{"id":471,"date":"2019-10-04T09:40:26","date_gmt":"2019-10-04T09:40:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/?page_id=471"},"modified":"2021-07-14T16:09:23","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T16:09:23","slug":"wicklow-mountains-4th-october-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/sota-summits-on-the-air\/other-summits\/wicklow-mountains-4th-october-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Wicklow Mountains 4th October 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

After much planning and preparation I finally set foot in Ireland again late on the Thursday evening for an extended four day weekend climbing the SOTA summits of the Wicklow Mountains.<\/p>\n

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This is the story of that weekend and hopefully a useful catalogue for any one else planning a similar trip.<\/p>\n

EI\/IE-001, Lugnaquilla \u2013 925m, 10 points<\/h3>\n

\"\"Known locally as \u2018Lug\u2019, fortunately for me as I am not sure I can pronounce the full name. The final remnants of storm Lorenzo was still blowing itself out across the North of Ireland as I arrived at the Baravore car park.\u00a0 The car park marks the end of the public highway although the road does continue North West through a ford. After the rain deposited by the storm crossing the ford would need a substantial vehicle.<\/p>\n

Fortunately there is a footbridge a few yards up river reached by following the path between the sign and the ford in the picture.<\/p>\n

\"\"Once over the footbridge there is a good path leading West into the large valley but beyond this the path appears and disappears, so unless it\u2019s a clear day and you can see the top you will need to navigate your way to the top.<\/p>\n

\"\"The summit is surrounded by some fairly steep sections which are best avoided but on the other-hand the flatter sections are mostly peat bog and after heavy rain also best avoided!\u00a0 In particular the section around 650 metres was crossed by some fairly significant water which needs crossing with care.<\/p>\n

\"\"There is a good size summit on the top which was handy as the winds were still up around 60 mph on the day I was there, I managed to find enough shelter down behind the cairn and set up the station in the murk.<\/p>\n

EI\/IE-001, Lugnaquilla Log<\/h3>\n

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Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 4th October 2019<\/p>\n

Parking (Grid) \u2013 T 064 941<\/p>\n

Parking (Lat\/Long) \u2013 52.988030 -6.4129552<\/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 10<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself<\/p>\n

Distance \u2013 12.7Km<\/p>\n

Parking Height \u2013 150m<\/p>\n

Summit Height \u2013 925m<\/p>\n

Time Total \u2013\u00a0 4h 12m<\/p>\n

Time Up 2h 02m<\/p>\n

Time Down 1h 28m<\/p>\n

EI\/IE-010, Croaghanmoira \u2013 664m, 8 points<\/h3>\n

Once back down from Lug I drove the few miles around to Croaghanmoira.\u00a0 By this time the water at the ford had risen considerably and the road back to Glenmalure was flooded in places but just passable still but more importantly the rain had finally stopped and the wind speed was dropping.<\/p>\n

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\"\"From the parking spot there is a good clear track leading up to the summit.\u00a0 Compared to Lug it is an easy walk barely requiring\u00a0 reference to the map.\u00a0 The only difficult bit is climbing over the rather rickety gate,<\/p>\n

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The trig point at the top clearly marks the summit and affords a convenient spot to set up the station.<\/p>\n

EI\/IE-010, Croaghanmoira \u2013 Log<\/h3>\n

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Journey Details<\/h3>\n

Date \u2013 4th October 2019<\/p>\n

Parking (Grid) \u2013 T 087 876<\/p>\n

Parking (Lat\/Long) \u2013 52.928613, -6.3835931<\/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 8<\/p>\n

Group \u2013 Myself<\/p>\n

Distance \u2013 3.7Km<\/p>\n

Parking Height \u2013 457m<\/p>\n

Summit Height \u2013 664m<\/p>\n

Time Total \u2013\u00a0 1h 22m<\/p>\n

Time Up 0h 32m<\/p>\n

Time Down 0h 21m<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After much planning and preparation I finally set foot in Ireland again late on the Thursday evening for an extended four day weekend climbing the SOTA summits of the Wicklow Mountains. This is the story of that weekend and hopefully a useful catalogue for any one else planning a similar trip. EI\/IE-001, Lugnaquilla \u2013 925m, … Continue reading Wicklow Mountains 4th 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-471","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\/471","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=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":682,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/471\/revisions\/682"}],"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=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.m1cje.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}