"Escape" - TGO - Spring 2014

The Coomloughra horseshoe forms a circuit around its hour-glass shaped lakes, and is one of Ireland’s classic mountain routes taking in three of its highest peaks: Carrauntoohil, Beenkeragh and Caher. Lough Eighter, easily accessible from the Hydro Road, is a gateway to these lofty peaks and the view southeast from it is an amphitheatre that showcases the entire horseshoe. Photographer Adrian Hendroff says: “This is one of those priceless spring mountain days: glorious blue-skies, all the browns, yellows and greens of the hill reflected off clear lakeshore waters, and crags with a splash of white snow in its dark, sheltered gullies. And then there is the silence of these Kerry hills.”

Photo by Adrian Hendroff
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