"Watch out for the Rams"

Monday was one of those days in Ireland where the sun gives us a rare glimpse at itself.
A day that I am glad I live in coastal Sligo.

With the day off work my housemates and I rounded up a few troops and decided that finally after the last few weeks of saying it, we were finally going to climb Benbulben.

For those of you who are not familiar with the place, Benbulben is a table top mountain in Sligo situated in an area of Sligo known as "Yeats" county. 

Having googled where abouts to start the climb we actually ended up on the wrong side of the mountain about to start a 1.5 hour walk around the base of the mountain.

This did look like it was going to have some fascinating sights of the mountain but we wanted to get on top of it.
RIGHT at the tippy top.

So we got there in the end, parked the car's on the side of the road and started the climb.

The "wrong" road

The "Right" road

See if you can spot my friends in the picture on the right (it will show how high up I was)

One of our many breaks!

Mountain "twerking"

"But first, lemme take a selfie" 

"The descent"

So this post was pretty jam packed with photos. 

But it was such a pretty day and the sky and Benbulben looked so nice. 

We did go about climbing it a bit arse ways. As in there is a proper route I THINK. 

Whereas we just headed straight up, jumped some gates, the odd barbed wire, dodged a few rams.

BUT we did make it back in one piece. 

Piece of advice: Proper walking shoes, WATER and do not even attempt if wet. 

Now I'm off to take care of some traveling plans, which will involve NO mountains!

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