+gerry mcveigh Thanks, Gerry. As always, it's a gamble with the weather in Ireland for any celestial event and it was touch and go whether the skies would clear over Donegal to see the eclipse, while Wicklow was forecast to be cloud free hours beforehand but actually wasn't in the end! Filming in the wind is a particular challenge, but the rewards are fast moving cloud and, of course, the water devil!

+PATRICK ŻERKOWSKI Thanks for your kind comment, the weather conditions weren't the best and having to get up every hour so during the night of the eclipse to check the camera wasn't fun. Martin

Thanks for your kind comments

+Adrian McGlynn Cleers, Adrian. The Derryveaghs are a gorgeous, but challenging place to film in, probably the windiest part of the country. We've never been there when it hasn't been howling a gale which makes it very hard to film! Glad you liked the result!

+Dermot M Yes, it's tedious alright! Especially uphill!! The exceptionally rough nature of the terrain and the fact that it's usually streaming wet underfoot and slippery in the Derryveaghs doesn't help either!

+paparazzidaz Thanks for your comments and for subscribing to our channel

+garn fora ratch Thanks for your kind comments. Some parts of Ireland are similar to Scotland but the only really mountainous area is in the SW (Kerry). I see that you have been doing videos as well and we'll certainly have a look at these. Hope to get over to Scotland sometime to do some wild camping and climbing. Martin and Sharron

+iamearthbornami Thanks for your kind comment. Glad you enjoyed the film.

+randyhandbag Cheers, glad you enjoyed our film. ATB, Martin and Sharron

+Renegade Scot Thanks for comment, we enjoyed the walk and filming. It is great countryside if you get the weather but horrendous if you don't. I guess that Scotland the same! Martin

+William Moir Thanks, William. Glad you enjoyed the film.

+savedpurplecat Thanks, Tim. My ex-husband was Jewish, so I'm well acquainted with all the Jewish festivals. The blood super moon fell on the eve of Sukkot (the festival of the booths) this year, which incidentally finishes today! Glad you liked the film. ATB, Sharron

+peter otoole Thanks, Peter. It was a very memorable weekend in a fabulous part of our country. Glad you liked the film. ATB, Martin and Sharron

Glad you enjoyed it Derrick. We now live in Donegal so all this is on our doorstep! :D

Purple Peak Adventures oh beautiful part of Ireland happy New year.

You too, Derrick :-)

Really lovely well done 🇮🇪

Thanks, Glenn, glad that you enjoyed it

Cheers, Richard. Glad you enjoyed it. We love the hills in Donegal.

Glad you liked our video. We enjoyed camping out despite the strong wind.

+WyeExplorer Thanks

martin critchley It was a different comment (longer) but I changed it. I enjoyed everything about it. Glad you liked my simplified comment.

Just catching up comments as we have been away on business in France, hence I was probably confused with new comments and edited comments - Martin

+martin critchley Nothing confusing about the video though Martin....just good and a chance to say so in light of someones efforts.

Su yeon Kwon thanks for your kind comments. Hope you can visit Ireland soon

+James M Our tent here is a Terra Nova Voyager Superlite. This is a two person 4 season tent which weighs 1.5kg, although we also take a footprint protector groundsheet as well. it's a bit cramped and putting large rucksacks in the entrance is squeeze but we managed ok on a 6 day trek in Greenland. i've added extra guylines and bigger pegs to cope with windy conditions. The Quasar superlite might be roomier but a bit heavier. Martin

+MCIreland99 Thanks for your comments. Most of the video filming is done on Sharron's Panasonic FZ1000 and some on my LX100. We always film in 4K resolution. Timelapse is created created from stills taken with a Pentax dSLR, generally using a wide angle lens.

+MCIreland99 We upload to KZfaq at 4k resolution, output in H264 format from Premiere Pro editing software. Video files are typically 3Gb to 4Gb in size but we have 70Mb fibre broadband here in Wicklow Town for the last 6 months, so uploading isn't a problem. Prior to that we had slow ADSL and we generally only uploaded in 1080p or 720p and even then it could take 3 days to upload a video!

Thanks

Sorry, we didn't keep a GPS log of this track. For information we do have other tracks which cover some parts of the route on mountainviews.ie (see andmountainviews.ie/track/report/2835/ ) and also the summit description mountainviews.ie/summit/142/

OK thank you Martin

Thanks, we live close to there now in Donegal. But it's outside our 5km Covid19 lockdown limit at the moment but hopefully this will change soon and we'll be back in the hills!

+Dermot M What you said about respect 100%! Wise advice.

+James Stewart Dunn Martin and I do not usually camp nearer sea level as most of the land is either enclosed farmland, park-land or forestry. Some National Parks are OK with wild camping (the Wicklow Mountains National Park (WMNP) for example), but only in certain areas (in Glendalough it's forbidden). A permit to have a camp fire is required from WMNP (you're unlikely to find much wood in our boggy hills anyway!!) and you must follow the leave no trace mantra. In parts of Wicklow which is close to Dublin, there have been real problems with people wild camping in the upland valleys, making a nuisance of themselves, leaving beer cans/bottles, disposable BBQ trays, plastic bags and other rubbish, as well as chopping down growing trees and leaving huge fire scars. Consequently, some landowners have started to put up 'no camping' signs in some of the loveliest spots to spend the night and who can blame them? We generally find farmers to be great people across this country, always ready to stop for a chat and often ready with very helpful advice about ways up the mountains, local history, wildlife etc. We've never been moved on from a wild camp on a mountainside. As trekkers, we usually set up our tent or bivvies near sundown and leave first thing in the morning. If you come over here, I think you'll really enjoy wild camping in our hills. Check out our other videos and also those of Gerry Mcveigh (who commented above). We have all had some cracking wild camps across Ireland over the years.

+Dermot M Thanks.

+Dermot M Thanks for your help.

+Dermot M Thanks.

Thanks, Lucas. Donegal is a great part of Ireland.

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