Ireland day 0385. Tuesday 18 October 2022- Killarney DWC 2 *

Ireland day 0385. Tuesday 18 October 2022- Killarney DWC 2

Today’s summary	Led a small group of walkers up to the top of Carrauntoohil – Ireland’s highest summit – via the Devil’s Ladder route. Pretty tough and the poor weather didn’t help. Played “chase the ace” in the evening with Club friends, and won €30!
Today’s weather	Quite mild at lower levels but storm force westerly winds higher up. Occasional rain and no sun. About 14C at the bottom, 6C on the top.

Today’s overview location (The blue mark shows the location of our route)		Close-up location (The green line shows where we walked) (Click button below to download GPX of today’s walk as recorded, or see interactive map at bottom with elevations corrected): Carrauntoohil DWC

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(Summary blog only. Last full blog was Day 0368).

Climbed Carranuntoohil – highest summit in Ireland.

Led a team of Val plus one other DWC member, starting at Cronin’s Yard and going up via the Devil’s Ladder. A tough route and quite slow. Poor weather with heavy cloud, occasional rain and storm force wind. Only saw six other people on the whole mountain all day.

Dinner and then “chase the ace” card game with the rest of the Club at the Castlerosse resort hotel n Killarney afterwards – didn’t get to bed until after 1 am – but did win €30!

All in all an epic day.

Today’s photos (click to enlarge)


Just about to start the ascent of the Devils Ladder	At the top of the Devils Ladder. A hard slog

Val building her marker cairn in quartzite on the col at the top of the Ladder	On the way down, near the two loughs. The sign says “please stay on the path” in Irish

Mountain goats near the bottom	“Chase the Ace” – an endless card game but I won €30!

On the top. Pretty rugged up there