Break time yet Boss??...

It was Carrauntuohills turn this week to get the Kilimanjaro 4 treatment. So myself and Ash met up at Sullies place. Conor has been given the task of keeping the dream alive and is therefore unable to make early Sunday walks due extreme alcohol dehydration!!! Before we met up Ash called round to Hamish 'Style Guru' Mcrae for some much needed clothing advice. Hamish dealt out some of his pearly words of wisdom about tight and blue being 'so in'. How the guy knows this is amazing, must be all that late night Fashion TV he watches......
Anyway we arrived at the start point at 10.00am and after a quick round of stealing toilet paper- I don't think there is any need to dwell on that- we headed off. An hour later and we were hot on the heels of two guys who obviously knew where they were going..... Alas where they were going was nowhere near where we needed to be, something we only realised when we were stuck up at the top of Hags Tooth (despite the map telling us clearly it should be on our right... Sullie) with no obvious way of getting down!!! We would have realised this a lot sooner, but I felt that taking a break after every 5 steps was a climbing technique I was willing to explore. Sullie and Ashes technique of just getting on with it and therefore getting an extra twenty minutes rest while waiting for me would appear the way to go!!! We eventually made it back down, where we bumped into a Shepard and his dogs who called us idiots (the Shepard not the dogs, although god knows what the dogs were thinking) for not sticking with the trail. What f**kin trail I felt like saying but didn't cos I was saving my breath for some moaning later on. So we started our 2nd assault to the top, I changed my technique to a break every 3 steps, which gave the lads a nice half an hour of a break at the top. I should point out that when I did eventually make it, my break time was severely cut so we could move on.... After a quick will we go left or right debate we headed off again and 20min later we were at the top!!! Sullie was up there 10min before us and to be fair Ash would have been too but he felt staying close to me might guilt me into moving faster. Silly boy....
Quick cup of tea later (my flask had a slight design fault-it turned warm things cold...) and off we headed back down. We decided to go back via the devils ladder, which while tough on the knees, was a blast watching the grossly ill prepared flocks of eastern Europeans attempt to climb up it. We met one couple who brought a two litre bottle of coke instead of water, and another couple who from the very start the guy was literally pulling the girl up. I'd say that little relationship ended a good hour before the top!!!!
So six hours later we were back at the car. The start point also has showers and a little cafe. We partook in both.... Heaven!!!!!!!!