Ballyvaughan - Black Head Loop
Loop Walk · Clare
700
XP
about 5 h 48 min walking
600 m
300 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
549 m
Drop
552 m
Highest
297 m
Lowest
11 m
Which way round
Clockwise: Easy first 1.1 km, climbs 13% for 1150 m midway, comes down 14% for 750 m midway.
Anticlockwise: Easy first 1.9 km, climbs 14% for 750 m midway, comes down 13% for 1150 m midway.
Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (2.3 km at 10%+, 0.6 km of it 15%+) and come down 1.1 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 19.3–22.5, from 221 m to 31 m.
How the 24.4 km splits
Flat
11.0 km
Climbing
3.5 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
1.7 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.6 km
Descending
6.6 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
1.1 km
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