Winter Camping ALONE In My LAND ROVER - SCOTLAND ( Snow & Ice )

This is overlanding in the Cairngorms. That was so sketchy. In last week's episode I experienced a crazy amount of rain on the west coast of Scotland. I decided to head over east to the Cairngorms to explore that area and do some winter camping in my truck. We are in the Cairngorms. Super excited. I'm currently driving along the River Spey that is in Spey actually. But it's a beautiful day and I'm just finding somewhere to park for today and for tonight. I've just stopped because I need to fill my lifesaver up and I'm probably going to do that from the Spey, the river that's over there and get some fresh water lovely. Obviously at the minute it feels quite out the way already because I've literally only seen a tractor. So I like spots like this that are a bit off the beaten track and you're not on a big main road. This is so cool. There's so many stags. I've never seen so many deer. This guy's coming up real close now. Probably really territorial so I'm going to leave them to it. Amazing. You see him? He's running after the car in the window and they're both following me. How have I just got chased off by stags? They're still running up the road. That's crazy. He's still running after me up this road and now all of them are coming. Right. That is so weird. Maybe they think I'm a farmer. Maybe they're all farmed and they think I'm the farmer feeding them and they're like, where's my food? But they're all on the road now. There's loads. Look at this spot. This is pretty remote to be honest. As far as Scotland goes, this is good going as you can get This place is insane. What a drive in and this park up is amazing. I'm really happy. The sun's about to set. I'm going to go out and maybe go for a little walk and try and get these stags on camera and just enjoy this beautiful, beautiful spot in the Cairngorms. I've just woken up. It is seven o'clock and I looked on my windows because I left a few of the blinds off because there's literally no one around here. And there was snow on the windows and I opened the door just now and it snowed about like two inch. It's so beautiful out there. It's still a bit dark for now. When it gets a bit lighter I'm going to go out. I've literally just whacked the diesel heater on as you can just hear because it is freezing. I'm not used to the cold at the minute because it's been so mild. But this is amazing. I can't believe it snowed and it's still clear skies out there so we might get a sunrise. I slept really well though. Really cosy despite I don't have the diesel heater on all night. I don't normally do that. Some people are like why don't you run it all night? But I feel like that's just a waste of diesel and once it's warm in here you should have fairly decent insulation and decent sleeping system that you can rely on. Oh my god! I kind of wish I didn't leave my bike out and I didn't leave the cover on because I didn't know this would happen. But this is crazy! This is insane. Oh my god. It is so beautiful. This is the little road, single track road I came down and it completely snowed over. Oh my hands. It was the hands that got it out there. I think it's where you're holding the camera and things. Oh it's cold. I can't believe it out there. I simply can't believe it. I was getting emotional really just being out there and how beautiful it was. It was just really overwhelming. I think that's the word for it. It's just such overwhelming scenery. Everywhere you look out there you've got that beautiful pine forest, you've got the mountains, the snow. It's just oh it's insane. And just down the glen you can see the stags because I wondered what happened to them last night. I thought that's a cold night. It's obviously been snowing so I wonder what's happened to them. And I just look and there's a huge herd. I think you call it a herd. I don't know with red deer. But there's so many of them. They're just down there. You can see them. I can't see them up close but I can see this like the only non-snowy patch. Obviously they're brown. Right let's make some cereal. Oh it has just started snowing very lightly. I'm gonna leave Percy and go for a little walk. There's this hill here so I might go up there and just stretch the legs get out because it is beautiful. This is amazing. It felt so magical being back in Scotland and witnessing this beautiful winter wonderland. I've always felt a deep connection with the Scottish wilderness and the beautiful feeling of freedom it gives you. So that was pretty crazy. I was just walking along and it's obviously so quiet and then hearing them two jets come roaring past. I've left that beautiful place sadly. I was really loving it but I feel like you should always leave wanting more and I can always come back so I know where it is. Good evening. It is five o'clock. It's just about getting dark and I found my spot for night two. It is so beautiful. I'm in a really nice area again. I've got really lucky. I'm on a little bit of a slope but I'm on a really quiet spot right off the road and that road that's just behind me is like a really quiet single track road. A dead end again which is perfect. I'm just gonna go stretch my legs a little bit. I feel really good today. I've just been out a lot walking which just felt amazing and yeah so I thought because it's not dark yet and it's long evenings in that land. I'm gonna come and make the most of the last bit of light. This is actually on a trail so the East Highland Way if you've heard of that. It looks like an amazing trail. Something I'd definitely be interested in doing in the future. So you know it's based in a lovely location. Insane insane scenery and I saw an owl. A couple of owls actually. I saw one up a tree and I saw one fly right near me and then I saw four buzzards and loads of rabbits. Loads of stags. The most stags I've ever seen in my life. So the wildlife was just something else. I saw pheasants as well. Good morning. It is the coldest day yet. I've not woke up this cold. It took me a lot of motivation to get out my bag this morning. I'm finally out and I've reached for the diesel heater just to warm myself up. Also to frost these windows. Internally the windows have iced up which is pretty crazy. It's another lovely day which is amazing. I've just come outside to pack up everything. It is extremely frosty. All the snow is like compacted and gone really hard today. The plan is to actually go to a core but I'm running a little bit late so I need to hurry up. So I don't know how I'm running late. I literally woke up at six and I think after a few cups of coffee and looking at this gorgeous view the time just flies. But it looks like the sun's coming out. It's blue skies. It is divine. This place is so lovely. I feel silly for not really coming over to the Cairngorms Way match on the east side. I've always gone to the west. I'm currently just packing up everything outside like the fire pit I had out here last night and I'll be heading on. My handles do not want to open today. Can't get in from the outside. It is extremely icy. I've now left Percy in a car park and I am making my way up this road to start this core but and oh my goodness it is freezing. It is so cold. I'm just gonna keep walking really quick. Just speed walk until I warm up. But so far it's just a tiny ascent on this single track road and then I think it goes into like a four by four track for a while and it's a fairly simple route but you still gain a lot of elevation. Now see the cairn. The top of the corber over there and we've reached a really nice snow line now. Lots of snow. Once I reached the summit I had to put some layers on very very quickly as it got pretty cold up there. Oh it is so cold. It is freezing. My camera died so I'm on my phone now but that was that was so cold a minute ago I really couldn't feel my arms or my hands and I was trying to just keep warm. I had to stop and put another layer on. Right it's been a quick minute. I'm currently washing up. I'm at a new park up tonight. It's been a lovely day. It's been absolutely gorgeous. I couldn't ask for better weather. It's been amazing and I'm now at an awesome park up that I'll show you in a minute. Good morning. It is currently snowing. It is very cold and I'm just trying to change a fuse. So a couple days ago my rear window stopped working and I haven't got around to putting the fuse in yet because I went on a walk yesterday. So I'm just going to put one of these in. It's literally under the steering wheel so it's a bit of a mission to get to it but I'm going to move quickly because it is really cold and the wind's blowing this way. So it's as simple as taking these off and there's a fuse box under here and there's also a fuse box under the bonnet. Right so you can just see them all in there. You can just see where it's actually split the connection. Right moment of truth to see if that has actually worked. I need my rear windows for when I'm cooking so let's actually have a look if it's working. I just turned it off because I thought I heard it working and I didn't really show you. Okay that's the thing. Well that was a easy fix. I don't know why that fuse went but yeah I'm gonna put this back and now we've got the luxury of rear windows again. That's what I do like about Defenders. You've got the manual windows. So much better. I'd much prefer that especially if it's hot in the night and you want to crack the window you don't have to turn the engine on to then open the windows. I hate that. Right so we have indeed come to that time. It is the end of the video. I was going to wrap it up here because I'm going to spend another night in the Cairngorms and then set off on the next trip heading further north from here but it is very chilly. It's currently snowing and it is beautiful and I've really really enjoyed spending time here. It's been absolutely lovely. Thank you so so much for watching this video. I really hope you enjoyed it. I've loved filming it. I've loved learning a little bit more about the Cairngorms and also finding some really cool routes and tracks to come back and do in the future. I think I may return on my way down south. I'm not too sure yet. Thank you to all my Patreons for making this possible. I really appreciate you guys. Thank you to all the people who have bought me a coffee on the buy me a coffee page. Thanks again and take care.