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Uwch-mynydd: Short trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 3 hours ago
Parked to north at end of narrow lane at car park. walked south west a short distance through forest until gate. From gate follow rough indistinct paths to summit with a small pile of stones. Grea...

Y Garn: Long trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 3 hours ago
Parked in the village of Ganllwyd and followed permissive tracks through the forest towards the goldmines. From there headed west over the open countryside and a few walls (stile, stepover and hol...

Waun-oer: The ridge in fog

Summit Comment Fergalh 4 hours ago
When you walk between Waun-oer and Mynydd Ceiswyn you follow the fence and as you can see from this photo there are some undulations in the ridge

Mynydd Ceiswyn: View from North

Summit Comment Fergalh 4 hours ago
In this photograph some of the linear ridge walk can be seen. Well worth the climb

Waun-oer: Wonderful ridge walk

Summit Comment Fergalh 4 hours ago
From Mynydd Ceiswyn follow the narrow ridge that undulates up and down until eventually you will arrive at the brick trig pillar that marks the summit

Mynydd Ceiswyn: Short steep climb

Summit Comment Fergalh 4 hours ago
Parked to south west on Layby on the A487. Here you have two choices walk north along the busy A487 to sign and stile or cross road and use stile and walk parallel north to road on rough ground wh...

Foel Offrwm: Short trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 23 hours ago
Parked to west in small car park and crossed road and followed track for a while before we went straight up through the heather. This is marked with a square cairn

Ceiswyn: The view from North west

Summit Comment Fergalh 23 hours ago
In this photo the ascent of Ceiswyn can be seen. After reaching the summit it was a simple matter of heading south east and bypassing Mynydd Cwmeiddew to enter the forest and follow the forest ...

Ceiswyn: Nice ridge walk from Mynydd Fron-fraith

Summit Comment Fergalh 23 hours ago
From Mynydd Fron-fraith it was a simple matter of handrailing the edge of the cut down forest and heading in a roughly southerly direction. This was along a narrow undulating ridge that led to ...

Spelga Circuit

Track 4435 Peter Walker a day ago
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Mynydd Fron-fraith: The View West

Summit Comment Fergalh 23 hours ago
This was a long ascent to this summit but worth it for this view from near the summit to the west

Mynydd Fron-fraith: Long trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 23 hours ago
From Godre Fynydd we dropped down onto forest track and than followed it past where we had joined it. We stopped directly east of the top as we had noticed from Godre Fynydd that the trees were...
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Mweelrea Area   E: Ben Gorm Mountains Subarea
Place count in area: 12, OSI/LPS Maps: 37, MSW 
Highest place: Mweelrea, 814m
Maximum height for area: 814 metres,     Maximum prominence for area: 779 metres,

Note: this list of places includes island features such as summits, but not islands as such.
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Ben Gorm Mountain An Bhinn Ghorm A name in Irish (Ir. An Bhinn Ghorm [MNIMA*], 'the blue peak') Mayo County in Connacht Province, in Arderin, Vandeleur-Lynam, Irish Best Hundred, Irish Highest Hundred Lists, Sandstone & conglomerate, ignimbrite Bedrock

Height: 700m OS 1:50k Mapsheet: 37 Grid Reference: L86227 65242
Place visited by 284 members. Recently by: nupat, Benbruce, upper, No1Grumbler, nolo, Edmo, sofearghail, pcost, derekpkearney, abcd, Wes, hivisibility, padstowe, justynagru, jrpcalvert
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Longitude: -9.721075, Latitude: 53.624709 , Easting: 86227, Northing: 265242 Prominence: 670m,  Isolation: 1km
ITM: 486152 765254,   GPS IDs, 6 char: BnGrm, 10 char: Ben Gorm
Bedrock type: Sandstone & conglomerate, ignimbrite, (Mweelrea Formation)

An Bhinn Ghorm is a mountain name which occurs 3 times in Co. Mayo. Ir. gorm is usually translated 'blue', but Breandán S. Mac Aodha suggests that 'iron-grey' is closer to the true meaning in such mountain names (MNIMA, 149). Walks: for a route taking in Ben Gorm and Ben Creggan, see Whilde & Simms, New Irish Walk Guide - West and North, 60-61.   Ben Gorm is the 114th highest place in Ireland. Ben Gorm is the most easterly summit and also the second most southerly in the Mweelrea area.
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Approaching from the south east
by ColinCallanan  20 Jun 2015
Incredible views all the way as you approach from the south-east. I used the track from Onzy and found it very helpful. Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/110/comment/18145/
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