Ben Lomond Summit Video

June 17th, 2009
tony

Just got back two weeks walking in the west of Scotland, we started on the west Highland Way at Crianlarich, went on to Loch Lomond and Lochgoilhead and ended up on the marvellous Isle of Arran.
Of course I took hundreds of photos and will be posting some shortly when I have finished sorting them.
In the meantime here is a very short video I shot as we approached the summit of Ben Lomond. Hiking to the top of the mountain was hard, not least because it was sunnier and hotter than we expected, but we both found the decent the hardest on our tired legs. In the background you can sometimes see Isabel in her orange shirt and also Loch Lomond which had been our starting point three hours previously.
I shot this video using a wonderful little gizmo called a Stickpic which lets you attach a compact camera to the end of your walking stick – the result is a video that almost seems as if it was shot by an accompanying camera man. Spinning around with the camera, which I do a couple of times in this video including at the summit, produces a really impressive visual effect.

Just got back two weeks walking in the west of Scotland, we started on the West Highland Way at Crianlarich, went on to Loch Lomond and Lochgoilhead and ended up on the marvellous Isle of Arran.

Of course I took hundreds of photos and will be posting some shortly when I have finished sorting them.

In the meantime here is a very short video I shot as we approached the summit of Ben Lomond. Hiking to the top of the mountain was hard, not least because it was sunnier and hotter than we expected, but we both found the descent the hardest on our tired legs. In the background you can sometimes see Isabel in her orange shirt and also Loch Lomond which had been our starting point three hours previously.

httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xb8YR2KF6yk

I shot this video using a wonderful little gizmo called a Stickpic which lets you attach a compact camera to the end of your walking stick – the result is a video that almost seems as if it was shot by an accompanying camera man. Spinning around with the camera, which I do a couple of times in this video including at the summit, produces a really impressive visual effect.