Hi Tony, thanks for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated. I need to get back out too! I’ve only managed one camping trip so far this year. Staoineag is in a great location. Hope you get back one day soon. ATB, Dave
@@daveoutdoorsscotland2854 hi Dave. After a very poor last year for camping, I'll be having a lot of trips to Scotland this year and can't wait! Enjoying your videos very much 👍 Cheers, Tony.
Another fine adventure under your belt David, such a full coverage of the terrain and wilderness atmosphere, I feel that I can avoid the pain and now just sit back in my armchair and watch you do all the work from now on, what a joy. Harry
Thanks Harry. I deliberated whether or not to include the lengthy dialogue, filmed sitting by the fire. My dilemma relates to some upcoming foreign travel that will prevent me from filming and uploading. I decided to include the chat on the basis that an explanation of the upcoming hiatus was worthy of inclusion for the regular viewers. I know that I'm running a tiny channel, but it is always best to treat people with respect. And, the mention of a possible Himalayan adventure is a wee hook to keep the viewers onboard. I've learned a lot from the way you film and present your vids, so thanks for that. David
Hi Colin, thanks for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the wee vid and hope you have time to check out some more of my mini-adventures. ATB, Dave
Meannach is a great bothy and very well located for the Corrour FW hike. Thanks for viewing, very much appreciated. Hope you have time to check out some of my other vids. ATB, Dave
Glad you enjoyed it Graham. Hope you get a chance to enjoy a bothy trip one day. There's nothing better than sitting by the fire with some friends and a hot drink or dram, especially after a day in the hills. ATB, Dave
Hmmm nice, I used to clean my pots and pans with sand and sea water , how are you going to read your book Dave ? Ahhhh yes you have a head torch . old 🦉 Alaya
Hi Alaya, yes, nature's scourers, river or sea sand to clean the pots and pans. Works a treat. I like to watch the flames until the die down to a warm glow, then break out the head torch to read for a while before climbing into the sleeping bag. ATB, Dave
There’s this eco compressed sawdust block you can get that weighs next to nothing, good for the environment and you can light them without fire lighters, they will keep the weight off your back next time and they last a long long time too 🦉🦉🦉🦉alaya. It comes in little round wedges not like those heavy fire blocks you could quite happily fill another rucksack with them and carry them on your front I promise a friend of mine uses them for a ‘Woodburner in a gypsy caravan’ that’s how potent they are and light as a feather ! You can light them with candle wax and a match or a one of those fancy new spark generators you guys light fires with now made of stone, I even bevelled a little hole in one of them once and used the hole contents to ⚡️ 🔥 spark it up with they are a dream but I’ve never seen not even one person on the tube using them, it’s a pity I can’t upload a pic for you to show you, I know for sure they sell them at saw mills, and I’m sure even on Amazon, hope that helps with the weight barring fuel problem😁😁
Hiya Dave, good video, would love to visit the bothy one day, working on mk2 trailer, may use 4 inch hubs this time n actually make my destination 😂, nice to meet you, hope blackwater was good neebs.
Good morning Malky, it was good meeting you on the track the other day. I hope the mk2 trailer build goes well. You have an impressive setup for cycle touring and camping. I was pondering the trailer build and wondering how you could strengthen it to take the weight, especially when on rough ground. I thought about double axles but don't know how well a four-wheeled trailer would handle behind the bike. I think your solution for heavier hubs is more sensible. Have you ever thought about adapting a cargo bike? Some of the modern e-bikes are pretty impressive, but I'm guessing they are super expensive. Anyhow, good luck with whichever plan you follow. I'll keep an eye out for you on my travels. ATB, Dave
@@daveoutdoorsscotland2854 Hi dave, Yes impressive to the eye maybe, but bloated and overweight would be a better description. I was towing a 48v 200Ah bank, In the box on top i had a 3m bell tent, an outback stove, tarp, poles, cooking tripod, grill and coleman oven. Mounted up front i had a 40l freezer (with food) then a rack above that to hold my kayak. It used 3% of the battery from the station to my crash site 😁, It was an insane folly of engineering, but a pleusure to build and test. Mk 2 will be much lighter and lower centre of gravity. Maybe see you out on the moor with a less ambitious and more opperational generation of my trailer soon. Sláinte, malky.
Good morning Kevin. Thanks for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the bothy atmosphere. I'm looking forward to getting back to the bothies, for a night by the fire, some friendly banter and good craic, a hot meal and a brew. Heartwarming stuff, just the tonic to help us all forget the trials and tribulations of the world. Hopefully we'll be able to access the bothies soon. Stay safe and thanks again for viewing. ATB, Dave
I m hoping your going to show us the rest of the bothy and any wood cutting tools they may have does the bothy have an out building ? With a log to replenish supplies for others ,or are you trying to keep this place as secret as you can , I mean I don’t blame you, I would want to protect to, I was also thinking is the river there good for fishing, maybe some river trout to catch ? I’m at the part where your in one room unpacking your bag , with respect Old Owl 🦉 Alaya.
Hi Alaya, this particular bothy does not have a fuel source. Everything has to be carried in, making the warmth of the hearth all the more welcome. It is relatively easy to find the location of this bothy, thanks in no small part to the internet. However, it is far enough into the wilds to be enjoyed only by those prepared to put in a fair effort to traverse the rough terrain. Unlike some bothies, this place tends to be frequented mostly by those who respect nature. The river will certainly have fish. I enjoy taking a cast or two and there is no delicacy finer than cooking up a freshly landed fish on the bank. However, I am a sea fisherman and have little skill in freshwater angling. If you have time to check out some of my other videos, you will see some success with the rod and line. ATB, Dave
There’s not one thing wrong with needing solitude, I’m at the part where you’re sat on the lightning struck tree, that weather you have right now ( could change in less than a minute) might bring you some company, there are those who expect to have bothies to themselves, but you don’t strike me as that kind of person, seems like you really do need some solitude and I hope you get it, as there is nothing like it, sometimes. I hope if you do get company, it’s someone who also needs some solitude, and not sadly the bothy party organisers who are spoiling it for everyone and lessening our bothy population, now on with the journey, you are kindly sharing. Old Owl 🦉 Alaya
Hello Alaya, thank you so much for viewing and commenting. I certainly do enjoy periods of solitude. Solitude, for me at least, is a lovely mix of isolation (from the hustle and bustle of the modern world) and immersion (in the hustle and bustle of nature). Exchanging fast moving traffic for fast moving clouds, or chattering folk for burbling streams, or clock-driven regimes for the arc of the sun across the sky is really refreshing. The pace of life and the passage of time does not really change, but perceptions almost certainly do. ATB, Dave
@@daveoutdoorsscotland2854 yes… your really immersed in the experience some people just go to conquer and some go to just be…in being I’m so lucky I live somewhere you can hear a pin drop, I wouldn’t survive anywhere else, I’ve tried, but as I’ve matured like a good wine, it knows where the exact conditions are for its flowering. However- I would rather live up a mountain on my own with a very small, small holding, an open fire, a tractor that comes once a month with my wood and necessities and walk every day, read by the fire, meditate into the night, and collect my eggs in the morning, and hold classes once a month on self sufficiency and small very small holding. I would like to have a wild horse that visits, and stags and deer that could come to my out shed for shelter in the winter. If they so wanted too, that’s my perfect life. I’m practicing by watching you on your walks and others too, I love watching bush craft too, I’ve built a burrow or two in my life. To give back Dave here’s a poem written just now by me to say thank you 🙏 for all that you share with us all, whom, for whatever reason can’t make those walks at this time. The poem is a heartfelt thank you for sharing and taking us with you. I know how much it means to me all of you beautiful people who put so much work and toil into bringing us along. The name of the poem is. “Just one last time.” Just One Last Time. We wait, in our minds eye, and dream the dream To once again smell the rain, soaking our faces in an easterly breeze , as we turn to face the wind, on the sunrise. We long, to pace that disappearing path upwards the Corbett, and boot sinking in the brown waters of the peaty grass side; We breath in, gladly, the remembered earthy odour of a footprint left behind, and care not for our wet socks. We have no destination, only the journey, a view is not sort after, just the ruffling sound of our jacket in the wind, and a bead of sweat on leaving our brow, passes our eye and turns to tear; at the magic of all that passes through us, as if we were never ev’n here. Resting a while on an out crop, we turn to face that long and winding way, the shimmering rising sun on the loch begins its play, of full rainbows from end to end we gaze, our footprints long gone, in the mountain hay. We could turn to stone on the rock we perched and would neither care nor weep, nor concern, for our longing so great, for our longing fulfilled …. And the smell of the heather Hath gathered around us, forever to hold us in her magnificent sleep. If per chance we were to rise, from our blissful slumber We would form a crag, a shelter, for the happy wanderer. Alaya Shunyata March 2023. Thank you Dave .
And then came Covid-19.... My Butty and I went past Staoineag Bothy about 30 years ago on our way to Glen Nevis YHA, stopping at Meanach Bothy, with its resident mice overnight. We had started our walk from Dalwhinnie station and had stopped overnight at Culra Lodge Bothy and at Loch Ossian YHA beforehand... That was when I was somewhat younger and fitter than I am now.. I was carrying about 60lbs in my rucksack... I distinctly remember weighing it on the scales at Abergavenny station before getting on the train for the journey up to Scotland... I also remember a guy, who rejoiced in the name of Dave walking with an enormous rucksac in the other direction on the not too steep climb up to Loch Ossian that you showed at the end of the video... he looked as if he could have done with at least a couple of Sherpas to carry it... and was completely and utterly spent... he was carrying all sorts of goodies.... tins of food, cans of drink and an huge radio/cassette player.... I have the distinct feeling it might have been his first.... and quite possibly his last ever hiking trip... I'm pretty damned sure it wasn't you, you seem far too sensible to do something as dull as that!
Loved your story Casey. Memories from the hills last a lifetime. I’m just about to set up my tent by a remote wee shieling on the east coast of Uist. I will shelter in the Lee of the ruin this evening and enjoy a brew of strong tea by the fire. Stay safe, stay well Casey. ATB, Dave
Hi Dave, so much has happened in the world since the filming this trip. Who would've thought? I have been working away in the garden today; pretty cold but good to be outdoors. Looking forward to catching up one or two of your vids later tonight. ATB, Dave
You have very clear articulation , but what happened at 58:43 when you were going to explain why you were at the bothy and then you just dashed out of sight without returning to the subject.
Yes, Chris, it is so sad to see vandalism anywhere in the world. But to carry out such a mindless act in a place where we go to escape the trials of modern life is just beyond comprehension. The hike into Staoineag is not particularly taxing, but the bothy can certainly be regarded as reasonably remote. In other words, the folk responsible for the vandalism must have hiked a considerable distance to find refuge in the bothy. During their hike, they would have experienced some of the finest mountain and moorland landscape Scotland has to offer. Despite this, they still felt some sort of perverse need to damage the character of this little building. How their minds work is beyond me. Thanks for watching and commenting, very much appreciated and I sincerely hope the graffiti didn't detract too much from your enjoyment of the video. ATB, Dave
@@paulhowie3761 Yes Paul, you're absolutely right. And, there's always a chance the wood will catch fire with the resultant loss of another cherished bothy. Thanks for viewing and commenting btw, very much appreciated. ATB, Dave
Dave Outdoors Scotland hi Dave yes such a shame, I suppose that’s why they have to keep some of the locations secret .... it’s a shame that RUclips can be a double edged sword. I love RUclips and it seeing folks videos like yours has been an inspiration but sadly you get the other side where idiots post videos of mindless and selfish behaviour and I guess encourage their like to walk out to places like these and the easier to walk to ones suffer. You can tell when you see them I’ll dressed for the climate and carrying shopping bags you can ex Etc trouble. But being positive your video was fascinating and very pleasant to watch. It also has an underlying message of responsibility too in that your cleaning out of the grate was a kind act. But others shouldn’t have left it for someone else to do . But mice video Dave and here’s to more cheers
Dave Outdoors Scotland exactly it would be such a shame as I’m sure someone somewhere probably puts a lot of effort into maintaining these Bothys. Sadly there is a Bothy in the woods at the base of the Wrekin in Shropshire and because it’s fairly urban now thanks to the growth of Telford, it’s within walking distance from the town so all of the local idiots have wrecked it ... the doors have gone, the sides are open and inside idiots have burnt all the bunks and beer cans lying all over ...it’s a real shame ..the countryside is there for everyone but in some ways some people should only be allowed in on pain of death lol 😂
Good morning Pieter, sorry you didn’t seem to like the video. Surf through some of my other vids to see if you can find anything suitable for your viewing needs. If not, there are lots of other channels focusing on the fine views of Scotland. Thanks for viewing and for leaving a comment, very much appreciated. ATB, Dave
Great video Dave.
After Mtb-ing past those bothies two decades ago you’ve reminded me I need to get back on foot!
Thanks very much 👍
Hi Tony, thanks for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated. I need to get back out too! I’ve only managed one camping trip so far this year. Staoineag is in a great location. Hope you get back one day soon. ATB, Dave
@@daveoutdoorsscotland2854 hi Dave.
After a very poor last year for camping, I'll be having a lot of trips to Scotland this year and can't wait!
Enjoying your videos very much 👍
Cheers, Tony.
Another fine adventure under your belt David, such a full coverage of the terrain and wilderness atmosphere, I feel that I can avoid the pain and now just sit back in my armchair and watch you do all the work from now on, what a joy. Harry
Thanks Harry. I deliberated whether or not to include the lengthy dialogue, filmed sitting by the fire. My dilemma relates to some upcoming foreign travel that will prevent me from filming and uploading. I decided to include the chat on the basis that an explanation of the upcoming hiatus was worthy of inclusion for the regular viewers. I know that I'm running a tiny channel, but it is always best to treat people with respect. And, the mention of a possible Himalayan adventure is a wee hook to keep the viewers onboard. I've learned a lot from the way you film and present your vids, so thanks for that. David
Ditto harry lol
Very enjoyable Greetings from enniskillen Northern Ireland 🇬🇧
Hi Colin, thanks for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the wee vid and hope you have time to check out some more of my mini-adventures. ATB, Dave
@@daveoutdoorsscotland2854 definitely will dave👍🏴
@@colinmaxwell4738 Thanks Colin
I slept in Meannach bothy because I heard Staoineag was haunted.I walked from Corrour to Fort William.Great journey.
Meannach is a great bothy and very well located for the Corrour FW hike. Thanks for viewing, very much appreciated. Hope you have time to check out some of my other vids. ATB, Dave
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and adventures matey.
Thanks for viewing and commenting Stephen, very much appreciated. Hope you have time to check out some of the other vids on my channel. ATB, Dave
Will do.
Fine scenery, moody weather - essence of Scotland!
Succinctly put Mo.
I’ve always wanted to stay in a bothy but never had the chance so thanks for sharing it with us Dave really enjoyed it. ps another top video 👍
Glad you enjoyed it Graham. Hope you get a chance to enjoy a bothy trip one day. There's nothing better than sitting by the fire with some friends and a hot drink or dram, especially after a day in the hills. ATB, Dave
Hmmm nice, I used to clean my pots and pans with sand and sea water , how are you going to read your book Dave ? Ahhhh yes you have a head torch . old 🦉 Alaya
Hi Alaya, yes, nature's scourers, river or sea sand to clean the pots and pans. Works a treat. I like to watch the flames until the die down to a warm glow, then break out the head torch to read for a while before climbing into the sleeping bag. ATB, Dave
There’s this eco compressed sawdust block you can get that weighs next to nothing, good for the environment and you can light them without fire lighters, they will keep the weight off your back next time and they last a long long time too 🦉🦉🦉🦉alaya. It comes in little round wedges not like those heavy fire blocks you could quite happily fill another rucksack with them and carry them on your front I promise a friend of mine uses them for a ‘Woodburner in a gypsy caravan’ that’s how potent they are and light as a feather ! You can light them with candle wax and a match or a one of those fancy new spark generators you guys light fires with now made of stone, I even bevelled a little hole in one of them once and used the hole contents to ⚡️ 🔥 spark it up with they are a dream but I’ve never seen not even one person on the tube using them, it’s a pity I can’t upload a pic for you to show you, I know for sure they sell them at saw mills, and I’m sure even on Amazon, hope that helps with the weight barring fuel problem😁😁
Love the video Dave keep up the good work,from kev the bothy hunter.
Thanks Kev, glad you enjoyed the video. Bothy hunting is a great pastime. Thanks also for commenting, very much appreciated. ATB, Dave
Hiya Dave, good video, would love to visit the bothy one day, working on mk2 trailer, may use 4 inch hubs this time n actually make my destination 😂, nice to meet you, hope blackwater was good neebs.
Good morning Malky, it was good meeting you on the track the other day. I hope the mk2 trailer build goes well. You have an impressive setup for cycle touring and camping. I was pondering the trailer build and wondering how you could strengthen it to take the weight, especially when on rough ground. I thought about double axles but don't know how well a four-wheeled trailer would handle behind the bike. I think your solution for heavier hubs is more sensible. Have you ever thought about adapting a cargo bike? Some of the modern e-bikes are pretty impressive, but I'm guessing they are super expensive. Anyhow, good luck with whichever plan you follow. I'll keep an eye out for you on my travels. ATB, Dave
@@daveoutdoorsscotland2854 Hi dave, Yes impressive to the eye maybe, but bloated and overweight would be a better description. I was towing a 48v 200Ah bank, In the box on top i had a 3m bell tent, an outback stove, tarp, poles, cooking tripod, grill and coleman oven. Mounted up front i had a 40l freezer (with food) then a rack above that to hold my kayak. It used 3% of the battery from the station to my crash site 😁, It was an insane folly of engineering, but a pleusure to build and test. Mk 2 will be much lighter and lower centre of gravity. Maybe see you out on the moor with a less ambitious and more opperational generation of my trailer soon. Sláinte, malky.
Virtual camping brilliant lights dim coffee at hand just like being there lol
Good morning Kevin. Thanks for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated. Glad you enjoyed the bothy atmosphere. I'm looking forward to getting back to the bothies, for a night by the fire, some friendly banter and good craic, a hot meal and a brew. Heartwarming stuff, just the tonic to help us all forget the trials and tribulations of the world. Hopefully we'll be able to access the bothies soon. Stay safe and thanks again for viewing. ATB, Dave
I m hoping your going to show us the rest of the bothy and any wood cutting tools they may have does the bothy have an out building ? With a log to replenish supplies for others ,or are you trying to keep this place as secret as you can , I mean I don’t blame you, I would want to protect to, I was also thinking is the river there good for fishing, maybe some river trout to catch ? I’m at the part where your in one room unpacking your bag , with respect Old Owl 🦉 Alaya.
Hi Alaya, this particular bothy does not have a fuel source. Everything has to be carried in, making the warmth of the hearth all the more welcome. It is relatively easy to find the location of this bothy, thanks in no small part to the internet. However, it is far enough into the wilds to be enjoyed only by those prepared to put in a fair effort to traverse the rough terrain. Unlike some bothies, this place tends to be frequented mostly by those who respect nature. The river will certainly have fish. I enjoy taking a cast or two and there is no delicacy finer than cooking up a freshly landed fish on the bank. However, I am a sea fisherman and have little skill in freshwater angling. If you have time to check out some of my other videos, you will see some success with the rod and line. ATB, Dave
nice video.greetings from croatia
Thank you so much. Welcome to the channel, always nice to share adventures with foreign friends.
Thank you so much. Welcome to the channel, always nice to share adventures with foreign friends.
Lovely video. Thanks for sharing
Thanks Barry. ATB, Dave
Well done on your consideration to others... that’s what this is all about not for freeloaders
Cool bothy
Hi Mark, yes it’s a great location. Thanks for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated. ATB, Dave
Need to get out myself sometime too much TV marky like some of the bushcraft vids there is a few good ones
@@mark140 yes, it’s good to get out Mark. ATB, Dave
There’s not one thing wrong with needing solitude, I’m at the part where you’re sat on the lightning struck tree, that weather you have right now ( could change in less than a minute) might bring you some company, there are those who expect to have bothies to themselves, but you don’t strike me as that kind of person, seems like you really do need some solitude and I hope you get it, as there is nothing like it, sometimes. I hope if you do get company, it’s someone who also needs some solitude, and not sadly the bothy party organisers who are spoiling it for everyone and lessening our bothy population, now on with the journey, you are kindly sharing. Old Owl 🦉 Alaya
Hello Alaya, thank you so much for viewing and commenting. I certainly do enjoy periods of solitude. Solitude, for me at least, is a lovely mix of isolation (from the hustle and bustle of the modern world) and immersion (in the hustle and bustle of nature). Exchanging fast moving traffic for fast moving clouds, or chattering folk for burbling streams, or clock-driven regimes for the arc of the sun across the sky is really refreshing. The pace of life and the passage of time does not really change, but perceptions almost certainly do. ATB, Dave
@@daveoutdoorsscotland2854 yes… your really immersed in the experience some people just go to conquer and some go to just be…in being
I’m so lucky I live somewhere you can hear a pin drop, I wouldn’t survive anywhere else, I’ve tried, but as I’ve matured like a good wine, it knows where the exact conditions are for its flowering. However-
I would rather live up a mountain on my own with a very small, small holding, an open fire, a tractor that comes once a month with my wood and necessities and walk every day, read by the fire, meditate into the night, and collect my eggs in the morning, and hold classes once a month on self sufficiency and small very small holding.
I would like to have a wild horse that visits, and stags and deer that could come to my out shed for shelter in the winter. If they so wanted too, that’s my perfect life. I’m practicing by watching you on your walks and others too, I love watching bush craft too, I’ve built a burrow or two in my life.
To give back Dave here’s a poem written just now by me to say thank you 🙏 for all that you share with us all, whom, for whatever reason can’t make those walks at this time.
The poem is a heartfelt thank you for sharing and taking us with you. I know how much it means to me all of you beautiful people who put so much work and toil into bringing us along. The name of the poem is. “Just one last time.”
Just One Last Time.
We wait, in our minds eye, and dream the dream
To once again smell the rain, soaking our faces in an easterly breeze , as we turn to face the wind, on the sunrise.
We long, to pace that disappearing path upwards the Corbett, and boot sinking in the brown waters of the peaty grass side;
We breath in, gladly, the remembered earthy odour of a footprint left behind, and care not for our wet socks.
We have no destination, only the journey, a view is not sort after, just the ruffling sound of our jacket in the wind, and a bead of sweat on leaving our brow, passes our eye and turns to tear; at the magic of all that passes through us, as if we were never
ev’n here.
Resting a while on an out crop, we turn to face that long and winding way, the shimmering rising sun on the loch begins its play, of full rainbows from end to end we gaze, our footprints long gone, in the mountain hay.
We could turn to stone on the rock we perched and would neither care nor weep, nor concern, for our longing so great, for our longing fulfilled ….
And the smell of the heather
Hath gathered around us, forever to hold us in her magnificent sleep.
If per chance we were to rise, from our blissful slumber
We would form a crag, a shelter, for the happy wanderer.
Alaya Shunyata March 2023. Thank you Dave .
@@OldOwl2003 Beautiflly written and such heart felt love for nature and a simple, fulfilling lifestyle. Simply wonderful. Thank you so very much. Dave
And then came Covid-19.... My Butty and I went past Staoineag Bothy about 30 years ago on our way to Glen Nevis YHA, stopping at Meanach Bothy, with its resident mice overnight. We had started our walk from Dalwhinnie station and had stopped overnight at Culra Lodge Bothy and at Loch Ossian YHA beforehand... That was when I was somewhat younger and fitter than I am now.. I was carrying about 60lbs in my rucksack... I distinctly remember weighing it on the scales at Abergavenny station before getting on the train for the journey up to Scotland... I also remember a guy, who rejoiced in the name of Dave walking with an enormous rucksac in the other direction on the not too steep climb up to Loch Ossian that you showed at the end of the video... he looked as if he could have done with at least a couple of Sherpas to carry it... and was completely and utterly spent... he was carrying all sorts of goodies.... tins of food, cans of drink and an huge radio/cassette player.... I have the distinct feeling it might have been his first.... and quite possibly his last ever hiking trip... I'm pretty damned sure it wasn't you, you seem far too sensible to do something as dull as that!
Loved your story Casey. Memories from the hills last a lifetime. I’m just about to set up my tent by a remote wee shieling on the east coast of Uist. I will shelter in the Lee of the ruin this evening and enjoy a brew of strong tea by the fire. Stay safe, stay well Casey. ATB, Dave
Nice bothy trip Dave must seem forever ago!
You’ll soon be back out into the wilderness
Atb 👍🏽
Hi Dave, so much has happened in the world since the filming this trip. Who would've thought? I have been working away in the garden today; pretty cold but good to be outdoors. Looking forward to catching up one or two of your vids later tonight. ATB, Dave
You have very clear articulation , but what happened at 58:43 when you were going to explain why
you were at the bothy and then you just dashed out of sight without returning to the subject.
Thanks for viewing and commenting. Can’t recall why I stopped filming. Hope ur enjoying the vids. ATB, Dave
Why is nothing sacred anymore, see all the grafeti that’s been painted on the ceiling 15:41
Yes, Chris, it is so sad to see vandalism anywhere in the world. But to carry out such a mindless act in a place where we go to escape the trials of modern life is just beyond comprehension. The hike into Staoineag is not particularly taxing, but the bothy can certainly be regarded as reasonably remote. In other words, the folk responsible for the vandalism must have hiked a considerable distance to find refuge in the bothy. During their hike, they would have experienced some of the finest mountain and moorland landscape Scotland has to offer. Despite this, they still felt some sort of perverse need to damage the character of this little building. How their minds work is beyond me. Thanks for watching and commenting, very much appreciated and I sincerely hope the graffiti didn't detract too much from your enjoyment of the video. ATB, Dave
It's not painted on , the idiots do it with the flame of a candle , its soot!
@@paulhowie3761 Yes Paul, you're absolutely right. And, there's always a chance the wood will catch fire with the resultant loss of another cherished bothy. Thanks for viewing and commenting btw, very much appreciated. ATB, Dave
Dave Outdoors Scotland hi Dave yes such a shame, I suppose that’s why they have to keep some of the locations secret .... it’s a shame that RUclips can be a double edged sword. I love RUclips and it seeing folks videos like yours has been an inspiration but sadly you get the other side where idiots post videos of mindless and selfish behaviour and I guess encourage their like to walk out to places like these and the easier to walk to ones suffer. You can tell when you see them I’ll dressed for the climate and carrying shopping bags you can ex
Etc trouble.
But being positive your video was fascinating and very pleasant to watch. It also has an underlying message of responsibility too in that your cleaning out of the grate was a kind act. But others shouldn’t have left it for someone else to do . But mice video Dave and here’s to more cheers
Dave Outdoors Scotland exactly it would be such a shame as I’m sure someone somewhere probably puts a lot of effort into maintaining these Bothys. Sadly there is a Bothy in the woods at the base of the Wrekin in Shropshire and because it’s fairly urban now thanks to the growth of Telford, it’s within walking distance from the town so all of the local idiots have wrecked it ... the doors have gone, the sides are open and inside idiots have burnt all the bunks and beer cans lying all over ...it’s a real shame ..the countryside is there for everyone but in some ways some people should only be allowed in on pain of death lol 😂
Wow far to much stopping and talking. Take videos of the scenery not you walking.
Good morning Pieter, sorry you didn’t seem to like the video. Surf through some of my other vids to see if you can find anything suitable for your viewing needs. If not, there are lots of other channels focusing on the fine views of Scotland. Thanks for viewing and for leaving a comment, very much appreciated. ATB, Dave