OUTANDABOUT – HIKE
’m sure any keen hill walker Kelly’s Lough and return to Glenmalure You’d swear the sounds of streams were
has their own story involving viaCloghernagh and the zigzags. whispers you can’t quite catch but plodI
coming down the wrong side of The forecast was for manky weather on regardless until finally the darkness
the mountain...the honest ones at any and lots of it so I chose to use forest catches you like a rising tide and you’re
rate. But leaving bad weather and trails to get to Kelly’s Lough.It makes for forced to resort to head torch glow for
misadventures in navigation aside, the easy going but you do have to be sure progress.
one thing that probably catches people you’re on the right trail.I was using the The full walk is an excellent day
out the most, is time. It’s an easy thing for Glenmalure 1:25,000 map which shows out but as I was going out with the
a walk to take longer than planned but most of the tracks in the area fairly intention of simulating getting caught
when that means getting caught out in accurately. The 1:50000 shows great big out I’d chosen a few different spots for a
the dark, navigational errors and epics gaps in the tracks so it would be hard possible bivvy site.The first one of these
are, quite often, not too far behind. to know exactly which one you were on. was at Kelly’s Lough but the weather was
With this in mind I decided to The kick in the head with the trails is holding for now and I figured I’d make
sabotage my own Out and About to give that once you pick one you’re a little at a bit of ground while I could.One thing
people an idea of how to make the best its mercy and have to go where it takes about forecasts is not to rely on just one.
of it when you do get benighted and, you.Another thing is they tend not to be They can be vague at the best of times so
perhaps more importantly, the kind of straight so this adds to the mileage. I try to get a better feel for what’s coming
kit you should have in your pack that It can be a bit eerie walking these by using a combination of sites.
will make keeping yourself in the dark a trails on your own at night as your own I got phone signal at this point and
more comfortable experience. footsteps can give you the sense that called my wife Carl with an update. I’d
On my quest, I found myself leaving you’re being followed.That would make given her the details of my route (route
Glenmalure Lodge car park at 9pm. whoever it was madder than me so I felt card) and expected time of return which
Officially the sun had already set but pretty safeafter that.The trees crowd is such a simple safety precaution to take.
I knew I’d still have about an hour of the trail like spectators at a crash.It’s Mountain rescues can be a slow process
light to make a bit of ground.The route almost as though they only separate to and the earlier the alarm is raised the
I chose was to go up to Lugnaquilla via let you pass and then closed in again. sooner help can be called out.The
Declan happy and
snug in his blizzard
bag on Clogherna
gh.
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