Training Log Archive: roar

To the hills! Went with Conor and Roisin to do a bit of uphill while it's available to me. At first it was grand with the snow but after a bit it started to be bad in places, being quite crusty and in big drifts. Conor also brought me the torch with the worst battery connection in the world so once it got dark that was pretty annoying. Actually it was annoying before that as it would flash every time it reconnected!
Once we turned for the climb up Fairy Castle from the back it got a bit grim. About knee deep hard snow with a foot deep river flowing underneath it so slow going. It was pretty from the top though. Time looked ok at the summit but we made the wrong choice of heading down west and taking the Wicklow Way. This had been walked on unevenly so there were knee deep, foot sized holes everywhere. At times there were holes that I would have struggled to get out of. Going was very very slow. Made it eventually but my torch gave up the ghost then so I had to look over Roisin's shoulder for the last bit. Still had a nice evening.