Scotland Trip | Looking back

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Some of my thoughts and experiences from the trip to scotland. a little bit of a ramble!

Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1HWzOJ-gnU

Day 2:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTwrhcdpFdY

Day 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yWNHYVJI8Sg

Day 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6CPqBOV6lk

Tags: Bushcraft,Bushcraft Skills,Wilderness Skills,Outdooors,Hiking,Camping,Survival,Survival Skills,woodcraft,wood craft,reflections,vlog,adventure

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hello everyone and welcome to another video so for anyone that has been following my channel over the past few weeks you will know that I've been putting up and uploading a series about a trip to Scotland I did with the outdoor life of brian and Charlie who at some point is probably going to make a sale for butch Cass silver or something similar good and it was absolutely amazing trip I loved every minute of it I really didn't want to come home and one of the things i do after these trips i do we join the trip as well but i also do it quite intensely after the tip is i look back at the trip and I reflect on it and I look at the things that I have learned now normally that just goes into a journal and for future reference or just as a log of the things I've done but since we kind of took you along for the journey on this one since we video the whole thing I think in total i actually might about 30 hours of footage even though my second n sat down quite a lot i thought i would share my kind of reflections on the trip with you guys on what I gain out of it so I think one of the major things I got out of it was it was really nice to have company for a change I do a lot of this stuff but they do almost all of my outdoor store on my own and it was a really refreshing correct change to have two people with me and importantly to people who can enjoy what they were doing as well Brian's pretty experienced charlie is new to the bushcraft thing but I think he is more experience and it has more lies than he actually gives himself credit for I just don't think I think his thing is he's not got much kind of like dirt time I think his phrase yeah but he did really well and he was a real asset to the trip as well he was the funniest person I think I've ever met that wasn't already gained from that from that district and it's kind of pushed me to think well maybe I should try start being a little bit less of a hermit and a little bit more social and try and meet up with different people others a real online community so I'll try and meet up with more of you guys and get to more bushcraft meets and more the bushcraft social things just to meet people and network with people rather than just sit here talking to a camera all the time and one of the things that was really great about having other people with me was little things went wrong things kind of always go wrong on these trips and we'll talk a bit more about it in a minute but a lot of planning went into this trip well no matter hand what plan you do still inevitably goes wrong stupid little things like forgetting you for putting the wrong fuel in your car and the weather as well the weather was awful on this trip it was cold it was wet it was windy no amount of waterproof gear was keeping that wet out you were getting wet you'll get damp everything was where even the stuff that hadn't been rained on because the atmosphere was so wet damp will seep into things without actually kind of without even realizing it and I think having all the people that are to bounce up and have a laugh with and just to make the work flow easier really made the whole thing more enjoyable I think I wouldn't have enjoyed it a fraction of the amount if I got out and done the same thing on my own still would have enjoyed it but probably not as much I mean there was a whole pot there was a whole section of day two I mean it comes across as quite short section in the video part of me but on day two we SAT there for a good few hours just kind of hunkered down in the hammocks and trying to get warm get dry refuel or what kind of stuff and I think that would have been quite different had I been out there on my own so having other people going to chat with was really nice and it also made the work well a lot easier so for example today I've got a little by going to put my lunch on this in a minute it's a very very small fire with very very little firewood but the effort involved in actually doing that was significantly more

it would have been had I had something else working with me because it allows you having something else with it allows you to kind of take a little bit of a break if you need to then that person can pick up the work and then when they need a break you can pick up the work and then all the time you can all chip in and that was really nice to have other people another thing was a really nice change on this trip was the length of time that were out there and it's fairly common practice to duties of these overnight trip which I really enjoy just enjoy being out there for a night but being out there for three nights and four days was such a dramatic change in just how you you interact with your surroundings and you kind of rather than just being plunked into the landscape you kind of gradually start up start to become part of it and you start to move with it by day three we'd all but forgot about the rain it was just a thing that was happening and we were just kind of working around it now had that just been an overnighter trip I think the rain probably would have swallowed a trip a little bit because it really restricted the amount of stuff that we could do or the amount of time that we could spend doing different things because we're at keeping it warm keeping dry I said everything everything was wet through didn't matter what walk with gear you were you know you would dad and I think being out there for a few days have really made all the difference because you were not just out in the woods you kind of become part of and and that sounds a bit a bit like hippie nonsense but it was true you know we really had chance to settle in and just the kind of the pace of things slowed down and there was no agenda on this trip but we actually got a lot doing it might not seem like it in the videos but you know I learnt a lot from that this trip and that's kind of winding this reflection thing and on it be

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also moving to a different site on a long halter on that actually moving somewhere different isn't something that I normally do I know the pick a site go to that spend X amount of days that I was actually really nice to move to a different location because it just kind of allowed to kind of decompress a little bit and really value really really value a to stuff what you've got in your pack change what you've got with you for the change in environment and actually go into someone like the bothy in that time of year was really a huge relief in a way I don't think we realized how important it was at the time but actually being able to sit out of the wind and get the equipment dry was really important the stuff got damp everything got damp and you're getting your sleeping bag you didn't really notice it because it will look pretty quickly but on that third night getting into a sleeping bag that was completely dry it was really nice and I only noticed it because it wasn't done if it was still bad I probably would have noticed it and that was really nice the mine boss the associated an amazing job I'm not going to publicize a location that was because half the ponies working out where they are finding them and getting to them yourself but i think me and Brian were talking about maybe doing a little bit of oil to work with the mountain Boxing Association and all done by volunteers that held and maintained by volunteers and money for volunteers and equipment for volunteers so if you do go out to one you saw the second one that we went to when we arrived it was absolutely message to disgrace there's nothing in there put a little bit of effort in into making it okay for all the people you wouldn't leave a patch of woodland like that well at least I hope you would anyway you know people get frustrated when you know there's fire scars everyone and cans of beer left round being in the pinnace and we let our bothy absolutely no difference whatsoever something else was really nice about this trip was day three and on days 1 and 2 and the beginning of day 3 is why I suppose we were putting out in the wilderness you know we didn't see we don't see another single soul but we were relatively still close to a very small urban area but halfway through day three even watching the videos you know that we went further inland and we head into Galloway forest park and the thing that struck me the most other you suddenly are in the wilderness because the nearest town was you know a one-hour driveway and the silence was what I noticed the most if you haven't seen that video go and have a look at it and just like I've left some clips where you can just all you can hear with our footsteps it was deadly silent we were really lucky that it was a very still day but even here we round now I'm pretty far out into the countryside now but I can still hear the distant kind of constant sound of traffic there's been aeroplanes going overhead I can hear farm equipment I can hit some you shoot the shotgun in the distance somewhere and it was really nice to get away from all that and you really do feel in the wilderness there Scotland's amazing for that and I kind of I want to do more stuff while I get far away from the places that people would normally go I mean obviously people do go though they were pastors Rosen was a bothy but we didn't see anyone we didn't hear anything and that was amazing and the bothy was great for that it was great to be in the environment in such a remote location but still actually have a roof over our heads and four walls gets out the wind and the rain and to actually just chill out and not do anything so that was really good I highly recommend bone to your overnighters and focus on learning the skills which you will need in those environments if things go wrong but if you can and make the time to get somewhere remote and take other people with you you'll enjoy it you will have an amazing time you had a great time so the last thing that I really wanted to talk to you about this is one of the things I learned a lot about was a new style of film lyst and then I want to do a little bit more of and it was a little bit uncomfortable at first but as the kind of days went on I got a little bit more used to it that kind of v-log blog style of filming and as a couple of things that I'm unsure about with it now so most my film me like I'm doing now I do on a DSLR which allows me to create really nice shots and I like that that's the kind of stuff I enjoy doing the camera that i filmed most of that on was a sony bridge camera it's absolutely amazing camera but was in in creating these shots one of the problems the reason I couldn't use a DSLR with it is it doesn't it doesn't auto focus on to anything so most of the shots would have been out of focus and I also can't charge it this camera through a USB I have to take a specific battery pack to charge the batteries which is a little bit frustrating and also the style of filming was really different to what I'm used to but I actually really enjoyed it but what I would like from you guys is some some feedback on that style of filming did you enjoy it do you want to see more videos like that or should I focus more on the skills videos the how-to videos I mean that is the mass the main thing with this channel is the school's videos that's what I like doing that's what I'm here to sure but for me I watch a lot of those we lost our videos because I learn a lot from them as well as kind of getting the ideas and giving me the motivation to get out and do more more trips like that so any feedback on that would be great and the other thing I was a little bit unsure about is the in the editing stage of those videos I cut out a lot of what we were saying at certain points and I got a lot out and my reason for doing this was I was trying to like capture the the essence of the trip itself rather than specifically what we were saying and what we were doing so I took the the speech out of it and took the sound out of it and overlaid with music which I found to try and reflect the kind of feel of the trip as best i could do with free freely available music creative commons music some music is quite difficult with videos because well we all get into that what music is difficult and i think the stuff that i picked was appropriate but i'm interested in other people enjoyed that and whether the the essence of the trip was captured for you guys on whether you were able to to get that from the videos and is that the kind of stuff you interested in seeing if not I'll look back at it and I will adjust it because obviously you know it's you guys need to give me this feedback because I'm making these videos

to see as well as kind of a video journal for myself enjoyed filming it and I would do you want to do more but I want to make it enjoyable for you guys to watch as well and it is new and it is different so any feedback and comments on that would be fantastic for me also do you want to see more video log style videos or should I focus more on the skills I'm I'm always gonna focus more on the skills but if people just flat out don't want to see them I'm cool with that I felt before and the skills videos I always want to know what you guys want to see coming up with ideas for content a faggot pretty quite difficult sometimes but that's it that's my reflections on the trip it was an amazing trip I gained a lot from it there's a lot more in the journal that I've set here but I think a lot of it's probably not relevant to you guys so yeah please do leave me a comment let me know what these thought of those videos let me know what you think of this video would you like me to do more of these reflections on trips just took have you gain anything from it and sort of general stuff like that as always thank you all for watching please leave me a comment and I'll see you in the next video

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