Hiking season is underway
SLIGO’S 2017 Hiking season kicked off to a glorious start with a sold out County wide Walking Festival.
Northwest Adventure Tours attracted close to 200 people to experience Sligo’s expansive landscape with hikers arriving into Sligo town from Galway, Dublin, Cork and as far afield as the UK, Germany and France.
On Friday evening eager participants were bundled onto the festival bus at the Riverside hotel in Sligo town and were taken off into the wilderness on their mystery adventure.
Organisers says: “We began in Slish wood where our torch lit hike brought us over Ox Mountains to finish at Union Wood. It was a magical evening under the stars with the twinkle of the local village lights far below in the distance.” The weekend walks were graded as either A, B or C. The most experienced hikers were brought out on walks graded as A such as the Royal Peaks and the Sleeping Giant of the Dartry Mountains. Other walks included the iconic tabletop Benbulben Mountain and the Classic Sligo Way.