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Kyde and Eric Those Tesco tokens are to put in a voting slot for charity(You don't pay anything), you can find the slot after you've played for your stuff on the way out.
Waitrose hands out little green tokens like that, and has a clear acrylic bin for them, divided into three sections, each with a coin slot at the top and a charity poster above it. You drop the "coins" into the slot and they donate some money every month to those charities, divided according to the number of "coins" in each bin. I suspect they just weigh the things, rather than counting them, because it's more efficient and accurate enough.
Ardvreck Castle, for anyone who's wondering, and Spidean Coinich, 764m ASL, about 520m above and 2800m away from the car park on that road. Judging by the OS map of it, where you went up was pretty much *the* sensible route. www.bing.com/maps?osid=889a42b5-c4f5-4c2f-b003-0d4499584c5b&cp=58.207669~-5.063935&lvl=14&style=s&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027 The blue grid is kilometres. The black }]} symbols are crags and outcroppings. The black dots are scree slopes (like climbing a pile of rubble). The orange-brown lines (with numbers) are contours, 10m apart vertically. The bold ones are at 50m intervals. Imagine a 1:25000 scale model of Scotland carved out of a huge Victoria sponge cake with a layer of jam every 4cm up it, viewed from on top. Contours parallel and evenly spaced is a steady slope, contours curving is a curved slope, contours at uneven distances is an uneven slope, contours wriggling all over the place is a lumpy valley floor, contours a respectable distance apart is a gentle slope (along that slope, 220m up to 620m in 2km = 1:5 gradient) and contours so close together they didn't bother drawing them all on the map (see both sides of that summit and everything north of it along the ridge) indicate a slope you don't want to try to walk up or down if you don't have to. You probably figured out that last detail just by looking at the high point of that little cluster of peaks, Sàil Gharbh, but for readers who weren't there, here's its outer end, seen from the next large loch up: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/corbetts/quinag-sail-gharbh-1.JPG
Avalanches! You get more than one kind. There are powder avalanches where the stuff builds up and builds up and builds up at 38° and then you see little lines where parts of it have broken loose and rolled, "snowballing" down the slope. Then it happens in a bigger way and *rumble-boom* the lot comes down. There are also *slab* avalanches. Slabs form in two ways. One is that wind blows snow off the windward slope, across a spur and onto the leeward slope, compacting it a little as it does so, and builds up a thick layer of denser snow, which then overloads the lighter powder snow beneath it and falls off. The other is that the sun melts the surface of the snow during the day and then it freezes into a layer of ice, then it snows, then that happens again so you have a deep snowpack with two layers of ice in it and a thin layer of powder snow like icing sugar between them. Then some clown on a snowboard cuts through it, and suddenly you've got a square kilometre of ice acting like a sledge on top of another square kilometre of ice, with that sugary layer lubricating them, and *crack-slither-boom* the lot comes down. Powder avalanches leave triangular scars. Slab avalanches leave scars with straight-across vertical walls at the top. Much more info here: www.ultimate-ski.com/features/off-piste-safety/types-of-avalanche.aspx people.uwec.edu/jolhm/EH3/Group4/types.htm ... and here's the wall left after a slab went: avalanche.state.co.us/caic/media/full/obs_29102_8520.jpg See the layering, where it had a warm day or two between periods of snowfall?
It's a very entertaining video but no-one should attempt a Scottish mountain without the proper gear: Because of the northerly latitude the weather can change in a flash. There are also multiple hazards on the way up and down. Even large boulders can be unstable.
I went hiking up some peaks in Scotland when I was younger - with full gear, boots, compass, kendal mint cake, whistle etc. Clear day. Got half way up a mountain and the mist came in so fast it was clear one minute, completely blind the next. Got totally lost, mountain had no drystone walls to follow down. Finally made it down in the dark with borderline hyperthermia. Lesson learnt..! Glad you guys got the right weather.
Pronounced UL-a-pool Not OOL-a-Pool Love you guys When you left Tesco at the door is a few charity boxes and you place the Blue discs in your chosen charity box, tesco then do the rest, whatever box contains the most Tesco make a donation So next time lookout for the clear charity boxes as you head for the exit, put blue disc through your preferred charity choice
Muir-burning (Scots for moor burning) is practised by hill farmers and land managers to burn off rough, hill grasses and long, mature heather to improve grazing for sheep and grouse. In Scotland, muirburn is permitted only between 1st October and 15th April inclusive, at all altitudes. This may be extended to 30th April only on the authority of the landowner. Generally, the Scottish Government does not encourage burning after the 15th of April
Guys, I love your videos, but deciding to climb a mountain on a whim and totally unprepared might be adventurous, but man was it irresponsible! I'm very glad that you got back down safely, but if the weather had suddenly turned, your day would have had a very different ending. Please don't do that again!!!
That helicopter you saw was 100% mountain rescue as well. Quite a common sight, unfortunately. Cool mountain though. That part of Scotland is so remote.
I can't have been the only one thinking they ought to have been more concerned about finding their way back to the car than the top of the mountain? A cracking sunny day, but you're never that far from the sea in Britain so the weather can change quickly. A bit of cloud and finding your direction suddenly becomes much harder. I hope at the very least you had the gps turned on your phone with some waypoints logged. That stream that was easy to cross could also have been a raging torrent with a bit of rain on all that bare rock and saturated peat bog you crossed by the time you got back to it. Easy to run out of daylight during a Scottish winter too. Glad you got to see how spectaculer the highlands are from the tops though. Something to do with the quality of light and the scale more than makes up for the modest altitude. The helicopter was probably doing maintenance work or surveying of power lines etc. The fire will have been an estate burning off the heather. Grouse (likely what you heard up the mountain) feed on its berries and shoots, burning encourages new growth. They do it in winter before the breeding season in part to control the fires, if the peat had dried out and caught fire it could burn for years. It may look wild, but much of the Highlands are as man made as California vineyards.
Hi guys. I've been off work after an operation and an infection as a result. I discovered your vlogs on here whilst surfing the TV and am loving seeing how you experience my country. I hope we have made you feel welcome. The far north is epic but empty, as you discovered! My ancestors are from there. I stay in the far south of the country where there are more people and some more sheep and horses. Loving your "Oolapool" Kyde (should be uh-la-pool) and Eric, "gaylic" is Irish, "gahlic" is Scots. A bit lick whiskey and whisky. Travel well.
Cheers. You have no idea the keech I have been watching. I could now be a judge at fierljeppen competitions and tell you about how Lenin is enbalmed. :-) As expert as you now are on false summits on Scottish hills.
This is not correct...Kyde pronounces the place-name properly. There is no "yoo" sound in Scots Gaelic. Uig, for example, is pronounced "Ooig" and so on. Southern Scots should tak tent.
Well Gordon, best head there and correct every person that lives there, in fact start at inverness and work your way up, every highlander has been saying it wrong !
Not everyone living in the Highlands speaks Gaelic, Slainte mhath and faigh na's fearr (Cheers and get well soon) Chan eil aon chanan gu leor (please look it up.)
1:42 there was probably a box by the exit with slots in the top and the details of two or three charities. You put the tokens in the slot for the charity that you want the supermarket to make a donation to. Waitrose used to do this
Ohh, you guys are so lucky this didn't end up to be 'found footage' No supplies, no sensible hiking boots, no 1st aid kit etc - in those 2 hours the weather could easily have turned to thick fog or a blizzard and you would have been trapped up there. On the other hand, great video, I would have probably done the same, LOL
Those blue things are charity tokens. Somewhere near the front of the supermarket there would have been a glass box and you then have three charity options to chose from. You chose your charity and drop your tokens in the corresponding slot. Ta dah!
The fires at the end are set by gamekeepers and sometimes hill farms.they burn back areas of old woody heather to promote new growth for red grouse and other wildlife to eat. It was a grouse making the creepy sound or maybe a ptarmigan also a type of grouse.it is hugely beneficial for all types of animals on the hill and also helps to slow wild fires .glad you enjoyed your trip 😀✋🏻🏴
Loch for Lake, Uhhh-la-pool for OOO-la-pool, spongey stuff is heather and peat bog, the wee pony you've fell in love with is a Shetland Pony and never, never, never have a square sausage without brown sauce. Love your videos and your enthusiasm for Scotland, wish I was there right now. Here's a wee treat for you: th-cam.com/video/PSaSqMxLU_E/w-d-xo.html
The ferry from Ulapool to Stornoway, in Outer Hebrides, is an amazing ~2hour boat ride next the the Western coast. The island is an amazing place with couple of busy pubs and nice locals) Those holicopters I think track hikers, maybe check if anybody is in trouble. In the North there is a huge millitary ground for testing explosives, and there are periods when it is closed for the hikers. But when its open they still have holicopters flying daily over any people they see. I once had a fighter jet fly by at my altitude while hiking through a glen in the Highlands.
I was ok until 28:39 ,, a Lorne roll with beans ??? OMG ... a Lorne roll with plenty of butter and maybe some brown sauce is all you need.. it's not good until it's dripping off your elbow's :)... your take on Scotland makes me mad ( because I'm Scottish) ,,, but it is VERY funny ,, keep up it up :)
I work at tesco those are counters which you are supposed to put them into which charity you want the donations in the store to go to, there is usually a choice of three as you're leaving the store you just pop the counters into which one you want.
your meant to put them in a charity box of your choice on the way out. I'm not surprised a patrol helicopter checked you out, very dangerous what you did, weather can turn in 15mins great vlog guys,
Thanks yet again for the nostalgia trip! So glad you guys are going down the west coast and Skye. Hope you get to Loch Lomond, it's one of my favorite places. On a side note, props to you guys for climbing the hill but the weather in Scotland can change really fast and without proper clothing and footwear you guys could've been in real trouble. As usual stay safe and have fun. Cheers! P.S. definitely tomato ketchup with Lorne sausage! ;)
you couldn't be closer with you thoughts on the morning roll except, its something you get at "The Van" which is the food truck that is close to your work. someone will say "i'm oaf tae the Van. you want anything? and you get your fry-up on a morning roll (haggis / bacon and egg / lorne (or square) sausage) you get the jist. if you can fry it. you can slap it on a roll =)
I thought it was the Americans that invented 'Banoffee Pie' made with a biscuit base, a layer of bananas and topped with the toffee sauce made from boiled up Nestle's Milk and finished up with a payer of whipped cream! Delicious!
Thank you for sharing your video, I love the pace and your sentiment. We film natural sound walks through soulful cities mainly in Britain, so it's lovely to see others introducing us to places we haven't been to (but now feel we have). We really enjoyed absorbing your video and losing ourselves in it. Perhaps we could subscribe to each other and share more? We look forward to seeing more from you.
I've got some Banoffee Pie facts to lay on y'all: it's usually a slice of a big pie with a biscuit base and often includes coffee flavour. It was created in the '70s at The Hungry Monk restaurant in Sussex, England. It's now a national dish thanks to my grandmother (or so my family likes to think). She was friends with the creator and taught the recipe at a catering collage during the '70s and '80s and sent all those budding chefs out into the world with it!
Best travel videos channel. Not only you visit places people don't normally go to, you also describe the little details like how the ground feels. To me, that's exactly what people say in their mind when they travel and it's something missing from regular travel videos. Loving it! I've watched some 'trailer'- and 'teaser'-ish videos about Scotland.. and even vlogs but none of them made me go "I wanna visit Scotland!" Yours, however, made me randomly text my friend and told her that we should totally put Scotland in our places-to-visit list!
Wow, thank you so much! That's exactly what we hope people will take away from our videos so it's awesome to hear that's what you are getting from them. Make sure you do northern Scotland if you and your friend make it there! -E
Take the ferry from Uig to Stornaway. Drive down as far as Barra and then take the ferry to Oban. Try Stornaway black pudding. Tweed from the Isle of Harris (and Gin), try to visit the Castlebay Hotel on Saturday night in Barra. Unmissable.
Walking on bogs. "Peatlands are wetland areas in which peat has accumulated and can support vegetation that is able to form new peat. Bogs (a type of peatland) are one of the most extensive semi-natural habitats in Scotland."
there are charity things on the way out , you put the tokens in whatever charity you want to help , then tesco gives the charity money depending on how many tokens put in the boxes
OOllapool. Oh my goodness, you could easily be deported for that pronunciation - it's got to be an offence ! It's UHllapool with the U pronounced as in mUg, unless of course in America you drink out of moogs. Nevertheless, welcome to Scotland and enjoy your stay.
At Tesco's (and other UK supermarket's) exit you'll see a row of see-through bins, each designated to a different charity. Place your token into whichever bin you wish Tesco to donate the token's equivalent in money.
Great vid, but you guys took a big risk, if the weather turned, and it does quickly in the highlands, you'd have been in serious trouble with what you were wearing.
Ginger32. I did the same myself, even with the right gear, the chance of twisting an ankle or wandering off a steep drop is high. People underestimate the highlands all the time, even experienced hikers who know what their doing.
On route to Gairloch, did you observe Loch Ewe, the vast assembly loch for the Arctic convoys to Russia (Murmansk/Archangel) in WW2? Gun emplacements are still obvious from the road. The old primary school serves as an excellent museum of the era. A really great video, congrats on summiting, too (and I agree, it's always further than it looks).
I am getting very concerned about the serious lack of ketchup or some other condiment on your food, a sausage sandwich without sauce is like steptoe without son, like Abbot without Costello, like fish without chips, like Kyde without Eric!!!
That was stressful watching you guys climb the mountain! I’m glad you guys made it back mostly unharmed. Anyway, thanks for the quality fluffy pony footage and the banoffee pie cupcake mention (craving it now!).
Ohhhh, that [ /those ] fluffy, mini-pony [ /-ponies ] are *g-o-o-o-o-r-geous* ...and, *so adorable* ({: D) ...!!! So, Kyde, Luv...did ya get yer "pure *sausage* moment", then ({; >) ...? And was it everything you'd *hoped* it might be ({; D) ...?!? Oh, and... butter and jam...or, marmalade...on a 'morning roll', is quite nice too. Uh-oh...Kyde wants to try some of that luscious, "Banoffee", confection *too,* Eric; oh, yeah...? Oh, well... *tough* luck; she should have *got* one, then [ ...right ({; D) ...?!? ] !! Wow...! Climbing that mountain...the *ascent, and* the DESCENT...was certainly a bit of a risky business; quite the dodgy, climbing endeavour, to be sure! But, the Scots *can* be ever so Psychic, you know, and that was why that helicopter was hovering all about: the locals knew you'd not be able to resist having a go at it, so it was there just in case you'd ended-up needing rescue ({; D) ! Quite glad you didn't, *afterall,* however!! Eric might/should have dipped his cut hand into the crystal-clear, icy pool, there; that would not only have 'washed' it...but, would've felt really soothing, as well! ~Yet again, a *marvellous, fabulous* video; thank you, both...!!
That climb was far more dangerous than you may have felt, the weather looked lovely, but if it turned on you & you were too high, you could have been in serious trouble, especially as you weren't equipped properly.
The boulders on the mountain are there because they’re deposits from when the mountains were a lot higher but worn down during the last ice age by glaciers. So what you’re now standing on is the remnants of a once much higher mountain. The claim is the Scottish highlands could have been as high as the Himalayas
In a lot of the northern highlands a charged phone is very handy - you can use it as a paperweight to hold down the note you leave of your last will and testament ;). Very true about the changeable weather though, as the old adage goes "If you don't like the weather in Scotland just wait a few minutes" and up in the hills an "easy ramble" can turn into a bit of an epic very quickly, especially in winter.
Mountain rescue uses VHF radio and you can get PLBs for under 200GBP www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/keeping-in-touch-personal-locator-beacons-in-the-mountains/0014751/
Paul Thomas Neither of those are mobile phones though of course. PLBs and/or SENDs can be useful if you do a lot of winter walking in the hills (particularly solo). They're overkill in situations like in the video though IMO, nor are they a guarantee of rescue (because they still need a clear view of the sky to get a satellite signal and rescuers still need to be able to reach you). The best device for staying safe in the mountains is still the one between our ears.
Mobile phone? Lamp. One of those little twist-on LED bicycle lights is probably enough. Also: the *map* of the area and a *compass* so you can orient it properly. It's amazing how many people get lost because the GPS function flattens the battery and they suddenly have *no* clue. Full waterproofs, warm gear to layer under them, proper boots, water and cereal bars, too. Also also: a willingness to say "FTLGOTR" when the weather goes bad: "Forget that. Let's get off this rock." Sidenote: static air gets about 1°C colder for every 150 m up you go, so that climb was -3°C and the big ones like Toubkal can be 28°C colder than sea level *before* you factor in wind-chill, which tends to be worse on ridges because they tend to be windier.
Oof, nicely done guys. That sort of bouldery ground is pretty hard walking IMO, you did well to get over it in what looked like trainers. And sometimes mixed snowy/dry terrain is actually deceptively dodgy because there's not enough ice to make crampons worthwhile but there's still enough to put you on your arse if you're not super careful (as Eric discovered ;).
I guess that is why the helicopter took an interest. Mountain Rescue are on the look out for tourists. With no mobile phone coverage, even a small accident can cause a night spent on the hillside, and unless you're dressed for the cold, that might be the last night you spend on earth.
Say 'Bah' as in "bah humbug", 'Gnaw' as in "gnaw a bone", 'Fee' as in "money to be paid" . Banoffee Pron:Bahgnawfee . Say 'Uhh' as in "dUHH, I havn't a clue", la as in "la France", Pool as in "swimming pool " Ullapool Pron: Uhhlapool. Say 'Gah' to rhyme with 'bah' as in "bah humbug" 'Lick' as in "lick an ice cream". Gaelic Pron: Gahlick. Sermon :- Yes distances in the mountains can be very deceiving. Looks like a ten minute stroll but... v dangerous, weather can turn in a second (
The mountains in the U.K. are very tiny compared to most in the U.S or other mountainous places. The highest is only around 4,050 square feet if memory serves my right. But man the wind is what makes it so damn dangerous in my experience. Also I know this is long long passed but those blue tokens you put into a charity box :)
I've watched this video on multiple occasions, but have only today discovered what "Eric, this is some Bob Ross shit" actually means! I was more of a Nancy Kominsky boy.
Kyle you actually witnessed and described (as an avalanche! ) glaciation and how did these rocks get here ? REM er the sheet of ice that you heard crack? That was a mini- glacier. As water gets underneath it moves, flows downhill carrying rocks and debris. Most of the British Isles is glacial - and you saw and head a mini one - how cool. PS shouldn’t have done that mountain walk without letting someone know.
I think you have probably got charity token,hiking danger, Ullapool pronunciation message by now !! :-) Very pleased that you discovered all by yourself the enigma of the car getting further away but the summit of the mountain getting no closer. Tradition when reaching the "summit "only to discover that the actual summit is further on (5 minutes?) is to shout sentences made up (almost ) entirely of profanities and to eat sugar masquerading as food ( tablet,fudge,mint cake etc) . At the real summit ,tradition is handshakes all round and a dram of whisky. Great series of videos with honest opinions of the good and bad at each destination.
your pretty much right...a lot of scots love a roll in the morning...especially workmen/tradesmen. We usually just ask for square sausage on a roll. Good guess... Tomato Ketchup or HP Brown sauce is the norm. Square sausage and egg on a roll is also nice. I prefer the onion lorne sausage as it has a bit more flavour to it. ;)
Great view from that mountain but if that little slip had been a bit worse, it wouldn’t have been a cut hand, it would have been a desperate, freezing cold, wait and hope that you could contact mountain rescue and that they could find you before dark.....people die on Scottish mountains. You were also lucky that it was so cold. That squidgy ground looks like peat bog, a bit warmer and you could have been sinking in up to your knees or worse.
Fantastic video, a real treat. You asked "Where did the rocks come from?" They were deposited by melting glaciers from the last Ice Age, 12,000 years ago. From the road there would have been close to a mile of ice above your head. The moving glaciers smoothed those mountains and dug out the lakes. The ice extended down to just north of London.
The castle creates his own graveyard 😍Kyde that was really poetic. I love you guys! Especially your way of looking at the beauty of nature when you're hiking, really good work! But howcome you never tried a scotch egg onces?
Those blue plastic coins are for charity. As you leave the shop, there's a box with like 3 different charities so you choose which one to pop each coin into. I guess the charity gets a small value for each coin from the shop. You get a number of coins depending how much you spend.
Mountains are nature's siren song. Chances are the helicopter is an established patrol and just making sure you are OK and no in need of assistance. I was on a lake in Canada and working on canoeing merit badge had four swamped canoes. When their plane patrol came by, all of the Canadians got their attention and pointed to us, and our dumb asses in the water started waving at them. Luckily I knew ground to air signals and let them know they weren't needed and this wasn't an emergency. They took another loop and realized it was lifeguarded and no doubt we were boy scouts.
Cheezsoup I believe an ice sheet covered all of scotland's mountains, possibly over a mile thick. These ice sheets could transport rocks from as far away as Scandinavia and deposit them on the tops of mountains, as it melted. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_glacial_period
@ Stephen Hughes Sounds reasonable I suppose. I thought you were talking about glacier style ice sheets rather than ice age mile thick jobs. I should like to take this opportunity to apologise for the possibly perceived as 'snarky' tone of my "Oh yeah" it wasn't meant to be snarky rather incredulous but on re -reading it it sounds snarky
Cheezsoup It may well be natural erosion, of the mountain over thousands of years, that's what happens to mountains. But I noticed parts of the mountain, look like it had been scoured by a big sheet of sandpaper. As if ice had been flowing over it, that contained an abrasive material, like rocks. The rocks themselves look local to the region, so who knows unless you do an in depth survey, on site.
Those Tesco’s coins are for you to put into a charity box of your choice in one of the store I believe. Plus I’ve loved watching you travel around Scotland I’ve never been and I’m from England and I feel an urge to go now.
Yeah so they tend to have a budget for charities per store and they put a little section out of 4 or 5 charities and then with your tokens you vote for who should get the funding. It's normally small local charities like scouts, school groups, animal things etc.
Those blue tokens at Tesco are charity tokens. There will be a little set of 3 boxes on the way out of the shop with each one for a different local charity. You put your tokens into the box/es for the charity you want your small donation (a percentage of your spend,) to go to.
It seems the difficulty getting food and drink in the Highlands hasn't changed since I was a kid, which is why I ended up having my first beer aged 9 as there was nothing else to drink. xD
The blue Tesco coins are for voting. On your way out the store there would have been a number of charity signs with big clear plastic bins with a coin slot on the top. You read the charity sign and then vote for the one(s) you like by popping the blue coin into the coin slot. At the end of the rub they count the coins and allocate the funds appropriately
The plastic coins are for you to drop into the charity of your choice from those listed along the front wall of the store. Each visit gets a coin per person and each coin represents a value in real money to be donated by the store. At the end of their collection period each of the charities gets a percentage of the money raised based on who got whatever numbers of plastic coins. I.E. 50% of the over-all coins in one charity box gets 50% of the total money raised and on down the list. There are usually 2 to 4 charities on the wall and since these are nationwide collections it turns into quite a bit of much needed money for them.
1:24 secs .The blue chips from Tesco are for a charity donation. In the store there is a choice of which local charity you wish to give to and you just drop the blue discs in. I didn't know that and I had to ask the lady on the check out what they were for.
That helicopter might have been a mountain rescue helicopter, And if they saw you waving at them they might have come over tried to help you , as they probably thought you needed help when you waved xD
We think it was just a tourist helicopter, but yea, I pointed out to Kyde not to wave at helicopters while hiking as it occurred to me that might send mixed messages. -E
Kyde and Eric Yes..sightseeing copter. Search and rescue are bright colours and much bigger. I don't suggest waving...unless you want rescued of course.
Most likely working for the electric company managing power lines. Everybody waves at helicopters, if you want to attract the attention of one get somebody to lie down, as a casualty would be doing and point at them. Useless fact of the day (hopefully).
**DBM01 Scotland* ~tbh, i'd been thinking along quite similar lines, regarding Kyde's waving at them like that; i reckon the helicopter pilot must've realised she was 'just' being "a friendly Tourist", though ({; D) ...!
Haha, I doubt they could tell if we had the right shoes on from miles away to come check on us. We are pretty sure it was just a tourist helicopter. -E
Great vid but you both missed a special road at 22.08 on the vid, its a side road between Sheildaig & Arrdaroch which goes over the Bealach Na Ba (Pass of the Cattle) to Applecross, this road is special because pf the Alpine bends in the road & its not for the inexperienced driver. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bealach_na_B%C3%A0
That mountain was stunning, wasn't it? Glad we didn't die.
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Those Tesco tokens are to put in a voting slot for charity(You don't pay anything), you can find the slot after you've played for your stuff on the way out.
Waitrose hands out little green tokens like that, and has a clear acrylic bin for them, divided into three sections, each with a coin slot at the top and a charity poster above it. You drop the "coins" into the slot and they donate some money every month to those charities, divided according to the number of "coins" in each bin.
I suspect they just weigh the things, rather than counting them, because it's more efficient and accurate enough.
Ardvreck Castle, for anyone who's wondering, and Spidean Coinich, 764m ASL, about 520m above and 2800m away from the car park on that road.
Judging by the OS map of it, where you went up was pretty much *the* sensible route.
www.bing.com/maps?osid=889a42b5-c4f5-4c2f-b003-0d4499584c5b&cp=58.207669~-5.063935&lvl=14&style=s&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027
The blue grid is kilometres. The black }]} symbols are crags and outcroppings. The black dots are scree slopes (like climbing a pile of rubble). The orange-brown lines (with numbers) are contours, 10m apart vertically. The bold ones are at 50m intervals. Imagine a 1:25000 scale model of Scotland carved out of a huge Victoria sponge cake with a layer of jam every 4cm up it, viewed from on top. Contours parallel and evenly spaced is a steady slope, contours curving is a curved slope, contours at uneven distances is an uneven slope, contours wriggling all over the place is a lumpy valley floor, contours a respectable distance apart is a gentle slope (along that slope, 220m up to 620m in 2km = 1:5 gradient) and contours so close together they didn't bother drawing them all on the map (see both sides of that summit and everything north of it along the ridge) indicate a slope you don't want to try to walk up or down if you don't have to.
You probably figured out that last detail just by looking at the high point of that little cluster of peaks, Sàil Gharbh, but for readers who weren't there, here's its outer end, seen from the next large loch up:
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/corbetts/quinag-sail-gharbh-1.JPG
"Why would the rocks just crumble like this?"
Ice. Ice, baby. Water gets into a crack, freezes and pops the rock.
Avalanches! You get more than one kind. There are powder avalanches where the stuff builds up and builds up and builds up at 38° and then you see little lines where parts of it have broken loose and rolled, "snowballing" down the slope. Then it happens in a bigger way and *rumble-boom* the lot comes down.
There are also *slab* avalanches. Slabs form in two ways. One is that wind blows snow off the windward slope, across a spur and onto the leeward slope, compacting it a little as it does so, and builds up a thick layer of denser snow, which then overloads the lighter powder snow beneath it and falls off. The other is that the sun melts the surface of the snow during the day and then it freezes into a layer of ice, then it snows, then that happens again so you have a deep snowpack with two layers of ice in it and a thin layer of powder snow like icing sugar between them. Then some clown on a snowboard cuts through it, and suddenly you've got a square kilometre of ice acting like a sledge on top of another square kilometre of ice, with that sugary layer lubricating them, and *crack-slither-boom* the lot comes down.
Powder avalanches leave triangular scars. Slab avalanches leave scars with straight-across vertical walls at the top.
Much more info here: www.ultimate-ski.com/features/off-piste-safety/types-of-avalanche.aspx
people.uwec.edu/jolhm/EH3/Group4/types.htm
... and here's the wall left after a slab went: avalanche.state.co.us/caic/media/full/obs_29102_8520.jpg
See the layering, where it had a warm day or two between periods of snowfall?
Those Blue Tokens allow you back into England.
Hahahahaha
A) Tokens for chosen charity
B) Monopoly coins
C) Plastic money for supermarket trolleys
D) All of the above
Bonus prize if you get a red token 😋
LOL Awesome
A. Above.
It's a very entertaining video but no-one should attempt a Scottish mountain without the proper gear: Because of the northerly latitude the weather can change in a flash. There are also multiple hazards on the way up and down. Even large boulders can be unstable.
I like them and trust them, but the few comments discussing this really have a point. Doesn’t Scotland also have quicksand??
xxmightyonexx 10 people died on Scottish mountains in the first 3 months of 2018.
At least two didn't die. -E
If the weather had changed you could have been putting other people's lives at risk as well as your own. You really are a pair of idiots.
I went hiking up some peaks in Scotland when I was younger - with full gear, boots, compass, kendal mint cake, whistle etc. Clear day. Got half way up a mountain and the mist came in so fast it was clear one minute, completely blind the next. Got totally lost, mountain had no drystone walls to follow down. Finally made it down in the dark with borderline hyperthermia. Lesson learnt..! Glad you guys got the right weather.
The Kendal mint cake was the lifesaver!
Pronounced UL-a-pool
Not OOL-a-Pool
Love you guys
When you left Tesco at the door is a few charity boxes and you place the Blue discs in your chosen charity box, tesco then do the rest, whatever box contains the most Tesco make a donation
So next time lookout for the clear charity boxes as you head for the exit, put blue disc through your preferred charity choice
I prefer Kyde's pronunciation though! :o) Eric on your map did you notice Unapool as well? Not that far from Ullapool.
I thought I had pronounced Ullapool incorrectly my whole life. Anyway nice little adventure.
Those rocks were deposited by a glacier as the ice-cover retreated at the end of the last ice age.
Muir-burning (Scots for moor burning) is practised by hill farmers and land managers to burn off rough, hill grasses and long, mature heather to improve grazing for sheep and grouse. In Scotland, muirburn is permitted only between 1st October and 15th April inclusive, at all altitudes. This may be extended to 30th April only on the authority of the landowner. Generally, the Scottish Government does not encourage burning after the 15th of April
Guys, I love your videos, but deciding to climb a mountain on a whim and totally unprepared might be adventurous, but man was it irresponsible! I'm very glad that you got back down safely, but if the weather had suddenly turned, your day would have had a very different ending. Please don't do that again!!!
We've done dumber things for sure. -E
That helicopter you saw was 100% mountain rescue as well. Quite a common sight, unfortunately.
Cool mountain though. That part of Scotland is so remote.
I can't have been the only one thinking they ought to have been more concerned about finding their way back to the car than the top of the mountain?
A cracking sunny day, but you're never that far from the sea in Britain so the weather can change quickly. A bit of cloud and finding your direction suddenly becomes much harder. I hope at the very least you had the gps turned on your phone with some waypoints logged. That stream that was easy to cross could also have been a raging torrent with a bit of rain on all that bare rock and saturated peat bog you crossed by the time you got back to it. Easy to run out of daylight during a Scottish winter too.
Glad you got to see how spectaculer the highlands are from the tops though. Something to do with the quality of light and the scale more than makes up for the modest altitude.
The helicopter was probably doing maintenance work or surveying of power lines etc.
The fire will have been an estate burning off the heather. Grouse (likely what you heard up the mountain) feed on its berries and shoots, burning encourages new growth. They do it in winter before the breeding season in part to control the fires, if the peat had dried out and caught fire it could burn for years. It may look wild, but much of the Highlands are as man made as California vineyards.
Hi guys. I've been off work after an operation and an infection as a result. I discovered your vlogs on here whilst surfing the TV and am loving seeing how you experience my country. I hope we have made you feel welcome. The far north is epic but empty, as you discovered! My ancestors are from there. I stay in the far south of the country where there are more people and some more sheep and horses. Loving your "Oolapool" Kyde (should be uh-la-pool) and Eric, "gaylic" is Irish, "gahlic" is Scots. A bit lick whiskey and whisky. Travel well.
Glad we could help you pass some time recuperating! Thank you for the info! -E
Cheers. You have no idea the keech I have been watching. I could now be a judge at fierljeppen competitions and tell you about how Lenin is enbalmed. :-) As expert as you now are on false summits on Scottish hills.
This is not correct...Kyde pronounces the place-name properly. There is no "yoo" sound in Scots Gaelic. Uig, for example, is pronounced "Ooig" and so on. Southern Scots should tak tent.
Well Gordon, best head there and correct every person that lives there, in fact start at inverness and work your way up, every highlander has been saying it wrong !
Not everyone living in the Highlands speaks Gaelic, Slainte mhath and faigh na's fearr (Cheers and get well soon)
Chan eil aon chanan gu leor (please look it up.)
1:42 there was probably a box by the exit with slots in the top and the details of two or three charities. You put the tokens in the slot for the charity that you want the supermarket to make a donation to. Waitrose used to do this
Hahaha, we asked someone about this a few days later when they handed them to us again. Was quite a mystery for a bit, haha. -E
Drdee1 I thought they were trolley tokens.?
Aren't they a different shape? Anyway I don't live near a Tesco (not really!) and Waitrose's charity scheme had tokens like that
Ohh, you guys are so lucky this didn't end up to be 'found footage'
No supplies, no sensible hiking boots, no 1st aid kit etc - in those 2 hours the weather could easily have turned to thick fog or a blizzard and you would have been trapped up there.
On the other hand, great video, I would have probably done the same, LOL
**J_ J_* ~ALL, *so* true ({; D) ...!
Those blue things are charity tokens. Somewhere near the front of the supermarket there would have been a glass box and you then have three charity options to chose from. You chose your charity and drop your tokens in the corresponding slot. Ta dah!
The fires at the end are set by gamekeepers and sometimes hill farms.they burn back areas of old woody heather to promote new growth for red grouse and other wildlife to eat. It was a grouse making the creepy sound or maybe a ptarmigan also a type of grouse.it is hugely beneficial for all types of animals on the hill and also helps to slow wild fires .glad you enjoyed your trip 😀✋🏻🏴
It was most likely a ptarmigan or grouse.
I was thinking the helicopter had gone down.
Loch for Lake, Uhhh-la-pool for OOO-la-pool, spongey stuff is heather and peat bog, the wee pony you've fell in love with is a Shetland Pony and never, never, never have a square sausage without brown sauce. Love your videos and your enthusiasm for Scotland, wish I was there right now.
Here's a wee treat for you: th-cam.com/video/PSaSqMxLU_E/w-d-xo.html
The ferry from Ulapool to Stornoway, in Outer Hebrides, is an amazing ~2hour boat ride next the the Western coast. The island is an amazing place with couple of busy pubs and nice locals)
Those holicopters I think track hikers, maybe check if anybody is in trouble. In the North there is a huge millitary ground for testing explosives, and there are periods when it is closed for the hikers. But when its open they still have holicopters flying daily over any people they see. I once had a fighter jet fly by at my altitude while hiking through a glen in the Highlands.
I was ok until 28:39 ,, a Lorne roll with beans ??? OMG ... a Lorne roll with plenty of butter and maybe some brown sauce is all you need.. it's not good until it's dripping off your elbow's :)... your take on Scotland makes me mad ( because I'm Scottish) ,,, but it is VERY funny ,, keep up it up :)
I work at tesco those are counters which you are supposed to put them into which charity you want the donations in the store to go to, there is usually a choice of three as you're leaving the store you just pop the counters into which one you want.
We stole them. Hahahahahahaha
You deprived the local scout hall of a new bench man. ;0)
our local Tesco had to put an ad in the local paper as 15,000 counters had gone missing!!!
I'm impressed they even _got_ some! I've _asked_ for them before and was just ignored.
Snorky -- I'd check the local TiddlyWinks club...
your meant to put them in a charity box of your choice on the way out. I'm not surprised a patrol helicopter checked you out, very dangerous what you did, weather can turn in 15mins great vlog guys,
It was because they stole the tokens - they sent the black helicopters out...
Ann Other
Lol
**Ann Other* ~Yup, that's it ({; D) ...!
Thanks yet again for the nostalgia trip! So glad you guys are going down the west coast and Skye. Hope you get to Loch Lomond, it's one of my favorite places. On a side note, props to you guys for climbing the hill but the weather in Scotland can change really fast and without proper clothing and footwear you guys could've been in real trouble. As usual stay safe and have fun. Cheers! P.S. definitely tomato ketchup with Lorne sausage! ;)
you couldn't be closer with you thoughts on the morning roll except, its something you get at "The Van" which is the food truck that is close to your work. someone will say "i'm oaf tae the Van. you want anything? and you get your fry-up on a morning roll (haggis / bacon and egg / lorne (or square) sausage) you get the jist. if you can fry it. you can slap it on a roll =)
And if you can't fry it... you're not trying hard enough ;).
Pronounced "Ban-off-ee"
Banoffee Pie of is one of the worlds' greatest inventions :P
I thought it was the Americans that invented 'Banoffee Pie' made with a biscuit base, a layer of bananas and topped with the toffee sauce made from boiled up Nestle's Milk and finished up with a payer of whipped cream! Delicious!
Thank you for sharing your video, I love the pace and your sentiment. We film natural sound walks through soulful cities mainly in Britain, so it's lovely to see others introducing us to places we haven't been to (but now feel we have). We really enjoyed absorbing your video and losing ourselves in it. Perhaps we could subscribe to each other and share more? We look forward to seeing more from you.
I've got some Banoffee Pie facts to lay on y'all: it's usually a slice of a big pie with a biscuit base and often includes coffee flavour. It was created in the '70s at The Hungry Monk restaurant in Sussex, England. It's now a national dish thanks to my grandmother (or so my family likes to think). She was friends with the creator and taught the recipe at a catering collage during the '70s and '80s and sent all those budding chefs out into the world with it!
Huge fan right here. -E
For The Win!!!
Best travel videos channel. Not only you visit places people don't normally go to, you also describe the little details like how the ground feels. To me, that's exactly what people say in their mind when they travel and it's something missing from regular travel videos. Loving it! I've watched some 'trailer'- and 'teaser'-ish videos about Scotland.. and even vlogs but none of them made me go "I wanna visit Scotland!" Yours, however, made me randomly text my friend and told her that we should totally put Scotland in our places-to-visit list!
Wow, thank you so much! That's exactly what we hope people will take away from our videos so it's awesome to hear that's what you are getting from them. Make sure you do northern Scotland if you and your friend make it there! -E
**Awang Budiman* ~You're *so* right, there...!
You know why the helicopter was there . The mountain you were climbing is actually hollow and the secret lair of a bond villain .
Well that's the cat out of the bag now! That's supposed to be a secret! Shhhhhh
Andy Nixon ssshhhh
So, Mistah Bond! Do you presume to meddle in my Operations?
Take the ferry from Uig to Stornaway.
Drive down as far as Barra and then take the ferry to Oban.
Try Stornaway black pudding.
Tweed from the Isle of Harris (and Gin), try to visit the Castlebay Hotel on Saturday night in Barra. Unmissable.
Walking on bogs. "Peatlands are wetland areas in which peat has accumulated and can support vegetation that is able to form new peat. Bogs (a type of peatland) are one of the most extensive semi-natural habitats in Scotland."
Sounds exactly like what we found. -E
James May : Good news, Dacia Sandero !!
there are charity things on the way out , you put the tokens in whatever charity you want to help , then tesco gives the charity money depending on how many tokens put in the boxes
OOllapool. Oh my goodness, you could easily be deported for that pronunciation - it's got to be an offence ! It's UHllapool with the U pronounced as in mUg, unless of course in America you drink out of moogs. Nevertheless, welcome to Scotland and enjoy your stay.
The thing is, we've never heard it spoken and English isn't written properly phonetic so we have to make a guess sometimes. -E
The Marshalls will own Scotland by the end of this video series! :-)
2:20 That will be Ardvreck Castle (1590)
Cheers, I read the comments just to find out about the castle name. :D
But why is it just there, seemingly neglected? Is it not kept up? Looks like it's crumbling! Please tell me someone is taking care of it!
@@Yesica1993 Mother Nature is taking care of it.
It's a charity token. Walking into tesco they have big jars you can put them in and depending on how many are in tesco will donate money to them
At Tesco's (and other UK supermarket's) exit you'll see a row of see-through bins, each designated to a different charity. Place your token into whichever bin you wish Tesco to donate the token's equivalent in money.
Great vid, but you guys took a big risk, if the weather turned, and it does quickly in the highlands, you'd have been in serious trouble with what you were wearing.
And it would get dark early then.
Tony yates Bang on. Most stupid thing I’ve seen them do. Lucky to find the car.
Ginger32. Once that mist comes down, and you don't have a compass, you're right royally fucked.
Tony Yates we turned back on a hike like that with all the gear, the weather can turn on a sixpence.
Ginger32. I did the same myself, even with the right gear, the chance of twisting an ankle or wandering off a steep drop is high.
People underestimate the highlands all the time, even experienced hikers who know what their doing.
you are here in Scotland , we have no lakes , we only have lochs
I use morning rolls for everything sausage, bacon, sausage links, gammon ham, roast beef/pork.
That’s not how you pronounce Ullapool.Its like the ull in dull.Ull a pool.Great film.I thoroughly enjoyed watching your trip.
On route to Gairloch, did you observe Loch Ewe, the vast assembly loch for the Arctic convoys to Russia (Murmansk/Archangel) in WW2? Gun emplacements are still obvious from the road. The old primary school serves as an excellent museum of the era. A really great video, congrats on summiting, too (and I agree, it's always further than it looks).
Oh wow, maybe we drove past Loch Ewe and didn't realize it has such a history. Neat! -E
That is some Bob Ross shit for sure! You have managed to capture some of the very best of Skye, glad you enjoyed it!
What a great view and well done.
Thanks! -E
Bat hanger...😂😂😂😂😂😂
Eric, you are the king of one liners!
Stop saying lake ffs
I am getting very concerned about the serious lack of ketchup or some other condiment on your food, a sausage sandwich without sauce is like steptoe without son, like Abbot without Costello, like fish without chips, like Kyde without Eric!!!
I wrote this before the expert level beans hack, I take it back!
it is ancient bog you are standing on.
1:49 I'm 99% sure that Argyle Street is just the anglicized version of the Scottish Gaelic name. Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong.
"Come into the dungeon with me"....hmmmmm.
You should try a mince pie on a roll with brown sauce
That was stressful watching you guys climb the mountain! I’m glad you guys made it back mostly unharmed. Anyway, thanks for the quality fluffy pony footage and the banoffee pie cupcake mention (craving it now!).
"It looks like they might've deep fried it."
You're in Scotland. It's a fair bet.
Ohhhh, that [ /those ] fluffy, mini-pony [ /-ponies ] are *g-o-o-o-o-r-geous* ...and, *so adorable* ({: D) ...!!! So, Kyde, Luv...did ya get yer "pure *sausage* moment", then ({; >) ...? And was it everything you'd *hoped* it might be ({; D) ...?!? Oh, and... butter and jam...or, marmalade...on a 'morning roll', is quite nice too. Uh-oh...Kyde wants to try some of that luscious, "Banoffee", confection *too,* Eric; oh, yeah...? Oh, well... *tough* luck; she should have *got* one, then [ ...right ({; D) ...?!? ] !! Wow...! Climbing that mountain...the *ascent, and* the DESCENT...was certainly a bit of a risky business; quite the dodgy, climbing endeavour, to be sure! But, the Scots *can* be ever so Psychic, you know, and that was why that helicopter was hovering all about: the locals knew you'd not be able to resist having a go at it, so it was there just in case you'd ended-up needing rescue ({; D) ! Quite glad you didn't, *afterall,* however!! Eric might/should have dipped his cut hand into the crystal-clear, icy pool, there; that would not only have 'washed' it...but, would've felt really soothing, as well! ~Yet again, a *marvellous, fabulous* video; thank you, both...!!
That castle is Ardvreck Castle from about 3 minutes into your video :)
That climb was far more dangerous than you may have felt, the weather looked lovely, but if it turned on you & you were too high, you could have been in serious trouble, especially as you weren't equipped properly.
We were aware of the risk. -E
The boulders on the mountain are there because they’re deposits from when the mountains were a lot higher but worn down during the last ice age by glaciers. So what you’re now standing on is the remnants of a once much higher mountain. The claim is the Scottish highlands could have been as high as the Himalayas
They're not lakes, they're lochs there's only one lake in scotland and that's Lake of Mentieth. Otherwise love the videos :)
Glad you're enjoying Scotland, we live in Callander overlooking Loch Venachar at the foot of Ben Ledi :)
Option one - helicopter drops rocks on top of the hill. Option two - Glaciation. Take your pick.
I'm going with helicopter!
Scotland has castles like big cities have Starbucks. Starbuckses? Whatever. They're ubiquitous. (Everywhere!)
@2:12 Did a bit of Google Map research: that castle is called Ardvreck Castle from the 1600s. It apparently had about 5 floors, including the bottom.
Sooo glad your OK. Next time back packs with waterproofs and food. Please.. ❤️
always take charged mobile, suitable clothing and food. Weather can change fast and it is easy to get disorientated.
A charged phone doesn't do any good if there isn't any signal, haha. -E
In a lot of the northern highlands a charged phone is very handy - you can use it as a paperweight to hold down the note you leave of your last will and testament ;).
Very true about the changeable weather though, as the old adage goes "If you don't like the weather in Scotland just wait a few minutes" and up in the hills an "easy ramble" can turn into a bit of an epic very quickly, especially in winter.
Mountain rescue uses VHF radio and you can get PLBs for under 200GBP
www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/keeping-in-touch-personal-locator-beacons-in-the-mountains/0014751/
Paul Thomas Neither of those are mobile phones though of course. PLBs and/or SENDs can be useful if you do a lot of winter walking in the hills (particularly solo). They're overkill in situations like in the video though IMO, nor are they a guarantee of rescue (because they still need a clear view of the sky to get a satellite signal and rescuers still need to be able to reach you).
The best device for staying safe in the mountains is still the one between our ears.
Mobile phone? Lamp. One of those little twist-on LED bicycle lights is probably enough. Also: the *map* of the area and a *compass* so you can orient it properly.
It's amazing how many people get lost because the GPS function flattens the battery and they suddenly have *no* clue.
Full waterproofs, warm gear to layer under them, proper boots, water and cereal bars, too.
Also also: a willingness to say "FTLGOTR" when the weather goes bad: "Forget that. Let's get off this rock."
Sidenote: static air gets about 1°C colder for every 150 m up you go, so that climb was -3°C and the big ones like Toubkal can be 28°C colder than sea level *before* you factor in wind-chill, which tends to be worse on ridges because they tend to be windier.
Its Ardvreck Castle, it was the location of a few small battles, it burned down in 1737, in 'mysterious' circumstances
Oof, nicely done guys. That sort of bouldery ground is pretty hard walking IMO, you did well to get over it in what looked like trainers. And sometimes mixed snowy/dry terrain is actually deceptively dodgy because there's not enough ice to make crampons worthwhile but there's still enough to put you on your arse if you're not super careful (as Eric discovered ;).
I guess that is why the helicopter took an interest. Mountain Rescue are on the look out for tourists. With no mobile phone coverage, even a small accident can cause a night spent on the hillside, and unless you're dressed for the cold, that might be the last night you spend on earth.
But they just left them! How did they know Kyde's wave meant, "Hi, we're fine" instead of, "HELP!"?
those guys have the top equipment, including night vision; once spotted they will be reported and checked on.
A two handed wave means help
Say 'Bah' as in "bah humbug", 'Gnaw' as in "gnaw a bone", 'Fee' as in "money to be paid" .
Banoffee Pron:Bahgnawfee .
Say 'Uhh' as in "dUHH, I havn't a clue", la as in "la France", Pool as in "swimming pool "
Ullapool Pron: Uhhlapool.
Say 'Gah' to rhyme with 'bah' as in "bah humbug" 'Lick' as in "lick an ice cream".
Gaelic Pron: Gahlick.
Sermon :-
Yes distances in the mountains can be very deceiving.
Looks like a ten minute stroll but... v dangerous, weather can turn in a second (
The mountains in the U.K. are very tiny compared to most in the U.S or other mountainous places. The highest is only around 4,050 square feet if memory serves my right. But man the wind is what makes it so damn dangerous in my experience. Also I know this is long long passed but those blue tokens you put into a charity box :)
I've watched this video on multiple occasions, but have only today discovered what "Eric, this is some Bob Ross shit" actually means! I was more of a Nancy Kominsky boy.
Kyle you actually witnessed and described (as an avalanche! ) glaciation and how did these rocks get here ? REM er the sheet of ice that you heard crack? That was a mini- glacier. As water gets underneath it moves, flows downhill carrying rocks and debris. Most of the British Isles is glacial - and you saw and head a mini one - how cool. PS shouldn’t have done that mountain walk without letting someone know.
I think you have probably got charity token,hiking danger, Ullapool pronunciation message by now !! :-)
Very pleased that you discovered all by yourself the enigma of the car getting further away but the summit of the mountain getting no closer.
Tradition when reaching the "summit "only to discover that the actual summit is further on (5 minutes?) is to shout sentences made up (almost ) entirely of profanities and to eat sugar masquerading as food ( tablet,fudge,mint cake etc) .
At the real summit ,tradition is handshakes all round and a dram of whisky.
Great series of videos with honest opinions of the good and bad at each destination.
Haha, mountains are a mystery! Glad you enjoyed the series! -E
At 2:31, that is Assyent Castle. Montrose was captured here by the English in 1650. I visited this castle in 1981.
@3:48 According to google maps, that peak might be about 700m at the top. That's a crazy hike you guys did!
You were lucky that wasn't a helicopter gunship. LOL! Great vids, guys. Keep 'em comin'!
The mountain you climbed is called Quinag and it's 2506ft high :-)
your pretty much right...a lot of scots love a roll in the morning...especially workmen/tradesmen. We usually just ask for square sausage on a roll. Good guess... Tomato Ketchup or HP Brown sauce is the norm. Square sausage and egg on a roll is also nice. I prefer the onion lorne sausage as it has a bit more flavour to it. ;)
Great view from that mountain but if that little slip had been a bit worse, it wouldn’t have been a cut hand, it would have been a desperate, freezing cold, wait and hope that you could contact mountain rescue and that they could find you before dark.....people die on Scottish mountains. You were also lucky that it was so cold. That squidgy ground looks like peat bog, a bit warmer and you could have been sinking in up to your knees or worse.
Fantastic video, a real treat. You asked "Where did the rocks come from?" They were deposited by melting glaciers from the last Ice Age, 12,000 years ago. From the road there would have been close to a mile of ice above your head. The moving glaciers smoothed those mountains and dug out the lakes. The ice extended down to just north of London.
You saved that sahara-dry "roll 'n sausage" with they beans. 😂
What Clan are you?
Red sauce or Broon sauce?
🙊
Bean sauce!
Broon. ALWAYS!
The castle creates his own graveyard 😍Kyde that was really poetic. I love you guys! Especially your way of looking at the beauty of nature when you're hiking, really good work! But howcome you never tried a scotch egg onces?
Hahaaa Why do i like these videos so much! I feel so weird watching two random people trekking around the UK but its pretty relaxing to watch.
Glad you do! -E
Baked beans is gonna be my new fave topping, you’ve opened up a whole new world to me Katie!
Those blue plastic coins are for charity. As you leave the shop, there's a box with like 3 different charities so you choose which one to pop each coin into. I guess the charity gets a small value for each coin from the shop. You get a number of coins depending how much you spend.
The crunchy moist ground is probably full of Peat.
Mountains are nature's siren song. Chances are the helicopter is an established patrol and just making sure you are OK and no in need of assistance. I was on a lake in Canada and working on canoeing merit badge had four swamped canoes.
When their plane patrol came by, all of the Canadians got their attention and pointed to us, and our dumb asses in the water started waving at them. Luckily I knew ground to air signals and let them know they weren't needed and this wasn't an emergency. They took another loop and realized it was lifeguarded and no doubt we were boy scouts.
The rocks were probably dropped by the ice sheet at the end of the last ice age 13,000 years ago, or there about.
Oh yeah? And where did the ice sheet get them, glaciers go downhill remember
Picked them up further up the hill, and dropped them down here. Also the rocks get broken up by the freezing and warming over the centuries. I think.
Cheezsoup I believe an ice sheet covered all of scotland's mountains, possibly over a mile thick. These ice sheets could transport rocks from as far away as Scandinavia and deposit them on the tops of mountains, as it melted. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_glacial_period
@ Stephen Hughes
Sounds reasonable I suppose. I thought you were talking about glacier style ice sheets rather than ice age mile thick jobs.
I should like to take this opportunity to apologise for the possibly perceived as 'snarky' tone of my "Oh yeah" it wasn't meant to be snarky rather incredulous but on re -reading it it sounds snarky
Cheezsoup It may well be natural erosion, of the mountain over thousands of years, that's what happens to mountains. But
I noticed parts of the mountain, look like it had been scoured by a big sheet of sandpaper. As if ice had been flowing over it, that contained an abrasive material, like rocks. The rocks themselves look local to the region, so who knows unless you do an in depth survey, on site.
I particularly like Kate's numerous double-entendres! Sausage moment. Solid meat.
Those Tesco’s coins are for you to put into a charity box of your choice in one of the store I believe. Plus I’ve loved watching you travel around Scotland I’ve never been and I’m from England and I feel an urge to go now.
YOu gotta check out the Nothern Coast! -E
Yeah so they tend to have a budget for charities per store and they put a little section out of 4 or 5 charities and then with your tokens you vote for who should get the funding. It's normally small local charities like scouts, school groups, animal things etc.
You guys are really far north of Scotland. You are in a small town. It is beautiful....I like the lakes too.
Those blue tokens at Tesco are charity tokens.
There will be a little set of 3 boxes on the way out of the shop with each one for a different local charity.
You put your tokens into the box/es for the charity you want your small donation (a percentage of your spend,) to go to.
Fun video. :D Looking at the map, I see you climbed Spidean Coinich ("mossy peak") of the mountain Quinag ("little milk pail"?!).
GOod eye! -E
It seems the difficulty getting food and drink in the Highlands hasn't changed since I was a kid, which is why I ended up having my first beer aged 9 as there was nothing else to drink. xD
The blue Tesco coins are for voting. On your way out the store there would have been a number of charity signs with big clear plastic bins with a coin slot on the top. You read the charity sign and then vote for the one(s) you like by popping the blue coin into the coin slot. At the end of the rub they count the coins and allocate the funds appropriately
The plastic coins are for you to drop into the charity of your choice from those listed along the front wall of the store. Each visit gets a coin per person and each coin represents a value in real money to be donated by the store. At the end of their collection period each of the charities gets a percentage of the money raised based on who got whatever numbers of plastic coins. I.E. 50% of the over-all coins in one charity box gets 50% of the total money raised and on down the list. There are usually 2 to 4 charities on the wall and since these are nationwide collections it turns into quite a bit of much needed money for them.
Hollering and waving at helicopters in the Highlands is what you do when you are in trouble....
You guys made me laugh with your pronunciation of oolapool , and the blue buttons are to be put into clear plastic boxes instore for charity .
I watched your Isle of Skye Video and started to watch the Ullapool one but..........................I'm sorry, I can't watch any more!
Ok, take care! -E
1:24 secs .The blue chips from Tesco are for a charity donation. In the store there is a choice of which local charity you wish to give to and you just drop the blue discs in. I didn't know that and I had to ask the lady on the check out what they were for.
Yep, they’re charity tokens for the collection box in store. Conveniently,they also work in the coin slots in trolleys.
Oolahpool.....eh? Why would you pronounce it like that
that sausage looks alot like scrapple which is popular especially in like the state of Pennsylvania
That helicopter might have been a mountain rescue helicopter, And if they saw you waving at them they might have come over tried to help you , as they probably thought you needed help when you waved xD
We think it was just a tourist helicopter, but yea, I pointed out to Kyde not to wave at helicopters while hiking as it occurred to me that might send mixed messages. -E
Kyde and Eric Yes..sightseeing copter. Search and rescue are bright colours and much bigger. I don't suggest waving...unless you want rescued of course.
Most likely working for the electric company managing power lines. Everybody waves at helicopters, if you want to attract the attention of one get somebody to lie down, as a casualty would be doing and point at them. Useless fact of the day (hopefully).
**DBM01 Scotland* ~tbh, i'd been thinking along quite similar lines, regarding Kyde's waving at them like that;
i reckon the helicopter pilot must've realised she was 'just' being "a friendly Tourist", though ({; D) ...!
**Hillary Trump* ~Right you are ({; D) ...!
the helicopter was probly a coast guard patrol checking u out its dangerous to go hiking with out correct kit
Haha, I doubt they could tell if we had the right shoes on from miles away to come check on us. We are pretty sure it was just a tourist helicopter. -E
Great vid but you both missed a special road at 22.08 on the vid, its a side road between Sheildaig & Arrdaroch which goes over the Bealach Na Ba (Pass of the Cattle) to Applecross, this road is special because pf the Alpine bends in the road & its not for the inexperienced driver. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bealach_na_B%C3%A0
Oh wow, yea, looks amazing! -E