Walk 45:00 [3] 2.5 km (18:00 / km) +200m 12:51 / km
shoes: ASICS Kayano 23
Kilmashogue. Quest for a geocache that turned foul pretty quickly. Road blocked way before I expected so faced with a 1.5km straight line over Kilmashogue hill. Started up and it wasn't long before it started raining. Saw a cute mouse on the side of the road on the way up. No obvious way into the geocache so took a path into a quarry of sorts. Climbed up the steep bank (barely) and headed into what would be familiar to most Irish orienteers as fight - young pines, not thinned with gorse and briars in any open patch. Crawled through on hands and knees for 150m. Finally got to the geocache and the clue was "Christmas Tree" - of which we had just crawled under about 10,000. Got the right one eventually but not after being stung by a bee - that still hurts 24 hours later.