We Walked 400km across Scotland: The Cape Wrath Trail in 13 Minutes
In April-May of 2023, my partner Kris and I walked the Cape Wrath Trail together across Scotland, starting at Fort William and ending at Cape Wrath Lighthouse. All in all, almost exactly 400km of trekking in 19 days total, including getting lost a few times while navigating our way through the beautiful but pathless mountains, hehe.
It was one of the best "walks" of my life, I'll be honest. And I made this video to try to showcase the kind of feeling that I got while walking. I hope you all enjoy it as much as I enjoyed the experience, and the creation process of this video! ♥
Music credits:
"Fall" by Vanbur
"Vikersund" by RØRE
"Human" by Vanbur
"Earthing" by Vanbur
Also thank you to Good To-Go meals for supplying us with the best and all natural dehydrated backpacking meals for the entirety of our journey - your food is the BEST for trekking life. Truly.
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♥ Thank you, everyone! So much love to you all! ♥
That’s the best cape wrath video I’ve seen, well done to you both 🫶🏻
Breathtakingly beautiful video✨Wonderful storytelling, I loved every moment 💖Thank you!
Absolutely stunning video....thank you.
400km in 13 minutes?? Outrageous! 👏👏👏
Beautifully shot. Here’s to the CWT in good conditions. Thank you for sharing your video, pictures and drone footage 🙏
2025 for me. Did the WHW last August, EHW this week and will do the Great Glen in spring 2024. Your video and insight is perfect and gives a real flavour of what lays on store. Thank you 🙏🏻
Paradise for the eyes. Made with love and professionally.
We are a homeschool family and learning about Scotland today. I looked up videos on Cape Wrath and found yours. So beautiful and inspiring! Thanks for sharing with us!
I saw you for the first time today. I wasn't sure about you but now have decided that I like you very much. Thank you for sharing your nature. I love sweet beauty and inspiration.
rewatched this video today... and again, wow! loved the imagery, the videos, the drone shots, the music, and the storytelling. you brought us on your journey
Love this so much. I rewatch over and over again. Feel the magic of mother nature!
Ahhhh thank you so much!! ❤❤
What a lovely film to document your incredible journey!
Wow! I’m so glad I watched this. It was totally amazing. And to get that picture at 11.30 in the video was just stunning.
Beautiful footage and editing with music to match 👍
What a wonderful video. Felt I was right there walking with you. Thank you for creating it and sharing these incredible scenes of the earth's magnificent beauty!
Thank YOU, Amanda! 🥰 I'm so happy you could feel like you were right there with us - that's exactly how I hoped the video would let people feel! This world is so beautiful and I'm so happy to share it.
Breathtaking shots accompanied by such a wonderful and humbling storytelling 💚✨💚 What an adventure! If I may, I don't know if it was a voluntary choice, but the use of audio ducking could have been helpful at the beginning as I struggled to understand to words because of the music still playing pretty loud behind your voice. Loved the composition otherwise!!
What a wonderful transformative break taking a walk with you through Scotland. If only I had been so fortunate. Your soul soars! I caught a glimpse!
Excellent video with beautiful wild landscapes. It’s a bit of a shame not to have added some nice photos at the end of the video. Thank you for sharing these images
Incredible film, I love your style & your photography most of all. You are amazing.
Ahhhh, thank you so much, Bob! That means a lot. 🙏
Absolutely stunning! I love you, your vibe, and your work! Thank you for sharing.
Excellent video. Very inspiring.
Epic video. I wish youtube had a love button. :)
Absolutely stunning. Thank you 🙏
Brilliant and well done! Thank you for sharing your adventures!
I get so excited when you post videos on here because they are always so beautiful and bring such a sense of peace but also wildness. Thanks for taking us with on this awesome adventure!
Brilliant! Thank you for sharing this trip and your thoughts along the way.
Inspiring!! Thank you for sharing your beautiful journey with us through these videos. I can feel the peace of being there
I did it last year in May and you have beautifully captured the sheer "brutifulness" of the trail. Testing you to your limits and rewarding you for doing so... thank you.
Every single view was stunning!! Nature is magnificent! Could never not be in awe of it!
What a beautiful film! I am so pleased that we got to meet you when you visited Lochhournhead. Loved seeing Flash was doing what Flash does best; keeping guests company while they eat and drink! 😁
Absolutely beautiful! Thanks for the inspiration and this awesome video!
Absolutely beautiful! Brought back all the good memories❤
Amazing 😍
Beautiful place 🤩 thank you for sharing 🙏❤️
I have no words for this video!!! You simply blew me away!!!❤
Absolutely beautiful video! So magical with the music and everything. Funny to think you both collapsed on my couch to eat food and drink wine after all this epicness 😂
Hahahaha thank you Sian! That was maybe even the best part - wine and couch lounging in your company! The best way to wind down in any case. 😂❤️❤️❤️
Absolutely stunning video !! Thank you for sharing this amazing journey with us . Many blessings Katrina
Absolutely gorgeous video. Stunning trail, nr 1 one on my wishlist.
Thank you for sharing a beautiful and deeply moving video. So much about life in just 13 minutes.
Thank you to share your walk, amazing place !
I am so happy to find you x This video is so beautiful I cried!
This is all magical but no surprise because YOU are magical! Thank you for taking us along on your journey in my favorite country on the planet! I never wanted this video to end. 🏴
Lucia and I have been looking forward to seeing your trip video! Beautifully done and makes us want to go on the trail!!
😍😍 So much love to you and Lucia!! I'm so happy you two enjoyed it! I could so see you two (or three!) doing this trail someday. 😍
This is such a beautiful watch 😍😍
I just came back from a 2-week road trip in Scotland, and although I'm nowhere fit enough to do what you did, your video just makes me want to go back as soon as possible. Beautiful photography and sentiment.
Absolutely amazing ❤
hey Elizabeth, I found your video by accident but I am so glad i did. It was breathtaking and i got goose bumps, its magical. thank you for sharing your wonderful work
This was so gorgeous and inspiring! I love your narration, it reminds me that I need to "go for a walk" every now and again. Having just returned from Scotland I can't wait to go back now that Ive seen your video.
Awwweee thank you so much, Suzanne. 🥰 Scotland will always hold a special sort of enchantment over me, hehe. I'm so happy you could find this video inspiring, thank you!!
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful video and thoughts. Peace. JC
I sometimes need reminding of just how beautiful some parts of the UK are. Gorgeous film.
This is what "living" feels like!!! Thank you Elizabeth for this POV
Gosh I just came back from Scotland but this makes me miss it so much. And even more miss your. Your videos always are such a grounding to my heart! I love how you see and how you remind us of the profoundness of simplicity and the beauty in nature. Thank you for being you and sharing you with us. I LOVE how you story tell in these videos
Shelby this comment means so much to me! ❤ I love that we are both so in love with Scotland, hehe. And I'm so happy that you love my videos that much and find them grounding - that's exactly what I hope they can be for people who see them! I want to get into the habit of keeping up with making more videos regularly because I honestly LOVE it and find it therapeutic and grounding myself to capture and showcase how I see the world. 🥰 Thank you for everything!! I love you!
Wooow, absolutely gorgeous video and the drone shots are out of this world!! A few years back I hiked the West Highland Way, which was beautiful, but not as desolate as this seems... I think this has to go on my bucket list. Amazing video!
Thank you, Angélica!! My partner Kris shot all the drone work and I was SO excited to include it in this video, hehe! It was soooo beautiful! I've always wanted to hike the West Highland Way, also - it seems so lovely, too, even if it is busier than the Cape Wrath up north! :) I hope you get to this one some day, it was so worth it!
@angelica As beautiful as the WHW is, the CRT is definitely desolate in comparison! I hope you end up doing it 🏕👍
@@ElizabethGaddPhotography after the CRT, you'll find that the West Highland Way feels like a walk in the (beautiful) park 😀
This was so beautiful to watch Elizabeth! I would love to do that one day.
Watching your videos feels like meditating. Thank you so much for sharing nature, beauty and calm through your work ❤️
Thank you, Frida! That is such a compliment to me - I'm so happy you could feel a meditative sort of beauty from this. ❤
I felt the stillness you brought back with you. Thanks for sharing the journey!
🥰 Thank YOU, Pratik! This comment makes me so happy!
Beautiful journey!!👍🏻
Thank you for this beautiful video, both in the beauty of the Nature you experienced, what you had to say about how it touched you and your life, and the accompanying music. I found it quite inspiring as I had hoped to trek across the British Isles with a newly acquired English Mastiff puppy, this after I finished college~way later than the original plan. But alas, it never happened; it has not been the right time to get a dog for years now, or to travel like this for a time-maybe it will be in a different place, at another fork in the road...time will tell. Oh, and loved your medieval gown and sword! 💘
Mesmerizing render of this 19 days journey in Scotland❤
Happy hike, cool video 🙂
Jus wow❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
i can’t believe you got to meet THE flash
Fantastic 👌
What a stunning video that really captured the essence of the trail. It brought tears to my eyes as the memories came flooding back. Would I do it again? I have!
Beautiful video Lizzy!! incredible place and amazing cinematography ;) We've enjoyed it a lot! Kisses
Ahhh thank you Ciro, my friend! So happy to see your comment here! 🥰
Simply Beautiful !!! Greetings from Italy 👋👋
Beautiful! Thank you. :>)
This is magical and epic
That photo with the sword awesome
🙌🏻🌏🙌🏻 Beautiful! And, wonderful to see you’ve found the perfect cohort in one another ✨💞✨
Lovely bit of film making, thank you
This video is absolutely amazing. Love from Bangladesh.
I stopped watching 'yet another trail vlog over a year ago but so glad I made an exception for your film. You really captured something special. I'm packing for my return to the CWT (north to south this time) in a few weeks time. Can't wait!
Thank you so much, Cecil! I’m in the same boat, and wanted to do something different from all the other trail vlogs I’ve seen to document this trip. More like my own thoughts journaled in creative video form, hehe. I’m so happy it could connect with you! 🥰
Amazing views, excellent video - hello from Virginia USA
beautiful photography very majestic
Ms Gadd, I am overwhelmed! Choking up 5 minutes in and barely holding it together after the waterfall at 10:40. I knew your photography would be awesome, but this was crazy. I really don’t know what to say. Im part Scottish, like many are, and my wife and I spent several weeks in Britain including a week in Cornwall and 10 days on Skye in 2012, one of the nicest summers on record! To do what you did is a dream, but my real dream is the Yukon where I lived from age 9 to 15. You just may have pushed me over the edge. Thank you ❤❤ ❤ PS. Love, love, love the 🎶
Wow, your kind words have meant so much to me to read! I'm honestly so happy that this video could resonate with you so much, Allan. Thank you. ❤ That helps me realize I'm doing something right be sharing these experiences! I so hope you get to live your real dream in the Yukon soon! 🥰
@@ElizabethGaddPhotography I’m so thrilled to read your response Elisabeth. Videos like yours are worth all the effort. I’ve tried to imagine how you do your incredible stills too, especially the landscape selfies, but it’s beyond me really. You truly are an artist, and all art is about connection and discovery, to self and to others we share this amazing life with. Not to mention connection to this marvellous 🌎 planet. I confess I am blessed/cursed(?) with the ability to feel such connection very deeply, and it always awes me when others resonate with that too. Btw your narration was really good as well, and definitely contributed to the calming and grounding that others have mentioned.☺️👍 Thanks for making my day for the second time this week! All the best 💗
Fantastic movie , just found this .. I am one of the guys who slept on the floor that night in Cape Wrath , the scenery is stunning . love it. Best Wishes and hope you guys are well ❤
Ahhh thank you!! We’re so glad you enjoyed it! And what a way to end the trail, all stranded at the lighthouse together. 😂😊 Hope you’re doing well too! ❤️
@@ElizabethGaddPhotography yes , thought we were stuck for a few day's, it was lovely meeting you both ,hope you had a great time with your friend before you went home, Best Wishes Scott
Hey guys ..superb video! We met you both at Cape wrath wondering when we would all be able to get off. I was the guy with the puny drone that would fly in the wind 😊. Nice to see the finished film
Hahaha yes!! Was so awesome to meet you all at the end of the trail! What an incredible trip. So happy you enjoyed our video of the journey! Hope you’re doing super well! 😊
Amazing! It really is wonderful to be able to embrace ourselves in Gods creation! I love the scenes too. The drone photoage is 👌
Beautifully crafted video, amazing scenery you guys are amazing. I love it, how clean is the flowing water from valleys/rivers/streams?
Soundtrack is perfect 👌
Thank you!! 😊🙏🏻 The water was very clean everywhere, though we used our filtered water bottles just to be extra safe. But I wasn’t too worried about it. Only would be more cautious in the lower areas and where sheep or deer might be roaming about lots
@@ElizabethGaddPhotography sheep are free ranging, as in belonging to nature or some Farmer/ranger owns them! I saw some sheep and goats in your other videos up in the mountains!
Just beautiful Lizzy. xoxo
Thank you, Stasia!! ❤❤❤
Amazing! That 11:30 surprise
Lovely Video. What time of year Was it? Start/Finish dates? Were planning for April 18th 2024 start.
Thank you so much!! This was this year, 2023. We started mid April, and it was perfect timing for us before midge season, hehe!
Wonderful.. What Tent are did you take with you & how much did it weigh?
Whelp this is fucking fantastic 💖
Thank you Renee!! 🥹💖💖
As someone who lives in the north of Scotland. Why leave the ROCKIES to walk here? Haha ❤
What after effects are you using, please?
Nice vid! Would you say this trail is populair? Or is it easy to get to walk on your own and not meet too many people?
Thank you!! It’s definitely getting more popular now, but it’s definitely not crazy popular. We crossed paths with anywhere between 2-10 people each day on the trails, some doing the Cape Wrath and some doing different intersecting trails. For me it was perfect to know others were out there in case of emergency, but we could still easily have many hours of being completely alone. 🥰
HI Elizabeth, I would love to buy one or more photos to use on our website only. Are you back in town?