Just returned from Old man, really interesting walk with sublime views on summit. Thankyou for really informative video.

Its great to see you walking again. Not an area I know but thoroughly enjoyed it. I managed 6 miles last weekend round Donnington Castle and Bagnor. With two poles.

I really enjoyed it and could hear it well. I have tinnitus but it suits my ears.

Abbie, 48 hours ago I completed the West Highland Way, inspired by you, and now I'm watching this planning my next adventure! Thanks for being you!

Crampons in soft snow 😂??... All the gear and no idea!

Thank-you. Inspiring, beautiful, a lovely start to my morning. ❤

I always like the music you choose for your walking videos so this is an added bonus. Sounds great, hope to hear more of them.

Hello Abbie .

Abbie, you love to share, I love to watch. What a beautiful day for that walk. Being on your own up there looked amazing, You inspire us to be adventurous and show us how to keep safe. Another great video.

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You are such an inspiration Abbie.. truly, you are. We all have our struggles, and your channel and voice has inspired me (all of us) since it's inception. Thank you! ✌️💚

I’m very late watching this…..sorry 😔 love watching your adventures, you mentioned at the beginning of this video you weren’t feeling 100%……. I want to tell you what an inspiration you are! No matter what you push forward….you’ve helped me overcome so much. Saying ‘Thank you’ doesn’t seem like much, but it comes from the heart 🥰

Nice Abbie. Stunning views as always. Hope you're well x

All in Scotland. Just say Scotland.

this unbelievably awesome tent saved my life a few times on the pct… will never use different

Beautiful footage Abbie 👏

Just wanted to say a big thank you. With every video of yours I watch I'm feeling more and more empowered and confident as I plan to do my first solo hike in the Lakes this year. I'm making my lists and gathering my gear, and then hopefully I'll move on to solo wild camping. I'm taking it step by step and not being hard on myself, life has been hard so my confidence is low but slowly, slowly I will achieve my goals. This channel is really helping me and inspiring me to do it, so once again from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Which boots did you use?

Cairngorms all day, every day. Tell everyone about John Muir and the JMT and the huge legacy he has left.

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abbie well said , ive got a big challenge coming up

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Great film but there are no easy mountain in Scotland just read the stats on Ben choinzie another easy mountain but every other week people get lost on it

Hey Abbie! Just giving all your work a good going over and loving it!! I hope to do Helvelyn this summer. I'm 65 and although still very active as i've been in sport all my life, i may give striding edge a miss after snapping a shed load of tendons round my ankle a year ago. My question is . . . Could you give me a run down of the other routes?! Many thanks and hope you're getting back to full fitness.

Great quote abbie

Wow, this is amazing!

I've had two pairs of these. They are good gear, but they don't last all that long either - usually the case with lightweight stuff. I find after about 2-3 years you start getting wet thighs (I use them for both cycling and hiking, but I am out more often in proper rain on a bike), and this slowly continues over time. I do like the way they are small and light enough that you always chuck them in. And the long zips so you can get them on over boots without undue faff when it starts raining are just great. My first pair were sufficiently un-waterproof after ~6 years that I bought a new pair last year. We'll see how long these work for. But yes, despite the limitations these are the least-bad water proof trousers I've had over many years. They are a bit rustly, but not terrible.

It's a great feeling being somewhere nobody else has been. Well, we can pretend and imagine what it was like for all the great explorers that have gone before. Happy trails, Abbey.

Way to Champion on Dear🥳 Thanks for Sharing🤗 Happy ,Safe Travels await😍🥰 Enjoy the Journeys, Rochelle

Absolutely beautiful

Well done - great achievement. My husband and I completed the Skye trail a week ago (at the end of May.) Watching your video of the Trotternish Ridge in particular explains why I’m still so tired! We camped on exactly the same spot on the first night - spectacular.

You’re a talented presenter!

This is completely the incorrect and unsafe use of crampons, they are meant for ice fields and walls. If you step wrong in the scree, a rock crack, or some tight goarse and lock a spike in, you’re going to seriously hurt yourself and then to have your ice axe to fall on? The skiff of snow you’re walking across doesnt even warrant snow shoes let alone crampons. You would be far more safe with waterproof trail runners and thermal Sox. As for avalanches, are you carrying an avalanche beacon? A wall of snow coming at hundreds of miles per hours isn’t going to break for crampons or anything else. You’re beacon is you only best shot at rescue. I visited the UK and the Lake District and it’s beautiful there. I also understand you dont have much terrain in the UK for Avalanches and ice walls so you’re alpine instructor is doing the best they can with what you have. I come from the Sun Valley, Idaho at the top of the Rocky Mountains, we average 200 to 300 inches of snow a year. We dont use crampons, we use snow shoes and skis to at least have a chance of getting out of the way of an avalanche. Most importantly we use Beacons and an in Reach Mini ii. Ski patrol and SAR mitigate the danger by shooting 105mm Howitzers at the Couliers and Ridgle lines. We do use crampons and ice axes where appropriate to scale a wall or attack an incline the requires technical skills to climb. I do enjoy your videos but the last two are very misleading to people who dont have decades of actual winter alpine experience.

Wow stunning scenery thank you for sharing it with us.

I found this a difficult watch again following your last adventure on Meall an't-Seallaidh. Once again, inappropriate or unnecessary use of crampons and ice axe and talk of possible avalanches with just a powder covering of snow was a little ridiculous! I get you want to show your vulnerable side and you take various actions during your walk that highlight this, which I understand. My issue is with good mountaineering practice. If you are hoping other beginners will emulate your actions I do not think is correct or right and don't think Mountain Rescue would approve either. Crampons are meant for use on ice to stop you sliding away on a hard frozen surface, not soft very thin powder snow with lots of rocky ground. You are most likely to damage or blunt your crampons in such conditions, which I'm surprised you did'nt do! Likewise an ice axe is called an ice axe because it is for use in icy conditions. If you slip and slide you use your ice axe adze to hopefully halt your slide by getting it to grip in the ice as you slide. Its absolutely no good in soft snow apart from balancing you like a walking pole. My worry is that in watching this vlog, beginners will think this is the right technique to use in such conditions. I don't believe it is. By all means be safe, I get that, but use your equipment correctly if you are likely to influence others so they can use theirs in the same manner. Just my opinion and no offence meant but I think the Winter Technique schools would agree with me. For info (context), I have completed the Munros (2001), Corbetts (2013), in all season's conditions, have 88 Fiona's (Grahams) to bag, 9 Donalds and 4 Wainwrights as well. I have ascended Mounts Teide (Tenerife), Toubkal (Morocco), completed the GR20 (Corsica), the SW Coast Path, the Pembrokeshire Coast Path and circumnavigated Anglesey amongst others....

I lived in Braemar for a couple of years 20 years ago now... It was wonderful to have such easy access to the Cairngorms during that time... Fond memories of a lot of good times. They can be very serious indeed in winter though!

Nice one Abbie. Thku for your inspiring words. 😀🤙

Glad you did it before the tree was felled.

Sounds like something out of a sci-fi horror, But in a good way ;) ...

Great video. Up there is as close to wilderness as you'll get In the UK. Had the same emotions up there myself as a solo traveller.

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I'm getting a lot of profundity from this. XXX

Thank you Abbie for all your inspiring videos. They are much appreciated.

Always been a huge fan Abbie. You inspire, inform and lift me up every time I watch your videos. You are a gem of a human. Keep on keepin’ on!

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Hi Abbie. Love your videos. The Cairngorms are very special to me and I have exhilarating memories of the forests, lochs and mountains. I am too old now to ascend the highest peaks so your adventures are meat and drink to me. I particularly admire your meticulous regard for safety, your preparedness. It’s the approach everyone should take. I once turned back before the summit of Bynack More because I wasn’t sufficiently well equipped for the icy conditions on the summit plateau. Like you I was alone and responsible for my own safety. Less than an hour later, whilst descending, I saw the rescue helicopter go over. You are an inspiration, a role model, a lovely human being. Stay well, and stay safe as well as wild.

It was nice to see you in that part of the Cairngorms. I'm from the US, and it's the only time our hiking paths have "crossed." I did a solo trip around Scotland by myself. Not easy, but my desire overcame my qualms, and I just did it. I was in Rothiemurchus Forest to experience a Scottish landscape as close to what it was before humans as is possible. It was in September for 3 days when the multi colors of the heather were still blooming with added color from the yellow leaves scattered around from silver birches and the honey tones of the bracken, some bluebells, very bright yellow-green moss, big, mossy hillocks, Spanish moss in the trees, old Scots pines with their reddish bark and shapely character. It was the most stunning flora landscape I'd ever been in. My hikes included Eilein and Gamhna. At the far end of Gamhna there was no one else, and I experienced that atmospheric silence you talked about. I really connected with that. Although eerie, it was good - just another part of experiencing something new that I'lll always treasure.

Go up onto the plateau at the end of the year, not much in the way of climbing obviously, but a nice test of your gear.