Slí Cholmcille - Sli Dhun na nGall
Waymarked Way · Donegal
1,500
XP
a 3-day route
600 m
300 m
0 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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Climb
1508 m
Drop
1506 m
Highest
317 m
Lowest
2 m
Walking time
about 15 h 52 min
A 3-day route, walked in stages. 1,500 XP for the whole route, claimed with a photo from it.
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 9.5 km, climbs 17% for 690 m midway, comes down 14% for 1100 m midway.
Clockwise: Easy first 5.3 km, climbs 14% for 1100 m midway, comes down 17% for 690 m midway.
Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (3.1 km at 10%+) and come down 1.2 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 53.2–57.3, from 306 m to 15 m.
How the 66.8 km splits
Flat
25.3 km
Climbing
17.5 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
3.1 km
Descending
19.7 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.4 km
Very steep descending (15%+)
0.8 km