Mournes 44
Survival vs Sleep
After spending a freezing January night shivering, without sleep, under a poncho on Belfast’s Cavehill it dawned on me that what you can survive with and what you need to enjoy the hills are not necessarily the same.
Attempt at the Mourne Wall – Lessons learned
Saint Patricks day saw me and a friend attempt to walk the length of the Mourne Wall, 22 miles over 15 mountains. We tried to have a crack at this in one day. The recent weather in Northern Ireland has been varied at best, in the last couple of months we’ve seen heavy snow, weeks […]
All Aboard The Gondola!
There’s been something of a minor stir lately in the Northern Ireland outdoors community regarding plans to build a gondola to transport hikers and tourists for access to Slieve Donard (and from there, the Mournes in general) Debate has been quite polarized, with one camp feeling such things should never be done to the hills […]
Binnian summit camp
Last July I was joined by around 15 friends when we summit camped on Slieve Binnian in the Mourne mountains. We set off at around 5pm parking at the private car park near Carricklittle which anybody can use for a few quid.
