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Cape Clear - Glen Loop

Loop Walk · Cork

350

XP

about 2 h 12 min walking

Strenuous
5 km
Loop
2 hours 15 minutes
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209 m

105 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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Steep walk

Some very steep ground — marked on the map.

Climb

319 m

Drop

317 m

Highest

110 m

Lowest

4 m

Which way round

Clockwise: Climbs 19% for 450 m near the end, comes down 13% for 220 m near the end.

Anticlockwise: Climbs 13% for 220 m early on, comes down 19% for 450 m early on.

Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.1 km at 10%+, 0.7 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.4 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.

Main climb: km 0.0–1.0, from 9 m to 108 m.

How the 8.4 km splits

Flat

1.1 km

Climbing

2.4 km

Steep climbing (10–15%)

0.4 km

Very steep climbing (15%+)

0.7 km

Descending

3.3 km

Steep descending (10–15%)

0.4 km

Link it with other walks

Cape Clear - Little Hills Loop

Starts here too · Shares 3.3 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 4.2, 5.4…

3.1 km

Cape Clear - Ring Loop

Starts here too · Shares 2.5 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 1.7, 4.2…

4.2 km

Cape Clear - New Line Loop

Starts here too · Shares 1.0 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 4.6, 5.1…

1.2 km

Cape Clear - Crows Loop

Starts here too · Crosses at km 0.0, 4.7, 8.0

0.8 km

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