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Blethering Ben - Innerdouny Hill

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ธ.ค. 2020
  • I can't bear the thought of letting a single minute of snow cover go to waste, especially when Winter 2020/21 could easily be yet another stinker and this could be all the snow we get! So, having already roamed Fife's snowy Lomond Hills in the morning, later that day I headed into the Ochils to savour the evening light and hopefully get a nice torchlit descent. A quick but memorable jaunt up the highest hill in Kinross.
    PS - I DID get a torchlit descent.....so you'll just have to accept the comedy value of being spoken to by a ball of light. You have been warned ;-)

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  • @blormpf1740
    @blormpf1740 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful video and commentary - always enjoy your videos - sipping a strong orange pekoe tea watching this

  • @CathyPack
    @CathyPack 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank you for sharing a beautiful walk.

  • @natalieminnis
    @natalieminnis 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It looks like we might get a white Christmas, even at low levels this year.
    I've become a fan of night walking recently, after doing solo night navigation practice. I haven't done any snowy night walks yet, but I'm looking forward to doing so.

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yes the tabloids have been churning out their annual clickbait about Siberian this and Arctic that ;-) The trend is still looking colder than it is just now but there's no way to know until the 22nd at the earliest, as that's when the low pressure currently over Nova Scotia will arrive, and that's when we'll know what direction the air (or any moisture) will be coming from. As ever in the UK, near impossible to call beyond 3 or 4 days in advance ;-) We live in hope though! :)

    • @natalieminnis
      @natalieminnis 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BenvironmentBlog Let's hope so! if the White Christmas does happen, no doubt it will be described as a "Polar blast" in the press. 😂

  • @jonhillman
    @jonhillman 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Makes up (mostly) for me working through the snow 👍🏻

  • @jonnyanderson2271
    @jonnyanderson2271 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    If I was living near locations like yours, I’d always take my tent, sleeping bag etc. Just in case the forecast for clear nights or I’d enjoy the silence sooo much, I’d decide to stay the night. Obviously if I knew I could get to work in time the next day. 🙃🙄👊

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I like the torchlit walk-out too much to camp ;-)

  • @Kay-xb9cp
    @Kay-xb9cp 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Gorgeous walk, thank you for taking us along with you ❄️

  • @spijkerpoes
    @spijkerpoes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    odd the way that spruce is harvested so young. I'd say let it mature and thin it out and let it rejuvenate by itself - you'll have a high value wood stock for decades..
    nice shots, indeed the most ugly stuff improves with a good dump of snow on it. .Boris, Donald, Erdoghan..

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I imagine it's dictated by whatever they intend to use it for and of course economics. 35-45yrs seems to be the average in the UK.

    • @ScotsWildcamper
      @ScotsWildcamper 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes I always look handsome in the snow ugly as Duck usually!!

    • @spijkerpoes
      @spijkerpoes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ScotsWildcamper Eddiee!! You are peachy - even in 6 feet of mud

    • @spijkerpoes
      @spijkerpoes 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@BenvironmentBlog This.. ..is madness..
      I was thinking more like a 300-year scope. Economics of high value wood but also tourism and biodiversity
      Sustainable forest management .. blah blah ..
      I fear I'll never see the fruits of it
      although sometimes you show little hidden projects that look very promising (-@
      Knepp - Frans Vera - Peter Wohlleben etc

    • @BenvironmentBlog
      @BenvironmentBlog  3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@spijkerpoes It's a lovely vision, but if you're a forester or a land manager and you want to actually return a profit in your lifetime then.....
      It's like Christmas tree plantations. They're grown to somewhere between 4ft and 12ft and then they're felled and sold. Depends what your objective and commercial interests are. Not saying I wouldn't rather have lovely old growth forests but a 300yr crop rotation isn't gonna pay the bills ;-) Besides, you'd never get permission to fell a 300yr old forest for wood.....assuming humans are even around in 300yrs of course, which seems unlikely.
      Conservation-wise there are estates in Scotland that have 200yr forest management plans, but they're not in it for timber.

  • @michaelatkinson8291
    @michaelatkinson8291 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hi mate. If I could give you any present for Xmas it would be a recording of the sound of your feet walking through snow just like on this video & your recent-ish walk on Gael Charn that you could drift off to sleep listening to through your headphones. Have a good one mate & keep the videos, long or short, coming. All the best for hopefully a normal 2021.