Annie Outdoors
Annie Outdoors
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Abandoned settlement swallowed by the forest - strange things left behind
Bored on Sunday I hiked deep into the forest in search of an abandoned settlement.
Only problem is it is DEEP in an overgrown forest.
I wasn’t prepared for what I found or how emotional it would be finding it.
I am still trying to find out who might have lived and farmed there but all I have been able to find out so far is it looks like it has been deserted since mid 1800s
After thinking about it more, I think the yellow tape will have been from forestry workers to protect to site.
It turns out it was a different (much easier to get to) site that was excavated 6 years ago, not this one. Which means that the items were likely left by the last residents. That really changes how I feel about th...
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6 Days Backpacking Kit Review - Did I really need a chair?
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Reviewing all the gear I took on my trip around The Arran Coastal Way. What should I have left at home? What was I really pleased with? And did I really need a chair? If you haven’t seen the Arran trip yet here it is here 👇 ruclips.net/video/6Iz_lnZJTiM/видео.htmlsi=FQqK69BWMcBf8eXP #Hiking #Camping #Backpacking #outdoors #wildcamp Arran Gear List These are not affiliate links or necessarily wh...
Backpacking Arran’s Coast 115km - Part 4 - Best and hardest thing I’ve done
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Wild camping, improvising and hiking around Arrans coast was not the journey I expected, but it was the one I needed. I covered 115km (the route varies in length depending on the which way you go - there are quite a few options). I really struggled on the last day. I was sad and happy to finish - a very emotional mix!! #outdoors #hiking #wildcamp
Backpacking 115km round Arran Coastal Way - Part 3 - I couldn’t find anywhere to camp!
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Part 3 of backpacking the Arran Coastal Way. Sections of the hike were mentally and physically challenging. And mistakes were made!! I never thought that I would be facing heat as an issue for this trip. It was mid May on Arran after all!! There was a huge section that had nowhere to camp and I’m now seriously considering the virtues of bivvi camping. - I haven’t bivvi camped since my army days...
Backpacking 115km - Arran Coastal Way Part 2 - Struggling in the heat
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When I set off Hiking and camping 115km along The Arran Coastal Way the last thing I expected was to be struggling because it was TOO HOT!! Better that than horizontal rain and wind though…right!!? Long distance hikes are a wonderful journey into the unknown. And this hike really threw me a few surprises! Arran really is the gift that keeps on giving, and I was really falling in love with it. T...
Backpacking 6 days & 115km - Arran Coastal Way Part 1
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Backpacking 6 days & 115km - Arran Coastal Way Part 1
Wild camping alone on a mountain - Hiking into isolation for my mental health
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Wild camping alone on a mountain - Hiking into isolation for my mental health
Hike & wild camp didn’t turn out as I expected - Scottish hills won’t let me get to them easily!
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Hike & wild camp didn’t turn out as I expected - Scottish hills won’t let me get to them easily!
The Great Glen Canoe Trail - I spend 4 days wild camping and paddling across Scotland
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The Great Glen Canoe Trail - I spend 4 days wild camping and paddling across Scotland
I went alone to The Bushcraft Show 2023 - It did not disappoint.
Просмотров 671Год назад
I went alone to The Bushcraft Show 2023 - It did not disappoint.
My camper van is tiny! Night out in remote part of Scotland
Просмотров 649Год назад
My camper van is tiny! Night out in remote part of Scotland
I go in search of the Hidden Valley to wild camp - Got flooded out at 1am
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I go in search of the Hidden Valley to wild camp - Got flooded out at 1am
Hammock camping alone deep in Forest | Campfire cooking 🔥
Просмотров 704Год назад
Hammock camping alone deep in Forest | Campfire cooking 🔥
I went deep into the forest alone and found a lost settlement - bushcraft and campfire cooking
Просмотров 6 тыс.2 года назад
I went deep into the forest alone and found a lost settlement - bushcraft and campfire cooking
I hike alone in search of ‘Murder Hole’
Просмотров 6222 года назад
I hike alone in search of ‘Murder Hole’
I campfire cook barefoot and alone in the forest 🦶 | steak & freedom
Просмотров 2,4 тыс.2 года назад
I campfire cook barefoot and alone in the forest 🦶 | steak & freedom
I discovered something hidden in the woods | grounding 🦶 | spoon carving
Просмотров 22 тыс.2 года назад
I discovered something hidden in the woods | grounding 🦶 | spoon carving
I make a Bushcraft chair and spoon carve | ASMR | Galloway Forest park
Просмотров 8462 года назад
I make a Bushcraft chair and spoon carve | ASMR | Galloway Forest park
January on a Scottish beach | grounding 🦶| campfire cooking & sunset
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January on a Scottish beach | grounding 🦶| campfire cooking & sunset
Pinnacle of my life!! Axe throwing girl.
Просмотров 1262 года назад
Pinnacle of my life!! Axe throwing girl.
Woodland cooking - Dutch oven | bushcraft | two girls| scotland
Просмотров 9112 года назад
Woodland cooking - Dutch oven | bushcraft | two girls| scotland
Going ‘Out Out’ - Galloway Forest Park | solo female
Просмотров 2,2 тыс.2 года назад
Going ‘Out Out’ - Galloway Forest Park | solo female
Again. Again. Again. Again 🪓 Axe throwing - beginner to bullseye
Просмотров 2932 года назад
Again. Again. Again. Again 🪓 Axe throwing - beginner to bullseye
I went hunting deer and butchered it myself - survival skills
Просмотров 3692 года назад
I went hunting deer and butchered it myself - survival skills
Adventure is a Condition of Being
Просмотров 2232 года назад
Adventure is a Condition of Being
I explore the Isle of Harris - Husinis | Wild swim | Scotlands Islands | My first video
Просмотров 2552 года назад
I explore the Isle of Harris - Husinis | Wild swim | Scotlands Islands | My first video
Merrick - Galloway Forest Park | Hiking solo girl
Просмотров 6692 года назад
Merrick - Galloway Forest Park | Hiking solo girl
Wildcamp in hammock | Solo female | spoon carving | Scotland | Galloway
Просмотров 5192 года назад
Wildcamp in hammock | Solo female | spoon carving | Scotland | Galloway
Old Man of Coniston | Lake District | Solo Female
Просмотров 2312 года назад
Old Man of Coniston | Lake District | Solo Female
Autumn Hammock Camp in Wilderness | Scotland | Wildcamp | Galloway Forest
Просмотров 8202 года назад
Autumn Hammock Camp in Wilderness | Scotland | Wildcamp | Galloway Forest

Комментарии

  • @philipmarlowe4682
    @philipmarlowe4682 4 часа назад

    Love life on the edge and dread carefully pass the sign

  • @annieoutdoors
    @annieoutdoors 23 часа назад

    The 1690s were a precarious time to live in…It is worth mentioning that witches were very real to people then and although accusations and sentencing were far more about control and power than they were about ‘safety’, people really did fear witches.

  • @boabysands888
    @boabysands888 День назад

    Think thats across road from entrance to the raiders road down galloway forrest👌🏽🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

  • @thepawanderer
    @thepawanderer 2 дня назад

    very cool

  • @antongunther3977
    @antongunther3977 4 дня назад

    Not ganna lie I would let the intrusive thoughts win and get on top of that bridge

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 4 дня назад

      🤣🤣🤣 if I wasn’t so well known in my local area I might have … I’d definitely have been spotted!!

  • @DARKSLIDEHLL
    @DARKSLIDEHLL 5 дней назад

    not denied at all, we have the right to roam in scotland. close gates leave no crap and u can go almost anywhere

  • @jamesknight7194
    @jamesknight7194 5 дней назад

    with a heavenly voice like yours you should tell scary stories or fantasy stories lol

  • @maggiesinclair9878
    @maggiesinclair9878 5 дней назад

    Thank you so much for taking us on your trek round Arran. I’ve visited there a couple of times and loved it so your take on walking all round the island was a delight. Btw, Arran is the only place where I’ve heard the cuckoo in real life and I was very pleased to hear it again on one of your videos.

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 5 дней назад

      Aww thank you so much for the lovely comment ☺️ It’s funny you mention the cuckoos, they were ‘the sound of Arran’ for me. I felt like I could hear them all day everyday. Absolutely loved Arran.

  • @MotoM0nk
    @MotoM0nk 5 дней назад

    wee bit spooky tbh

  • @MotoM0nk
    @MotoM0nk 5 дней назад

    that's a lovely hidden treasure....thank you for showing us. Whereabouts in Scotland? l lived in Glasgow a year and Edinburgh 3 years - loved it. New sub here

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 5 дней назад

      Thank you so much. South West Scotland, its a quiet corner of the country ☺️

  • @hypo345
    @hypo345 6 дней назад

    Most homes out in the sticks would have had a midden, once something had served it’s purpose and couldn’t be repaired it would be thrown in the rubbish heap, these make interesting finds. I worked on a cricket pavilion once and had to replace the floor, in the earth below was a massive midden with lots of old glass bottles including a tiny Marmite bottle. Under the circumstances I decided to take a few and then boarded up the floor, some of the bottles have appeared in my photographic work in still life images. As a family when I was young in the 60’s and early seventies we visited Wales quite a bit and I loved it when we discovered some of the mining villages (mainly slate mines I think) that had been abandoned and trying to imagine life back then, so much simpler but for all working class people back then life must have been extremely hard.

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 6 дней назад

      I would love to ‘dig up’ some things that have been left behind in order to better understand the story of those that lived there. It’s conflicting though for sure. Leave it as it is to be consumed back into nature or rediscover some memory of those that came before. I know I don’t have the right answer… There is something deeply intriguing and seductive about little pieces of someone’s history …. Kind of funny as well because what I find spellbinding now, they probably didn’t have any emotional attachment to!! Could be the equivalent of someone in the future finding one of my coffee mugs and treasuring it, even though I got it free with a tank of petrol 😅 Thank you for taking the time to comment ☺️

  • @bilyd333
    @bilyd333 7 дней назад

    The old will outlive the new..watch

  • @luntti2402
    @luntti2402 7 дней назад

    Great video😮😮

  • @johntomson3812
    @johntomson3812 7 дней назад

    All your words resonated with me there Annie. Enough said.👍

  • @GivePeaceAChance1968
    @GivePeaceAChance1968 9 дней назад

    Amazing adventure, brilliant ✌️

  • @pipandbenji
    @pipandbenji 10 дней назад

    They look incredibly sad to me. But what a place!

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 10 дней назад

      I thought a couple almost looked like death masks 😳 (meetings can feel like that right enough…)

    • @pipandbenji
      @pipandbenji 10 дней назад

      @@annieoutdoors perhaps another meeting that should have been an email 🤣

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 10 дней назад

      🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @johntomson3812
    @johntomson3812 10 дней назад

    Incredible. Just incredible! What a brilliant thing to do. Absolutely love that .🤯🤯

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 10 дней назад

      Isn’t it!! So quirky … if you didn’t know they were there you would walk straight past! There’s something really cool about that.

  • @daviemcf
    @daviemcf 10 дней назад

    Very interesting video Annie. ❤like 77.

  • @daviemcf
    @daviemcf 10 дней назад

    Amazing carvings!!

  • @captainedith
    @captainedith 11 дней назад

    Boop

  • @annieoutdoors
    @annieoutdoors 11 дней назад

    My favourite thing is to go hiking in search of lost and abandoned things. Things that will one day be reclaimed by nature. #outdoors #abandoned #hiking

    • @user-gk1lo6ni1b
      @user-gk1lo6ni1b 10 дней назад

      beautiful find Annie, Andy Goldsworthy vibes,..... my friends grandpa in the 1940's carved 6 arctic char, out of slate rocks where i live on each side of an old beautiful arched bridge, he was a widowed old man , a recluse that was unfortunately pickled with emotional turmoil, a lovely human soul that recently passed away at the age of 94, i often i wish i would have had the courage to pick his brains about his amazing local knowledge he had, life is a fragile balance, and its too short, god bless all of you

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 10 дней назад

      🙏🏽 Thank you for sharing that. Absolutely agree, value and treasure those around you.

  • @AlexAdam65
    @AlexAdam65 11 дней назад

    I'd love to do this!!!

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 11 дней назад

      Highly recommended!! Do it!! 😁

  • @Markwildcamp
    @Markwildcamp 11 дней назад

    Think id need to sleep in that cave if I found it

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 11 дней назад

      Caves do have a certain something about them…I think it’s in our DNA to be attracted to them!

    • @Markwildcamp
      @Markwildcamp 11 дней назад

      @@annieoutdoors I found one similar in Northumberland, first thing I thought was to contact my brother and arrange a night out. When we slept in it we talked about who lived in it back in the day, magical

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 11 дней назад

      oh, that’s a great reminder! I found one in the Lake District that was really cool…promised myself I’d go back, stay and make a video! Id forgotten about it until now!!

  • @pipandbenji
    @pipandbenji 12 дней назад

    Using the full weight and swing of the axe to do the work, lovely circular action 👍

  • @annieoutdoors
    @annieoutdoors 12 дней назад

    Okay so I don’t actually take an axe that size camping. But I do keep a bag of logs in my van. There might be nothing more satisfying than chopping wood!! 🪵

  • @johntomson3812
    @johntomson3812 12 дней назад

    I hope no real logs were harmed in the making of this video.🤔

  • @Hy-Brasil
    @Hy-Brasil 12 дней назад

    Highland clearances sound like what the US government did to the indians. Don't you just love how they shove us all around like WE'RE the livestock?? And we always end upbl bumping against each other as a result.. i realized that as a kid while visiting Darian Georgia, which was a Scottish fort.... the black watch i think... Anyway the British occupiers wanted a buffer between them and the indians so that's who they put there. Only they didn't expect the natives and the Scotts to have so much in common. I wouldn't normally hesitate to keep something I'd found in abandoned places (obviously not on public land) but in some cases i would avoid it. Especially if you don't know the circumstances for its abandonment. You may end up bringing home a curse. Dead serious. Those of you who laugh have turned off your greatest instincts then wonder why you're plagued with bad luck.. There is another channel i follow called Unearthing the Supernatural where these native american men visit haunted tribal locations or national parks. But they're not your average ghost hunters. More like ghost therapy. Shanclen, who has his own channel, once said it's hugely disrespectful to these spirits to come crashing into their space, stir them up and then leave. Sometimes these are the spirits of people who need help but instead of doing that you just taint them and run away screaming. Imagine doing that to someone who was drowning and reaching out for your hand. So, in these places.... do walk lightly. I can see that you do have plenty of respect and praise you for it. My own homestead is pretty old by American standards.. we have whats left of a wagon wheel imbedded in the biggest hickory tree I've ever seen. I've found all sorts of bottles and trinkets, handmade iron bits, chains for plows and a few arrowheads. There was also an old washing machine, the kind with the wringers. You never know what you'll unearth after a rain. I always viewed it as gifts. The previous owners were not good people. Lots of abuse and deviant behavior if you care to imagine the worse. The owners before that weren't any better. The whole community knows my home by its reputation. And you can feel it when you come here. But after ten or more years it's like it's opening up and healing. It used to be a productive little farm until certain elements were introduced. Then it slowly began to rot. Even the woods oozed this sort of sad darkness. Going to a new place, or any new place, you're given a chance to prove who you are and your intentions. That's why i agree with you about the human footprint. We do leave a bigger and more lasting impression. The little things we do can alter lives without us ever knowing (that's why i don't like picking wild berries. I'm NOT starving. I have a farm that grows its own. Animals in nature have a small window to gather resources so they can survive another season. I have no right to steal their food) and even with my own fruit trees and bushes i don't take everything. God said to plant near the edges of your property and leave those trees and plants for the poor to glean. And that's what i do.... It doesn't matter how small your land is, if you take care of it, it'll take care of you. Even if you're only visiting. Introduce yourself like you would if you walked into a stranger's home. And yeah don't steal their stuff lol but if it's offered there's no harm. And it'll be easy to tell the difference.

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 12 дней назад

      Thank you so so much for taking the time to write this. I appreciate you! Our farm was like a museum when I was a little kid, I only wish I had been a little older when my parents took the farm over (from my grandparents)… my parents were ruthless when modernising it and soooooo much was lost 😞 We do however still have the mangle (the clothes thing with the two rollers!), and a few other bits of old machinery like ploughs. Our house was older than 350 years. I try to place close attention to my gut and it said, curious little bottle, but you don’t need to own it, seeing it is enough. I did however once dig up, and keep, some quartz, but I promised to return it one day! I will be investigating more abandoned and forgotten places … I will announce myself appropriately on arrival 🙏🏻

  • @kristimcgowandarkoscellard3126
    @kristimcgowandarkoscellard3126 13 дней назад

    I am curious about the age of the settlement you speak of because the lichen growth on the stones left of the wall suggests a great age for that wall. Many hundreds of years if not thousands. Lichen grows only in tiny millimeters every year. Some of those stones were covered in very thick lichen growth, this suggests a great age.

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 13 дней назад

      Thats really interesting! I guess parts of the buildings could be older than others, common for places to be reused through the ages.

  • @thewatchman6074
    @thewatchman6074 14 дней назад

    Whenever I stand in places like this, I wish I had some kind of psychic ability to see it as it was, and to be able to visualise the people living their daily lives. I find these places fascinating. I just get the feeling that your location might have been something to do with the highland clearances

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 14 дней назад

      Yeah I think you’re probably right, many small holdings seem to have been abandoned around the same time. There are quite a few more of them for me to investigate!! ….. if I can find a way through the forest!! I stood for ages off camera imagining the kids running about, the animals doing animal things and picturing when the buckets etc were sat down for the last time where they were left behind… it really gets me!!

  • @johntomson3812
    @johntomson3812 14 дней назад

    Annie,no subliminal messaging please,ive already subscribed 😂. Fascinating video. I stand among ruins and wonder what it was like in the past. Imagining the sounds,smells and people. But enough about my living room after a party. Seriously,totally got your excitement about that,kindred spirit. When i worked for a ground engineering company,i came across a perfect condition ceramic pot about a half metre down during teial pit excavations. An on site archaeologist told me it was roughly 120 years old. I still have it and just put loose change in it but i still wonder about the people who made it and held it in the past. I find it really magical.If only they could be brought back and see their pot in its present day place surrounded by all the modern day technology it would blow their mind.

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 14 дней назад

      I just love glimpses into the past and pondering what life might have been like ☺️ there is something so magical about find things they have left behind! I suppose because so much is lost forever, especially from everyday ordinary people.

  • @Prefer2Hibrn8
    @Prefer2Hibrn8 15 дней назад

    I really enjoyed your video :D Your joy at what you had found shone through and you brought back that joy of discovery for me 😁. Thank you 🙏

  • @Prefer2Hibrn8
    @Prefer2Hibrn8 15 дней назад

    i would leave the bottle there out of respect for those who have lived there in the past

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 15 дней назад

      I do wonder what was in it!!? 🧐

  • @JonsDadHikes
    @JonsDadHikes 15 дней назад

    I was in Wales last summer. Can’t wait to come back for more hiking! Jon’s Dad RUclips.com/@JonsDadHikes

  • @user-gk1lo6ni1b
    @user-gk1lo6ni1b 15 дней назад

    needs and wants are subjective, but i had to see this one, Annie you have a unique aura that glows around you, it's indescribable of colour but it is your spirit , and it burns bright, brighter than the surface of a sun , there will be a bottle pit along the edge of this ruin somewhere, if you see a concentration of nettle and elder that's often where they would throw any glass as there was no recycling then , the Phosphorus from any residue is perfect fertile feed for identifying the pit, there are beautiful old cobalt blue poison bottles in lots o thees'e 1700's to 1800's farm holding ruins, i have dug them my whole life,

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 15 дней назад

      Lovely comment 🙏🏻 I suspect I’ll go back there, even though it was a nightmare to get to!! So I’ll look for the nettles!! There’s some more buildings quite close by that I found on an old map, so I’m keen to see what they are! I’m thinking they might be the house 🤞🏼

  • @mark.kelley1928
    @mark.kelley1928 16 дней назад

    Manually*

  • @mark.kelley1928
    @mark.kelley1928 16 дней назад

    Vets bottle, buckets at a guess was for manly milking cows way back

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 16 дней назад

      I reckon you’re probably right!

  • @pipandbenji
    @pipandbenji 16 дней назад

    Love this! Great content. Old walls tell stories! I'm with you on leaving the bottle behind. Not just leave no trace, but you are leaving that piece of history where it belongs and hopefully will give the next explorer the same pleasure you got! ATB George

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 16 дней назад

      It’s a funny one, but I just felt like it belonged there.

  • @billybobwombat2231
    @billybobwombat2231 16 дней назад

    👍🦘

  • @3ForestAnimals
    @3ForestAnimals 16 дней назад

    hi from Idaho

  • @ericthearfaviking7579
    @ericthearfaviking7579 16 дней назад

    Cracking 👌

  • @Grassmonster3
    @Grassmonster3 16 дней назад

    I wonder if the buckets were used for milking.

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 16 дней назад

      I bet you’re right!! That makes sense.

  • @Hikingjoe383
    @Hikingjoe383 16 дней назад

    Snow other good one Anne

  • @alantipple3684
    @alantipple3684 16 дней назад

    Great watch such a lovely place, afraid I would have taken the bottle did you manage to find out any more information about the place

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 16 дней назад

      Quite a large part of me thinks I was being daft about the bottle 😅 I’ve really struggled to find out anything except I found one old map that listed it as ruins - around 1900, which I guess means it had to be empty for at least 20 or 30 years by then. And I did find out it hadn’t been excavated so I think the yellow caution tape was probably from forestry workers.

    • @alantipple3684
      @alantipple3684 16 дней назад

      Bottle's can give you a good guide to the age by the way they are made I have found a few and have been able to date them keep the videos coming thank you

  • @bushcraftua1
    @bushcraftua1 16 дней назад

    👍🥾⛰️. Nice nature 💚. Cool find

  • @stevep6088
    @stevep6088 16 дней назад

    Another lovely video. It reminds me of several places here in Wales - whole valleys that have become deserted as sheep farming has become less and less viable. Some were abandoned 150-200 years ago and some in the past few decades - but all are equally poignant. Keep up the good work😊

    • @annieoutdoors
      @annieoutdoors 16 дней назад

      Thank you, it’s really fascinating to find places that look untouched from the day they were left. Can’t help but wonder what the last day was like for them as they moved onto a different life…