Far Over the Misty Moor on Corlick Hill
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- čas přidán 7. 12. 2023
- A moorland walk above Port Glasgow and Greenock, following, for part of the way, The Corlick Way, which passes over Corlick Hill.
Normally this is a short hike with great views across the Firth of Clyde, but today it was misty and very atmospheric, as huge wind turbines - part of the Inverclyde Wind Farm - loomed out of the haze.
From Port Glasgow the route takes us up Barrs Brae and into Devol Moor. In icy conditions we wished we had worn a hard-hat as warning signs tell us that the wind turbines can actually throw big chunks of ice quite a distance. We quicken our pace, and soon arrive on the frozen top of Corlick Hill, where we do not hang around.
The route takes us by Whitelees Cottage between Darndaff Moor and Whitelees Moor, and soon we reach the Old Largs Road and drop down below the mist into Greenock where we are rewarded by stunning views of mountains far far away across the wide Firth of Clyde.
A lovely little walk in the great outdoors, probably best undertaken when the weather is fair.
Ed always have a compass with you and a pie. Another great video and love the music at the end of video.
Thanks Gerard. Good advice.
No compass, out of date map, no pies.....what on earth is going on Mr Burns PM [Pie Minister]!
Brilliant video as always! 👍
Standards are slipping.
Lovely veiw of the hills in the mist
What an eerie place.
Great video Ed. Love walking in that cold icy weather. Makes everything look wonderful.
Very atmospheric. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Periodically I watch your channel amongst all the mountain channels. When I watch your channel I always remember the one of you going up the Kilpatricks towards Loch Humphrey which encouraged me into hillwalking. Really enjoyed the one of you at the Narnain boulders talking about a day you had with a particular sheep. Keep up the good work as your channel is different but in an inspiring way.
Thank you.
Lovely wee wander, they should call the turbines :"The Ghosts of the Gaels"
'The Ghosts of the Gaels' ... I like that a lot. Thank you.
It's very late in the evening and my neighbours will be wondering what I'm laughing at! Ice-chucking windmills, I'd have to tell them. 🤣 Your sense of fun is heart-warming. I loved the music at the close of the film, and the low, eerie Celtic horn sounds. Those big wind turbines bring to mind the giants of old. Something at the back of the brain 'remembers', I suspect....
You are brave indeed to venture up there in such frozen mist, but you really seemed to be enjoying yourself!
Fascinating about the different spellings of 'Moor / Muir' on either side of the Clyde Estuary.
Can't wait until your next adventure.
Hi Eilean. It was a magical day and I truly enjoyed it. Something very scary about those huge turbines. Hard-hat next time.
The background music and the windmills remind me of War of the Worlds. Very Atmospheric. A very interesting walk with some great views when the mist cleared. Great video.👍
I think you've got it in one with 'War of the Worlds'. It was definitely that sort of threatening feel. Cheers.
Aw Eddie, nae compass n' nae gloves. At least, if ye' had a hot pie, ye' could a clutched it in yer frozen fingers. The mist added an air of mystery, with the ghostly ice cucking wind turbines looming menacingly out of the mist. I know that silence you get in a heavy mist. I like it, the small horizon and stillness gives a homely feeling. Pity about the freezing air. (I think the condensed water vapor particles may dampen out the sound waves, due to their large inertia.) Thanks Eddie - another enjoyable video.
Cheers John.
Hi Ed, a very cold and atmospheric looking video, I think there could be a job in this health and safety obsessed world for a guy with a megaphone shouting fore when he sees ice being chucked. I think you may have stumbled on an answer to the age old question, what is the value of pye, obviously it's two scotch eggs. Thanks for entertaining me.😁😁😁😁
Cheers Colin.
Hi edd been buzy at work sorry not commented on ure videos for wat seems like ages but watched them friend love them all edd sorry I'm back now so be commenting more often u do a great job much appreciated take care edd
A great watch.
I was entertained 👍🏻🇦🇺
I should jolly well hope so! ❤️
One of these days you'll get a clear blue sky that lets you properly appreciate the views from Port Glasgow and Greenock across to Argyle and the Cowal peninsular. Summer or winter that takes some beating. If I had to choose, it would be a still, calm, frozen winters day with blue sky and snow topped hills and mountains reflected on the Clyde. Heavenly! Third time lucky? Oh, and take a pie way ye next time laddie. 😁 Keep up the good work.
Hi David. Yes, Winter days can be quite magical.
Love your videos Ed. You have a droll sense of humour. Keep up the good work 👏 😊
Thanks Alfred.
Great video Ed, great video. I was thoroughly entertained , thank you .
Cheers. 👍
Lol.... yer getting dafter Ed. Great video pal, hope you got home OK. 🏴🥃👍
Cheers Billy. The daftness within me hasn't been tempered with age.
Superb ed
Thank you.
Good on you, brother. Excellent work on a tough walk. A very fine piece of work.
Sometimes a dander in the mist can be a load of atmospheric fun.
Lovely atmospheric video! Gosh, I didn't know wind turbines could throw ice either, scary stuff. Love the scene with you approaching the trig point and also walking alongside the dry stone wall and the spooky tree. Beautiful music too. Have a lovely Christmas Eddy and I hope 2024 brings you many new adventures!
Cheers Dawn-Marie. All the best for 2024.
Well done ed lovely entertaining video as usual with wonderful sights. Can't say I blame you with the wind turbines up there they sound dangerous with the weather ❤
The magic of mist.
An excellent video thanks Ed. I admire your dedication, humor and determination. I hope you have thawed out by now. Gosh, you did look cold. Thanks for sharing another adventure.
Thanks Bryce. All thawed out and raring to get back out there.
Very entertaining, Ed. Thank you for a great video. On our way to Scotland in 16 days!
Many thanks. Enjoy your trip.
Nice work Ed,
Where's the pie?! 😂 Just kidding. Another excellent walk, Ed. 👍
Cheers Stephen. 👍
Another great video Ed
Cheers Robert. All the best for 2024.
You are a brave man Ed. Freezing and not a soul around. Great video as always. I liked the atmospheric use of the celtic horn thingymajig. I've been up that way to a fishing spot oor the wattar. Yes, Muir and Moor. Somehow Muir translates from Scots Gaelic as sea. Is the word supposed to be see. Just because of the vistas on a clear day? Hmm. Thanks again Ed for braving it on such a freezing day indeed mate.
Its not from Gaelic, but its from Scots, originally from Northumbrian (an Anglo-Saxion dialect).
thanks, that's it settled for me
Cheers. It was just a lovely atmospheric walk, if not bitterly cold. Well done for recognising the Celtic horn things - I used them perhaps in a way that gave the turbines a scary other-worldly feel.
Good to see my home town of Port Glasgow. Helluva day, though. The tenements you spoke about are on the Clune Park estate. We lived there for 4yr, from 1986. Mostly abandoned now, there are a few people still living there. Thanks, Ed!!
Cheers Armando.
Hi Ed. another great video. Thanks again🙂 Unfortunately I much prefer Judith Ralston giving me the weather report sorry my friend 😃😃
Great video as always... You're pretty much spot on about the houses between Woodhall and Port Glasgow (Clune Park Estate). They were built for yard workers, then when that industry moved on, the housing fell into disrepair. The estate itself started to become depopulated around the 90s. Today there are about 5 flats occupied out of approx 500. The Windfarm has made Corlick Hill a lot more accessible, before that, the usual way of getting there was to head in from Loch Thom and follow the Dowries track, cross over the dam between Gryfe 1 & 2. I would definitely recommend trying it from that side in fairer weather. At first, I thought that was the way you were heading down, but you went across Whitelees moor. The last time I was up there was a couple of months ago and one blade on a windmill was making one heck of a wooshing noise as it went around, looked like it had taken some damage to the tip. So are we going to see any more of your meteorologist smiles lol? 🙂
Yes, one wind turbine blade was not turning - No.4 I think - and there were a couple of vans at its base, so maybe it's being sorted. I suspect the weather presenter smile was a one-off; madness of the moment. Take care.
Brilliant Ed...you should walk the cut (circular route)...there is a train station (Wemyss Bay) line...drops you just down from the start.
Thanks Martin. There is a video about the Greenock Cut in here somewhere, and a more recent video starts at Wemyss bay and ends at Greenock, although not on the Greenock Cut. Check them out.
and thats typical of the upper port,misty while Greenock clear lol
Whit nae pie agin! I’ll have to quit calling you the “pie’d hiker”. The harsh truth is the pie was the highlight of the video many of us viewers 😂.
Gies a break! What you need's a CZcams channel that focusses solely on pies.
Nae Compass & Nae Pie ?!? What’s going on Ed ? 😂
I actually enjoyed this atmospheric walk - you can see the wind turbine in some shots and can hear a spooky horn blowing in the distance that adds something.
At least you got down safely 🫡
Cheers Graham. I didn't go overboard in the volume of those added Celtic horns, which may have been missed by some viewers. But they definately give the wind turbines a threatening and very scary feel. Certainly I was a tad scared of being clonked on the head by a lump of ice!
I honestly thought it was real horn sounds coming from the Clyde.
I'd need an ambulance at the top of they stairs Ed 😂
A lorra lorra stairs indeed.
Nice one dodging ice bombs. Wont mention pies to avoid cauliflower ear.
Wot! No pie🤐😄
Great video again, Eddy. Pity about the mist. You need to invest in some gloves, your hands must've been freezing! 🥶
Hi Robert. Yes, it was a cold day. Gloves in pocket - they get in the way when filming.
@@EdExploresScotland Ah right. Aye understand. 👍
Here..... nae pies?!?! Whit ?!?! 😂
Re Ice.. even in middle of nowhere you can't escape Health and Safety Notices. I felt cold just watching. You could have done with a flask of Ed's Famous Tomato Soup😊
ED's Famous Tomato Soup😊
I've never been a flask man, but a flask of hot soup might have been just the thing.
Thanks Eddie, a fine hard morning for a walk, how did you manage without gloves?
Cheers Danny. I've generally got gloves with me but they just get in the way if I'm constantly fiddling with the camera.
I actually thought about that about 10 minutes after posting. Have a good weekend.@@EdExploresScotland
Where are your gloves edd?
What a cold , misty, spooky, place...
I did nee like it... windmills hiding and waiting to target you.
You may well laugh
You never know who or what is in the fog.
It was very atmospheric Lynda. Gloves in pocket - they just get in the way when fiddling with the camera.
I missed the pie
Please don't mention the word p*e. Another classic well. Done Ed
Another good one, ED; BTW, are you on a Diet???🤣
Ate ma Scotch eggs on the train.
Ed whaar's yer gloves?
In my pocket. They get in the way if I'm doing camera stuff.
😂😂You have become famous for eating pies. The weather was getting progressively worse without ice throwing wind turbines causing havoc🤣🏴I notice that you never wear gloves!
Gloves just get in the way when fiddling with the camera.
Eddy...........if you had a pie.........what kind would you have...........
Cheese and broccoli.
🥧 🚫
think yourself lucky you dont live here lol constantly going up or down a hill lol
There's a town in England - I think it's Painswick - that is built on a hill, and all the inhabitants are so fit they live to a ripe old age. Perhaps the good people of Port Glasgow are the same, fit as a fiddle.
over the hills and far away misty mountian hop