A brisk walk over the two highest summits in the Dartrys, designed to ascertain just how much dietary damage had been done over the Christmas season.

I started with a head-down no-rests march up the Truskmore access road...42 minutes to the summit, which at least gives me a target next time! Next up was a diagonal descent (rougher and steeper than I'd expected) to the wide col before Tievebaun. From here there's an obvious line of a shallow dyke-thing to follow, and this keeps you secure from the marshier bits all around. It's an easy plod up a shallow slope; a wall soon appears and when it abuts against a plethora of new fencing veer round to the right to reach the summit.

I returned to the wall-fence junction, then took a rough bearing down the slope towards the unenclosed bit of the road...this I managed to hit unerringly, which was a bonus. The slope has some rock higher up, but becomes tussocky steep grass as you descend...the sort of terrain where you can go at a decent lick if you're in the mood and flowing nicely. Once back at the road it's a perfunctory couple of kilometres back to the car.