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

Today’s summary	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 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

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

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

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

On the top. Pretty rugged up there