Hiking Alone to Mýlingur Faroe Islands | 4K HDR

So that was my hike to Mullingar in the Faroe Islands and I'll be diving into the guide part and talk about all the info you need if you're planning on doing this hike yourself. But before that, I just want to say that this video has been sponsored by Samsung and their latest SSD, the T7 Shield. It's a rugged and durable SSD made for travelers and content creators such as myself. So Samsung sent this over so I could test it out on my latest trip to the Faroe Islands, where as you can see I faced various of different weather conditions. But since it's IP65 rated, which means it's water and dust resistant, as well as being drop resistant of up to 3 meters, this little guy handled everything as a champ. It only weighs 98 grams, which means it's super light and portable. And I just don't really see any reason not to bring it with me on any trip in the future because it's so light and portable. 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So what you're seeing right now is the all trails map interface. And this is my custom map of the route I took to Bulingir and I'll be sharing the hiking map and everything in the description box below. If you're interested. So the hike starts at the village called Chernovik, which is a well-known sort of village in the Faroe Islands, so known for a lot of surfing. You can actually come here and rent like surfboards and everything like that. It's also well known of like this view of the village, like towards the sea stacks in the distance. So, you know, if you're in the Faroe Islands, you'll probably come by here at some point. But the trailhead is right in sort of the little village and the trail kind of just heads behind the village itself and sort of like a steady incline up. I know that all trails makes it look super dramatic. It's not as bad as it looks, basically. But yeah, you kind of just have a very nice, steady incline up towards the plateau. Once you get to the place where it gets sort of a bit flat and you're actually walking on the trail towards Saksun, which is another well-known trail, but you're only going to walk half of this because as you can see here, it kind of deviates. We're going to deviate off the path, off to sort of this sort of more of an unmarked trail. It's literally just walking on grass and rocks and whatnot. And you're going to follow this sort of ridge line, this cliff here, cliff side. You can head up to the viewpoint. There's a little peak here. Yet again, Ultras doesn't really show it, but there's a little peak here you can go up to get a little view. If the weather's nice, I would say it's unnecessary because you're going to be able to see Mewling Gear and the surrounding area just by following sort of the ridge line here. And I say with nice weather because as you may have seen on my first attempt, and yeah, if you didn't notice, I did the hike in two attempts. So the first attempt, I was faced with like just a lot of clouds and foggy weather like where visibility was very low. I couldn't see more than like a couple of meters or feet in front of me, which was quite bad visibility wise. I definitely noticed myself veering off of the path a bit and sort of just doing these unnecessary declines, inclines up and down, just wasting a lot of energy and time to do that. I actually met a couple of local sort of hikers and I kind of followed them sort of sporadically. So I wasn't like completely alone. So there was a little bit of solace in that, I guess. Solace in that sort of that you're not completely alone on the hike. But nevertheless, you know, the visibility was so low and I ended up like on top of Mewling Gear without even noticing it really. You know, only the seagulls were there and they were probably looking at what is this dumb human doing up here? Yeah, just I was thinking like if I got closer to Mewling Gear, I wouldn't see it and maybe the clouds would part and clear up. Didn't happen. So on my second attempt, the weather was a lot nicer. And this funny thing is weather forecast wise, it said that the day before the weather would have been better than the next day. But I found that to be the opposite. So you can't really 100% trust weather forecasts out here. You kind of need to go to the destination and kind of just eye it. And if there's no like clouds above and stuff like that, you're pretty safe to go, I would say. But yeah, so my second attempt was a lot nicer weather and a lot easier to do it a lot quicker for me to get up. Now you can follow the ridge line, the cliff side, and you'll stay up there and you get like a nice view of Mewling Gear. But you can also head down, which is what I did. And if you want to head down to Mewling Gear itself, you need to follow like this very small and narrow sort of cheap path, which kind of disappears sort of like a quarter way down. And then you kind of have a zigzag scramble your way down. It's quite steep. So I really only recommend you doing it if you're like an experienced hiker or you're just very sure footed. But if you do do it, you're going to come down and you're going to get like a very nice view of Mewling Gear. And you can even, you know, climb Mewling Gear, like just walk up it if you want to. That's up to you. And, you know, once you're done, it's just the same way back again. Very simple. Just follow the same way back. There isn't really any other path to really follow to get back to Trunavik. But yeah, it's also just, I guess, safest to just follow the path back. So that was my guide. That was sort of all the information I had about Mewling Gear. It's a very nice hike. It's probably my favorite hike in the Faroe Islands as of right now, because there isn't a lot of sort of long distance trails in the Faroe Islands. If you want to do a long distance thing, you kind of need to like combine different trails and walk on roads and stuff, which I don't think is really ideal personally. So yeah, that's all I have for this sort of hiking Mewling Gear video. I'll be linking sort of the hiking map and the all trails app in the description box below. So do check it out. So I'll be probably posting one or two more videos about the Faroe Islands. So look forward to that. If you want to watch some more Faroe Islands content, I'll be going on a trip very soon to shoot another video. But until then, guys, thank you for watching the video. Thank you for the support as always. This is Alan. I'll see you guys in the next one.