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Irish Mountain Log Issue Issue 107 ■ Autumn 2013 ■ €3.95 UK£3.40 ■ ISSN 0790 8008 UPLAND ACCESS Will Comhairle na Tuaithe deliver? LUGNAQUILLIA THE ARDERINS DEVELOPING Ascent by hillwalkers One writer’s favourite TALENT with disability 500m peaks Training young climbers www.mountaineering.ie Mountaineering Ireland has invited Stephen Venables to deliver the 2013 Lynam Lecture. Stephen Venables is a renowned mountaineer, writer, broadcaster and public speaker and was the first Briton to climb Everest without supplementary oxygen. He reached the summit alone, after climbing with a small American- Canadian team by a new route up the gigantic Kangshung face. Everest was a thrilling highlight in a career which has taken Stephen right through the Himalaya from Afghanistan to Tibet, making first ascents of many previously unknown mountains. His adventures have also taken him to the Rockies, the Andes, the Antarctic island of South Georgia, East Africa, South Africa and, of course, the European Alps, where he has climbed and skied for over forty years. Lynam Lecture 2013 Venue: Edmund Burke Theatre, Trinity College Dublin, December 12th 2013. Doors open 7:00pm, start 8:00pm. Bookings: Go to www.mountaineering.ie (€5 for Mountaineering Ireland members, €10 for non-members). EDITOR’S COLUMN ISSUe 107 The Irish Mountain Log is the membership magazine of Mountaineering Ireland. The organisation promotes the interests of hillwalkers and climbers in Ireland. Mountaineering Ireland Mountaineering Ireland Ltd is a company limited by guarantee and Welcome registered in Dublin, No 199053. Registered office: Sport HQ, 13 Joyce Way, Park West Business Park, Dublin 12, Ireland. Tel: (+353 1) 625 1115 he great weather we have been The government’s commitment Fax: (+353 1) 625 1116 having seems to be coming to an [email protected] end and the evenings are drawing to Comhairle na Tuaithe is www.mountaineering.ie ❝ in. The cycle of the seasons moves being questioned Hot Rock Climbing Wall on but, as it does so, when one Tollymore Mountain Centre door closes, another opens and we have the Bryansford, Newcastle opportunity to enjoy the autumn colours in the County Down, BT33 0PT uplands as we engage in our sport. Tel: (+44 28) 4372 5354 When it was set up in 2004, Comhairle na [email protected] Tuaithe (the Countryside Council) was the Mountaineering Ireland’s Chief Executive great hope of recreational users for ensuring editor: Patrick O’Sullivan Officer, voices the national governing body’s sustainable access to the uplands that was Tel: (+353 1) 837 8166 (pm, wknds) concerns in an important article on page 7. acceptable to all parties. Its priorities were to [email protected] We have many articles in this issue that be access to the countryside, developing a Literary editor: Peter O’Neill highlight the wide appeal of our sport and the countryside code and developing a countryside [email protected] benefits of participation in it in terms of our recreation strategy. A forum where health and wellbeing, from the successes of the The Irish Mountain Log is published representatives of state bodies with an interest Irish Youth Climbing Team, to the successes of by Mountaineering Ireland four times in the countryside, farming organisations and a Polish team of amputees in reaching the a year, in March, June, September, recreational users of the countryside could December. The material published in summit of Lugnaquillia and of ten year-old meet should be seen as hugely important by the Log by the voluntary editorial Oisin McDevitt in climbing Mount Elbrus, his any government that recognises the economic team and contributors must not be second of the Seven Summits. We also have a importance of the uplands and the potential taken as official Mountaineering Recreation in the Irish Countryside, moving piece that reflects on the cycle of life Ireland policy unless specifically benefits of access to them for the health of the for a hillwalker, something we can all stated. population. empathise with, whatever age and level of The leaflet enclosed as an insert in this ability we are at. As we go through life, we Copy deadline for the Winter 2013 magazine, have to change our aspirations to match our issue of the Irish Mountain Log is provides definitive information on access and Friday 25th October 2013. ability, but that is something our sport can occupiers’ liability. It is an important product accommodate with ease, providing we can of Comhairle na Tuaithe that will hopefully Advertising: Roger Cole, access areas that are suitable for us, reassure landowners regarding the extent of Silchester Marketing, emphasising again the importance to everyone [email protected] their liability for recreational users of their of having agreed and sustainable access. property. It is important that all landowners Production: Cóilín MacLochlainn and recreational users of the uplands are [email protected] aware of its contents. Patrick O’Sullivan, Editor TMountaineering Ireland has supported Printing: GPS Colour Graphics Ltd, Alexander Road, Belfast BT6 9HP Comhairle na Tuaithe from the outset, but now Tel: +44 (0)28 9070 2020 the government’s commitment to CnaT’s objectives is being questioned. Karl Boyle, PARtICIPAtIoN ANd RISK Write for the Log Readers of the Irish Mountain Log are Contributions of features, news items and photographs for the Irish reminded that hillwalking and climbing are activities with a danger Mountain Log are always welcome and should be sent to the Editor of personal injury or death. at: [email protected] Participants in these activities should be aware of and accept these risks, Contributors’ guidelines can be downloaded from the and be responsible for their own Mountaineering Ireland website, www.mountaineering.ie actions and involvement. Mountaineering Ireland publishes and oN tHe CoVeR promotes safety and good practice To join Mountaineering Ireland and receive four issues of the Irish Hiking up to Carrauntoohil advice and through Bord Oiliúnt Mountain Log delivered to your door each year, please also go to in the Reeks, Co Kerry. Sléibhe (BOS, The Irish Mountain the website, www.mountaineering.ie Training Board) administers a range PHotogRAPH by of training programmes for walkers FRANK McMAHON and climbers. Autumn 2013 Irish Mountain Log 3 contents AUTUMN 2013 NEWSDESK News & comment 7 COMHAIRLE CONCERNS Concerns mount over Comhairle na Tuaithe (the Countryside Council): is it delivering on its objectives? REGULARS 20 CLUB REPORTS Reports from the Ramblers, the Garda Mountaineering Club and the Hillwalkers Club 26 YOUTH CLIMBING Reports on 16 Mountaineering Ireland’s Youth Climbing Trip ISLAND IN THE SUN: OWEY, CO DONEGAL to Wicklow and Dublin, and the The Arch, Owey European Youth Climbing competitions 48 BOOKS Reviews of recent publications 40 62 LAST WORD Layton Kor RIP beyoNd HoRIzoNS FEATURES 30 AROUND THE ARDERINS Adrian Hendroff describes his ten favourite 500 to 600m peaks in Ireland 36 TREKKING THROUGH TIME Martin Fitzpatrick describes archaeological monuments to be seen in the hills. Part II: From the Iron Age to the medieval period 40 FIT FOR THE SUMMIT 36 UPLAND Rafal Stachowicz reports on a ten-day ARCHAEOLOGY fund-raising trek through the Wicklow Mountains by a Polish group of amputees Cloghans near Mt Brandon, Co Kerry and their supporters 44 STURRAL HEADLAND CLIMB 56 YOUTH TALENT Iain Miller leads a team up an exposed DEVELOPMENT Donegal headland BETA Information & expert advice 52 ACCESS & CONSERVATION Helen Lawless reports 54 TRAINING Dates for your calendar 56 YOUTH TALENT DEVELOPMENT Damien O’Sullivan reports 58 GEAR Kieran Creevy reviews the latest gear 4 Irish Mountain Log Autumn 2013 newsdesk Staff & board geNeRAL eNqUIRIeS New Training Officer appointed [email protected] Mountaineering Ireland appoints Jane Carney as new Training Officer StAff Chief executive officer Karl Boyle, [email protected] and colleges, at climbing walls and centres Hillwalking, Access & Conservation officer all over Ireland. Helen Lawless, [email protected] Although she says that she was sad to training officer have to put her mountain training Jane Carney, [email protected] Jane Carney has been appointed as the company, Safe Summit, to sleep after talent development officer new Mountaineering Ireland Training fourteen years, she feels that it has Damien O’Sullivan, Officer, replacing Alun Richardson who [email protected] provided her with a wealth of experience, Accounts Administrator left at the end of July. She took up her post both as a mountaineering trainer and as a Terry Canavan, [email protected] at the beginning of September. business manager, experience that she Administrator Jane trained at John Moore’s University will now be able to bring to Una Feeney, [email protected] in Liverpool as a secondary school teacher Member & training Mountaineering Ireland. Support Administrator of Outdoor and Science Education; she As Mountaineering Ireland’s new Rozanne Bell, [email protected] graduated with honours in 1995. Since Training Officer, Jane’s initial focus will be get Ireland Walking Project Manager then, she has taught and learnt through Grainne Quinn, [email protected] on improving the delivery of existing the outdoors. schemes; meeting the needs of clubs and StAff – toLLyMoRe Her qualifications now include the individual members; and introducing new youth development officer Mountaineering Instructor Award (MIA); award schemes/courses
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