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great to be approved .only a beginner,love the hill walking,useing it to loose weight and get fit,lookin forward to fresh start

and lots of milage under foot.

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An update has been made to the membership form for joining Ballyhoura Bears. The new application form can be downloaded here: BEARSMEMBERSHIPAPPLICATIONFORM.doc

Tha 2011 Ballyhoura Bfears Walking Festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday October 22 & 23rd. There are walks for all from the Ballyhoura crossing for the fit and active A walker, a B walk from Ballyorgan and a C walk from Darragh Bridge.  These all are on  Saturday 22nd.

On Sunday the big walk is the…

Day on Ballyhoura Way.

A big thank you to all the members of the Ballyhoura Bears Walking Club who supported and encouraged the nine walkers who completed the entire Ballyhoura Way last weekend in just over 19hours. The 56 mile challenge commenced at 3am from Limerick Junction led by Michael Moroney. A group photograph at the Map board just before their departure  captured enthusiasm and energy.  The target was to walk the 90km to  John's Bridge in Co.Cork. The nine…

Deirdre Fitzpatrick took us on a lovely Thursday evening walk from Kilfinane last Thursday evening. Departing the Main Street the group were led on a two and a half hour loop walk around the environs of the town returning us back to the start in daylight, and well exercised from the walk.



The Beginners walk on Saturday took us on to the Coillte track at Glenanaar that leads on to the Long Mountain, but instead of proceeding in the direction of the Long Mountain we continued straight…

The following is an account of a recent trip to Mount Etna by Michael Hayes, a member of Ballyhoura Bears Walking Club.

Black ebony-like rock and ash, volcanism, pyrotechnics, island hopping and Italian food: these are the ingredients that make up a week's hiking trip to Mount Etna (3329m: varies with eruptions) and the Aeolian archipelago NE of Sicily. If that is not enough there is over 5000 years of history with almost every Mediterranean power laying claim to…

A lot has been happening in the Club over the past two weeks. The May Bank Holiday weekend engaged most of our more active members in the running of the Ballyhoura International Walking Festival. Spread out over the three days of the weekend we were engaged in all aspects of the walks. The feature of the weekend, of course, is the Marathon challenge. Upwards of seventy competitors lined up at the start at Kilfinane early on Saturday morning and took off on this twenty six mile circuit around…

Midas Productions have an exciting new historical walking series starting at 8.15pm on TG4 this Sunday, May 1st entitled, Coiscéimeanna.



The series presented by …

Continuing our preparations for the forthcoming Ballyhoura International Walking Festival over the May Bank Holiday weekend we remained at home again last week. Declan Clancy led the “A” and “B” walks from Kilfinane on to the Ballyhouras on Sunday, a day that was ready made for our activity. There was plenty of bright sunshine accompanied by a gentle zephyr at Kilfinane to set the twenty two us off on our journey around the Ballyhouras for the day. Departing the town by the wood road we…

All of our walks were at home last week. There is no better place to be in the springtime that we are enjoying just now. The Bears are not the only ones to appreciate the joys of the Ballyhouras at this time of year. Throughout the week we constantly met other groups of walkers as well as casual walkers and families out on the hills signifying the increase in popularity of this pastime as well as the hospitality of the Ballyhouras as a venue for a variety of walking.

The last of the…

Dance Festival

The finest exponents of sean-nós dance will take part in the new dance festival at Tigh Roy in the Glen of Aherlow from April 8-10. Contact Phone: Mobile:  087 2572281 or
Email: eolas@fonnrince.ie

It is a measure of the increase in the popularity of walking as a pastime that the numbers turning up to our organized walks is increasing weekly. The last of the “dark” Thursday evening walks is behind us for a while now, with the onset of the long evenings. These evening walks are proving to be more and more popular as the weeks go by. Last Thursday was no exception as Declan Clancy led a large group of enthusiastic walkers onto the Ballyhouras for a lively two hour walk. The beauty of…

For a number of weeks, now, the planning of the Ballyhoura International Walking Festival has been underway. This is a joint venture between our Club and Ballyhoura Failte, resulting in the annual festival being held on the May Bank Holiday Weekend. It is a good boost to the tourism of the locality, and undoubtedly brings the region into perspective as a walking destination for many tourists. The planning of such an international event not only involves the backroom meetings during the dull…