Slievanea

Met Pat at Camp and drove to Slievanea. We parked at the crossroads to Cloghane and walked in to the foot of a gully via the lake shore. We picked out a gully and started to climb.

Easy going for a start, getting steep. We are blocked by a rockface and contour to our left for a while. We pick up another grassy slope and move up. It is steep in places but fine and dry. I am able to use my hands as well as the legs. I like that when I can use hands as well as feet.

When we reached the summit it was blowing a gale and was bitter cold. We made a hasty descent down a grassy ridge, fairly steep in places. We found refuge behind a rock for a bite to eat.

We did not delay and pushed on for Coumanare, descending steeply by the wire fence. We walked out by the lake, admiring the waterfall.