 That's me, suitably refreshed, thanks to Pam and her husband for letting me stay. Eh, a nice breakfast of salmon and scrambled eggs, so I'm good to go. He's pissing it down, and he's going to be pissing it down all day long. That's the forecast anyway, lagging it down. I just don't care about filming you for the people anymore. I've gone through it rabbit hole, haven't I? I've gone down through it looking glass. Right, I'd better put this camera away. I don't know how much filming I can do today because it is forecast to be setting all day. I've got a 20-mileer to do, roughly 20 miles. So I'll try and get some shots and do what I can, but priority is getting to my destination today. So head down. Let's go. Let's put up the man. Medic! I've done goof today like. My plan was to keep my feet dry for as long as I could today because I knew it was all sort of trapped. And then I've gone and taken a scenic route up on a bit of a nightmare really. Instead of coming down and round this on the quarry road, I've come up and over this gittil. So already I've burnt myself out and my feet are soaking because everything's all washed out because we've had a couple of days of rain look. So there's keeping your feet dry. Look, it's basically just walking down a river. So let's keep soaking. So that's mission. The objectives book has been torn up and thrown out the window. We're just going to have to freestyle it from here on in. There's beautiful Boathouse. Look at that man. It's just a cladding, but it's a lovely cladding, isn't it? Lovely mate. I think I'll get a proper photo of it. So I do like that actually. Let's have a photo. It's in here. A few piece of mattresses. Hello. A chest. What's in the chest? I don't even open it. It don't matter. It don't matter what's in the chest. Up here. Imagine. Let's go up here. Creepy, I think. Now. In the middle of nowhere, I'd rather been. I'd rather been tense. It is nice. A little respite. Oh, that's nice. Beautiful. A little respite. Write me name it book. Brutal. Ah, fuck you there. That's relentless. Real talk. So I was like, when I set off my thoughts were, I'm going to keep driving for today. It's been the wetest day so far. Easy. A lot of the track, if you... It's open down and it's just... The track has become a river. A lot of the places. You're not keeping it. You're just not staying dry all day like today, foot-wise. Top and bottoms are all right, but the earthquake bags are all right. But there's no filming going on, even though there's some beautiful scenery. But with the wind and the rain, you just can't be filming. What do you make of this place, mate? It's pretty decent, isn't it? An amazing shelter from the weather, but you've certainly got a creepy vibe to it, man. Where am I? What time is it? Two o'clock. I reckon we're about halfway. I'm not going to stay here, man. But there's not much filming I can do, I'm afraid, because it's just too wet. Right, let's put me name it book. Shall I? Sorry to rock you about. Log book. People actually log in. It is outdoors. Passing through. Be well. You think I hurt him too much? I have to rest, I bad. Get a pepper on me, I hope. And a bar. That's for me and dinner. That's my update. I don't think I'll... There's another boffy a bit further along. Maybe I'll stop in there for another update. Other than that, it's just head down, head with rain. Once more into the breach, my friends. Once more into the breach. Tits are hurting a little bit. Right away. Just crossed that. That was up to my nuts, mate. That was a... That was the hairiest river crossing so far. Everything today has just been soaking. But that was the real deal. Today was wet. On the midges around. My look has changed. My look has changed after the halfway point for sure. As far as wetness and midges go, it's now... It's now wet and midgy. I'm here next to this road, look. Just next to this road. And I've made it to Oakley Bridge, whatever it's called. Sorry. So tough day today. About 18 miles, 19 miles or something. But just walking through rivers, man. Just so many rivers and just so wet, saturated everywhere. It was raining. It's only just stopped raining now, thankfully, so I could chuck the old wigwam up. But everything's soaking. The camera's wet. The ground's really hard now, so I've just... I'm just pegged out with some stones, so I hope it's not too windy tonight. Otherwise I'll get found out. But... It's just... It's just nice to stop. I went to the Oakley Bridge hotel because I heard that they do... they have a botty there, or botty rooms or something. And the woman there could not have been more rude and dismissive. It's like I've just fallen off the bottom of someone's shoe. Just because I had my hiking gear on me. Look where we are, hiking country. So I came up round and I've just... It's getting a bit peppered by midges. Give me a train. My feet are tired. So it's just... I'm just making do with it in here. That's where we are now. There's not been much filming of scenery or anything today. Looking forward to getting lied down. This has never been to Tim. Because I'm thirsty and I want the sugar and the... She's getting a bit dented, look. Harvey Dent. This is going to be the most glorious beer that I've ever had. I'm ready for it to be that as well. This is why I'm doing it mate. This is it. I'm keeping the face. And this kind of... I'm also getting annihilated by midges. This kind of face is going to be the nicest kind of ever had. If I make it. Keeping the face. Right, let's get wigwant before midges eat us alive. So I brought two of these... What are they? 500. Two gas cans. And I used... I got to Ulapur which I'd added in my head as the halfway point. It's a little over halfway. And I'd only used half a gas canister. So I ditched the other half one, left it in the B&B. And just carried on with the full one. So it's a little bit of weight saving. And a little bit of space saving as well. You're fogging up because I'm cooking me dinner. I'm just not going to land on that, is it? Land-o-calorissian. What? Land-o-calorissian-do, innit? Sort of. Sort of see me, can't you? Whee! I'm hungry. I'm hungry. We're in the hotel. She was a bit of a... Clank. She was a clank, mate. She can't dampen these spirits. Let's get into it, mate. What we've got here... Is chicken karma with rice. Eight quid. Expedition foods. Smells... Looks like sick. Looks like baby's sick. Which is good. She can't see it because focus doesn't work. Does it? Let's have a go on her. Oh aye. Taste the spices actually. It's quite spicy. Like in a hot way. Not massively, but for a karma. That's delicious. There's some really... Sketchy river crossing. Malaki going on. I thought this would be cool. It'd be cool just to film it. In case I stacked it or whatever. Well, just to show you. It was pretty wild. Right. Woke up in Ulapool this morning. Bit of breakfast and away. And today I was planning on staying dry. That was my plan, my feet dry. But no such luck. I came out here. You go onto this path towards the quarry. I messed up. Got here and there was a sign saying traffic. I thought I'd have to come in here. And that was my mistake. I came in here on this path. And you have to go up to the top of these peaks. Instead of just going round and along. I ended up coming in here. Doing a really, you know. A decent climb up. And all these paths had just become rivers. Absolutely sodden I was. By the time I got out of here. Over the bridge. The rivers were running so fast. All this path. For the majority of it anyway. Water. It's nice. There's a couple of real nice camping spots. Along here. Just head down. Sideways raining face. I couldn't do much filming. I just got my head down. It was just tracks. All the way along here. All the way along. There was loads of rivers flowing. That way across the track. If you were trying not to get wet feet. Good luck. All the way up here. To this boffy. I had a quick look in the boffy. That's pretty cool. Along here. All these little tributaries. Were just rushing across the path. I just waded through it. Because my feet were already soaking. This was a proper. River crossing along here somewhere. Up to my nuts. On my nut. That was the real deal. Kept going past this school house boffy. Which is quite nice. Through the woodland. To Oakle Bridge. I would have even had something to eat here. But she's just. Very dismissive and rude. And I just. Got up and around here. And I think I'm about here. Yep. I'm there. I'm done the side of this track. And on we go. Morning glampers. Because he's. Pretty much rotten man. Luckily I rotated. And I put these dry ones on. Which means nothing. Because. My shoes are soaking wet. So they're going to be. My feet are going to be soaking wet. Everyday. Wet feet. I've dried down the inside of this with my sponge. And rinsed it out. So that's okay. I find it just sticks to the. To the tent. Didn't drop on me or out. So I can just get up. Wipe it down. Square away me a gear. And on we go. Day. Day 11 of hiking. Day 11. I don't even know. I'm aiming to get done in like four days. Four or five days. So. Another big day today. And a big day tomorrow. So after today when I camp up. And look at my maps. And then I can start to. I can start to have an eye on home. And getting home. And seeing people. And just. All the creature comforts. That you become accustomed to. And take for granted. Can't wait. But. Do you think about that? Because it can make you soft. It can make you like pine for it a little bit much. So. We dig deep. Just deal with the. Deal with the dain. Just deal with the dain in front of me. So get to me place where I need to be. Have a good day's hiking. And keep fit. So make sure we get to the finish line. That's the priority. But I reckon after tonight's camp. We'll start looking forward to it. But for now. Also. It's good that it didn't. It's not the best setup ever. So it's stones holding it together. Let's get packed up and hit the road. The littlest hobo. Tell you what. Midges here though. Getting me. I've been lucky with them. Right. See you later. Not the best campsite. But. Served it's purpose. And as transient as they all are. I love it. Oh man. So. What time is it? Always good to take a time check. Because I'm not really working in. Distance. Working with time really. Ah fate. Fair enough. Ah fate. Setting off. So that's quite a layer of one. Because everything was so wet. I just wanted to. You know like sponge the tent down properly. And. Make sure everything was just. Neatly packed away. Wet stuff doesn't get other dry stuff wet. And away we go. So the first. I mean my legs are in bits. To be fair. When you first set off. Legs hurt. Do some stretches really. Do some stretches that hurts. An ankle. Just ankles. Everywhere really. Before I was saying about that character going like that. With all different colours. Health points and that. Legs are starting to go. They're amber. All from waist down. Amber. But the noggin is green. My noggin is green today. I feel good. I felt good. I'm feeling good every day really. Yesterday was a. It's just hard isn't it sometimes. The rain yesterday was the hard bit. Sideways rain. And it's just because you can't proper get into your flow. You know. It just takes away your thoughts. It takes away these moments where I can just. You know get camera out. And just be like oh look at this. Or take me photos. Because I've you know. It's half decent camera this. I like to take a lot of photography as well. Besides videography. And so it just kills that little hobby. Which is a nice little thing to do to pass the time on your big walks. It's just to stop and appreciate it. Because you can't stop and appreciate it. Because you get your face is getting splattered. But in and of itself it is an adventure. Like. That's the beauty isn't it of Scotland. It's not always going to be the same. Unless it's rain every day which you could get. But. And especially over two or three weeks. You're going to get everything. So it was. Although it was hard it was nice to have it. And nice to get through it. And that river crossing was exciting. It's a shame I couldn't bring you that one. I'll show you it. But it was exciting. It was deep. And I'm looking down and I've got waterproof trousers on. But I'm up to me nuts in the river. Like what's the point? First half a mile to a mile. Is a bit. Walking a bit gingerly. You know you've got to like work out the knots. So the bits of pain you know. I don't know you just get used to pain. So every morning for the last few days. I've just been. I've put. Plasters where they need to be on my feet. Or my compeds on. Some blisters whatever. And then. Double drop a couple of ibuprofen. To keep any swelling down. And just for that bit of pain. For this bit of pain like in the morning. It helps. Until you get into your groove. And then you can just start plowing on. So the forecast anyway. Today is going to be. We're going to have rain. On and off. But then I think. It's going to be dry. It's forecast to be dry tomorrow all day. And the following day. So we could end up just being dry all the way to ends. Which would be chef's kiss. What's that blue thing? A bit of blue. I mean. Not so blue. But. I'll take that mate. I'll check it mate. Absolute madness that mate. Madness I tell you. Well these lads think that I'm coming to feed them. Look. But I'm not. I'm going to show them wait 8 minutes. For an expedition male lads. Take care. See you later. Some healthy looking heifers there. Not much to report. I've just got a camera out to. Do a little film of the cows. There's one in there. Look on his own. Oh there's a couple in there. Are they birthing are they? There's nothing much going on. I'll just pass through this farm. But it's all this. And this. It doesn't really change much. It's still pleasant. Pleasant to be out and about in it. And it's perfect hiking conditions. Touch wood. It's nice. It's chilly enough. So that you can get a bit of a. So you're not going to sweat. And it's not raining. It's not raining. That's the main thing for me at moment. Dr. Steven. Marsh. Smith resting piece. Lovely little dry stone seating area. This must have been his favourite fishing peg. Little seat there. Lovely salmon river. Tell you what mate. You've picked a good one. You've picked a good one. Thirsty. Clear drinking water now. I like just setting off. And saying right we'll get a few miles or a few hours. I'm not really. Looking at stuff so much in miles and kilometres. It's more in time I'm doing. How much time have I spent travelling. Because in miles it's not really a good indication. Of how hard you've worked or whatever. Because you know. There's elevation. There's the state of the ground. There's all sorts of things that are coming to play. A couple of days ago when I was coming over this boggy bit. It took so long I kept you know. Up to me. Drunk in bogs every couple of minutes. Slipping over. Having to plot my route. That takes a long time. But you're not covering much distance. This morning on this track. I'm able to I'm able to make up some miles but I'm just going off time so I'm just setting myself a scheduled time. Like you would at work I'm getting ready for work. I'm at work now and then we'll figure when I'll clock off. It's 20 past 11. I'm going to keep going until the end of these trees until it cuts off. But we go up into the moorlands and into the mountains. And so before we get there when I get to the end of here I've got me water. I'm going to have a coffee and one of my herb bars. There's a little reward and then little things just keep you going. Put a little spring in your step. So it's good instead of having breakfast on the morning and everything you know all your water filtered and everything and then you're done I like to walk to look forward to mid morning filming water up, have a little drink that's always nice. I'm waffling like waffle chops. Right the track is giving way so this is my new that's my new path but I was just I thought I'd stand a while because this looks like the sort of place you'd see a a salmon leaf. It's mesmerizing just watching it. It's quite hypnotic. Anyway, a wonderful grassy area which would have been a mint to camp at. It was too far for me to push on to but wonderful to sit there to pitch a tent nice and flat and a nice place just to stop. I'm going to mecca brew and have one of my energy bars for my dinner and call this half time. Not a bad place to have your bait mate just bike river. I'm alive with the sound of music, not the hills of eyes. Speaking of the hills of eyes, there is a little shed up there look. It's very the hills of eyesy. Who knows if we're making good time. I don't like to be under the constraints of time when I'm doing things like this anyway. You know what I mean? People like when are you going to be finished? I don't know mate. I might find a nice place and I might want to stop early in camp or I might get caught in bad weather I just don't know and putting these parameters on yourself you're just destined to fail or at least not enjoy your experience as much because you've got that goal in mind you know I've got to get there by that time and it can ruin your enjoyment of it. I understand that we have to have times and stuff but for me sometimes I'm waffling on because half at time I'll start talking about the summit and then half way through I'm like actually I don't really I don't even know if I would think that myself now. I've been out here too long even went down a hill to come up a hill that is optimism optimistic optimistic cut to me in a couple of days just oh why did I keep going back and forward how could you not beautiful scenery down here beautiful saying goodbye to the forest and the lowlands and off back up into the mountains then there back on with river crossings don't mind it medic okay this is for a cauldron I think I'm going up here and I'm working my way around this ridge and then down this other side give it till about half six and if I'm not where I want to be I'll look for a campsite camp spot but this is going to be a bit of an incline now by looks of things I've been steadily coming up all the way up this valley and you can tell because there's snow just here as well then temperatures dropped quite a bit right I've had to get my actual map out and have a look because there's no path I've just got to make my own way over this thing I don't even need to take a bearing because you can just see where that dip is there that's going to be where I get over that's my best chance of getting over so I've just got to make my way up here that should be fun look at that that's just a little bit of it I've made my way made my way up all that I've still got to get over top of this I've got to get over top of this and there's no path oh man it makes you want to just get naked and do a little dance I ain't got time for that before you ask stunning right let's not celebrate but let's not get too happy I've still got to get over here and there's no path and it's treacherous we bog, stones, holes the lot but I just had to look back and be like wow I'm a long way today this is the source of that which feeds into that main river which feeds into the big salmon river that we passed today look and this is a natural highland spring and it's an honour look at it I'm not in it but I'm going to drink from it for sure that is the truth in it yes it does not get any fresher than that in fact I'm going to ditch my other bottle of water and fill it up there delicious we'll ditch that bog water that we filtered out at woods in favour of some spring water is that oh it's a little mini frog please come here mate you alright mate I got you I got you mate look at this lad here you ready because he's a small lad I'll go down here so you don't fall too far there he is you alright mate I'll move you down here because I might stand on you and I don't want to medic you see you later brother goodbye I think I'm going to go over into the next valley and if the wind is coming up that valley I'll come back in here because it's a lovely place he's mirrored on the other side as it goes down into the valley and I can get maybe another hour's hiking and what's also interesting is this he's disappearing off look just disappearing off underground there and there you can hear it under the ground listen so there's a lot going on under the ground and that's why you often get these little holes you'll just be walking along yeah just a hole I'll go down like god knows how deep some of them have enveloped my whole walking pole let's chill in the natural spring whoa there look I nearly lost it there's a hole that goes under oh my goodness we nearly lost we nearly lost faith we nearly lost faith there you go chilled in a highland spring are you up mate quarter past six I hope you're happy that he's going extra mile that in it cold but ah man if I was camping round here I'd swim in this puddle because it's chilly like when you've been back and forth that camera this is when you want to fall over in it for I guess quite deep through a puddle put you up above my head so you can get first to see it look what we got ah it just looks like a gradual sort of a way down doesn't it I bet it can be a right wind tunnel in between these two these two mountains like in this mountain pass hopefully there'll be somewhere down here to set up camp because well it's quarter past six now but the latter part just in the last last couple of hours the sun's come out and it's given me a new lease of life sort of heading into the sun it's nice to feel it on my face and so I think I'll keep going past six we'll keep going to about seven and then set up unless I come past unless I go past somewhere that's perfect perfect digs in fact oh look at all them digs mate look I didn't even see you there lads lassies girls they're so camouflage just walking past them all ah that's good to see you good to see you anyway I can't remember what I was saying if I find a better place that's amazing I'll stop otherwise let's crack on, let's do another hour big patch of snow down there and there's a bit of it if you slip on here pretty much but it's nice to see a path as soon as he says it it just disappears look classic that's a classic goodbye path short lived look at this for a view man coming off there beautiful that is stunning man oh it's majestic are you having it? are you having that? oh no I have to be having it oh can you not? snow there some deer it's half past eight it's a bit wet but everywhere is wet down here I might find a plunge pool and have a little dip bit windy I'll cinch it down a little bit you might be thinking because the wind's running down here why have I put it broadside because if I had to put it that way gone over the top there I've done it like this so that I can use the other side to cook and have a bit of shelter the porch area I'll just cinch it all down and make sure it's tight might even deploy the delta pegs if the wind picks up this horse chestnut that I've had in my boob bag for the last few days I'm going to use it now it's a natural soap so I'm just going to give myself a good old wash this looks deep enough but I'll show you how it becomes soap and then I'm going to have a wash up you probably won't want to watch that I'll just get one I'll show you a little bit that's good gear that's soap that's bushcraft soap wet it a little bit rub it between your hands let it go quite nice nice and fresh that's a good soap when a hero comes along with the strength to carry on just add me wind's picking up nearly there kid few more days then you'll be mine alright let's have a little look at map you Conor Hay get me a little op and l out the wind's picking up so I woke up here and off we went we've actually done 12 hours today but it was tough going at night so you come through this wood it's all pretty samey samey with tracks so it was nice to hit this farm and see all heifers continue on just continuing up here there's some lovely spots actually because this is a salmon fishing river so there's like little huts with little benches where people come and probably pay a lot of money to do some salmon fishing I didn't go this way I went straight along here carried on going the track gives way to it's like a single off-roady kind of bit all the way up here I'd marked here for a camp spot it's a nice place here but carried on carried on going then I cut up here and joined on to this path past these houses and the and the lodge there and up out of the woods and this is where it splits into two you can go you can go right or left obviously now I've gone left here and it is you lose the path here it's a very boggy lots of stones it just takes a long time a long time ignore all my scribblings where am I and now you get to I got to here and I went up here a little bit and I was like odd on a minute came back all this up here there is no real path so you've just got to off-road it it's pretty crazy found a lovely little is it on map spring up here maybe that's it kept going through here some lovely scenery it was really beautiful just and the sun was out really nice and again it was a bit pathless on and off with the path and where am I now I've got down here I've done actually quite far because I'm not going into this town here or whatever it is here I'm up here so I stopped and I'm about as we are there there I am not a bad day today right thanks for watching if you want to be notified when the next episode's up just hit subscribe and the little bell downstairs somewhere around here and I'll see you on the next one but I will show you this before you go let's have a quick look not bad