12 O'Clock Hills Looped Walks - Purple Route
Loop Walk · Clare
400
XP
about 3 h 2 min walking
354 m
200 m
46 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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Some very steep ground — marked on the map.
Climb
344 m
Drop
353 m
Highest
295 m
Lowest
66 m
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Climbs 13% for 370 m near the end, comes down 12% for 270 m near the end.
Clockwise: Climbs 12% for 270 m early on, comes down 13% for 370 m early on.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.3 km at 10%+, 0.4 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.3 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 7.5–9.9, from 295 m to 107 m.
How the 12.3 km splits
Flat
2.1 km
Climbing
3.3 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.9 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.4 km
Descending
5.4 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.3 km