociety.org

We also have day, evening and weekend field-trips, seminars and outings of scientific and meteorological interest. We occasionally publish articles, newsletters etc.

We welcome and encourage both professional and public participation and debate about meteorology.

Evelyn

Evelyn Cusack

Secretary Irish Met Society.

Barry
2014-05-09 21:13:39

"EastWest Mapping Parking Symbols" from Barry Contract pics

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Parking symbols used by EastWest Mapping

I know some people here use maps by EastWest Mapping. Please review the info below and pass on, thanks.

Parking symbols in use on maps by EastWest Mapping.

There are currently three distinct parking symbols on our maps, though they vary by edition. Please refer to the attached image and/ or your map.

1) Public car park, standard purple square with white letter P. These indicate a variety of car parks where the public are normally welcome. They may vary in size, holding a half dozen cars to several hundred. Pay car parks usually have the word Pay attached. Some public car parks have the word Closed attached. These are features that are either temporarily or permanently closed due to vandalism etc.

Car parks attached to pubs, shops and churches are generally marked as public car parks. Clearly these are mainly intended for use by their prospective public customers and you do need to keep this in mind if planning to park there for several hours. At very least, ask if in doubt and of course patronise the shop and/or pub before or afterwards etc.

2) Private car park, brown square with white letter P. These indicate car parks intended typically for club member use - e.g. golf clubs. They are not open to the public and are shown simply for information as they are features on the landscape.

3) Parking spot, small purple letter P. These indicate a layby or spot along the road where you would normally be able to park from 1 to 4 cars, without blocking entrances and the road. They are not public car parks. We started plotting such spots to help with a perennial problem of people parking across gates and blocking lanes etc. If these parking spots are anywhere near a house entrance, please ask before using.

We have a small problem in that in attempting to solve one problem, we have worsened the situation in a few places. The public seem to be heading for these spots and even if they are full, squeezing in extra cars to the point of causing hassle & blockages. Please do not use these parking spots if they are hold more than a couple of cars - go somewhere else!

I would draw attention to a particular site at a place called Toor near Hollywood Glen in West Wicklow. The lanes are very narrow here and there is one largish layby near a house entrance marked with a 'Parking Spot' symbol. Please do not use this location at all - the residents are quite happy to see walkers pass by on the road but this spot has been swamped by 20+ cars on recent occasions and it is clearly not tolerable. I would also ask that if you do pass this way on foot, please pick up any rubbish that you see left behind by others.

For future editions of EastWest Mapping maps, I'm considering omitting this Parking Spot symbol altogether as clearly I can't monitor how the public use and sometimes misuse it. It's a pity as it's a useful small piece of information but that's the way of it Back to the old 'find you own spots'.

Please also pass on this information to anyone else whom you know that uses the above maps. Thanks for your help with the matter.

Barry Dalby, EastWest Mapping.

BleckCra
2014-05-08 18:26:30

Scavvy 11

Chat of a Scavvy Walk - Comeraghs - Saturday Aug 30th

Moderate B walk with A/Challenge opportunities.
To take in high tops and a lake-cliff circuit.

11th of this popular twice-yearly social walk, attended by mountainviews members, friends and others.
Informal apres-walk dinner and pub.

Put it in your diary and watch this space for more details.

Contact Jackill or Bleck Cra

BleckCra
2014-05-06 22:50:20

"High, Babe"

Hills and Dating. Zzzzzzzzzz. More dumbing down of matters mountains. Anyway, are we not on the bldy things to get away from all that?! Well, we used to be. Perhaps nowadays that is a naïve question.

BleckCra
2014-05-06 19:21:43

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THE MOUNTAIN AND MOHAMMED

A matter of no concern is affecting Lake District hill Blencathra in Cumbria.

Current owner, the Earl of Lonsdale, leaned on by the British exchequer for inheritance tax of some £9m, or his agent, has had the inspired idea of selling off a mountain - at £2m ish towards the bill.

When I write "inspired" I mean inspired by the modern stampede to populate the mountains with fairweather, lo-level, weekend ramblers - and so give birth to some chavvy new money, desolate without a mountain in its portfolio.

If the Earl or the agent also understood that a band of the usual suspects of bourgeois hippies would come together to save the mountain with the compulsory belligerent cant (save it for themselves, no doubt), inspiration becomes genius.

And so we can expect an oil sheik, a Russian oligarch, a crime boss or an "entrepreneur" to come up with the wodge ............, and now also, a bunch of silly Cumbrian pseudo-nationalist idealists.

The mountain is in Cumbria and as far as I can see, is going nowhere else; it is the ward of the National Park who will see itself at pains to keep the place clean and replete with pointless new walkways; there is free access to all the public on to it with innumerable rights of way dedahdedah. And more dedahdedah ........

The new proprietor will own the mountain and the land on it. Its use by the nouveaux ramblers will continue unrestrained - and nothing - I mean nothing will change.

Please let it be a Latvian mafia mercenary serial killer and not the Friends of Blencathra Commune who will doubtless make a horse's ass of the thing, fight endlessly and pointlessly with each other and who knows, turn it into fairy cakes with all natural ingredients and no E numbers.

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