Carrowteige - Benwee/Binn Bhuí Head Loop Walk
Loop Walk · Mayo
400
XP
about 2 h 50 min walking
284 m
142 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
340 m
Drop
336 m
Highest
245 m
Lowest
13 m
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 3.2 km, climbs 17% for 670 m midway, comes down 13% for 500 m near the end.
Clockwise: Climbs 13% for 500 m early on, comes down 17% for 670 m midway.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.9 km at 10%+, 0.9 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.5 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main climb: km 3.2–7.0, from 14 m to 245 m.
How the 11.3 km splits
Flat
2.3 km
Climbing
3.1 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.9 km
Descending
4.6 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.5 km
Link it with other walks
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Carrowteige - Children of Lír Loop
Starts here too · Shares 1.0 km of path · meets at km 0.0, 10.310.7 km
Carrowteige - Beach Loop/Rinn Rua Beach Slí
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