In the spirit of starting as we mean to continue, we kicked off the first weekend of 2012 with a sunrise hike up the highest mountain in Wicklow (a relative term.)
Our group of 12 or so spent the night beforehand at the Mountain Ventures hostel in Donard (luvley, v clean and cosy, per below.) There might have been a few drinks before bedtime.
Aaron, our intrepid guide and a member of the Wicklow Mountain Rescue, managed to rouse us and get us collectively out the door by 5 a.m., boots, headlamps 'n all.
Tough going to start, but zen was achieved...
And the sun -- always the shy starlet 'round these parts -- eventually made her appearance.
I rocked the earflap hat for FUNCTION (rather than festival-hipster-cred) for the first time in my life -- holy God, the cold.
But with views like this, who's counting?
I just can't help wondering...where are the hobbits?
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