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The forecast was for clear skies all day except around lunch time, when some low cloud was forecast, so probably a whiteout at Lug. The fresh north-westerly winds of the previous day have left their mark in the patterns of the snow here. The sun pretty much up now, the snow on the ground getting deeper still. The snow here is less deep than on the way up, presumably the strong north westerly winds would have blown a lot of it off into the south prison (which is really south east facing).
The sky was partly cloudy all day, with fast moving clouds, some low (hence the fog) and some higher – but all fast moving (due to high winds). It’s already apparent in the image above that the snow was not going to last long, the sun had been up for a couple of hours at this point and the temperature is just above freezing (though it did not feel like it with the wind chill! ). It’s been a while since I wrote a blog post about Lugnaquilla actually, but that’s not to say I have not been lately – Taking lots of photographs to a high technical standard takes a lot of time, so it’s not that it took me 12 hours to walk 23 km
To dispel any myth that I only hike at Lugnaquilla, I decided that I would do a post about a short (but pleasant) walk to Tibradden Mountain in County Dublin. Tibradden summit lies just above the Zipit forest adventure zipline area, it’s not a long walk, but a pleasant one. I opted to walk a bit further on from the summit – continuing even further would lead to Fairy Castle/Two Rock mountain But, being close to Dublin – this is a popular walk so my patience was thwarted when a group of scouts came to look at the tor – more a fan of nature than humans, I opted to move on.