Solo wild camp in the Maumturks Mountain Range
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- Hike and wild camp in the Maumturks in Connemara. A 15km hike through the Central Maumturks with amazing views across the entire range. The central peaks are quartzite rock and progress can be slow at times negotiating a path through the rock. I parked at Máméan Carpark and walked another kilometre or two along the road before commencing an ascent up the mountain. This was my first visit to the Maumturks and it was a wonderful experience to walk and camp in this dramatic range. The route I chose enabled me to pitch my tent soon after I reached high ground and then continue to walk further into the range with just my camera gear and then return to my camp spot later that evening. The Maumturk range is very demanding with numerous ascents and descents to tackle, it was worth the effort though!
The drone shots are incredible. Loved the rays of light coming through the clouds. Thanks, Miriam.🙂👍🏕️
Thanks for watching Brian - very similar terrain to Derryclare. Lough Inagh separates this mountain range from the Twelve Bens. Such a great spot 👍
I find your drone footage intoxicating. Combining a love of hiking and the dream of flight. Well done.👍🎶⭐️💕
Thanks very much Paul! I loved that trip, such a dramatic mountain range. I climbed a mountain very close to this same spot two days ago and took the drone along also. Not sure what the footage is like yet but I’ll hopefully edit it tomorrow and we’ll see what it’s like 😊 Thanks for watching the video and your message - lovely to hear you enjoyed it. Have a great day today 👍
Spectacular photography, spectacular scenery
Thanks very much Ben - really glad you appreciate the views. A wonderful place to visit!
Heading up there in three weeks, I can't wait!
Lovely film, thank you for the effort to make it. Brings back memories of the times my late brother Pat and I completed the walk. Always a tough day out. Touching seventy now and hiking every week. Building the to do list 😂😂.
Hi Michael - thanks for your lovely message! Nice to hear the video brought back some good memories of your hikes with Pat. Such a great walk with spectacular views and you certainly are made work for those views! Have fun working your way through your to do list 😎 Thanks again 👍
Hello
You did a great job with the drone shot of a very beautiful natural landscape.
Thanks for sharing the wonderful video
watch the video till the end
Thank you for supporting my friends ♡
Thanks very much! I’m glad you enjoyed seeing the Maumturk mountain range - they really are a beautiful place to visit, I really enjoyed this trip 👍
Captivating
Thanks George! I loved that trip - thanks for watching 😊
Wow, what a fantastic place,im gonna have to get over there.
Ha brilliant - I hope you do!! This particular mountain range is very special, very different terrain to what I had come across before. A great thrill to hike and camp there. Another adventure where I didn’t meet a single other soul out there - magical!! Thanks for watching 😊
Awesome views very beautiful
Thanks very much! It’s a beautiful spot for sure with fantastic views, thanks for watching and delighted you enjoyed it. 😊
Fabolous video climbed them in July what a day out stunning scenery an amazing country we have
You’re so right Andrew - an amazing country we are so fortunate to find ourselves in 😉 Nice to hear you enjoyed the video! The whole experience was quite magical, an adventure I won’t forget for a while. Enjoy your next adventure wherever it takes you!
Lough inagh we started the climb, mweelrea another magical hike , in same area
@@andrewogrady8117 haven’t done Mweelrea yet, had a lovely view of it from my visit to the Sheeffrys with Doo Lough separating us. Magnificent mountain!
This is astounding, I love hiking the Mamturks. The footage is incredible with remarkable views of Lough Inagh. Feenish Island is situated in south Connemara. It's accessible by foot at low tide. It's well worth a visit.
Thanks Damian - what a fantastic mountain range the Mamturks are, I really loved this trip. I was lucky the cloud broke to capture what I did as there were times when I didn't have great visibility. Such a treat when it opened up to reveal the views! Thanks for the Feenish recommendation, I'll look into it! 😊
Great video......🙂👍
Thanks Raimo! This was one of my favourite adventures - such a great spot to adventure with the tent. A challenging hike for me but I loved it. Glad you enjoyed it!! 🤗
incredible views Miriam the scenery there is stunning will be back there soon. See you on the trail 🙂
Hi there - yes, really incredible views from the Maumturks, a great mountain range to explore! Loved that trip and lucky you to be heading back there soon 😎
@@MiriamKennedy it is indeed 🧡 yes can't wait ☺️
Great video
Thanks very much, glad you enjoyed it!! 👍
Fab video Miriam . 👍
Cheers Colum!! Thanks for watching the video and lovely to hear from you 👍 Hope all is well with you!
Wow these mountains 🏔️ are very impressive (they are a great example of how absolute hight not being everything as thay seem to go higher than 3000 feet but don’t !)
But moving over these I bet was hard work (it would be for me 🥵)
Superb filming Miriam (I bet you remember this climb with affection 🏔️🤩🏔️)
Best wishes Simon 🤠🙏🏼🏔️
Hi Simon - a dramatic mountain range for sure! A great experience to walk along those ridges, scary at times and I remember being so aware that a fall could be devastating on such rocky terrain. I loved it - and as you said it’s wonderful to have a record of this trip with the video to remind me of the experience!! Cheers for watching it 🤗
Very well done again. The music fits exactly with the beautiful scenery. Love to watch these small gems.
Thanks very much!! It was such a great trip - I’d never been to this range before and I was so impressed with the views and the terrain. A tough hike but I loved it. Glad you liked the music too, this is the type of video that I most like creating…no waffle from me and just the scenery telling its story. Thanks for watching it and your message 😎
thank you for sharing what a wonderful place and excellently captured amazing
Thanks so much Niall - delighted you liked the video! It really was a great place to visit and explore and I’m glad I got to capture some of the hike and sights to remember the experience. Chuffed you enjoyed it…thanks so much 😊
@@MiriamKennedy its a spectacular mountain range hiked there last year but visibility was only a few mitres so it was really cool to see what i missed. thanks and i look forward to watching more of your amazing trips on the hills.
@@niallegan5426 cheers Niall! God…it’s tough terrain with good visibility so I can imagine that might have been a challenge with poor visibility - well for me it would have been! A few hairy moments with bad lines made for some challenging scrambling for me. Thank God I could mostly see where I was going. When I first got to high ground, visibility was pretty poor but it eventually opened up. You might get there again to see it when it’s clear. Definitely a range I’d like to visit again. 🤞
What breathtaking scenery, and expertly filmed! The line angles on your drone perspectives are thrilling! The music just made this vid. Thanks for a little glimpse of Ireland.
Thanks so much Nattering Springs - I really enjoyed this hike and camp, a stunning mountain range! Glad you enjoyed a little glimpse on Ireland and that you appreciated the music too. Thanks so much for getting in touch, really appreciate it. It always feels a bit of luck with the drone as to how it turns out but I was definitely very happy with some of these shots 🤗
Wow! Truly stunning footage. Very well done. Thank you so much for sharing such beauty. I'm a big fan of Gerry McVeigh and he is certainly a fan of yours. It's because of him that I found your channel. You both add such richness and splendor to out planet.
Thanks so much Kriss - I’m a big fan of Gerry’s videos too! His content has inspired me a lot to explore places I’ve never seen and then try capture a little of what I experience there. I’m delighted to hear anyone enjoys watching a video I upload, it’s a real thrill and encourages me to keep going with jt! Thanks so much for your message 🤗
Great images and what a beautiful country Ireland is. Amazing drone footage. Music fits perfectly so relaxing to watch. 👌👍
Thanks Eric! I think that visit to the Maumturks is my favourite video that I’ve made to date. I loved the landscape and it was quite challenging for me to negotiate my route at times. I mostly had good visibility and the clouds added a great atmosphere to the whole experience. I loved it! Really glad you enjoyed it and thanks for letting me know! 🙂
@@MiriamKennedy The light, weather and clouds formed a perfect match that day. I really liked the music to. Can imagine how you felt that day. Seriously considering going to visit Ireland next summer for a bicycle tour. Thanks Miriam for taking us with you on your adventures. 👍
That’s great to hear Eric - hope you make it over here for a cycle tour! The West coast has an incredible coastline and is popular for cyclists - The Wild Atlantic Way. I hope to do a few stretches of this coast with the Brompton in the future! 🤞
Miriam, the atmospherics and contrasts on your trip were beautiful - the cloud touching the tops of the Bens, the heavenly crepuscular rays beautifully illuminating certain parts of the landscape, the light reflecting on Lough Inagh, the time-lapse of cloud and colour moving across the sky, the amazingly bright light on the mountainside when it appeared . Loved the shot directly above your tent, your sizzling sausages, your choice of biscuits and that shot circling around you as you stood at the summit. Looked like an amazing trip and you gotta love those rugged rocky hills👍👍😊
Thanks Gerry! Oh those rocky hills are easy to love - amazing new terrain to explore. They command great respect - they are tough and unforgiving in their presence and the demands they make of you as you know! I contemplated doing the whole traverse - possibly over a 2 night camp. I’d watched Purple Peak Adventures traverse that they did 10 years ago and the reality of the challenge was pretty clear and I eventually decided to just do a section this time. I think I would find it hard to push myself to do the whole traverse on my own and would talk myself out of it. I don’t do these trips to push myself unnecessarily and the entire traverse although no doubt a great experience to complete would demand so much effort. Great to try something new and have some different experiences though so maybe I’ll do it another time! Thanks for watching the video and noticing all that you did!! 😉
I look forward to seeing the full traverse at some stage in the future👍
I really did not know Ireland had such wonderful mountains
Great video
Oh we’re very lucky - I’m just beginning to explore them more. Our most dramatic mountains are found in Kerry, Mayo, Donegal, Wicklow and Co Down. It will be well worth a visit some time for sure - I need to get over to your side of the water too to explore my neighbouring mountains!! Thanks very much for watching 🤗
Another stonking video, Miriam ! That drone footage is so good. Gerry beat me to it with the crepescular rays comment. Fabulous when that happens, and to capture it is even better. I read that there is a climbing club (maybe in Galway? )that has an annual one-day traverse of the whole range, which by the look of your video would be a wee bit beyond me, to say the least. I have looked across to these mountains from atop one or two of the Bens, probably Derryclare or Ben Corr at the east side , looking across lovely Lough Inagh, and they looked marvellous. Your video certainly confirms that impression. R.L.Praeger called his one-day traverse of these mountains " ...a grand day in the hills" or something similar. Holy Moley, we will never see their like again :) Thanks so much for your uploads. A tonic for homesickness.
Cheers Jim! Another fabulous trip - I got some lucky breaks with weather that allowed me to capture a few things. When I first made it to high ground there was very little visibility so I felt pretty lucky to be able to actually see the landscape around me at times. I did find this one tough - definitely outside my comfort zone a few times with some awkward scrambling due to me taking bad lines. I'm not a seasoned hiker at all as I'm only at it a few years so there is plenty that would be well beyond me! Yeah that annual event is run by the Mountaineering Club in UCG or NUIG if that's how they are known these days - there are a couple of videos available on TH-cam, its called the Maumturks Challenge I think. Definitely a big challenge to do the whole traverse in one day, I think they start at 4:30am. I considered doing it with 2 nights camping but I was glad I just decided to just do the section in the end 😉 Yes - I saw reference to the 'grand day in the hills' comment somewhere - holy god! Purple Peak Adventures have a great video of them doing the entire traverse with one overnight and it looked hellish - I'm nowhere near their level so that's why I thought maybe to try do it with 2 nights. Don't know if I'd be bothered now - too much like hard work rather than pleasure for me I think to do it that way.
[We~FeelFriends🐢] How amazing your film is, You went hiking in such magnificent mountains capturing those stunning footage above and on the ground, Glad to come here to stay connected with you, Wish wonderful days to you and See you again Miriam~~
Thanks very much - delighted you liked the little video of the Maumturks! I look forward to seeing more from your mountains in Korea 👍
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Thank you - yes these mountains are very beautiful!
They're impressive mountains Miriam. Hard to believe that's Ireland. I see the light came out to play. Beautiful. Mark
They are very impressive mountains Mark! My first time to visit and a great little treat to spend some time there 😉 Yep the light came out to play - I was under mist when I first reached high ground which cleared after a while but the sky stayed overcast for most of my visit. Those little breakthroughs of the sun through the clouds were beautiful to see. Thanks for watching the video and I’m glad you liked it 😊
@@MiriamKennedy A great first time visit Miriam. I agree them shards of light can really make things come alive. A pleasure to watch.
That was class, very enjoyable to watch 👌 looking forward to seeing more so I've subscribed to your channel (191) all the best Chris 👍 😀
Thanks very much Chris - delighted you liked it! Thanks for subscribing 😉
No worries, I've hit the bell so I'll know when you upload a new video.
I love the footage in your videos. Really nice and calm. Your camping spot was stunning too, I haven't had time to go camping in a while so I will have to rectify that situation 😅 great video as always
Thanks Jason - glad you liked it! A great spot for a hike and camp. Even though it was overcast it provided plenty of atmosphere 😊 Hope you find the time for your next camp shortly - I’ve no doubt you will 😂
@@MiriamKennedy I have me bag packed already even though I'm working the next two days 😂 Great to see your camps.. You always find lovely spots.. I'm usually in a bush or the likes 😆 All the best
@@RamblingOn wahoooo!! I’m already noticing that the evenings are getting shorter impacting our outside adventures - hoping I’ll get out a few more times while we’ve got decent light in the evenings. Enjoy your next trip wherever it takes you 😊
@@MiriamKennedy we were just saying that in work yesterday. I'm looking forward to the winter 🙈 You too Miriam, have a good one 👍
Absolutely stunning video, Miriam! It looks an amazing place to hike and camp👍 All the best!
Thanks so much Des - it was my first time to visit this range and it really was a great place for a hike and camp! Stunning vistas and no other person in sight…my kind of place 🤗 Thanks for your support, much appreciated!
@@MiriamKennedy I was lucky enough to visit Connemara several years ago, but never got to hike there. It really is a stunning area!
@@DesGreene that’s great to hear that you’ve visited Connemara! I agree it’s a great place and plenty more for me to explore on future trips - I’ll be kept busy for years trying to see all that I’d like to. Hope you’re back for another visit again!
Awesome.
Thanks Tess - definitely an awesome spot! Thanks for the tea and chat after my little adventure 😉
What a stunning landscape , you were totally lost in the moment , those vistas , a cure for any ill . Particularly liked the sun ray burst , beautiful. As usual you nailed the music for this visual feast . Another I might have to rob 🤔😁 Loved it . ATVB Colin
Ah a fantastic little adventure Colin - a remarkable mountain range, I was both humbled by their destructive power and captivated by their beauty. A tough aul traverse - a few scary moments which weren’t captured on camera of me scrambling a lot more than I had anticipated…one particular scramble back up a hill where I could easily have lost it if my mind had gone down a particular track, thankfully I found a way up without it being too traumatic! Besides that - me and the mountains worked together and got along well! Nature is so bloody powerful and reminds me how vulnerable being a human being can be!! I’m not a thrill seeker - I’m more into relaxed trips but every now and again I do enjoy a trip outside my comfort zone and this was one of them 😉 Great to witness the show of the clouds, sun and mountains and capture a little of it for my own memory…thanks for watching it! Oh I loved your version of Immunity - very nice!! Glad you liked the music, that’s good to hear 🤗 I need something rather than banter to accompany the views and hold some interest - music has an important role in my little show it seems!!
@@MiriamKennedy I personally think it’s important to get out of our comfort zones otherwise it can all be a bit mundane and too normal if you catch my drift . No doubt it was a tough enough traverse it certainly looked it . But worth every pint of sweat and blood just to pitch and become one with the mountains . Inspiring stuff for sure . Ps thanks for the subscription 😀
@@Sagewitchevensong I’m a big fan of challenging the comfort zone yet on solo hikes I’m acutely aware of my perceived limits! I accidentally pressed the unsubscribe button and immediately thought of your recent video 🤦♀️ Being human is so disappointing at times 🤩
@@MiriamKennedy 😁🤣😂 you should take a walk on the dark side sometime 👌🏻😁 I’ve been asked by a few to do a vlogg on my journey with Paganism and Witchcraft , so there’s a possible project in the mix for Samhain 😁
@@Sagewitchevensong sounds like a plan is afoot! I look forward to seeing what you produce - loved your ‘Pagans have more fun’ video 👏
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A beautiful spot!
Beautiful mountains up there. Very 'Foresty Forest' like drone footage. I would camp up there anytime, looks a little hard to find a tent spot though and hammocks would be out of the question :D
You’re right - very beautiful mountains alright! Definitely a bit hard to find a spot as the ground is so rough but I came across a spot and was so exhausted that I pitched while I could. I rested for a little while and then headed out again a little further for a ramble with just my camera gear. Great to have had the experience and I agree a hammock might be a bit redundant up there 😊
So beautiful Miriam ❤
Thanks very much Lisa! Glad you liked it - it was a beautiful place to visit and nice to have a memory of the trip with the little video. Thanks for watching it 🤗
amazing landscape. didn’t know Maumturks mountain range. Checked it on Wiki. You captured the mood perfectly.The video relaxes me. Thx
Amazing landscape is right Sreter! I’m glad you found the video relaxing. It was a tough hike for me but I was in no rush so I just took my time and relished the views around me. Another great spot to visit! Thanks for watching 😊
How long it take to climb up there. It's gonna be tough will all my stuff.
For the route I took, it took about 3 hours maybe to get to the top I think? It was tough and I was knackered when I got to the top and I didn’t walk for too long before pitching the tent. I lay down for about 20 mins and had a bite to eat and then felt ready to walk some more. Maybe you don’t need to have such a challenging route - there’s so much to do over here, but see what you think! I wouldn’t bother doing it either if you didn’t have good visibility - I found it quite tough terrain but at least I could see where I was going. There’s a big possibility you could go and not have any decent visibility when on top. Probably best to have a few options throughout the country maybe that you can suss the weather out for your planned dates! 🤔
@@MiriamKennedy I will send you my phone number via email before I come. Ideally I want to be in a place where you see no ones for days. 4 days camp so I need to be prepared. A little island would be ideal. This video I wanna make really special but I am gonna need battery back up being there for 4 days which I have so a lot of thought needs going into this one.
Miriam where do you get your music from. I just started recording my camping trips brand new you tuber and would like to ask this question.
Hi Johnny - it is only in the last 2 videos that I've published that I started using non copyright music. For all my other videos (including this one) I have a 'Copyright Claim' against them. I was never bothered by that as I was only ever making the videos for myself and never had any notions of trying to make money from youtube (and still don't). Then more recently I decided to take the plunge and I'm paying for a subscription to 'Epidemic Sound' to source non copyright music. It takes a bit of effort to source the kind of music I might like on this site but I'm happy enough with it. I know there are free sources aswell but I didn't put much effort into looking at it to be honest. If after a few months I wasn't too happy with epidemic sound I might look at other options, but for now it meeds my needs. You can get a free trial of epidemic sound for a month so its worth checking it out for the free trial even. - you can publish youtube content using music from Epidemic Sound during your free trial period.
Before that I was using Spotify recommendations to try find music I might like. Hope that helps and best of luck with the channel!!
@@MiriamKennedy Thank you kindly for the in depth reply. Most grateful. Subbed. 😇
@Johnny Green Shirt you've a new supporter in Ireland too 😊
@@MiriamKennedy I will be getting over to Ireland after the new year. I like cold camping so January when it's cold and snowing I will be there. It would be nice to meet up for you to advise where to go. I was hoping to be in Spain tomorrow but Covid rules makes it tough. I will be in Portugal over xmas 4 days camping. I been traveling since I was a nipper just back from Malta and Latvia. My dad was an Irish gypsy from Cork born and raised in a Caravan, well until I was six so it's in my blood to travel.
@@johnnygreenshirt6215 oh very good! Im happy to chat anytime about places you might like to go! Check out some other channels aswell (my latest video lists some recommendations of Irish TH-camrs in the description which might give you some other ideas in addition to places that I’ve been). But feel free to get in touch and we can have a natter about where you might go!