From experience I can say that it's difficult to ignore all this pushed and often payed message by top hiking influencers. Although I'm not the youngest guy I fell for it. Reflection comes with experience. And as you said, we don't have to copy anybody and need to find the kit that suits us. I agree that we're different so are our choices and it's important (I think) to be less focused on gear and more on our shared love to being on the trail. Some interesting choices you've made and you made me think... Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Seb.
Oy the southern upland way.. ..I only came half way that time back in the day. I found it.. ... wel -- you are made from different stuff!! I surely do look forward to your adventure - the kit sure looks up tpt notch and very thought trough. Chaars - have a good one!!
It's going to be a challenge! Hopefully Mother Nature will be kind to me but I'm ready if she throws a few tantrums!😁 Thank you for the good wishes and wish you well and all the best!👍🍻🙂
Nice to see gear load out. 2 great trails I’ve been fortunate enough to complete. Fingers crossed I’m heading out in the summer to do Cambrian Way. Good luck with your trips
Hi Snowy, I was the guy out on my exercise routine you met at the start of the SUW. I did it East to West in 2013 as I like to walk homewards. You were recording that morning so I kept our chat brief. I've also walked the CWT bothways and find that the most challenging trail to do. I've thru-hiked from Cape Wrath to Mull of Galloway and John o' Groats to Mull of Galloway so it's pleasing to meet others who are out there doing the trails, especially thru-hikers! I've never recorded any of my hikes but I enjoy watching others and am looking forward to your experience of the SUW. You're ten days into it now and hopefully the conditions have been favourable, be safe.
Hello Frank, your advice to stay at the beehive bothy was spot on! I really needed the water supply (stream) the bothy had! The first few days were really hot and I was having problems staying hydrated as water was hard to come by. The last few days have been low clouds and drizzle so normal conditions and plenty of water. You've done some fantastic trails there! I'm also on Instagram/Facebook as Snowymatrix and have posted some quick videos of some of my wild camps on trail for a snapshot of the trail so far. All the best!👍🍺
Yep, blinding someone with a super bright torch will definitely give you an advantage 😂😂👍 you're so well prepared mate , always enjoy seeing what you take, I've got a long way to go until I'm that organised, great stuff mate 👍🏕️
Good luck with the SUW it's a good trail if a bit solitary. I am probably going for attempt number 4 this year on it in June or September, got all the way to Galashiels last time. Good to see you are getting back out again!
A proper load out with purpose and some great bits of kit that I shall check out. I look forward to your trail video's and I hope it goes well. For me too I dream of doing the CWT again but it will have to wait untill I'm retired in 4 years time. Hopfully I shall still be capable then should be as my Dad managed it at 73 years of age. All the best for the SUW 👍⛺🌞
Hi Snowy. I once purchased a pair of Saloman Quest 4D GTX boots for a BTB C2C and Offas dyke hikes over 5 weeks. Worst decision ever on footwear, as soon as it rained heavy on day 2 the boots filled with water, and let me tell you Trenchfoot was very close. My boots had no goretex obviously they were CRAP. Lessons learned for me ,Hope yours went OK.
A tried and tested gear loadout from snowy , looks like you are ready at the blocks for the SUW . I am hoping to do a little bit from Sanqhuar to moffat area once we are allowed back over the border legally lol.atb Dave
Nice one Dave hope you had a good wild camp! Well I know you did as I watched the video!😁 Tried and tested is the way to go on a challenge as tough as the Southern Upland Way!👍🍻🍻
It’s exciting to see your kit altogether at the ready for your next adventure Snowy! I really look forward to seeing it because it’s great to be able to escape and watch a video of yours. More so because we’re all stuck in our country’s with this pandemic 😷 Ohhh that story creeped me out, I remember it. Torch is 👍🏻 very much needed for many situations 😊
Hello Dee, sorry about mentioning the story again! 😊 Australia is such a big country I wouldn't mind being stuck there you wanna swap!! 😁 I'm packing and unpacking my rucksack double and triple checking everything so thought I'd put a video out!😂
Excellent kit breakdown Snowy, I'm floating around the 6-7kg mark so I'm not UL either. I've got the same w/p trousers and sleeping mat. Might get myself one of these pee bottles instead of an empty Lucozade bottle. 😁 Interesting theory with protecting yourself. Good luck for the SUW and CWT. 👍🏼
A lucuzade bottle ain't wide enough for my liking!😂 I'm not a fan of the UL style or the way it's preached as the only way to walk long distance trails - it's not. I hope it stays a theory and I don't have to test it on trail but I don't camp anywhere near Kinlocheven now on the two times I've done the WHW since the tent incident! And like I told Gaz Outdoors I'm only 5,7 so have to fight dirty!🍺😁
@@snowymatrix 😅where did you pickup the pee bottle? aye the West Highland Way is a bit different as you meet all sorts on that trail and no where is very remote. The CWT was fab, cheers. 👍🏼
Funny story about that bottle I bought it second hand on eBay but the seller was quick to tell me that although it had no tags it was new and she never used it. I didn't have the heart to tell her what I was going to use it for!😂
Hi there, finally found some time to watch your video. Really interesting, especially for planning 2 or 3 week trips which I have not done for a long while. Loved the Nitecore p18 story and a nice piece of kit, its expensive but I guess it could save your life one day. Thanks for sharing and I hope your SUW trip goes well, atb Simon
Thanks Simon, yeah it's a bit long this video I try to keep my videos under 20 minutes and closer to 10 but it's probably the last gear video I'll do! You're right the SOS and becon mode on the torch could one day be critical so what's a few extra quid here and there! Thanks 👍😁
Nice one Snowy, it's crazy to see how technology has had an impact on outdoor gear. I know it's not cheap and why wouldn't it be if it does what it says on the tin. I'm looking forward to seeing you out in the wild again. I've kinda gone from wild camping to camper vanning, but watching your vid today has stirred up wanted to be out on a secluded trail. Keep safe and look forward to catching up. Atb Si
Nice one Si good to see you around! I did see your video when you said you were hanging up your backpacking boots and doing the van life thing. Once long distance walking gets in the blood it's hard to resist the calling of the trail for long! All the best👍🍻🙂
Great experienced kit selection there Snowy . I got a strobe torch but it takes me about a minute to find the correct button strobe setting 🤣 guess i gotta keep em talking in the meantime 🤣. Have a great hike ! 👍🙂
Nice one Snowy, glad you'll soon be out on the trail again. I want to go back to the CWT and finish it off when I'm able and although I've done all of the SUW, it was in 1999 so I'd love to give it another go sometime. Look forward to your videos of both trails. Take care 👍
Thanks mate, I've been following the SUW page on Facebook it looks like they are doing a lot of work improving the trail. Hopefully not long now before the off👍🍻
Nice one Daz, I'm following the SUW page on FB and they are out on trail improving parts of the trail that are under water!! 😂 My Solomons are bitting at the bit to get out there!👍🍻😁
wow so many things to carry on your sholders.. i think i will take 4WD .. hahhaaa.. im still watching.. so interesting to watch this.. ❤️👍..This is going to be very useful for us if we ever think going on a hike.. thank you so much for sharing
Always good Snowy to see what others carry and why. I have just loaded up my Osprey Atmos 65 AG pack with my wild camping kit and might just follow your lead and upload a video of the pack and its contents 😊👍
Great video Snowy and good advice from an experienced long distance hiker. I’ve tried a lot of water filters myself, but always return to the water purifying tablets combined with boiling the water for a hot drink or meal. Good luck on the SUW, look forward to watching the video👍👍👍
Thanks Anthony, the old school methods are back in style! I drink what comes out the tap in London so I'm not scared of mountain fresh water from the wilds of Scotland! Atb 💦💧👍🍻😁
Hi Snowy I'm trying to put together a clothing system for long distance hiking. Im looking at the traditional layering system with a goretex shell but Im also looking at a Paramo alternative. Do you still use Paramo?
Hello Imran, yes I still have my Paramo jacket which I used on past adventures on the West Highland way, Hebridean Way and on the Cape Wrath trail so have no worries in recommending Paramo's system as it works! In the last few years I have been using the layer system I show in this video because most of the adventures have been in the middle of summer and maybe the Paramo is a little too warm for that. Thanks for stopping by
@@snowymatrix same here up on the hills about midnight or so. An a light hit the tent. Didn't think anything of it. Until later.. Got up for a pee an could see three foot away two people on a road. They had lost they way an didn't no were they mates camp at. Scary shit I tell ya mate. But we had an idea we're they had to go as we could see a light on the hill. But for a strange bloke too wake you up.?? What was he doing there. Happy ta here nothing happened mate 👍😁
@@stealthandysteath1069 Thanks Dee, I have actually a few years ago in Scotland on the West Highland Way where wild camping is legal. I had met a German girl and wild camped in a forest just off the trail and close to the town of Kinlochleven with her. At about 3am I was awoken by something banging on the tent. I got my high powered torch out and put it on strobe in an attempt to scare what I thought was an animal away. I then heard a voice shout open up! I did and this man was standing outside! He asked me if I was on the WHW which I replied yes and after looking inside my tent from a distance he said let me shake your hand which I did and he trotted off into the forest with 1000 lumens of my torch lighting him up. Very surreal moment!! After he left the German girl opened her tent still clutching her big knife and told me he had been banging on her tent first but she ignored it and got her weapon out! Anyway, I didn't sleep anymore that night and got dressed and booted up and kept watch in case he tried to return. In the morning we talked about going back into town and reporting it to the police but didn't. A year later I was on the WHW again near the area where we camped and saw the notice that river bailiffs patrol the area 24 hours a day to catch poachers and it all made sense! But he could have at least identified himself as one. The question about being on WHW and him looking inside for what must have been for stolen fish from the river and fishing equipment convinced me of that. It never put me off wild camping though it was just such a surreal experience at the time!😁
@@snowymatrix me an mi mate have been seen by the cops camping. An they didn't do anything. They asked if we were OK an when Nathan said ya they said have a good night an moved off..
It was a surreal experience seeing a man outside the tent in a forest at 3am. Now I try not to camp near rivers that might have salmon in them! Thanks for stopping by all the best 👍🍻
😂yeah seen so many videos like this where they are showing their kit and still want people to tell them what they should and shouldn't take! 😁 What did you think about the wild camping 3 am incident - has anything like that ever happened to you?
@@snowymatrix well no nothing like that has happened to me even when i wild camp under peoples noses lol, I would have been shitting myself, I keep a hiking stick collapsed near me to use as a club, were you near a pub?
We were about a mile out of town so a good walk from the pub. We were drinking in that pub when we past through the town. Did you read the full story in the video and my theory on who he was? I also copy and pasted it on Andy's comments 👍
@@LezleysAdventures Thanks Dee, I have actually a few years ago in Scotland on the West Highland Way where wild camping is legal. I had met a German girl and wild camped in a forest just off the trail and close to the town of Kinlochleven with her. At about 3am I was awoken by something banging on the tent. I got my high powered torch out and put it on strobe in an attempt to scare what I thought was an animal away. I then heard a voice shout open up! I did and this man was standing outside! He asked me if I was on the WHW which I replied yes and after looking inside my tent from a distance he said let me shake your hand which I did and he trotted off into the forest with 1000 lumens of my torch lighting him up. Very surreal moment!! After he left the German girl opened her tent still clutching her big knife and told me he had been banging on her tent first but she ignored it and got her weapon out! Anyway, I didn't sleep anymore that night and got dressed and booted up and kept watch in case he tried to return. In the morning we talked about going back into town and reporting it to the police but didn't. A year later I was on the WHW again near the area where we camped and saw the notice that river bailiffs patrol the area 24 hours a day to catch poachers and it all made sense! But he could have at least identified himself as one. The question about being on WHW and him looking inside for what must have been for stolen fish from the river and fishing equipment convinced me of that. It never put me off wild camping though it was just such a surreal experience at the time!😁
@@snowymatrix ah yes I think I saw that on a previous video of yours, remember I still walk into a room & forget why lol, but he totally should have introduced himself
From experience I can say that it's difficult to ignore all this pushed and often payed message by top hiking influencers. Although I'm not the youngest guy I fell for it. Reflection comes with experience. And as you said, we don't have to copy anybody and need to find the kit that suits us. I agree that we're different so are our choices and it's important (I think) to be less focused on gear and more on our shared love to being on the trail. Some interesting choices you've made and you made me think... Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Seb.
Very well put Seb those are words of experience gained on trail👍🍻
You are prepared indeed Snowy... Look forward to viewing your hike>
Nice one Max, hope the snow clears and you get back out there into that beautiful wild scenary!👍😎
Thank you Snowy. There are a lot of useful things that I will definitely take on hiking with me. Thanks the video was helpful. Cheers! 👍👍
Thanks glad it was useful to you all the best👍🍺🍺🌞
Thanks for sharing Snowy...Great Job...Great Gears. Peace.
Nice one mate, glad you enjoyed it sorry it took so long!👍🍻😁
Nice one, Snowy. Looking forward to seeing this year's adventures and doing some myself! Atb.
Thanks Jay, all the best in this year's adventures!🍻👍🙂
Very thorough kit snowy. I remember you telling the story of the freaky dude at your tent. I'll be looking forward to watching your adventures. 👍
Thanks Steve, nice to see you back on the old YT mate! Can't wait to get back up north again!👍🍺😎
Oy the southern upland way.. ..I only came half way that time back in the day. I found it.. ... wel -- you are made from different stuff!!
I surely do look forward to your adventure - the kit sure looks up tpt notch and very thought trough.
Chaars - have a good one!!
It's going to be a challenge! Hopefully Mother Nature will be kind to me but I'm ready if she throws a few tantrums!😁 Thank you for the good wishes and wish you well and all the best!👍🍻🙂
Nice to see gear load out. 2 great trails I’ve been fortunate enough to complete. Fingers crossed I’m heading out in the summer to do Cambrian Way. Good luck with your trips
Great stuff mow, good luck on the CW hope nature is kind to us on the trails with the weather!👍🍻
Snowy is back!!😎😎😎, good to see you back and can’t wait to see you smashing the trails again!😄👏🏻
Nice one Adam! 😁🍺 Snowy is back in the matrix!😂 Thanks for stopping by all the best🍺🍺
Liked the budgie smugglers, something inhave struggled with on long hikes if I'm honest. Thanks for this Snowy, catch you soon ❤👍☕
Thanks guys, those EDZ merino briefs are just as good as the icebreaker versions but half the price!👍😁
I just checked and I wasn't subscribed to you I thought I was! I retified it!!👍😁💙
@@snowymatrix ah thank you Snowy! YT might have removed you, it unrang a load of my notification bells just before Christmas
It still recommends me your videos so it knows I watch them lol YT very strange!😁🍻
Hi Snowy, I was the guy out on my exercise routine you met at the start of the SUW. I did it East to West in 2013 as I like to walk homewards. You were recording that morning so I kept our chat brief. I've also walked the CWT bothways and find that the most challenging trail to do. I've thru-hiked from Cape Wrath to Mull of Galloway and John o' Groats to Mull of Galloway so it's pleasing to meet others who are out there doing the trails, especially thru-hikers! I've never recorded any of my hikes but I enjoy watching others and am looking forward to your experience of the SUW. You're ten days into it now and hopefully the conditions have been favourable, be safe.
Hello Frank, your advice to stay at the beehive bothy was spot on! I really needed the water supply (stream) the bothy had! The first few days were really hot and I was having problems staying hydrated as water was hard to come by. The last few days have been low clouds and drizzle so normal conditions and plenty of water. You've done some fantastic trails there! I'm also on Instagram/Facebook as Snowymatrix and have posted some quick videos of some of my wild camps on trail for a snapshot of the trail so far. All the best!👍🍺
Yep, blinding someone with a super bright torch will definitely give you an advantage 😂😂👍 you're so well prepared mate , always enjoy seeing what you take, I've got a long way to go until I'm that organised, great stuff mate 👍🏕️
I'm only 5 foot 7 Gaz have to fight dirty!😂😁
Definitely enjoyed it my friend, full view and thumbs up,,👍
Many thanks Shadow all the best my friend!👍🍻😎
Good luck with the SUW it's a good trail if a bit solitary. I am probably going for attempt number 4 this year on it in June or September, got all the way to Galashiels last time. Good to see you are getting back out again!
Hello Stag, good luck on the trail and great to see you around all the best!👍🍻🙂
A proper load out with purpose and some great bits of kit that I shall check out. I look forward to your trail video's and I hope it goes well. For me too I dream of doing the CWT again but it will have to wait untill I'm retired in 4 years time. Hopfully I shall still be capable then should be as my Dad managed it at 73 years of age.
All the best for the SUW
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Your dad is an inspiration Dave! Looking forward to both your future adventures 🍻🍻🙂
Hi Snowy. I once purchased a pair of Saloman Quest 4D GTX boots for a BTB C2C and Offas dyke hikes over 5 weeks. Worst decision ever on footwear, as soon as it rained heavy on day 2 the boots filled with water, and let me tell you Trenchfoot was very close. My boots had no goretex obviously they were CRAP. Lessons learned for me ,Hope yours went OK.
A tried and tested gear loadout from snowy , looks like you are ready at the blocks for the SUW . I am hoping to do a little bit from Sanqhuar to moffat area once we are allowed back over the border legally lol.atb Dave
Nice one Dave hope you had a good wild camp! Well I know you did as I watched the video!😁 Tried and tested is the way to go on a challenge as tough as the Southern Upland Way!👍🍻🍻
It’s exciting to see your kit altogether at the ready for your next adventure Snowy! I really look forward to seeing it because it’s great to be able to escape and watch a video of yours. More so because we’re all stuck in our country’s with this pandemic 😷 Ohhh that story creeped me out, I remember it. Torch is 👍🏻 very much needed for many situations 😊
Hello Dee, sorry about mentioning the story again! 😊 Australia is such a big country I wouldn't mind being stuck there you wanna swap!! 😁 I'm packing and unpacking my rucksack double and triple checking everything so thought I'd put a video out!😂
@@snowymatrix Haha don't be sorry 😂 It was a good story though. Yes I would love to swap for a little! That'd be awesome 😄
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Excellent kit breakdown Snowy, I'm floating around the 6-7kg mark so I'm not UL either. I've got the same w/p trousers and sleeping mat. Might get myself one of these pee bottles instead of an empty Lucozade bottle. 😁
Interesting theory with protecting yourself. Good luck for the SUW and CWT. 👍🏼
A lucuzade bottle ain't wide enough for my liking!😂 I'm not a fan of the UL style or the way it's preached as the only way to walk long distance trails - it's not. I hope it stays a theory and I don't have to test it on trail but I don't camp anywhere near Kinlocheven now on the two times I've done the WHW since the tent incident! And like I told Gaz Outdoors I'm only 5,7 so have to fight dirty!🍺😁
Oh, I'm following your CWT videos/posts on FB - excellent well done!👍👍🍺
@@snowymatrix 😅where did you pickup the pee bottle? aye the West Highland Way is a bit different as you meet all sorts on that trail and no where is very remote. The CWT was fab, cheers. 👍🏼
Funny story about that bottle I bought it second hand on eBay but the seller was quick to tell me that although it had no tags it was new and she never used it. I didn't have the heart to tell her what I was going to use it for!😂
@@snowymatrix 💦 😂
Hi there, finally found some time to watch your video.
Really interesting, especially for planning 2 or 3 week trips which I have not done for a long while. Loved the Nitecore p18 story and a nice piece of kit, its expensive but I guess it could save your life one day. Thanks for sharing and I hope your SUW trip goes well, atb Simon
Thanks Simon, yeah it's a bit long this video I try to keep my videos under 20 minutes and closer to 10 but it's probably the last gear video I'll do! You're right the SOS and becon mode on the torch could one day be critical so what's a few extra quid here and there! Thanks 👍😁
Nice one Snowy, it's crazy to see how technology has had an impact on outdoor gear. I know it's not cheap and why wouldn't it be if it does what it says on the tin. I'm looking forward to seeing you out in the wild again. I've kinda gone from wild camping to camper vanning, but watching your vid today has stirred up wanted to be out on a secluded trail. Keep safe and look forward to catching up. Atb Si
Nice one Si good to see you around! I did see your video when you said you were hanging up your backpacking boots and doing the van life thing. Once long distance walking gets in the blood it's hard to resist the calling of the trail for long! All the best👍🍻🙂
Great experienced kit selection there Snowy . I got a strobe torch but it takes me about a minute to find the correct button strobe setting 🤣 guess i gotta keep em talking in the meantime 🤣. Have a great hike ! 👍🙂
😂 keep them talking a good ploy!! Thanks for stopping by hope you are well and out on trails soon!👍🍻😎
@@snowymatrix thanks ! , hoping to finish off the king alfreds way , wildcamping and bikepacking in May 👍😀🍻
@@Foxtrottangoabc wow sounds fantastic have fun!👍🍻🙂
Awesome video! Safe travels :)
Have a great weekend Rivkah 🎵🎧🎶🎷🎸🙂
Nice one Snowy, glad you'll soon be out on the trail again. I want to go back to the CWT and finish it off when I'm able and although I've done all of the SUW, it was in 1999 so I'd love to give it another go sometime. Look forward to your videos of both trails. Take care 👍
Thanks mate, I've been following the SUW page on Facebook it looks like they are doing a lot of work improving the trail. Hopefully not long now before the off👍🍻
No substitute for experience gained from one's own endeavour 👍
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All set M8 southern upland way looks a excellent one to start with look forward to that atb daz
Nice one Daz, I'm following the SUW page on FB and they are out on trail improving parts of the trail that are under water!! 😂 My Solomons are bitting at the bit to get out there!👍🍻😁
@@snowymatrix I bet good luck m8 👍
Thanks mate all the best on your next one looking forward to watching it!👍🍻
wow so many things to carry on your sholders.. i think i will take 4WD .. hahhaaa.. im still watching.. so interesting to watch this.. ❤️👍..This is going to be very useful for us if we ever think going on a hike.. thank you so much for sharing
😁 sometimes I wish I had a 4WD but have to make do with two walking poles for my arms to make it 4 limb drive!😁 Thanks for stopping by! 👍🙂
@@snowymatrix lol walking is good for the body.. i wish i could too.. but im living in a rat race..no way of getting out
@@asankaw1 try anyway!💚
@@snowymatrix will for sure one day.. one day .. lol thanks
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Always good Snowy to see what others carry and why. I have just loaded up my Osprey Atmos 65 AG pack with my wild camping kit and might just follow your lead and upload a video of the pack and its contents 😊👍
go for it Paul kit videos are always interesting! Enjoy the wild camp :-)
@@snowymatrix I agree Snowy and I will 😊. Looking forward to your trail exploits during 2021 mate. Off for a Black Mountains adventure on Thursday 👍😊
Great stuff!😎
Interesting stuff - I think we're all closet gear nerds, and we're not all ultra-lighters lol good luck with the two tough trails ahead...atb Sinco
Thanks Sinco, I prefer the term enthusiast!😂 Good luck on your future trails 👍🍻😎
It's interesting to see how well people pack. We seem to take a huge rucksack just for an afternoon walk. I've no idea what she puts in it.
I used to pack everything but the kitchen sink too when I first started out! 😁 Thanks for stopping by all the best on your adventures!👍🙂
Thanks for the great video!!😊😊👏👏
Welcome 👍🍺
Wow nice for sharing my friend😇😁
Glad to share!😁
Great video Snowy and good advice from an experienced long distance hiker. I’ve tried a lot of water filters myself, but always return to the water purifying tablets combined with boiling the water for a hot drink or meal. Good luck on the SUW, look forward to watching the video👍👍👍
Thanks Anthony, the old school methods are back in style! I drink what comes out the tap in London so I'm not scared of mountain fresh water from the wilds of Scotland! Atb 💦💧👍🍻😁
Hello young one, l agree with you l do the same way l buy my own camping gear to suit me my taste
Nice one, exactly! 👍🍻😎
Right on man. You defo have to find your own thing.
👍🍺 Yeap!
Hi Snowy
I'm trying to put together a clothing system for long distance hiking. Im looking at the traditional layering system with a goretex shell but Im also looking at a Paramo alternative. Do you still use Paramo?
Hello Imran, yes I still have my Paramo jacket which I used on past adventures on the West Highland way, Hebridean Way and on the Cape Wrath trail so have no worries in recommending Paramo's system as it works! In the last few years I have been using the layer system I show in this video because most of the adventures have been in the middle of summer and maybe the Paramo is a little too warm for that. Thanks for stopping by
Thanks. I love what you do. Inspirational.
Go Go Go Bro 🔥❤️
Just waiting for you mate 👍😁
Nice one Andy, I'm going to share an incident that happened to me on a wild camp and will be interested to hear your opinion on the matter...
@@snowymatrix same here up on the hills about midnight or so. An a light hit the tent. Didn't think anything of it. Until later.. Got up for a pee an could see three foot away two people on a road. They had lost they way an didn't no were they mates camp at. Scary shit I tell ya mate. But we had an idea we're they had to go as we could see a light on the hill. But for a strange bloke too wake you up.?? What was he doing there. Happy ta here nothing happened mate 👍😁
@@stealthandysteath1069 I'll copy and paste the full story that I wrote on a comment once I get to my computer, mate 👍
@@stealthandysteath1069 Thanks Dee, I have actually a few years ago in Scotland on the West Highland Way where wild camping is legal. I had met a German girl and wild camped in a forest just off the trail and close to the town of Kinlochleven with her. At about 3am I was awoken by something banging on the tent. I got my high powered torch out and put it on strobe in an attempt to scare what I thought was an animal away. I then heard a voice shout open up! I did and this man was standing outside! He asked me if I was on the WHW which I replied yes and after looking inside my tent from a distance he said let me shake your hand which I did and he trotted off into the forest with 1000 lumens of my torch lighting him up. Very surreal moment!! After he left the German girl opened her tent still clutching her big knife and told me he had been banging on her tent first but she ignored it and got her weapon out! Anyway, I didn't sleep anymore that night and got dressed and booted up and kept watch in case he tried to return. In the morning we talked about going back into town and reporting it to the police but didn't. A year later I was on the WHW again near the area where we camped and saw the notice that river bailiffs patrol the area 24 hours a day to catch poachers and it all made sense! But he could have at least identified himself as one. The question about being on WHW and him looking inside for what must have been for stolen fish from the river and fishing equipment convinced me of that. It never put me off wild camping though it was just such a surreal experience at the time!😁
@@snowymatrix me an mi mate have been seen by the cops camping. An they didn't do anything. They asked if we were OK an when Nathan said ya they said have a good night an moved off..
Hope I never experience that m8🙁
Enjoyed your content 👍
It was a surreal experience seeing a man outside the tent in a forest at 3am. Now I try not to camp near rivers that might have salmon in them! Thanks for stopping by all the best 👍🍻
woohoo, I made it, not on time but i made it lol looks very efficient kit, I could do with some dynema stuff sacks, loling at the finger wagging
😂yeah seen so many videos like this where they are showing their kit and still want people to tell them what they should and shouldn't take! 😁 What did you think about the wild camping 3 am incident - has anything like that ever happened to you?
@@snowymatrix well no nothing like that has happened to me even when i wild camp under peoples noses lol, I would have been shitting myself, I keep a hiking stick collapsed near me to use as a club, were you near a pub?
We were about a mile out of town so a good walk from the pub. We were drinking in that pub when we past through the town. Did you read the full story in the video and my theory on who he was? I also copy and pasted it on Andy's comments 👍
@@LezleysAdventures Thanks Dee, I have actually a few years ago in Scotland on the West Highland Way where wild camping is legal. I had met a German girl and wild camped in a forest just off the trail and close to the town of Kinlochleven with her. At about 3am I was awoken by something banging on the tent. I got my high powered torch out and put it on strobe in an attempt to scare what I thought was an animal away. I then heard a voice shout open up! I did and this man was standing outside! He asked me if I was on the WHW which I replied yes and after looking inside my tent from a distance he said let me shake your hand which I did and he trotted off into the forest with 1000 lumens of my torch lighting him up. Very surreal moment!! After he left the German girl opened her tent still clutching her big knife and told me he had been banging on her tent first but she ignored it and got her weapon out! Anyway, I didn't sleep anymore that night and got dressed and booted up and kept watch in case he tried to return. In the morning we talked about going back into town and reporting it to the police but didn't. A year later I was on the WHW again near the area where we camped and saw the notice that river bailiffs patrol the area 24 hours a day to catch poachers and it all made sense! But he could have at least identified himself as one. The question about being on WHW and him looking inside for what must have been for stolen fish from the river and fishing equipment convinced me of that. It never put me off wild camping though it was just such a surreal experience at the time!😁
@@snowymatrix ah yes I think I saw that on a previous video of yours, remember I still walk into a room & forget why lol, but he totally should have introduced himself
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I have a knife as well for security.
Yeah it was a very rare incident. No chance of anyone bothering me on the Southern Uplands though absolutely empty!👍🍺
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