For week two we started our walk at Fofanny Dam Car Park and made our way to the top of Doan over Ott Mountain then went to Lough Shannagh and finally returned to the car park via Carn Mountain. On this walk I didnt really learn much but I improved on my compass work and bearings. I didnt develop any personal skills on this adventure. I think that I still need to improve on being as fast as the slowest person of the group as I am still moving on ahead of the group. ... read more
For the first week we went to the Trassy Track in the Moune Mountains. We walked along the river and went to hare's gap. On this day out I learned quite a lot of things. The first thing that I learned was how to use a compass so we knew where we were going. We also learned how to read a map and take the bearings to find out where we were at that exact time and how far we were going to walk. For this we needed to know how to pace our steps. To do this we counted every two steps we took for every one hundred metres. We learned how to do a magnetic bearing. I didnt really improve on any skills because it was my first time going up the mountains with ... read more