 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 lakes shores through woodland and other remote mountain passes. Join me as I take on this winter late-land adventure with a mix of freezing wild camps and cosy country pubs. Morning glampers, drinks are frozen solid, like so cold mate, that was so cold. We've got ice, we're back in slush puppy basically. Bust out two of these foot things and put them on my hips where I was sleeping on my side in contact with this and that did the job so I managed to get a bit of kit but not a lot. Let's have a look together, there's moon, I'll tell you what, I didn't sleep good last night like the ground was just sapping the heat out of me. I'm thinking why, why? I've been on loads of winter camps and camps in snow and that and I think maybe, I don't know, it's like the r-value of my mat has dropped, I've had that mat for maybe I don't know five or six years, I've used it extensively. It might just be at the stage where I need a new one and also I didn't bring me little thin yoga mat, that really does help, like having a foam pad underneath your air bed. So what I had to do was I laid out my waterproof trousers and coat, whatever I could find and then I just laid my Osprey bag underneath it so sort of like that but it just gave me that little bit of distance from ground and that was okay so I managed to get a couple of hours. I had my marina wool layer on and I had my down trousers on and all that and I felt warm in my sleeping bag, it was just because underneath the bit that you lay on your sleeping bag it compresses all the down or the feathers or the synthetics so there's pretty much nothing there and you're relying purely on what you're lying on and even though it's the external, it won't be good enough. So I think it's maybe gone to shit on inside of it, you know, from occasionally I'll have to blow it up in my mouth or I have done back in days well and before I got my pump and that can make it all go a bit gammy inside and maybe that's happened and it's just not as warm as it used to be so I'll put that on my little list of things to save up for but I think I need a new mat. It's served me well, I've had it for years, oh it's so biting, you can't tell because there's no snow but it doesn't look cold does it, I mean well my water bottles are frozen, my lecky likes have turned into a slush puppy, well I'm hoping anyway though so I've got to take on these bogs now and I'm hoping that they're all frozen, that'll be nice and this is full of ice again so tonight, tonight I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to keep lowland, I'm going to have to and if I do find a pub or something, come on, we're getting in it, I'm going to be camping every night on the top of the mountain, I'm making myself an igloo out of snow, I don't care, excuse me if you've got, can you do me a discount for a bed of breakfast for one please, that's life, that's the adventure, right let's get this packed up because all of this camera is doing me digits in, come on, there we go, leave no trace, oh and we're off, so in the guidebook it is from Rostwick which we came from down there over the tops to Grasmere, now I'm setting off pretty early it's just, it's about 10 past seven, I'm looking to get to Grasmere before noon so mid-morning, I'm going to get to Grasmere and have a coffee and then we're going to set off and we're going to do the next day which is Grasmere to Patadale, so two in one today, tell you what mate, either way my, oh my fingers are hurting, it's just a tough gig man because I'm marrying to mix sort of lightweight gear for hiking and then it getting down to whatever it was last night that was definitely, oh I don't know mate, if it was minus six down bottoms then it's gonna be like minus eight, nine up here, it was cold anyway, if I can maybe find some woodland to camping tonight to keep the cold away that would be good, if not Patadale, well it depends if I get to Patadale as it's getting dark and there's room somewhere to stay I'll stay but if not we bat on, treacherous underfoot, I'm glad I stuck me where I was last night, I would have been further up so it'd be colder and it doesn't look very campable, looks like they're gonna be building a path through this area, it's a popular area now with the coast to coast and whatnot, it gets pretty boggy but, I'll do it Envy, the people who've got to lay them look at that mate, six inch thick, thankfully they sort of outlining the path for the way I've got to go and all this would be usually soaking wet but I'm able to just, oh shit! oh my god, right on cue, I'm able to just walk, thankfully guys it's completely frozen over so I'm able to just walk, I'm able to just glide across the top of the ice like some sort of figure skater without plummeting into the freezing cold Petey Nonsense, a bit of joyous, I like made me laugh though, I got it, I got myself the old, got me that, riding the funny bone, it's not funny though because it's cold on foot and it so early does, when you just set off, right there's Cairns leading the way and this is it look, I mean that's where they've got to where the piles are, where they're putting them in, so they've not got not got too far to go and I'm guessing just put them over the most the most brutal part, a wonderful round of applause to whoever's laid that, that must do it, I mean see just that little path there, that must have took absolutely ages, they must be using plant, plant machinery and stuff like that because you can't be just shivving that off by bare hand, hey I see it in distance look, see that shiny thing there, it's a digger, how's he got that up here and then big units across there, they've got to be lifting that with a machine, it's too big, it's nice now look at that, you can see it's sun on the other side, see how it's bouncing off that hill, I managed to get a signal up here, I've got a text message off one of me, one of my friends and it says here, it says I can't believe you've chosen to go on a hike during another, it's about why do you always wait for severe weather warnings before going on your long distance hikes and I don't, it just happens that way, it's just out timing is, but we've had severe weather warnings for for this cold spell and I'm in the middle of it and it's brutal, last night was brutal and it's made me think like it is a weather warning so I ain't got all gear to sleep up top, I'm not going to sleep up mountains tomorrow, I mean tonight we'll look for something a bit different because it is a bit daft isn't it, so I was thinking if I'd not put all my bags and stuff underneath, oh my hands underneath sleeping, underneath airbed, I wouldn't have had any sleep I'd have been too cold and there's now worse, being too cold to sleep, little digger there I'd have had to get into digger, keep digging digger, what if the helicopter did it in? Freightened cabota, I wonder if it's open at Keat either, I'll start driving it, I'll finish path for them, imagine that, come back in a few days and it's finished, this track is a jolly where it hit my feet of freezing now, I wonder if it goes how long it goes, I'll have to update the Cicero guidebook and say they've had this path put in, maybe I'm a new guidebook so if you're watching this and you're doing the coast to coast or the tour of the Lake District or if you're just walking over from Rosswood to Grasmere, know this, that it's paved, crazy paving, still getting wet foot though, it's still there's still boggy bits though so be mindful, honestly these cairns are lifesavers and one of my videos I put some on top of a cairn added to it, leave no trace, cairns are like a trace and all that and you didn't like it, you didn't like them but in the cairns defence like that doesn't look like a trace, it's not like litter or anything is it, I think personally I think they're amazing because it just shows, in fact I'm gonna add to one now, this frozen tip floor, this one, and if it is just one person at a time doing it that's a lot of people all working together to help the people that are coming again to find their way, there's a sense of community in it and it's I think it's great and they don't look unsightly when I see them I just think ah nice one that's marking the way, the little cairn put there by someone who cares, cairn, so much to do with cairns, cairn bear, oh there's the sun it's still freezing, I've been mining out here, I'm assuming it's mining maybe it's farming I don't know, it's slow going because it's pretty icy, don't want to stack it out here it's pretty remote, listen how peaceful it is, right anywhere shockingly easy before I, she don't want to be going in here, there we go, even river, right on cute battery went, that all lasted me about 15 minutes, it's chewing through them because of it because it's so cold, the only reason it's not snowing is because we've got beautifully clear skies which often does make it colder, I'll bring it river, oh it's not even a river really is it, can I walk over there, probably not, give it a go, come through here, really boggy through here, cairn and then we're on the pass here and then we're gonna be going over down this valley and round and hopefully Grasmere is just over yonder, oh is it that path there, I'll have a quick map time but I'm sure it's just me andering down here from what I can remember, I'm having a rest on these naked bar and a bit of a bit of a slush some electrolyte slush puppy in a naked bar, what more do you want, you know there's there's a couple of different ways you can go, one of them's of a striding edge, hell-velling striding edge, but it's not advice to do when you've got big, when you've got big pack on and it's gonna be snowing, it still early does sir, I've got it all to myself, the big playground, Robert 2.0 keeps following me and I'm keeping my eye out for somewhere where I can have a swim, I say swim just a dip, just dunking up to the neck and just breathe it out, beautiful, there's one for you, he's just, look at that hard thing there, unit, I like how he's had a bit of timber to stop it, has he got any springs or how's it, what, I can't, that's as far as it opens, what's going on, that, he's got wrong hinge on it though, that's what I can hardly get through, I can't even get through, I'm gonna go over it, that man it's been a real struggle to get through that, I've had to clamber over it, he's just had a mare in this area look, that's how it used to be, maybe should have kept it how it was, but he's used old hinges and it's just not, that ain't big enough to give it enough, so open it enough and he thought I'll sod it, they'll just have to deal with it, please close gate, I could if I could open it first mate, right a decision has been made, I've had a breakfast and a coffee and a cake, had a little look around, grassmere, beautiful, can you hear him, Robert 2.0 telling me it's right decision, so refreshed as Robert 2.0 serenades me from up high, I'm gonna go for it, the weather is gonna turn but in for a penny in for a pound, I had a look to see if I could find a roll mat like a cheap roll mat to buy, they didn't have anything, so I'm ever gonna have to camp lower or in some woodland or, I'll make it, I'll make do, I'll make do, I'm gonna go for it, we're gonna get it done, my only problem is these all my batteries have gone, so if that's the case then so be it, it's just gonna have to be cobbled together with what I can do on my phone and whatever little batteries left on the GoPro, so the whatever quality we've had throughout this might depletish a little bit, but it hasn't been that good anyway because I've been filming in 720p, so it might as well just film it on this leaf, you think I'll be saving it won't you because I've got to get right up there and I'm off, I'm gonna have to delay a cobbled on my marino wool under here and although it's alright now, I know once I start ascending up there it's gonna get sweaty, so that's where I've come from that furthest ridge over that over the top of that, through this valley, up and round and then as you know over here I can't go in. A bunch of old tan line on it from bright red, bright red and brand new, let's get to some of whatever the thought, it's nippy, I've got that tingling all over me now, I know you only saw me in there for a little bit but I stayed in a little bit longer because I wanted to get some shots with GoPro and I don't like you see me it's GoPro because it breaks the fourth wall a little bit doesn't it, so I was in there much longer than it appeared and I've got that wonderful tingle all over me body giving me a new lease of life, I couldn't do that so much though because it's getting getting undercrackers off and that gear is just everything, it takes a while so you're choosing to time, it's a beast of a climb like, stopped halfway to re-energising waterfall, Stunkel bulgaria, it's air getting thinner I think, feels like it, temperatures dropping, oh is that because I've just been in there, probably nowhere I'd rather be today on God's green earth, I'll certainly make it to Patadale unless magic or tragic happens, it's weather warnings for tomorrow and it's gonna be bad weather and my batteries are running out but we're doing it, even if even if all my batteries go and I've just got a right handwritten report about how I finished a hike, make it into a PDF and give you a lot and then instead of updating a YouTube video I'll just give you all links to PDF, you'll have a read of it and that'll do won't it, a few photos and a few photos, whoa! I'll draw a few pictures for you, you can check it out, I'll tell you what, waffling on these ascents isn't the one especially you've got little deadly little ice patches like that, get that in the distance, let it wind them here, good stuff, now I've hit a bit of a, it's a false summit, we've still got to go up there, let's go, I don't mind these up and over's they're just, I don't know, it's good isn't it, it's good for the soul man, it's good just to feel like you're doing a bit like you're earning it or like I'm earning it, I just speak for me but it feels so good because I know once I get up there and it plateaus out next to the tarn I'll be like oh and then we're just coasting, coasting down a beautiful valley into Patadale, just got to get this leg pumper done, oh look at the views man, wind the main background, I'll be able to bring you some nice views from up there as well, that's another good, another good thing about putting in some, some arduous leg pumpers, I do say leg pumper a lot though I've realized I will, I need to think of something else to say instead of that, whoa nice place to pitch here, mind you that wind through that valley is a bit biting, once bitten twice shy, I must have had about an hour's kiff last night, through being all like cold and sliding around because bag was under, thinking I was like just sliding off it and every time I slid off it and a bit of me touched floor or touched a bit of mat that was touching floor I'd just be like and it'd wet me up, I was even dreaming dreaming that I was like falling down these snowy cliffs, traumatic mate, so I'm either sleeping tonight not up here I'm either in woods or in a like a youth hostel or B&B or a boozer or something like that, it all depends doesn't it, wherever I am when it's the end of the hiking day we'll see what's the most convenient around me and we'll take it from there because it is a custom adventure, please don't remember earlier on when I was giving it big licks saying I'm camping every night up in the mountains, come rain, sleet, snow, shine, soon I'll meet the lot, I'm up there camping because plans change guys and I've got I'm gonna blame it on ADHD have I no I've just got a, I'm scatterbrained so I can never really make plans that good so we just take it as it comes please don't do me for sitting in a country pub near an open fire and anyway it's nice to have a mixture of freezing cold wild camps and cozy country pubs, look at all these nice bits look, D of E, this little yomp through this valley I'm enjoying it I aren't doing much waffle because batteries some other way things are going where we're smashing it so it looks like no matter where I end up tonight depending on whether tomorrow I'm gonna make it to Ambleside and to finish tomorrow and it would be nice to be able to document the final day as best I can so when there's like I'm sacrificing gates and that I was gonna say when there's stuff that isn't important well okay just gates that you've all seen before you know you the usual suspects these and them and all that the usual gates they're just gonna have to get put to one side because even my GoPro SD card on it's got about three percent there so I'm back sitting in my pants as far as documenting it goes but I'm doing it regardless even if you follow me for you know if my phone goes and all my batteries go so be it I'm doing it anyway I'll just I'll maybe do a video when I get in from tails from the fungerium just to let you know how it went talk you through it that'll be all right weren't it these stinkers look came with eyes look looks like a I mean I'm wasting valuable battery on this but it's worth it look look straight at me brother he's got one on each side big planes going over planes going over and I'm trying to film a cow's face because I think he looks like a superhero filmmaker yes nothing there it is look did it did it did it did it sound if you've not walked on time after a while and you've been up in over that over all the stones and your ankles have been moving all over then it's nice to get on tarmac and if you've been on tarmac fridge it's nice this is shit but banter's gone right down hill right down hill because I'm tired a bit it's a nice place to camp down there on that corner look at that beautiful yeah banter juice is evaporated because I'm tired then when I put camera on I'm not having you got I ain't got that much battery so better keep the got to keep the banter to a premium because batteries are running out now I'm fresh it I'm like fish start waffling about tarmac being I don't know what it was anyway this is good use of battery this isn't it having some sort of internal waffle but external and for the YouTube to listen to absolute scenes me I'm nearly in Pat a deal there you go that's this is nice in it look he's still called me me slush puppy still a slush puppy in my bag hasn't thought out from this morning praise be there's the deal guys here's the deal quick pint on maybe a bite to eat and if they've got a room with breakfast for less than 80 quid I'm doing it I'm doing it it's my holiday mate it's my holiday I want it I look at all cars it's gonna be full in it and if that's the case I'll find somewhere but time is cracking on cracking on indeed I might go sleep back in that church it's got free Wi-Fi also if they've got a pint of Wainwrights on let's get in here cheers absent friends and Alfred Wainwright fantastic this lads and lassies it's pretty much luxury this fancy decor it's again it's someone's nans but no bad view guess how much guess how much I'm gonna be telling you how much tomorrow I'll tell you later I want them to say at my funeral it's just 50 quid right 50 quid my bread from blush from 50 quid right three course dinner and breakfast and there's entertainment in the bathroom 9 to 11 50 quid all in I was like you have to don't you you have to you surely you have to for 50 quid three course meal breakfast and live entertainment and they've got Wainwright on tap and this look August sleep like a log I'm so happy I'm so happy yeah right well I'll maybe I'll take me camera maybe with me and see if I can get some at live entertainment it might be funny it might be great I might not who knows but otherwise let's let's head on over to map time and there we are welcome back to map time and we left me in here freezing my knacker off right woke up there's something I have to tell you that I forgot to tell you at the time and that is that my my four Delta pegs which I had in my tent had frozen into the ground because I shoot him in on the night and then the ground froze and I couldn't get him out there was stuck and I was thinking what am I gonna do so what I decided to do was use my morning pace and just well I had to I had to pace on my 10 pegs in order to get him out of the ground a little bit on this one nip it off next one is this too much information yes is it also top tier survival yes would bear grills be proud yes anyway so we started on there up over this frozen boggy area where there's the new path now where I got my little bog foot up to here which is where that iron fence was which I've later found out it's an old parish boundary this was also very boggy and you can see the amount of little streams and stuff that you've got across up here to this pass lovely views of a grass mere common a nice steady descent through here this was lovely hiking I keep saying that but it was it was really lovely not a soul in sight I stopped off here just to have a naked bar and appreciate the views and on I went on to the second map look it's massive there's maps there's maps there there's maps there they're everywhere it's a back fest such a lovely day man I was so lucky with the weather again down through here there's a few little houses down here and a shocking gate me an absolute it had a mare but the less we talk about that the better continue on down here over this field over this lovely stone bridge through this little wood here and then we hit the road but it's only a quiet road me and the down here and you can get off the road here and there's a little path at the side of it which is nice someone was doing the gardening and recognise me and I had a nice little chat with her and I'm sorry if you're watching I had I forgot your name while I do this so I do apologize but hello over a into grass mere which means lake with grassy shores which will be this thing here I tried to find a roll mat to keep me warm for the next night but couldn't find one I had a nice little look around the words with daffodil gardens and then off I was I had in fact a double drop they had another coffee and then I was off back along here because I've made the decision to crack on I had a few different options I should like there's a there's a shorter version which if I zoom out you can see here pretty much takes you along here and Bosch there you are back in Ambleside where I started and it only takes a couple of hours but I want having it so I cracked on I saw my little robin which gave me a sign said I was doing the right thing back following the road I came and then we branch off here join back on to the coast to coast along this road over this bridge over this main road and then we start our ascent I'm glad I took my base layer off because this was quite steep and it is the waterfall I had a lovely little dip in and that just gave me a proper springing me step to tackle this next bit this bit was pretty steep and then this is a false summit and then this as you can see these contour lines are well close together so this is pretty steep zigzag up here some lovely views back over Windermere and we go over the top the beautiful Grisdale Tarn follow that by the side of it and we get up here this wind was blowing a hoolie through here and down we go down Patadale Common following Grisdale Beck all the way down it's where I saw my little cows keep going legs are starting to cave in a little bit ain't so was noodle we hit Patadale with the road and then we follow the road was a little church here that was offering free Wi-Fi which I was tempted by but cracked on and there we are looking the Patadale Hotel did I mention it was 50 quid for a three-course meal breakfast and a bed wonderful stuff join me tomorrow for the final day where the weather takes a turn for the worst and if you're not subscribed already please consider subscribing hit the bell notification to be notified of the next upload and I'll see you again soon bye for now