{"id":5706,"date":"2026-03-10T20:18:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/?page_id=5706"},"modified":"2026-03-10T20:45:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T20:45:23","slug":"mourne-way","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/picton-lynas.co.uk\/walkingblog\/ulster\/mourne-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Mourne Way – 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Spelga to Rostrevor – 10th March 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well its been a while. Children – they don’t half f you up sometimes.
A very wet and windy day and all of it into my face for most of it. We had everything, a car crash in front of me on the road, the clouds dropping down to cover the mountains and sort of white me out, and when I had reception a never ending series of phone calls about the most inane shit. F but I need to retire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hen mountain in the mist but today no climbing, just a partial circumnavigation.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The headwaters of the Bann and it is wet and muddy and slippery.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Back towards Splega and the jacknifed truck that caused some issues.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Squelchy boots but a bit of hard track – bliss.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The view down to the Kilbroney river but not for me yet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hen mountain from the other side. That is not a stream – that is the path.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Down this other very dry path across the river and up to that saddle to the left of that peak.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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OK I might have a bit of trouble coming.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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At least this one has a bridge across, the last one was hairrrri.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Oh dear! Hope this doesn’t get worse. Nearly up the other side.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Hurrah! Over the top and down to the green fields. Puffing or what.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Miles of the Rostrevor forest now. At least it’s dry – ish.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Some local went to a bit of trouble.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Rostrevor and down to the sea, the sea, the sparkling beautiful sea. But miles still to go.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Indeed, they have been repairing the path …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… but it claimed a dedicated worker in the process.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A lovely ancient Oak …<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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… straight out of Games of Thones, though it looks a bit like the Grinch as opposed to the Old Gods.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

What was nice was that for quite a lot of today I managed to escape the shit that is my life at the minute. And that was despite the cold and the wind and the rain. I did get to touch our ancestors as I like to do, but those poor bastards didn’t manage a lovely hot shower at the end of the day to banish the cold sweat chills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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