Pictures of the moor/glen

[Mark E.]

Advice is always appreciated-After all, it is your back yard!

Can I offer a bit of advice? OK, I am assuming that is alright!!!!!! Go steady on greens,particularly dark greens, when wet(a certainty in Scotland!)greens look black and stick out like a sore thumb. Many of the pictures here show a lush summer green which is rarely the colour of the surrounding hills during the stalking season(red deer in particular). There are stalkers who will not even take a guest out on the hill (Glen Lyon for example) if they are dressed in green------if you can get to see the book on Estate tweeds it will give you a guide to colours that various parts of the Highlands have and they are those particular colours for a very good reason.

Getting back to green----wet green aka black! Any stalker will know that it is movement that usually is the give away and a black "blob" moving, even gently, across the hillside will be spotted by the deer miles away-------black is the one colour that is rarely seen out on the hill in the highlands.

Ditto here in America-I hunt a lot of evergreen and fall leafy areas. My ghillie suit is shagged out in the lighter (pastels) greens and browns...Given deer are color blind, it is the tone that I try to match, not necessarily the dead on coloring. According to several deer who aren't talking , and one that amost nibbled me, it seems to work. I will be getting my hands on that book, though.


Here is the "green" that I would be after-and since my original idea was to use a boiled wool for a waistcoat item, the biggest solid color on me...The kilt does in fact darken when soaked, and likely the waistcoat as well. Probably get swatches and test things before going for the full yardage.