Ellie and Carl have walked over 4,000km around Ireland along all of the National Waymarked Trails. We make videos on long distance hiking, peak-bagging, day hikes, ultra running - any and all ways to get outdoors.
Our website: toughsoles.ie Our Patreon is: patreon.com/toughsoles We're on twitter: @csl_ and @allezberry
Love the hands-on approach... We can all preach about our environment, but how many people would bother to bend over to pick up even one piece of garbage from the ground. Good for you.
How much of this walk is on tarmac? My partner and I are between walking this path or a 4 day part of The Dingle Way. We're looking for the least amount of road walking between the two. Thanks! Have found your site very useful!
I want to go to Wincklower Mountains. Usually I am not happy about very touristic places, since I do like hiking alone, but if most of the tourists are Irish I am kind of happy to meet them 😁
To be honest, I think it was wise not to designate the Bangor Trail as a National Way Marked Trail. I ran/walked it last summer and found it much heavier going than the other National way marked trails I've done. My father described it to me as "once in a lifetime", meaning that having done it once he wouldn't do it again. I'm inclined to agree - amazing, certainly, but not for the faint hearted. I've crossed a good few wet bogs in my time, but nothing as wet as this for as long as this. The trail isn't that obvious in many sections also - you're basically wading through a grimpen mire hoping that some post you can see in the distance is a way marking (it probably is because there's so little out there). Maybe it's easier going after a long dry spell, so that's probably the time to do it.
Climb it , change . They say that to attain a great height gives your brain a dopamine rush , add to that the endorphins , there is a natural high . Addiction is a bad word for it that i am guilty of using . Its a fix .. a cure, a preventative medicine. I read once about how a mountain is also a very tangible moment of success . Our world, our lives are full of long term hard to achieve goals that get us down . Being able to offset those difficult challenges with s short tern achievement such as a hill "fixes" the balance .
Hi Ellie I am looking forward to following your new project. Thank you for the information on the news of the ireland clims list. It sounds interesting , you are a great ambaster for the Irish outdoors. Thank you.
Thank you! Knocknarea is a fantastic hike in Sligo with gorgeous views of the coast and a mix of terrain. If you want to be right on the coast I’d recommend Aughris Coastal Walk or Killaspugbrone loop. Both easier walks, but right on the water and beautiful ♥️
What a lovely, well-maintained trail. I always pass the signs pointing to Aughris Head when I am heading further west to Mayo, and say to myself that I should make time to detour and explore. Thank you for a great video tour again!
Beautiful video! At age 52 this is my dream. Beara, Sheeps Head Loop, Kerry and Dingle Peninsula, as well as Diamond Hill, Connemara all sound and look wonderful! How would you rate Diamond Hill if you had had better weather? I am not in the best of shape but doing strength training and some walking exercises. Hoping though probably much slower than you too it can be done.
Ahh, no way! I was in Bundoran for a week earlier this month. I’ll have to look into this walk in the future. That is an absolutely beautiful walk and I really liked the evening lighting for the video!
Lovely 👌👌 One of my favourite Sligo walks. Scenery is spectacular and its worth spending some time exploring the little stoney beach areas. For a longer walk i recommend starting the walk from Dunmoran strand carpark which can also end with a sea swim when you get back to carpark 🏊♀️
I was going to go up the road way a couple of years ago but there was construction/ maintenance 🚧 work being done. Didn't know about this route you took so I might go this way next week when I'm over. Thanks for the video. 👍
I've watched a lot of your videos and they've been very helpful to me. So thank you! When you make future ones could you please mention whether dogs are allowed? Sometimes its hard to know for sure from the info online.
