The cache is placed on Slievemoughanmore mountain in the Western
Mournes at approximately 550m.
As with all caches in the mountains please come prepared for all
types of weather as condtions can change quickly.
Landscape in The Mournes
Periodic climatic changes in the last 50 million years, in
particular the deposition and erosion produced by a series of Ice
Ages, changed the shape and appearance of the Mournes. During these
ages a huge ice sheet spread over the land, covering the highest of
the mountains. On its retreat at the end of the last glaciation,
11,000 years ago, the ice produced the present Mourne topography.
In upper levels of the mountains the movement of glaciers formed
U-shaped valleys and gouged out the valley heads to create
armchair-shaped hollows called corries. Frost action shattered rock
outcrops, producing screes and crumbling rock faces and cliffs.
As the ice sheets retreated, vast quantities of sand and stone
deposited by the melting ice were left covering the coastal plain
to a depth of several feet; shallow near the base of the hills and
thicker near the coast, where great accumulations of glacial till
were heaped in hummocky ridges called moraines.
Along the northern and western fringe of the mountains drumlins
were formed when large mounds of deposited drift were moulded and
streamlined as the ice passed over them. Many granite boulders
carried from the mountains by the ice still litter low lying areas,
and many, such as Clough Mor at Rostrevor, were left on the summits
of hills.
The cache is a medium sized tablock container with camo
and geocaching sticker, containing stashnote, log book, pencil,
sharpener and a few swaps.