Keeper Climb – Report by Nicola and Greg Foley
Posted on Thursday, July 9th, 2009
On the 7th March this year we hosted our second annual Keeper Climb. This year our climb was in memory of our special Little Softies who are watching down on us. We were joined by our family, friends, our SOFT family, work colleagues and even people we had never met but who had heard of the walk. All in all we had roughly 60 people walking with us which was fantastic and a huge THANK YOU to all who braved the weather and climbed with us for SOFT.
We headed off for an early start in the wind, rain, sleet and snow. The weather was dreadful. Once we reached the top we said a quick prayer and hello to Dolly at her memorial stone from last years climb. We were greeted half way down our decent with a hot toddy…..a change of clothes would have been more appreciated!! However, whatever Michael had in his special recipe gave us all a boost to keep us going the rest of the way home. You will have to sus him out yourselves for that recipe!!
Once down we all headed for home for a shower and a change of clothes and then returned to our local where we had some well deserved finger food laid on for us. Our friend Eoin and his band kept us well entertained during the nibbles, raffle and balloon release. This year proved not to be as late a night as last year…think the cold may have gotten to some! However, there were a few of us who saw in the early hours of the morning with a nice lively sing song. Last year we raised over €10,000 for SOFT and currently we are at over €7,00 and still collecting which is fantastic. We will present the cheque to SOFT at the AGM.
So, you can now start your training for next year and watch this space for the date.
Hope to see you all there…
Nicola & Greg.