 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 Lakeland adventure with a mix of freezing wild camps and cozy country pubs. Welcome to another video and I'm out in the Lake District. We're doing a multi-day hike but it's in winter so I don't know, you know, it's all a lot of different kit and I've done a full review of what I've took with me, I don't know whether that's whether you've already seen that or not. I've had to have a serious think about footwear and which sleeping bag to take and what's in everything like because it is winter and there'll be some of the hikes are on top of the mountain so it could get a bit grueling. I don't really have a plan, I'm just making it up as I go as far as like where I'm going to stay and stuff. I'm all kitted out, I've got all my food and water and everything that I need so that I don't have to stay anywhere if I, you know, if I don't feel like it I can just wild camp and I've got enough food to last me all in my kit. But it's going to be exciting man, so stay tuned. I need this one for me bulb, I just needed some adventure and I thought you know what, I'm not going to wait until it gets better, I'm just going to go and do it. I forgot my titanium cup so I've had to need into ambleside. I'm looking forward to it, they say in the guidebook that it takes about nine days to complete but I've got stuff to do and places to be so I've given myself five days to do it so I'll have to maximise the daylight because I'm only getting sort of eight hours daylight so I'm just going to have to really head down and crunch some miles out and just do it that way. It's exciting, I've got the proper guidebook and that so I can show you some map time. Let's get out of ambleside and get into sticks. It's a steep one out of ambleside. My ultra fives, my yellow ones, that grip had gone and I thought if it's going to be bad weather on the mountains I need some grip so these are the sevens which I shall do a full review after this hike because I think if I put a hundred miling on them I can compare them to the fives and give you my opinion but so far so good. They look a bit garish though don't they? Look at that, like some sort of 80s shell suit or something in it, whatever. Robbing look of... You're leading the way mate, we're going to have a safe journey. As is the case with these trips I often come out of the traps like an excited whip it and do too much in first day. Day one's always like, hey, we're doing it. Then day two, what, chafing, hurting. I'm going to keep it measured and keep it level because as with all these long distance hikes there is a meaning or a message or a lesson, a lesson that I'm looking to get taught here. So being through Ringer a little bit with Noodle and this is just a symbol, I could cry mate, honestly this symbolizes coming out of Rendon. I want this hardship, I want it to, you know, I want to achieve something and this is it, it's a little goal and it means that it's just, it just means I'm out the other side, it means a lot anyway but waffle, waffle, we'll get into it, we'll talk a bit more about it all as we go because 100 mile mate, you might want to stick with me, you might not but there'll be a, maybe this is part one, if I make it, I make it, I might not even make it. I'm not chosen to run footwear in that, don't know where we're sleeping, don't know what we're doing and that's how I like it. This is a big moment, this, the first and I'm glad it's just a simple one to ease me in look, I don't care if these lads are watching, stupendous. There's a few folk about but that's because it's Sunday and it's a lovely day but it's not raining and it's not windy so it's a lovely day and so there's a few folk on this trail, just day walkers but I'm expecting it to sort of drop off during the week and when we get up into the fells because I need some solitude, that's what I'm going to get, just meant sheep, that's it, that's all I want, me sheep, and a few latches and locks, you agrees look, yes man. Oh he's put a little notch in there look, oh thank you, effortless, good to be back, that's the first one, first one I met any, thing is though, it's a tough gig when you're having this people behind you and stuff and you're like I want to get that shot, yeah I just got to do it like, there's a bloke, there's a fella, there's a fella and a lady back there and they just start to watch me just talk to a gate, oh this is a nice little bit look, a pitch on there, that's flat as a pancake, there's Joey D look, coming bouncing uphill, come to see me, Joey D, you ready, look at this, there we go mate, that's it, now they met you all right, the weather is stunning, it's perfect, perfect hiking conditions, not too hot, nah it's just perfect, it's forecast to be not so perfect tomorrow, so the mixed bag, I'm ready for it, just don't listen to mountain weather forecast because it's cack and it keeps doing me in, it's done me in multiple times, it's just cake mate, what I normally do is look for nearest village or town or whatever to where you're going into mountains and just use Met Office or BBC weather, something like that for that and then it's oftentimes it's same up in fells, you know it just had maybe a little bit colder because we're in Lake District, it's not like we're up massive mountains, it's done in fells so oftentimes whatever the weather is for like down there it is same up here just maybe a little bit colder, it works for me anyway, do as hard, do as hard, do as hard, not as hard, do as hard, lovely views of Windermere in the distance there, don't you worry about it, do I like that, oh yes, I do like that, look at that, spring look, oh failed at final hurdle look, and shoulder work, I shouldn't have to do that but that is bittersweet because look at that, powerful old spring and a botched job all welded together like that look, lovely bit of cake but then falls at final hurdle I'm afraid, there's a bit of a glare on phones, it's hard to do this but I wonder if I can, get it so it's looking like where I'm coming, so I'm coming down here you don't want to get, keep going on that path, you've got to take quite a sharp right through here which is through there, oh this looks quite interesting, oh my god, it's clearly the same fella who was doing the other one, he's some sort of a wizard didn't he look, look got that triangle bit onto chain, absolute wizardry can I, one foot it, yes, hey up, is he redeeming himself from before, let's see, let's see, clump click, oh my god, good lad, and it's in old bit of stone as well, that's beautiful and look at that, just going into, that is splendid isn't it look, from this side should we go again, oh that's a pleasure, that's an absolute pleasure, absolutely pleasurable, you know what like sometimes you go through these gates and it just blows your mind and you think what can I do and then you realise that you're the managing director of latches and locks incorporated so you whip out your phone and you pop this on latch and locks and I've not posted anything on latch and locks for months because noggin haven't been there but what a return, I'll leave a link here, no it's not a joke, that's it, job's done, we'll have to go back, just watch this, gazelle, you cross a little stream to get to this one, oh it's one of these, I do like these, of course, of course you can't see me but I'm saluting, what I'm loving is, well there's lots that I'm loving but I'm loving the fact that there's no signpost for this trek, it's not like a national trail or anything and it's, I think it's pretty underused if I'm honest and there's no path in certain bits, there's no, you just like go through this field head that way and I love that, and long make continue, I mean you're risking it up road aren't you, it's just a little bit of a road section, not too much, I don't mind it but it's nice and quiet like this, look at this beauty, the old stone gatepost, there isn't one there but you just put timber in here across and you've got yourself a gate, absolutely brutal, that's art that life, that sound there for a bit of reinforcement look, good effort, lovely views as well, let's have a look, oh I didn't see a little side unit there look, that was my fault, that was cute, that was my fault, that's good, I didn't see a little side piece, look at that, oh yeah, oh look at it, I could make just, I might just change my channeling to just actually just looking at gates and stuff in the like in the UK and all over the world, who would like to see me in Tibet looking at gates trying to keep my feet dry, because I've chosen options where trail runners and try and keep my feet as dry as I can for as long as I can but I think it's in vain, it's going to happen innit, you're going to get drenched, there we go, can't lose the squealers, yeah didn't let me down, it doesn't even reach look, come on guys, who's done that because our way mate, that is a botched job innit look, he's put actual thing too far that way look, didn't reach, come on, let's see what he's done at this side any better, so otherwise I might, if they both nacked I'm reporting it to uh, to the government, how could you get that one right and then just miss it by so much on the other side, 10 to 5 on a Friday job innit, it's not good enough mate, see you later, so peaceful mate, around all towns and villages, especially on a Sunday when it's nice weather, you do get a bit of an infestation with humans and a lot of day walkers and that, which is fine you know, I encourage it but sometimes just like, I just want peace and quiet and then you're like walking side by side with like a screaming kids and dogs and all that, which you get when you get close to towns but then when you get up in fels and especially the good thing about multi-day hiking is it gets late on it day and everyone's just, everyone does one, so you're sort of left on your own, which is just what I'm looking for, so like normally I would do a foot, like you know, put a shift in, put like over 20 miles, but I can't, just don't have enough light so, yeah so it's going to be a short day today, I don't know how much, what sort of distance I'll have done but I'll check all that in 10 because I'm going to have, I'll tell you what, map time is going to be good on this series because I'm going to be in my tent from five o'clock onwards, which is a long time innit, good job I've got the guidebook and I can, I've only plotted about a quarter of it into my GPS so that'll give me something to do because I quite enjoy that, even though it's painstaking, I do quite enjoy it because I'm a nerd, go let's go and we're into woods, look at that, just a, just a bent nail with a chain over it, is sometimes all you need, look at that, property of the national trust, Beatrix Potter, it's absolutely glorious man, we've just been past an old, that old white cottage which is a grade two listed building that I believe Beatrix Potter gave to the national trust, more on that later when we do map time, all right we've got multiple choice questions, let's have to get on map, map time, should we do a live map time will ya, let's have a goose, I'm there, should it go down, I think we're going down here, they're close together though aren't they, is it worth a risk, nah let's refer to the guidebook, this is it mate, Belton breaches, amblesides connoisseur, bear right, that's this, that's this, delightful, oh look at this, come on guys, leaving it unlocked look, I'll sort it look, there you go, not down hill then back uphill, day one though isn't it, it's day one stuff, so I've briefly joined part of the Cumbria Way which I can remember from summer when I did it with Fern, although the foliage was a lot different, there's a lot more green, I think I'm going to make it to Coniston which it's not it's not a mega shift really but considering the the daylight I've had it's not too bad, but Coniston's quite built up, it's a little town or village whatever so and I don't want to stay in a pub or in B&B or anything like that, I might do near the end or halfway around as a little treat for myself but not now, not now I want to rough it, so my choices and my options are do I stop before I get into Coniston or like look for somewhere, it's only half three but because at the time of year in an hour an hour and a half it'll be dark, five o'clock we'll be getting there, so do you look for somewhere before Coniston, before you get into Coniston or do I just gun it and get to other side, we'll see but let's try not get squashed first there, come on come on, try not get squashed away being as look, sweet as, I think I'm going to get to Coniston and then push on through, it's the only way really and just keep going until it starts to get dark, keep going I've got me a touch I'll talk through what I'm carrying this in my little chest pouch but head torch is in there because it's winter and I'm going to be setting off early at morning and walking till it's too dark so we'll see, so you have made me mind I'm going to push on through Coniston and get out the other side of it and then look for somewhere to camp once it starts getting dark, look at this, I'm coming into Coniston just as the sun's setting over the hills and the temptation, it's Sunday isn't it, Sunday, the temptation to get a just like a Sunday lunch and a Sunday tea, I just have a couple of scoops, he's very strong, they're very strong urge to do that but if I do that then I'm definitely walking out into it sticks it dark out to pitch up it dark just because of a couple of scoops but then you can stay warm can't you, stay warm, couple of scoops on till about and a bit of food till about seven or eight and also it's the start of a full moon today so it'll be light and then I'll just go front pub after a couple of gauges and then just keep on outside of town, just get away from my houses and then pitch up in dark or do we bat on, bat on, I think we bat on, I don't know, the next shot is going to be me in a pub isn't it, took it into a lasagna or something, a bit pie or whatever, right that's a tough gig, I've just walked past four pubs, four to instead take on this, I mean it doesn't look steep on here, it doesn't look steep on here but it's steep coming out of Coniston, you've got to do it aren't you, I find somewhere to camp now, look at this, it's a bit wet it's dripping in fact, shall we go have a look, I ain't got time for this, doing it anyway, doing it anyway, shit, oh I've got wet feet, look at that, hello, I wonder how far that goes, I've got wet feet that's it, all day I've managed to avoid getting wet feet and then right at the bitter end double trouble, careless mate, careless whispers, right no more the sidetracked, this you're not going to get sidetracked by that though, look at it oh it's nice, I've conquered that hill, pissed it mate, pissed it and chasing sunset, it's deal or no deal but we like for camp spots in it when you're going like this because it's like wobbling Oliver, these make me a little thing broke, it's all a bit wobbly oh if we get some pine pitch, if I find some pine pitch, I find some pine resin, I'll fix that but anyway sorry for wobblyness, so I'm trying to crunch out as many miles as I can but then the sun is slowly going down over hill and I'm like well that's a good place and that's a good place but then do I want to get around corners or a better place, deal or no deal, no deal, no deal, no I'm going to keep going, no cheers, sun's going in and the temperature's dropped obviously we're getting higher up as well so that cools things down a bit and the wind chills coming in from this way so I'm going to try and either hug the side of this or find just a natural hill or some rocks whatever and get behind it and get a little bit of shelter I got windy up there but I've just dropped down just behind here and look at this haha absolute jackpot mate, oh he's boggy so it's not quite jackpot but it's jackpot enough I think it's jackpot just enough, maybe up here a bit less boggy, yes oh here we go that's my spot, still a bit windy but nothing like up there I look at my vistas, oh well we're just going to pitch here anyway because it's getting dark oh I'm sweet though, the skies are doing something good at them, right one of these, there we go just a little, a few little fine adjustments but yeah, oh looky here, you're full of it mate can't hack it, too much hiking, look at this, beautiful skies, I managed to get my tent up we're here a few days man, we're back, back at Lanshan too, so I'll peg you out and then because it's winter and I'm in lakes I've brought four, four of these bad boys and I'm pop the mini not four corners now and then we're going to move in, so yeah I've got my delta pegs in the corners now, I just pegged it out with the other pegs provisionally and then the delta pegs go in and then I've used my other pegs just doubling them up so you've got your bitter cord on your peg and then your secondary peg goes through that loop so it's belt and breeches so she's not going anywhere so if winds do pick up like winter winds, I'm all good, light is fading fast man, you can see it better if I go this way around look, that's how dark it is look now so I'm going to get in wigwam I think, just warm digits up and brew some hot water and get so much to eat, there you go, last look, I was filled with joys, I pitched the Lanshan in the glow of the fading sun because I knew I'd already achieved my goal, the real battle isn't getting to the finish line, the real battle is getting to the start line, stunning, tea's on, well water's on, it knew, I helped Kit look, I've had to buy it because I forgot man, no windshield just use bag as a windshield or whatever you've got, stick the bag on its side and it's happy days, I've got the outside closed, I leave the walking poles a little bit high so I've got a good clearance and maybe, I don't know, half a foot or whatever just so I can get some a bit of breeze so I don't get too much condensation, don't have to deal with that, obviously if it's really windy then I'll just drop it down but for now I'm in this little valley and everything's all right, oh mate I'm hungry what we're going to have for tea, minced beef hot pot, adventure food is not the best but it'll do for night one, there we go, welcome to map time, I have bought all the big os maps for the lake district and I've plotted out the route, by going from the guidebook I've transferred it all onto this bigger map because you get a lot more detail than you do in the guidebook because it's zoomed in more so I thought map time would be a lot better doing it by this so I wasn't able to do it at the end of every day, I've had to remember everything as best I can and then here we go map time but I've put some effort in because look drawn it all on so welcome to map time, ample side so this is where I pulled up to ample side I was a little bit late and I had to go into the center of ample side to get myself a new pot to do to bomb the watering so I was a little bit late in setting off maybe set off about 11 half 11, I parked in this car park here you can pay I think it's 30 quid and you can get a full weeks parking ticket for that so you can just leave your van or your car or whatever your donkey leave it there you're good for a week off I went down this path here round and I was so excited just to be setting off on a trail man and it is a lovely little little place ample side I'm up here over this cattle grid and then we start our first sort of leg pumping climb up onto the tops through a couple of lovely gates and some lovely views over windermere this is where I saw Joey D down this hill it's just lovely and it was lovely I was treated to some beautiful weather as well come down here it's easy walking all the paths are pretty pretty well trodden in it's a sharp turn here you don't you come off the trail so this would normally take this way but you turn here and there was a wonderful gate here and this was like it'd been a long time since I'd filmed a gate and put it on latch and locks and this one was an absolute blinder a return to form I really enjoyed that one and that sort of set me up for day that such a good gate I had a spring in my step so here there's multiple choices to go you can go up and around but I stuck by the side of Luffrig tan round here onto the road you join the road but only for a couple of hundred meters and then you're back off it again and up there's lots of trees and stuff round here it was quite nice and then you come through this caravan park down there's a couple of air louses here and then you're to this waterfall you can make a little detour just off the track there check out the waterfall which I did this is all lovely track it was pretty busy because it was a Sunday but it's lovely walking all the way along here to Ella water there's a pub in Ella water and places you can rest and eat but I didn't do that I carried on there's a little bit of road work here and then you're off up over the tops through some lovely woodland it's so peaceful over this little road here over this bridge nice little gate on there that's where we had that lock that was unfortunately not up to spec and again through these woodlands it was a lovely there's nothing too high on this first day we're getting to that later on in the hike but just these woodlands and moorland it was beautiful especially through here with the sunshine and through the trees and then we come up here and this was the Beatrix Potter house the white cottage that we saw along this is just a bit of road but it's no cars whatsoever it's pretty quiet lovely views over the valley we cross over the main road and this is where we joined on to the Cumbria Way which was lovely to be back on the Cumbria at a different time of year so I could see all the different foliage and how it looked in winter it's pretty good through here which is spectacular multiple choices here you just stick to the side at lakes through here it's quite busy you get a lot of day walks and stuff especially on a Sunday up here towards this car park come over here there's some lovely views to be had from the top of this road you come down the road now this is where I goofed I've drawn it where I actually went on the map but I was supposed to go through here and keep going on the Cumbria Way which I wanted to do because there was some stuff that I wanted to see that I'd seen last time with Fern and wanted to see what it looked like in winter but I goofed so too busy chatting waffles at camera so I carried on down here and it's just pretty much a road it's not very busy but by the time I got to about here I'd realized I'd never mind because if you if I zoom out you can see this is where I'm trying to get to Coniston so it was either go through that way or you just come down the road this is what I did and then there's a bridal way at the side of the road you can follow that boom to the edge of Coniston water and then follow it it's just that there's a there's a decent track at the side of the road all the way in to Coniston itself where I had to remain strong and not go for a gauge which I did that start on to the next map so with a heavy heart and a dry mouth we avoided the pubs of Coniston and we cracked on up here bit of a leg pumper coming up here and this was where I got sidetracked by like cave we've got a bit of a soggy trotter going in there a couple of soggy trotters late on in day which was a bit wounding but never mind we splodged on up here and this is on road this following down all quiet roads till you get to here which is a car park and then I was off chasing the sun looking for a decent spot but beautiful hiking started to get a little bit cold we know this because this is where I am now and I believe this was where the walk that little stream that I'm near and I just came off and that's where I'm parked up for tonight with some lovely views lovely views right I think that's everything covered for map time we're back we're back and we're paying attention to map time and there you go if you're not subscribed already consider subscribing and you can hit the bell notification if you want to be notified when part two is up but for now thanks for watching and I'll see you on the next one