{"id":2595,"date":"2011-04-17T15:27:05","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T15:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/slightlydoolally.com\/wp\/?p=2595"},"modified":"2011-04-17T16:54:18","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T16:54:18","slug":"the-ascent-of-benbradagh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slightlydoolally.com\/wp\/?p=2595","title":{"rendered":"The Ascent of Benbradagh"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday being “Dander Day” I was up and about at 8am having planned a new walk up a local mountain, part of the Sperrins<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n

Benbradagh is one of the peaks that the “The Glenshane Pass”\u00a0 a road that links Belfast and Derry passes through. Not\u00a0 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\u00a0 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.<\/p>\n

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 \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

It was a fantastic walk one I will definitily do again!!<\/p>\n

You can have a look at the piccies I took here. (will open a Facebook Album)<\/p>\n

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