Thirty years ago we camped at midsummer a few times next to the stream that runs down the side of Waun Fach and into the reservoir. There's a flat spot that has enough space for three tents and a place to cook. Midsummer morning we were up at 4 am and hiking up the hill in time for sunrise, the morning was calm and cloud free and we were up above the mist in the valley over the other side of the hill which reflected the golden sunlight as columns of mist were ejected, the whole thing moved around like a cauldron boiling in very slow motion, mother nature had laid on a glorious show for us. As for the dude on acid, there is no better place to do it but don't take that as encouragement, it's not without risk and the reservoir isn't a portal to valhalla. Many thanks for the video, it brought back a lot of fond memories.
Hi Steve, I love your account of your memory, thank you, it made me smile. I was worried for the guy who took the acid as there are many places to fall. He he he, the book stated he was OK in the morning though. I wish I had visited there 30 years ago. Thanks for your message.
Beautiful video, isn't it incredible to think that in the past, the hills and nearly all land in Britain was covered with lush and beautiful forest? I hope we return to that...
@@tubbatravels Certainly not, many issues in our society of trying to "improve" the world we already have, while destroying its unique beauty in the process.
Good camping vid. Enjoyed that one. Cool water filter, I need to get one. Crazy bothy story.😂 I'm staying there for a night next month. Hopefully he doesn't come back.😁👍
Nice one Jamie, yes this was the bothy in your video. Such a cool place. The water filter is great and filters out everything bad unlike the sawyer but the sawyer is much lighter.
Hi Rob, we used a landranger map of the black mountains. We show it at 35 seconds in. I have tried to copy and paste the route from google maps into this chat but it won't let me do it. If I can work out how to take a photo of my map and paste it here I will do that. Sorry I'm not more help.
@@robgreene5666 If I were to do it again I would park at llanthony priory and make my way from there. It would save time I think rather than walk from Pandy and mean more energy for exploring the Black Mountains.
Thirty years ago we camped at midsummer a few times next to the stream that runs down the side of Waun Fach and into the reservoir. There's a flat spot that has enough space for three tents and a place to cook. Midsummer morning we were up at 4 am and hiking up the hill in time for sunrise, the morning was calm and cloud free and we were up above the mist in the valley over the other side of the hill which reflected the golden sunlight as columns of mist were ejected, the whole thing moved around like a cauldron boiling in very slow motion, mother nature had laid on a glorious show for us.
As for the dude on acid, there is no better place to do it but don't take that as encouragement, it's not without risk and the reservoir isn't a portal to valhalla.
Many thanks for the video, it brought back a lot of fond memories.
Hi Steve, I love your account of your memory, thank you, it made me smile. I was worried for the guy who took the acid as there are many places to fall. He he he, the book stated he was OK in the morning though.
I wish I had visited there 30 years ago. Thanks for your message.
Great videos, you guys deserve more followers!
Thank you so much. Ha ha we do our best but I've never really been very popular.
wonderful footage , thanks for showing us
Thank you very much. Also just subbed your channel, good hiking content.
Beautiful video, isn't it incredible to think that in the past, the hills and nearly all land in Britain was covered with lush and beautiful forest? I hope we return to that...
Thank you for your nice comment. Yes I agree with you more forest's please but the new high speed train line is not helping.
@@tubbatravels Certainly not, many issues in our society of trying to "improve" the world we already have, while destroying its unique beauty in the process.
Good camping vid.
Enjoyed that one.
Cool water filter, I need to get one.
Crazy bothy story.😂
I'm staying there for a night next month.
Hopefully he doesn't come back.😁👍
Nice one Jamie, yes this was the bothy in your video. Such a cool place. The water filter is great and filters out everything bad unlike the sawyer but the sawyer is much lighter.
Hallo semoga menyenangkan harimu beautiful vidio manap👍
Thank you very much
Looks like a lovely trip. Anywhere I can get a map of your route?
Hi Rob, we used a landranger map of the black mountains. We show it at 35 seconds in. I have tried to copy and paste the route from google maps into this chat but it won't let me do it. If I can work out how to take a photo of my map and paste it here I will do that. Sorry I'm not more help.
@@tubbatravels no problem, thanks for pointing that out. I had completely forgotten you showed that at the beginning.
@@robgreene5666 If I were to do it again I would park at llanthony priory and make my way from there. It would save time I think rather than walk from Pandy and mean more energy for exploring the Black Mountains.
@@niallcarson thanks Niall, I have actually planned a route doing just that!
@@robgreene5666 Cool let me know how it goes, cheers.