River Liffey Source, Kippure Summit and Upper & Lower Lough Bray 06/01/2006
Decided to take my first real hike to a place that i love alot. The Bray loughs were part of many a college assignment for Glacial Geography a number of years ago. The view up here is fantastic.
So I started at the Liffey Head Bridge (o137137), trekked across some quite marshy bogland for around a kilometre. I arrived at the Source of the River Liffey and was rightly surprised to see how relatively small it is. Anyway, off i went up towards Kippure. I decided to take the road route to the top, which afforded me the time to take lots of pictures of various mountains, Bray, Kippure Summit and a herd of deer. A well earned rest and some hot food was had at the summit. Again more pictures were taken. Once i had refuelled, off i went eastward to the Bray loughs. Twas soft enough underfoot in places. I then decided to trek down the steep pass between the two lakes. As i left the lakes heading back up to the road, i couldn't help but feel ashamed by the two burned out cars near the stream. Haded back up to the RTE entrance. Overall, i was rightly worn out. But it was nice to get away and have some quiet time (and it was very quiet).
Next up the Great Sugar Loaf and Powerscourt Linkback: https://mountainviews.ie/summit/73/comment/2181/