I'm a gaming RU-vidr who's getting on a bit and I felt like making a second RU-vid channel more fitting with my age so I decided to get outside and go hiking and exploring places of interest so join me for a walk and we'll see what we can find!
I think because you are waiting for someone to walk in its creepy you can't tell them get out. In a tent it's your own space not shared with strangers.I won't be able to sleep with a stranger looking at me.
At any time of year I never go into the mountains without a headtorch and spare batteries, and in winter I'll also have another torch as redundancy. The light on my phone is just not up to the job.
There's no lock on the door but if you were camping you wouldn't have a lock on your tent would you! Bothies are only scary if you tell yourself that they are scary, otherwise it's a stone tent. Oh and people can and sometimes do arrive a bothies hours after dark so you need to be prepared for that too, I still love a night in a bothy but I'd have to admit that it's much more fun when there's a few of you.
After you went to get some water in the dark and returned to the bothy, it's courtesy to knock upon re-entering so all those wee ghosties can hide again. Now ask yourself what you would do if you heard the door latch moving while you were down by the water 👀
Sorry - didn't mean to dump on you. I have backpacked in many soggy locations. Just returned from a backcountry trip to Alaska. The trick I use to start fires in wet conditions is to sprinkle some Coleman fuel on the wood. I noticed you carried some in for your stove. Works every time. Obviously start with some lighter gauge wood strips. If you have a hatchet you can peel off strips to get into the dry interior of the logs and branches which will help enormously. Good luck !
Havent stayed on my own there but with my partner. Lovely atmosphere in there . To be fair I'd rather not stay in a bothy alone, buildings are creepier than a tent ! there's some great history around and about that bothy if you look into it.
Spent decades bothying in the Highlands and Islands. Had many solo nights as well and never had any spooky happenings other than deer scuffing about outside...
Literally setting off saying that he hasn’t got the right gear and is not properly prepared but each to their own. Got a torch but doesn’t know if the batteries might be flat. Mountain rescue is called out nearly every day in that area for people like this just getting stuck.
@@streetdrummersinc4387 Why.You know what aye means.I'm from Scotland.Olso,i spent many a time in a bothy.If you don't like how we talk here,then do not come to Scotland.
18:07 I've been a bit silly... You don't say. A very frustrating video to watch, procrastinated, dithered, giggled, even when it got dark you still stopped to film, no idea if you even had torch batteries with charge.
Lol it's never hunted, I go there once a year but I walk in from Ballachulish. Light a fire and sleep on the wooden couch in front of it, Its looked after by the MBA. new fire put in last year.
Been up the Ben in my late teens with another pal in the 80s. Pair of BK hiTop trainers, pair of jeans, an old ripped teeshirt and an Ocean Pacific sweatshirt. Plastic carrier bag with two cheese rolls a can of Pepsi and a Mars bar. And more than enough green to get us up and down again. Ok it was August but ffs really- all this gear? There’s weegies climb the Ben at new year in teeshirts and a bottle of Buckfast laughing at the tourists pretty much every year 😂
I agree there's too much emphasis on kit these days. My dad (a Londoner who'd probably never climbed anything higher than the Chilterns) stayed in Fort William for a week in the 1950s and climbed Ben Nevis twice before breakfast in sandals. They were made of sterner stuff back then.
I've watched so many vids and IMO the one thing everyone faults to pack is a flare, if your in distress and managed to make a call the hardest obstacle for emergency services is to pin point ones location, a flare or some flare could save so much time! you may never need it but IMO its essential, especially travelling in a group even more so going solo! yet not one person on youtube packs flares! why not?
