On the way over Sally Gap in the Wicklow Mountains, we saw a bunch of cars parked by the side of the road next to a trail. So we got out and decided to climb the mountain. (strangely enough, one of the cars was a taxi, I have no idea what a taxi was doing in the middle of the mountains.)
We climbed to the top and found a bog. A bog on top of a mountain.
Then we climbed back down again. We never saw any other people even though there were at least four cars. We think there was the possibility of a bog monster.
We drove on and in the parking lot of the Gelndalough visitor's center we looked up at the mountainside. Picked the highest place we could see and joked that we weren't going to climb up to there. (observe the scattering of trees on the high hillside)
So we explored the ruins of the monk's habitations . . .
and stayed on the civilized paths down in the valley. (observe the high up trees again)
We walked on a paved trail and took pictures of the lake.
But somehow we were lured away from the lake shore. We ended up climbing again. We couldn't help it when the mystical forest path presented itself (click link to see pictures). We saw deer. We climbed above the lake and took more pictures.
And do those trees look familiar? We didn't climb to the spot we had joked about, but we climbed just as high and possibly a bit further.
Where we said we wouldn't climb.
Where we ended up.
What can I say? Hiking up mountains is just so much fun.
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