Cape Clear - Little Hills Loop
Loop Walk · Cork
200
XP
about 49 min walking
118 m
61 m
4 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.
Steep walk
Some very steep ground — marked on the map.
Climb
115 m
Drop
113 m
Highest
110 m
Lowest
7 m
Which way round
Clockwise: Climbs 19% for 280 m early on, comes down 12% for 200 m midway.
Anticlockwise: Climbs 12% for 200 m midway, comes down 19% for 280 m near the end.
Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.5 km at 10%+, 0.3 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.2 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 1.0–3.2, from 108 m to 7 m.
How the 3.2 km splits
Flat
0.5 km
Climbing
0.8 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.2 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.3 km
Descending
1.2 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.2 km
Cape Clear - Glen Loop
Starts here too · Shares 2.5 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 2.45 km
Cape Clear - Ring Loop
Starts here too · Shares 2.4 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 1.74.2 km
Cape Clear - New Line Loop
Starts here too · Shares 0.7 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 2.81.2 km
Cape Clear - Crows Loop
Starts here too · Crosses at km 0.0, 2.90.8 km