 That's nuts, isn't it? Look at the shadow. Hello! Watch torch off, watch. Bosch. Peach Black Cat. Anna. Hello. Welcome to another video. I'm out in the Yorkshire Dales as a Yorkshire man. It's hard for me not to just love these rolling hills, even though they are very much dictated by agriculture in their fauna and flora. That sounds good. It sounds like I wrote that, didn't it? I didn't. Freestyled it. Good. I've just come from a miander, a bimble, a trek, a walk, a hike, a yomp through these rolling barren wastelands and I don't know where I'm going and I don't know where I'll end up. What I know is I want to camp up top somewhere where I've got a nice view. I've got a couple of things to test out, kit-wise and in the morning I'm definitely going to be looking to do some wild swimming. Skull-duggery and witchcraft do we have here. One gate purely on gravity and then, but also this. Just as stone would do, but I don't know how many sheep that could get through there, but I wish it was my command farmer. I'm just trying to hold my stomach in and ignore the camera. That's fat. Fat. The weight of that, the weight of the rock pulls the chain and closes the gate. Salute. I salute you. Butcher. Sharp. Trick Bateman. Trick Stuart. Oh yeah. Classic. Just a classic. Classic with a view though, look. Right, let's break the fourth wall. This is a treat for all you, look. Is that even recording? This is a treat, this like. What's, what's that doing? Do you think? Right, this is a treat. Treat for you, look. The fourth wall. Isn't it? So Nick, it's a like you. I'm letting you see this. This is a live, behind the scenes, latch and locks. So now you know the work, the effort, the planning. I've got a team of people all around the north of England. They've scouted this place for me. I've sent them out here. Put them up in a hotel. They came out, checked this gate out, sent me the results and I okayed it. I've been airlifted in. The chopper's just up there and we're going to, we're going to record this latch and lock. So yeah, if you stay there, stay out the way because I don't want you spoiling the the overall feeling of solitude that I'm trying to capture. Yeah. You make me laugh, this is serious. The bog standard latch and lock. Textbook some might say. But how can it be textbook when you've got views like that, look. There it is. There's the money shot. There's an action on it as well. Well, see you later. Yeah. Do we get it? Got it. So if you want to see this live or how it was from the other side, follow this here. Some people say, are you joking? And to them I say no, mate. Why would I? It's really slatching locks, right? Come on. I do love Osprey packs. One thing. There's my nut in a little bit with them. It's with the anti-gravity system at the back. They can squeak a bit. You know what I mean? It's like, you heard that? It's like floorboards. It's having like squeaky floorboards attached to your back, which is fine when you're doing just day hikes and that. But when I've done long distance hikes with my Osprey, my other Osprey 48 litre, I had to really jig around with it to get rid of it because it decided to drive me mad. But actually mad. It's one thing when you're on like a 10 mile hike or whatever I'm on to there, it's another thing day in, day out. Start hearing it in your sleep and that, thinking someone's creeping upstairs to get you. That squeaky thing is one of the only things that's wrong with it. Like the anti-gravity system on the back is unreal. It just keeps the whole thing off your back, just a layer of mesh that circulates the air anyway. And on days like today when you, you know, you're hiking up hills and the sun's out, anything else would just be a proper barren wetback. Echoes of gates past. I love how smooth and patinaed the metal goes. This little ridge here was my fourth summit. There's the reel. There's the reel deal and I'm glad. Yorkshire Frogs. Look, they're having sex. There was a couple down there, it's that time of year, isn't it? But he suns out, everyone's just, everyone's at it. I just stopped at a bit of water there. Just moved it about a bit and it just stung. Pretty stagnant. Riddled with frogs and riddled with frog spawn. Look at that. Here, frog spawn. It's a grouse on a wall, mate. See you later. We've come from around that corner in the valley up onto this ridge round up here. It's steeper than it looks there. And then up to there. I don't know if that's the summit or whether it keeps going. Let's have a look. You've all seen 14 peaks on Netflix, haven't you? Well, there's one down. Nah, it's hardly, it's hardly ever a stroke, but it's a nice feeling. Still a nice feeling, mate. Some lovely views. It's not quite clear, but it's, there's like a, there's a haze in the air, shall I say. It's quite a big plateau actually up here, so I'll have a little wander around. Figure out where sun's gonna set and sun's gonna rise and where my best pitch, where my best place to pitch will be. Go on. Let's go and have a look at Raiou and Cairne. There you go, a bit to Yorkstone. Love it. Someone a pallet? There you be. We're calling it home. Home sweet home kiddo. The big Agnes. B.A. B.A. Barakas. B.A. Big Agnes. That's good. And now more fool me. Keep it betwixt the thighs. Because you don't want a 70 quid tent with no string. I mean a 70 quid kite with no string on it. 70 quid. You've done me there. You've done me. You've done me big Agnes. You've done me. Fair cop. Unless it's mint. Unless it's mint. Which, how can it be? How can it be 70 quid worth of mint? Right, let's get flat cap on mate. Properly, I lost, I lost me with a flat cap a while ago. I thought as a Yorkshire man, I'm going to treat myself to a proper unit. So I did. City sports mate. It's a Harris tweed herringbone pattern. Shall I say how much of a, how much of a tit I look? I mean how much of a Yorkshire man. Look at that. How do? Now then, mate. Where's Doofrey? By Ekmat. By Ekmat. How's do? How's doing? How's twife like? Huh? But anyway, let's get into this. Come on. Stop prattin' about. So, we'll get me Polish, Polish friends out. Oracleical-ordinated. Is what we like, isn't it? The truth is, mate. The truth of the matter is, I want it to look good on photos. If I was, if you were here, I would have the small end facing off this, so that any wind would hit the small end and go over top of it. But, because I want to get some good photos, it looks better side on with the door open that way. And it's not forecast to be too windy, so that's what I'm going to do. FYI. Right. Let's get her plugged into mainframe first, so that she's not going to go dancing off, dancing off to the tune of 70 Bones. Oh, whistling as she blows away into fucking dales. I'm never to be seen again. Am I going to be good there? Yes. Am I? I mean, that's it, mate. That's my side, isn't it? See you in the morning. If there's some magic or tragic happens, I'll see you here later. Real talk, I probably won't even need an air bed. That is so comfy. Right, this is it. Are you still watching? I'll just forgive you if you've left. What with all Ella, fresh stuff, and now this. It's just, what's it like? Tea bar. Right then, let's see what she's all about. She's like a git starfish. Lakes to git starfish. Lakes to git starfish, Mirt. Right, let's see if this is as easy. Because if it isn't easy, you can keep it. This is nice and calm. You have to imagine, right, that's annoying already. Straight off the bat. But you have to imagine it's pissing it down. And you won't be doing this if you want. And windy. You know, I've been hiking all day. I'm tired. You know, my, my, my bollocks chafing. That's quite good, isn't it? That's quite good as it is. Out of first then. Do you know what? I feel like this is going to be a chew. Come on. I feel I'm just one gust of wind away from the tragedy though. There it is, this tragedy look. There's that, right. Edge gump, edge gump. Now, a lot of this probably is human error. That human is me. You've got a lot of space. And you could just have it like this and have it as a super light tent. You're going to get nailed by bugs and stuff, but it's there for you, isn't it, as an option? Took a bit to get there, but I like that. And now I will chuck everything in there in my bag. Everything would go in there if it was raining. And apparently you can just set it up from, you can set it up from inside. So let's do that. So we have to be getting wet, wouldn't it? Tell you something, like that's done. I'll guide it out a bit better or I'll guide it out full stop. Tell you what, I love these doors the way that they've got that little loop there to put in. Love that. I love that for you, door. And I love it, actually love it. It does, like, okay, so that was a bit of a pain in the bollock, but once it's up, man, it's just, it's one of them that feels, it just feels good, feels like good quality. And I really do, I'm liking it. I'm liking being inside this tent, really good. All right, let's move in. Move into the new digs. Got all warm again. Let's go. Awful noise, and then the old pillow has got the elastic around the back of it, so it doesn't slide all over the place. Amazing, really. The Trekology pillow, it's the Thermarest Neoair X-Turb Extra Large Sleeping Pad. It's the RAV Anyway Ascent 900, I'm going to say. The beauty of this thing as well is my little pump. Are you already know, but it's a light. It's a lantern, lantern deck. So that'll go in up there. Ready for the evening, which is exciting. Exciting when you see it like that. I'm done. Once she's up and running, as she's now, not many better looking tents. I think it looks the business, doesn't it? There you go, look. Is they not entertained, lad? Shall we take this and go for a little mooch? Have a little beer time, beer time together. We're going to have a beer together, eh? Only one mind, only one. Come on. Make sure you've got everything you need, yeah? Got your yoga mat and your beer. The essentials. Come on. Come on, sleep with one. Come in here. Get even closer if you want. I don't mind. Get in here nice and close. Not too close, though. Don't want to, you'll drive me away. Because of commitment. Because of commitment issues. There you go, that better. It's going to get to the stage where I'll just boot all this off. I can see it. I'll just sack it off, mate, and just, you know what I mean, just be. Speaking of just being. Sorry for keeping looking there, but, right, let's get this beer out the way. It's not really cold, but, here's what it is. Come on, focusing issues. Will you ever learn? I'll tell you what, when I do pack it all in, this will be still happening, won't it? There I am. I mean, there it is. It's not even me on the front. Be quiet. Don't tell your misses. We're going to Boozer. This is, it's a patron's only, so, shout out all my Northern Monk patrons. Patron society, this is not for everyone, but it is for you. Cheers, blood. Oh, and it is blood orange IPA. Have I subconsciously said that, because it's a blood orange IPA or not? Is that just mad? Are you really nervous for? Anyway, should we sling a little bit into us? Yeah, fuck it. I can't. I'm just a fidget machine, aren't I? Look, it's just not the lighting right. Lord fidget. I can't help it, mate. And just a fidget spinner. I need to just chill out. I need to, I need to. Nice day though. Very nice. But that's gone all over me that. And it's didn't, that's drive-byed without me even, without consent. Just get into it. That's nice is that bike. I'm thirsty as well. Hallelujah. Sing it, sing hallelujah. But don't shout hallelujah, because it's only a four point, keep it chilled. Oh, I'm lying. It's a five, so it's five point seven. So it will touch the sides a little bit, just one can. That's all I'm having though. Hope everyone's well, BTW. I like to just have my little time. So, oh absent friends and cheers to you lot. If you're drinking, drink with me. If you're one at Jungans, pop a fruit shoot. Slip a little bit of tequila in it, when your mum and dad are watching. Yeah, right. Yeah, speaking of going to Buddhist retreats, I went to a Buddhist meeting. Hear me out, hear me out. Don't come back, don't leave, don't leave. Come back, come back. I'm not, I'm going to try to start rubbing sage on you and that, and trying to hurl crystals into every other fist. But I did go because, I don't know, in my constant search for betterment, that word is now. I went round to see my friends I've not seen for a while, and my friend Louise said that she'd started going to this Buddhist thing where they do, they go for like two hours or whatever, and they do like guided meditation and just chat about stuff. It was unbelievable, right, because so I was out in my comfort zone, and I'm a fan of that anyway, I like getting out in my comfort zone, and you start with, they were like, oh, we're going to start like, because I knew I was a newbie, a white belt Buddhist, I'm not even a white belt paracord, bailaband, white belt Buddhist anyway. So they started off with a half an hour guided meditation, which doesn't sound like a lot, but let me tell you this. In this day and age when it constantly have distraction from our thoughts, distraction from our minds, and we'll fill it with like, if we'll fill it with like alcohol, drugs, sex, TV, scrolling on social media, binge eating, whatever it is, just we'll just go from one thing to another, so that we don't have to sit in our own thoughts for too long, because it can be an uncomfortable place for people, it can be a boring and uncomfortable place, and I know that I like being on my own, but to actually just sit and be for that length of time, I can't remember the last time I did it, and the lady there who was running it, I judged the book from the cover at first, because she's quite elderly, all this sort of stuff anyway, and then it turned out later that she was like, when she was younger, she used to run ultra marathons of like, over a hundred miles and stuff, and it was amazing, and you would not have thought that to look at her and to talk to her at first, so that taught me a lesson. On the night I just slept like a baby, I hadn't slept that well in a long time, I don't know whether it was because of that meditating or what, but I slept really well, and I'm going to keep doing it I think, that's probably, I don't want to get too trashed, I mean I'll have one beer here and there when I'm up in the mountain, and I see you a lot, but just for a few weeks I'm just going to keep it, buddhist mate, I'll turn up, next video I'll be in orange robes, this will be me, this will be me, tuning in for the next video, like that, or whatever, is that am I allowed to say to do that, I'm probably not, probably not cool is it, but anyway I'm a buddhist now so, am I allowed? I mean I'm over sharing, I'm definitely over sharing with that, but I mean who really cares, it's over sharing and I know a lot of you are just here to watch me camping and just see what tents I'm using and stuff like that, but I just thought I'd share it with you because I don't know, I found peace, yeah I found a bit of peace from it, and it's what I'm being, it's what, I've been constantly searching for is just peace in my mind, just to calm my mind down and just to heal my mind, and I think it, I liked it, I'll report back after some more meditation and whatever, but I don't know mate, take what you want from it, because someone might watch this and be like you know what, that sounds alright though, I might get into it, yeah there might be people watching this who've got like frantic noggings or a bit anxious or just not quite feeling right in swede, and you know if they can hear me say get to this then some meditation lad, or less, and you do when it helps then, for me job done. Right I'm off back to Wigwam, I'll see you later, pissed off half a cat, on your slight breeze, beautiful conditions, I'm not going to stay out for too long, as soon as that glob jewel of orange descends past there, plop, that's me into Wigwam, if it hits the horizon and then he rups into some sort of majesty, I shall bring you back but if not see it tent mate. The Wind Dancer 1500 or whatever it's called, the Wind Mutant, Soto Windmaster I believe, comes off, should you desire to pack it down any flatter than it already is you can, you can take that bit off and help yourself. Right then, sturdy the eagle headwoods, it's also got a built in ignition, built in ignition, that's what we're talking about because watch this, get gas on and then see? Whee! Splendid, there's a lot of water left to be honest, we'll have to find a water source tomorrow, once you go earth, you'll be sturdy, beast old, handle gets a bit warm on these titanium's so I like to use my little cloth as a, to help me hold the handle, nearly done already, very fast, very, very efficient, whoa there mate, turn her down, there we go, relax, you lad, deep breaths, chill out, there it lasts at birds, what is it, a kit, curlew or a lesser spotted warbler, in we go, we're cooking now, we're cooking aren't we, cooking on gas, literally cooking on gas, rumor has it that the fill never, oh it's there, it's only there, that's probably enough, and there's a quarter of a cup of, boiling up water, so I'll just leave that to go cold, and she'll put it back in my, in my bottle, because water is now currency, out here, all them crunchy bits at bottom, because no, I've said it before, but you, when you eat one of these, and you get to, to the bottom, the last thing you want, is a big old arid, patch of dust, that tastes super strong, and would have been best served, spread throughout the meal, in fact, we'll have a little bit more water in there, actually, eight minutes, seal it back up, Ian seal, real termat, we're going to talk a little bit more, about these real termats, when I set off on my, on my journeys, so I'll leave that for eight minutes, use it as a little hand warmer, and then we'll get tucked in, right, let's get lantern up there, that'll get, that'll do, won't it, there, there, there grills, do you know what, just in case you've never seen a long spoon before, looking to my spoon, not around the spoon, into the spoon, become the spoon, bend, whatever, don't bend the spoon, something to do with that, matrix, anyway, let's have a little go, on this, clobber, the clobber, I've got a, I've got a little cheat code for these, which I'm going to give you soon, when I set off on my, on my long distance gear, it's making my mouth water, had much to eat today, well, let's just get a bit out, man, look at that, big lumps in there, there's color from the, what's the point, you can't see, let's, it's, what is it, good question, it is, chicken curry, they have a really good vegan range as well, they've got a lot of the vegan ones at home, and they do like, lighter versions, and I don't mean light in weight, but light in bite, for little snacks for morning, or halfway through the day, whoa, yes, grab a bit of a kick to it, can you, can you see, it's got stuck color on it, red stuff, they're vacuum seals, so they must suck all the air out, and maybe that's why they don't need that little sachet, like in other ones, where you have that little sachet, that you would never just be forget about, and then find it when you write a bottom, and think, oh god, that can't be good, 627 calories, it's delicious, and it'll be made even more delicious, if that torch wasn't just, battering my eyeballs, this lads all right, but this lads just, frazzling the retinas, right, retina green, I'm off, I'm going to go and enjoy this, and then whatever, got a podcast to listen to, I'll probably listen to a little podcast, and lift off, I'm just filming this on phone, because I can't be asked to get the camera out, and that's all, I've got both doors open, I've got the mesh bits closed, but I've got both doors wide open, because it's so still, I thought I'd try and let a bit of, whatever breeze there is come through, so I'm not riddled with condensation in the morning, and you can actually see the stars from my bed, through this mesh, so, that's a pleasant treat to fall to sleep to, ooh, what's that? Oh, it's math, and in it, sorry, just using it below as I said, right, let's see what magical or tragical happens, I'll see you in the morning, au revoir. Well, it is a beautiful day, I've had both doors open, check it, check it, you can see stuff from the tent anyway, got that glorious sight, to behold, let's get it all, let's get it tuned in, that's just mesh you're looking through, but I can still see the stars from the, from my boudoir, because the doors are so, they're so tall, not a drop of condensation, which is an absolute bonus, so we're going this dreaded noise, and I'm going to go find some water, to both drink and swim in, or dunk in. Glorious, glorious morning, in Yorkshire, it's early doors mate, it's early doors, but sun's pelting down, it's too glorious, to stay in bed till we're up, I'm looking forward to finding somewhere just to dunk the junk, seeing as there were ink dales out there, we'll transition with flat cap, people do say, and I have heard them on forums and stuff, say that it is quite barren, like I said yesterday, and it would be nice in the future to try and re-wild it, I don't know what they're doing at moment, but let's get some forests and some woodland back up here, encourage the wildlife, but for me, beautiful, and there are some bits that are just luscious, great wild swimming, and there are woodlands, there's a bit of everything in the Orchardales, farming, farming as unfortunately dictated the landscape, but, and yeah, it is a bit barren, but it's my barren, and I shall not have a bad word said about her. Don't you listen, you're beautiful, you're beautiful anyway, let's go see if she's got some whiter to dive into, and when I say dive into, I mean tentatively tiptoe, plunge, and then get back out, come on, with shades on ant flak, who do you think you are? Don't worry about it mate, Alfred Wayne wrong, well, there we go, wild swimming, this one's alive, alive with frog spawn, can hear it, I can see it running water, running water, what's this? Yes man, look at that little hole, it's got water, running water, my water filter of choice, yes, Knock, Seenock, whatever you want to say, however you want to say it, and the soya, micro squeeze, a wonderful combination, I like it when it's running water, it's easier to fill up, you can even with this one, you can unzip the back and open the full, the full bag, makes it a lot easier if the water isn't as, as easy to fill through the nozzle bit, which it was there, and then it's just, all right, I'm going to fill the bottle up, go drink straight from it, it gives 50p if I go in here, is this bright enough, not brilliantly, not brilliantly at all, but let's go and have a look shall we, put laugh, purely put laugh, all right, I don't even have a knife, oh I do, I do have a knife, do you give us any baddies, do you give us any, you know like, balrogs or anything in there, come at me bro, right, okay, I guess the worst thing, the worst thing that could be in here, is bats and rats in it, because let me tell you to a bat, if a bat, flies down here, or a rat scuttles out, that's me, heart attack I think maybe, listen to this, spooky eye soaked as well, look all that, should we keep going, don't have the right footwear for it, keep going, oh my god, it goes all the way down, look around the corner, watch torch off watch, bosh, peach black cat, and could I keep in here, probably not, it's too wet, it's too wet, um, I'll come back, I'll come back with some wellies on and have a little, and have a little explore maybe, but let's get out of here, there's a freezing cold wind and it's quite eerie, because it's too wet, too wet, I've got lumb peak ultra fives, don't want to get me touches soggy, that's exciting isn't it, minds of morian or mordor or whatever, oh yeah, so anyway what's left is for me just to go and dunk my junk in some water, there's a whole flock of sheep staring at me like they're gonna do something, but I don't, look guys, I'm not blaming you guys for the agricultural scars around the dales, it's not your fault, you were just put here, anyway let's go find some water to dunk us the junk us in, all I bother me, you'll do nothing, you'll do nothing, medic, you can see here how it's all been that mine that I was in, I assume it's your mine and not a railway track for little people, you can see all spoil that's come out of it, the, I don't know what they were mining, gravy probably, the gravy mines of Yorkshire, I think there's a few gravy mines around here like, but I've never actually witnessed one, all the stuff that comes out, what do you call it, slag or sleet or, I don't know actually, there's a name for it, there's a name for all the gear that comes out of it, but that's that, right, this is good isn't it, interesting, we're gonna make our way through this valley and into the bottom valley, let's go, you're probably sitting that little puddle, if you wanted to, sad times that though isn't it, it's boggy, soggy and boggy, soggy and boggy, stick or twist, do you stick with it, or do you keep going, it's ever so small, not deep enough for that to lay down in it, and I know, thanks to the boys at Northern Monk, that there are better waterfalls down here, you have to keep your wits about you, when you're, well keep your wits about you at all times, but when you're on your tod, even more so, it's not a contender though, because there's no plunge pool to speak of, and it sort of slopes back, so it'd be hard to get your head under there, undignified, two out of ten, there's a good one down there, that looks doable, don't get too close to edge though, I mean, it looks alright, you don't have to sit in it, not get that, can't really swim or get head under, but you can get head under at waterfall, actually, talking to a big rig, slip off there, and it's a good night mate, good night, unless some tragic or tragic happens, that's me done, I made it, betwixt two waterfalls, this one looks a bit, that's cold, feel cold air coming off it, it's not very deep is it, it's not very deep, Bonnie though, she's Bonnie, I think we'll try the other one, if I can get down to it, normally in the dales it's quite peaty, quite brown, but it's running off this, I don't know, it looks like limestone, but I don't know, beautifully clear, stick or twist, let's go and have a look at it, up close, looks good doesn't it, how deep is it, not very, not very deep at all, I've been lying down in it, I fancy it though, right let's have a look, let's see if there's one more, and if not, that's it, we're going in there, this one, I mean, I've got many left to choose from, what sort, I'll spoil it up, I'll be like, no not that waterfall, this one, no not that one, this one, I'm gonna, this is my final answer, it looks like there's a bit, the plunge pool looks a little bit deeper than other ones, so, that's it, final answer Chris, I've had a wonderful day out, I'm gonna take the money, final answer, thank you, right, are you coming in, all right, so slippy, I'll be careful, I'll be careful for you, going in a flat path, invigorating, with dad shots, dad shots, dad shots, what you gonna do, what you gonna do when dad shots come for you, come on, oh, I'll tell you what feels good, yeah, getting in there felt amazing, loved it, but what feels really good now, after having a pair of underpants on, marina wool leggings and shorts, just to have shorts, commander, with knacker just flapping around in, you know, in freedom, relative freedom, feels good, and in fact, oh mate, that coldness across the chest, it feels amazing, I would have, I would have what, bloody beautiful, oh, can't have it sometimes, shall we end it here, instead of me just keep walking, in fact, let's set you up, the sun is on the other side of the valley, it's a blue sky, a beautiful day, can you see, if I'm not in way, oh you can't really, a beautiful day to be alive, oh listen, it's not even half eight in the morning, and that's what you get for getting up early, the rewards, I've still got a full day ahead of me, that deserves a little, little blow on whistle, doesn't it, oh right, thanks for watching, as always, and thanks, as always, for the messages of support and stuff, and, even if you just reach out to ask me, if I prefer the Lanshan over the Hillyburg, or whatever, I appreciate you, I obviously can't reply to everyone, but I do appreciate you, and the key for this one, and my key takeaway, on this one for me, is mindfulness, because I went to my Buddhist thing, and I think I'm like, I mean lightened, Anna, I mean lightened, but, it's just what it felt like, it just felt like, this whole, camp has just, felt like mindfulness, so if you ever, if any of you get the chance to just sit in your own thoughts for a bit, download Headspace, or just go through walking the woods, whatever keeps you in your own head, and find comfort there if you can, and spread the, spread love, spread positivity, argue and out, but love as well, take care of yourselves, and I'm gonna stay out of trouble.