Gate...
Not gate...
Kilkenny Castle...it has a gate so it counts 😁
When hillwalking on Maulin yestewrday, snow could be seen clearly on Mullacleevaun so I'd imagine there's still some on Lugnaquilla as well.
I remember my father talking about snow in Wicklow mountains in May 1963.
It was the 5th May, he was in Dublin for the National league final.
That snow may have survived from a proper harsh winter from Christmas to well into March
Snow on the Wicklow mountains, looking south from Luggala down towards the Lough Dan valley. Not sure if that's Lugnaquilla or one of the mountains in between
Snow on April 23rd!
I'll take any path that gets me off the road
A fantastic morning for a spin, even if it is a little tricky to figure out what to wear when you set out early
It is indeed. Or, more accurately, its outside the de Burgh estate looking in 😁
@cletus
Is that the de Burg Estate in Naas?
Work break spin. I'd seen this gate before, bagged it today. Little bit of hike a bike to get to it.
Also saw a heron sunning itself, newly hatched baby ducklings, and a swan that tried to bite me.
Nice spin around Minaun in Waterford today.
Taking a breather at Ticknock.
Bought a set of stickers for the fork to match the colour of the frame, black stickers on a black fork are a bit boring. Never had money to add a bit of flair to my last MTB. The Marsh Guard is supposed to be sand colour like the frame but it's barely an off white. Need to replace the white zip ties, it's all I had on hand...
On the GC-60 in Gran Canaria
A couple of snowy gates from this morning
Usually there is also a signpost with the restrictions. I know this because in the snow the other year I got done for incorrectly parking in a disabled space. Turned out the signpost had been knocked over by a truck 2-3 days previously so I was let off.
I passed some of the cars there on the way up, thought nothing of it assuming they just didn't want to drive up further but yeah Ticknock is always a bad spot for emergency vehicle access.
Some of the replies to that tweet are moronic but people are constantly parking wherever they want making it someone else's problem. There was a tractor with a plough at the bottom of the hill, no chance for it to pass if it needed to clear the road up from the car park.
if you cannot see a double yellow because of snow, does it exist?
(and yes, i can see the no parking sign on a pole!)
Someone smarter than me probably wouldn't have ventured up to Ticknock today.
They did and they parked like dicks!
Not taken on a cycle but I got to take my mountain bike for a drive today...
Someone smarter than me probably wouldn't have ventured up to Ticknock today. West Dublin got a tiny dusting of snow overnight which was barely enough to stick to the car and was gone by noon so it's only when I was driving down the M50 I saw the snow on the mountains, even the road up to Ticknock was fine. It's only when I got to the car park I saw how bad it was.
I only continued up as I saw clear tyre tracks before anyone thinks I'm the type of person you always hear about getting stuck at Sally's Gap in their Qashqai/Tucson.
Didn't park anywhere with the risk of getting stuck, just stopped to the side where I wouldn't get stuck to get a few pictures.
One journey to Waterford that left you late for most workplaces and another that left before most people would finish work, and then nothing at all for day passengers, it was intentional, much like their sale of the line into the port under the guise of it was a terrorist threat (with no Garda or security assessment, just the word of an IR employee). Anyway, rant over, until then I will give the full line a try on my MTB the next time, the CX bike was a shade bumpy.
Yeah I believe the last few years had seriously low passenger numbers, not helped as you say by imbecilic timetabling. The relocation of the train station, new pedestrian bridge etc might make it a bit more viable than the current dumping off point on a particularly inhospitable roundabout (for any mode of transport)
Latest word is that they want the line reopened rather than a greenway and they will work on the Enniscorthy - New Ross Greenway. I am not complaining either way as I would be happy with either. Both a train or Greenway make Waterford commutable for me. Personally I don't see it happening though as IR drove that line into the ground intentionally, the NTA might do a better job of timetabling though.
😁😁😁
Okay, So I didn't, my drone did.
When you say flew...🤔
While I wasn't actually Cycling at the time, I cycled over to Sundrive Road Park and flew over the Cycling track.
Pity there wasn't any cycling going on, maybe I'll look up their program, and revisit at a later date.
Is this the proposed Rosslare to Waterford greenway? I'd missed it was being canned - last I heard they were forging ahead with it. I always feel sorry for tourists on bikes coming off the ferry onto the sh1t show that is the N25 out of Rosslare.
A gate from the wrong side of the tracks
Testing out the new, now cancelled, greenway.
Dear Sir,
Is this a record?
Mise le Meas
M Bastarder
It's a stud farm, I think. They tend to look after their hedgerows well (at least up here)
That is nice piece of road with the daffodils, regularly cut hedge but decent height for wildlife and the farmers also has left some nice silver birch trees.
