 Hello, Pop Kettle On, Cracker Beverage, Twist, do what you want, do what you need to do, settle down and come on an adventure with me. It's going to be a long on this because it's been a while and it's good to see you. Wild raspberry, I love it, delicious, oh in fact, yes. This is where I'm heading up into this valley and then we'll see if we can get on one of these tops for tonight for a wild camp. Depending on what the weather does, we could always stay down in the valley if the winds pick up or it starts to rain or whatever. Alright mate, come on, off we go. Can I see it? Good lad, see you later. Oh, look at that, look at it, come off it man. Bidon again, I've missed having a bidon mate, it's emotional. This is just a little false summit, I know this from the OS maps, there's a hell of a lot more to go behind here so let's carry on draining the old fluids out the forehead and back. That's it, that's me, officially up at mountains, away from all humans, that's it. We've climbed up here, the roaring waterfalls have given way to this lovely babbling stream of a thing. The acoustics are simply to die for guys. Chef's kiss on the acoustics and it's just crystal clear, I mean, you could, I mean that's deep enough to have a look at how inviting it is, you what? Can you see? This is a good area actually mate, I could camp here. I'm in a little private swimming hole, that's a maybe, that's a maybe but I want to get some more kilometres under me, under me trotters so... On march on I can always march back, if I don't find anywhere better than that. In my noodle I think I want to go up there, right onto the tops but there's something quite peaceful about that being down in this valley, it is a bit marshy though so I can imagine when wind drops off and when the time comes, Midge Festival. Medic! Bog Myrtle, just gone up to, oh no, up to shins in its own boot. Bog Myrtle, oh no, oh well, that's the game I'm playing in it, full squelch on look and knees with these socks man. Look at all the gubbin, there's that, I've taken some drying out but I made the call, I was going to wear my Altras, Altra 5s with just some trill running socks nice and light but because I thought I wasn't going to get too wet, well I thought I wasn't going to get bog myrtle but I did so just deal with it now. Deal with wet foot, there's more to come is there, probably, look at it. It is nice, nice and boggy because you wouldn't want to have it all your own way would you, you need to have a little bit of a wet foot or something. How am I going to get across here, across these stones look, if you come with me just in case I stack it, I'll work though because look, gazelle. It looks like a path, I'm enjoying this man. As I say I have a loose idea of where I'm going but I'm keeping it open so if I see something nice or, you know, get distracted I'm just going to follow my, follow my instincts. Just leave myself open to spontaneity which is what is just, it's a lovely feeling man, a lovely feeling. To be able to aim to be a girl where I want, where I'm going to go and where I'm trying to go is up here. There should be a path that cuts all the way up to the top of there and that's what I'm going to aim for. There's a turn up there and although it is beautiful in this valley where the sun, the sun's pretty much gone now behind these mountains and that'll be it. I shan't get much of a sunset down here or sunrise so, I'm off up tops for this night anyway for night one, I'm off up tops to try and get myself a sunset. La glorious. Here we go, look at this, there it is look, you load of effers man, right in my path. Film it in case they charge me, just in case they've got any last words. I'll go right into them innit. Have I got bends? So what? It's been a while since I've, it's been a few years actually since I've manually logged a cow off. You know what I mean, like killed it with my bare hands. That's not to say I haven't sparked a few that have, you know, they've been down for a few minutes. One of them was down for a few days but the vet came out and sorted it. But an actual notch, like a, an RIP, it's been a while mate. I pull my punches and I normally just lead with left elbow because the right is, the right's just sending them to abattoir. In the sky, look at them. No harm done lads, no harm done. All the way out here as well, there's nothing real talk, hey little birdie, real talk, if they wanted just to do me, they could. And there's nothing much I could do, I've got no signal, no one will probably be through here for a while. They could just spend some time and just bury me. Just bury me in like cow part and just trod me into the floor. And that would be the end of me. Although do you have me garmin in reach mini which I could. So they could find it, you know, come and find bit to me. See you later, it's obvious we're not, we're not beefing are we? No pun intended but we're all good. I'll go this way through this bog, no harm done. Oh it is boggy as well, no harm done like. That's it innit, pace and love stop to do little. I'm hoping there's going to be some sort of path soon, so they'll have to keep having this wet foot thing going on. When I get to here, because it's sort of bottlenecks that there'll be a well trodden path, because it's the only way really over this valley because it's all too steep. Hopefully there'll be a decent path up and over and I can see the sunshine up there. River crossing, might work. I've come all the way through here, up here, that was a bit of a steep bit and then looks like a bit of a scramble through here. You've just got to sort of make your own way, pick a route through, it's exciting. And the temperature's dropped, so I'm sorry if you can't hear me, that's how it is. Also the clouds coming in a little bit, I don't know what that's going to mean. Maybe a little bit of wet, I've got me waterproof, so we're right. This is some kind of flat bit, top, whatever. Oh man, it's opening up, look at that. Is the avinit, is, or is the not avinit? Look at cloud inversion, you are sunny, can't fault it mate, can't fault you. I'm going to keep going. Who cares, I mean, let's get down here, see if I can wind. I'm up here for a few days, I've got enough food and whatever, enough rations so I can just, if I want to go over there, well I can and I will. I'm down the other side of the valley now and that wind has dropped right off. There's a tarn down here and I thought to myself, I'd look at map and I thought, you know what, it's been a while since I've camped by a tarn, I camped by that tarn and then even just from back there I can see at least five tents, all brightly coloured tents, all the same tent as well. Bang in the middle of this island and I don't know what it is mate. This is mid-week, this is supposed to be a little mid-week treat where there's not going to be many people but all beauty spots now, like the main beauty spots, even mid-week you just, really, you just don't get them to yourself do you? Job's done, job's done, because they're all sort of identical brightly coloured tents I'm guessing it's probably the Duke of Edinburgh, so just some young'uns doing a bit which, good, can't grumble at that can you? All right Bonnie lad, don't make any rash movements mate, because that's a bit of a, especially you young'un, it's a bit of a steep, steep on that, you don't care anyway, can't have heard rumours. Seven tents, just from this angle is probably more at this side, that's a lot, lot of people camping out, fair do's, loom for a little lad. Don't look like I'm going to have a beautiful spot to camp with views and stuff, because the wind is picking up and you can see all this cloud cover coming in, so I don't want to keep going, so I've just got into this, it's like a delve here, delve boy, and I'm hoping this gives me protection from any heavy winds that come this way, just want you to get down here, it's not too bad. You do one of these I think, you need to don't you? There it is. So much for getting drawn up and all that, I don't care though, I'm having a good one. It's so nice to be in tent, hey up midges. I've got to close this. So I just got tent set up, chucked out stuff in, and then I went and filled the old water filter. It started raining and wind was coming down, so there's a little tiny body of water down there, it's like an infinity pool, it's amazing. I'm going to go swimming there tomorrow, I don't care what weather's like, I'm going in. F**k it feet mate. A bit hammered, starting to get a little bit of summit to another. That one's worse because it got wet early doors, so it blisters on there, look. Early doors wet to the one, a bit drier, just a bit red. It feels good to put some miles in, to feel tired and to feel like I've earned this man. Right, let's get some food on go. Two water bottles, I'm just using these, just got them out when I'm recycling, look. They fit perfectly in the side of my bag, and it's perfect for now. Carries, these are 750ml each. Gas, little towel at the bottom to stop. Top tip, if you put it in that way, into your metal cups, you'll get a rust ring all the way around it at the bottom. So I'll just keep using, cutting bits of, this is an old camp towel. Alright mate, is that boring? It is pretty boring, won't it? This is an old camp towel, see ya! Could handle it, could ya, try to get out. Tough, you're here for full duration, I'm afraid. So where was I? Oh yeah, camp towel, put that in there, look. And then it doesn't rust, and you can use it to dry it with, whatever. Port stand, because stability is key. When you're out and about, as you lot don't know, rolling all over, shant, sorter windmaster. Am I getting peppered by mejitos? I think I'm alright. Hey, look at that. Come here. It's spider with, come here boy, boy see? You don't want to know, look. Can't be bothered with him, keep it. Here it is, look, the Soto Windmaster. I'll leave a link below to everything that you see me using here. About that much, you don't need too much. You having that? Not about ten, whoa! Took another time, at all. Real, done mad. I'll leave a link below to these as well, I've got a discount code for ya. I'll leave it below. What is this? Creamy pasta with pork. Let's get into it, man. Right, where's Phil Neville? Where is Phil Neville? And you can use your little towel to hold your hot handles. Top tip, top tip. Doesn't matter, does it? Ow, ow, ow. There you go. Don't use much water at all, really. Right, don't spill that, cos that is tears, innit? If you spill that, you're crying. A ziplock bag for litter. It gives you bag clean. Turks, titanium, long handled spoon. If you don't know, now you know. Smells good, looks bad. Give it a good stir, no one needs them little flavours. Some dry, grit bombs at the bottom, don't they? Fasten it up. There's eight minutes. Eight minutes of time, you've got yourself a meal there. Let's square up, square away. Forecast was wrong there. Hopefully, it's okay tomorrow. I want to do some wild swimming. In fact, I'm going to do it anyway. I'm going to go down there and have a little swim in there and then I'm going to have a couple of swims up my back. Get it. That's one of the reasons why I came out, is to get a bit of wild swimming done. You're going to fall over, aren't you? I know you are. The battery's going to go as well. Tragic, tragic. Oh well, the battery's going to go, but that's life. Secondary tear station. It's a great little touch. Don't even need a knife. I'll have to show you as well, but I'm running out of battery. Who cares, mate? Who cares? I'm getting into this. It looks, you know, it's not going to win any awards, is it? It's pasta, isn't it? Well, yes, it's pasta. You've seen it. It's stunning. I'm having it. I've not been... Oh no. You're not going to stay there, are you? Do you want to have this checked later at another time? I can't do it, mate. I'm too hungry. I'm too hungry. Shall we check? I'll check to you another time. I can't do it. Put you down there like that. Where have I been? I hear nobody ask. Hang on. Before the battery goes. I've just been ill, mate. I've just been poorly. I started to feel a bit bad. Well, I was out camping with my mate Joe last time. And then that night I got home and I was just, that was it. Wiped out with COVID for... I reckon like two or three nights of solid light couldn't get up bed. Or two or three days, sorry, I've not been able to get up bed. Agony just absolutely ruined me. So, don't know, absolutely came me. And then I was testing positive for like 10 days. So, I had to like self-isolate it right. It just turned my, turned my logging inside out a little bit. So I couldn't make any videos or do anything really. And then when it, when I came out of other end, I just wanted to do a lot of spear fishing and diving and stuff. So I've just been doing that. Tried to do some filming but none of it really worked out. Just haven't been feeling it. What can you, what can you do? You've made a conscious effort, not to. Right, right. Don't pressure yourself because you're not well. It'll just make yourself all sad again. So, I had a little break just to heal myself, which I did. And I feel, I feel loads better now. I'm back. And it's up rain. Look, do you hear that? That's nice. A nice rain, that's nice. Wasn't forecast but we'll have it. So yeah, I'm back now. I'm back. Got lots of stuff planned. I'm going to be churning out the content. Not churning out the content but I'm going to be doing stuff and now I'll film it. That's okay. I guess churning out content but it's more doing stuff that I want to do. And then as a byproduct we'll film it. So good that mate. So good. Anyway, thanks to everyone who, who messaged me telling me out, you know, asking how I was. Saying get well soon. It's very much appreciated. Yeah. I've still been doing like Instagram stories and stuff like that. You can follow me there to keep up to date with what I'm having for tea and stuff. I love a bit of rain on tent, man. I'm going to eat this, blow me back with some, I'm just going to chill out. Me feet are feeling it. I wanted to bring some at self-standing, which this is with the ground sheet. I didn't want to rely on my trekking poles. So, and I wanted to see what this tent would be like for long distance hikes. It's pretty good so far. But I've saved weight everywhere else. The sleeping bag, it's my summer bag. It's the Van Gogh Ultralight 350. Not much to it. It's a bit of a Rizla really. The Thermarest Neoair UberLight. Super light weight. I've got my Trek Holy Dupiller, then I've just got my Schmargove at the top. It feels nicer. Feels nicer on you. Well, I was going to show you. That's about it really. I could give you a full rundown of what I brought with me. Just a merino wool layer of top and bottoms. That's it. And a down jacket. That's me for heat. Callum blades. I'll leave a link there. Look at Instagram. Two kind mate. He reached out and he's like dude, I've made a little mini knife to match your big knife. Do you want it? And I said, that's very generous of you mate and kind. Thanks very much. The idea being that it is light enough to take on the long distance trips. You can see there look the layers. I can't really see because there you go. See how nice that is. Lovely finish on it. Full tank. Lovely on it look. But it's small. So it's only small. Perfect for this sort of camping. For this sort of camping you don't really need a knife. But best to have one and not need it than to need it and not have one. The weather's not good enough to be doing any sort of photography or time lapses or anything. So I'm just going to listen to my audio book and chill out getting early night. Unless you want to just chill out with me and listen to the audio book. Get in here. Nah. That's it man. Unless some magical or tragical happens. I shall see thee on the morrow.