Attack of the Midges - Wild Camping in Scotland
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- Опубликовано: 10 фев 2025
- Wild camping in Glen Feshie in the Cairngorms National Park together with Robert from @murchiesmountains2820 . We decided to go on a low level wild camp due to the weather forecast of strong winds and rain....
Good video Stripey. The Midgies looked pretty bad! Glen Feshie is fantastic. All the best. 🏴
Thank you Gordon. Fantastic area. ATB Stripey
Probably my favourite glen as well. It was like something from the states, felt like another country.
Yeah it feels definitely differently to the typical scottish Glen! Cheers Stripey
Good stuff Stripey, looked brutal with midge but you can't beat the Cairngorms for a camp ..cheers Stevie
Thank you Stevie! Aye the Cairngorms are great...should really spend more time there but usually I am more at the west coast
Ey up Stripey. Great to see you back out in Scotland and with Murchie again. Glen Feshie is so beautiful. It must have looked amazing when all the heather was fully in bloom. Those midgies looked horrendous, thank the lord we don’t get them anywhere near as bad down here.
All the best mate 😀🥾⛰🏕️🏴🏴🇩🇪
Thanks a lot mate! Yeah you can't have everything 😂😂😂
Blimey stripey! Another one so soon after the GR54!
You are a machine bud!
Everything but that 😅
I enjoyed seeing how you used your Featherlight 700 cooking set with the midges. I can barely wait for my set to arrive!
@@ayclarke1880 of course I do 😊. Yeah I can understand you, we just posted an update on Kickstarter, shouldn’t take too much longer 🤞👍
Guessed you have your pasta bolognaise for supper hope the midges never got none great video to see the scenery 😀 thanks for sharing 👍
Oh of course I did, can't beat the food old pasta bolognaise ☺️
That's bringing back midgie PTSD. Once I walked across Rannoch moor and I was walking from Corrour to Kinlochleven via Blackwater Reservoir and the midgies were that bad and I didn't even have a tent to shelter in. In my ears, mouth, eyes, nose it was absolute hell! Hey, it builds character! 🤣
Oh man that sounds absolutely horrible! Glad that you put it into the character building drawer 😂👍
Great stuff as usual Stripey lad!
Thank you very much Garry!
Brilliant Stipey 😍👍..Excellent tour apart from those pesky midges🤣..Grest spot though..Back in the winter mate eh?..No midges 🤣
Cheers
Robert
Cheers Robert! Aye that's the plan 😎👍
@@StripeyHatGuy 😁👍
The scenery was incredible as you said , the river had almost a " Yukon " look on many of its part . I know somedy who will alway's leave a head net in its bag from now on 😅 , to be able to see the midges on camera it had to be a swarm 😮 . Thanks for the video . I have some catching up to do on your serie in the Alps ...
@@bonpecheur4565 cheers mate! Yeah the Alps was a fantastic trip but filming was not the priority at all, rather in finishing it 😅. Yeah Glen Feshie feels not like the typical Scottish Glen to me either, wouldn’t say Yukon so 😂😂😂. Was a long time a go for a week in the Yukon (long before I started filming) and it was just a complete disaster regarding the insects 😂
Stripey Hat 🎉 Guy, great video! Bet you missed the midges 😂
Cheers - sure I did 😂😂😂
Good to see the return of the stripey hat..... missing on the GR 54🙂
🙌😂
Good video
That looked Murder there Stripey.
I reckon Feshie is my favourite Glen too.
@@dougieranger definitely mate! Aye is just such a nice place with all the trees and a rather big river….just a beautiful glen 😎
@@StripeyHatGuy It can be wild though but that’s part of the fun.
Nice one 🙂👍
Thank you!
back to Scotland. hope you enjoyed the Alps trip, it looked magnificent!.
Thanks a lot! Yeah was absolutely great but also glad to be back in Scotland 😎
yup, even with the Midges!
@@peterq1978 oh don’t stretch it 😂😂😂
true. little biters are a pain.
I live near Feshiebridge/Loch Insh, normally midges are not too bad here but in April/May watch out for the "Birch Flies" (A variant of canadian black fly) around here and Loch Insh- it is the worst place for them in Scotland officially, midges are a nuisance but these things will draw blood and get under cuffs, trousers, under t-shirts not tucked in, thankfully they don't hang about all summer though, just a couple of frenzied weeks but you never know when it kicks off until you're running indoors lol.... When I go biking and hiking after May around here I ALWAYS take a midge net (and thin full finger gloves), they weigh just a few grammes but it's a mistake not to have one as the weather/wind forecasts are so unreliable... I'm planning a few camps around the area to test out some tarp/hammock ideas and test my kit as it progresses into winter, but the midges are still present despite a sub zero frost a few days ago....!! I can wait....!
@@BarrioBarranco1 thanks a lot! Haven’t heard of the other beasties before and I don’t not want to meet them 😂. Yeah usually I bring a head net and some sun gloves as in my experience they tend to ignore the top bits of the fingers but hey ho what can I say I forgot them.
Must be a great area for a hammock, never used one myself so far 😎
''Tis never too clever,
to camp near the river, follow the deer to a high spot that's clear... the midges delight when the day turns to night, but find a good breeze and there rest at your ease...
i bet any remote place in scotland feels easy now compard to the gr54.. ya gonna need to invent some kind of portable flamethrower for them midges tho... good stuff, tek care lad :)
Wouldn’t go this far, just different 😉. Hahaha a portable flamethrower would be quite a thing, thankfully it is already colder now on the hills so I do believe the midges are history 🤞
It looks cold. Midges must be hardy little guys.
Yeah was rather fresh. Not sure what the real temperature was but the forecast said 12 degree Celsius during the day and 6 during the night…I don’t think that it was this cold, otherwise the midges wouldn’t be out in this numbers imho
I sometimes think midges just get a bad press They're just misunderstood critters.
Mr stripey, ive just picked up the bonfus but yet to get out in it, in your opinion what sort of temps would you limit to if any? trying to decide if i can get away with it all winter lol, no snow...
@@cuprajake1 for me a shelter is just protection and not for warmth. For warmth I have my sleeping system. I will use the bonfus duos for all seasons, said this we do not have so much snow in Scotland that I see any issues here either. ATB Stripey
@@StripeyHatGuy hi, this was my thinking but i got to second guessing myself lol -
That was nasty mate, midge attack is not for the faint hearted
Cheers Craig! Yeah was rather a tent time 😂 Thankfully we won’t have it on our winter trip 🫵😎
Can I please ask what shelter your using and your height as it looks a great space. Thank you.
Hi mate, I am 1.86m and the shelter I am using is the bonfus duos 2P. It is quite a palace for one person 😊
Thanls for the reply. It's aestheticly it looks amazing.
@addp5222 I love it but as so often everyone has different needs/ preferences 👍
To the Sometime Highland Would-be Adventurer
To the camp wannabe, some advice here for free:
'Tis never too clever, to camp by the river,
Pray follow the deer, Up - where midges stay clear;
The midgies adore The calm valley floor,
Where the wind drops at night So the midgies delight
In sensing your breath and then bite near to death
The unwary camper - Aye, they'll soon see you scamper
And, with arms and hands flailing (- you'd be better off bailing!)
For shelter hell-bent, you'll retreat to your tent
But all is in vain, if you choose to remain;
Best take to the hill, even though there's a chill,
⁃ The cooler fresh breeze will see the midge ease
And rest there: midge-free, your campsite should be
Till morning you'll rest, for they cannot molest
Where the dry wind doth blow - they scarcely will show
But damp and still air is their much preferred lair,
And feast with great relish, making camp-life there hellish
The deer know this best, and go elsewhere to rest,
So- to loftier heights is the wise choice for nights
Pray, before making camp, steer clear of the damp:
Choose 'upward and breezy' to make your life easy;
And NEVER FORGET to pack your midge net!
black guard
HaHaHa ...
More Midge than Sheep ... and there are more Sheep than People.
😂😂😂