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Fantastic Club Day Out On The Paps

 On Sunday Mar. 26th we had an absolute fantastic day out on The Paps with a group of 13 doing the trip. All the way around we had blue skies overhead with views stretching to the limit on all sides from the Galtees to the North East with The Reeks just behind us and on our South side you could see all the way into the depths of West Cork.  The only bad thing you could say was at the top of both peaks it was extremely windy and it was no day for hanging around too long but one thing the wind did too was to dry the place out as the ground conditions were good and dry. The Paps Loop Link  The route we took was our usual one in that we started at the cleared away forest entrance near Clydagh Bridge which is on the Cork side of Glenflesk & just off the main road from Cork/Macroom to Killarney which leads us on to a fine tough opening 45 minutes which is always testing leading onto the first peak before heading along for the first Western Pap and then down into the valley before

Charity Climb In Aid Of Kanturk Hospital & The Irish Cancer Society

On Sunday April 30th the 3rd Charity Climb is on up Carrantoohill in Aid Of Kanturk Hospital & The Irish Cancer Society. The first climb up Carrantoohill raised €2950 in aid of Pieta Hospital & The Twomey Memorial with 60 climbers and we had a good day out . Click on the Link to view Video Charity Climb 1 Up Carrantoohill The second climb was up Mount Brandon in Aid Of Kanturk Hospital & Marymount Hospice and raised €6500. This climb went over 2 Sundays , on the first Sunday we had to get off the Mountain for safety & the fact we were soaked through & through. The second Sunday was an absolute brillant day where experienced climbers never saw the Brandon top clear & sunny but they saw it that day. Click on the Link to view Video Charity Climb Up Brandon Charity Climb Up Brandon Part 2 So hopefully our third climb

Club Outing -- First time doing The Claragh Loop

 On Sun. March 11th for the first time we had a club outing doing the Claragh Loop , to get there you go into Millstreet, turn down the road between Centra & the Church and travel out for about a mile until you meet a Grotto and just beyond this you park on the right on the bend. You then proceed to walk up the small road on the town side of where you are after parking until you meet the entrance into the forest on your right . This is the start of the Claragh Loop.  On this day we started with a good crowd of 11 including another new member & 2 day visitors which was a great turn out  The Claragh Loop is another good walk for us in that it is not that far away and in some ways for us it is so close most people never bother doing it, thinking the far away fields are greener. The way we did it is by first climbing the traditional route to the top of Claragh Mt. and going as far as the Cross but instead of turning back you continue on until you meet you meet up with The D

First time to the Ballyhouras

A few weeks ago on our second trip of the year we headed to the Ballyhoura Mountains which was perfect in many ways in that it was not that far away especially at this time of the year and the fact we were walking for the most part on Forrest roadways. The day itself was cloudy, windy and mucky but we as usual made the most of it and got on with it and enjoyed the day.  We parked in the Coillte ran car park, we departed by going back out onto the road & on back southwards for a small bit before we turned left down a small country road facing out towards the Galtees in the distance before we looped onto the main road again before crossing onto the mountain side again using the Forest roadway along the way. There was one steep section of this roadway but other than that it was a great walk for a February Sunday morning.  Once we reached the top of the roadway we took a short stroll to go to our first peak which faced out towards Tipperary & Limerick but the view was cloudy