Kyde and Eric Those Tesco tokens are to put in a voting slot for charity(You don't pay anything), you can find the slot after you've played for your stuff on the way out.

Waitrose hands out little green tokens like that, and has a clear acrylic bin for them, divided into three sections, each with a coin slot at the top and a charity poster above it. You drop the "coins" into the slot and they donate some money every month to those charities, divided according to the number of "coins" in each bin. I suspect they just weigh the things, rather than counting them, because it's more efficient and accurate enough.

Ardvreck Castle, for anyone who's wondering, and Spidean Coinich, 764m ASL, about 520m above and 2800m away from the car park on that road. Judging by the OS map of it, where you went up was pretty much *the* sensible route. www.bing.com/maps?osid=889a42b5-c4f5-4c2f-b003-0d4499584c5b&cp=58.207669~-5.063935&lvl=14&style=s&v=2&sV=2&form=S00027 The blue grid is kilometres. The black }]} symbols are crags and outcroppings. The black dots are scree slopes (like climbing a pile of rubble). The orange-brown lines (with numbers) are contours, 10m apart vertically. The bold ones are at 50m intervals. Imagine a 1:25000 scale model of Scotland carved out of a huge Victoria sponge cake with a layer of jam every 4cm up it, viewed from on top. Contours parallel and evenly spaced is a steady slope, contours curving is a curved slope, contours at uneven distances is an uneven slope, contours wriggling all over the place is a lumpy valley floor, contours a respectable distance apart is a gentle slope (along that slope, 220m up to 620m in 2km = 1:5 gradient) and contours so close together they didn't bother drawing them all on the map (see both sides of that summit and everything north of it along the ridge) indicate a slope you don't want to try to walk up or down if you don't have to. You probably figured out that last detail just by looking at the high point of that little cluster of peaks, Sàil Gharbh, but for readers who weren't there, here's its outer end, seen from the next large loch up: www.walkhighlands.co.uk/corbetts/quinag-sail-gharbh-1.JPG

"Why would the rocks just crumble like this?" Ice. Ice, baby. Water gets into a crack, freezes and pops the rock.

Avalanches! You get more than one kind. There are powder avalanches where the stuff builds up and builds up and builds up at 38° and then you see little lines where parts of it have broken loose and rolled, "snowballing" down the slope. Then it happens in a bigger way and *rumble-boom* the lot comes down. There are also *slab* avalanches. Slabs form in two ways. One is that wind blows snow off the windward slope, across a spur and onto the leeward slope, compacting it a little as it does so, and builds up a thick layer of denser snow, which then overloads the lighter powder snow beneath it and falls off. The other is that the sun melts the surface of the snow during the day and then it freezes into a layer of ice, then it snows, then that happens again so you have a deep snowpack with two layers of ice in it and a thin layer of powder snow like icing sugar between them. Then some clown on a snowboard cuts through it, and suddenly you've got a square kilometre of ice acting like a sledge on top of another square kilometre of ice, with that sugary layer lubricating them, and *crack-slither-boom* the lot comes down. Powder avalanches leave triangular scars. Slab avalanches leave scars with straight-across vertical walls at the top. Much more info here: www.ultimate-ski.com/features/off-piste-safety/types-of-avalanche.aspx people.uwec.edu/jolhm/EH3/Group4/types.htm ... and here's the wall left after a slab went: avalanche.state.co.us/caic/media/full/obs_29102_8520.jpg See the layering, where it had a warm day or two between periods of snowfall?

The Kendal mint cake was the lifesaver!

I prefer Kyde's pronunciation though! :o) Eric on your map did you notice Unapool as well? Not that far from Ullapool.

I thought I had pronounced Ullapool incorrectly my whole life. Anyway nice little adventure.

I like them and trust them, but the few comments discussing this really have a point. Doesn’t Scotland also have quicksand??

xxmightyonexx 10 people died on Scottish mountains in the first 3 months of 2018.

At least two didn't die. -E

If the weather had changed you could have been putting other people's lives at risk as well as your own. You really are a pair of idiots.

Hahahahaha

A) Tokens for chosen charity B) Monopoly coins C) Plastic money for supermarket trolleys D) All of the above Bonus prize if you get a red token 😋

LOL Awesome

A. Above.

Wow, thank you so much! That's exactly what we hope people will take away from our videos so it's awesome to hear that's what you are getting from them. Make sure you do northern Scotland if you and your friend make it there! -E

**Awang Budiman* ~You're *so* right, there...!

We stole them. Hahahahahahaha

You deprived the local scout hall of a new bench man. ;0)

our local Tesco had to put an ad in the local paper as 15,000 counters had gone missing!!!

I'm impressed they even _got_ some! I've _asked_ for them before and was just ignored.

Snorky -- I'd check the local TiddlyWinks club...

Hahaha, we asked someone about this a few days later when they handed them to us again. Was quite a mystery for a bit, haha. -E

Drdee1 I thought they were trolley tokens.?

Aren't they a different shape? Anyway I don't live near a Tesco (not really!) and Waitrose's charity scheme had tokens like that

Glad we could help you pass some time recuperating! Thank you for the info! -E

Cheers. You have no idea the keech I have been watching. I could now be a judge at fierljeppen competitions and tell you about how Lenin is enbalmed. :-) As expert as you now are on false summits on Scottish hills.

This is not correct...Kyde pronounces the place-name properly. There is no "yoo" sound in Scots Gaelic. Uig, for example, is pronounced "Ooig" and so on. Southern Scots should tak tent.

Well Gordon, best head there and correct every person that lives there, in fact start at inverness and work your way up, every highlander has been saying it wrong !

Not everyone living in the Highlands speaks Gaelic, Slainte mhath and faigh na's fearr (Cheers and get well soon) Chan eil aon chanan gu leor (please look it up.)

**J_ J_* ~ALL, *so* true ({; D) ...!

Huge fan right here. -E

For The Win!!!

It was most likely a ptarmigan or grouse.

I was thinking the helicopter had gone down.

And if you can't fry it... you're not trying hard enough ;).

Glad you enjoyed! -E

Sounds exactly like what we found. -E

It was magical! -E

Thanks! -E

It really was something! -E

Hahaa, thanks! -E

Glad you found us and are enjoying! We will keep putting them out if you keep watching! -E

Oh wow, maybe we drove past Loch Ewe and didn't realize it has such a history. Neat! -E

Yea, totally worth risking our lives! -E

Will do!

Ponies!

Glad you do! -E

It's amazing up there. -E

We were a bit surprised too! Haha -E

Hope you get a chance to visit that part of the world sometime not too far off! -E

Hahaha, if there had been a road we would certainly edit that out so we didn't look like total doofuses. Hahahaa. -E

I'm going with helicopter!

Wow, beautiful place to work. -E

@@kydeanderic I felt lucky. 12 plus hour driving days in that job but the scenery accompanied with audio stories was worth it.

I thought it was the Americans that invented 'Banoffee Pie' made with a biscuit base, a layer of bananas and topped with the toffee sauce made from boiled up Nestle's Milk and finished up with a payer of whipped cream! Delicious!

Haha, thanks!

Haha, we lived your life briefly! -E

It was because they stole the tokens - they sent the black helicopters out...

Ann Other Lol

**Ann Other* ~Yup, that's it ({; D) ...!

Cheers, I read the comments just to find out about the castle name. :D

But why is it just there, seemingly neglected? Is it not kept up? Looks like it's crumbling! Please tell me someone is taking care of it!

@@Yesica1993 Mother Nature is taking care of it.

A charged phone doesn't do any good if there isn't any signal, haha. -E

In a lot of the northern highlands a charged phone is very handy - you can use it as a paperweight to hold down the note you leave of your last will and testament ;). Very true about the changeable weather though, as the old adage goes "If you don't like the weather in Scotland just wait a few minutes" and up in the hills an "easy ramble" can turn into a bit of an epic very quickly, especially in winter.

Mountain rescue uses VHF radio and you can get PLBs for under 200GBP www.walkhighlands.co.uk/news/keeping-in-touch-personal-locator-beacons-in-the-mountains/0014751/

Paul Thomas Neither of those are mobile phones though of course. PLBs and/or SENDs can be useful if you do a lot of winter walking in the hills (particularly solo). They're overkill in situations like in the video though IMO, nor are they a guarantee of rescue (because they still need a clear view of the sky to get a satellite signal and rescuers still need to be able to reach you). The best device for staying safe in the mountains is still the one between our ears.

Mobile phone? Lamp. One of those little twist-on LED bicycle lights is probably enough. Also: the *map* of the area and a *compass* so you can orient it properly. It's amazing how many people get lost because the GPS function flattens the battery and they suddenly have *no* clue. Full waterproofs, warm gear to layer under them, proper boots, water and cereal bars, too. Also also: a willingness to say "FTLGOTR" when the weather goes bad: "Forget that. Let's get off this rock." Sidenote: static air gets about 1°C colder for every 150 m up you go, so that climb was -3°C and the big ones like Toubkal can be 28°C colder than sea level *before* you factor in wind-chill, which tends to be worse on ridges because they tend to be windier.

If you are goig to Malaysia, enjoy it! We have some really old videos from 2009 about peninsular Malaysia and a more recent series about Borneo, by the way. -E

But a helicopter ride would get us some awesome shots! -E

We could see flames, hahaa. Thanks for the kind words. -E

Because Tesco will donate money for your purchase.

yeah that too.

Oh yea, we were surprised to see "cairn" there too as we assumed it was a Korean thing as it's where we first saw them in large numbers. Small world. -E

Just got to the end of the video - was laughing my ass of at the banoffee cupcake! Banoffee is like the crack cocaine of the baked goods world! If you get the chance, have a slice of proper banoffee pie, it'll blow your mind but be wary, the calories in one slice are off the charts.

Just a couple more! We have a lot of videos from many places around the world too! -E

Interesting! -E

omg...not so "glorious" for the poor wee *grouse,* though ({:

Hi! Thanks for joining us here! -E

I'd bet people take a climb without incident more often than not, you just never hear about it unless something goes wrong. -E

all's well that ends well; and I love your videos. :-)

Hahaha, gross. -E

He was a Royal Marine, so it was all in a day's yomp!

YOu gotta check out the Nothern Coast! -E

Yeah so they tend to have a budget for charities per store and they put a little section out of 4 or 5 charities and then with your tokens you vote for who should get the funding. It's normally small local charities like scouts, school groups, animal things etc.

I guess that is why the helicopter took an interest. Mountain Rescue are on the look out for tourists. With no mobile phone coverage, even a small accident can cause a night spent on the hillside, and unless you're dressed for the cold, that might be the last night you spend on earth.

But they just left them! How did they know Kyde's wave meant, "Hi, we're fine" instead of, "HELP!"?

those guys have the top equipment, including night vision; once spotted they will be reported and checked on.

A two handed wave means help

The winter wasn't too shabby! -E

Glad you are enjoying! -E

I'm from Scotland and never been that far North!

You've got somewhere to go! -E

Hope you get out there sometime, that northern coast is unreal! -E

GOod eye! -E

It seems the difficulty getting food and drink in the Highlands hasn't changed since I was a kid, which is why I ended up having my first beer aged 9 as there was nothing else to drink. xD

It's easier than it seems! -E