Sunday being “Dander Day” I was up and about at 8am having planned a new walk up a local mountain, part of the Sperrins range in County Londonerry about a 15 minutes drive from Casa McDonagh and not that far from “The Dunbane Dander” I did in Glenullin 2 weeks ago.
Benbradagh is one of the peaks that the “The Glenshane Pass” a road that links Belfast and Derry passes through. Not I do have to add at this point that when I say “Mountain” I am not referring to the Alpine variety. The Last Ice age sat thick on Ireland and as a result the mountains were all ground down leaving some stunning scenery but not terribly high mountains. Benbradagh is around 1525 feet which some would say is a large hill and yes it is not that high, but it is surrounded by peat bog, which makes the walk somewhat more strenuous that you would expect.
My chum and fellow danderer Garrett Murphy from Portrush joined me on this 8 mile walk and it has to be said that he was very generous to this old codger and set a decent pace that pushed me but didn’t knacker me…. too much 😉
It was a fantastic walk one I will definitily do again!!
You can have a look at the piccies I took here. (will open a Facebook Album)
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