Type 2 Fun Script
I have no idea why I keep going on these adventures. Half the time I am asking myself, “what the hell am I doing?”
Things are always breaking, often I am shivering alone in a sleeping bag, pedaling into a horrific head wind, or puking my guts out from altitude sickness… Like, does that even sound fun to you?
If it does, I think you are kinda messed up. But, the good kind of messed up because it means you and I are alike.
Ehhh then again, maybe that’s a bad thing. Does the world really need two of us?
We are the weirdos. Lovers of monotony. Freaks of nature who fancy a good a ole fashioned suffer fest.
Pedaling down dirt roads in search of something, anything really. If we are lucky, it’ll be a hot spring or a pretty view, but most of the time it, is nothing more than some flat ground to lay our heads.
Even if that’s the case, you’ll find me dancing like a fool. It’s just one of those things that brings me joy.
The funny part of these trips, I hate them. Like really, I don’t enjoy it. Yet, I love them once the trip is over and find myself asking, “what stupid thing is next?”
A trip to the mountains, another bike packing trip, endurance trail run, who knows?
For now, I’ll just keep scrolling though the memory bank, happy I elected to suffer for week.
I guess that is why they call it type two fun.
Idea Behind the Video
As a lover of type 2 fun, the script above landed on a piece of paper as I journaled one morning. Most of the video content had already been shot, so I just needed to have the editing work done, but where did the inspiration come from? First, let’s answer the basic question, what is type 2 fun?
Type 2 fun occurs when a task is difficult at the time, but feels rewarding afterward, often because it challenges the practitioner to test their limits and grow.
Now that we understand what type 2 fun is, where does inspiration come from behind this video? My adventures. Since 2016, I have dedicated my life to adventures that range from the grand to the micro. Just the idea of adventure get’s me excited and I often read books about adventures just to get the ideas flowing.
Yet, this video predominantly comes from a semi-recent supported bikepacking adventure that I did from Lake Tahoe to Mount Whitney, where I bikepacked and tried to hike to the summits of both peaks.
Shooting the Video
I wish I could say that this was filmed on a high end camera, but the reality is I used a GoPro because I didn’t want to carry much weight, as this trip was a personal project. The content for this video was shot during a supported bikepacking trip from Freel Peak to Mount Whitney. Honestly, this video was kind of one of those “what do I do with this footage” kind of videos, which gives the video its raw and authentic feeling.
In many ways, some of the best adventure movies in the world are created this way.
The goal with this video was to take the content from the trip and showcase the spirit of type 2 fun, aka the suffering an adventurer goes through on an adventure. Mostly, this is a mental battle, but sometimes this is a physical one as well. In my case for this trip, it was both.
