Hill Skills Series - The extra kit you need for those chilly late autumn/winter hikes.

This is the latest article in our Hill Skills Series, a series of blogs posts dealing with navigation, clothing, nutrition and safety, when hiking in the mountains of Ireland and Britain.

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Head torches and mountain shelter deployed on this early morning ascent of Lugnaquilla mountain.

Hiking Purple Mountain in Co Kerry - Ireland

This is the latest post in a series on the great places to hike in Ireland.

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Kerry panorama

Our top 10 upland loving plants to look out for when in the mountains.

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Bog Asphodel Narthecium ossifragum

A hikers guide to: LUGNAQUILLA - A gentle mountain with a mean streak

This post is one in a series of articles on great places to go hiking in Ireland.

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Lugnaquilla summit plateau and cairn

Lugnaquilla, (Log na Coille in the Irish), translates as 'the hollow of the wood', though the only trees on its flanks today...........

Wind Chill

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Well prepared for the icy conditions in the Wicklow mountains.

The mountains of south Mayo

This post is one in a series highlighting some of the great places to go hiking in Ireland.

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The eastern end of the Sheeffry Hills, Co. Mayo

Hypothermia - Causes, treatment and avoidance

If your core body temperature drops below 35C you will start to shiver, your mood may change, your lips may go blue, you may become clumsy and irrational. 

You have hypothermia...

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It doesn't have to be wintry for hypothermia to be a real risk.

The Glencorbet Horseshoe, 12 Bens, Connemara

Looking towards Bencollaghduff from Benbaun summit, (729 metres)

Glencorbet is at the northern end of the 12 Bens range in Connemara....

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