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Gonna share a link on the mellow channel. Pop over and like it of you can try and get a collaboration. Here is the link to their most recent vid with the comment ruclips.net/video/HWnDyF2DHKw/видео.html
Gonna share a link on the mellow channel. Pop over and like it of you can try and get a collaboration. Here is the link to their most recent vid with the comment ruclips.net/video/HWnDyF2DHKw/видео.html
Dave, you're easily one of the most inspiring people I've come across, with your articulate wisdom, passionate commitment, generosity and humility. Thanks from Australia.
I just love wandering around looking at rocks and possible climbs like you do, but unlike you I rarely come back and actually climbs what I recognized. Your videos will make me change that ! Thank you for those videos dave.
Gonna share a link on the mellow channel. Pop over and like it of you can try and get a collaboration. Here is the link to their most recent vid with the comment ruclips.net/video/HWnDyF2DHKw/видео.html
You and mellow are THE premier climbing channels! Would be super cool to see the young guns climb some of that spooky trad out there! I’ll keep watching these nuggets of inspiration as long as you’re putting them out
I've only ever had that "there is a lifetime of climbing" feeling in dreams. Crazy to be able to relate in that way. Had to watch this video twice in a row. Awesome awesome awesome.
What a beautiful capture of this magical place! I just hope that one day you won't regret publishing this treasure... don't know why but I got this thought when I saw the deer.
@@climbermacleod Exposing this beautiful and - by the looks of things - very wild piece of nature to a larger public. Don't get me wrong: I don't know the history of this place so there's a high chance that my worries are completely unfounded! The thing is: I live in a place in germany right at the foot of the alps. Over the last couple of years the conflicts between an ever growing outdoor tourism (including rock climbing, mountaineering and mountainbiking) with its economical benefits for the whole region on the one hand and protecting the ever shrinking parts of true wild nature on the other hand got bigger and bigger. There are just too many examples (at least in germany) of how the discovery and the following, inevitable development of a new (eventually soon to be hyped) area for outdoor sports such as rock climbing was followed by overcrowding, rules, bans, penalties and damage of nature. But as I said already: I live in another country and I have to admit that I have no clue about this region, the ethics there or if problems like the ones explained above even exist in the UK.... so please don't take my comment as criticism because this was definitely not my intention! I really appreciate your content. It's kinda raw and authentic which is really rare these days on youtube!
@@nobody6454 Thanks. I don't think it's a problem here. The vast majority of people who visit Scotland never leave a tarmac surface. Even our roadside trad routes are needing cleaned because climbers don't do them, never mind walking for hours to get to the climb. Also, the whole country is full of undeveloped areas. Places I did new routes twenty years ago still have had no repeats.
@@climbermacleod Lucky you (and your fellow scottish climbers ;-) ) - sounds just like it used to be around here in my region 20 years ago :-). Now with an easier accessibilty of a lot of alpine routes that were former considered "way too far out there" to approach them by most climbers, some of the first ascensionists might find themselves in a queue at the foot of the wall on a sunny sunday. The super popular e-mountainbikes play a huge role here. But I don't wanna paint a future too negative under such a beautiful video - just enjoy this place as lang as you can! :-)
What really strikes me about this is that the UK is generally considered pretty much done in terms of new routes. Let alone new crags, let alone whole new valleys 😳. This place looks like some kind of northern wonderland. Thanks for sharing Dave. Btw. 6:05 That stag has a bloody lens attached to its head 😳🤔. Perhaps some kind of conversation experiment?
most climbers complain about the lack of new routes but would never clean and develop their own. which is fine, because that leaves few people at the new zones :)
Motivating as always Dave!! What is your thoughts/stance on bolting a project in these mountain zones? Are you only looking for trad projects or would you develop a buttress if it lended itself to hard but almost protection free climbing?
Its not so much whether it has protection or not - nothing wrong with bold routes. Its more whether the crag and situation is more suited to sport climbing. Overall I feel these ones are suited to trad.
Dave, regarding your practicing and exploring the moves on shunt, do you use any back up protection in case the shunt fails? I noted you tend to put a knot at the bottom of the rope but in reality that would have had no real meaning in F2+ fall environment. Ta very much legend!
@@climbermacleod How can you tell they are bad placements? Can you do a video on that? I’m always distrustful of trad gear and I’m surprised you can place 4 different pieces, all of them stay in and you still don’t trust them. When I don’t trust a nut it usually falls out 10 seconds later ;)
@@Mike-oz4cv That's hopefully me next in my trad series. I'll go through some fundamentals but basically judging them comes from placing and weighting gear day in day out for decades.
You know it's getting serious when Dave calls on the Mellow people to develop an area. Super cool looking place. It's always inspiring to see how many big, undeveloped, promising areas are left.
Gonna share a link on the mellow channel. Pop over and like it of you can try and get a collaboration. Here is the link to their most recent vid with the comment ruclips.net/video/HWnDyF2DHKw/видео.html
Myself and a mate went into Glen Pean last summer to try to do new routes. We're both like E1-E2 climbers, we figured that we could come in and sweep up some easier routes whilst yourself, Iain, Murdo etc... do all the E7+'s. Unfortunately we got there and realised many of the things you articulate in this video, particularly the compactness of the rock! We'd hoped to find some typical VS/HVS climbs with good cracks but to our chagrin we couldn't find any! Just tonnes of gearless routes, most of which seemed waaaaaay above our paygrade. Given the lack of gear we didn't want to get on something that we weren't confident we could do. In the end we ended up doing a few no star diffs/severe's before walking out again. Not my most successful climbing trip, but I'm glad I did it if for nothing else than to have been to Glen Pean - it's amazing!
I found this glen getting lost backpacking (best accident ever)! My phone was dead at the time so I couldn't take any pictures of the boulders, so I'm ecstatic that I found your superb video showcasing the valley. The ariel shot @ 4:17 even shows a boulder that I spent one afternoon climbing :) Thanks for bringing back happy memories! Can't wait to go back soon!
The best thing I did for my climbing and my life in general is to move to an area for the primary reason of pursuing hobbies and ensured that career opportunities fit around that, rather than the other way around.
I did just the opposite last August and deeply regret it. Hoping to move again when I can get out of my lease. Turns out flat basin lands are not as good for maintaining goals when gyms are closed indefinitely :(
Gonna share a link on the mellow channel. Pop over and like it of you can try and get a collaboration. Here is the link to their most recent vid with the comment ruclips.net/video/HWnDyF2DHKw/видео.html
6:11 Does the stag have some random piece of plastic in it's antlers? No, the shape is too exact. It's...it's.....an "exterminator" ray gun. It's a Dalek-controlled stag! Call the Doctor!
Fantastic stuff Dave, thanks for sharing. I've camped in that Glen on my way north a few times to Sourlies, absolutely stunning place. Glad you could find beautiful climbs, yet another reason for me to visit again!
my god what a beautiful place. thanks for taking the time to film and share! and the stag is definitely filming you back. watch your back on return visits!
Shame due to Covid MBA has closed the bothies. There's one right there in Glen Pean. I can see that bothy becoming more popular after this great video!
Loved the Mellow shout-out
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MacLeod x Mellow, damn! Gotta happen
imagine
Gonna share a link on the mellow channel. Pop over and like it of you can try and get a collaboration.
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Dave, you're easily one of the most inspiring people I've come across, with your articulate wisdom, passionate commitment, generosity and humility. Thanks from Australia.
Agree from Ireland
Very true. Still would watcha celebrity death match between Dave and Steve McClure.
Thanks for sharing, Dave! Was probably tempting to keep it all to yourself!
I just love wandering around looking at rocks and possible climbs like you do, but unlike you I rarely come back and actually climbs what I recognized. Your videos will make me change that ! Thank you for those videos dave.
God i hope Mellow comes and checks it out. That universe cross-over is a must-see.
Gonna share a link on the mellow channel. Pop over and like it of you can try and get a collaboration.
Here is the link to their most recent vid with the comment
ruclips.net/video/HWnDyF2DHKw/видео.html
You and mellow are THE premier climbing channels! Would be super cool to see the young guns climb some of that spooky trad out there! I’ll keep watching these nuggets of inspiration as long as you’re putting them out
Jurikk you know they probably won’t be up for it.. but just imagining it gives me enough satisfaction lmao
I've only ever had that "there is a lifetime of climbing" feeling in dreams. Crazy to be able to relate in that way. Had to watch this video twice in a row. Awesome awesome awesome.
Beautiful area, great looking line
Loved the vid as always! Thank you so much for sharing :) Perfect match of music, climbing, drone footage, panama's and your voice over.
Stunning scenery and photography! Thanks for sharing Dave.
I just had to rewatch this video, there's some stunning shots in it.
This place looks stunning!
What a beautiful capture of this magical place!
I just hope that one day you won't regret publishing this treasure... don't know why but I got this thought when I saw the deer.
What would I regret?
@@climbermacleod Exposing this beautiful and - by the looks of things - very wild piece of nature to a larger public. Don't get me wrong: I don't know the history of this place so there's a high chance that my worries are completely unfounded! The thing is: I live in a place in germany right at the foot of the alps. Over the last couple of years the conflicts between an ever growing outdoor tourism (including rock climbing, mountaineering and mountainbiking) with its economical benefits for the whole region on the one hand and protecting the ever shrinking parts of true wild nature on the other hand got bigger and bigger. There are just too many examples (at least in germany) of how the discovery and the following, inevitable development of a new (eventually soon to be hyped) area for outdoor sports such as rock climbing was followed by overcrowding, rules, bans, penalties and damage of nature. But as I said already: I live in another country and I have to admit that I have no clue about this region, the ethics there or if problems like the ones explained above even exist in the UK.... so please don't take my comment as criticism because this was definitely not my intention! I really appreciate your content. It's kinda raw and authentic which is really rare these days on youtube!
Chris Koala I think that drive along Loch Arkaig would be enough deterrent for the masses, before you even start walking ;-)
@@nobody6454 Thanks. I don't think it's a problem here. The vast majority of people who visit Scotland never leave a tarmac surface. Even our roadside trad routes are needing cleaned because climbers don't do them, never mind walking for hours to get to the climb. Also, the whole country is full of undeveloped areas. Places I did new routes twenty years ago still have had no repeats.
@@climbermacleod Lucky you (and your fellow scottish climbers ;-) ) - sounds just like it used to be around here in my region 20 years ago :-). Now with an easier accessibilty of a lot of alpine routes that were former considered "way too far out there" to approach them by most climbers, some of the first ascensionists might find themselves in a queue at the foot of the wall on a sunny sunday. The super popular e-mountainbikes play a huge role here. But I don't wanna paint a future too negative under such a beautiful video - just enjoy this place as lang as you can! :-)
the route is amazingly scenic. i love it. bravo.
What a stunning place and route! Nice job Dave!
This place looks amazing! Gonna have to head there to explore it one day!
Wow, such beautiful scenery!
What really strikes me about this is that the UK is generally considered pretty much done in terms of new routes. Let alone new crags, let alone whole new valleys 😳. This place looks like some kind of northern wonderland. Thanks for sharing Dave.
Btw. 6:05 That stag has a bloody lens attached to its head 😳🤔. Perhaps some kind of conversation experiment?
most climbers complain about the lack of new routes but would never clean and develop their own. which is fine, because that leaves few people at the new zones :)
Looks like a spool off a fishing reel on the stag. Sad to see. Great video as always though. Dave Macleod guidebook in the making maybe...?
Multi tasking 2m 48seconds in. Pissing and chatting to the camera 😆.
Does Look a place nice and peace full.
That place looks absolutely breathtaking!
Damn, Scotland is beautiful!
Just incredible Dave!
Ureal location Dave! Need to get Robbie Phillips and the gang out there! :)
That place looks amazing!!
Thanks Dave
Amazing footage.
Amazing location. Love your content
Dave, you need some Totems! It would open up a lot of weird "non" placements for you.
Haha...should maybe have read the comments before making mine...
Looks beautiful!
Motivating as always Dave!!
What is your thoughts/stance on bolting a project in these mountain zones? Are you only looking for trad projects or would you develop a buttress if it lended itself to hard but almost protection free climbing?
Its not so much whether it has protection or not - nothing wrong with bold routes. Its more whether the crag and situation is more suited to sport climbing. Overall I feel these ones are suited to trad.
Brilliant!
Awesome, any potential for winter lines too?
Dave, regarding your practicing and exploring the moves on shunt, do you use any back up protection in case the shunt fails? I noted you tend to put a knot at the bottom of the rope but in reality that would have had no real meaning in F2+ fall environment. Ta very much legend!
See my whole video on this. Additional knots as you climb.
If there is no good protection is it within the ethics to bolt there?
I'm not sure about the ethics, but there's nothing wrong with bold routes.
un grande
Why are you placing 4 pieces of gear in some places?
Because they are poor pieces. More chance one might hold a fall if there are several.
@@climbermacleod How can you tell they are bad placements? Can you do a video on that? I’m always distrustful of trad gear and I’m surprised you can place 4 different pieces, all of them stay in and you still don’t trust them. When I don’t trust a nut it usually falls out 10 seconds later ;)
@@Mike-oz4cv That's hopefully me next in my trad series. I'll go through some fundamentals but basically judging them comes from placing and weighting gear day in day out for decades.
wow. that setting just looks amazing.
Collaboration?????? 👀🙏
You know it's getting serious when Dave calls on the Mellow people to develop an area.
Super cool looking place. It's always inspiring to see how many big, undeveloped, promising areas are left.
Gonna share a link on the mellow channel. Pop over and like it of you can try and get a collaboration.
Here is the link to their most recent vid with the comment
ruclips.net/video/HWnDyF2DHKw/видео.html
Myself and a mate went into Glen Pean last summer to try to do new routes. We're both like E1-E2 climbers, we figured that we could come in and sweep up some easier routes whilst yourself, Iain, Murdo etc... do all the E7+'s. Unfortunately we got there and realised many of the things you articulate in this video, particularly the compactness of the rock! We'd hoped to find some typical VS/HVS climbs with good cracks but to our chagrin we couldn't find any! Just tonnes of gearless routes, most of which seemed waaaaaay above our paygrade. Given the lack of gear we didn't want to get on something that we weren't confident we could do. In the end we ended up doing a few no star diffs/severe's before walking out again.
Not my most successful climbing trip, but I'm glad I did it if for nothing else than to have been to Glen Pean - it's amazing!
the shot at 1:50 is something else! great content
Looks fake almost, so beautiful
I found this glen getting lost backpacking (best accident ever)! My phone was dead at the time so I couldn't take any pictures of the boulders, so I'm ecstatic that I found your superb video showcasing the valley. The ariel shot @ 4:17 even shows a boulder that I spent one afternoon climbing :) Thanks for bringing back happy memories! Can't wait to go back soon!
The best thing I did for my climbing and my life in general is to move to an area for the primary reason of pursuing hobbies and ensured that career opportunities fit around that, rather than the other way around.
Where'd ya move?
@@eliwest6470 Peak district in the UK.
I did just the opposite last August and deeply regret it. Hoping to move again when I can get out of my lease. Turns out flat basin lands are not as good for maintaining goals when gyms are closed indefinitely :(
Dave and Mellow Colab would be so amazing
Gonna share a link on the mellow channel. Pop over and like it of you can try and get a collaboration.
Here is the link to their most recent vid with the comment
ruclips.net/video/HWnDyF2DHKw/видео.html
6:11 Does the stag have some random piece of plastic in it's antlers? No, the shape is too exact. It's...it's.....an "exterminator" ray gun. It's a Dalek-controlled stag! Call the Doctor!
The shot at 1.47 is incredible.
Thanks for sharing this location. I live in Fort William, so can't wait to do some climbs there :)
Find something harder! That made me smile. Love that Glen.
Yip,I could hear the stag bellowing.
That stag though. That sight makes me hate my species
Beautiful images Dave!! great stuff
Your videos are so inspiring and the production value of this one is incredible as well. What a human
hahahaha man you're mad, that's a 007 stag hahahaha can't stop laughing
Fantastic stuff Dave, thanks for sharing. I've camped in that Glen on my way north a few times to Sourlies, absolutely stunning place. Glad you could find beautiful climbs, yet another reason for me to visit again!
This place is truly spectacular. Looking forward to future updates from this Glen....Keep up the good work
my god what a beautiful place. thanks for taking the time to film and share! and the stag is definitely filming you back. watch your back on return visits!
Lovely place great rout. Amazing looking bouldering.
This looks like an amazing road trip waiting to happen. Did you say loch moor?
Very generous of you to tell the other new routers about this beautiful place, Dave
Is no one going to talk about the stag doing his own vlog??
What a beautiful glen, stunning !
Man, what a place to climb.
such a beautiful area
Shame due to Covid MBA has closed the bothies. There's one right there in Glen Pean. I can see that bothy becoming more popular after this great video!
Wrong end of the glen for the climbing though. Better just to camp at the climbing end.
Looks great Dave
Could someone post a Lat/Long or and OS grid reference for this area?
Dude literally just Google Glen Pean and the first result getoutside.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/local/glen-pean-highland
Is bolting not allowed/ethical there?
I'm not sure its well suited to sport climbing. They seem pretty adventurous by nature.
Gotta check out some of those boulders like
Shame about the stag anaw
Gdi I need to know what was on that stags head!