{"id":458,"date":"2019-10-07T09:23:51","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T09:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/?page_id=458"},"modified":"2021-07-14T16:09:47","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:09:47","slug":"wicklow-mountains-7th-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/sota-summits-on-the-air\/other-summits\/wicklow-mountains-7th-october-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicklow Mountains 7th October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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EI\/IE-003, Tonelagee \u2013 817m, 10 points<\/h3>\n

\"\"Monday and it was back to the rain.\u00a0 There is good parking for Tonelagee but the path from the road is very wet.\u00a0 Fortunately just after I set off the rain stopped and once past the initial bog it is a very pleasant walk up to the top.<\/p>\n

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There is a fairly obvious path to follow.\u00a0 The mist never did manage to clear properly but on a clear day I suspect there would be some good views.\u00a0 The summit has a trig point which was a suitable spot to set up the station.\u00a0 I called CQ and soon had six contacts in the log, a mix of Welsh and Irish operators.<\/p>\n

EI\/IE-003, Tonelagee Log<\/h3>\n

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The trip back to the car is just a case of retracing your steps.<\/p>\n

Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 7th October 2019<\/p>\n

Parking (Grid) \u2013 O 076 001<\/p>\n

Parking (Lat\/Long) \u2013 53.041695 -6.3960814<\/p>\n

Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74 + 50W PA<\/p>\n

Antenna \u2013 2 Element Yagi<\/p>\n

Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n

Contacts \u2013 6<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 10<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself<\/p>\n

Distance \u2013 3.9Km<\/p>\n

Parking Height \u2013 476m<\/p>\n

Summit Height \u2013 812m<\/p>\n

Time Total \u2013\u00a0 1h 52m<\/p>\n

Time Up 0h 40m<\/p>\n

Time Down 0h 27m<\/p>\n

EI\/IE-012, Scarr \u2013 641m, 8 points<\/h3>\n

\"\"A short drive into Laragh and back out got me to the second car park beside the Glenmacnass Waterfall which was in full flow after all the recent rains.<\/p>\n

From the car park it was another boggy start to reach a fairly obvious path up to the summit.<\/p>\n

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After a pleasant walk up, the final approach to the summit loomed.\u00a0 There is no trig point but a small cairn offers a little shelter from the elements and somewhere to erect the aerial.\u00a0 Even though this was a lower summit I soon had eight contacts in the log.\u00a0 Probably being a bit later in the day there were more people around.<\/p>\n

EI\/IE-012, Scarr Log<\/h3>\n

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The return back to the car is straightforward, just dodge the puddles!<\/p>\n

Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 7th October 2019<\/p>\n

Parking (Grid) \u2013 O 114 030<\/p>\n

Parking (Lat\/Long) \u2013 53.066576 -6.3393393<\/p>\n

Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74 + 50W PA<\/p>\n

Antenna \u2013 2 Element Yagi<\/p>\n

Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n

Contacts \u2013 8<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 8<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself<\/p>\n

Distance \u2013 5.6Km<\/p>\n

Parking Height \u2013 350m<\/p>\n

Summit Height \u2013 641m<\/p>\n

Time Total \u2013\u00a0 2h 14m<\/p>\n

Time Up 0h 47m<\/p>\n

Time Down 0h 42m<\/p>\n

EI\/IE-035, Trooperstown Hill \u2013 430m, 4 points<\/h3>\n

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Another short drive back into Laragh and out took me to to the start point for the final summit of the trip.\u00a0 There is no car park, just enough room to squeeze one car onto the verge.\u00a0 From this start there is a clear track up to the summit where there is a large pile of rocks marking the top.\u00a0 Not really what you would call a cairn.<\/p>\n

\"\"At only 430m I wasn\u2019t sure how well I would get out from here but I needn\u2019t have worried. I soon managed to raise enough contacts although mostly into Wales with one final contact to Dec at work in Dublin.\u00a0 This marked the end of four great days in the Wicklow mountains which despite the rain provided some great walks and some great contacts.\u00a0 Thanks to everyone I worked whilst over there.<\/p>\n

EI\/IE-035, Trooperstown Hill<\/h3>\n

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Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 7th October 2019<\/p>\n

Parking (Grid) \u2013 T 157 929<\/p>\n

Parking (Lat\/Long) \u2013 52.974520 -6.2780240<\/p>\n

Radio \u2013 Kenwood TH-D74 + 50W PA<\/p>\n

Antenna \u2013 2 Element Yagi<\/p>\n

Band \u2013 144 FM<\/p>\n

Contacts \u2013 5<\/p>\n

SOTA points \u2013 4<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself<\/p>\n

Distance \u2013 3.0Km<\/p>\n

Parking Height \u2013 120m<\/p>\n

Summit Height \u2013 430m<\/p>\n

Time Total \u2013\u00a0 1h 09m<\/p>\n

Time Up 0h 22m<\/p>\n

Time Down 0h 16m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

EI\/IE-003, Tonelagee \u2013 817m, 10 points Monday and it was back to the rain.\u00a0 There is good parking for Tonelagee but the path from the road is very wet.\u00a0 Fortunately just after I set off the rain stopped and once past the initial bog it is a very pleasant walk up to the top. There … Continue reading Wicklow Mountains 7th October 2019<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":451,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-458","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","category-irish-summits","category-summits-on-the-air"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=458"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/458\/revisions\/646"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}