HIGHLANDER 4 Day Adventure Across a Barren Moor- Historical Survival & Fly-fishing

[@FandabiDozi]

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[@edouardkb2064]

Love your vids! Kills me to imagine how much time you spend setting up a camera, walking away from it, walking back to get it, and then cutting that last bit out in the edit. Keep up the great work!

[@scottmacgregor3444]

Thinking about that made me giggle too.

[@DaveLeary1]

bump for actual lul

[@pheenobarbidoll2016]

I live in the Chihuahuan Desert in West Texas. You have a very different definition of barren lol

[@johnstuartkeller5244]

"The bog is my oyster." This is a quote for the ages, friends. ❤

[@LootRaccoonFilms]

The song that Tom plays on the flute (I think) is called “Concerning Hobbits” from Lord of The Rings. I think it’s a perfect song for the Scottish highlands. I hope some day to go their and live out my days walking under the cloudy sky on the wind of a whistle and through the smoke of a campfire. Thank you Tom for your freedom. It is a freedom that all people from all backgrounds are called by and yearn to answer through action.

[@Jen999]

Best video ever.!!! The sight of you scrambling after that wee trout was priceless!!! On a more serious note.. we cannot help but feel concern for you.. it is not good for man to be alone.. and.. Maybe it’s the haunting Lord of the Rings music.. Maybe it is the painful sight of your battered bare feet.. Or maybe the sigh as you awakened., unsure of which day it was.. These things made us cry😭 On the other hand,. Watching you frolic above and beneath the water in the lake.. made our hearts sing.. And as we too have eaten trout.. and salmon.. only a few hours after we caught them.. we can appreciate your relish in eating them., and that you thanked those fish for feeding you.. that touched our souls.. Your videos are unique.. they are one on one with life.. We love them.. and you.. so much Tom.. May you go exploring.. and frolicking in the sea.. happy as any seal could be.. May you do this forever.. We end in our thought for you in Scottish Gaelic.. Tha Thu as fhearr, Tom… Slan mo charaid..💜💙

[@Upuauta]

You Scots, Welsh and Brits are so blessed to have these beautiful free open wilds in your awesome countries. Here in Germany we don´t have such areas. You don´t find a place here where you don´t find sign of civilization within a 5km radius. And even if we had them they would be over regulated so you could be thankful if you could just walk there. Thanks for your videos. They make me dream....

[@khorneflakes2175]

I've heard that Germany has very few Wilderness, i had little money and lived in pretty civilized mountains in France in my youth, in order to be in nature i didn't look for distance walked but elevation, even if there were habitations in both valleys around a mountain range there were nobody on the top half of the mountains, no trails, not a a human soul, so i hiked up there, made camp and walked along the crests, it was a game sometimes to cross a road without being seen or wait for nightfall to traverse a small mountain village to go camp on the other mountain across the valley, it became a game to stalk people, i started doing this at 12yo and had so much fun i fancied myself the spirit of the mountain. You can easily walk 10km a day in rolling hills, hiking 1-2 km elevation will take you as much time and tire you much more if you go off trail and challenge yourself.

[@Nik2555]

Na mate it’s not how your thinking, Germany is far more sparsely populated. The hartz mountains and elm forest is lovely

[@carlwoods4564]

"Brits"?

[@Trickydickysticky]

Time to move.

[@eekee6034]

I grew up in the south of England, a little west of Brighton. At night, there was no dark sky for miles around. This was before the South Downs National Park was established. The farmland is beautiful with its softly rolling hills and there were some preserved uncultivated spots, but nothing as big as what you get in Scotland.

[@Stormpriest]

I spent over 30 years on the road. The latter 20 I had been attempting to go all natural if not all archaic. But you're right, there's some aspects you just need water and equipment for because of modern times. Ironically. A camp stove, water filtration, and frankly... Ziplocs. Those things are gold.

[@themeatpopsicle]

Having developed the gut biome to survive bad water, sketchy food, and various nasties over a lifetime is something we simply can't recreate

[@guillaumekeulen219]

A waterfilter is needed because human made modern poissons!

[@richardtrowell8812]

​@@guillaumekeulen219parasites and bacteria have been around forever. Most water can be consumed by simply boiling for a period of time. If you don't boil then filter.

[@fonkyman]

depends on where you live.. youd be surprised how many water ways and lakes in europe and across the world are so poluted with chemicals and heavy metals that the government itself says you shouldnt drink it not boiled nor any other way

[@guillaumekeulen219]

@@richardtrowell8812 boiling doesnt anything against microplastics heavy metals agricultural industrial chemicals

[@shaunhall960]

My grandmother taught me fly fishing. She gave me my grandfather's bamboo fly rod that he made as he had passed when I was 3. Something so simple can have a lifetime of good memories. Keep it simple.

[@Jen999]

@@shaunhall960 So much we agree.. basic is best.. sure we are of that.. and so appreciated your comment we did… thank you for that💜💙

[@alphawarrior7619]

Man what I wouldn’t give to live like this. It’d be fun just to go out on a camping trip with this guy just talkin bout history and swapping stories and survival skills

[@joebadger]

Stravaig. I've been feeling that urge strongly myself of late ( or whatever the Welsh equivalent is anyway). Time to book some leave from work and get out there.

[@lorifromtemeculaca426]

Teithiwyr is Welsh for traveller ;-)

[@C_Seamus]

Love the rendition of wild mountain thyme

[@JordanHayesRule]

Love it when you play Wild Mountain Thyme on your flute! One of my favorite songs, nice to hear it somewhere outside of my own playlists for a change.

[@the.one.and-only]

Thanks for reminding me the title of the song! I heard a band play it in a pub in Inverness two days ago and it's been driving me insane trying to remember the song title!

[@merpius]

A piece of woven cloth over your eyes would give you a similar effect to sunglasses. The tighter the weave the more shade (but also the brighter the conditions required to be able to see). The Inuit/Eskimo thing were usually made of bone, not wood, and were to protect against glare from the snow/ice rather than direct sunlight.

[@dilihopa]

I am an old lady living in Canada. Watching you and listening to your philosophy on life is very inspiring for all of us. I so wish I could wield a stick as impressively as you! Keep doing what you do!

[@OnkelPHMagee]

I can't think of an episode that I've enjoyed more. This was Tom F.D. at his storytelling finest.

[@luvadane]

YES IVE BEEN WAITING FOR ANOTHER SURVIVAL EXPEDITION! Thank you for your hard work, it pays off!

[@luvadane]

And don’t think I didn’t recognize the lord of the rings theme with the flute at the end. Love your videos dude 😂

[@Lillyjanelavender]

Oh, this is so beautiful. And your kit is very impressive - so much of it is historically accurate! A great video, as always!

[@robertguthrie1894]

Thank you for bringing us along I am currently healing up from a quadruple bypass surgery and I can’t wait to get back to the outdoors

[@bigbadthesailor5173]

very touching the way you thank the fish, and the ground you sleep on. we all need to be grateful, always.

[@AlphaKnight-hg2jq]

I KNOW WHERE YOU ARE! I definitely recognise that big hill, ive been there a few times, pretty sure i been to a couple of the smaller lochs you went to after too Im gonna keep eye out for you when i go wandering out the hills now

[@janiedillingham3190]

Interesting! Stravaig. I believe Australians call it "going walkabout." If its not exactly the same, it is certainly similar.

[@moik2747]

I love it when take a long adventure with all of Ur gear. 👍👍

[@LouisianaAstroRambler]

I just learned the other day that the Scottish highlands were once part of the Appalachian mountain range.. I'm sure I've heard about this before, but knowing me, I just forgot.. But I found this exciting since most of my Scottish and Irish ancestors that came here to America in the late 17th century, actually ended up settling in the Appalachian mountains, mostly in a region that would become part of southeast KY, northeast TN and southwest VA..

[@neanderthaloutdoors9202]

Scotland is a beautiful place to wander especially a lone trip like this one, nicely done.

[@edgardoguillen3681]

Morning y tarde,siempre añorando mi Escocia amada❤❤❤❤

[@rmb7323]

The things you allow us to witness through this video but also your channel in general, it's really something... Some parts mean beyond words. Thank you !

[@emmalespade8208]

The landscapes are magnificent ! You must feel so free when you travel there.

[@BCTGuitarPlayer]

Reminds me so much of backpacking into Desolation Valley, Cal., as a young guy. As you mentioned, after one week it gets into your bones and you don’t want to go back to the burbs. Wonderful. Thanks👍

[@kiltedpatriotatheart]

What a great way to sum up your job! Dressing up in a big boanket, and swinging a stick around!

[@Matt-ft2nn]

You’re like Scottish Survivorman. With a recorder and a stick. Great vid!

[@mysticmeadow9116]

That was wonderful. Serine. Calming yet energetic. Thank you for taking us along on your journey. Most enjoyable.

[@alliekingsley7919]

A very cozy little video, and I suddenly understand why some of my Romani foremothers went for some hardy Scottish lads.

[@BubuH-cq6km]

22:20 A "Scottish Werewolf" In the Hills 🤣 😅

[@skune8317]

Absolutely beautiful countryside. Really fun to watch, keep this up!

[@ЛюбовьДевятых-е7к]

Здравствуйте! Вдруг ночью пойдёт дождь, а у вас крыши нет, и всё будет мокрое..У вас природа красивая...

[@DashieDasher]

lovely to see so much land where you can actually just walk across it! No fences or highways or much of anything to break it up

[@detroitredneckdetroitredne6674]

Hello from Detroit Michigan brother thank you for sharing your knowledge and expertise and for taking us on your adventure through the moors

[@DevinARobinson]

thank you for all the videos. theyre helping me and my family know our ancestors at long last. i appreciate that. salud from a dispersed druid in america! much respect to the video arts and ancient ways!

[@markedis5902]

Take only memories, leave only footsteps.

[@gnollman]

Great vid, loved the Concerning Hobbits tune there at the end.

[@josephr9551]

What balm to one's soul watching this! Tom, I would truly have loved to trek alongside you.

[@Ledémonlittéraire]

Man the land looks gorgeous

[@Trav_Can]

I love the word, and the concept of "straviag."

[@tianikane3312]

Your videos with the quiet music are sensational. I like your touch with the land and lakes. Many thx, makes my morning watching this.

[@daveburklund2295]

Sweat, moss, and grilled fish sounds heavenly.

[@mattwright2964]

I love my walking and fly fishing in the wilds of Scotland, without being able to look forward to that I wouldn't have got through life. Really.

[@iwantcheesypuffs]

Looks like the perfect hike/camping with just you and nature. I've never seen so much land with no trees. This just might be my favorite adventure/survival video. Well done Dozi! Thank you very much for sharing.

[@eekee6034]

Shades you can make with straw or grass stems tucked into a headband so that a little light can get between the stems. Being made of vertical stems, it'll probably be especially good at filtering out the horizontally polarized light of low sun reflecting off water. It was great to see the trip and the equipment, and I was interested to learn there's a Scottish word for just rambling for the sake of it. But now I think about it, the English "rambling" carries something of that connotation too, doesn't it? (And then I looked up the etymology of the word "rambling". The apparently related Middle Dutch word had something to do with "the night wanderings of the amorous cat"! I laughed.)

[@ri-jm5tn]

A traditional highlander watercraft or primitive dugout or skin on frame craft seems appropriate with all that gorgeous water around.

[@SirBeauJangles]

Tip. Try a biggish bushy black Zulu on the bob, about a size 12. (bob's the top dropper.) Dibble it through the surface just before lifting off for a fresh cast. (Can produce slashing strikes fit to stop your heart) Anything with claret predominantly in its make up, especially a Claret Bumble - and something different - maybe flashy - on the point. If you can handle more than two droppers and so show more flies on the leash then there's more of a chance they'll see something that pleases. I've sometimes ended up with a cast of five claret bumbles and done great execution. If I'd to feed myself on fish with no backup it'd be a blend of overnight "earth-flies" - and daytime rod-fished Claret Bumbles, modestly tied with less hackle than the shop versions carry. If you can take only one line, make it a good quality floater. (Nice tackle on that escaping troot, by the way!) Start keeping most of a cast length back from the edge, keep your footfalls as light as possible. And a worm used overnight will sometimes produce a breakfast trout - or a perch? - (that you need tell nobody about the manner of its demise). For the latter, no rod is needed and yes I know that's a horrendously ungentlemanly suggestion. But d'you think that Rob Roy troubled himself with something as needless as a rod?😂 Since you're essentially playing at being a RobRoy stravaiger! If you're beside one of the big deep glaciated lochs, you might find yourself catching charr into the gloaming. They often come more readily at day's end to something a bit flashy. If only I could get my time again, I'd be out on the moors too - and beside lochs that never see a rod from one year to the next. (If you're already enough of a fisher to know all that stuff then forgive a pensioner's presumption!) May yer line be tight when needful, and yer drawers - never anything but dry, dry, dry! Since wet or even dampened ones are misery, misery, misery!

[@hobbithikingnz8321]

I'd love to see the look on someones face if they stumbled on you in the wild! 😊 Another beautiful video, thank you.

[@sheilam4964]

Not just another Survival video because you always find ways to keep them fresh and interesting. Thx for sharing. 👍👍👍👍👍

[@spankyjeffro5320]

25:20 Put some black soot under your eyelids to stop the sun reflecting off your skin. That should help with the glare somewhat.

[@ariverdreaming]

Wow!! What could be more satisfying than fresh caught fish on the bank of a shimmering pocket Lach amidst miles of sweet adventure wanderings. Your videos inspire me to much Tom!

[@chrisratcliffe6806]

Stravaig, in Australia we'd call it 'goin walkabout', totally agree

[@spikemcnock8310]

Excellent video, I do like how you honour the trout. Re sun shades, use charcoal under your eyes to stop the glare. Great kit too.

[@chefinwood]

Thank you for doing this and sharing the experience with us.

[@thomasmusso1147]

👍👍👍 .. Super! The terrain reminds me so much of that surrounding my coastal home town of Kleinmond in the Western Cape, South Africa. We call the vegetation there 'Fynbos' .. same family as your Heather. The region is classified as a 'Floral Kingdom' with over 4000 (under correction) variants of Fynbos. A nice watch .. thanks for sharing. Take care ..

[@Wolfram762]

Tom, this was an incredible journey to go on with you! The scenery was breathtaking and so very peaceful!! I definitely can see myself becoming a bog dwelling golem if I was out there!!!! Keep up the great work my friend!!

[@zacharyconner9319]

Amen

[@Stillwater933]

The brown trout looks awesome. Nice pack also. ❤ the video.

[@johnjames4583]

Thanks!

[@Steve-ze1mz]

Never heard of 3 flies on one line. Dad taught me when I was young. Va, USA, we have plenty of trout streams and rivers, he'll, and lakes. Thank you for the lesson my friend. I'll have to try that. God bless us all.

[@Minuteman_Expeditions-wo2cp]

By the way, I really liked your video about the wooden candles and the wrought iron fish oil lamps. I'm going to try and reproduce that lamp design with coke cans or something similar. Wish me luck 🤣 I don't have a forge, and I really want to use material more readily available around the house

[@crivensjings]

Thanks

[@asafloml1-asaf-yaari]

My first vids with you! Amazing stuff...many similar things to what we learned in the special units training in the IDF...so well done!

[@An-Ma]

Truly wonderful video. Enjoyed every second! From the comfort of my couch, ofcourse… Well done for keeping the courage and resilience of your ancestors alive!

[@lewismorris5170]

I you search up "shearing moccasins" you should find readily available shoes of a similar design to the traditional highlander shoes. Shearing moccasins are worn by sheep shearers in order to allow them to move across the boards they work on.

[@jt659]

I've been with you for a few years now. I'm currently a caretaker for an elderly couple who are well travelled and they tell me that of all the places they've been, the Scottish highlands are the most beautiful.

[@brnrecluse2946]

Your videos are very enjoyable!

[@steelrain4362]

Love your videos, your channel and all your teachings. Great work! ❤

[@thedriftingspore]

Great adventure man, thank you for bringing me along. I appreciate it.

[@bushcraftua1]

Hello. Cool and funny guy. You have a cool trip and the nature is beautiful

[@siameseire]

I Adore this rabbit hole. 😊

[@RolfRobertson6404]

I just subscribed for one reason, a KZbinr that fished, all my outdoor, van life, adventure channel's always by great fishing spots , and not a fishing pole anywhere. .. great video will be watching the past videos to catch up..

[@grant6173]

That is the most delicious size trout.

[@nmcgunagle]

Great video. And the flash back to the trout that came off the line when you were talking about turning into a bog dwelling trout eating gollum was perfect.

[@miquelbech5580]

Always a pleasure watching your videos. I'll be going on a hiking and backpacking vacation in Skye this August and I just can't wait to get there. Though I'll be taking modern equipment, I find your approach to equipment and the simplicity of your setup inspiring. Last year, I got into bushcrafting, and I find the concept of being in nature and living with and off nature with just the most necessary items incredibly satisfying and fulfilling. In fact, thanks to your videos, I've tried to find something suitable for a kilt to try out hiking in one and using it as my blanket/shelter. Still no luck, but maybe I'll find something while I'm in Scotland.

[@LuxisAlukard]

16:20 Yeah, I got those Gollum vibes there =) Great video, as always!

[@simonhawker9277]

you can light a small fire for cooking during bushfire season you just gotta put it in a pit, in Australia in scouts they taught us that,

[@counteldamar5135]

Absolutely Fandabi Dozi

[@waveydavie]

That looked like so much fun! I'm interested to know how much your pack weighed.

[@jess53nz]

The tune at the end gave me goosebumps (huge lotr fan )

[@MentorRick]

2 questions my friend. 1. Do you ever see anyone else out there? 2. Do you know of any Irish fellas doing similar content? Cheers. You have increased my growing passion for hiking and putting good use to my ever growing collection of sticks.

[@hmmm6317]

Nature calls to me as well... I hope to have time for a little hike in the next months!

[@ricktablelander5043]

Brilliant Nothing better

[@realnatureguy777]

Hello from Minnesota...my distant relatives were from Jura, so I feel a kind of connection to you! Great videos, and ciao!

[@sawyerdave1]

Just found this, it’s a bracingly honest change from the usual fare, thank ye

[@Minuteman_Expeditions-wo2cp]

Well done man! You earned my subscription! I'll pass the word around about your channel too. Good job! 🤠👍

[@YTC9]

To see man in harmony with nature is an absolute pleasure, thank you 🙏 This is the first video i've seen of your's so please forgive any ignorance i may be showing but for many years i have often wondered how historically people dealt with midges, was it smoke, fire, nets and a clay pipe or was one's auric field different? I think we attract midges to us depending on frequency, any thoughts on this one anyone?

[@jsj-sjsj-sj]

Nice work. Thanks for the inspiration.

[@CoastRangeRX]

Hey Tom, Mike from Oregon, U.S. here. Been a while, my friend, but so glad you’re still at it! Thanks for sharing your journey :)

[@juliussilvan]

Such a great video! Completely at peace in the Highland!

[@MykA_MonGo]

I'm new un your channel, is awosome just what i needed lately, adventures, learning, guide Spirit. ✌️ Congratulations! Send love from México!

[@bigboaby555]

12:48 you should release your own range of blankets called 'Fandabi Cosy'

[@sleepographer7712]

@ 3:26 - i don't know if it's true, but i've that there are natural filters to make or use, such as digging a hole close to a water source and allowing the water to seep into that hole, the earth acting as the filter.

[@wizardapprenticeIV]

you would just get muddy water surely? probably even dirtier than if you where to take just take it straight from the loch.

[@happyguy333]

Amazing video as always! I'm surprised, having worn great kilts before, that over-heating wasn't a significant issue that you faced considering how constantly bright and sunny the weather seemed to be for you.

[@lindasmith224]

Awesome video. Very interesting and entertaining. I appreciate all the hard work you put into it. Thank you.

[@Zeithri]

Got around watching this finally. I love it.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

Thank you, I really needed the serenity of one of your videos today 👍😆