Slieve Blooms
The modesty of their public image is partly down to the fact that they rise from the huge, empty expanse of the flat Midlands plain, not a location that most folk would think of as walking country; but also because they fall between hills and mountains in their height and scope
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Yet local walkers are fanatical in their devotion the Slieve Blooms have one of the best walking festivals in Ireland, and one of the keenest and friendliest walking clubs.
It's hard to believe that such a compact range could hold so many secret valleys and hidden rivers
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There was no such rage in the river today. In the narrow cleft of Glenbarrow it rushed shallow and peatbrown through the forest. We walked a pineneedle carpet through cathedrallike conifers
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Down by the river we ventured out on the jumbled grey boulders and shallow redrock plates of the riverbed
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A perfect picnic spot for children to splash and explore
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A little further along the path we came to a viewpoint where Clamp Hole Falls came jumping down a series of rock steps in fans of hissing water
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From the falls we followed the trail as it rose out of the trees among wild strawberry (plump
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The beaked pink flowers of lousewort and the royalblue petals of milkwort studded the open heather, and the gorse in full bloom blazed as brilliant gold as any burning bush.
The view from the crest of the Ridge of Capard was absolutely sensational
ルイビトン. Standing in a sea of windrippled bog cotton we stared round a complete circle, east as far as the Wicklow Mountains, south to what looked like a squeak of the Comeraghs, Knockmealdowns and Galtees, and north across the brown and green patchwork of the great Midlands plain. In past accounts of walks I have been taken to task by readers for overestimation after describing 'hundredmile views' which probably aren't quite that. So all I'll say of the Ridge of Capard is that it gives a prospect fit to make you sing. And we did I Can See For Miles at the top of our voices.
A crunchy forest road and a stumbly path over knotty tree roots returned us to the car, our heads full of views, our fingers sticky with lemonscented pine resin
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