{"id":1693,"date":"2016-06-05T22:58:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T21:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mic1024.wordpress.com\/?p=1693"},"modified":"2016-06-05T22:58:03","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T21:58:03","slug":"sunday-glendalough-is-a-busy-glendalough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/2016\/06\/05\/sunday-glendalough-is-a-busy-glendalough\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday Glendalough is a busy Glendalough…"},"content":{"rendered":"

…unless you are a climber, and you go there on a June BH Sunday! Literally everyone we normally see there\u00a0are either in Donegal, Fair Head<\/a>, or some other places like Kerry, or Lake District<\/a> – making Glenda walls today empty like a graveyard after dark.<\/p>\n

PG and I decided to take advantage of the situation and do a quick run through some classic VS routes.<\/p>\n

It’s amazing how empty the car park is at 8.30am as well (comparing to what is seen later during the day).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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The usual walking, was as usual as it gets.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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We were rather efficient and it didn’t take to long for us to be at the base, where decision time came:
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OR<\/p>\n

East wing (Acorn Buttress, Forest Ledge etc):<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Since most of our outings last year focused around Main Face, this time we decided to head up Acorn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Padraig started with Provo VS, 4c, I took over the next pitch, and we continued via combination of Forrest Rhapsody, that nobody can name anymore, all the way to Forrest Ledge – funny thing – I found 20euro on the way – another reason to always lead \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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We’ve decided to do couple of climbs from there – PG settled on Celia, 30m VS,4c – I seconded. I must say here that this a true *** pitch. Absolutely amazing crack, very enjoyable. Next time I might do it’s close neighbor – Jackie – seen to the left on below photo (both cracks share some distance, hence today we only did one of them).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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Top has a nice abseiling station, so we quickly got back to the ledge, and I went up Lethe 31m VS, 4c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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This was another fantastic climb – it’s so easy to forget how great Glendalough climbing is (comparing to mundane Dalkey one move wonders).<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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After that we got down to the base of Acorn B, for quick tea.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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PG here in his natural habitat – nurturing a JetBoil!<\/p>\n

We did 5 great pitches at this point and decide to call it a day. It was still early, but neither of was wanted to get stuck in traffic trying get out of the Vale with the hordes of walkers, tourists and all other sorts.<\/p>\n

And hordes there were. While (as I mentioned before) – there was not a single pair of climbers other than us, there were hundreds of people everywhere else.<\/p>\n

Car parks (both, upper and lower {for which they charge now as well}), were overflown, cars where parked absolutely everywhere (incl. roadside, making 2 way traffic almost impossible).<\/p>\n

Lesson is – from now on early start is a must – 8am at the upper car park… otherwise you might as well not go at all…<\/p>\n

This way or another – the day was great, and this place is probably my favorite Irish Climbing spot of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n
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…unless you are a climber, and you go there on a June BH Sunday! Literally everyone we normally see there\u00a0are either in Donegal, Fair Head, or some other places like Kerry, or Lake District – making Glenda walls today empty like a graveyard after dark. PG and I decided to take advantage of the situation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1765,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[55,69,105],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-climbing","tag-glendalough","tag-trad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/samsel.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}