Timeline for What gear for sleeping in wild camping in western Scotland in May?
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| Dec 17, 2021 at 15:34 | history | edited | Toby Speight | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Mar 15, 2017 at 19:27 | comment | added | Tullochgorum | Not really accurate to say that it doesn't get cold in Scotland. In the hills, winter temperatures under -10c are pretty common and I've had a few nights out in the Grampians that dipped well under -20c. | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 18:03 | comment | added | Rory Alsop♦ | gerrit - having lived here for at least 40 of the last 45 years I have to respectfully disagree :-) | |
| Jan 10, 2017 at 17:37 | comment | added | gerrit | especially April and May is inaccurate. Those are the sunniest and driest months of the year. October gets 3× more rain than May. | |
| Jul 21, 2016 at 19:56 | comment | added | njzk2 | you got lucky, I was in scotland maybe a month before you (first half of may 2012), we got ~5-10 during the coldest nights. In an S15 I would have had very poor sleep. | |
| Aug 12, 2012 at 21:43 | comment | added | Rory Alsop♦ | I took the family camping on Skye the week before last, and it was around 20-22°C every day. At nights I was sleeping in a pair of shorts with no sleeping bag as it just wasn't cool enough to do anything else - it stayed above 10°C at night. Wish it had cooled a bit more :-) | |
| Jun 1, 2012 at 17:41 | comment | added | MattiSG | In the end, it was actually… really hot (20-28°C during the day)! We got quite sunburned, even with sun screen. The ocean kept us indeed warm, but had to wake up twice each night (4AM to put on an additional layer of clothes, 7AM to remove them all since the sun had been up for 2h). We camped once in Edinburgh's vicinity (Penicuik), it got really cold there, had to wear polar fleece on the face to be able to sleep. Advice for future readers: go with warmer sleeping bags than we did, the temperature was apparently very unusual, so we got lucky. | |
| Jun 1, 2012 at 17:37 | vote | accept | MattiSG | ||
| May 20, 2012 at 21:45 | comment | added | Rory Alsop♦ | Enjoy it! Let us know how you get on :-) | |
| May 20, 2012 at 21:44 | comment | added | MattiSG | Thank you very much :) We'll be going with very light bags (11°C min, Quechua S15) + shared bags (i.e. sleep at two people in two bags with shared zippers) + space blanket + pajamas (i.e. sleep-dedicated clothes that never get wet). The tent will be a Quechua T3 Ultralight. I'll come back next Tuesday to validate the answer, or have died either from cold or a wind blow :P | |
| May 20, 2012 at 21:12 | history | edited | Rory Alsop♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 20, 2012 at 13:12 | history | edited | Rory Alsop♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 20, 2012 at 11:06 | history | answered | Rory Alsop♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |