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Stoompa: Coordinate errors

Summit Comment jackill 2 hours ago
We parked the car at GR V98412 84728 on a fine July evening and walked the first kilometre on the roadway before turning left onto the rough path that follows the side of the Finoulagh River fo...

Duff Hill: Approach from Military Road.

Summit Comment Colin Murphy 3 hours ago
I started at a forest entrance at O104 054 (parking for several cars) and proceeded up that track to the N of Carrigshouk for about 100m before continuing NW along the grassy terrain, following...

Coumfea: Comfea via the Eastern Sgilloge Lough Gully

Summit Comment kernowclimber 4 hours ago
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Coumfea: White sands on the Comeraghs

Summit Summary Collaborative entry Last edit by: JohnA 4 hours ago
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Bryn Mawr: Trek through trees leads to unmarked summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 5 hours ago
Parked to the northeast and followed forest track west. At the end where the deciduous trees started followed rough track until the trees thinned out a little and than headed due south before e...

Erw y Ddafad-ddu: The view from the north

Summit Comment Fergalh 5 hours ago
After we reached the summit it was a short trek to visit Aran Fawddwy and than the long trek back down the ridge all the way back to the starting point

Erw y Ddafad-ddu: Short trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 5 hours ago
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Aran Benllyn: View from North

Summit Comment Fergalh 5 hours ago
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Aran Benllyn: Short trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 5 hours ago
From Pen Aran following the track which ran alongside the fence it was a short trek upwards to Aran Benlyn. This is marked with a small cairn like Pen Aran

Pen-aran: The view south

Summit Comment Fergalh 6 hours ago
The first stop along the ridge is Garth Fawr at around 320 Metres. This summit is not on Mountainviews

Pen-aran: Long trek to summit

Summit Comment Fergalh 6 hours ago
Having climbed Aran Fawddwy from the south before it was time to climb it from the north and reach the peaks i did not have the time to do on my previous visit. We parked at Llanuwchllyn in the...

Rhobell-y-big: View from below

Summit Comment Fergalh a day ago
Afterwards we headed North to the road where one of the cars was parked it had rained so much that day that the car got stuck in the grass where we had parked. Luckily a farmer helped us extrac...
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simon3: Track 2108 in area near Ben of Howth, East Coast (Ireland)
Short ramble round the Ben of Howth.
Length: 5.0km, Creator time taken: 1h20m, Ascent: 88m,
Descent: 126m

Places: Start at O28650 38540, Ben of Howth, end at Start
Logged as completed by 1

It can be a little tricky to find parking at a busy time so we started from a suburban street.
Reaching the summit with its trig pillar took around 20 minutes. There's a number of other tops around so we tried some of them and came back by a different route.
The Mapnik/OSM layer shows the tracks best for this area including tracks we did not use for this visit.
From the high ground there is a fine view over Ireland's Eye, an island off the coast and near to Howth. There are other views over the city and to the Dublin/ Wicklow mountains.

Uploaded on: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 (20:33:20)
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