Fairy castle & Three rocks (Wicklow)

Today was my first hike as a coordinator and I have to say that the weather welcomed it with a beautiful blue sky and the sun too was right up there.
A good turn out 0f 19 people who I managed not to get them lost.



We started walking through Marley park to add a little extra walk as this is an easy to moderate walk of 5km. From Ticknock, there is a stony track which plunges into the wood. We climbed up beside the wood to join the famous Wicklow way. The main track ahead is a narrow stony one that leads straight along the ridge rising to the cairn of the Fairy Castle, 536m, the summit of our walk, from which you have a nice view of the Great Sugar Loaf, Cruagh Mountaing, Tibradden and down to Dublin Bay. Keep on walking to the east you can see the three granite tors which give the area the name of Three Rocks. We finished our walk, walking along the northern end of the hump of granite which forms the Wicklow Mountains.



And as per tradition before heading home we gathered at nearby pub for a well-deserved drink.