Benard Loop

Loop Walk · Limerick

500

XP

about 3 h 45 min walking

Strenuous

12.8 km

Loop

4 hours

553 m

366 m

178 m

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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.

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Weather at the start

Steep walk

Some very steep ground — marked on the map.

Climb

446 m

Drop

441 m

Highest

508 m

Lowest

193 m

Which way round

Clockwise: Climbs 25% for 580 m early on, comes down 20% for 600 m near the end.

Anticlockwise: Climbs 20% for 600 m early on, comes down 25% for 580 m near the end.

Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.2 km at 10%+, 1.2 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.7 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.

Main climb: km 0.0–3.6, from 193 m to 508 m.

How the 15.0 km splits

Flat

4.7 km

Climbing

3.3 km

Very steep climbing (15%+)

1.2 km

Descending

5.1 km

Very steep descending (15%+)

0.7 km