Highest 100 Irish Peaks Hiking Series

**After payment, if you haven't already completed this registration form, it will be emailed to you. Once completed, details of meeting point will be issued.** 

There's absolutely no pressure to commit to or be available for all highest 100 hikes.

Sign up to what suits you, try us on for size, see how you go and build up your bank slowly, one summit, one step at a time. We hike at a gentle group pace so everyone can enjoy the mountains.

Prepare to arrive for 9:30am unless alternative time is given in your booking follow up email.

Mournes Weekender: 13th & 14th July. Each 'Plan A' route will include 2 of the Highest 100s. Slieve Donard will be included on one of the two days, whichever is most likely to have the better weather.

A women's en-suite dorm has been booked in Attical village for nights: Friday 12th & Saturday 13th. Limited beds available. Get in touch if you would like to reserve one.

Groups will be limited in size to 10* for myriad reasons, including:

• Safety
• Sustainability
• Ease of the chats
• An opportunity to learn from us along the way

You will be guided by qualified, experienced Mountain Leaders.

• €32pp per hike. (Choose 'I booked a hike/digital subscription', don't pay for shipping).
  
• Do 1 Clean Up Day (organised by us as a community event), get 1 FREE Hike. Code supplied afterwards. Our next clean up is on Bray Head, date & time, tbc.

There are some t&cs, notably:

• Registration form must be completed and terms & conditions accepted. Booking is not confirmed until both payment and completed registration form are received.
• We operate in accordance with the principals of ‘Leave No Trace’.
• Dogs are not permitted, not even on lead. (We love our dog too, but the sheep, wildlife and the farming community request that we leave them at home.) Watch this.
• We operate a ‘No Boots? No Hill. No Refund’ policy for your safety.
• Minimum Age: 16+, minors must be accompanied by an adult responsible for them.
• Good mobility is required.
• Reasonable level of fitness is required, talk to us if you're not sure. We aim to be as inclusive as possible.

*The standard practice ratio of ML to participant is 1:12. There may be fewer places available on some, more technical hikes.

The Highest Hundred List is not as straightforward as first appears.

This list of the Highest 100 mountains in Ireland, is the result of collaboration between the late Joss Lynam, Simon Stewart and the team at MountainViews.ie and the staff and members of Mountaineering Ireland.  The award-winning guidebook, Irish Peaks, is a wonderful collection of 72 hill-walking routes encompassing these. Our own routes to these summits, may not necessarily follow these.

If you clicked the MountainViews.ie link, you might notice some well-known, high mountains don’t seem to feature. This is because, to be categorized as one of the Highest 100, the summit of the mountain must have a ‘prominence’ of at least 100m. In other words, it needs to be a distinct peak in its’ own right. So, if you are standing on one high mountain, you need to descend and then climb up again at least 100m for that second summit to have a prominence of 100m.

There are other lists of mountains that hill-walkers like to bag. You may have already heard of Munro bagging in Scotland – there are 284 of these 3,000ft (914m) peaks! In Ireland, we also have the 273 Vandeleur-Lynams (600m+) and the 406 Arderins (500m+ with 30m prominence). Naturally, over the course of our routes, we will tick off a good portion of those too. Who knows where this might lead?