I hope you enjoyed the video. Part 2 coming soon and it Scotland’s weather really unleashed some venom upon us. Torrential rain, wind, thunder and lightning. Make sure to subscribe and hit the 🔔 so you don’t miss that one 👍🏻
The Highlands are totally unforgiving (in my experience), which is exactly why I've not been camping there for over 20 years. Some folks still head up there in winter, which is far more bonkers than can be imagined. Similar to the higher Hymalayas (probably). Such areas are simply not fit for human habitation.
I've been walking there when I was young boy in the 70s it's a awesome place going back soon with my cousin for a 2 week camp, thanks Paul for a great video and bringing back so many memories thanks 👍🙂
I've only ever passed through the cairngorms on a couple of occasions but never had the chance to stay and see the place properly. It really looks lovely up there. I'll have to get back there again one day before I get too old!!
I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for part two, it looks like you had a grand aul time of it.. Congrats to yourself and Jo on tying the knot, I wish you both all the very best of luck and happiness for the future 👍
Adventure! I'm looking forward to part 2. Not because I want to see you out in a storm, but to see how you cope and to learn from your experience. Thanks for sharing this trip.
That looked thoroughly....miserable 😁 I can take extreme heat & extreme cold whilst camping but the one thing I simply detest is the rain and the horrible, insidious dampness that comes with it, it just makes everything so much hard work. You can try and keep things dry but no matter what you do, in the end, the damp & wet will eventually win.
I'm glad that it rained! Not through any desire to see you suffer, but because it's good to see a wet-packing demonstration. Looking forward to the next edition.
Plenty of people using the Durston X-Mid in Iceland ;) Seems to be very solid with a couple of simple mods and an extra guyline on each peak for security (and saves a kg backpack weight and costs half the price - if those are a consideration) :) You should have given yours a work-out Paul - I'd love to seen how it handled that storm in Part 2 !
Awesome video Paul! I've watched your videos for a few months but this is the first time I've left a comment! I always enjoy watching your hiking and wild camping adventures, and they always inspire me to head out hiking and visit different areas of the country! I've yet to visit the Cairngorms, but it's certainly an area I'd like to head up to at some point! Looking forward to watching the rest of your trip! 😊
Wow, that is some crazy weather. Its great to see how you pack up in the rain though. It's rather an art. Whenever I'm out in stuff like that, I'm reminded that wild camping is every bit a psychological activity as it is a physical. The mind can go many places when hiking in weather like that. Looking forward to part 2!
It was rather entertaining to see the other two guys packed up and ready to go whilst you dried down the outside of the tent in the rain 😂 Looking forward to your assessment of the Southern Cross 1 and your comparison to a Soulo
Just realised. After all this time I've done this exact circular looks to be lochnagar + Loch muick circular. Lovely walk and most definitely achievable in one day.
Your in the Homeland 🏴, & almost old school methods & freezin 🥶 the danglies off 🙈🤣, can’t beat it 👌🤣, some of the views seem familiar as well 🤔👍
I often take my inner down in poor weather. So much easier to pack away but I use another dry sac for it. Looked like fun though, looking forward to part two. 👍
Walking, Hiking and camping used to be free in Scotland as passed by the Scottish Parliament until they licenced Loch Lomond and Trossachs Park to charge people for camping in the area they control thus taxing the people of Scotland for the Freedom to Roam, the area they control get's bigger every year. Time it was stopped and give us our right to roam back. Freedom for Indigenous Scots.
Looking forward to this, been seeing Beavo's updates on IG. 😁 Pity you didn't get the views from Lochnagar, still looked a fun trip. Looking forward to Part 2.
CLASSSS....brilliant Paul really enjoyed that some testing conditions but for a mountain goat 🐐 you nailed it mate .. always appreciated all the best marra 😀 👍 🏕
thats some serious weather potential up there, I was there decades ago and it can get you if you make a mistake or get hurt. Its not just altitude, latitude is a big part of the conditions.
Had the same weather hiking up cairngorm, 2 hour up the mountain with a sketchy scramble and no view at the end. Could not have wished for a better reward but that anti climax will stay with me for a long time
Brilliant. Im camping regularly in Scotland and Ive realised that its basically just about balancing a few simple factors ..... 1. You need to pack the lightest load possible to deal with the forecasted weather. 2. The weather forecast is usually wrong 3. The weather might do different things every every few hours. Its a beautiful nightmare. My best advice to anyone hiking and camping in Scotland is ... Take an umbrella (laugh all you like but you will eventually thank me ....) Plan to be hot, wet, and cold, in the same day. Possibly the same hike Get a very lightweight breathable poncho. (It might save your clothes, tent or gear, from water) ALWAYS take protection from both insects and sun. Think like a marine. EVERYTHING you take needs to be packed in a way that protects it from water. Scotland is one of the best places on earth to hike and camp. It is also one of the few places on earth where you might be drenched, battered by wind, snowed on, and sunburned, in the same trip. Good luck all.
Reminds me of the days I went touring on a bike. packing everything into my pannier bags took a bit of time, then you realised you needed something at the bottom of the bag so out everything had to come again to get to it lol. I cycled with shorts and T-shirt, if it rained yes you got soaked but soon dried again on the downhills and you got a shower at the same time - Will be watching for your next leg of the journey, stay safe, happy hiking - Subscribed
Superb video Paul , great to see you back doing these videos with your mojo back . Keep up the great work pal . Looking forward to part 2 . All the best !!
I find the mist very eerie, reassuring to be with company. Cocoon sounded cosy as did putting the kettle on. Your bed was beckoning you after such a long day
Big skies, big weather, big smiles !!! I liked the netting/webbing on the shoulder straps for the bottles !!! Come with the sack of did you fit them ???
The irony is the weather has been fabulous up here for months.......to be honest too hot for hillwalking. You are better in the cold (but not clag). I hope that you enjoyed your trip Paul..
Great wee video Paul.It`s a real shame that ,after all that effort you never got to see the magnificent views.Never mind next time it could be better. ATB
I do enjoy bag weather. I live near the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountains in Virginia. There are a lot of small waterfalls. I set up when the big storms hit so in the morning I see the falls at their best and when few people show. I have experienced the Scottish weather, it can get very dicey.
Even with a heat proof felt, my Cascade Wild table did start to deform after using it several times with an alcohol stove with a Caldera Cone. I've got a titanium table for this year.
Great trip and footage so far. I liked your gear selections as well... appears suitable, up to standards reliable, and par for the course. My day was swabbing and inspecting whitewater rafts & catarafts. Work entails high attention to detail, check listing, and redeployments outfitting boating and camping gear for multi-day Moose and Bison fly-out remote destination float hunts throughout Alaska. Today... supposed to have two scheduled fly-outs by float plane... however weather delayed grounded due to blowing 40-50mph and waves of sideways rains. I liked the two-cone stove accessory... those take a while to build, and optimally nest a given/specific pot selection. Looking forward to part 2.
I hope you enjoyed the video. Part 2 coming soon and it Scotland’s weather really unleashed some venom upon us. Torrential rain, wind, thunder and lightning. Make sure to subscribe and hit the 🔔 so you don’t miss that one 👍🏻
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The Highlands are totally unforgiving (in my experience), which is exactly why I've not been camping there for over 20 years. Some folks still head up there in winter, which is far more bonkers than can be imagined. Similar to the higher Hymalayas (probably). Such areas are simply not fit for human habitation.
The rain and wind are whatever. Is lighting a worry though? Seems like humans would be a good object for the lighting to hit in a big open area
Great video Paul, I'm looking forward to watching part 2.
In Scotland we just call that normal summer weather, thats why I moved to Surrey lol
There is something magical about being enveloped in cloud whilst on a mountain peak; great video Paul.
Great video, Paul, Agree with you 🙂😇
As soon as I saw the flooded bridge I knew you were heading towards Lochnagar and the white mounth munros
I've been walking there when I was young boy in the 70s it's a awesome place going back soon with my cousin for a 2 week camp, thanks Paul for a great video and bringing back so many memories thanks 👍🙂
Over the years I have spent many happy times sitting in the tent with nonstop rain. Oh happy days.
I've only ever passed through the cairngorms on a couple of occasions but never had the chance to stay and see the place properly. It really looks lovely up there. I'll have to get back there again one day before I get too old!!
Welcome to Scotland and our fantastic weather.
Brilliant idea using the zip lock bag for the inner. Must try to remember this.
I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for part two, it looks like you had a grand aul time of it.
I'll definitely be keeping an eye out for part two, it looks like you had a grand aul time of it..
Congrats to yourself and Jo on tying the knot, I wish you both all the very best of luck and happiness for the future 👍
Adventure! I'm looking forward to part 2. Not because I want to see you out in a storm, but to see how you cope and to learn from your experience. Thanks for sharing this trip.
That looked thoroughly....miserable 😁 I can take extreme heat & extreme cold whilst camping but the one thing I simply detest is the rain and the horrible, insidious dampness that comes with it, it just makes everything so much hard work. You can try and keep things dry but no matter what you do, in the end, the damp & wet will eventually win.
We’re used to it here. It builds character ( a bloody grim and dour character though ) but only Southerners dissolve in water 😉
It was hardly even raining, it’s still summer ffs. 👍🤣
try Dartmoor , if you can see it then it`s going to rain , if you can`t then it`s already raining!! lol
Great content as always, looking forward to part 2!! 👊🏼😉
I'm glad that it rained! Not through any desire to see you suffer, but because it's good to see a wet-packing demonstration. Looking forward to the next edition.
Great video, Thank you and stay safe....
Brilliant video I’m looking forward to watching part 2 later
Thank you. Let me know what you think. The weather much more brutal in part 2 😂
Unlucky with the weather! Its been great weather up until the last week or two!
Hello Paul. Thanks for the good conversation and the beautiful pictures. Many greetings from Berlin/ Germany
Excellent content,learned so much from you Paul.Thanks.
Awesome video. I love hiking and camping like that
Plenty of people using the Durston X-Mid in Iceland ;) Seems to be very solid with a couple of simple mods and an extra guyline on each peak for security (and saves a kg backpack weight and costs half the price - if those are a consideration) :) You should have given yours a work-out Paul - I'd love to seen how it handled that storm in Part 2 !
Awesome video Paul! I've watched your videos for a few months but this is the first time I've left a comment! I always enjoy watching your hiking and wild camping adventures, and they always inspire me to head out hiking and visit different areas of the country! I've yet to visit the Cairngorms, but it's certainly an area I'd like to head up to at some point! Looking forward to watching the rest of your trip! 😊
Wow, that is some crazy weather. Its great to see how you pack up in the rain though. It's rather an art. Whenever I'm out in stuff like that, I'm reminded that wild camping is every bit a psychological activity as it is a physical. The mind can go many places when hiking in weather like that. Looking forward to part 2!
Thanks for taking us with you … 😎👍
Reminds me of what I didn't like about the Akto, getting changed inside the small tent and packing your stuff before setting off.
Splendid landscapes
Can't wait to get up Scotland, looks like a good trip, bring on part 2! ATB 👩&🐕
You'll love it, it's such an amazing place at any time of the year.
Most excellent, thanks
Today 15 September 2022, and all respect goes to Saint Yvon, just WOW, we should remember
nice to see you further afield Paul
Thanks for another great video, your certainly organised, x
It was rather entertaining to see the other two guys packed up and ready to go whilst you dried down the outside of the tent in the rain 😂 Looking forward to your assessment of the Southern Cross 1 and your comparison to a Soulo
Thumbs up for the Jackson Gag from me. Easy to drop the inner down in the SC1 loads of room then.
Just realised. After all this time I've done this exact circular looks to be lochnagar + Loch muick circular. Lovely walk and most definitely achievable in one day.
Your Country is sooo beautiful!
Your in the Homeland 🏴, & almost old school methods & freezin 🥶 the danglies off 🙈🤣, can’t beat it 👌🤣, some of the views seem familiar as well 🤔👍
Hello , Legend.. Mr. Paul Messner 👋🏻👋🏻👋🏻
I'm enjoyed your video 👍🏻🙏🏻
Really liking that Door tie back for the southern cross
Always lovely watching your videos Paul
Thank you 🙏 ❤️
I do love seeing my windshield in use 👍😉
glad to see you are up and going again Paul best wishes
Really enjoying your videos, Paul. Keep up the work! Greetings from North-Norway
I miss camping 🏕 take care paul and enjoy camping 😆
Great camping vlog.
Great film Andy. Keep on smiling bruvvvvaaaaaa. One love 👍🙏❤️
I thought the view was very beautiful. and clean river water. and u got a nice tent,
Great wee video mate love that wee tent looks solid and spacious, keep up the good work. Atb Wullie 🏴✊🏻🏴
Treat video. Really useful seeing you pack up in the wet. 👍
Great film Paul, that adventure food mince beef hotpot has for to be the worst dehydrated meal made. Foul stuff haha. TFS David 👍
I often take my inner down in poor weather. So much easier to pack away but I use another dry sac for it. Looked like fun though, looking forward to part two. 👍
Walking, Hiking and camping used to be free in Scotland as passed by the Scottish Parliament until they licenced Loch Lomond and Trossachs Park to charge people for camping in the area they control thus taxing the people of Scotland for the Freedom to Roam, the area they control get's bigger every year. Time it was stopped and give us our right to roam back. Freedom for Indigenous Scots.
Only “indigenous”? So people who immigrate would be excluded? Tourists? Still, solution is simple - vote out the Greens & SNP at the next opportunity
Looking forward to this, been seeing Beavo's updates on IG. 😁
Pity you didn't get the views from Lochnagar, still looked a fun trip. Looking forward to Part 2.
Another superb video from Mr Messner. Thank you for uploading this for us to enjoy. 👍
Great to see you enjoying yourself again, love the videos!
Wow man, that looks like wild weather. Great part one, well done, I’m looking forward to part two. Take care, 👍👍👍
CLASSSS....brilliant Paul really enjoyed that some testing conditions but for a mountain goat 🐐 you nailed it mate .. always appreciated all the best marra 😀 👍 🏕
Love this…I’m up there next week…magnificent!
Looking forward to part 2. Really enjoyed part 1. Love your videos. Thanks for all you do it is appreciated.
Another great video, Paul.
Lochnagar - one of my favourite Munros.
Amazing area that's only about an hour's drive from home.
Really like that tent!!
Very enjoyable video Paul looks like you get plenty room in that tent looking forward to seeing part two atvb Jimmy 😎😎👍👍
thats some serious weather potential up there, I was there decades ago and it can get you if you make a mistake or get hurt.
Its not just altitude, latitude is a big part of the conditions.
I can’t wait to see part 2 Paul love all your video’s
lovely vdo guys ..much love
Had the same weather hiking up cairngorm, 2 hour up the mountain with a sketchy scramble and no view at the end. Could not have wished for a better reward but that anti climax will stay with me for a long time
Great video! it's something I really want to do and this gives me more confidence, Thanks Paul 👍
Wish I had known, would have met you for tea and scones!
Mallaig this week, UKs most remote pub on Knoydart Peninsula, well worth a look!
Very enjoyable. There's nowhere quite like Scotland. It looked a tough day Paul....though I'm guessing not as tough as day two. 🤔
LookinG forward to part 2. Great vid
Great that Paul. can't wait for the next one 😊
Looked a bit damp in all that liquid sunshine Paul. Oh well, at least it kept the midges at bay. Ha!
Thanks
Lovely 🤩🤩
That was great. Looking foreward for part two. :-)
Brilliant.
Im camping regularly in Scotland and Ive realised that its basically just about balancing a few simple factors .....
1. You need to pack the lightest load possible to deal with the forecasted weather.
2. The weather forecast is usually wrong
3. The weather might do different things every every few hours.
Its a beautiful nightmare.
My best advice to anyone hiking and camping in Scotland is ...
Take an umbrella (laugh all you like but you will eventually thank me ....)
Plan to be hot, wet, and cold, in the same day. Possibly the same hike
Get a very lightweight breathable poncho. (It might save your clothes, tent or gear, from water)
ALWAYS take protection from both insects and sun.
Think like a marine. EVERYTHING you take needs to be packed in a way that protects it from water.
Scotland is one of the best places on earth to hike and camp.
It is also one of the few places on earth where you might be drenched, battered by wind, snowed on, and sunburned, in the same trip.
Good luck all.
Looked like a good scotish summer to me being a native.
Reminds me of the days I went touring on a bike. packing everything into my pannier bags took a bit of time, then you realised you needed something at the bottom of the bag so out everything had to come again to get to it lol. I cycled with shorts and T-shirt, if it rained yes you got soaked but soon dried again on the downhills and you got a shower at the same time - Will be watching for your next leg of the journey, stay safe, happy hiking - Subscribed
Going hiking with a few friends may be tiring but also a lot of fun.
Nice footage, clear and crisp and watch out for that powdered milk Paul it is addictive, I drink it every day 😬
Superb video Paul , great to see you back doing these videos with your mojo back . Keep up the great work pal . Looking forward to part 2 . All the best !!
Should be glad of the wind Paul, keeps the midgies away 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Very nice looking forward to next part
Great to see you out longer :)
I find the mist very eerie, reassuring to be with company. Cocoon sounded cosy as did putting the kettle on.
Your bed was beckoning you after such a long day
Try devils point, Cairn Toul and Angels peak from linn of Dee. My favourite so far.
Big skies, big weather, big smiles !!! I liked the netting/webbing on the shoulder straps for the bottles !!! Come with the sack of did you fit them ???
Great video. Also got caught in the mad storms this week.
Great trip, hats off for going up there in that weather! Looking forward to the second video.
another fantastic video Paul, cant wait to see part 2
The irony is the weather has been fabulous up here for months.......to be honest too hot for hillwalking. You are better in the cold (but not clag). I hope that you enjoyed your trip Paul..
Ah, enjoying the great British countryside! 😉 Reminds me of a few walks in the Peak District, not as high mind.
Great wee video Paul.It`s a real shame that ,after all that effort you never got to see the magnificent views.Never mind next time it could be better. ATB
Always happy to give a Like to the Cairngorms. Couldn't figure out what hill you were on though. Lochnagar is about that height?
Looking forward to part 2!
I do enjoy bag weather. I live near the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountains in Virginia. There are a lot of small waterfalls. I set up when the big storms hit so in the morning I see the falls at their best and when few people show. I have experienced the Scottish weather, it can get very dicey.
Looking forward to part 2 Paul!
Great video Paul and looks like a cracking trip. Looking forward to part 2 after that preview.
Wind is about to knock one of them big boulders about...
Even with a heat proof felt, my Cascade Wild table did start to deform after using it several times with an alcohol stove with a Caldera Cone. I've got a titanium table for this year.
can't wait for part 2!
Great trip and footage so far. I liked your gear selections as well... appears suitable, up to standards reliable, and par for the course. My day was swabbing and inspecting whitewater rafts & catarafts. Work entails high attention to detail, check listing, and redeployments outfitting boating and camping gear for multi-day Moose and Bison fly-out remote destination float hunts throughout Alaska. Today... supposed to have two scheduled fly-outs by float plane... however weather delayed grounded due to blowing 40-50mph and waves of sideways rains. I liked the two-cone stove accessory... those take a while to build, and optimally nest a given/specific pot selection. Looking forward to part 2.
Awesome video !
GOD BLESS THE QUEEN !
DML...Mike.