Annual BBQ
The annual barbeque takes place in Trooperstown Wood this coming Saturday 27th August.
Hope you can join us there
News items
Evening Walks 2016
The next evening walks of the 2016 summer season will be on as follows
Wednesday 25th May:
Three Rock, 9km, Meet 7pm, Kilmashogue CP, Leader – Linda Harnden. Level B
Wednesday 8th June:
Lough Bray, Meet 7pm, Lough Bray Upr car park - map ref 144151, Leader – Grainne Byrne B+
Evening Walks 2016
The next evening walks of the 2016 summer season will be on as follows. Contact details available for signed in members.
| Date | Leader | Walk | Meeting Place | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Jun | Brid Brien | (C) Historical walk around Bray ?km | Bray DART Station CP | 7pm |
| 6 Jul | John Cleary | (B+) Sugarloaf | Healys Pottery, Kilmacanogue | 7pm |
| 20 Jul | Fiona Burke | (B+) Bray Head | Briarfield - opp old Dell site, off Southern X Road | 7pm |
| 3 Aug | Andrew Dennison | (B+) Three Rock, Fairy Castle | Blue Light CP | 7pm |
| 17 Aug | Fiona Burke & Mary Roberts | (B) Glen O'The Downs | Exit 9, off N11, on left after hotel if travelling ex Dublin | 7pm |
| 31 Aug | Anthony Day | (B+) Maulin | Enniskerry 6pm to pool cars, Crone Wood | 6.30pm |
32 County Highest Points
What a lovely idea for the CHA, I thought. Climb all the highest points in each of the counties in Ireland. It crosses all borders, it covers all corners of Ireland, it covers all grades of walks and it would appeal to like-minded people – members of the CHA - people who like to walk in the countryside. What fun!
26 pins in the map due to proximity of Sligo & Leitrim
There is a list of 27 hill tops, as there are some counties that share the same summit e.g. Mount Leinster is in both Co Carlow and Co Wexford. The A Walkers will endeavour to climb the 27 tops over 2/3 years as some of the walks will require an overnight stay. Hopefully members who are familiar with a county might take on the challenge of leading a walk in that county. All grades of CHA walkers are invited to use this list to participate in either organising or leading a walk within their grade.
It is all for a bit of fun and adventure. Everyone likes to try something new and hopefully this will add some new challenging and interesting walks to the CHA repertoire.
List of 32 CHP plus progress sheet available on the members section of the CHA website.
Louise Nolan
2louise.nolan@gmail.com
Submit New Walks now
It is now time to submit walks for the May - Sept 2016 walks card. The current collection of submitted walks may be viewed by signed-in members under the Members Only block in the right hand column. This is the list of walks as submitted and with the dates bid for by the submitter. This is a work in progress and in no way constitutes a provisional programme until it has been edited by the walks committee. Walks may be submitted online here.
Change to Evening Walk 10th June
The walk begins at 7.30. Venue is Briarwood housing Estate, Bray.
The meeting point is at a housing estate called Briarwood. This is situated beyond the top of the Vevay Road, very close to the Boghall Road and also to the roundabout situated at the Greystones end of the Southern Cross Road. This roundabout gives options to go to Greystones via Windgates.
Basically Briarwood is on the lefthandside as you leave Bray and head for Greystones and lies between Southern Cross and Boghall Roads.
Another landmark almost opposite Briarwood is the old Dell site.
There is parking available at Briarwood : as you enter the estate, immediately turn left and there are a few spaces there. There is plenty more parking within the estate itself.
The walk does not require boots but it would be easier to have them. There is a gentle ascent and a good deal of flat walking.
It is a grade C and will last no longer than 90 minutes.
Fiona Burke
A Walk swap 7th March & 4th April
Please note the A walks for 7 March and 4 April have been switched. The website walks page shows these changes.
Change to A walk meeting time for Saturday 18th October 2014
Please note that Jill is now meeting at 10.00 am at Healy's and not 10.30 as was billed in the programme when the walk was originally to take place on the 27th September.
A Walk 27Sept/18Oct swap
The A walk down on the printed card for 27th September will now be walked on 18th October and that walk will take place on 27th September. The online program has been corrected.
D Walks Supplement
The supplementary list of D walks, which will be published as a separate sheet had now been added to the list of walks for May to August 2014 which is available online for members.