Wild Camping in the Galloway Forest
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ม.ค. 2022
- Hello everyone,
In this video we hike along the Raiders Road and spend the night at the otters pool, we check out a few dehydrated camping meals and enjoy the scenery.
Thanks for watching 👍
Ben.
Nice location enjoyed the video.
Coffeeee 😂😂😂😂… enjoyed 👍
Lovely place a stay in castle douglas so am lucky to just b a short drive from there and loch ken the whole area is stunning
Great little film finished off with a bit of my favourite music. Minivandals Laugh and Cry .... thank you both. G
Thanks Graham 👍
That looked like a great camp out Ben 👍🏻and a stunning location. You had me going at your sachetts of coffay mind... 🤣All the best to both of you, cheers, Paul 🙏🏻
Cheers mate! 😂👍
What an outstanding area to camp in. Those "bed" areas are something new to me!
Class viewing. Really enjoy your work.
Creased up at your "Caffay" and Sachette" quips... Aye, the mouth muscles take a wee while to work properly first thing in the morning.
Keep up the great work.
Nice one mate 😎 going there next month 👍 find wee bit to camp over
Great vlog Ben i enjoyed your blooper
Cheers Carl 👍
Just about tae tune in ,good to see ya out n about 👍
Awe the best
Gorbals Men Shed
Ps drainage channel is a fire break 😉
Love your camping and cooking trips similar weather to here in the Irish midlands
Thanks Sean, aye the west of Scotland usually picks up the same weather fronts. Rain is always likely! 👍
Looked like a great wild camp, really enjoyed it!!
Thanks for taking us with you. Have driven along the Raiders road a few times, nice area, pity the bronze otter was stolen from the pools, but that’s the times we live in. Thanks again.
I saw a stone otter statue by the pools, I'm guessing it replaced the bronze one; anything of any value in this country gets nicked sooner or later unfortunately. Thanks for watching Richard 👍
You guys truly have an underrated channel going here! Ive been following along for a bit and definitely enjoy the tour of your local brews and country side! Always a treat when the new video hits the feed! Hello from Texas!
Thanks! It's great to know people watch the channel in other parts of the world 🇺🇸👍
Glad to see you both out and about again enjoying a coffaaay! really good video as always and especially inspiring to those of who haven't got the free time atm to get out and about, work gets in the way... but looking forward to spring etc atb mate. Russ
Good to see you guys back in Galloway - our local stomping grounds... the Otter pools are fantastic when you can get them to yourselves!! keep up the good work, all the best
Cracking video guys, just realised I was subbed to you channel so I’ve hit the bell 😊. Atb Wullie 🏴✊🏻
Cheers Wullie 😃👍
Great video, I'm going to travel from South Yorkshire to Galloway Forest for a night camp Sat night! As the weather forecast is rain and sunny intervals. I'm hoping for less people but heho, never been there before, it will be a nice break from work! Liked and Subscribed
Cheers! Hopefully it'll be quiet up there. Might be worth taking a head net just in case you get swamped by the dreaded midge. Hope it goes well 🏕👍
That’s a great spot for camp !!! Great video as always !!!! ATB
Enough Chulula and some tortillas will make that beef stew a really good Mexican dinner
Nice video guys! 😀 that mug looks top quality! You must do a review on it soon!
Cheers Roy, stay tuned for the review 😂👍
Hi Ben this morning as a well presented and edited recording 👍
The Galloway forest is on my bucket list as well as most of Scotland. Looking at the map, the Galloway forest covers quite an area as OS mapping covers the North and South of the Park. If you go back again it will be interesting to see if there area any significant differences between North and South of the forest park.
I look forward to further adventures atb Taff 🤠👊
Thanks Taff. Yes it's a huge area with plenty to explore, although the vast majority of the forest is commercial plantation and the clear felled areas don't look too great. It's well worth a visit though especially if it's going to be clear at night as it's an international Dark Sky Park and the views of the galaxy are incredible. Atb 👍
EXCELLENT Video's you put out Ben&Tris 👌 If your talking on morning like that on Elvis juice god knows what you'd be saying after drinking Mr President 🤣 Quality footage and a very nice place 🙌🙌👌👍
Cheers Martin, I had a few whiskey's (or should I say whiskays 😂) after the Elvis Juice; I blame that for the speech problems 🤣👍
Enjoyed that, we’re dying to try a forest wild camp and this area looks ideal
No wild camping at otters pool anylonger as its now a tourist spot, after driving up to this spot was told to move on by the forest ranger.. Furious isnt the word after so many good reviews and looking forward to it !!!!!!!!!!!!!
They've been doing that for a few years now in summer, it's best to visit out of season although you have to walk for a while as the road is shut. I hope you managed to find somewhere else to camp 👍
The alien beds are for stargazing I think as Galloway is a dark sky park
They certainly can be used for that. The artists who designed them described them more as sensory benches, basically to be used in the way the lady in the video did. Proper name for them is 'Rosnes Benches', give that a google if you want to know more about the benches or the artists.
Hi mate. Looks like Scotland has had it mild this year. Looks a decent spot you had although I'll remember the hammock tip if go there. Came down with the dreaded COVID this week so can't get out, so this video helped a lot, cheers! Please excuse me, I need a sachet of cafay now, haha. Cheers.
Hi mate 😂, it's been a really mild winter over this way. Bad news about the Covid, how long do you have to isolate for over there, 10 days? I saw you were about to move as well which is a bummer. As long as you've got a good stash of red wine it should fly by 👍
@@Adventure-Outdoors maybe winter will arrive late this year. 7 days quarantine here so almost done now, it'll be good to get out hiking for a while. Maybe a little trip down to 12 monkeys is on the cards as I have a couple of weeks holidays I have to take. Val d'aran too in the next couple of weeks and I know there's snow up there so may get a bit of snow shoeing in up there, which looks like fun. Then hopefully over in the UK in April, all being well! Thanks again.
@@whatsnottohike You're lucky to be so close to the Pyrenees! I'm not sure if you follow this channel but he does some cracking hiking videos, this one isn't too far from Val d'aran.
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I’m curious what those “alien beds”are! They looked like a sail boat bottom🤷🏻
Great video! Me and a mate will be going here in 2 weeks for a wild camp. Where do you recommend parking in Mossdale? Thanks!
Thanks! There is a free car park in Mossdale, if you pull in by the shop you will see it, you can walk under the bridge and follow the track (old train line I believe) up towards Stroan Loch. Cheers.
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Thanks Ben,,TC.
Nice video, really well made and easy to watch. …. This is my back yard (and yes, i know how lucky I am 😀 )…. We have had so many problems here in the last few years compared to 15/20 years ago. With people driving in and lighting fires in a high fire risk area (we had a huge devastating forest fire here a couple years ago). And with damage to living trees, the ground and littering. I pick up huge amounts of litter, fishing gear, discarded this and that every single week!! ….The problem exploded with people who didnt otherwise realise what was here being shown it on YT & social media 😔. …When I make videos I try to be careful not to tell people where I am so that we dont accidentally ruin the area by making it more popular. I do know this can be seen as being really selfish, I think it maybe is….but every week it breaks my heart at the damage here. And I just dont know what to do about it other than plead to other TH-camrs not to popularise the area by saying where they are 😕 …If anyone has better/other suggestions I’d love to hear them as ideally people would come here and treat it with the reverence its due and enjoy the area without me having to clean up after them every week. I live in deep fear of a huge fire wiping out the whole area around here. Again, fab video, Ive subscribed :)
Great video! What has happened to your Fjällräven Kajka 75 backpack? You still use it, or do you prefer something else?
Thanks! I still use it when I need to carry heavy gear in winter such as an axe, tarps etc. but for anything else I'll use one of my other packs. My camping gear has become lighter and more compact these days and I can get it all into a 45L pack 👍
Is that an old railway You are walking on?, looks like that. Nice video and like the laughs 🙌😂. My daughter was looking at this video with me and repeated your Scottish accent because it's cool 😁🙌
Hey Mattias! Yes part of it is an old railway track, last used in 1960 I believe. My accent is north east English, probably best described as half way between the Queen's English and Scottish. Either way, I'm pretty sure I'm pronouncing 'Fjallraven' wrong 😂. Cheers mate 👍🍺
@@Adventure-Outdoors Whaat, how little i know. Interesting i thought your accent was pure Scottish, i think you pronounce Fjällräven great! That tent looks great, i have Hilleberg tents and have not looked closer to the Fjällräven tents, even if i'm well intobtheir garments and backpacks. Looks to have similar features and quality. 👌
@@Braapncamp The accents here in the UK are crazy, there's so many of them it boggles the mind. My accent doesn't sound much like a classic English accent at all; when I was in the US people thought I was German 😂.
The Fjallraven tent is great, pretty lightweight at just over 2kg, but I don't think it would stand up to the weather like a Hilleberg would. My friend just bought a Hilleberg Enan, I'll get to check it out soon hopefully 👍
@@Adventure-Outdoors German... 😂🙉 Enan looks great for most conditions on solo hikes, I have the Akto which is a bit more substantial and as well an Allak 2. I sometimes think that the Enan had been great though for the solo tent. Love them even if I mostly are hammocking, like you said in boreal areas it's not always easy to find a spot for a tent.
Greetings to you, success and success always and forever. Videos are on the level. A wonderful channel that deserves to be followed. I hope the communication will continue, and I wish you a palace in heaven.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎈🎈🎈
I have that mat and I’m not sure about it found I kept falling off
That's no good mate, I haven't fallen off yet but there's still time!
@@Adventure-Outdoors haha I’m not a man who can sleep like a pencil like getting the knees up so not a negative just my observations … but it’s warm and comfortable can’t folt that ! Did some looking about and for the money weight and size had the best temp . Hence buying it I’m sure you were the same
@@bannister-lifeoutdoors8004 Aye I think it's one of the lightest and warmest winter mats available, I've been using the standard non winter version for a while but the extra insulation of the winter version tempted me to buy it. I'll be testing it again up in the fells next week hopefully 👍