Indeed such a battle had occurred in these mountains — not one of legend or folklore, but one long fought-out between massive grinding ice sheets spilling southwards into Donegal Bay and the hard granite basement of an ancient mountain range. It was over this landscape that we carefully picked our way from Croaghgorm towards an unnamed summit m in increasingly sunny but still hazy weather — though a front somewhere near Kerry was squeezing the isobars, bringing us a touch of windchill out of the east.
The lowering sun drew out a beautiful light pink tinge from the granite but also reminded us not to dilly dally; we still had to find a safe descent to Lough Belshade! We steered clear of the very steep, ice-smoothed ground above the northwest corner of the lough, picking our way carefully down to the beautiful lough-shore along the west side of a stream entering the lough from the north-northwest.
A calming fair weather winter evening was now upon us, with its always enchanting diffused light, as we progressed south along the eastern shore of beautiful Lough Belshade. Careful footwork got us down the rough west bank of the Corabber river and to the 2. They say that the toughest Donegal people were the men and women of the old, now gone, Bluestacks Gaeltacht community. And if anyone doubts that, try a walk into and around these unforgiving but rewarding and beautiful hills.
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Grade Moderate. Length 65 km. Time 3 days. Format Linear. Ascent m. Dogs Allowed No. Waymarking Yellow arrow on black background. Start Point Donegal Town. Finish Point Ardara. Nearest Town to Start Donegal Town. Grid Ref. Discovery Series Sheets 10 and The entire trail seems to be much shorter than the published 65km. It feels as 50 to 55km, which we made in two days. The entire trail is very well way-marked.
We found the first day having too many busy roads between Donegal and Lake Eske. To make up for it, we had a warm welcome by the Harvey's Point lodge staff, where we had coffee and some rest looking over the stunning view of the lake. The second day has much more to offer in terms of walking in nature.
I am not sure whether this is due to the season 2nd week of August , but a 5km walk along the Owenea river bank between Glenties and Ardara has a lot of overgrown and may be found difficult to walk for some people. There is a local bus at 9am from Donegal Town arriving at 10am in Glenties.
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