In which his Hughness and consort pay us a visit and Mr Power goes AWOL.
The forecast was as stated so we decided to stay in the lee of the mountain to miss the worst of the considerable breeze . PS had hurt his back carrying his wallet , Kenny has dissappeared again Mr Scullion and DocL presumably on youngun duty .
The abscence of our regulars was more than compensated for by a Banbridge delegation in then regal form of Mr Suffern ( blessed be his name ) and his security detail Mr M .
Giants Pad , Fallow loop , trails . Lost Liz to hypothermia an entrance to slieve meel. Over to yellow water where lesley in his exuberence ran over a poor beginner cyclist . The rocks over the river provided me with a spectacular dismount ,how I landed on my feet I’ll never know .
Up to sheep pen just to put some distance on and back down Penti . Mr P was down Penti well before us and when the three of us got to the bottom he was nowhere to be seen . Now in my innocence I insisted that he would NEVER just head on without us and that something must be wrong . We headed back up to the ford and then split up for the descent , one on the trails one on the road and one on Penti in an attempt to relocate our friend who we would NEVER leave behind.
Back at the bridge still no sign of said Mr Power so with no phone signal we headed back to Glen to see if he ws there , if not we would head back to yellow water . So imagine our “surprise” to see MR P toasty warm innhis car with the heat on full as we nearly expired for the cold and rain .
all I can say is……. NOTED !
Next week is walk from Davys to Carlingford .