Stunning Wild Camping Trip | Amazing Cloud Inversion.

Absolutely immense. It's immense. It's not often you get this. There really isn't. You could be years between getting something like this. Yeah absolutely. What a camp spot. Bear with me while I have a rest. I've just had a drink there because it's 24 degrees and I am melting. Now I'm heading up this mountain for a summit camp tonight and the mountain is called Stob Binion and I've been on it before. I was up here with another YouTuber called Scotland's Mountains Murray. Murray Wilkie and it was a bit windy on that camp but he got in touch and we're heading up again to revisit it so hopefully he's going to turn up later on today. It's just incredible. It's not often we get good weather like this in Scotland. It's just fantastic. So it's going to be slow progress heading up. Just take my time nice and easy and we'll get to the top eventually. I'm glad I have reached this style. Once you get to here and you cross this fence and you know the steepest section is over that is quite horrific coming up there but it gets better from now upwards and it won't be long till we're at the summit. Now this section is where me and Murray had stopped the last time as well when we'd come up here and it was a lot windier and wilder weather-wise than it is today. Out with Murray again and he's doing some vlogging himself. He had his camera set up there. I'm just wanting to rest. Oh dear, that's one of the steepest pulls up a hill I've done in a long time and we've still got a fair bit to go but I think you're going to enjoy this vlog. It's going to be interesting if it pans out the way we hope. It should be a good one. So let's get headed on up and let's get to the top. I knew he'd catch me up. He's an absolute mountain goat. Here he comes, good old Murray. I know it's murder. Hell, I think he's struggling in the heat as well. Wow, both Murray and I are trying to get some water supplies. I can't believe how little water there is actually. There's just some very small ponds here and Murray's looking at a section down there. I think he's got a small trickle. Yes, handy to get the water bottles all filled up before we get to the summit because although there's a few ponds or lock-ins up there, it's probably quite stagnant to be honest. Just catching up with Murray and this spot over here is where we camped last time when it was blowing a hooley. I'll put some footage up in a second, it was wild. We're just sheltering here out of the wind. We're planning to go up onto the ridge just to the in front of the camera there and yeah the wind's picked up dramatically so I think we're going to do a plan B and just skirt down the side and try and find somewhere flat maybe in that kind of bullish area over there and hopefully that's enough to keep us out of the worst of the wind anyway. I think at this point here we had to huddle together to hear each other and say we can't go. We were camping tonight I suppose is where we were going to be camping. We had to drop into the quarry to get some shelter. Yeah but it was just kind of over there, just literally over there. The big rock, that was somewhere else that night. It was still a great wild camp and the morning was lovely it was a fantastic sunrise. So that's us made it to the summit. Up here's Murray coming as well. Tremendous. Some view, some view. Just see the cloud wafting over. Typical, we must have known we were coming. Beautiful views all round and we're going to get battered on in a minute once we've had a bit of a refreshment and we're going to head up into the cloud and up and try and get a summit car, at least camped close to the summit. We just stopped there for another rest. It's been really exhausting coming up here today with the weather. It's just with the cloud inversion coming on just now round about and the broken spectres. Let's see if we can get this. Hey, you see what I mean? A bit sunny over there and there's fog down here. Yeah. I hope the GoPro is picking up the broken spectre. It was really quite vivid there for a second but as I was saying to Murray, believe it or not I've never seen one until now. Another one off the bucket list. I'd never seen one before and it was actually Murray pointed one out to me as we were coming along so we dashed down and tried to get a bit footage of it but I think the way the weather is just now, I think we're going to see lots of them. Quite impressive to see in the flesh. So we're going to head on up now and the summit is more or less just over there and we're going to find a spot for the tents and we'll get set up but the views at the moment are just absolutely staggering. Not often you get views like this and I think it's going to be an absolutely epic evening and tomorrow. I think it's just going to be incredible. I think I've said that about 10 times but anyway Murray is over to the right of the camera. He's found a bit of a pitch over there for his tent. He's got the Scarp 1 from Tarp Tent and I have got the Notch Li from Tarp Tent which I've been using recently and we'll get a tent set up and I think having the tent here and his over there can make for some really nice photographs later on as well with the mountain in the background. We've both got our supper on the go. I'm having chicken fajita with rice and I can't wait. Now behind the camera you might just see the cloud inversion. Absolutely epic. Murray's got his stove on the go as well. He's going to have something to eat so I'm going to have this. A little bit of a refreshment I think as well. I'm going to have some rum and coke. I've made it a little bit less strong from the last time I made some and I think Murray has also brought some whiskey. So we'll have something to eat and then we'll have a sit and a chat and we'll keep an eye on what's going on around about the views. Yeah we'll just play it by ear. Honestly it doesn't get much better than this. This is the kind of holy grail of wild camping. Yeah the cloud just coming over the edge here. Absolutely amazing. The good thing is I think this is like 18 Thaist or something mountain so it's cloud free. Benmore's cloud free but all the trossachs now are underneath the cloud. We've done all right. We're just right on the level. It's coming and going. I think it'll lower though in the morning. Yeah. Nice cool breeze here. That's nice. Probably as nice as that whiskey is going to be when we get up there. Yeah. If we go up to the top we'll get the views back south as well from there. Once we've had our food. It's not often that I do a lot of handheld camera waving but my god it's incredible. That's Murray behind just picking up his camera. He was doing some photography and filming as well. Just check out all the way around the cloud inversion and all the highest peaks. That's Ben Lomond and then you've got the likes of Ben Eam and Ben Narnane and that over there which I was up on god almighty about three camps ago or three films ago and then you've got Stobinian and Benmore at the back. Absolutely immense. It's immense. It's not often you get this. It really isn't. You could be years between getting something like this. Yeah absolutely. What a camp spot. Hit the jackpot with this trip. I don't know if that's Ancastile. I don't know if it could be Ancastile but there should be another Ancastile just down into the cloud. It's nearly a thousand meters. I think that's possibly Ancastile. Yes you got your whisky? Sorry. No you're right. Anyway cheers. That's been fantastic so far. All the best. I didn't put much water on that to dilute it down. Yeah that rums a bit better as well. It's not as strong as it was in my last camp. Yeah I went a bit overkill. Doesn't get better does it? As I was saying earlier to Murray, one of the things about the channels and the films that we make is that it's very difficult to portray what this is really like just now on film. You can never get it the same. The true essence of it. You'll appreciate it's spectacular but when you're actually here it's something else. It's like you said when we're walking up here it's like being in the Alps. It was amazing. I think conditions like this is exceptional. Even normal inversion conditions. You can go for 10 trips thinking it's going to be inversion conditions. You'll only get one of them because it's very hard to predict but when you do get it's worth it. It's just the otherworldly. It could be in Greenland or you know because you can't see what's down there these peaks could be whatever height. It's a bit like snow. It kind of takes away any of the humanisation. You can't see any of the wee towns or any of the roads. I don't know if that's something to do with it as well. It just makes it a bit wilder. Anything could be happening down there. I think as well it makes you feel a bit special because you know that everyone else is there. It's a bit grey until they see your post on Facebook going damn it I wish I'd been up a mountain. But then again it's been on the right mountains at this moment in time as well. The highest ones. It's just a sea of cloud all the way round and considering it's not that cold. It's lovely. There's no midges. There's no clegs. We just had our rum. Murray Huddy's whisky which was lovely. Yeah perfect and yeah what a way to spend an evening on top of a Scottish mountain with a cloud inversion and absolute views to die for. It doesn't get much better. In fact you might just see the the hills down below just starting to break through. So the question is what's it going to be like tomorrow morning? If it's anything like this I can't wait. So we're going to set our alarms for four o'clock. Get up early have a quick coffee and then we'll shoot up to the summit of that and we'll have a look see what it's all about. But what an experience so far. Morning everyone and sunrise is on the go behind the camera. The moon is still up and nice and red but yes we've still got this cloud inversion. which we kind of thought last night. Check out the views. I think that's a bit of a pool coming up from the tents. You see them way down there. It's amazing. That's also the summit of Stobbinion and it is how many meters? 1200? Lots. Nearly 1200. I think it's 1100 and something. I can't remember. It's high. Yeah and the sun is out and it's roasting. We're going to have to get this thermal topper. Getting back down to the cloud to get out of the sun again. Yeah amazing views and just behind the camera. Ben Moore. Somebody camping as well while camping getting that away. It's been fantastic meeting up with Murray again and what a fantastic wild camp this has been. Absolutely tremendous. Now I've also been trying this new rucksack on this trip. It's the first time I've used it and it's the Montane Trailblazer 44 which I bought with my own money and it's not a particularly expensive rucksack and yeah I've been curious for a while to try one. The rucksack, my Gossamer Gear rucksack I've been using for the last few trips and walks for some reason is now giving me a bit of a sore back so I thought I'd try this one because it has a kind of a lightweight suspension system but it's certainly a lot stiffer than the Gossamer Gear. So I'm going to see how I get on with this and I will report back. So that's it. You may enjoy this film that's coming up now. Maybe not. Maybe give me a thumbs up. Maybe not. Maybe even subscribe but I hope you've enjoyed the footage. So until the next time, take care.