Trip Report
Nautical Mis-adventures, Donegal Ireland
Tuesday December 30, 2014 4:00am
An Sho, another year in the inner and outer edges of the further in co. Donegal, Ireland.
The Donegal sea stack Guidebook is a free download.

Sea Stacks

A series of uber calm sea states allowed for three visits to very hard to reach locations off the Donegal coast. The first was a visit to the sea ward face of An Bhuideal with Louise O'Connor where we climbed a new route up the south face of the stack at a very exposed Hard Severe (5.8).

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Sea Stack Climbing

The second visit to the further was with Leman Lemanski where we did the second ascent of Tormore Island and the first free ascent as we removed the need for an outboard engine. We gained the stack from Glenlough Bay by wee dingy and massive smiles. (Tormore Islan, Irelands highest seastack)

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Tormore Island Film

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Glenlough Bay
Glenlough Bay
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Glenlough Bay Launch point

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The summit of Tormore Island
The summit of Tormore Island
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Tormore Island Summit

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View from The summit
View from The summit
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View from Tormore Island summit

The third visit to the further was a solo quest to Bothanvarra sea stack off Dunaff head in Inishowen. (Dunaff Head Inishowen

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Bothanvarra Film

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Bothanvarra Sea Stack
Bothanvarra Sea Stack
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Inishowen Rock Climbing

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On the Route
On the Route
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On the route

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On the Summit
On the Summit
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On the Summit

Berg Stack

This small wedge shaped stack had a multitude of visits over the course of the year with four good routes filling the gaps on the landward facing vertical wall. This stack was first climbed by Steven Young and J. Leonard in 1973 and then again in 1988, the routes put up this year all take the remaining unclimbed features on the stack.
Berg stack was also the location for a pretty good tyrolean traverse for Columbia Clothing and Outsider Magazine in June, with 12 international journalists and perfect weather the day could not have gone any better.

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Berg Stack Tyrolean Traverse

Beyond the Ends of the Earth Crag

A visit to the most remote rock climbing location in Ireland, Beyond the Ends of the Earth Crag with Louise O'Connor. A high line traverse to accompany last years low line traverse was the order of the day. This crag was visited several time over 2014 and now has 5 excellent and very atmospheric routes living on its off vertical face.

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Beyond the End's of the Earth Crag

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Start of the route
Start of the route
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Start of the route

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Donegal Rock Climbing
Donegal Rock Climbing
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View from the route



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Donegal Sea Stacks is a trad climber from Donegal, Ireland.

Comments
Ezra Ellis

Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
  Dec 30, 2014 - 06:54am PT
Looks beautiful, thanks for this !
dirt claud

Social climber
san diego,ca
  Dec 30, 2014 - 07:10am PT
What a crazy and beautiful location to climb. :) Thanks for the TR.
Peter Haan

Trad climber
Wyoming
  Dec 30, 2014 - 07:29am PT
Thanks and well done!
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
  Dec 30, 2014 - 08:56am PT
God loves a barmy Irishman! Loovely!
Marlow

Sport climber
OSLO
  Dec 30, 2014 - 08:57am PT

Irish nautical mis-adventures have never looked better. TFPU!
rincon

climber
Coarsegold
  Dec 30, 2014 - 09:26am PT
Wow what an amazing place that is. Looks like you are on your own out there...you wouldn't want to pop your inflatable on the way out to the crag. That water looks cold. Thanks for sharing this. Love the videos!

ontheedgeandscaredtodeath

Social climber
Wilds of New Mexico
  Dec 30, 2014 - 11:15am PT
Beautiful!
LilaBiene

Trad climber
Technically...the spawning grounds of Yosemite
  Dec 30, 2014 - 08:18pm PT
Beautiful... Thanks for sharing!!!
moacman

Trad climber
Montuckyian Via Canada Eh!
  Dec 30, 2014 - 08:43pm PT
I eat up that kind of stuff....Way cool and thanx for sharing....

Stevo
Darwin

Trad climber
Seattle, WA
  Dec 30, 2014 - 09:07pm PT

Outstanding, and thanks so much for that! I saw that pick on the rack, though. How was the rock on the parts of the climbs that weren't grass? I always wanted to do the same in Humboldt County here in the US, but always had the [list of excuses]. Good on you for doing it!

When did you do the climbs? Based on the video below, it wasn't this December.

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neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
  Dec 31, 2014 - 02:20am PT
hey there say, Donegal Sea Stacks...

say, this is GREAT STUFF here...
am going to sleep now... will be back to see it!
though--i can tell by the pics, it will be fun to see!!!

Roxy

Trad climber
CA Central Coast
  Dec 31, 2014 - 08:08am PT

wow, that's cool spot!!

thanks for sharing that!
Gnome Ofthe Diabase

climber
Out Of Bed
  Dec 31, 2014 - 08:22am PT
I always wanted to open routes on the isle of Skye !, this of course is very different .
Gear And solid rock?!
This is news.
All that sea air is going to be hard on every thing In situe,
The stoke was obvious thank you !!
Happy new year!!
survival

Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
  Dec 31, 2014 - 01:04pm PT
Beautiful!

We always need any international flavor we can possibly get here. Please keep posting.
Ward Trotter

Trad climber
  Dec 31, 2014 - 01:44pm PT
Excellent presentation. Please retain yourself as ST's resident sea stack expert.
Looking forward to future installments
skcreidc

Social climber
SD, CA
  Dec 31, 2014 - 01:26pm PT
Very cool TR, and very unique. Please post up more.
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