Wild Scotland
December 28, 2020 4:13 AM Subscribe
Videographers Kim and Del Hogg, document the country they live in: a month of camping in Wild Scotland (background) and a winter trip to some bothies (background). Their emphasis is on evoking the experience through images, captured sound and music - but they do introduce themselves at the end of each video.
Their blog "Going the Whole Hogg" has been in operation since 2018 and they have been to many out of the way places in the world. Their website provides thorough documentation for anybody who would like to follow in their footsteps: locations, itineraries, apps, cameras, paperwork etc. The "North Coast 500" - a route around the north of the country that has become popular in recent years - and which was used a rough template for their month of camping.
Their blog "Going the Whole Hogg" has been in operation since 2018 and they have been to many out of the way places in the world. Their website provides thorough documentation for anybody who would like to follow in their footsteps: locations, itineraries, apps, cameras, paperwork etc. The "North Coast 500" - a route around the north of the country that has become popular in recent years - and which was used a rough template for their month of camping.
Wearing a down jacket and raincoat in the Highlands in August was part of the charm. So many unique and beautiful features of the area, will never forget my 10 days there, and then going to the Fringe festival within a days drive in Edinborough was a striking contrast.
posted by waving at 7:29 AM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by waving at 7:29 AM on December 28, 2020 [2 favorites]
There are many beautiful places in the world, but not many with so many breathtaking places all so relatively close together as Scotland.
In most other countries, they're national parks -- Yellowstone, Torres del Paine, Banff.
In Scotland, it's basically just the whole place.
posted by tclark at 8:28 AM on December 28, 2020 [7 favorites]
In most other countries, they're national parks -- Yellowstone, Torres del Paine, Banff.
In Scotland, it's basically just the whole place.
posted by tclark at 8:28 AM on December 28, 2020 [7 favorites]
This is great! We were supposed to go to Scotland this past summer, hoping that maybe we'll be able to go in summer 2021... though 2022 is probably more likely. It's so beautiful.
posted by banjo_and_the_pork at 9:13 AM on December 28, 2020
posted by banjo_and_the_pork at 9:13 AM on December 28, 2020
Gorgeous! For a slightly wetter take I've just finished audio-booking The Frayed Atlantic Edge by David Gange. He's a historian from U Birmingham UK who kayaked down the West Coast from Shetland to Cornwall looking back at the cliffs as vertical habitat rather than a map-line marking the edge of the land. For him the sea is not a damp and dangerous Out There but a whale-road of commerce and exchange. In that sense he's trying to refocus some respect for the people of the edge and the once and future sustainable life they choose: largely invisible from the centres of power. For light relief he'll yomp inland to sleep tentless on the top of a mountain . . . for the sunrise, like.
posted by BobTheScientist at 1:04 AM on December 29, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by BobTheScientist at 1:04 AM on December 29, 2020 [1 favorite]
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