I’ve been watching these types of camping/survival videos for months now, but they have always been American/Canadian RU-vidrs. I’m so glad I’ve found a fellow Scotsman showing how beautiful the place is!
Hi Luke, thanks for watching. I've had the same experience. Not many UK channels doing this thing. I think it reflects the big disconnect we have from forest in the UK and also just how much forest we have lost. UK is a country of city dwellers unfortunately. Hope you had a good Christmas 😁👍🎄
Well, I like your stuff and I actually enjoy the mood in the hot tent with the dog lying next to you. Yes, as you said nothing new to show but its not important to show always something unseen. The mood is important. Greetings from Germany.
jeez i didnt know the west of Scotland got dark that early, great videos fantastic set up, im doing a road trip in Jan to the west coast but hired a house called Tigh Na Mara on a loch for me my wife and our retriever. cant wait for the log fire!
Well it's the latitude that makes it dark earlier rather than East / West.. We are about as far North as the Southern tip of Norway here in the Highlands. Hope you all have a great trip 👍
Edinburgh has been no lucky with the ❄️❄️❄️. Came home ( 🇵🇱)for Xmas and here is plenty. My daily routine with my trecking poles in the snow is counted as a Santa gift to me . Merry Xmas and lots of adventures in 2023🎉
Nice woods, really nice snow as you were walking in. I see so many videos in England that are all on the open rocky mountains . Not too many in the dense forest.
Thanks for watching 😁 Yes unfortunately most of the UK has lost its forest. Part of my channel is to raise awareness of this and bring the forest back 👍
Merry Christmas Sam. Great video, looks like a good setup you have there, and the weather seemed fantastic. Wish it was like that here in North cumbria.
Thank you 😁👍 we had a massive thaw the day after I got back. 10c and pretty much all disappeared in 24 hours. We got a little of snow again on boxing day. Hope you had a good one.
@@HighlandWoodsman yes we have had a really nice time. To spend long awaited time with the family has been mega. Although I am getting itchy fingers and starting to find jobs round the house. Also been chatting to a friend and organising some hikes in the lakes to place's we'd like to visit. Not to mention the wild camp that will happen in the not to distant future. Thankyou for the reply. 👍
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Sam and Darach. Very interested in the wood stoves but I live in the Southeastern U.S. so hot tents might be overkill. We did see just see -10.5 C but that’s very unusual. Appreciate the videos and info you produced this year and looking forward to what will see for 2023.
Hi Mike, thanks for watching and your continued support! I guess the good thing about the woodstove is the flexibility. It's even just a great way to have a contained fire in certain environments or say under a tarp where an open fire may damage it etc. All the best for 2023!
Really good video, Darrach looked liked he enjoyed it too! One question I have is why do you cut down a tree when there’s fallen (i.e. dead wood) lying around? 🤔
Hey! Thanks for watching and your question. In the most simple terms Mike is absolutely right. The North West of Scotland is very wet at the best of times and especially in these dense, moist conifer timber plantations. Even finding fallen wood that is dry enough in the Summer can be tricky. The reason being that these non-native pines and spruces rot so quickly so most wood is very punky and no good for burning. So in colder conditions you really don't want to be messing around with wet and smokey wood so I went ahead and felled this dead standing spruce to make sure I had something decent to burn that would actually produce heat. I'm a Forester by profession and I'm actually responsible for managing this forest so I really do understand what I am felling and the impact it will have and wouldn't fell trees unncessarily. I hope that answers your question and thanks again!
Loved the video. I've been looking into getting the rocdomus & a wee titanium number to take along on my trips as an opener to hot tenting (although I've been away with a pal's stove plenty, theirs is an iron one). is the Traveller big enough to heat the rocdomus up fully?
Thanks for watching! I guess it's all personal and situational but it's been warm enough for me when I've used it. I never run it overnight though as it never really gets that cold in Scotland 👍
YOU MIGHT BE WARM ENOUGH WHAT ABOUT THE DOGS BLANKET FOR WHEN THE FIRE DIES DOWN, IF YOU FEEL THEIR EARS YOU CAN TELL IF THEY ARE COLD OR NOT, HAVE A GOOD NEW YEAR, PLEASED TO SEE YOU LET HIM IN THE HAMMOCK GOOD MAN.
