They scrobbled me in the park the bastards - and then tried to kill me in the mountains.
We went for a walk on Saturday after a night on the beer (or in my case rum, whisk(e)y and champagne.)
On the map above you can see where the planned route runs - basically around the top of the mountain to the JB Malone memorial, a peek down at Lough Tay and then close the loop back to the car park.
EXCEPT that somewhere along the way a detour was taken, and then another detour - and our ‘gentle 2 hour stroll’ turned into a tromp all over Ballinasloe.
I still think it was a trap and if we’d followed the Coillte detour right to the end we’d have ended up in some hillman’s cooking pot.
Map Legend:
Black path - correct path we should have taken
Red path - our detour(s) and backtracking
Blue path - briefly lost the Gurrier when he legged it into the woods
Lego Cop and mini - the slowest cop chase ever witnessed, even slower than OJ.
Skull and Bones - destroyed forest land aka ‘Coillte was here, ok?’ aka ‘Mordor’
Ahh, the joys of drunken hiking.
Comment by DaviMack — March 30, 2009 @ 6:51 pm
Have you considered cartography as a career?
Comment by Donal — March 31, 2009 @ 8:31 am
Tis good isn’t it? That took me HOURS to complete - but I think it gives a good picture of where we went wrong.
Comment by elimare — March 31, 2009 @ 9:12 am
It also appears to outline a strange beasty.
Comment by Donal — March 31, 2009 @ 10:11 pm
what are the radioactive signs for?
Comment by Nicky — September 8, 2009 @ 8:39 pm