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Route No:
3309
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Annach Re Mhor
Aranmore Island
Barnesmore Gap - Biddy's Buttress
Barnesmore Gap - McDaid's Buttress
Ben Bulben
Ben Cormac (Lough Barra)
Bingorm Central (Lough Barra)
Bingorm East (Lough Barra)
Bingorm West (Lough Barra)
Binion Crags - Clonmany
Black Zawn (Breaghy Head)
Carrickfinn - Harbour crag
Carrigan Head (Black Rock)
Cathar Castle
Cooney Rock
Crag of Dan
Croc an affrain
Crohy Head South
Cruit Island
Cruit Island - Albatross Sea Wall
Cruit Island - Albatross Zawn
Cruit Island - Aughnish Point
Cruit Island - Back To Black Wall
Cruit Island - Black Wall
Cruit Island - Block Wall
Cruit Island - Cruit Cave
Cruit Island - Deep Gash Crag
Cruit Island - Far West Buttress
Cruit Island - Farmhouse Crag
Cruit Island - Flying Wedge Wall
Cruit Island - Forgotten Wall
Cruit Island - Frankonian Wall
Cruit Island - Golfers Crag
Cruit Island - Inis Oileantraigh
Cruit Island - Jock's Wall
Cruit Island - Lost Wall
Cruit Island - New Dawn Wall
Cruit Island - Scalpachore Wall. West Face
Cruit Island - Silent Wall
Cruit Island - The Outdoor Climbing Wall
Cruit Island - Torboy
Cruit Island - Traderg Wall Area
Cruit Island - Wall of Winter sun
Cruit Island - Wave Wall
Cruit Island - Western Island
Cruit Island - Zinken Wall
Cruit Island- Fogg Wall
Cruit Island- New Dawn Wall
Crummies Bay (Port Na Sionnach)
Culdaff (Dunmore Head) Left Crags.
Culdaff (Dunmore) Finbarr Wall
Culdaff - Dunmore Head
Culdaff - Dunowen (Brazil Rock)
Culdaff - Dunowen (Campsite Area)
Culdaff - Dunowen (Pinnacle Bay)
Culdaff - Galavoir Point
Dawros Head
Doagh Island
Donegal Bouldering
Dunaff Head, Binnastooka
Dungloon (Kinnego)
Dunsevrick
Eglish (Ceasefire Wall)
Eglish (Easter Wall)
Eglish (Far Easter Wall)
Eglish (Middle Easter Wall)
Eglish (The Gatepost)
Eglish - Glenbrittle Wall
Eglish - Teardrop Wall
Eglish Valley - The Outpost
Eglish, Kitchen Wall
End's of the Earth Crag
Errigal
Fogg Wall
Glascairns Hill
Glenagivne Wall (The Music House)
Glenagivne, Doherty\'s Folly
Glenveigh/Glenlack
Gola - Binatoke Back Wall
Gola - Binatoke NE Wall
Gola - Binatoke SW Wall
Gola - Binn an Rosuailt
Gola - Easter Wall
Gola - Gripple Wall
Gola - Inland Crag
Gola - Island Wall
Gola - Island Zawn
Gola - John’s Wall
Gola - Main Wall
Gola - Mhachaire na nGall Walls
Gola - Narrow Zawn
Gola - NW Zawn Area
Gola - NW Zawn End Wall
Gola - Owey Wall
Gola - Scoilt Uí Dhugáin
Gola - South Walls
Gola - South West Corner
Gola - Southside Buttress
Gola - Torglass Island
Gola - Twin Cave Buttress Area
Happy Valli Crag
Hawk Rock
Horn Head
Illanamarve - Inis Bo Finne Island
Irrenedox
Island View
King Mintiagh (Barnanmore)
Leenan Head
Lough Belshade (Belshade Buttress)
Lough Belshade (Blaeberry Buttress)
Lough Belshade (High Crags)
Lough Belshade (Two Tier Buttress)
Lough Belshade, Red Gully
Malin Head (Bamba\'s Buttress)
Malin Head (Devil\'s Bridge Area)
Malin Head (Dunaldragh Isle)
Malin Head (First Headland)
Malin Head (Magdalen Walls)
Malin Head (Sea Area Malin)
Malin Head (The cauldron)
Malin Head (Uncle Monty's)
Malin Head ,Skildren Mor.
Malin Head - Nobble Amphitheatre
Malin Head The Bow
Malin Laundry
Malinbeg (Alba Wall)
Malinbeg (Duan Head)
Malinbeg (Main West Wall)
Malinbeg (Narrow Zawn)
Malinbeg (North End)
Malinbeg (Prawn Zawn)
Malinbeg (South End)
Malinbeg (The Island)
Melmore - Boyeeghter Bay
Melmore- Altweary Bay
Melmore- Rosses Point
Melmore-Lough Beg
Mountain Bike Routes
Mountain Bike routes Inishowen
Muckish (Balor's Buttress)
Muckish (McSwyne's Buttress)
Muckross Head
Owey - Fluted Buttress
Owey Island (East)
Owey Island (West)
Owey Island, Torglass Offshore Area
Poisoned Glen (Ballaghageeha Buttress)
Poisoned Glen (Bearnas Buttress)
Poisoned Glen (Creag Na Mbreac)
Poisoned Glen (Last Small Buttress).
Poisoned Glen (The Castle)
Poisoned Glen (Trinity Buttress)
Poisoned Glen (West Buttress)
Poisoned Glen, Guinness Walls
Pollnalong
Port A Doris
Port Bay
Ramore Head, Portrush
Rathlin O'Byrne
Rocky Gap
Roskeeragh Point
Runkerry
Sail Rock
Scalp na gCapail
Sea Stack: Humped Ridge Stack
Sea Stacks and Pinnacles
Skelpoonagh Bay
Slieve Snaght
Sturrall Headland
Test Crag NI
The Crow's Nest
Tor Na Dumhcha
Tory Island
Tremone Bay
Umfin Island
Union Woods - Union Wall
Warm Bay Point
Winter Routes.
Winter Routes. Bluestacks
Winter Routes. Errigal
Winter Routes. Horse-Shoe Coire
Winter Routes. Mac Uchta.
Winter Routes. Maumlack.
Winter Routes. Muckish
Winter Routes. Poison Glen
Winter Routes. Slieve Snaght
Zermsnams
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<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 20pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Sligo.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Map OS 1:50,000 Sheet 16</span></span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Contributor Valli Schafer.</span></span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The Ride</span></span></b></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">This is a beautiful wood very convenient for Sligo, and popular for walking, cycling and many other activities.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>There are a number of custom trails built and maintained by the North West Bike Club, which could be incorporated into this route making it a lot more technical.</span></span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Terrain</span></span></b></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Mainly good forestry roads and well surfaced paths, but with one tough, rocky, boggy and technical section.</span></span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;\">Time </span></b><span style=\"margin: 0px; line-height: 107%; font-size: 12pt;\">2 Hours<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\">Distance 15 km</b></span></span></span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Approach</span></b></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">From Sligo follow the R ? south to the roundabout at Collooney where is a filling Station, and turn left, and immediately left again and park at the Gourmet Café, which can be seen easily from the main road.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>This is a good place for refreshments before or after.</span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><b style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Route</span></b></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">Cycle out to gate and turn left, following a<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>narrowing road, which becomes a forestry track as it enters Union Wood.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Take the first right through a gate and begin a stiff climb up a broad track which weaves its way uphill through the trees.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Turn left at the first crossroads and follow the, now level, track past some outcrops on your right, circling around the hill to rejoin the main track at a T junction,<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Turn left, downhill, and go straight through the next<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>cross, continuing to meet a barrier and the tarmac road.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Cross with care to another track, as there is a blind bend nearby, and fork left immediately on a track running close to, and parallel with, the roadway.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>At a turning area the track swings right, uphill, and follow this on grey screenings to where the track turns sharply right, again uphill. </span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"font-family: Calibri;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Only metres before this there is a log across the ditch on the right, and a narrow stoney path beside it, which goes uphill becoming increasingly difficult to cycle.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>At the top, great views open up of the Sligo area, as you clamber back in the saddle and attempt to make your way across this rocky hilltop on a choice of faint tracks towards a line of pylons.<span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>Just before reaching the pylons you will join a more distinct cart <span style=\"margin: 0px;\"> </span>track going downhill, on a combination of stone slab and mucky sumps. Enjoyable but pretty challenging, it joins the cinder track of the Sligo Way, which is zoomed down to the roadway crossing again. </span></span></p> <p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 10.66px;\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">You can return directly through the wood, (without the need to circumnavigate the hill again), or turn left at the point/ crossroads at which you took off around the hill, and take a custom built mountain bike trail on your right, which will bring you to the same place, should you survive.</span></p>
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