 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. Morning. Morning glampers. Welcome to day two of the Herriot Way. Mate, what's the point in having a tent sometimes? It's dripping. Look at this. What is the point? See that? That's just water. It's just dripping on my head. So I had to hide under here because it's just soaking and then these little whips of wind just shake it all off onto my bumps, onto my like, right onto my grill and I'm there thinking what's the right, I would have been drier sleeping outside. It ain't rained outside but it is sodden. I'm going to say it's probably the worst condensation I've had to deal with in my whole camping life. My sleeping bag is soaking. Just, I know it's just the time of year and there's not much you can do. Look at it. Maybe I could use it to have a wash I guess. It just makes it just a little bit harder doesn't it for like, because everything's wet now. Oh well, I have to deal with it. I don't know. Single wall tents. What you're gonna do? We love you because you're super light but we hate you because you're wet as a otters pocket. Right, let's get up and see what these dares to offer. Get me out of that little soggy coughing. Glorious. My hands are freezing. Oh, I'm freezing. Right, let's get this packed away man. There we are. Leave no trace. How do I get off of this wall? And we're off. Absolutely freezing mate. Mid-digits. I have to put you away in a second. Oh, freezing. Everything soaked. It's one of them where it's got me questioning even my own hobbies. Not doing much filming at the moment because it is bitingly cold and it's really windy so it's probably not picking anything up. It is glorious though. I'm on the Pennine Way. We follow this Pennine Way. I think it's about six and a half miles to the next town or village. It's going to be a big day today. This morning I had me questioning my own hobbies. Like, what am I doing? What am I doing? I'm lying to bed. There's like a constant stream of water falling on my face. My fingers are freezing. I was thinking, what do I do this? I choose to do this. It's just the hardships in it. It's just them hardships man. That's what makes it... That's why I love doing stuff like this is it's not easy. You don't have it all your own way. It just makes me appreciate a lot of things. Like not getting dripped on while I'm trying to sleep. How deep is it? No. What is it? Basically a puddle. It's a puddle. That's my path. Up there. The fog's rolling in now. You can't see I'm off up to the top of there. I'm at the top of that plateau there and then I was going to camp on the next one down. So I put a bit of a shift in. I just sort of thought I was getting my head down and get over these top. I can't even... You only get locked door because it's cold. I've got all that going on. They've put some of these flags down. You lose them occasionally and then hit a bit of bog and there's nothing you can do there. I've got my feet wet but I don't mind that it's quite refreshing. These white dumpy bags are sort of leading the way through the mist, acting as their own sort of kens. I was hoping for some good views up here but Mother Nature's saying keep it. She's saying keep it. Have this fog. Deal with this. There we are. Rest bite from the wind. It's a bag off. I can't stop for too long because I've got miles to do and also it'll get cold. No. Phew. Phew. We're on the top of Great Shunner Fell at the moment. They didn't have views. There's a bit of rest bite from that wind and that's nice. I'm heading towards Thwait and hopefully that I'll have a little cafe somewhere so I can get a hot drink and if that doesn't have out then they'll keep batting on to Keld. The aim is just to wild camp but even though tents just a big odd soggy lobster's bum bag at moment. You can't win man. You can't win with condensation because you need more material to stop the condensation because you need like the like the hillyburgers and the pioneer too. You need them sort of caps over the top and loads of so that the air can vent out and the rain can't get in and then just a ton of mesh. I don't think you can. I just think condensation is just part of the game isn't it but that was particularly bad last night because every time the wind did like whip it and then bosh you just get a face full of water like it's I was having some mad drip. I was dreaming that it was raining into it. I was like oh I'm in my mind. I was like it's all right. It's just coming through mesh. It's raining through the mesh into my face. Not good enough. Oh I turned you off. I've got five minutes here and then we're plod on. Goodbye refuge. Oh no look at this. Come on guys. I got you little rays of sunshine coming through. Get that for a cane. There's a cane. I was just that. Come down this valley over here and we're going to go round in. I think we start to drop down here and round. I'm hoping that these clouds clear up. Great Shuna fell is the third highest mountain in the Yorkshire Dales and the highest point in Wensleydale and on this route. The Penine Way passes over its summit on the way from Horses to Keld. The popularity of this route is eroded vegetation from a strip 70 meters wide across the moor which has been elevated since 1996 by the construction of a flagstone path. Sun just poked its head through. My digits are starting to warm up now and the wind's died down. Now I'm on this side. Now I'm on this side of hills. It's less gusty. Now I'm ready for a coffee and whatever other delights I can find. I don't think weight has got much going on in there but we'll bat onto Keld and then refuel. There we go. Back in a little gate country. All right lads. Here we are look. Bit of bail band. Onto it loop. Onto it hook. Smashed into a bit of wood. This is it. It does trick doesn't it? Spot on then. Just passed through Thwaite. There was a cafe but it didn't open until 11 and there's only quarter to 10 so sack it and we'll bat onto Keld so about three three and a half miles to Keld. Hopefully we can get some refreshments there but we've put a shift in. We've maybe done about seven miles and it's not even 10 o'clock yet so we're on track for a good day. I've had to take coat off and do leg vents from coming up here man. It's hot. Look at this. Just onto that bit of wire though. Fair do's. Taking refuge behind this wall out of the wind. The wind's picked up again. I've just been looking at my maps and my guidebook. That's the guidebook for anyone who fancies it. I'll leave a link for it below. And I'm looking on the map and I can go down here and there's a little place with an alehouse and stuff called Muka where I could get refreshments, fill me water. I don't have any water left. I could fill me water up and then take the lowland valley through on the way to Wreith and I think I'm going to do that instead of going over this top which reading the guidebook it says it's quite bleak and it's quite open to the elements and quite boggy so I'm going to sack that off and I'm going to take the lowland through this valley and it looks delightful though as I'm looking at it now all the green pastures in the sunshine and then I'll keep heading on and hopefully get to Wreith at some point this evening which has got several pubs shops and the lot and do you know what because it's my holiday and we're wet tense in here if there's an alehouse and it's a reasonable price I'm getting in it and I'm also going to have a pint of Timmy Taylor's if I've got it if I've got Timmy Taylor's or I've got black sheep on I'm having it I'm going to have a few pints I'm going to keep there for night and that's giving me a a goal and I'm excited about it and that's the beauty of these trips as I've said many a time you just make it up as you go make it up as you go if you want a wild camp wild camp if you want to stay somewhere stay somewhere let it just unfold as it should right so now I'm going to head down here to a place called mucka and see what they've got to offer the earliest recording evidence of occupation in and around mucka and that's what I'm calling it I don't know if you pronounce it like that but I'm calling it mucka takes the form of a skeleton found with flints on mucka common in the early 20th century details suggest a burial of bronze age day the name mucka is of Norse origin derived from the old Norse me your akka meaning the narrow newly cultivated field is a proper sheep proper dale sheep there's so much karma in this valley you don't have a biting wind the only thing about being down at the valley is I'm assuming when I go through these fields it's going to be very gate heavy it's just them little gates that don't have latches and locks on them they're just and it's a real thin little effort to get through I'm feeling good got myself a soup and a sandwich look you think where's your mama oh are you all right darling hello hello okay it leads to nothing oh mate this is it I'm going to have to get wet feet here right damage limitation is the name of the game here it's not a case of if I stack it it's when there's no way I'm getting across here without wet feet let's see if we can not get the trousers wet as well see this is what happens when you're trying when you're making it open coming off the beaten track this is what happens I just can't see a route through this man not without I'll keep going I'll try it's slippy I'll try not to get wet feet I'm not going to do it I'm a I'm going to have to do it I'm going to have to just get in sod it he's doing it oh that's no no don't don't look at me don't look at me I'll make sure our well oh it's deep deeper than she looks slippy oh and it's crawled on shin bones this is exciting right here well a bit of vegetable soup in me now look at me think I'm bare grills I'm going for it oh sorry yes did it man my cross there you go that wasn't too bad was it river crossing now have I shot myself a foot here I think I might have shot myself in foot the track I need is up there and I'm down here dealing with rivers and walls with no gates in them now I want a gate I've left the Pennine way and I've now joined up to the coast to coast which is delightful there's so much going on you've got they're not fruit yet but there's got wild strawberries wood violets dandelion primrose wild garlic sorrel ah it's a banquet mentha aquatica water mint such a lovely smell medic as well as a shit ton of gates there was also a lot of barns like every field had a barn in it so I did a little bit of research and and this is what I found the parish of mucka has hundreds of small field barns or cowhouses as they're known here they formed a unique style of farming which probably started in the 17th century and continued on into living memory milk from the cows provided an important income for farmers especially when it was turned into cheese and butter wintering up a swale dale is harsh so the cattle were brought in around November and tied up in these little cowhouses they were fed from here stored next to them cut from the surrounding fields and in spring the cows were out to graze on the hillside pastures the muck from the cowhouses was spreading to the meadows to help grow new seasons here excuse me thank you thin how thin that is man barely fits my leg in it look a real squeeze through it bag on it's still very windy down here I've just passed a sign that says three and a half mile to reef well since it's the same here I'm off for a fight whoa no nearly that I have to go for a wide boil up whatever UK garage banters a bit of shit and I'm sorry for that what can you do you can't always bring the game look at this though walking on this wall just taking on some road work at the meadow at the moment it shot me onto the road to be batting down here for a bit but cars are going quick I'm just reporting in to say that there's not to report I've just skimmed a few stones did a few good skimmers if that's if that's of interest to all you hiking fans I've just had a I've just I've just nearly stacked it if that's of any interest to all you camping and hiking gurus following this river has just been a pure delight mate it's been glorious just ambling down here and I'm fully in the in the swing of it now I've had a lot going on at moment I've got a lot of things coming up and I've got to move and there's a lot coming up anyway and then I find that when I'm when I've got a lot on me play I have me jaw just like I don't realize it but I just like I clench my jaw and all my neck tights I'm like thinking too much about things I've got to do whereas this little bodgy I don't mind that's not them other little ones we're doing my nappering that's all right today especially we're just walking down here by this river my brain's finally switched off I've just done about two or three hours though without realizing it just my jaw is relaxed my neck is relaxed my mind is relaxed I'm just like just hiking I'm just in the moment and I'm hiking because it's been a long day so I'm pretty tired and it my mind isn't able to worry or stress or plan or do anything like that because it's just it's tired it's all hands on deck so it could just sort of switch off it's like a zombie almost but in a good way and that is one of the reasons why I love doing this is getting to that sweet spot of tiredness where everything else just washes away because you don't have you haven't got the you know they haven't got the privilege of having to worry because you're just nacked so you're just like whatever will be will be and I'm in that zone so I've not been chatting much maybe shy of 30 but we're up there doing a quite a fair trek I think damage report all good just like the usual wearing tearing thigh in thighs and then that's it I'm absolutely fine and looking forward to getting to wreath wreath of franklin to see what delights she's got to offer again I'm just gonna switch off mate and I don't want these hiking videos to be me just constantly trying to justify my decisions as to why I'm not wild camping because that's just how it is mate what I'm thinking I could I could get to wreath and then I could bat on and pitch up up top in wind knowing that it's going to be pissing it down tomorrow and set up this wet tent and get in my wet sleeping bag and just do nothing and that's it or maybe I've one of me uh freeze-dried meals that I've had loads of already sick of them not on this trip but on all other trips I could do that I could and I'm sure it would make for a better video you know people want to see me in me tent well a lot of people do anyway but I out here me first comes my adventure comes first and then if a video materializes from it and it's good so be it but doing all that getting it wet sleeping bag like that right now and I think about that just that sleeping bag up I'm like not for me that one it doesn't give me excitement but going to try and find a b&b or an alehouse or something like that to get tucked into and then a pint of whatever's on offer and some food that just fills me with excitement and joy and that's what it's about and so that's what I've got to do don't judge me see you later here's wreath it's got a couple of ale houses it's only a small village but it packs a wallop as far as amenities go spent some time it's sad or like but it's going to be good to dismount and get just get me back off and chill out I'm only gonna have an ale if they've got some at special on I'm not going to bend the elbow for any old beer not enough water just filled one bottle up at that tea room and that's lasted me all day just been sipping at it I'm well thirsty so it's dangerous in it get yourself a pint never here's a top tip for you that I very rarely use but never quench your thirst with booze especially with pints because they're just we go down like a granny on a frosty morning just straight down cutting the dust next get yourself a pint of water this is me you I'm telling you but really I'm just reaffirming it to myself get myself a pint of water first then make a then decide reef this way here we go look follow these two oh it's nice in reef mate that wind doesn't seem to be as windy in reef it's beautiful oh do you know what mate that's it man get you selling beer garden in it look at it I'm gonna find a beer garden I'm gonna find some beer let's go this for a slice of heaven man ice cream parlor whether that is post office the black bull ale house the king's arms ale house what's that the book looks like an ale house I'm having it as an ale house right the book looks the nicest because it's in the sun that's got all scaffolding on it so that's not really doing out for me the amenities are just too much I'm malfunctioning I'm glitching I'm staying here whoa I'm glitching right I'm staying here let's get tucked in morning we're up and at them I've left reef in the rearview mirror yeah I managed to get a pint in the beer garden which was lovely and I had a little bite to eat which was I mean I am gonna like there's three or four pubs or whatever in places you can drink and eat in reef so I'm not going to throw them under the bus because they're all just small independent businesses so I don't want to slay them because it wasn't their fault my guess but that was the more I had a meal and it was suck it was comically bad it's so comically bad that it went full circle and became good and I enjoyed it for like the sheer how mad it was and how bad it was I ended up enjoying it so can't grumble I'll give you an idea I might cut this out but because if it's too harsh I don't want them to suffer because they were lovely and stuff but the meal I thought I fancy just like some light like a little starter tempura king prawns with like a sweet chilli dip in sauce was on the menu I was like that sounds that sounds nice I love that and they came out and they were just basically what it was you know crab sticks it was basically crab sticks in pastry to look like a parsnip with a sachet of cheap like chilli sauce and I was like and I thought you know what I gave up to it I surrendered to it because there's no point in being unhappy is it sending it back and be like however what the fur everyone's trying to do the best in life and I just was like if it was a little bit shit I would have maybe you said something but because it was just so mad and bonkers I just thought you know what I found my people I'm having it anyway so I yammed it down and that was wonderful I don't know the night but this morning I had a lovely breakfast and then I'm off heading towards Asgar Falls to my van which is mad because I'm gonna be coming I'll be coming at my van from the opposite direction as I left it and that's circular hiking for you guys his forecast to piss it down today so I don't know mate this one and I haven't really been bringing the chats on this one but I've been enjoying it rough up there over tops I don't know what to expect I've plotted it I've plotted the route in myself with a few little detours and and whatever it's not the I don't think it's the same as the normal route ready that's where I had my pint in that white house there the village green there's wreath I'm gonna get off onto the moorland and we're gonna head over the moor my guts are done in from there I think from them temporary prawns it's done me in I don't feel too clever what's them geese swans geese geese medic there's actually too many medics I'm having to there's too many you the cat I love a good medic as much as the next man slash woman but it's too much it's too much I can't take it oh my god I'm sorry I keep looking out for cars and that do you know what this is it on this one you know like I always look for signs and stuff on my hikes what's it teaching me what you know what I've got to learn on this hike and this is a this is it it's overdosed me with gates and locks and latches overdosed me with it to the point where I'm like oh not another one and it's done same with medics just one after other too much too much and what there's signs and it's saying have you had enough I think I might then if that's if that's the signs it's like I think I might need to just chill out a little bit stop hiking so much I mean let's get today out way first before we make any rash decisions but I'm definitely thinking I need a break from it I've planned on doing quite a lot of long distance hikes coming up like it's the season isn't it but the signs of like I mean I'm going to unpack this nearer the end the moment the signs are saying it's just too much it is I mean what it's funny when you see a summer and you're like medic it's kind of funny and it's good to look at good latches and locks and that but you can't just do it all time can you need a break from stuff or it's just not funny anymore now is it keep going do more double down I should only be known as the guy who does gates and medics he's been nuts on many there's been I just think maybe it's the universe trying to say like just chill out mate because I just I was I was coming up there I'm seeing like animals inside at road I'm getting my camera out going medic and then I did one and I was like this is it's done now isn't it you can't keep doing it maybe do it once in a while as a little treat but no you can't keep you can't keep replaying same old thing so we're evolved ever evolving it's like with beer reviews and then I used to do beer reviews a lot and then people I stopped doing them people like I'll bring back the beer reviews no we're evolving and then when you do if you do it it's like a little nod back in it it's refreshing and it's good so I think we're gonna we're gonna mix it up stay tuned for my makeup and cooking channel I'm dizzy I out well I'm not well in noodle or it belly they build these for grouse quick scoop with digger beer tarpaulin mosh rain water will do it rest and then grouse can just drink from it God it's a crazy day man it's doing everything it's just but the overriding thing is this wind I've had to put my head up because it's blazing into my ears and give me a rick I'm having to rethink my whole life we're not going to stop doing medic's are we out gates do more absolutely leaning into it rinse it over that next valley ah boggles fresh boggles that's feet wet you see the clouds darkening up behind me temperatures dropped and I won't be surprised if I get wet do what you want do what you want mate because end the end is over there the end is just over that ridge I think not even used me walking poles yet I don't think I will so it is quite an easy trek so if you're new to hiking or you just want to get yourself like a nice two night three day four day hike I recommend this I recommend the Harriet way it's got just a nice little mix of tiny little villages rolling hills woodland it's like a it's a nice it's a really good one to showcase the dales because it's a circular route you just leave your car in car park 17 pound 50 for a week and do it over four or five days mate if you want take your time staying some hotel pubs or just crush it out in two and a half days it's up to you but it's definitely worth it's definitely worth it if you especially if you live around here in Yorkshire it's an often overlooked hike uh finally dropped down off the tops and out of that wind castle Bolton castle Bolton sounds like some are off game of thrones doesn't it Bolton castle is a stark and imposing medieval fortress at the entrance to Wensleydale begun by Richard Le Scrope in 1378 Scrope was Lord Treasurer and Lord Chancellor to Richard II and one of the most powerful men in late 14th century England head medic medic medic medic car park's just down here gonna be a wash with bluebells all right so cool coming back into car park from another direction mate this feels good and that was a lovely little adventure it was only three days nothing too wild as I say the perfect little uh like if you're just getting into wild camping and hiking it's a perfect little loop hike I tell you what I won't be sad to see them where actually am I I'm not sad to see back at them little snappy gates either they can keep it for a little bit at the beginning I'm all like oh they're brilliant we'll get them we'll film them and by end of it mate if you're coming on this hike prepare for a lot of little snappy gates a lot of death there's a lot of death on this one guys I need to go have a bath just real real hide me chakras there I am back in car park beautiful little like oh it's got a tea shop I'm gonna get me some a brew thanks for joining me on this one I'll leave you in the capable hands of future me for map time I have water now welcome to the final map time everybody's favourite time I woke up here soggy as you like off we trot and we're following the penine way so it's a bit it's a pretty good track there's plenty of flags being put down you occasionally lose them and get a bit of a bog foot but compared to how it was back in the day it's pretty good on we go to the summit of great shunna fell that's where I sat and had a bit of rest bike from the wind and we go past this huge cairn some lovely views over thwait and the valley from up here and lovely walking once I got past this cairn down the side of this hill I was sheltered out of the wind as I came down here which was a joy along we go over this ford along and then we hit the road into thwait there is a tea shopping thwait but it doesn't open till 11 o'clock the penine way and the coast to coast and the period where all passed through a so it's a good place to get a brew and some refreshments if it's past 11 o'clock but it won't so on I went over these fields back into gate country we are a bit of an elevation up here and this is where the weather changed man it came it became sunny but the wind picked up as well as I started to ascend up here you can see the elevation line so it is getting pretty steep as we go up here and this is where the wind was getting a bit too much I had to look up my map let's just zoom out for you so instead of going up here and round I went down cut through the valley just to get out of that wind down I come I'm going to call it mucka I don't know what you call it mucka but I'm calling it mucka mucka now there's a pub there's a tea room and a shop here so a very good place to stock up on I went and because because I've made this up I had to do a little river crossing you can see this river here so I had to get a bit I had to get a bit of a sog on across here but that's all part of the adventure and on I go back into gate country man there was lots of little gates along here but glorious hiking by the river swale and it was lovely to be hiking the same path that I took when I did the coast to coast through gunner side there's also a pub here I'm not sure if it's open full time but it wasn't open when I passed it through more gates and I just lost myself along here man I won't do much filming I was just in real noodle just happily ambling along following the river I mean onto the road but there's like a little woodland at the side of the road with the path on it so you don't have to be on the actual road it's quite a nice little walk actually follow that along off you come up onto this wall here and around and into glorious wreath I stopped for your freshments and I stopped for the night in wreath up bright and early and fueled by a full english off you go you follow this road around there's a quite a nice little bridge here over the bridge and then we're back off back onto the road again then there's a path at the side of the road it looks like it's road work but it's not there's a little path up onto this road here very quiet no cars passed me as I was coming up here and lovely views back over wreath and where I'd come from and then we leave the road onto open moorland it's a lot of grouse shooting along here little hides for grouse little water baths for grouse down we come there's we're like a hunting lodge or something down here had a little look through windows now going on carry on wind had really picked up by the time I got around here so I was glad to drop down into castle balton through castle balton and past balton castle come off the road and you start to descend through these fields through a little woodland through this farm skirt around this woodland and you keep coming you could stop down here for a brew or a meal or whatever there's a pub there that's does coffee and whatnot but I chose not to but down the side of these houses through these fields through this little woodland and you're back back to the vad and what a journey as I said before this is the perfect little hike for people just starting out in multi-day hiking there's plenty of options to stay at pubs and there's plenty of decent while camping spots as well so you could take your time and do it over four or five days or you could just crank it out in two days and just spend one night camping it's completely up to you so yeah I hope I showcase the Yorkshire Dales for you and I hope I've maybe even inspired you to take on the Harriet way yourselves there we go right I appreciate all the comments thanks so much for watching and I'll see you on the next one bye for now