 The Herriot Way is a 52 mile circular route through some of the most beautiful scenery the UK has to offer. Join me as I navigate the rolling hills, rivers, towns and valleys of the quaint and spectacular Yorkshire Dales. The aid! Ah, we're back! We're back. I am doing the Herriot Way. I've just set off. I've left my car in the A's Garth Waterfall National... Trust car park. It was £17.50 for a week. So I've just left it there and I'm going to do a big loop back to the car. It's a bit built up here so we'll get out of town and then I'll catch up with you. But stay tuned, it's going to be about a four, maybe a four day hike but we'll see. Just been for a little mooch and a look at A's Garth Falls down there. And the name A's Garth comes from an old north scene. The open space in the oak trees, a stunning waterfall. I'm setting off a bit later than I would have hoped. It's about 20 past 12 now but we've got a lot more daylight now this time of year so I'm not too fussed. I can still put a good shift in and when I get up I can do full on like 10 hour days which is a joy. And so normally it takes about four or five days to complete this hike. I'm aiming to do it in sort of three or four days and I'm looking forward to seeing it. It's going to take me some places I've never been and I'm looking forward to showing you and showcasing the Yorkshire Dales. I've got to get my hiking legs back under me. My bag's so much lighter than when I did tour of the Lake District in winter. I'll go through what I've got in my bag. I might have done a what's in my bag video for this trip but if not I'll let you see. What I've got but I've gone super lightweight because it's not going to get too cold. I've made a few changes. I'm still at same clobber, still in ultras. I've just brought me three season bag but I'm hoping that'll be enough and I've got my mat to go under me but I don't have the X term either. I've got a lighter version which is I haven't got as good an R value but with my little yoga mat thing underneath it should keep me right. But we're back baby back on the trail and I am excited for it. Right I've got to keep looking at my map I've punched everything into my OS map because there isn't a Harvey map for this route or a Cicero guidebook so I've just got a really basic guidebook and I've punched it into the OS map myself so I have to just keep checking on that because it's not very well signposted this one. Spring is in the air. I'm just going to do a couple of mile then run back. Oh the optimism I'll never learn I'll never learn optimistic mate. Full of the joys of it all. So I will be doing a little walk past the camera. I'm looking forward to gates out here. I don't know what I don't know what it's got to offer but I want I want my Yorkshire to really pull out the stops when it comes to these gates. I've got high expectations ready. Oh this is looking strong spring that look. Woo have your arm off. This is classic Dale's behavior this. Just these little spring loaded gates with a little way through the stone wall the dry stone wall. I mean get used to dry stone walls makes we're in the Dale's and it's straight over to Navone. It's so good to be back out. I've not acclimatized to the hike yet because I've only just set off so I'm still a bit giddy still a bit excited. I mean mine doesn't just I it takes a good few miles maybe even a day for me anyway just become part of the trail and really get into it. But it's good to be back out hiking and getting some miles under me under me boots. My last few videos have been in the garden because I've not been able to get out and about. I've been down south at Ferns and we've been through it we've been she's taken on her auntie's dog who was pregnant and we had to we're basically we were up all night helping her give birth to nine puppies. There we go it's a bit dark it's a bit dark look at all these little gadgets all right here's mum look come on wiggly one pups wiggly one pups she's having a break from kids and there we are nine you can have a little look at them but there's nine puppies there and we're going to look after them or first looking after them at the moment while I'm out on the hike and then we're giving them back to her auntie for eight weeks and then we're going to choose one one of the puppies they're labradoodles and we're going to choose one yonk and that'll be our our puppy together so it'll be coming hopefully it can keep up with me on these hikes and I'll bring it along I get it trained up so it doesn't attack sheep and so that it appreciates latches and locks so if you've got any cool names for a puppy we were thinking twig her other dog's called timber so timber and twig but if you've got any other cool names that you might want to suggest pop them down below too hot I'm too hot already I brought a windbreaker with me something super lightweight which will keep me cool and stop the wind chill but that down jacket can wait man for an evening that's better that's better I'll leave a full list of everything that I'm using on this trip below so you can get an idea of what's going on I'm going pretty late at the moment my total pack weight is this and that's without water gas and food I've got two bottles of water one either side I've got a small gas I've got three I've got two main meals and uh like a muesli have muesli there's going to be places to to stock up on food as you're going they do get a bit tiresome than camping meals so I just bought a couple just in case and just so that I know the first couple of nights I've got something to eat and then I'll stock up at village shops so I'll get a meal as and when I can yeah okay I don't mind being in a calorie deficit on this one I know you need the energy and all that but I'm uh I'm happy to be in a calorie deficit I've done it before on the uh the when I do it on all the south downs where I did it on that one just is when I get a little bit of extra around midriff and on teats I know that I can afford my body can eat the fat that it's already got I've got it in in his surplus on boobs and that it's forecast to be like this for the next couple of days and then it's forecast to piss it down so I'll probably get everything hopefully we'll get everything I'm into it I've not gone for waterproof boots as always I've gone for my trail runners so I'll just accept the fact that my feet are going to get wet at some point try and keep them dry as long as possible it couldn't be more Yorkshire dales unless like a sheep came out there with uh eating uh eating gravy out of a Yorkshire pudding or something just so I've studied the maps a little bit but not a lot at all so I've got no idea even roughly where I'm going to end up because I don't know how many miles I've got in me because I don't know what the terrain is but maybe because I set off at 20 past 12 12 because I set off at 12 o'clock today I'm probably just going to get about 10 miles this is boring look at these I'm just going through a double figures I've got I've got I'm into double figures in them already we're ready in that way up onto tops keep getting big gusts of wind and I I had my delta pegs in my hand thinking shall I take them just in case I'm up tops and wind comes in I didn't so I'm just going to have to rely on on me a normal temp pegs and hope the wind doesn't get up it's about this for a couple of k now probably some of my favorite hiking is just short grass nice and soft underfoot following this stretch of river all is good we've had some heavy rain recently and this is where the river which is beyond them trees has burst its banks and come all the way up here look at this setup a little bridge a little gate there's so many of them little thin bridges and little thin gates if you were a unit you'd struggle on this one so if you are a unit you might want to reconsider look at this old beast isn't that nice I mean she's passed her best but I reckon in her prime that had been absolutely stunning lovely stuff in 1978 the northeastern railway company completed the construction of the railway line between laban and gazdale head providing a rail service to wensley dale effectively connecting the settle carlyle line to north allerton this service ran passenger trains until 1954 and goods trains for a few years after eventually closing completely in 1959 all that remains are a couple of bridges and a raised rail bed now used only by farmers and sheep and me all the wild edibles are coming out all the greens everything's springing into life I've seen loads of stuff I can munch on I am going to stop and I'm going to I mean I'll show you a few bits and pieces but there is something in particular that I want because I want to make a cup of tea and I want to use this particular thing to make a cup of tea and no it's not magic mushrooms before you ask before the next shot is of me baptising myself in there naked giving it what for in third dimension what the f*** you see that take camera on to film the gate I'm a bit of a dead fall just landed on it ah let's go this way not risking it mate let's go this way oh it's a better gate as well I got my camera out and I was going to chat about out yorkshire deals and let me down with this whatever it is held together by rope and I've come up here look at this all new clobber I mean it is a classic can I do it with f*** yeah oh my god that is a that spring has got some beef in it here we go I won't take much I'll just let go oh thud do that again let's just reload that reload a good old Yorkshire thud whoo a little bit further down we've got a copy and paste I like it when I see these I like to think he's done them at the same time two foot price of one is it as good as he's made actually no look it's bounce we've had a bit of bounce back there and it hasn't wasn't secure give it another chance no I'll shoot it in for people like overseas in America and that you might think this is a bit bonkers but it's just a bath in a wall deal with it welcome to Yorkshire a little tiny one oh mate look at that wearing tear on them Jesus packs of punch feisty little number look at that rusty but it's got a bit of bite to it they're dislocating my arm well done well done lad you see look it's deteriorating it's rusty but still got some fighting her still got some fighting her mechanic it's a really thin stone flagged path in middle of field the lads I mean he's really treating us any there considering what it's for hey don't be startled I'm here oh he doesn't care chilling look at this man little gate in corner there little one in corner it's like a little gate maze and you're going to this paddock you're like right where's the little gate oh there tiny little gates everywhere it's like a old school computer game hello no mate you're right that wasn't building site is it is it your building site are you working here right okay we got your work out for your bike looks a bit I hear trying to find a leaking bike oh damn me I found a bike now at least I love you all right yeah have you got flag strip it just straight up straight back down again well I'm not even sure where the bike goes yet I know where it starts I know where it ends somewhere so you've got a scratch about at least you've got a breaker well exactly that'll save you a bit of effort won't it you've got a good take a walk yeah it's lovely for it isn't it right good luck mate should I give him an hand digging should I wrought sleeves up welcome to Asperig have a little look it's got a nice church beautiful should we have a quick look at church no quick look so I think I'm going that way don't get squashed beauty oh they've got a shop never really quite parched some of them water should we have a look grab something from the shop there's your calorie deficit essential survival food many visitors come to Asperig thanks to its fame as a key location when the BBC filmed James Herriott's All Creatures Great and Small using one of the houses as Skeldale House and you can still see his car parked outside it 300 years ago Asperig was the main town in Upper Wensleydale with the largest market in the area it was a centre for several textile industries including flax spinning and hand knitting lead mining was also important in 1795 the building of a new turnpike road bypassed the village and from then Asperig quickly lost its market and prosperity to horse Asperig became famous in most recent times as a location for the filming of All Creatures Great and Small television series you're welcome and here's a red fur box classic I've goofed I've got wrong way but I'm hoping this might be it will this bring me onto it or I'm not just asking for trouble check my case for it it's a thin and ask rig is derived from the old Norse meaning the ridge where ash trees grow look at that that's tiny there's two two panels so I got a spring on it I can't even get through that's the smallest gate in the world do you look at that that's brilliant good stuff right onto these flags this is an old mill I think this is where water would have ran through that thing I believe I don't know there does it look quote me an abundance of wild garlic the bud is starting to come through nice to be pickled nice to pickle them beautiful oh this is nice this is nice not very deep though up to another skinny gate so many there's another one up there look at all that green throughout these trees is wild garlic I'm not sure how far the waterfall is and I've got to come back I've got to double back on myself and go back up there but I want to see it it's my holiday in it oh here it is it's not even too far man the wild garlic stinks wow look at that man look at the size of that you can't really get an idea of it I'm probably going to fall over here that's a fact it's a bit wet she's a bit weird but look at her artwork look it's making me need a piece wow it doesn't do it justice on here I have how big that actually is it's massive it's beautiful it's unbelievable I'm nearly stuck it that would have been a shitter proper shitter a proper deed to my book it's worth it look at it like I jumped that forth I can't oh man there you see if we can amazing jack by the hedge garlic mustard that's good eating you could knock up a little salad from all this stuff see this this is old bridge here this is what I should have gone over and me old mate just said I was the first person first hiker to go over that bridge documenting it and there it is look there there you go my old mate says that bridge is just opened today and I'm first hiker to go over it so I says what's its name is it don't have one I said well should maybe call it the hazel medic oh right at last something that's not one of them little ankle biting gates go don't let me down oh it's silent thought it was going to be a screecher I mean it aren't it mark but come on you've got to let it off it's silent aren't you that's where I'm going said busk don't really a path there's a path I mean if you can call it a path this way anyway have it filled glorious day it's a bit windy but it's a little aglorious hey up what's this oh here we go it's our first counterweight of the of the trip oh I can feel po on it already this idea of that what's going on got a counterweight on a squealer tight squeeze don't really need a counterweight on it but it works for me oh lads now then right what's going to happen one it our first n cow enter with these lads here look yeah I don't want to go through it middle here because if that's mum and that's daughter like kid you don't want to be going through middle of them go on he's not going to shift go on mate because I don't want to get in middle here why do I even get through he's vibing me out look he's eyeballing me come on not shifting oh come on I can't I need to get to that gate but he's right in front of it come on mosh wait come on get up get up there come on come on come on what we're gonna do just wait sit it out a bit where's the actual gate it's on that side I don't look like I can get through there in a hurry pin me to it look go on go with your mate go on right I'm going for it I'm going for it I'm getting in the middle of them you just don't care does it it's fine it's absolutely fine look look what's this is that gate no you stood right in front of the gate mosh I'm climbing over okay get him stubborn but that's where gate was look I couldn't have done out I couldn't have done out mate it's not that it's not that was scared at all I'm going to say something pretty controversial here and I am aware of my standing and my position in the scene in the latch and lock scene but I'm going to say this I am going to I've been thinking about here I'm going to say it there's too many gates there I've said it there's too many gates like you can't get a good flow you can't get a good I'm stopping literally every there's another one there another one there then another one then another one it's constant mate and don't get me wrong I love a gate more than more than anyone I know I love a gate but it's just one it's relentless it's one after other and I can't I can't lose my selling me mind and just amble because constantly having to stop and deal with a screecher or a whatever gate look what's this one of these I like what he's done there though but still I'll get right corner there'll be another one sometimes there's two real close together is this it is this careful what you wish for like a augustus glute when he when he gets in chocolate that's me now the CEO of latch and lock is getting latched and locked out of his mind what I like is just the odd one now the odd one that's quite ornate or something different about it but relentless relentless farm gates out the one you probably can't hear me because it's it's quite windy it's farmer there I might go and have a word with him whoa metal death parrot there it is again another little tiny gate and over we got here look the lads waiting for me and I can't I've got to come this way let me pull the stern off right lads I've got to come this way so if you mind moving you're intimidating me get out of it lads please well I can't it's too much isn't it look come on right if I come down here you're gonna pin me to a wall and smash my head in a walk else I'm not having it going back off come on lads get up here come on come on I'm doing it I'm starting to believe I'm hurting them look hurting them don't turn around it's all right it's all right hey the beef master the thing is with cattle you just can't you can't show fear but it's hard not to be a little bit nervous when they're all just stood just stood there oh killoo with long beak hear it there's some wonderful birds kicking about gate gate and gate garuff gates I don't know if you can see there but not the crows that little in there swallows the swallows are back for summer a great sign give me 10 minutes 10 minutes out of that wind man the wind's blowing that way so I've just got behind this wall there's my views look beautiful you sit here and have a I know they're for kids but they're good because they've got no shit in them they're just it's all fruit I'll show you I'll show you because that's what it's come to it's like a little spiral like a fruit level like you would make in the wild not that if well if you know you know but just like a fruit leather tasty clobber as well peach and banana wish a good little sugary hit and healthy and give them to your kids I used to give them to my daughter and just if you think they were normal sweets don't be none to her it's fruit you don't realize how what it is when wind's blasting you and then you get behind here and it's whoo it's delicious considerate time of year it's five o'clock so we don't get darts for about eight three hours three hours of hiking I don't want to be up tops because it's too windy I don't want to be in a a certain type of woodland that's going to have a chance of deadfall breaking my face ideally somewhere like this like in a corner out the wind pitch me tent up we'll see in three hours where I am who knows who knows where we'll pitch it through here all right mate I'm going down here and through this little village and round this little village is the end of day one because there's an air house and a few of the bits and pieces a think a campsite but I don't want that I don't want that out whoa look at these brave art Yorkshire's adopted son got gone but not forgotten in loving memory of Lawrence Edward Dew's resting piece some work gone into that lovely stuff I shall have a little sit on it ah what a view as well stunner I don't want to keep in a nail out or a campsite or anything that I want a wild camp so I'm going to push through this village and once I get past the other side of the village if there's anywhere decent that's when my eyes are starting to look for somewhere to camp it's been getting very blustery so I need to bear that in mind when I look for somewhere to pitch my tent I don't really want to be too high up or I like I said before don't want to be too high up or where there's going to be limbs of trees falling on me and then like there's a lot of it like it's all farmland around here rolling farmland if I pitch later and leave early doors I should be all right I should be all right tucked up against the wall or something like that providing there's not too much cattle about we'll see that's the beauty of it in it I don't know where I'll end up green dragon he's got Timmy Taylor's my favorite pine he's used back door that's funny that is funny tell him it he denied Timmy Taylor's oh I look this camping as well I could pick hey up mate how you doing my new mate look he's herding me am I getting herded I've been filming much because the winds the winds picked up and there was no more gates slowing me down so I just got into a zone and I'm up here now and I'm looking for somewhere on that side because the wind is coming this way so a wall or just a divot or anything so it'll give me a bit of respite from that and hopefully I get a nice sunset let's check behind this wall this is the gas it's a bit all over sure these are a better bit I'm gonna keep following it up I'm supposed to be going that way but eventually this wall will lead on to my path and the risk is I am going higher up so I'll be more you know there's more chance of wind getting me but the all these stones under the ground I'm not going to get me pegs in so I'll keep going I'll go higher I'll twist no I'll twist this is it this is it it'll do it'll ding dang do it'll have to ding dang do my tent going to come above it as long as I'm down here it's fine you tired mate come here come here got a kick on you all right let's get her set up there she is I've purposely put the my trekking poles lower than the wall so that wind isn't going to catch it too much and it seems it's pretty sturdy I've gone quite low to the ground because the lower in the the hiking poles it is touching ground there's my view the gossamer gear the one which is the lightest tent I own coming in at so it's super lightweight not as much room as in the Lanshan too but plenty for me if I'm honest I just fancy the change mate and I fancy giving it a spin because it is a lot lighter than any other tent I've got a single wall tent here condensation can be a problem but normally I would raise it off the ground so you get more airflow underneath but all this is mesh so we'll see how we get on I've got my little yoga mat to put under my air bed and the air bed I've got I've not I've not gone for me extra I've gone extra light and in fact I've gone for the uber light so it comes with loads of different adapters this thing I've shown you them the other incarnations of them before but this is the new one it goes in the end instead of on the on the side of it goes over all sorts of other you can use it that way you could use it that way and you can use one of the other orange adapters it works for pretty much all air beds all air beds I've got anyway so you pop that over there and then the nozzle goes over this side and the beauty of it is once you're in you're in you can just leave it to do its own thing you can just leave it blowing up your head and you do what you need to do and it'll and it'll just keep an eye on it put it in the wrong way I was actually sucking air out of it I was actually sucking air out of it there's an arrow actually there's an arrow there look fighting that way that's blowing other way is sucking it out silly sod because I'm tired in it I think there we go it takes between 30 seconds and a minute to do jobs are good and good that it's got a porch here so I can put my bag in porch because I mean you can get your bag in here it's quite long I got this as well for it can it curl it because it's a lantern right I'll show you it later where's nothing crunches down to nothing I'll show you it dark anyway but it gives such a lovely light only if you want check it out below flex tail give me a discount code I mean if you get 15% off with that code I think it's hazy 15 or something like that but I'll pop it there and I'll leave a link below if you want to get yourself a little discount on one of these I'm excited to get wigwam in fact I'm not going to get it wigwam actually it's a lovely day out here isn't it don't need to be in there just you off all balls I forgot me put a ball ball I forgot my pillar why am I such a Kentucky fried donut sleeping bag of choice for this trip is the rab neutrino 600 in you go fluff you set up lad right I put my marina wool layer on I think just layer up so that I don't get cold I'm not cold at the moment but it's all as best to layer up before you get cold there's wigwam over there more for a walk to end of there make most of this sunset you know come with me coming over this beast I'm not doing too much walking yeah so I'm gonna do a 30 mile day tomorrow and I'm out here doing a bit get down here behind this rock I've got me down pants on and that sheltering behind this rock and I want this look it ain't got long left does it look it's almost disappeared beautiful glorious so I only managed to do 15 miles today because I set off a bit late set off at 12 but that's all right I mean the guidebook says only the first day is only supposed to be 12 miles so we're ahead of that I tell you what my oldie this is it's cold on digits mate it's very cold yeah I'm just gonna watch it and ask that if it blows up and looks amazing once it's gone behind there I'll bring you back but other than that it's just for my peepers that's me air pump with that thing on it gives off a wonderful light I've watched the sunset the wind is still howling but we're sheltered quite nicely behind this wall I didn't fancy any me meals I'm just not hungry so I just thought I won't bother and hopefully we've got some good weather tomorrow so we can crunch out some miles right I'm gonna hit the hay and hopefully I'll have but I'll abort the maps for this and I'll have sorted out a map time so I'll be able to see you over on everyone's favorite time map time there we go I've had to buy all three because one of them didn't cut it because it's all little sections I have to say Mike so I've had to get all three let's get into it apart mccain airs garth falls national trust car park it's 17 pound 50 for a week so it gives you a bit of leeway so you can take your time if you want and off I go down here these are where the falls are beautiful what falls down here off I go full of the joys of it all through my first of many little gates I had no idea what I was in for along here down here across here over this pond and down then we hit this stretch and it's quite a long stretch this following the river down but it's lovely walking lovely underfoot onto the old railway lines and along through this farm lots of little bridges and gates we hit the road for a little bit here and then it's over this he had like a stone flagged path through the field fantastic railings on this bit here in middle of nowhere really treating us into ask rig where I got mckay and a cake had a little look around the church and now I goofed here I went down here started following this here but what you should do is sort of go through the church again little little gates and along and then we go through this tiny little gate which must be the smallest gate I've ever been through shout out that pass this disused mill through here all the sides of these banks were just riddled with wild garlic the smell was beautiful and now I took a little detour down here to check out the waterfall then back carried on and then a little bit of road but these roads aren't they're not busy you didn't see any cars at all they're just little country lanes nice walking actually over this little bridge that had just been rebuilt and I was the first hiker to go over it so quite happy about that the path seems like it carries on but you just go across these fields here there's not much of a path at all in fact there's no path you just go across these fields and along and it's just along here was pretty relentless with gates to be honest like you're looking at like oh there's like one two three four five six seven total gate fest be careful what you wish for along here keep going through said busker got a little bit lost here started going up here then down there I was like I had to just do some serious map time but it's like behind a guest house here like a farmhouse thing you go through it's like you feel like your trespassing but you're not through here and again all these walls have got little gates in so you've got one two three four five six seven eight nine unbelievable really and we hit this bit here gets at top of here some lovely views this is where that memorial bench was and we dropped down now this is where you this is where you stop if you're doing it by the guide but you can stop here there's a pub there's a campsite there's plenty going on down here well I decided to bat on and this is where we join the penine way so the tracks are pretty well defined here and we join the penine way and we start our elevation up the wind was really starting to get up coming from this direction so I was looking over here for somewhere because I wanted to get out of the wind the views were magnificent as I came up here here this is where I sort of how was it down here I think it was down here I came off the path because this wall I was trying to get behind this wall so I followed it all the way up until I got to this corner and that's where I pitched my tent I had views this way of the sunset and that's where we'll start tomorrow heading off and continuing on the penine way right and that's it day one 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