The Great Trossachs Path |Hiking Scotland: Day 1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.ย. 2024
- 'A 30-mile long route running between Callander in the east and Inversnaid at Loch Lomond in the west, taking in scenery, loch shores, hill slopes, mature woodlands, wildlife and history.'
Today we set off on a long weekend to hike the Great Trossachs Path.
We get the trail from Glasgow to Tarbet and then catch the ferry over to Inversnaid where the trail begins.
Climbing up initially, we eventually reach the top which offers great views over Loch Lomond and the munros beyond.
Hiking on along the trail we walk through Glen Arklet along Loch Arklet before coming to Loch Katrine.
Walking along the path we come across many information boards with insightful historical information. Very interesting indeed!
Eventually we stumble across an area to camp that is too good to pass up. Wildcamping for the night, we get a good nights rest for our longer walk tomorrow to Callander.
Never fails to cheer me up! Cheers for sharing your adventures 👍
Haha, cheers! 🙂🐾👍
Thanks John and Moss*Your posts are doing a fine job of cheering me up :-) Best wishes to you both*
Hope all has been well during the lockdown! 🐾👍
Moss is hands down the best name for a dog I have ever heard! Looks amazing:) safe walking x
Thanks! 🙂🐾👍
Class vid kidda, enjoyed watching that.. . Moss looking amazing as usual 😎👌
TFS ATB Steve
Thanks Steve! 🐾👍
Yes! Missed your adventures. Hope this gets me inspired to go do some long distance walking
It's hiking season my friend! 👣🐾👍
Brilliant! Nice to see the two of you out again.
Thanks man! 🐾👍
Cracking video John, that eating a sausage in public tip had me laughing, look forward to part 2👍
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Haha, aye, a top tip isn't it! 😂
Another inspiring journey John & Moss. Scotland next week for me on WHW 🐾🐾🐺🐺
Thanks Martin! Hope you enjoy yourself on the WHW! 🐾👍
Loving the view's and history. Nice one pal crack on 👍
Cheers bud! 🐾👍
Hi Hounds, I almost choked when you brought out that sausage dong, but your dead right about the etiquette of getting your laughing gear around the monster! lol. Back yesterday from the NW after reaching Cape Wrath. The last few miles I joined up with a bloke just finishing the CW trail. We got talking about you and your videos on the CW Trail. He stayed in the bunkhouse at the lighthouse, while I tried to get back to Durness around the head of The Kyle of Durness. I got as far as Daill , near the Ferry House, before fatigue and the effects of 28 miles set in. That night I also had some bird/bat screeching all night as well as a fecking cuckoo looking to get some. Looking foward to part two. Cheers OJ
Haha, for sure! Canne be munchin' stuff like that oan camera! 😂
Good goin' 28 miles up there by the way! It's not like it's nice easy paths! You are making awesome progress. 👍
Haha, oh dear, the frikkin' lovely sound of bird song; aka the sleep depriver! 😴🤔🤨👎🤜
Hope you're well mate. I completed the West island Way at the weekend off the back of your video on it (the cows were as mental as I feared), this will be my next adventure for sure. Any new content in the pipeline?
Your fans await your long awaited comeback my friend. Make it happen...
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Excellent video as always. Looking forward to the whole series!! You should have demonstrated that sausage, I would have pissed myself!! Cheers.gJ
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Haha, oh man, that would have broken some sort of rule would it not? Canne be eatin' stuff like that on TH-cam! 😂
Great vid as always. Love your enthusiasm and interest in everything. Bin following BTO's Tracked Cuckoos for a few years now. They're bloomin' amazing! They live in sub-Saharan Africa and then fly 1000's of miles North when they think you'll be out wild camping. Only stay about 8-9 weeks and then fly all the way back again! Think kindly of them next time, unless you're a small bird with a huge chick you're suspicious of the parentage of? ;-)
Thanks! Haha, I KNEW they were just waiting on me going wild camping before heading over to do thine nut in! Haha 🐾👍
Great stuff John, that's my neck of the woods, walked that route a few times. If I'd known you were around you could have dropped in for a cuppa tea, or a can of the black stuff.
Haha, cheers man! 🐾👍
Ha ha ha ha......cool "wee"waterfall! I saw what you did.....
Hahahaha! Yasssss! First one to spot it! 💯👍
enjoyed that john, pip loves them smoked sausages aswell. cheers, 10/10
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I love them deep fried from the chip shop. All crispy at the edges and that: Mmmm! 😋
That “how to eat a sausage” segment had me propper belly laughing 😆
Haha! Definitely an essential technique! 😂🐾👍
Another cracking video John. Good to see you and moss out and about. Its wild wallabies on the island on loch Lomond and cookoo's migrate from southern Europe and Africa. Is that a new osprey sack you've got yourself, I love the osprey packs but they are expensive. Looks a cracking route your doing
Cheers! Haha, aye, wallabies, not Kuala Lumpur's then 🤣👍
Yeah, it's the Exos 58L in medium. The black one I had I gave away because the back was too long for me. I got it on the interwebs and thought a large would be fine (Blacks only stocked the large), but it would get uncomfortable 10 miles plus. I really like the features the Exos has and the back system, so decided to get another for this season.
I save my Zpacks Arc Zip for longer hikes where I'm really focusing on pack weight. Then I have my waterproof Mountain Hardware SouthCol 70L for winter. Plus by smaller Berghaus Freeflow 40L for day hikes. I'm kinda obsessed with finding the perfect rucksack for different tasks.
Brilliant !
Looks beautiful,have you thought about doing the southdowns way or the two moors way?
Not yet. I have thought that I need to explore England more but I still have so many hikes I want to do here in Scotland! 👣🐾👍
A beautiful hike
Thanks Steve! 🐾👍
I came for the scenery, but stayed for the dog! :-)
Haha! Wee Mozzy! ♥️🐺🐾👍
Thanks for sharing john great stuff love it👌🏻🏴👌🏻
Braw min, cheers! 🏴🐾👍
@@HoundsofHowgate I'm sitting here pmsl with the wife watching you talking about doing jobbys and Barrie white cheers min just made my weekend after work thanks john 👌🏻😀🤣👏👌🏻🏴
@@ccwweeman3385 hahaha, if ye gotta Barry ye gotta Barry! 😂👍
Great video! I will most probably walk the same path sometime in June. What's the app shown at 22:18? Cheers
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It's an app called 'ViewRanger'. All routes on WalkHighlands website can be loaded into it amongst a host of other really good features.
@@HoundsofHowgate Thanks a lot! That was very helpful
Have you been using premium or premium + maps?
@@rotaaable the full one. 👍
@@rotaaable by the way, with premium you can download unlimited map sections. No need to buy more maps. It's a bit sly the way they have it set up as it's not obvious.
Did you have to get a permit to camp there? Thanks
Hello there!
No, that's outside the permit zone. Earlier in the vid I mention the sign saying you are leaving the permit zone, so they do make it known to you.
I found that they have a really great wee map showing you where you can and can't camp without a permit:
www.lochlomond-trossachs.org/rr-content/uploads/2017/09/Camping-map-for-web.jpg
Hope that helps! 👣🐾👍
@@HoundsofHowgate Thanks a lot, also for the map!
@@rotaaable no worries! 🐾👍
Found your channel about a year ago. Was looking forward to your future adventures. Where are you now? What is happening?
I've been building a cottage and also not able to travel what wae this peaky lockdoon! 🙂🐾👍
@@HoundsofHowgate Happy to know you are OK. Hope Moss is OK to. Best of luck with your cottage build and look forward to future adventures. Cheers.
Thanks for the sausage advice.
Haha, very important! Bananas etc included. I'm still thinking for a workaround with the likes of ice poles and such. 🤔
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Hounds of Howgate It’s not something I’d like to be accused of. Where’s your first walk after lockdown is lifted?
Hmm, not sure but I have quite a few in mind. Gonna have to get some short days in though as there has been zero hiking done and much much Guinness drank for it seems as long as I can remember now; I think I'm gonna be in for a wee bit of a surprise when I get back out there! 🍻🚷👣=😬
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Hounds of Howgate Man, I hear that. I’ve tried to lay off the beer but I’ve been drinking a fair bit of gin. Managed a sneaky hike up Meikle Bin yesterday, trying to keep up my fitness. My hips are a bit stiff but everything else is fine, surprisingly. Hopefully this’ll be lifted by Thursday.
To be fair I think everyone will be in the same boat. Like a collective mass loss of fitness and weight gain! Really weird times.
So aye, I hope it lifts cos it's defo not good! It's just too easy to treat it like some kind of novel situation and so it's almost like okay in a way to give yourself permission to do things you wouldn't normally: like drinking Guinness every day!
"There's a shadow on the door of a cottage on the shore of a dark Scottish lake." Ahhh...So now I know that singer "Sting" borrowed those words for the title track of the album Synchronicity. Last album to be released by the band The Police.
Ah, so that Sting one has been at it again!
Although Sir Walter Scott should have known that technically it should have been loch: there's only 2 natural lakes in Scotland (and 7 man made ones). Lady of the Loch might not have had the same ring to it as Lady of the Lake though, I suppose. 🙂🐾👍
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For a second there you looked like your were peeing into that water fall
Really? Hahaha! 👍
Kuala Lumpur.. LMAO.. Feral Wallabies on the loch Lomond island
Haha, that's 'em! 😂🐾👍
buckin yaaaassss
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Wallabies
Did I mention them in this vid? 🙂🐾👍