6 day winter canoe, wild camping & bushcraft trip with Polish Lavvu hot tent, Loch Awe, Scotland.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ก.พ. 2019
- We head up to Loch Awe for a week long winter canoe trip. The weather was changeable; wind, rain, snow and -8 on our last night. We had no gas so cooking and coffee was done over fire and our camp consisted of a modified Polish Lavvu poncho tent from 1989.
The Lavvu was modified by ourselves - we added about 14" of waterproof canvas to the bottom of the tent, stitched a zip into the front door, added a flashing kit for the frontier stove and used the 'A' frame from a 6m bell tent door to hold the tent up. We also added guy lines and coated the tent with a litre of Fabsil to waterproof it.
It was a great few days; really hard work at times but a very rewarding trip nevertheless. Scotland is a truly beautiful country and any time spent there is always magic in my experience.
We will be uploading some more videos of this type of camping over the coming weeks/months as we sit out the time until we head off in our 4x4 again. Thanks for watching!
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Hi ben and tris , I was 18 mins in ( and it was time I went to bed ) then I thought bugger that I'm watching all of this WOW you certainly deserve medals 👏👏👏👏 I did have to chuckle when tris was trying to paddle the ice 👌excellent video 👍
Thanks for watching Martin, it was a memorable trip this one......mainly due to the cold! 👍
Sweet opening sequence. 👍👍
That was an absolute delight - such a fantastic way to spend a week. You are lucky people that you both enjoy that life style!
I once spent 4 weeks at the western end of Loch Awe on a piece of land a family friend owned. There was a caravan and a boat - my 3 kids and I had a fantastic time - the wife was not impressed. So it was Spanish holidays after that hahaha.
Now that I live in southern Catalunya I live the outdoors life all the time.
I wish you well, keep up the good work and keep living life to the full.
Thanks
Cheers Paul, aye the Highlands can be a bit hit and miss. I think Catalunya is your best bet by far! We lived north of Inverness for a while; there's only so many grey skies a man can take before he moves back south 😂. ATB, Ben.
Love this video brilliant can wait till the next adventure
Greetings from West Virginia, USA. I just came across your Channel, well done. Looking forward to more of yours and your wife's adventures.
Cheers Das! 👍
Hi. First time viewer here. Will be back to watch more . Great video!
Beautiful. What a lovely adventure. Thanks for a great and inspiring film of your trip. I am hoping to get my Canoe up to Scotland next year.....if we can control this wretched virus!
Take care and stay safe.
Cheers Lawrence! Hopefully you should be able to get up there next year, it's a great place for a canoe adventure 👍
Really enjoyed the video, thanks.
As usuall I know that I can hit that thumbs up button already before I've seen 10 sec. of the vid. ... and I was right this time as well.
Cheers mate, much appreciated! 👍
Hi Europe. I'm Chuck from Chatham, Massachusetts. I'm a first time watched. I've been watching a lot of Bushcraft for a while. I loved ur video, especially, seeing Scotland and the terrain plus environment. My Grandparents we're off the boat from Ireland. I subscribed and hit the bell notification. I'm looking forward to checking out Ur other videos and will now be notified for Ur new ones. Thank you for Ur work and I really enjoyed Ur video!
Thanks Charles, glad you enjoyed the video and thanks for subscribing! Scotland is a fine place, it's not too different from Ireland in terms of its landscape 👍🏻
Very good video !
You know you're in for a treat, when you see a notification of a new europe overland video.
So I made me a nice mug of tea and sat down to enjoy.
And I did, all the way!
Stunning scenery an ancient ruins. Scotland really is a place where you find history every step you take. Thanks for taking us along!
Btw, those Old Town Canoes last a lifetime, mine is almost 30 Years old, the hull is still strong, they called the foamed polyetilene something like Oltonar.
Well, as always, looking forward to your next adventure🙂
Cheers from switzerland.
PS: Oh, and I see a Mora Knife👍👌
Cheers! Yeah I have a few Mora knives, great value. I picked up a Mora Kansbol when we were in Sweden at the Mora shop in Mora, such a useful knife for not a lot of money. 👍🏻
Another great video and music!! Thank you for the history lesson as well. My late mother was born and raised in Saltcoats and her and her friends used to go hiking every chance they got.
Scotland is a beautiful country! Thank you for taking us along with you on the journey!
Thanks Lewis 👍
That giggling fit in your tent was funny ..... the best shot was from over your partners shoulder facing the mountains in the distance. Thanks for taking the effort to film and share this trip. G.
Cheers Graham! I think cabin fever was setting in in that small tent 🤣.
Very nice mate, should learn to make an old school fishing rod and see if you can get some trout from the loch and cook it, would be mega.
Cheers mate! You're right, left my fishing kit at home for this trip but a bushcraft rod would've been fun. I'm thinking about trying to plan a sea loch trip and hopefully get some salt water fishing done either in the Autumn or spring of next year 👍.
thank u very much for a beautiful video i really enjoy thanks again
Another great video. Thank you! I have had the privilege of living in the same area as Sigurd Olson did for the last six months. It's beautiful canoe country. The castle and cemetery shots were very interesting. Thanks for sharing that with us. Happy adventures to you and your wife!
Norssk wanderer. Thanks! Must’ve been great living in that area, true wilderness 👍.
Wooo hooo .... another great video and amazing trip... now need to get a good size canoe :) thank guys and all the BEST !!!!
Cheers Sebski! All the best 👍🏻
wow! fantastic trip, thx for sharing, it is inspirational
Nice video
J CM cheers! 👍
Thank you , we loved your adventure and your equipment you camp with . Amazing what you do with that axe of yours . Here in the States we also have inconsiderate campers . Good luck and I hope you took your wife out for Valentine's Day .
Cheers John! 👍
great video, love Scotland such a beautiful place. Best way to see it is via canoe. Great stuff
Cheers Trevorski!
Really enjoyed thanks for sharing.
Really enjoyed this video.
Very interesting video thank you.👍👍👍👍👍
This is one of the best vids I’ve ever seen because it’s real and the scenery is spectacular thank you for sharing I’m subbing
Cheers Don, much appreciated 👍.
A beautiful film with nice music and where you also have to laugh with some pieces.
Looked like an awesome time! Absolutely beautiful locations!
I just found your channel over the weekend and since I'm home bound sick I just finished the last video. this is the best camp and explore channel I've seen. just you guys having fun and sharing your adventures.i loved the castle ruins. thank you so much I can't wait to see what's next.!!!!!!!
Thanks! Glad you enjoy the channel 👍🏻
Achingly beautiful. Thank you both.
Cheers Matt! 👍
Thank you for sharing your adventure with me really enjoyed it. I live in mid wales been to Scotland once its just stunning.
Thanks for another excellent video!
Cheers Richard!
I love the names of everything there ! Need to add to the Bucket list to go to a place like this !
Another great video, and to be able to find some wilderness, peace and quite in the UK is a bonus - brilliant thinking out of the box. Amazing scenery up in Scotland and walking around the burial ground and the castle must have been moving.
40 minutes for the morning coffee on the stove though? More patience than me - the Ghille would be first thing on. Thanks for taking the time filming and putting this up. Look forward to the next one.
Cheers Mark! The Ghillie would've definitely been the quicker option, although the coffee would boil quicker if the stove was bumped up with wood but then the tent would get way too hot, I couldn't win 🤣👍🏻.
@@Adventure-Outdoors To be honest, even though you were busy on your trip, I'm sure it was a relaxing trip and waiting for the coffee in the morning was probably filled with doing something or planning your day. Glad you guys managed to get away this year, and Scotland in the snow (for me any way, being a southerner) is so picturesque. Ps. You've got some awesome kit 😎
Getting good at the editing now pal !! misses had a good time giggling away in the tent ! she had us in stitches...another great episode keep up the good content many thanks Phil
Cheers Phil!
great adventure you had. nice one
Cheers Nell!
Fab one of my fav places ever thanks..
Cheers Owen! 👍
Thanks for sharing your beautiful homeland i am from northern Alaska Wainwright Alaska western arctic coast
Cheers Alfred! I'd love to visit Alaska one day, must be great to have all of that wilderness on your doorstep.
Oh man, I envy you both. Wonderful trip.
Cheers! It was a great trip, bit cold but worth the effort 👍🏻.
Excellent video log of your trip. Really enjoyed it and well done to ye both for preserving in that weather. Looking forward to your're next videos. Thanks
Cheers Roy, I hope all is well!
Absolute joy to watch. You guys certainly know how to get the most out of life. Fantastic stuff!
Cheers Jim! 👍
well done , another brilliant video. just right for a wet and windy friday evening by the log burner. would have liked a shot of the canoe on the roof of the hilux as a parting shot . the grave yard looked really interesting ,icould have spent hours there. shame about the rubbish. thanks for all your effort in sharing your trip.
Cheers Fred! I wanted to end the video with us loading the canoe on the Hilux but the battery died after the very last clip 🙁. I was trying to find out info about the island and its burial ground but the history is a bit sketchy, a really fascinating place though.
Fantástico video, me ha encantado.
Gracias.
Gracias Rafa! 👍
awesome video. Thank you for share.
Cheers Raymond!
Never watched a 40 min video before utube so glad I did great stuff
Cheers Zak, glad you enjoyed it! 👍🏻
I really enjoyed that. I'm off camping for 3 days on Loch Lomond side next week, unfortunately I don't have a canoe though. I live in Glasgow and the loch is only a short drive away. I usually go camping between October and April as I'd rather risk bad weather than swarms of midges.
Al the Jag Yeah I know what you mean about the midgies, they’re unbearable. The weather looks set to be good for your trip 👍.
Well done you 2! Amazing video. The best views. :-)
Cheers Rob!
Loch Awe an incredible loch i fished there for many years and caught some massive fish in seriously deep water, your Lavvu looks stunning
Cheers John. Yep its a great loch, I'll be heading back once the trout season starts!
hello guys
well you've done it again, fed ya bellies , ya eyes, and ya soul with 6 days of mental therophy now time to relax & take some ibuprofen lol. thanks for sharing. Kevin 😉👍
Cheers Kevin!
Looks like a fantastic trip, we did the Great Glen last summer and this video brings all the memories back. All the best mate 👍
Skye
Cheers! I was looking at the Great Glen route, it looks epic! Might try and do it one day 👍🏻.
Very nice canoe trip ... cool pictures ... great adventure! 👍👍👍
Greetings from Germany ...
Steffen
Cheers Steffen! 👍
Really lovely video, you actually know how to use music. Thanks.
Thanks David 👍
Great video ...subbed
Rough Timba Cheers! Thanks for the sub 👍.
Lovely :)
Awesome footage ya'll !!! :] ]
Loved the video and your trip is something id love to do aswell, im guessing there dumplings and beef stew went down well as it looked lovely. Cant wait for another video. 🍀
Thanks Franky, the stew was great! 👍
Great video of your beatitiful trip! Canoing is peaceful in light winds and a great base for outdoor activities. Looks like you have a mild winter. Over here in Sweden (South of lake Vänern) we had beautiful snow last week, but rain has washed it away right now. Found your overlanding channel when you travelled in Scandinavia and now this. /New subscriber!
Cheers Mattias, thanks for subscribing! Yes the winter here has been exceptionally mild. We're hoping to get back up to Scandinavia soon with our canoe; such great place, perfect for canoe camping.
@@Adventure-Outdoors 😂😂 well You could say that there are some lakes in Sweden. Dalsland is the "canoe province" above all. But ofc there are great canoe waters all over the country. You are most wellcome. All the best!
What an amazing video and looks like you and Tris have a real giggle together. Once all the lockdown is over I'm heading over to Scotland to wildcamp. These videos really help. Would love to canoe up there, is yours hired or is it your own? As you say, you can get real peace and quiet in Scotland, especially in a canoe. If it's easy to hire one, I'll definitely do that! Thanks for a brilliant video, looked like an incredible trip!
Cheers! It's my own canoe, but I left my car at a place called 'Loch Awe Boats', the guy there rents out canoes. The loch is huge, easily enough for a week long trip and there's some fascinating islands on the loch 👍
Excellent. Thank you for sharing...those dumplings looked good !!
Really enjoy your videos.spent a couple days man flu watching your sweden norway vids
A wee word of advice brother Loch Awe is a killer its foolish to venture on the loch in winter in a canoe ,sunny splitting skies then the lochs a rolling mess and will challenge the experienced and tip a sturdy boat easily the fog is also worth noting same again all clear one minute then comes down quick .
Its latest victim was a friend of ours
Rip J Brolly
Cheers mate! Sorry to he about your friend, was that the guy who owned the hostel at the bottom of the loch? I'd heard a few stories about the loch before hand but studied the pressure charts before we we went and I could keep an eye on them as I had 4G on the loch. I've seen what the weather fronts can do on these lochs though and it's frightening, I've experienced it on loch Shiel many years ago.
@@Adventure-Outdoors yes brother it was , he was a dear friend .i havent fished the loch since .
I run Gorbals Men shed in Glasgow so if your up our way again fly along see us In G5 .
Keep up the videos brother ,there a joy to watch .and stay safe on those scottish lochs 😉👍
Whenever I hear a Scottish accent, I walk around for the next couple of hours calling myself, 'Ya wee bahsted.' Why didn't you take the bins out to the curb, ya wee bastard? I guess that's a stereotype, but then I am just a wee bastard.
grave yard cool, should get some college archaeology students in there with topographical lasers and such, can scan those grave stones and see through all the moss and centuries of dirt preserve before lost to the weather.
JFK64 Kennedy That would be a good idea, there isn’t that much info on the oldest graves, although I did read one theory that suggested they may be the graves of the Knights Templar but the evidence was a bit thin 👍
Brilliant trip and video. Nice to see an adventure in the UK
Cheers Mark!
In the UK you have castles! We don't have in Canada.
I'd trade you all our castles... For half of your forests.
Anon Once this Pandemic ends you can visit Canada any time!
Really enjoyed this, thanks guys, I love Scotland, was trying to place your accent.... I grew up in County Durham, and I’m guessing Wearside/Teeside ??? , have subscribed after watching this great video 🤙
Cheers David, I’m from Sunderland originally but left almost 20 years ago. All the best 👍
Great to see you guys back again. Fantastic filming .what cameras are you using? Looks like a really tranquil place to spend a week back to the natural way of holidaying.Thanks for sharing your trip.
Cheers Shep! The cameras we used were the Canon G7x mkII, a Canon EOS 700D and a GoPro Hero 4.
Fantastic trip, brilliantly captured. Love the soundtrack too, where can I find it? Thks
Thanks Stephen, I got the music from the TH-cam audio library.
Europe Overland cheers, will look it up.
Be very careful ,three fisherman lost there lives in a boat on lock hoar,the waves can be 8 ft best wishes d chubb
4 anglers from north Glasgow not 3
Loch awe is a dangerous loch if common sense isnt in your kit .
@@williamconnor7249 as all water is when theres no common sense
It is a very joy full adventure and by the way I love those little islands in Scotland I was wondering if they're for sale i would love to buy one and live on it and I am dead serious bro.
What a place! Great video too - how did you fix that skirt around your lavvu ? I have an old zeltbahn and want to do the same - is that glue or velcro or both? Many thanks Marc
Marcus Orangeboom IV None Hi! We sewed the skirt on to the lavvu, my wife has a 1960’s Singer heavy duty sewing machine which made easy work of the task! 👍
I really like your camp set up and video content so I subscribed and being Scottish as well I totally support 👍👍🛶🔥🔪 did you do the mods on your Lavu setup?
Cheers Scott! Yeah we modified the lavvu ourselves, we stitched an extra 14" to the bottom of the tent, put a zip in the front and fixed in the flashing kit for the flue 👍.
Hi, what a beautiful experience! I'm interested to that tent. Where did you buy this type?
Hi buddy , I’m half way through vid , well enjoying it .. great vid .. we have a camping channel but with a camper .. this year we are adding some bushcraft to our channel .. , good to meet you , we will subscribe to you .. cheers all the best .. Chris & Sam
Fantastic video love the luvva can you tell me what you used to made the skirt ps like to see more videos with your luvva
Thanks! We used some heavy duty waterproof canvas for the skirt and just stitched it on 👍
Hi, love your videos, interested in the tent with the chimney hole for the log burner, what tent is it please?
Outdoor Bro's cheers! The tent is an old Polish Lavvu tent, we stitched an extra length of canvas to the bottom to make more room 👍
@@Adventure-Outdoors thanks been looking at them.on eBay but couldn't see one that had the hole in for the stove pipe
I hear the twang of a Geordie but I can't pinpoint where you're from? I only ask as you sound like you live closeby.
Hi Jonny, I'm from Sunderland originally but left almost 20 years ago.
@@Adventure-Outdoors 👍
Do you have an email address I can contact you on to ask a few questions please. Thanks Matt
Matthew Martinson hi Matt, yes you can contact me at europeoverland@gmail.com 👍