One Night Reset – An overnight escape to the Nephin mountains.

An short overnight fat bike adventure to the Nephin wilderness area in County Mayo, Ireland.
Join me as we discover tracks and trails on a quick round-trip journey from Westport to Letterkeen bothy and back again.

[Music] sunny I am in your life and I really understand breathing in this life i am in you light yeah sun you shine in me and through me [Music] everywhere I turn you’re here with me sleeping in the night time this is one of the first videos that I I’m doing for my Sacred Spokes Exploring Life’s Cycles podcast so it’s probably going to be quite rusty um but you’ve got to start somewhere and I’ve been watching all these YouTube um video channels and stuff and uh just adjusting the camera a little bit there and I mean if you don’t start you just don’t start dear so here I am so um I’ve been I’ve been wanting to get away uh just for a short break um for ages and I’ve been procrastinating i don’t know why I’ve been procrastinating but I’ve just been like sat down in my room or just in the house and just staring at stuff um I don’t know why life kind of happens um maybe I’m a bit tired from all the work that I’ve been doing uh late nights and things like that cuz I I run a bar um natural wine bars you probably know if you know me if you don’t that’s what I do one of the things that I do anyway my current tent which is this it’s a Big Agnes uh copper spur and it’s the bike packing version i think that’s coming in at about 1.4 1.6 kg so all right it’s it’s just under a kilogram less in weight but then you know look look at this so I’ve got a battery pack there it’s a I think that’s the 30,000 that weighs a bloody ton so all all the weight that I’ve saved off this I’ve like I’ve got back in that I mean it weighs a ton and I’ve got filters and you know little bag full of um like microphone the little microphone covers um some cables and then I’ve got loads of different cables filters for my big camera i’ve got a Fuji XT30 down here um back to the tent and the gear and stuff like that at the moment I’m in a Bothorthy by the way so if you don’t know what a Bothorthy is uh look them up they’re uh basically all shepherd’s huts and things like this and they’re they’re found predominantly in um in the UK um Lake District Scotland Wales that sort of thing so the they’re super um and the thing is if you stay in a bathy the general consensus if you take something with you to leave whether that’s a little bit of food some candles so as you can see I’ve got my little uh camping setup here and what have we got let me show you so this has been kind of pretty useful it’s a uh Uquip um little camping stool it doesn’t give you much just let me adjust that yeah it doesn’t give you a great deal of purchase it’s what 10 inches off the ground or something like that but it means that you’re not actually sat on the ground so I’ve been wondering if I got some knee pads it make it quite a nice little meditation stool that like that’s actually quite comfy i’ve got the little stone here not very lightweight wouldn’t really recommend bicycle touring with a uh a stone or rock of this size useful as though it is i’m just being silly this is pretty cool though it’s a a titanium spork it’s got the long handle so you can you can um you can get it into uh these yolks so uh this is real turat i think the Norwegian army uh used that as their ration food bloody tasty as well that was the reindeer stew that was so sorry Santa Claus but you know oh dear that’s not a good sound i can’t hear any gas in it bloody hell hopefully that will do me coffee in the morning but oh my goodness i thought I had more than that never mind always make sure you got enough gas for your for your trip not to worry i got this secondhand some bloke was selling some old equipment and I just love the little handle just feels dead nice so I normally carry two of these because I always think if I’ve got two and I meet someone on the trail turn that round it’s always nice to offer someone a cup of tea or a coffee you know it’s just a nice thing to do isn’t it hospitality so I’ve got I got that secondhand as well 15 quid little titanium uh you know cook pot from my Al kit uh they’re pretty good sort of stuff so yeah it’s amazing you know how much stuff I’ve kind of accumulated over the years and it’s also amazing actually how little you you really do need to get away but you know I suppose if um if if you’re into the outdoors and you want to buy the stuff then you know there’s nothing wrong with that i do try to get stuff secondhand when I can this one of my first videos so if you do like it then you know do all that subscribe and all that sort of stuff cuz um hopefully I’ll be able to do more i’ve actually got a load of interviews that I’ve already done um some I’m going to revisit um from some of the cycle um uh cycling um and adventurers adventurous people that I’ve met over the years through hosting through warm showers and also just um you know that I’ve met on my own adventures um and yeah there’s there’s a lot lot more to come so I uh I had to start recording if I don’t start recording then nothing will get done so um yeah I’ve just been sort of sat here pretty tired and yeah like I say I was procrastinating a lot um and I just thought right you you know you need you need to get out and and just go and have a night a night away and luckily for me I live in an area where I can just hop on the bike from the front door cycle off and you know a couple of hours later I’m in the countryside i’m very aware that you know I’m not in a war zone um and that I have the the freedom um you know and the privilege to to get out and do this sort of thing so thank you for for everybody um that has enabled me to get to this point in my life and to be able to enjoy these things that I enjoy doing not everybody has this opportunity so you know yeah I’m uh I’m fully aware that um it’s a it’s a privilege to be able to do this it’s pretty windy out there um turn that round but starting to rain yeah you can’t really see but it is it is kind of quite windy i was up over that mountain um which was nice on the on the old fat bike which enables you to do it i was going to head over there um there’s another bot further up um but to be honest yeah I’m a bit tired so um here we are home sweet home well folks yeah if you do like the video give us a follow give us a like and all that stuff much appreciate it thank you yeah I’ll be I’ll be doing a lot more sort of random videos people that I meet on my journeys i’ll be interviewing natural wine makers and wine importers wine making friends food producers uh people into bikes people that make bikes um so there’s yeah we’re going to have a good crack so come and join me for the journey hopefully you’ll see me progress as a presenter you’ll hopefully put up with my amazing jokes don’t think I’ve really told any at the moment so we’ll we’ll ease you into those gradually so anyway whatever you’re doing do it well take risks calculated ones especially if you’re in the ocean thanks for watching i I will see you soon [Music] being alive yeah yeah yeah being alive [Music] don’t let the rain in let the crystal shine don’t let the rain in [Music] sunny when you smile I feel you and I love you your life we are safe faithfully held together in your love and all what a beautiful day so I’m nearly I’m nearly home now i’m uh I’m just outside of Westport and if you’re from Westport probably recognize this little stopoff point in the Greenway station it’s a lovely little uh lovely little stopoff point and that’s the way to Westport uh the clock I think the clock is probably right twice a day so if you’re here at the right time it’s the correct time so yeah it’s lovely and look at this drinking water for you and your doggy great stuff or your cat so there’s some of the the wild roses beautiful i actually serve um uh dog rose cornoli in uh in my bar the gallery in Westport and uh that looks like elderflower beautiful oh let’s have a whiff of that actually oh yeah so good so good anyway there you go yeah so it’s amazing actually um you know I’ve been like I said in the earlier video i’ve just been procrastinating for some reason like feeling stuck and not um it’s not that I’ve not wanted to go out of the house but um it’s kind of like almost feeling trapped um it’s weird i don’t know whether that’s cuz um you know I’ve got life things happening as everyone does but I think I remember my sibling Lucy said to me once um just do it and she was referring to going out running i’d got back into running and um sorry they were referring to running um and um it’s important to recognize and respect people’s pronouns so they um said just do it well and um anyway they um yeah they said just do it and I mean it’s true it’s like if you’re procrastinating uh sometimes you’ve got to say to yourself just just do it just get out there and yeah just uh just start and it’s like me with the the podcast thing you know the sacred spokes um not that I haven’t been working on it but I think I just need to start putting videos up and posting them and what’s the best that can happen uh yeah so that’s what I’m doing but anyway I’ve had a one night break um a one night um trip away over to the Nefins and it’s just beautiful if I’m being honest I didn’t really get too much uh quality sleep last night because it was howling and um it was really chucking it down um and I think actually I’ blown up the mat that I was sleeping on just it was probably just a little bit too firm and I do like to have just like a normal kind of foamy camping mat underneath as well so um and I was sleeping on a concrete floor so but my back’s all right so there’s always a silver lining