Club walk Sunday 30th May 2021

Knockanuarha/12 O'Clock Hills, Co. Clare. Meet O'Halloran's (Emo) petrol station, Church Road, Tulla V95 3YW at 9.30am to travel on to start of walk. Duration: approx. 3.5 hours. Length: 13kms. Boots only. No facilities, so bring lunch etc. Contact walk leader Fiona in advance if you intend to travel, as Covid regulations still apply. 

Directions: This link should take you to to the meeting point if your smartphone is enabled. 

Otherwise: Take M18 for Limerick. Leave motorway at Exit 13 (Tulla). At first roundabout, take first exit for Tulla and stay on this road (R352) for 13kms until you get to a staggered crossroads (signposted Tulla 1km). Go left here. On way into village, pass large St Joseph's secondary school on left and the petrol station is just after that on the left-hand side of road. 

Alternatively, for the scenic route head for Loughrea, Gort and at T-junction on way into Gort, go left and follow signs for R458 Crusheen. About 6kms from Gort, take left-hand turn signposted R462 Tulla. When you get to village, at Y-junction keep right to stay on R462 (sign for Sixmilebridge). Pass St Mochulla's NS on left. Stay on R462 and the petrol station is on right-hand side of the road on way out of village. 

Journey time approx. 1 hour 10 minutes either way. 

Après le déluge...

There's an Irish proverb that goes 'A wet and windy May, fills the barn with corn and hay'. That's fine if crops are your thing. If not, and if you had the misfortune to have been out and about yesterday, you'll have squelched home, and clutching a restorative hot whiskey in one withered hand and your smartphone in the other, spent some considerable time googling 'waterproof jackets'. Or 'trench foot'. Or, if last night's rain was anything to go by, 'lifebuoys'. Mmm. The joys of the Irish 'summer'. 

In anticipation of our first official club walk on Sunday,  here's a link to Russ Mills' blog where he outlines what you need to know about waterproofing. It's his most read post, apparently. 

Finally, here's a very entertaining take on precipitation from www.thedailyedge.ie, just in case you are taking shelter from the gleidearnach while reading this. 

Club walk Sunday 23rd May 2021

Slieve Aughtys. Leader: J. Curley. 10kms/2-3 hours/trails, tarred roads and boggy sections. Boots necessary. Further details will be sent out by text. 

Covid regulations still apply. If you're planning to go, please contact Jim beforehand.