When you need a modicum of action combined with hardly any thinking, try the Glencree Stressbuster. It is, as the guides say, navigationally simple. It is also easy to get to the start. Just drive to Enniskerry via Stepaside and Kilternan (along the R117) and, when you reach the village, turn right. Reset your mile counter, and when it clocks up some 2.8 miles, you should see a forest entrance on the right, with a Wicklow Way sign pointing in two directions and plenty of parking space.

Climb over the low barrier and stomp along the main forest road, which zigzags into the trees.

It's a steady but not steep climb, and you don't even need to look where you're going until you reach a point where you have a choice of three paths, one going right, one going left and one that carries on into the forest.

If you keep climbing in a north-north-east direction, you'll come to a fence marking the northern edge of the trees. Clamber out and you'll find yourself facing a heathery highland, with a stony path running right to left ahead of you. Follow it to the right for five minutes or so; at the next fork, turn left and keep climbing for another five minutes.

Then stop, turn around and marvel at what's laid out beneath you. Away to your left you can see Bray and the sea; then the two Sugar Loafs; then the sullen bulk of Djouce and the rounded head of War Hill; ahead of you are the Tonduffs, dwarfing Knockree Hill, across the road; and, to your right, Kippure and the rest of Wicklow.

Maximum reward for minimal effort - and it's downhill all the way back.