 The Cleveland Way is a national trail in the historic area of Cleveland in North Yorkshire. It runs 110 miles between Helmsley and the Brig at Filey, skirting the North York Moors National Park. Welcome to another video and welcome to the start of the Cleveland Way from Helmsley on the North Yorkshire Moors through to Filey on the Yorkshire coast. Taking in a lot of the places that I frequented as a youth and throughout my life and going through Whitby where I was born and raised. So it's quite a nostalgic hike for me. It's one that my nan and granddad did. They section hiked it back in the day. So it's amazing to be following in their footsteps again. You have to sort of change your tactics a little bit because there's not as you know, for example, there's not as much water or safe water to purify. Camping spots are going to be a little bit harder to come by. We're probably going to have to be doing a lot more stealth camping but I've packed accordingly and I have done a kit video for everything that I'm taking on this trip. I'll link that here. I don't know. I don't even know if I've made it yet. You can be watching this as like an apology video. There's a heatwave. Britain's going to heatwave. I mean it's just a nice weather but people calling it a heatwave so it's going to get pretty hot and that might bring up its own sort of problem. So I've got a lot of water with me. I'm carrying over two litres of water with me. Right let's go man. Let's go. First gate. First latch and lock. That's a good one as well. Look at that. Locked. Locked and latched. Beauty man. Beauty. We're into the fields but we're doing it. We're on it. We're on a hike. We're on a multi-day hike. I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited to take you with me. See what adventures we can come up with or just see if we can get to end it. Let's just see if we can get to end. There's no real rush. The days are very long this time of year so you know I can stop and smell the roses so to speak. Another one's second one already man. We're getting it. It's similar to, well it's same as other one isn't it because if it's not broke don't fix it and it's probably got a good deal there. I mean it's probably bulk bottom. There's going to be a lot of latches and locks so that's exciting. For all you latch and lock fans stay tuned because there's got to mean if you don't know now you know but we're going to capture a lot of latch and lock content on this hike and to be fair and to be honest the main reason for doing this hike is to capture some latch and lock footage from my main Instagram channel latch and locks. Everything else is just a byproduct of it and I just thought we might as well just run it all into one. Big buzzard over there. Nature, nature. It's not like majestic like you know you're Scotland and you're lakes you're Wales you're whatever you're Norway's but it's North Yorkshire mate home and to me it's beautiful rolling hills farmland quaint little seaside villages chef's kiss. This isn't going to happen too much is it on a long distance walk? This is day one optimistic walking past camera like I've got time and energy to spare cut to like mile 80 or like day five you're not walking past camera are you there you're just trying to get to end get to alehouse but with me can't deny it I'm excited and I'm buzzing so why not do a few walks past camera in fact we'll do one now let's do it now look put you down there there you go watch this do the hike mate hey I'm doing this way don't look at the camera you're hiking like a champion there you go not even deployed the old walking devices my thoughts are I'll get them when I need them they're there for they're there to change the game when it gets to some serious elevation today I'm just going to try and do it without using them well I've just dipped into these woods which is her it's quite good shaded because it's because I've got a bead on sort of yeah well yeah I've got a bead on Jeze bead on it's like an event it's like a doing a marathon or some sort of challenge and so I don't mind getting a bit sweaty I don't mind hurting a little bit and putting effort in going you know breaking through the old pain barrier if needs me a few times it's all part of the journey it makes it makes it better mate the rich tapas live life if you run up no come on don't run up them wild watermelon Santa living there couldn't you with those vistas Vista for Reeves dear Santa well that looks nice in there like Ashbury farm is that where I am yes so we good do we do we carry on on the road carry on over the bridge and on the road good job I stopped to check we're leaving the road now I believe yeah Cleveland way this way the Cleveland way is up baby here we go look another latch latch and lock he's got a bit heavy duty with chain any what we got ah yeah classic it's a classic I'm hoping for some nice squeak on this here we go that's a nice that is nice nice action nice patina let's get some acoustics on it clunk click thanks for coming it's Monday and Monday and Tuesday a forecast to be I think the hottest day is on record like in the UK it's some sort of hot wind in it that's come over from that originated in african is made its way through sort of Spain and France and now it's here and it is hot like it's noticeably hotter but no much hotter than if you're going you know if you're going overseas or whatever or just a real nice hot day so so you've got your daft eat lollipop lady at on and you're plowing through water so you don't bonk out and I've got some electrolyte tablets that are putting the water just to give me some extra just to replace the salts that are lost you know when you sweat and that's what that's what stops your bonking out my bonking out I just mean you sort of you lose a lot of electrolytes and you lose a lot of water or whatever and you just your body sort of starts to give a bit of a bonk out goes on one doesn't it starts to I don't know what it does ain't that a bonny picture ain't that bonny covered in reeds and bog plants and stuff so not good for swimming in but definitely a lovely site for the old peepers medic look at these youths angled I didn't see you there kid see you later yeah get this bonny little thing I feel like lying down in it but it's only about two inches deep I spy with my latchy eye something beginning with lock oh he's not got a loop on top it's just a bag it odd it like that just worn away a little bit I'm not too not too keen on that what's that for it's sort of all over the place I see because it's a lever it's not a pull up it's a watch this you go that way oh my god it's not even a creek watch see this is a classic example of judging a book by its cover because I've seen this and I've thought he's not got his hoop on top to pull up like what's this you know I've come at it from a negative mindset and it's proven me very very wrong because look it has a little bit of thing here that you can hold listen to this not a sink listen that is as quiet as a gate as I've ever heard look at that my word the action is this is peak performance mate right listen well done well done whoever did that proud of you is this the way I don't know uh it looks like it could be I don't know there's lots of options I don't look at map and it seemed to be this way but could have easily been on the other side of this beck when you're trying to put a shift in and do like over 20 miles anything that you do wrong is pretty soul destroying you know if you're having to backtrack or detour so hopefully this is okay uh fair enough mate what we've got here love a hay bale already ain't it that's nice come up here there's this mad gate with no sides to it and I've got onto this field I don't look to be a path so I'm gonna have to get back on map I didn't think I'd have to have used the map as much as this because of because it's such a sort of it's because it's such a well a well known trail I know it's very highly signposted but I've either gone wrong or this bit isn't very signposted so map check water check get on that let's get one of these tablets on as well life savers these man for all you slurpers out there slurpers and burpers out there if you um if you like a slurping burp okay so one of these put it in a pint of water next to your bed so go and have your slurps do one before you go to bed and as soon as you wake up and it'll help you deal with life a lot better so that's the water I've used today so far it's about there kind of rationing it I mean I just drunk a lot there aren't I look that's not rationing let's have a goot at map see what's whining right where'd I go there oh no I've goofed I've come up this little dotted this little dotted one here up here when I should have gone around there I've goofed right remember that bit when I was like oh when you're trying to do over 20 miles and you do a detour or whatever it can be a soul destroyer now that's what I've just done I looked at my map and I was like this doesn't seem right don't feel right you know you got that feeling when you're navigating that it just doesn't things I had enough and so I got my GPS and a cross reference to it mapping I goofed I've done ticking the wrong turn too busy banging on about latches and locks and that one I I got carried away by latches and locks so that's annoying but whatever in this heat as well whoo I've plotted the whole route now into my into os maps so I don't need the paper map I just like it's just there's something romantic not romantic something sort of yeah there's a romance and a sense of adventure in there when you're looking at a map and navigating from a paper map I do like it and I will continue to bring paper maps even though they're sort of a little bit void now out there with technology but I've relegated it to a bag and then it'll just be used for map time at the end of each day we'll get out the paper map and we'll discuss where we've been and where we went wrong and what we've learned and why we are now better people for it the mate's girlfriend had a leather jacket and I tried it on and it was it was tight to get in I mean I looked wonderful in it people saying that looked like a you know just cool like an Italian gangster or something which is cool they didn't but what it did do is make my he's made my arms look like a little bit of licorice so that's that might have to get doing some push-ups and that I'll do some tonight anyway what's this I'm having a look booze there's booze abbey abbey shooting ah yeah that's why there's all these grouse kicking about isn't there it's a shooting lodge look at that man like big deer in there you can't see it but that's cool ah look at them huge igloo coolers they've got hot beers on go barbecue toilet awesome a little bow and arrow thing so hot posh lads can come blast out farm grouse like shooting fish in a barrel there this would be me hot posh boys would be in there with grouse something things I'll be in here whatever's in here I'll be in there look relegated to this tiny little house man it's warm we can do a slush puppy anybody here anybody here wow it's got fire in it oh my god I'm inside look at that it's got to get fire pit you can all sit around there there's empty bottles of booze where people have been having a good time but on my way you can tell look that's the level that's what we're dealing with here should we go in it's too hot it's like an oven you could keep on these benches oh my god it does she's so hot what have we got look we're not in Kansas anymore Dorothy dry gin my way look is anyone there no that'd be funny wouldn't it oh my god it's so hot imagine that though like if they were all full now it's just like I just taste one I'll just taste one just like laughing and I got the taste for it and then oh my god get me out of here it's boiling oh my god imagine if it was locked some dude just comes and locks me in no yeah the hunting lodge but here's the port twist we hunt stupid Yorkshiremen that got lost and tried to piss about you know and it looked you better get running lad like that but now we're back at armpit and they get there and I'm just spiked out on floor with surrounded by all empty bottles e beautiful little area I'm having it I'm having it so this is the sign that I'll be looking for for those that don't know the old the old acorn and that symbolizes the national trails of the UK covered with dead wild garlic it's just everywhere man I'm both sides I think spring it's a right place to be down here what why is there two oh that is a genius one for the gate and then two opens the the bigger picture that's wonderful that is top quality that so look come on very nice skinny old sheep you know he has to get out way mate I'm afraid he's injured look he's diarrheaing he's not well get that no dude oh he's not well you're all right mate you're all right you are not gonna hurt you not gonna hurt you poor little thing he's not well how you mate how can I say what can I do there's just a sheep here in the middle of the pathway it's not well he's fallen over he just tried to walk away from me and he's fallen over she uh what do you do there's no signal or anything I'll get up here and all you can do I guess if you see a farmer or if you see a farm house that looks like it belongs to that like this land that is owned by I'll just say look mate there's a sheep that's cacked itself down there now to do with me by the way now to do with me it was a natural occur yeah it's yeah it's not well because there's all his mates looking they all look well they're all quite plumb but my mate he stood back up but uh the way he went down was not cool and now I'm worried about him look I knew it these are all feeders and they cut a break in the corn and this is for the grouse or the pheasant so whatever it's grouse I've seen them all and this is where they'll all be when they go shooting in that posh little thing in the valley this is feeding them you got to worry about the when humans have that sort of an impact you've got to worry about the natural natural equilibrium of the of the area of the ecosystem and the knock on effects and I'm sure yeah I'm just I'm probably just waffling on heat stroke but and I'm sure you know dephra and different departments get involved with it and make sure that it isn't going to you know mess everything up but surely having that many grouse in an area that's going to have an impact on insects for example like they're going to eat more insects or you know the foxes and ferrets and wambles are going to eat more of the grouse and that's going to tip it off balance what are you guys have you guys got maybe that that sheep was thirsty should have given it an electrolyte tablet they're all underneath they're trying to get away from the sun they've got no respite no shade area tiny little swing on the village green not a village green is it just a bit of grass but weaves some gloves in the box it's just country stuff in it deal with it 1836 that's when the house was built 1836 that's old I bet the insulation's bloody rubbish I'll be all listed as well right there some stunning little cottages there and houses middle of nowhere just a little lane in middle of nowhere what's that artwork is this art oh that was art I think we've just done that I think we just think that was just a bit of artwork I think videography that was pretty warm my burning probably that was decent I was effortless I didn't even pay attention to it was so good you don't want to burn too much on shoulders and then have your bag rubbing into your burn that's only that could stop the game couldn't it that could stop me in my tracks this is glorious I'm just about to head into this woodland now beautiful fields and rolling countryside classic Yorkshire and we're just about to head I think into this woodland that is unreal man when you're getting the shade but the sunlight just peppering its way through the canopy it's beautiful beautiful little stretch this I want to show you that it doesn't always have to be an epic like getting lost in the mountain for it to be beautiful and challenging and rewarding and all that sort of stuff it's it's this this is just beautiful the rolling hills of Yorkshire and there I want to showcase it I want to showcase this particular hike I want to showcase this area especially the coast because it's where I grew up it's where my family's from and it's somewhere that I'm proud to be from I'm proud to be from Whitby and North Yorkshire you know North Yorkshire I'm proud I don't know what it means to be proud to be North Yorkshire I guess it's a little bit antiquated to feel like that and it's a little bit like yeah you know why but it's just a love for the area I guess and that mixed with like a deep nostalgia just creates this wonderful feeling when I think of the place or you know if I ever when I go away and I come back it's like oh here it is and it's going to be like that for me on this walk because it's you know we're walking through a lot of mill stomping grounds and places that have not been for a while so I'm looking forward to exploring them feelings and seeing why it conjures up oh it's a library is that what you call it not GGs horses and this is where they look it's where they gallop am I all right on here yeah that's where they gallop look all to carpet underlay and whatever they use just smashed up into bits makes it nice and soft for horses there's a couple of nice specimens glorious glory horse medic here we have loads of it as well it's sort of an invasive species Himalayan balsam and the flowers okay an aeroplane the flowers are edible gotta watch out for bees in them there are little critters it's just another trail snack if you like if you are desperate or if you're just on the hoof and you've got nothing a few slack handfuls of this and that here like as you go can give you a little bit of a boost like mentally it can give you a boost and you know just I remember really flagging one time we and my friend we'd camped out the night had a little few too many wines or whatever next day we're really struggling we just come across a bramble patch loads of them and we just spent sort of 15 20 minutes yamming brambles and it just gave us an absolutely just it's like having a red bull like we were just on it okay this fancy little handle look oh no what have we what have we become oh that is don't work look he just twists it oh you've got to come this is not good that is not good you see it doesn't even oh no it's all brand new and all that but people just don't put the she's ain't got the passion these days have there here I am I've got a coffee from the visitor's centre I know it's probably a bit nuts to get a hot coffee or it's date year but drinking hot drinks is actually better for you when it's hot that's mad as it sounds something to do with them science I believe but I've I'm shading under the I'm taking refuge under this under this silver birch getting a little bit of shade on me getting out with sun because I'm starting to go a bit red and tomorrow's going to be even hotter so we're gonna it's a big old test isn't it test is test is one one I've had my coffee I've left the visitor's centre look at this for a view stunning stonkle Bulgaria so I put too much pressure on myself though because then if you feel you get a little bit despondent don't you but quietly I want to do 20 miles minimum of 20 miles a day just had a little robbing following me why do I love them little creatures so much it's there they always seem to come when I need them when I so the last sort of really long hike I did was the Cape Wrath trail and when I set off on that hey look at this for a little view point wow loving that whoa that is yes man when I set off yeah so robbing and before it's off during lockdown I trained a robbing to sort of have befriended a robbing basically old Robert when I got back from the Cape Wrath trail he was no more he didn't come used to come every day he didn't come and he just never came back so I just you know RIP then I got COVID recently I was like 10 days before that even I've started to train another robbing but he's he looks a lot less dishevelled than the first one so it's taken he's been an absolute labour of love but finally maybe a week or so ago I managed to to concrete so now he's regularly just feeding off my hands even if I'm like if I'm out in my garden and I'm just gardening or I'm sunbathing and I'm not even bothered about feeding him like the other day I was just lying down sunbathing he just came like started just he's like landing on my chest and just flying around my head like picking my head to get some food so truly befriending him wonderful can't get cocky can you because that's when you get your ass handed to you when you start so you don't ought to stay here mate I did 30 miles didn't even affect me and I wake up at night just hallucinating from heat burning it blisters all of my shoulders isn't that I'm sorry so stay humble speaking of staying humble battery's going better I better reloader it's everywhere this is fireweed willow herb the good one to know if you're a forager and it's pretty looking so there bilbris ready borderline too far of what there yeah too far still doing it don't I know you're right lads don't worry you're all right the sun is still behind these clouds it does keep poking itself out a little bit every now and again and reminding me who's boss feeling good for day one I'll see how I feel tomorrow morning that's that that's the acid test how do your feet do how do you you know how's your legs and feet feel first thing in morning oh peregrine there we are look come back these lads look all under shade you do right guys you do light makes it derelict gaffe is it derelict or what you're all right I'm not gonna hurt you you're all right lads don't kick off I'm rather looking here aren't I all right don't make just shush there's a lot of nettles though sometimes you just got to get sometimes you've got to get stung aren't you to appreciate nature oh my look I'm getting stung to bits oh you don't want to be getting all inside it flies all stung do you when there's a heat wave not at best of times I don't know why I did that don't worry about it guys just enjoy shade big lad big nuts osmotherly that's the goal I'm not in osmotherly because I ain't staying in a hotel or anything I'm just gonna wild camp so on the outskirts of osmotherly he sounds pretty good done it olden times I shall pitch my tent on the outskirts of osmotherly there's that falcon again falcon who osmotherly nine miles heading into these woods can't even remember what that sign said I just literally looked at nine miles nine half miles nine to nine and a half miles to osmotherly ain't gonna get dark till half now I don't want to piss about in my tent because it's too hot I'm cuck there's a lovely little place up here Paradise Farm normally would have been open so I could get some refreshments and stuff but the way that I've done this it's a bit late and so it'll be closed which is a shame but that just means I'll have to keep batting on through medic sun's out again now full full beans woo teaching me a lesson also what's good is there's no one else about having one I mean it's later on it's nearly seven o'clock but all day you know it's a popular hike and there's little sections of it that people do all the time but I shouldn't see anyone and that's the beauty of it isn't it because everyone's seen news and been like it's too hot we can't be doing multi-day you know we can't be doing long hikes when it's this hot so everyone's stayed in pit or in paddling pool or whatever getting on getting on our beer gardens or whatever you know that sort of stuff which I mean it is pretty bonkers doing this when it's what is it 38 degrees or something today so I've got a fair way to go as far as the eye can see up on the top of that ridge there and it goes around so there medic you all right mate are you up mate are you warm do you want some electrolyte all right see it this is it mate my Yorkshire not Yorkshire come on legs are feeling it a little bit I've still not deployed the old scarecrow support units I'm gonna just keep batting on for today and maybe deploy them tomorrow but yeah feeling it feeling it a little bit in legs it's eight o'clock at night so the shop will be shut um pub will be open but that's I don't need that today lost it this is I mean the bugs are out now getting peppered a little bit but this is perfect perfect hiking conditions now with the sun a lot lower in the sky the evening's well and truly setting so it's nice and cool relatively cool it's still humid but compared to what I've been getting blasted with this is perfect conditions so I think we're just about to hit some sort of a road here so I'll have to keep going until I watch this look yeah a live one look medic and that's just how it is sometimes just on the oh no not another medic double drop right then let's crack on look at that that's dedication is that isn't it when you're over 20 miles deep on Otis Day and you're doing this look I'm going to look for somewhere off this track first place that I see that can oh look what's that oh don't bite my guy it's a shrew it's a live shrew cut this lad oh look a little shrew shrews brie don't make a bolt for it mate you're quite out in fact let's go down here where you're not going to bolt it young shrews brie yeah you were sweet out look oh love these paths love them look at the stone proper chunks man just respect to the people that layer these paths can't be easy and they look mint because all the grass it like looks like it's pointed up with grass I'm getting bit pieces here like getting eaten let's get tent up I can't find anywhere it's all thick bracken McKayla cold water kills oh I'll be the judge of that lad bathing prohibited she's glorious there's just a buzzard calling out through the valley of a yonder do it again there we are beautiful sunset beautiful I can't find anywhere really it's past nine o'clock look at that so here's what it is I'll have to maybe just go into Osmotherley and keep in a bus station or something or maybe if they've got a graveyard or a bed down there the only thing I forgot that is my bug net the rays of light coming out of that here's the first houses of Osmotherley well I guess the plus side is I've put a shift in is it considering I started it like what was it like 12 o'clock half 12 started late so it's a decent shift work going to that I'm a few minutes I'm about 10 minutes and just got chatting to some guy said I was about 10 minutes from Osmotherley so he was like yeah you're going to campsite I was like maybe maybe not mate this is my campsite I'm free in this field so the track is just behind this hedge here and I've just jumped over this fence and now I'm in here and it's fine because I'm just it's late at night I'm going to be bouncing straight away in the morning no like no messing about even if Farmer comes I'll just be like yeah wait mate that's causing you no grief I'll be on me way um but this hedgerow he's all like Hawthorne holly there's all there's all bad news for air for the uber light airbed try not get popped so made a flop bit of grass as well a bit of a nice night let's get tense up and I'll get socks and shoes off all right there we are we're up and running not a bad little pitch there's not a lot I'm going to be doing that anyway I'm just going to rest my feet are you going to be with me for a few days anyway so you'll get to see all this look at that phone man straight through the bottom of tent and through me orange mark that would have just annihilated me airbed on first night wouldn't it this is a ropey place to camp man all right I've gone for it I've blown me uber light because it's just too rough the ground's too rough and I don't want to jack my body and so um I've gone under tent with hands on that and got rid of whatever I could find and if there's anything little I've just put my folding my sleeping bag out put it under here as well as that orange thing and I'll just sleep on top of here and just put my puffer jacket on and I've got marina wool there so I'm not going to be really cold on autist day ever it's nearly 10 o'clock right you know what time it is I've got to be quiet because as I say we're near the um near the track so this is the start of the Cleveland way here in Helmsley so we set off up there and I remember it all the way up here all the way up here yeah through this woodland and this was all like really nice nice hiking through hit this bit of road over this lovely bridge that's where there's a nice bit of river carry on on this road pass that water over the stepping stones and this is where I goofed mate I'll show you look see all these it's getting a bit dark now so I it's all these different paths here I took this one up through this wood like an e-jatt and then I had to come back join the path and along I went on my merry way I can't remember it was only it seems like ages ago now can't remember what I did today over here whatever this was it was all lovely hiking through uh cold Kirby that was nice through all these fields and stuff down through the wood hit the main this was oh yeah through the horse bit hit a main road but only just for a very short period of time and then instead of going this way like an optional extra to go see this which I've seen many a time I went where did I go I went down here I went down here and then cut through here well in here to visit the center for a coffee filled with water bottles which was a joy back along this ridge gorgeous views out to the left all the way along here this was good walking this I just thought I got in a bit of a zone and I was just thinking some good thoughts and having a good time all the way along through this wood here up past Paradise Farm where I would have stopped for a brew and all that but I was cutting it a bit late up here check the map again here because it was on a load of different routes and then just hit this and that's what I've been following all afternoon or all evening actually along the top of this moor some lovely views out along this way I did a little dirt where did I go yeah then started to drop down here again some lovely woodland lovely views down here some lovely houses down here as well and then hit this road for a tiny little bit that's where I had a little chat that's where I had a chat with that guy his house is there so I came up here and I'm in here I am bang in this field here don't know what that warning thing is but hopefully it doesn't mean there's a massive bullet field that I haven't checked out I'm not even gonna have anything to eat tonight I'm not hungry at all because I'm just so hot I've just got a drink I'm just gonna have a drink and then crack on it morning consider subscribing 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