Ohh, Megan. Your posts and links belong on even a separate thread. Would be a wonderful thread with the prefix "folklore." And would comment, compare, and commiserate regarding the ways parts of Scotland and the Appalachian plateau areas of West Virginia and Kentucky resonate. Am only about 10 minutes through Tom Weir's video and will return to it as soon as I finish this post. Those first scenes and comments could be about my own homeland, the hills and hollers of the western half of West Virginia. At least in some ways. The opening hike could be mistaken for a hike up a switchback above a West Virginia holler on the central Appalachian plateau. I think what in Scotland is called a glen, in West Virginia is called a holler (hollow.) Narrow valleys carved out by creeks and a few shorter rivers among ancient, rugged hills that millennia ago were towering mountains higher than most ranges that exist in the world today. Ancient, fey, rugged lands. Most of the height of the mountains where I was raised now rests along the Mississippi Delta or lies at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico.

Your time, care and attention in locating and sharing these videos is such an act of kindness. I am so grateful. You are opening doors that I am otherwise too lazy and too timid to have found by myself.