An uneventful weekend of walking

[sares2000]

I'm going to state the obvious, twice. And secondly, God damn that is some fine summery weather we're having. It's like the boys and girls down in Weather Control woke up to the fact that June is part of summer* and decided to make up for May. Last weekend I'd foolishly remained in Dublin. No such mistake this time; on Saturday morning I got the

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[semper_officios]

Hi Dave,

You escaped from the bus before I had to chance to see if you wanted to meetup.

On saturday I walked from glendalough up past the waterfall and through the forest to the col where the wicklow way passes over. I stayed on tracks which are not part of the tourist routes.
From there I went up lugduff, on to conavalla and eventually up to the summit of lugnaquilla.
I camped on the summit of lugnaquilla. Spectacular views and a stunning sunset.
Then this morning I walked from lugnaquilla to turloch hill, then tonelagee, then glenmacnass waterfall and from there up scarr before heading back to laragh to catch the bus.

You are right the heavy sunshine really changes things. I got caught running out of water once or twice and refills were hassle to find due to everything being dried up.
Also sunburn might happen. In Ireland. Shock.

Colin

[sares2000]

That second day walk is very impressive. There are lots of seemingly short routes between those peaks that end up being very inefficient. There's some rocky vegetation around Glenmalure that's just absurdly slow going, although I suppose that wouldn't matter going to Turloch Hill.

I used loads of sunblock, reapplied regularly.

[semper_officios]

Now that camping is officialy allowed in the national park in wicklow maybe camping allow you to try some longer routes.
The really tedious parts are up arround table mountain, conavalla and across towards turloch hill. It is all peat hags and ground that is hard to maintain a fast pace on. Especially if one is carrying more than a day pack.

[sares2000]

When did they change the rules on camping? I'm pretty sure some people used to camp before now, but maybe that was only in certain designated areas.

[silja]

We missed you at the Dark Ages game, but we had great fun and there may be another one, so hopefully next time!