Errigal, Ireland’s Most Beautiful Mountain - Van Camping Ireland, Day 1

foreign [Music] [Music] forecast [Music] I heard a ringing Bell this morning didn't I dream I heard a warning sing me the rest [Music] like that whoa there's a bee in here did you see that ah totally distracted now what was it gonna say for me it's a lot of insects around here okay so six months ago I was stood on this exact spot and tended to climb that mountain bat is mine Ergo apparently the views from the top especially at Sunset are absolutely incredible and I didn't get the climate because the weather was too bad I'm back on the 21st of June six months later this is the summer solstice the longest day of the year sun will not set on our Summit until after 10 pm tonight so my plans to be on that Summit catcher that incredible Sunset I'm actually here for three days staying in the van so today I'm planning doing Ergo tomorrow I'm going to go to explore Glam Bay national park my bike and then maybe go and climb muckish mountain in the evening before finding hopefully a beach or somewhere near the coast where I can park up the van for the night and then on Friday I'm going to go and explore a shipwreck let's go have an adventure but um before adventuring I'm hungry that's that's Mega toasty [Music] thank you [Music] foreign ly it used to just be a really buggy route this part of the climb and then there's that many people looking up here starting to erode the bog so they've not installed this path sun's out you can see all the way to the sea in that direction hi sheep so I think I've uh now become an advocate for the late hike in summer if you start hiking in the evening on a night when the sun doesn't set until nine or ten o'clock and you don't go out until before five the light starts warm and just gets warmer and warmer and warmer it gets better as you hike the hike looks better as you go so that's the reason I think and I prefer hiking in the evenings and taking in the sunsets [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] yeah I may have I may have underestimated if I called is going to be up here because I've only got shorts with me and a couple of layers from the top so yeah quite a bit more to go [Music] that's me up onto the ridge look down there there's the church at the foot the poison gland and now I I just gotta do this bit [Music] by the way just in case anybody has any questions about the shoes I'm wearing the Vivo barefoot shoes I finally made a review video it should be uploaded before this video so if you want to find out what I think about these boots you can go click and watch that afterwards I'll link it at the end and uh let me put in the comments as well [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] oh no I've just had a terrible accident I've realized I have a hole in the crotch of my shorts this is not a good look I'm gonna be shuffling back up this mountain I hope nobody saw that I passed so many people today I've uh I've come down off the summit the wind was starting to pick up and it was starting to get really really cold up there I really hope I'm gonna get a sunset it's hard to tell there's some low lying clouds and sometimes you get hairs underneath that so the sun might come under the clouds and it might get a really cool sunset or it might just kinda disappear into General fittiness even if it doesn't this has been totally worth it but you know what uh I actually nearly got back in the van 10 minutes after starting this hike um I I don't know what it is but probably it's related to the stuff I've talked about before I think they're like stressy type stuff that's been going on but I sometimes get this this this uh we'll call it a depressive inertia at the start of a project now happens to be in client jobs as well but it also happens on projects I'm really excited about things I want to do that when it actually comes to like getting started getting the cameras like on the hike starting to shoot I suddenly don't want to do it it's like I just suddenly can't be bothered I don't want to shoot I don't want to film I don't want to get the camera I don't want to set up shots I don't want to get ready and it's not just that I don't want to do I start to like physically feel weird I feel like like really tired and headachy and I wouldn't it's not quite anxious but like stressed like pressure I feel pressure and it makes me not want to do it but what I've learned is and the only reason I've learned this is because I do video for client jobs where I've got no choice is once I get started eventually it kind of okay I ease into it my brain is like okay you're fine you're fine you can do this and then I you know I carry on and I get the work done from when I got out of the van to about halfway up this mountain I couldn't be bothered with it I was just feeling grim even though I knew you I had no reason to put Grim until they find nice it's not like I was sick totally psychosomatic really weird not quite sure if there's a name for it stage fright stage fright maybe it's that but anyway I thought I'd mention it maybe to encourage someone who's maybe trying to make videos and I I know that in general a lot of people feel like something a bit like that when they start making videos for the first time you get the location you get to whatever it was you want to shoot and so many people have a similar story they get all the kit together they stand there and they suddenly feel incredibly self-conscious even if there's nobody there you can feel self-conscious it's bizarre you can get you get a camera right you're completely empty Forest talk to it and you feel really self-conscious and weird but you push through that it becomes better but what often happens people is they they get overwhelmed by that feeling and they pack up and they go home and I know that happens to people so just you know it happens to me as well and hopefully or maybe if you're struggling to start to make videos that'll that will help I've just noticed there's a really cool like Reggie thing over there like like a valley of rocks and I think I could fly my drone up at I might do that [Music] oh [Music] oh I see rays I see rice okay the clouds are clearing the clouds are clearing I need the clouds to continue to clear this could be amusing look at that foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] I guess that's it oh nearly nearly so close I got a thin line of sun trying to break through the clouds and there's this pinprick of light I could see all the way through to 10 26. it's crazy the sunrise will be in about five hours somebody there asked me if I was going to wait until sunrise no I am not it's freezing up here and uh gonna try and get back down now before it gets too dark please about halfway down and listen okay I can hear a car away down there but it was completely silent a minute ago I love how that happens like after Sunset often like all the wind stops everything dies it's kind of like yeah it's like it's like the atmosphere dies when the sun sets for like a bit before starting up again why is that I wonder why that is does the sun like exert some kind of solar pressure that creates wind and once the sun's gone the wind dies for some reason I don't know but all I know is I need to get down here before it gets dark oh back down and I didn't actually have to use a head torch there was enough light in the sky that I could see it's crazy it's probably not even going to get totally dark tonight you'll just see the like a light area moving across the sky until the sun comes up four and a half hours right I need to go find somewhere to park for the night I'm doing some very well some very sketchy reversing where am I oh wow not a bad spot on the Isle of the Dead so this is the Isle of the Dead I feel like I probably shouldn't have been punching around it so gleefully [Music] foreign

Channel: Stephen J Reid

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Length: 16min 21sec (981 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 16 2023