49 Hours On The Glenco Munros: Wild Camping In Scotland

On our second Scottish wild camp excursion in 3 weeks Jonathan, Tristan and I spent 2 and a half days on Glenco, hiking in glorious sunshine and wild camping in some really amazing locations. Highlands, scree slopes, ice falls, wild camps, Bambi, waterfalls, camp fires, swimming, sunburn... it was a pretty cool couple of days.

I appreciate that half an hour is quite long, so for those of you who have busy schedules and hectic social lives here is the condensed version.

Let me demonstrate to you the importance of having an ice axe when doing anything on a steep, icy slope.

Whilst hiking around Scotland for a few days we passed the occasional patch of ice, one of which covered our path. I decided to slide down it, just to see what would happen. It turns out that once you start to move over ice you can only stop yourself if you have something to stab into it. My fingers weren't enough (not helped by the fact I was wearing my heavy backpack) and I ended up crumpled over a pile of boulders.

Luckily I only got a bruise. I liken this to playing with a candle and getting burnt which later stops you from playing with a bonfire and falling into it head first, so it's all good.