Paul Hawthorne - 1391367

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Winter Walking Record

Details

Date : 10/03/2023

Duration : 5-8 hours

Style : Equals

Type : Quality Mountain Day (QMD)

Weather : Clear - sunny - good visibility

Wind : Gentle breeze

Camping Type : N/A

Nights Camping : 0

Mountains : Slieve Corragh [Sliabh Corrach]

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Description

heavy snow thursday and overnight left Friday with clear blue skies and mid calf depth snow
Chris and I called a day off work and went for a walk.. crampons and ice axe.
Joint discussion on route for a haf-way meetup and ascent in the Pot... with a stretch target of summitting Bearnagh
Route
tullymore
Luke's Mtn
Pot of Legawhanney - climbing through rock gully
NE over Corragh, Slievenaglogh
descending to ford on Trassey and out by Meelmore lodge
used the crampons for the climb up the Pot of Legawhanney was through a short (40m) gully -- kept them on for the ridge and descent to the ford on the Trassey and Meelmore stile
by the time we had reached slievenaglogh time was against us for getting Chris home so we decided to skip Bearnagh

Area : Mourne Mountains

Slieve Donard

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Time Taken : 07:57:24 Distance : 16.85 km Ascent : 1036.1 m Descent : -856.9 m Avg Speed : 2.85 kmph Moving Speed : 2.92 kmph

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