 Hello, and welcome to another video. Checking in now, cos lost. Off the beaten track, speaking of off the beaten track. I'm here with none of the... Back track. Back track. Uncle Back Track McGee. He's out, he's out with us, aren't ya? Joseph Von Back Track McGee. Look at that, I could define figure that, actually. That is a good, that's probably, that's probably best thing some people have seen in 2024. I mean, cover of Outdoors magazine territory or? More of like a poster on a lamppost, watch out. Either missing or watch out for this guy. So, oh it's lovely, look. As the sun comes out, it's our first adventure of the new year, 2024. We've plotted a route on my phone. Let's walk. Let's go gear man. Let's err, ooo, let's err, around about nine miles. And I've, we've got all the bushcraft gear as well. We've got a mixture of bushcraft gear and hiking gear. Height, craft. Height, craft, er, back, we're calling it back crafting. Where you backpack, you put some good miles in, but you've got your sores and your steaks and your things to cook with and, and all that sort of stuff. So, the plan is to just explore. We've got a nine mile, we're already off our, off our plotted route, but we've got a nine mile circular loop. And as we go, we're going to forage for some mushrooms. Oh, see what we can find. The goal is, before it gets dark, to find the perfect camp spot where we can get a fire going and we're, er, we're pretty sheltered and then we can do some relaxing and I'll let you see my new tent. Stay tuned. We already went for, found someone's bushcraft shelter. Dustin, Mike. Now he's a decent shelter. They have used nails in wood and stuff. What I don't like is, they've smashed, they've like, it's like they've maybe hammered a nail into where to keep the thing because you see, you see it's leaking all the sap out of it. So it's injured there. Also, there's no need to leave it here. It's a tricky one, isn't it? It's a tricky one. Is it better to have someone just come here and only, you know, only affect this one little spot? Or is it better to take it down and move someone else? I think, I think be nomadic because if everybody thinks like this, you're going to have these popping up everywhere, aren't you? Yeah. Because everyone will want their own little individual one. It's not fair enough to have a go at it. Yeah. And if you want to build in it, then take it down. As kids, we've all done it. We started doing it when we were young, didn't you? You build shelters in woods and stuff and it's a buzz. But I think as you get older, you sort of realise like, if it's your own wood fine, but if it's public wood, then people are going to see it then. It's maybe not cool to leave it there. You could just take it to bits and just stash the wood somewhere. And then when you come back, it ain't going to take long. There's a couple of you, just knock it back up again. Mix feelings. Yeah. Mix feelings about it. What do you think? Put it in the comments below. I don't mind a fire pit in some cases as well, but again, I don't really want to see it. But I like the fact, you know, like the idea of just having it in one place, not affecting, you know, having loads of patches of fire pits. Yeah. But I agree. Leaving it like that is a little bit too much maybe. They do it in Canada and stuff, don't they? They should have designated fire pits so you can find out where you're having it. Yeah, I get it. It's just too much. A part of me thinks, oh, that's cool. It's away from the path. They're not hurting anyone. And whoever's done it, it's not like they've not left litter and they've not damaged too much of the surrounding area. They obviously know what they're doing. So you can't begrudge them that. So I think we'll let them off. Let's demolish it. Are we going to nail our flag to any particular? I think if it's public wood then we can't. And I've done it before where I've built full shelters like this, like proper raised beds and everything. I've slept in it and the next day it all goes back and leave no trace. And I think that's the essence of bushcraft. You just use it and then leave it like you found it. And there's something magical about it. You've used everything. It's sprung up out of the ground. You've used it and then it goes back to where it's come from. And you don't have add up fan that particularly like an eyesore. I think it looks quite cool, but you know, you do go to some woodlands, especially where I am now down south. And there's just loads of them dotted about and it just takes the edge off a little bit. It takes the edge off the wildness. So you could almost see it in the sense of a boffy if it was just free to use for everyone. That's a good idea. Yeah. You know, it's like the idea of a very low impact boffy. Yeah. You could come, you know it's there. You could come and use it, add to it. In that sense maybe that's the way forward. If it's a communal bushcraft thing, maybe you should have an app that has all like, that's four bushcrafters and you put your dens and your shelters, because let's be honest, they're just dens out there on the app. And then people can use them when they're in the area, add to it. Not a bad idea. Yeah. I've got one living room that kids have made of a blanket and a couple of chairs. I'll get that on the internet. Get that on the internet. Clothes or sheet of a top. And you just have, Mrs comes in and there's some hairy guy with a foot. All in like army gear. I've got one there as well. Who's that? You can use it. Oh, it's uh, I don't know. Gary off the bushcraft spot. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's Castai and Kevin352 off YouTube. Anyway, thoughts put them down below. Let's get a discussion going. What do you think about leaving bushcraft shelters in the wild? You can talk about it if you want to don't know. Right, crack on. Good bye. My bag is heavy. We've got sores and axes and knives and what's he seen? Oh, another one. Another little bushcraft shelter up there. Lean two of sorts. Oh, go on then. My load might max it out. Oh my lord. Oh, that dude, I'm snapping that. My bag weighs about twice as much as yours. I could be videoing this. And I have been on cheese this, I've been on cheese this Christmas like. And if this, if this snaps, I'm dedicating this one to Brie. Oh, maximum. He's done it. Got to film it though in case you stack a room in it. You don't get better. Don't get better than this. No, it's round, mate. Oh, man. No. Why? Because you want to see the thing. Oh, I don't feel good. Oh, look at that. There's just this break in the trees and it's absolutely beautiful. You see the rain falling and the brown of the bracken mixed with the green of these evergreens. It's just beautiful. I mean, it's not very habitable, but cool nonetheless. I don't think you can do. No, he's full of water as well. You see people excavate these, though, and put something on the front and make like a house. Oh, yeah. They do it in the Tenerife, in the Northern Tenerife, like dig back into cliffs. Yeah. One man tent in there. It's half of a top and you're in. We're off wherever he says. Wherever he's at, our own points. That's where we're going. Where do you want to go? Oh, go that way. That way. Try and run there. That way. Guess the trail. Spin it, right? Yeah. Close your eyes. Done. It was already broke, by the way. I didn't break that. We didn't break it. It was already broke. Yeah. The old fork in the road. Fork in the road. And literal. I think we'll go this way because there's water this way and it's nice to stick back water in it. We're lost. Right. We've come off road again through no fault of our own. It's just sometimes on these maps, it looks like it's a track. And as you can see here, it's just been chopped down and I'm up driven. There is no path. So we just sort of plotted in a straight route as the crew flies. And we're just following it as best we can for all this off road stuff. And you don't have SAPQ when you've got big bag on. I'd be interested to know how much my bag weighs. It's heaviest bag I've ever hiked in with. We're lost. That is dense. Well, this is not easy walking, is it? Run it. Quite impressive. Yes. That's exercise. But that's a chunk that I need making armchair out of that. Yeah. Wow. We're doing some graft. We keep going off piece, putting some graft in. Shout out to that lad we've just seen chilling by some water doing his first solo hike and wild camp. Best of luck to you, mate. 10 to 2, which means we've got less than two hours light. We're going to look for somewhere perfect that's there's plenty of dead standing wood, maybe near a water source, flat ground because we're both ground dwelling this evening. And just somewhere aesthetically pleasing where we can have a fire and we're out at where bit, barry wet foot. We're off the beaten track again. And here we are at this beautiful. Look at that. That opens up lovely. And we're looking for a place to camp, but as you can see, it's just soaking. And it would be no fun pitching a tent in this or trying to get a fire going or anything. So the search continues. Another thing to consider is, yeah, it's dry in amongst the pines, but then using pine woods for fires isn't the best. And we've got some stakes. We want to slow cooking. Oh, man. Mushes. It's been killed by mushes. Look, they've taken over its brain. That's cool. Imagine that. Like as a tattoo. Look at that. Yeah. With mushrooms growing out. Look at its stinks of it. Look at the mushrooms growing out of this guy's head. So about a bit of meat on that. I think I've got some compeds in the bag. I can put one. You might sort him out. Might pull him round. Yeah. I've got a bit of cocoa. In another lifetime, I've had that, but it's still a bit smelly. That's a cool thing though, draw it. It's so cool. Where's the rest of that big sheep? And what took out that sheep? I think we found our, we don't want to be in there because there's a lot of deadfall. That is the most deadfall I've seen ever. Yeah, that is, that is domino rally. Yeah. That's mousetrap. We don't want to be in there. I mean, it's one of them that you could keep going and it does, there's more on the other side, but I feel like this is open enough. So we've got light. We've got some lovely views of the trees. We're out at where there's flat bits. Check that out with us. Leave no trace. Look how blended in with ground that is man. You can hardly even see it. It's mad, isn't it? It's like the perfect colour for you. Yeah. So Joe is in, that looks different. Oh, it's the pro, isn't it? Yeah. Joe's in the Lanshan 2 pro and that's him set up for the night. He didn't need to do anything else. He just crawls under there. I'll demo. Have a quick demo. There we go and there it, gone. Joe, is that it? That's good. Dude, you wouldn't even know you were there, man. That is genuinely camouflaged. It's the, my new tent look. Fox 1 V2 OEX 80 quid. 80 quid. Let's see how she fares. I mean, I'll do a proper review on it, I think, but I just thought as a one-man bushcraft tent that you don't mind if it gets a little bit battered about a bit, it looks pretty good. I'm going to give it a go anyway. I'll report back. There she is, the Fox 1. Quite low profile, quite stealth. I've just put some sticks under the guidelines so it keeps this flap even further up for ventilation. And then it has a little flap there as well for ventilation. It's one door, but on the internal it's got two doors. So that you can utilize all this area to put your clobber. And obviously it's not a tent that you're going to get in there and be getting changed and doing all your bits and pieces. It's just for sleeping in. But at 1.6 kgs and 80 English pounds. Absolute bagging, mate. I've got my Neewa X-Term, a Cent 900 rab and then I've just got my quilt, my big Agnes quilt on top as well. Also, while I'm on, this is the last straw, I'm afraid. Trekology Pillows. I have championed these for a long time saying that they're great. But recently, every single one I get just shits itself. And shits itself when I really need it. And it's not just a puncher because I don't mind repairing that. It's things aren't valve and I don't know, mate. They've just been letting me down too much. So this is the last time I'll be using Trekology Pillows on here. We're going to go on to something else. I think I'll go back to my Decathlon thing that Joe's got. They're mint. And then look inside, I'll do a little, we'll have a proper look at this never-time. There's a lot of mesh in there, mesh down the bottom. Plenty of space, pocket up the top. If you want to do like bushcraft camps and just keep it low profile, that is your one, isn't it? Cut's quite a fine figure as well in woods. And Joe, but then you back up onto that and you're like, oh well, that's better, isn't it? And look at that, because we didn't think I can pull, so we just use chop two bits of timber down and we're using them instead. Look and look at that, man. Look at all the space in there. Just, and it's all mesh on inside as well. So now bugs can get you, but it's super lightweight. Loads of room. You can sit up in it. You can even like get changed in there. Absolutely acres of outdoor space as well for your kit on both sides. Brilliant stuff. Well, you could see they're expensive, like Hooped Bivvy's are. And they look horrendous. Some of them Hooped Bivvy's, like 200 quid. Yeah? Hooped Bivvy chart. Some of them Hooped Bivvy's are 200 quid. Hey, this is our new series, just two Yorkshiremen grumbling. 200 quid for a new Hooped Bivvy you can eff off. I'm happy with it. 80 pounds I paid for it. 80 pounds she wore. Ah, that was a good one. I won't pay a penny less for it. Well, I might, I might wake up absolutely drenched. If it was windy now, and if it was like, then that you'd just be comfy in there, when you're cosier. Yeah, you're cosier in there. Whereas that's gonna like draft under, it's gonna start like making noise. There's more, more surface for it to catch. But later on tonight, when I'm like, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, looking up, looking up. Mind you, no, when it's cold though, you don't want that, you want to be. No, you don't. That's the winter tent. 80 quid, I'll leave a link below for it anyway. If you want to check it out, please do. Look at that stance, man. Look at the little leg on it. Like a sticking sect. A sticking sect soaring off its partner's head. Excellent work. And thank you very much. Deadly, aren't there, with all these? Oh man, that's gonna be a worse nightmare. It's catching your eye on one of them, it just pops it out. Oh, tripping and just falling in. Oh, yeah, look at that bit. That's good. Oh, that's dense, man. Yeah, it feels nice, doesn't it? It feels dry here and often. Yeah, that's good, clobber. Cleaning some of these nuggets, they smell so good. Snap off and that, that is just all... It's like rocket fuel. All resin. That's the best amount of stuff, isn't it? It's so delicious. That's good. So we'll use some of this to turbo-charge the fire. Got our little mitts. We've got our wood there that'll keep us going for quite a while. What we'll do is just utilize some of this pine. Once it goes, it goes. You can hear it spitting. It smells absolutely delicious. And in summer, if you do this, it keeps the bugs up there. Smells so good. We're going for Lazy Man's Fire. What we're doing is just... We've got three there. So it's not going to get in the way of us, because Joe's sat there with his back west to get his tree. I'm in my Helinox super lightweight chair. And then we can just feed these on as the burn. All three of these will just get fed on and then we'll replace them with these as we go. Spot on. And that's it, man. It's about four o'clock now. So the light's fading. So this is us. Stunning. I'm going with four-way. You're pinning me in. Fair do's. There we are. Slow down a bit. We're just going to slow down a bit now. We've been at... We've put in... I mean, we've not done a great hike. It's been maybe six and a half, seven miles. We've done, but we've got... We've carried a lot of stuff with us. So it's been nice. And now we're just going to chill by the fire, drink some wine. We're going to record a podcast as well. So that'll be out over on Patreon. If you want to check it out, you can do it. That's the best way to support me if you want. So we're going to do a podcast and I'll bring you back when we start getting some food on. We just... Every time we turn in the steak, we're putting some Yorkshire butter on it. And so that's just seeping into it. The carrots are slowly cooking. Garlic's probably there. Chilots pretty much there. And then we're going to take the steak off. Move these casers up into the hot flames to finish them. I've got some oak chippings from... Some work I've been doing on the van. So we've chucked oak chippings on the fire to give it a smoky, oaky flavour. Chard veg. We've had it under a bed of rosemary. A liberal portion of fresh English black truffles. It's so big. Absolutely incredible. There you go. The steak has been cooked over the fire. We've put butter on it every turn. We've had rosemary. You see it's all in juices. We've got salt on there. And then it's just been covered in truffle. Like that. Oh, lovely little accompaniment. Bit of onion. That's a steak cooked absolutely perfectly considering. We've done that on an open flame. You can see we've got the chile on the outside. And then it's nice and pink and moist in the middle. That is perfect. I'm going to try a bit of that actual meat. It's good. It's a big bit. All right, let me go in. I'm going in. I'll do that truffle butter just. Wow. That's crazy good. The Fox 1v2. Perfect for stealth camping. If you don't want to be seen, if you want to keep a low profile, but it keeps it all off here. It's a lot better than a bivvy because you've got all your head space. And it's got a door on the other side, but that just leads to like there's no door in the outer fly. So you can just, you've got to take your bags through the tent and put them on in there if you want. And for 80 quid, I think that's a bargain. They also do a two person version of this. I'll put that downstairs as well. Check it out if you like, but yeah. Gets my seal of approval. I like it. Joe's in the old trusty land shanty. Look at that. With wood used to support it, instead of hiking poles, which always looks mint. Palace that tent, man. It's an absolute palace in it. It's absolutely huge. The size of it. It just looks good though, doesn't it? It blends in really well. Yeah, that colour's good, isn't it? Yeah. We're not hanging about today. We're going to square away the tents, deal with the fire and then mecca move. Leave no trace as always. We've got the tents. Nothing left, just a bit of flat and ground. But hold it. A couple of miles hike now through some lovely scenery. I'll bring you a little bit here and there. Bushcraft's hiking, bushcraft. Multi-day hiking. It's the new thing. Well, it's a winter thing. Right, we're going to saddle up and mecca move. Another glorious morning. Another glorious morning. Corrector. Wow. It's beautiful. Nice little find there. Nowhere to swim, but beautiful to look at. And so unique. Good stuff. A glorious winter sunshine. There's a squeezy just lunge across. Oh, beautiful. Still a work of a squirrel. This is the name of my new band. If you've stuck along this far, thanks. And thanks for watching. We'll be back soon. Maybe with some long distance hiking in spring. We're going to plan some bigger adventures. That'll be coming soon. Take care of yourselves. It's main thing, isn't it? Look after yourselves. Yes, and each other, or? Yeah, well. Just yourselves. Wow. With permission. Look after other people as well. But don't force it on anyone who's not ready for it. Just run up to some random person in the street and start looking after them. Just putting a cold tea towel on their forehead and thermometer in their mouth or their butt or whatever. So yeah, the main thing to take from this video is I always ask permission before you give people a lens tip. Take care of yourselves. Much love. Bye for now. You wanna slap it? It is.