 I plotted a challenging 36 mile circular route in the Peak District National Park, which would take in a variety of different terrains from high peak passes to tranquil riverside rambles. We battled the elements, bathed in cold water and found plenty of wild edibles along the way. Join us as we take on this custom multi-day adventure in the Glorious Peak District. Trail raspberries, catch and cook now. Tag and release, run my beauty. We set off with the wind at our back, a gleam in our eye and a spring in our tits. We ambled through the glorious woodland, got the blood flowing in our legs to prepare us for the days to come and reached the summit of Wind Hill. The summit of Wind Hill and the start, I'm saying the start of this circular journey in the in the Peak District. Oh you can see here. Hello, welcome to another video by the way. You can see where we're going to go. Oh we're just saying we. The royal we. We plan to do some stuff about surprising you with Joy D but you are here but you're not here. We'll work it out on the fly but Joy D is here and we're in the Peak District. Let's go. We're going to head along here and across this ridge over Mantaun and we've got a big loop around. That's where the eye can see coming down this side of the reservoirs and right back round. Joe's gone. I've got a new backpack. It's the Osprey Exos Pro 55L. This is its maiden voyage. Right. Come on. Right. I'm finding it hard. You're going to have to dig deep mate because people need to know, you know, people need to see the good and the bad. Sometimes you come across something. It's all right. Go on. That's not right about it. Oh God. It's like an elbow. This is awful on many different levels. I don't like this. It's metal. The acoustics are atrocious and it looks like something that sheep would, it's like the last walk of a sheep out of 10. It's like a two. It's a two. Sorry, everyone. Gooseberries. The clouds started to darken and the rain started to fall as we made our way up to the summit of Loose Hill. Wind Hill in the distance. We followed it along here. Cut back down around and up here on to Loose Hill. There's Joe cutting a fine silhouette with the foreboding skies behind him. Ready to take on his first D.A.V. Challenge. He's had a word with a few people who've gone past and we've hooked him up. He's got a few tips and we're going to, he's going to join one of their packs and stay in a youth hostel. Stay in a youth hostel without young ones. Weather's closing in and it was forecast and we've been, we've rode our look to be fair. It's been nicer than it was forecast to be, but this is what it was really forecast for. You can see just. And it's going to be like this forecast for the rest of the day and the night. So we're going to head over Mantoway and then we're going to cut across where it's dark, across the Harrow Ridge. Who knows? And I guess we just keep going until we're ready to bed down. Classic summer holidays in England. Look. You're having a good summer holiday yet? Don't forget to put sun cream on. Right, look at us. It won't be out of place in Horsham. Yeah. This is ridiculous. It's, it's genuinely cold and wet. Yeah. That's us. That's us. That's how we have fun. It's thumbnail. Don't look so happy. There you are thumbnail. UK summer hiking. Here we are. Look at this man. It's a flowing river. It's muddy. I'm about as wet as that. It's wet. Wet as an octopus's bra. And, uh, I know we've been here before, but I'll say it again. It's a custom adventure. I've just plotted this into my OS map as a big circular route that's about, let's have a 30 mile, but the heavens have opened and up tops it's pretty blustery. And the route takes us through Edale and up over Kinder Scout. And then it would look like we'd have to keep up there. And we've, with the weather forecast, we just don't fancy it. So Edale is our last port of call. The only sensible thing to do is maybe just get in there and have a pint maybe and then just sort of play it by there. If this just cuts to some sort of, it just cuts to tomorrow. I'll turn it off and it'll just be good tomorrow. All like blurry eyes and I just like, oh yeah, welcome to day two. Are you all right? Stay tuned actually. Stay tuned to find out what we do because no one has an idea. No one's got any idea what we're going to do. So I'm excited. If I was watching, I'd stay tuned to find out what we do. Sorry for the lack of anything. It's just too wet and it's not fun filming in this rain. I just thought I'd bring you in to see this. Show us what we've got going on. We've got a mini gate. I'd call that a half gate, would you? Half? Yeah, it's about a half gate that, yeah. Yeah. A half gate, but that's not where it gets. And then you sort of hang a quick How was it closing? Is it just on a spring? It's on a latch. Latch and lock in it. Oh, we've got a spring here. And a spring loaded. I knew it was a spring loaded, didn't need to see it. Classic latch. And then what's exciting is when you come out Oh, looks a squeezer. I don't know if I, then you've got to choose left or right because there's a blocker. I think you're all right getting through there because you're, it's actually tight. You're like a, you're built like a cheese string. Do they call them, they call that a fat shamer, don't they? Am I fucking, am I skinny shaming? Oh, this is the fat shamer. Yeah. Fat dick. No, sorry. It's just my bag, not my, it's like, it's my bag, not my belly. Yeah. I guess to stop cattle getting out. Yeah, mate, just makes it a squeeze. Yeah, just makes it a squeeze, but there you go. I mean, that's why you're in it for, for that sort of club. We're soaking wet at Bourne. It's been relentless. Feet are soaked, everything's soaked. You know, what can you do? I was saying to Joe, like if this was back in day, and we were just like, you know, hiking to the next village to pick up some grains or Joe was going to sell one of his goats, a train. Oh, I'm that guy. I'm that guy. I think it's dry on there. Dry on train, isn't it? And you would stop in the tavern, wouldn't you? You'd stop in tavern for a few tankards of ale or mead before heading over the tops the next day. And I think that's what we're going to do in it. Would you know that the weather was going to change tomorrow because you wouldn't have any weather apps, would you? Probably forecasting apps. You don't have any apps back in them days, do you? What about Grindur and I think they've got Wordle. But you'd be able to, I suppose you'd be able to read the weather. Yes. You'll be lazy like we are now. No, this isn't lazy, mate. We're so, this is, we don't need mountain rescue coming to save us. I don't be lazy, that's it. I mean, I mean that we've, we've become, or culturally accustomed to the weather app. Yes. Trust in our knowledge and instinct. Yeah. Well, I'd just be like, it's a white out. I'm getting in ale house. Well, anyway, we've made the executive decision to hide under this bridge. But so sorry about the lack of content is what I'm saying. I just, we'll bring you some of it from ale house. But I mean, again, that's just difficult, innit? Do a little podcast. Oh, that's how it is. The real summer under here. It is your British summer. This is what we came for. Mate, you are screaming British summertime right now. I imagine. I mean, I feel it from the inside out. Not glowing. We're glowing though. Next to this look. It's pleasant under here though, innit? That's what it's come to and this is the best place to be. Yeah. The cool train goes up at the top, innit? Yeah. Have you seen it go over? Oh, yeah. It's the rain affects your brain as well, doesn't it? Soggy, you. There's not what we do. But look, it coming through here. He's still look at the wildflower. It's beautiful, but oh, we were underneath it. Silent. Was that electric? I think that was a Tesla. All these beautiful wildflowers. If it was like the sun was pelting off them and the one that called it sky, you would be whistling, wouldn't we? It's just a different ball game, isn't it? Yeah. Like with the last fight we did, where the weather was very kind to us. It's like a different thing. You skip along, don't you? You do. You positively float along, don't you? Everything's wonderful. And then it just gets a bit trudgery, doesn't it? But why do we associate it with it? I mean, like we were just saying, if it was raining but it was warm, it wouldn't be so bad, but it's raining. It's a bit nippy, isn't it? It's nippy on tops, but so it's not nippy. Where isn't it nippy? I would imagine it's not that nippy inside the airhouse. Oh, God. Here we go then. It won't be open and we'll have no choice. Don't say things like that. He's another one of these fat shamers. That's tight. I might have to turn back. It's shaming me. Shame on me. I mean, if you're struggling, I don't know what. Seen some, haven't it? Love that. That's either. Get a lot. It's nice. It's good. We might be sleeping in Mr Goggins' old cattle shed. Yeah, in the foothills of the hills, we'll rest our weary feet. They've got a right idea, look. Oceled under sheep making, I mean, Oceled under, there's their tents over there. Oh, mate, I don't want to camp. Dude, we're intrepid explorers, mate. We can't bed down in the field with a load of DAVs. For anyone in America who doesn't know what DAV is, it's a thing you do at school where you do like orientering and map reading and just go on like a big hike with a load of overweight gear on your back and then from campsite to campsite. These sheep know what's coming, look. That, aye, without a napad, look at them and be like, no, I'm not going up top because if these lads are under there, it's not good, is it? There's your app. There's your app, look. Carry that, will you? It's coming for me. My app's backfiring. Dude, it's coming for me, this lad. It's making me nervous. He's got nuts on him. He's chasing me off. Yeah, he's chasing me away. Yeah, he's won, he's won. You win, lad. You're winning the nut department and just through the fact that I was scared of you. Well done, lad. Is it DAV? And also a DAV stands for Duke of Edinburgh, so what is that? A little hideaway retreat. A little hideaway retreat. Why now? It looks a bit, it looks. Pat, how much do you reckon it would be to, hey, they've got a helm compact too. Oh, you know, it's the compact one. Should we get in there? It's not very adventurous of us, is it? Well, let's go, let's go to pub and discuss tactics, mate. We're going to pub to discuss tactics because, because tactics need to be discussed and there's a level of, like, do you think there's a level of, like, we've really lost if we're just camping in a field full of, like, 12-year-old school kids? But I think we're better than that, are we? I don't know, we're proving that we're not, but see what a bit of beer does to conversation, shall we? I'm actually a bit of a chill. Just cold, aren't ya? Yeah, I mean, I have, yeah. I think it's because we've slowed down. You've not got a lot of meat on your bones as you've just proven by them fat shammers. He's not, sir. We're somewhere down in this valley, bedding down, either with kids or, that sounds bad, doesn't it? Or in church. Or in church. Refuge. Yeah, I don't say bedding down with kids. Just say with bedding down in that field with D.F.E., which is a look, that's going to be a low point for me, that. In wigwam, lagging it down. We've got J.D. just literally there. We've put our tents as close as we can to each other without getting our guidelines too far in each of his business, but he's going to eventually open that side of his niche and we can just lie here and just chill in the rain. And that's it because that's what that's what he's come to. We've not bothered going up tops. We're in this campsite and we've set our tents up like this because that's just how it's panned out. Pandora's box. And so we're going to go to Alehouse, maybe drop another pint or two and then and then call it a night. And then tomorrow, when it's sunny, we'll start our real hiking, find somewhere to swim, bring you some lovely views, et cetera, et cetera. And Joe's in his new Lanshan 2 pro. It's a Coleman in disguise. But for now, we're just going to grab a couple of beers and sit it out and hopefully not wake up with too much condensation. For anyone who doesn't know, this is the top tip, bread bags. So I can, my shoes are wet, but dry socks on bread bags. And you put your wet shoes back on and still have dry socks. Joe's yet to learn this as his dry socks are now wet. And there we are at walking into a pub looking like, I don't know what, a couple of Cirque du Soleil members. Having it though, eh? Electrolites mate. Electrolites. Terrible though, lighting this thing. Really bad. A nice summery beer for a summery day. Lovely. Is that a pilsner, is it? Yeah, it's a pilsner. As you can see, condensation has already started. It was like this when I got in. So we've made the right choice to stay down here because it's going to be a soggy one. That's us for day one in our pit. Unless some magic or tragic happens, I'll see the aunt morrow. So camping. My camping, we made the right decision then. We used the little bridge. We're just heading up out of Edale. We were hoping it wasn't going to rain, but as I'm saying this, he's starting to really enjoy these putting his DOV rain cover on. I think I might have to get my rain cover on and get a kagool on. And we're heading up there onto the tops. I don't know where your next bar meal's coming from. Right, rain jackets have come off again. We're heading up there. Big climb up to the tops and see what he's got to offer us up there. A relatively tough climb up here. Quite technical in part. Definitely went pure, but I'm imagining that this is the hardest part of the day, climbing out of Edale. And the waters are flowing, as you can see, the brown PT bovril from up top, washing down into rivers. Beautiful. Look at that. Just putting a nugget on. Is it going to hold? Quite the leg pumper, but a lovely, just semi-technical stretch where you've got to be aware of where you're putting your feet. Sometimes you put them in a little bit of water, but I don't mind that because it freshens legs up. Pretty much on tops now. Ominous clouds afoot, but never mind. And we're heading through them rocks there. Oh, there's a proper path, look. There's those trudging fruit bogs. And then just here is an actual path. Man, how is that even staying in place? It's not going to. It's eroding at rate and not seeing it underneath it. I respect it though. Some graft being put into it. It's ridiculous to get it level like this. Good graft. Good graftmanship. It's like a dog. He's actually like a dog and I think outside of it it's here. Steep is it? That's actually a wind blowing in this direction. That makes me nuts cringe. There's snippets of blue, but then if you look into where we're going, it looks pretty gnarly. It's coming over. Sculpted by the winds. The chard in my room. It's a labyrinth, isn't it? A labyrinth of smooth, wind-caved stones. We're lost. We're lost. Dude, I've got back to the beginning. I wonder if there's any like shelters in here. Like just little overhangs up there. I've got to go through here. I've got to go through here. I'll take you guys with me. It's a bit thin like a bag. Don't get what have I done. I'm through. I'm through now. Best time ever. He's down in Peatbog. What is it? Shelter? Oh, yeah. Oh, times are hard. You've got to get a seat down back. Yeah. I don't have a wind tunnel, but I'll take the edge of the rain off, won't I? There he is. There he is, look. Are we there yet? Right, shall we find somewhere and have a little sit down? Five minutes? Down here. I don't know if you can see on this thing, but Mermaid's Pool, which many moons ago, I did a midweek school night mission to try and find it. Dunking Mermaid's Pool and enjoy the beer as the sunset of a Manchester rigade. Right, wish is the best place to go in. Before I dip the wick, I'm just going to interject and give you a little bit more information about this mermaid. Legend slash Wikipedia has it that the only time you can see the mermaid is on Easter Sunday at sunrise, and you're looking to the water and see a reflection. And if she likes you, she'll grant you eternal life and a packet of jammy dodgers. If she doesn't like you, well, she's going to suck you off. I mean, suck you to the bottom. Legend also has it that she has a best friend called Sebastian, who's a lobster-type crab thing. She's a really good singer, addicted to winkles and fish sticks, fun enough, and she spends a lot of time gambling and is absolutely uncontrollable after a few Stellas. This looks extremely foggy. Oh, that's cold, right? Ice cream, Ed. Yeah. They say it's salty. It's salty. Maybe a little bit. It just tastes like sheep's shit. Oh, mermaid face. Let's dance. Oh, I'm sinking. Oh, my God. It's up to my knee. Oh, shit. No, no, no. Abort. Abort. Whoa. Abort. Abort. Happy times. And that's down there, but not today. We're over the ridges and over the tops. This is a mermaid's pool. The Pennine way over there, a path that goes up and over the top. That's where we're going, up and over the top there into this valley. And I think we've branched around right, and then we're on the top of these moors, which looks like a long way as Manchester over in the distance. House legs. All right. We're all right at moment. We're maybe over a third of the way for what we've planned today. And it looks pretty good walking actually. A chunk of earth, as Joe rightly describes it. Medic. You want bloobs, yeah? You want bloobs? Look at him stealing bloobs. Dirty boy. Bloobs. Yeah. This is good content for you. Look, a family unit of sheep. You all right? I've got to do something about mint because I'm struggling with content at that moment. We're not, I'm not bringing the bants. The waffle meter's pretty low. If you've got anything, come on. You on that rock, do something brilliant. Jump on your mate's back. Forget it. I plotted the route into my OS map and it picked up a route through here. So I thought it was going to be a path and then it turns out it just isn't a path. We're having to just follow the lineup map and just jump through pretty much this pathless bog. But, you know, on the bright side, this is where you find things like deer antlers and bits and pieces off the beaten track. But for now, we're just aimlessly meandering through here. Joyous. There is, you can see him there through the heather. Our Joseph. We're pretty lost again off the beaten track. Like, well, just roll it. I start you when you're plotting your routes. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you win less. And we've lost it. Oh, owl. Pewdie. Madness. Ground owl. Elvis, the ground owl. Here we are, this lovely body water, but it's only, we were going to go in, but it's only ankle deep and what is in there is very sinky. Might be deep in the middle, but we might struggle to get out again, so we're not going to risk it, are we? It's six o'clock anyway now. We're going to have another owl in saddle and see if we can find some work. It's all too boggy up here. There's nowhere really to do out. Now I've made a mistake. I thought there was going to be a path and there isn't. Oh, we've got bog foot for sure. We've got bog foot. After the on and off rains and wind and everything that's thrown at us today, it's gifted us this beautiful evening. Right then. Are we good? Let's bat on. Let's finish it. Our day's hike. Look at these sun lads. Oh yeah. Can we get in? We're in. Oh, mate. We've got little fairy lights in that. I think maybe a bothy is it. I will make it a regular stop on my explorations of the upper dome. Lovely stuff. Oh, we made it through all that bracking. We're definitely going to be covered in ticks, but look at this. Mate, this is fine. Oh, should we just do it here? We've found our spot. Can't tell you how glad we are to get here. Hopefully midges don't go too spare. I mean, I can see a few of them, but hopefully it doesn't go mad. But there's plenty of room. We'll get our tents out now, start drying them out. And there's plenty of water. We'll have a little walk up and down, see where it best places, but we'll definitely get a little dunk on as well. It's going to be cold, isn't it? It's the great outdoors, Tommy. It's the great outdoors, dummy. It's cold, Tommy. Oh, why is it so? Why is it spicy? Beautiful, eh? My thing was boiling over. So I got it and Andal was boiling off and I let go of it and I just dropped it on my leg. So it's out of pinkness there and my skin's come away. And I'm pretty badly burnt, so I'm just keeping these shorts wet and keeping over where I'm burnt. Just to keep wolves from the door. Did I scream or what? Screamed. Ah, screamed. Screamed, you leapt. I lept and screamed because it was just, it was shockingly painful. It shocked me how painful it was, but that's life. Going in, it's not because I'm burnt and I'm angry. This is genuine. Genuinely right. Put me water in. Water, water, water left. And I looked at the bottom and it was like there was just a couple of mouthfuls as I can't be right. So I put a bit more water in. It's still not a lot. Look at that. It's just enough to fill my bottom of my spoon and it's gone like soup. There's hardly any clobber in there. Right, if this doesn't taste like the best thing I've ever eaten. Beef crunching, that is 10 pound 50. Sorry to put you on blast and maybe you rest of your stuff's good, but expedition foods, it's a big, it's a big thumbs down from me. It doesn't help. I need so much soothing to take away this pain. This is ripe. Look how red it is, man. You probably can't pick it up on here but that's red all around back. Only took skin off a bit there where I grabbed my trousers to pull them off it and it took skin off, but that's going to be bubbly and blistery tomorrow, I imagine. Just got to keep these on just to keep pain at some sort of keep the pain around level eight out of 10. I've got some cooked. He's got some cook. Oh, yeah, maybe I will do morning glampers. The Gossamer gear, the one again, sodden, absolutely sodden. Might as well have just slept in the bath. There's leg, not too bad. It shouldn't rub when I walk, so that's all right. Little piss sack. It looks like I've just pissed in a bag. Well, that's actually the water from the river. I've just collected that I'm going to filter. I'm interested to see like the clarity of the water once I've filtered it through and see if it takes any of that colour out of it. But it's just the peak from on top. It's good for you. I'll leave links below to everything I use on this trip. Check out if you want. Look at that. He's got quite a fast flow on it. It's not that much clearer to be fair. It looks like piss. What he'll do. And there we go. Leave no trace as always. We're up in a way, a wonderful campsite that was. Couldn't have designed anything better really for the end of a long day. Perfect, wasn't it? Really nice. Right, and off we go. That's the best bush I've seen. It's on head height, so you can pick it. Look at them back there. There's so many. If you were ever going to pick for a pie or a crumble, this would be it. Delightful little stretch. It's called strawberry. They're only small, but they pack a punch when it comes to flavour. You all right, mate? A bit scraggly, isn't he? Do you want the mushroom? So we found a few of these beautiful looking chanterelle mushrooms. You can tell that because the gills start at the top and start going down the stalk as well. Beautiful specimen. Look at all them. We're just going to do a simple thing. We don't really have any oil or anything. Put this on the lowest heat. It'll go up and we're just going to sweat these down and have a little, a little taster. It's like the ultimate consomme here. Bland. Could do some salt and garlic. I like that. Subtle. And that's how it's supposed to be. That is how a mushroom is supposed to be. It's not supposed to be with salt and garlic and white wine and thyme and all that, even though it's delicious. That's the true essence of the mushroom. Up there is Wyn Hill. There's a big loop on it. Yeah. Big loop, mixed weather, mixed terrain. And maybe a game of two halves, I think with weather. Like today has been glorious. Second half of yesterday was glorious. Yeah. We've got our wild swims in. We've got our foraging done and we've put in the miles. But we're just about to get back to the road now and back to the van. Knuckles, Joseph. Say goodbye to the cruisers. See you again soon. See you again soon. Much love. Thanks for watching. Goodbye for now. Come for the job. They were warden. I let bygones be bygones. Can they bust a lot? Come buy by the month.