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Uwch-mynydd: Short trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 4 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 4 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 a day 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 a day 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 a day 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
Text to follow Betwixt a co ck and a Pigeon|

Mynydd Fron-fraith: The View West

Summit Comment Fergalh a day 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 a day 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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thomas_g: Track 1798 in area near The Priests Leap, Shehy/Knockboy (Ireland)
The Knockboys and Leim an Sagairt
Length: 9.6km, Creator time taken: 3h , Ascent: 465m,
Descent: 485m

Places: Start at V98519 61095, The Priest\'s Leap, Knockboy, Knockboy North Top, Knockboy South Top, end at V99574 60628 1.2km E from Start
Logged as completed by 1

A jaunt around the Knockboys and Leim an Sagairt, which might be more appropriately named Leim an Caorán (bog) since that's what I seemed to be doing.
I had originally planned on doing the South top first then doing Knockboy and North top, but the going was so boggy to Leim an Sagart, I said I'd head straight for Knockboy. The going was much better than expected even after all the rain so I decided to takes in the North top and head for the South top. Going to the South top and from the South top back to the road is wet going, but very do-able. If the stream between the South Top and the road is in flood, there is what appears to be the remnant of an old bridge at V99503 60704 which there are some stones to cross.
It would be much better to follow this route in reverse, the last push up to Priests leap on the road is no fun after the boggy traverse from the South Top.
4 peaks above 500m in 3 hours: not to be sniffed at.

Uploaded on: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 (21:36:35)
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