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Colin Murphy: Track 4969 in area near Dunranhill, Wicklow (Ireland)
Access issues
Length: 3.6km, Creator time taken: 54m59s, Ascent: 168m, Descent: 168m
Places:Start at O2555402668, Dunranhill, end at Start Logged as completed by 1
There have been major access issues with this hill in the past, although some contributors have suggested that they have been resolved. How exactly they’ve been resolved has not been explained however, and there are still plentiful warning sighns such as 'private property, no entry,' 'trespassers will be prosecuted,' 'you are under video surveillance' etc., which doesn’t suggest any resolution has been reached. That said, if a fictional hillwalker (let’s call him Indiana) wanted to take his chances that he won’t be hauled off to prison by the Gardai, Indiana might consider taking this approach.Theoretically, one quiet Sunday, Indiana would head up a grassy lane behind a house, climb over a gate, and then come to two more gates, one in front and one on the right. Being an adventurous sort, Indiana would ignore the gate in front of him and might then clamber over the gate on the right, or rather over the barbed wire fence attached to it, as the gate might be unclimbable.This would leave Indiana in a small area facing a wall of gorse. But the ever-daring Indiana would discover that there is a narrow opening through the gorse, through which he could squeeze without too much trouble.This would leave our hero on a substantial forest track, after which it would be a relatively straightforward ascent up forest tracks, which pass about 20m from the summit trig pillar, at which point Indiana would seize his treasure – a fantastic view of the Wicklow coastline.
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