Saturday, September 11, 2010

Hiking in Wicklow

If you want to spend some good time hiking, Wicklow is one of the most beautiful location not too far away from Dublin, particulary if you are a stranger and you've never visit Ireland and experienced its exceptional landscape of this Country.

It is a little bit difficult to reach Wicklow if you don't have a car. In this case you maybe have a look at what buseireann has to offer.
I'm prety new to Ireland and I'm sure that there are differnt ways to reach this place, but this can be a start point (and every suggestion is welcomed) nevertheless.

In Wicklow you can find a good number of different mountain trails for every taste and pace. The best thing is that you can come across different landscapes as lakes, mountains, forests, fields. So you can't get bored!

Just remember to check the Irish wather!

Monday, April 26, 2010

Indoor Climbing - the new frontier

Until recently most novice climbers taking their first (vertical) steps would probably have done so on real rock, but it’s becoming more and more common for novices to be introduced to climbing on an indoor wall.
Climbing walls can be a great place to get started; they provide a relatively safe environment and don’t suffer from wet and cold weather like the real thing!

Different type of climbing in Ireland

Rock climbing may be divided into two broad categories: free climbing and aid climbing.

Free climbing requires the climber use only natural features of the rock formation.

Aid climbing involves using artificial devices placed in the rock to support all or part of the climber's body weight, and is normally practised on rock formations that lack necessary natural features suitable for free climbing.

The most popular in Ireland is Free climbing because a lot of mountains haven't any artificial devices