 The tour of the Lake District is a 96 mile circuit, starting and finishing in the popular tourist town of Ambleside. The trail takes in each of the main Lake District valleys, along lakeshores through woodland and other remote mountain passes. Join me as I take on this winter late-land adventure with a mix of freezing wild camps and cozy country pubs. There we are, the Patadale, isn't it on the Patadale, I can't even remember, but that was chef's kiss. 50 quid, free course meal and breakfast and bed. It's unbelievable. Should have been 80 on website, but we got it for 50. They're like an old perp, people's home in there, but it was fantastic. It was proper, no frills, obviously, no frills, but just good stuff. There's a bit of chill in the air today, and this is the day. This is the weather warnings the forecasters said. It's gonna be howling it down with snow in that, but I mean, my friends in different parts of the country have said it's snowing where they are, but fingers crossed it just staves off a little bit. I don't mind near end, that'll be all right. I feel good, I only had one pint, and then me dinner and then I was in bed early doors after the previous night's frosty debacle. Right, I better just look at me map here because I think I'm going this way. Let's have a look. Red oak! I believe that's where we're heading between this gap here, I believe, and other cramp balls and turkey tails. All over this stump. Lovely stuff. Red oak! Red oak! Right, we've just crossed the river, there's a tiny little bit of road work, and now we're off. What's it like? Nice. I think just your old graviteal sort that out, will it? You get another shot at it, mate. You get another bite of the... Yes! Yes! I've been stingy with recording because I don't know when these batteries are going to go to me. But anyway, I've just been walking on thinking, I wonder where this snow is? Like, there's people at breakfast. I have heard them chatting about how we'd better get going because we don't want to get snowed into Patardale and I was thinking, yeah, I don't want to get snowed into Patardale either. I mean, I'm having a wonderful time in eating these. Well, it's like school din, as it was, but it was in a good way. And as soon as I say that, you can see a couple of little flecks of snow coming down. And I... What's this? Look. He'll give a kick, look. Yeah, that's what I like. Stand your ground, kid. There's a few little flecks coming down and you can tell on top it's coming down. It's that colour of cloud that says snow. Can you see it? Can you see it off of my black? Maybe not. Wear and tear. If it's a white out and it's snowing and that, I'm not going to go over a red squeeze because there won't be any views. Done red squeeze a couple of times, so I'm not gunning to see it. I would like to show you, but the other way just looks as good. And if it's white out up top anyway, there's no point, is there? Right, where am I going here? Am I lost? Right, I will check in that time. Medic! I went wrong because wind keeps getting up and blowing, snowing, ice, so... I've just got to keep my head down so that the peak at cap sort of protects my eyes. And I was in my own little world. And then I looked at my GPS and it had all gone off and it just said, you're on the wrong path or something like that, so. I've either got a trek back down here and go up to join it, or I can just randomly hike straight up this hill and I think I'm going to do and try and join the path that way because I'm off this way at the moment. As you can see, there's just no visibility and it's just going to be miserable up there, so I'm going to go this way and try and link onto my path and try not to get too wet. Weather's closing in now and back on track I had to come over here. And up here, it's pretty slippy now on these stones as I make my way up there to see why I go on. I've had to deploy these as well because I'm all over the place. Look at this. Right, Nate, top. Not going to get much colder than that here. And it's one of them, right, where it's like even right up top and that's deep. That looks deep enough to swim in almost. Beauty. Shall go in. Oh, no. Now I've said it, I've got that little, the call of the void is telling me to go in. Right, I'm going to have a little plunge in here, invigorate myself at final push. Let's go. All right. Can I get fruit ice? Oh, it's a bit hard. Oh, am I going to splice myself open? Get out road you. Right here. Yeah. Oh, it's deep, it's deep. It's next level cold, mate. Look at that. It's going to be nice. I know it's going to be nice. I'm going to get clothes on there, which I'm going to do now, quick. Come on. What the? It's trapped me like a little straw poodle. There we are. Hey. Job. Job's a donut, look. Just what I needed though. Felt like I needed a bit of a kick up ass and that was it. Ran new. So, see that ridge there, we're up to that ridge up and over it. I'm going to have to concentrate a little bit. So as I don't stack it too hard, not too cold. And a little bit of a path is like, just winging it a little bit here. I'll get my glove on. Oh, where am I? I don't think, there's not much of a path. It's a bit boggy. Feet have got wet now. I'm looking forward to this push up to the top just to warm me up a little bit. I doubt we'll be having any views by looks of things. Might just be getting smashed in the face by snow. But I'm having a good time. All right, I'm on the top of, I've got the top of it where I'm passing over. You can go left and off at Red Screes and round, but as you can see, it's white out up there. So the views won't be any different. So I'm just going to meander through here and down this valley. If you want to see some views of Red Screes, many moons ago, I camped up there with the intention of skinny dipping in the tan on the top during the sunrise. But unfortunately, a couple turned up in a big old tent and put it right next to tan. But yeah, so it might have to do a little bit of a stealth swim. And managed to do it all before they even woke up and I was long gone. That was a different time, different weather. We should get some views of this valley here. Look, there we go. Can you see on there? Probably not. I like it though, it's a place I've never been. Never hiked this way before. And it's nice to put it in the old mental map for future reference. But before I descend, I'm going to double check my map, make sure it's the right descend to do. I'm taking refuge behind this wall. It's blowing a gale out there and it's just nice and calm here. Just because I caught sort of where my arm is, sleeve quite a bit and I just tell you all about stuff, probably overshare a little bit too much. Why should I even tell you, I don't know. It's just, I just found out that my nan died. So it's just, it's hard for me to just, want to just be like, into a camera because I just need a little bit of time. Probably, I just need to walk. I just need to walk into there. So I just want to dedicate, I'll just guess I'm dedicating this now. Just big up my nan, big up June, nanny June, a trooper, if ever there was one. Lost my granddad to the big sea, found love again, got married again. Lost another husband to the big sea and she just soldiered on, like, she just soldiered on. Just, I think it's that generation, you just get your head down and just crack on, man. Get on with it. And I was very close to my nan, but it's like, you know, when it gets near ending that and people get poorly, it ain't nice seeing them suffering. And so it's kind of a little bit, like, bit of sweet in it because you don't, obviously you don't want to go, but then you know that they're not suffering anymore, so you just text edge off, then it rounds edges off a little bit in the narrative you can paint and you're nodding where you can just say, oh, at least we're in a better place now. And then, yeah. And I'm glad I went to see her again just recently and I knew, I kind of knew that that was the last, the last time I saw her was gonna be the last time I saw her and it's just. Rest in peace, nanny June. Another absent friend to add to the list of absent friends, in fact, is it disrespectful to do it with electrolytes? I don't think it is. It's what she would have wanted, fallen soldiers. I'll have a proper soup tonight. I'll have a proper soup tonight for you, Nan. Anyway, so that's just wanted to let you know that's why I'm a bit banter, banter bussing gonna be that good coming out of here because I just want to just think, I'll be all right in a mile or two, just having to think. Just feels wrong, doesn't it? Like, well, it does to me. It just feels wrong. You know, I'm just passing away and then you're like, hey, meddock or not to her, but to like animals or whatever and like giving it all, just getting excited over latches and locks and that, which seems a bit mental, doesn't it? Do you want to see this? Look. Just a bit of respite out of that, out of that wind. I ain't got too far to go now. It's clouding over, man. It's closing in quite a bit and the weather's, the snow's coming and the temperature's dropping. Blah-dee-blah, ain't it? Perspective, mate. Last thing I ever told you was that I love you, though. That's got to, thank God. And she had three daughters, loads of grandkids, loads of family visiting her and being with her in the end. And she passed away peacefully, so. You can't grumble, can you? You can't grumble at them stats. Right. Okay, we'll sit here for a little bit and then bat on into the mist. On day one, when I said, oh, you can just chuck your bits of timber in there. There it is. In action, look. That's brilliant. There it is. Humble side. We did it. We did it. There. Back in humble side. What, a journey? And it has been a journey. In many ways. And right now, I had thought that it's not ended out, I don't know. I can't really put it into perspective or can't find the words, really. It's been emotional. And yeah, it's just been emotional. I don't have any final words or anything like that at the moment, but I guess I just need time to process it and then do it justice. So we'll do that in map time. Thanks for joining me on this trail and thanks for all the support and the messages and everything. I see you all and I appreciate it very much. Let's take it to the future and finish on a map time. Bye for now. Welcome to final map time. So here we go. We woke up in Patadale after, and I'll say it again, 50 quid, three course meal, bed and breakfast. Wonderful. Off we went. It was a cold start to the morning. We cross over here, follow this lovely track along here, nice easy walking, nice and flat, all the way down. And we join on. There's a little bit of road work here, but not so much. Double back ever so slightly through this wonderful gate and up by the side of brother's water. Keep going up past this farm over these fields and around here. This is where I goofed. So I was supposed to go up here, but because it was in my eyes, I just sort of meandered down here, not thinking too much of it. And then when I realized, I thought, well, I can either double back or I could just wing it. And you can see how steep it is here look. So I winged it up here and followed up Kastam Beck. This is where I stopped from a swim, a delightful little kick up the ass and just what I needed. Over we go. Up to Scandal Pass and over. The views were quite nice actually. It was quite misty, but that gave it a little bit of atmosphere and a lovely little walk down here through this valley. It was quite long. It was beautiful, but I wasn't really vlogging that much, but I managed to get some shots all the way down here following this is some lovely swimming areas down here that I've marked out for later, maybe in the summer. On we go. Keep going down and there we are look. Yeah. All the way down back. Full circle. Look, I set off that way and then I've come back in here. What a journey mate. What a journey. And what lessons have I learned? Man, I'm just, I don't know. I really don't know. At the beginning, I mean, there's a lot of lessons to be learned that I've taken from it in the beginning. It took a lot just to get to the start point and that was, that was my lesson. It's like just turn up, just get to the start point. And then after the halfway mark, it was like, right, just get to the finish, set your goal, get to the end. I think the overriding thing that I've taken from it is to maybe not think about the end and think about the start and it's just, because things change and things can be quickly put in perspective. So the lesson I've taken away from this is appreciate the moment. Just live in that moment in the day that you're in, in the minute that you're in and then nothing can really affect you. You're not going to get anxious about the future. You're not going to get depressed about the past and you can just live happily in the moment. Right, thanks so much for watching. Take care of yourselves and bye for now.