WARM UP.
COOL DOWN.
STAY A WHILE.
at the foot of the Galtee mountains
HEAT. PLUNGE. BREATH. REPEAT.
Heat, then cold, then sit down. That is the whole of it.
Fifteen or twenty minutes in the sauna is a round — five or ten if you have never done it, and build from there. Shower or plunge for as long as you can stand, which at the start is limited, build tolerance. Then out, and back to the heat when you are ready.
Two or three rounds fit into fifty minutes. Nobody is counting, and there is no correct number.
What’s Here
A six person wood fired cube sauna.
Two cold plunges chilled & filtered for the brave.
Two cold showers and bucket shower.
The mobile (with changing rooms, toilets, hot shower, lounge area, tea & coffee)
The hut sits between the mobile and sauna, is covered, open-sided, and the reason we can take a group of twenty rotating in heat and cold while the other half are outside hanging out.
"Heat, cold, and good company at the foot of the Galtees."
A bothán is a hut. One room, a fire, nothing else. There's a word that grew out of it — bothántaíocht — for the habit of calling into a neighbour's cabin of an evening to hear the news. The huts were where people gathered. That idea is a few hundred years older than us. The same word went north and became bothy: an unlocked shelter in the hills for anyone coming off a mountain. A hut at the foot of the Galtees. It seemed like the right name.