WINDY WILD CAMPING – FASTPACKING with Lightweight Gear – STICKLE TARN LAKE DISTRICT UK

DISMAYED
A decent run out carrying all my kit for a cold night camping out. I use my old Hilleberg tent to keep the weather off and some PHDesigns down kit to keep me warm. Blue helped my locate a load of rubbish left by some ‘fly campers’ which was a disgrace not abiding by the ‘leave no trace’ rule. I tidy up and carry the lot back down the mountain to the bin. Adding to my annoyance I loose my drone which means I left a trace! After a total of near two days searching using the last GPS it was no where to be found. DJI were useless so I’ve analysed the flight data myself and will be heading back to find it soon.
Even with the above it was still amazing to be out in the wilds of the Lake District and getting some good exercise for both the dog and I.

Enjoy your adventures and leave no trace🥰
All love
Al and Blue

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PHDesigns – M.Degree 200K Sleeping Bag
For ultralight backpacking or multi day adventure racing with a typical operating temperature of +4C. This bag is useable in three seasons alone but with added down clothing or adding an over bag into winter to. Designed minimally with 1000 fill power down to maximise the warmth to weight ratio with an overall weight of just 340g!!!
https://www.phdesigns.co.uk/minimus-degree-200-down-sleeping-bag

PHDesigns – Minimus Down Trousers
Ultralight (230g) packable down trousers using 900 fill power down. Simple design to reduce weight but functionally perfect for those colder nights at camp with a typical operating temperature of -5C.

https://www.phdesigns.co.uk/minimus-down-trousers-custom-sized

PHDesigns – Wafer Ultima K Down Jacket
Weighing in at just 185g (without hood) this jacket maximises warmth to weight ratio and will keep you warm down to freezing. Ideal to put on when you arrive at camp with a depleted body after a hard day moving. It uses the same 1000 fill power down as their sleeping bags and like all of PHDesigns gear it is made in the UK. Mine is a standard sized medium and fits me perfectly and I’m 6ft with a slim (ish) athletic build but like many of their garments you can order custom sizes to suit your body shape and size. No other compant seems to do that! It looks good, it feels good and due to it’s weight and pack size worth carrying even just for emergency situations. I’ll be wearing this a lot in all parts of my life!
https://www.phdesigns.co.uk/wafer-ultima-k-down-jacket

RAB – Aeon Ultra 28 Backpack
https://rab.equipment/uk/rab-aeon-ultra-28-lightweight-pack

LEKI – Cross Trail FX Superlite Poles
https://www.leki.co.uk/item/626/Leki/Leki-Cross-Trail-FX-Superlite-Whitebright-Redblack.html

[Applause] now then here we are me and the M and a set of Paws get that we’re out today doing a bit of fast packing so we’re going to be camping out somewhere on Route and I’m planned quite a long journey over the top of Pac and Harrison

Stickle onto High Ray old scarf and then a big loop all the way back around and we’re going to find somewhere to camp on the way I was going to bivy camp but it is going to rain tonight and also it did say that it’s going to drop down to near

Freezing as well we’re currently at about sort of 6° and and it might have a high today of about eight if we’re lucky so hopefully I’ve got enough kit to keep us nice and warm in the back of this pretty lightweight but not Ultra lightweight but hopefully as I say we’ll

Survive the night anyway you ready blue let’s Bush on get on Then I’ll tell you what it’s bloody windy today and I don’t have the tent for anywhere exposed look at this for a place though perfectly flat with that view see we both love that just coming to the Top by in PAC wow he’s windy tell you what that wind’s making

Me cold as well definitely got to keep moving today what a view though let’s Crouch down this way oh my God that is better just out of the wind onwards and upwards onto Harrison tickle next get on them Bluey good on now uh Hey y H

Do this wind is Relentless but it is pushing me up the hill which is good there we are Harrison tickle what a view looking back to Pac wow hell it’s windy let’s just Crouch here out of the wind somewhere and let’s just have a minute there we go Blue hey how’s that

How is that dog go on oh dear what a glorious day just got the cloud just rolling past you can see the speed of it there hey blue come here come and say hello good boy there we are right what do you think hey got to be out is it it

Is oh dear I might have a quick snack keep my energy levels up and then we’ll be on to the next one right me and you here blue all right dog let’s get adle you ready let’s do it all right on to high rise which is

The highest point on that left hand side there if you can see looks a hell of a long way so let’s bash on a got to keep moving bogs it’s going to be a tough one this got one stone there and I’m chucking myself over it’s still wet

Oh dear me look at this everywhere that’s best I don’t want to be getting wet feet I’ve only got obiously me trail Runners on but I do have a pair of seal skin waterproof socks on so at least it keeps my feet dry and then a little bit warmer as well

There D that of proper BG truing with that just so exposed all this landscape here cuz it’s just like one massive field so you just got this strong wind constantly blowing through so quite hard with that anyway we’ve come from Harrison tickle over there and even though this

Is desolate not exactly the nicest place to be it’s got fantastic views cuz you can really see all the mountains in the background there so we’ve got Let’s test my memory [ __ ] stickle we’ve got Bell which is that one es Pike that is Allan kags which is my

Mountain and then just behind that which has got the capping of a cloud is great end in the distance there we have great Gable green Gable just over the back and that means this will be glaramara it’s pretty awesome is that it’s just nice to see it from a different

Perspective spend all your time on all these mountains but you never see it from here so worth the effort I’d say anyway dog’s bored and waiting so we need to get up to the top and then onto the next one after that no last few steps to the summit of high

Raise and luckily we’ve got a little shelter here let’s go touch this trick Point first there we go right let’s squat in here let’s get out with that wind Hell Fire that is wild hey as wild as you a dog a little wolf yeah that wind is just taking the

Heat from me so quickly I’m only just keeping warm enough and that’s when I’m moving as soon as I stop freezing long way over there ready yeah you don’t right I can’t take it any longer it is getting too cold oh so I’m just going to put another layer

On there we go also got a bit of a hood on this so at least I can just get me lugs in keep me nice and warm quick pit stop and we’re off well that is a hell of a lot better getting a second layer on it’s just

Wild and it’s only going to get worse going to the top of all scar because that is very exposed all the way and really it’s pretty pointless me doing that because it’s an out and back the only reason I’m doing it is because I

Put it in my head to do it and I’m getting a bit of exercise so anyway we might as well carry on right F that I’m not going to bother going to the summit Vol scar it is just bog Fest everywhere I’ve been battling it for ages and I have to come back

Through it as well so sld that I’m going to going to be a wuss a sensible wuss the dog’s not bothered but I am I want to keep dry anyway let’s go back I’ve been running I’ve been jogging and I’ve been walking and I’ve also been

Doing a lot of dancing over all the bogs all this area is just bog Fest everywhere so it’s nice to sort of get up and out of it but there’s still you can see the ground’s just solding everywhere really trying to keep my feet dry that’s the only thing even with these

Waterproof socks on it’s still worth it because obviously I’m going to be in the tent all night but the good thing about being here is there’s no wind it’s pretty much died off here and I’m just working my way up through all these Crags and I’m going to try get myself

Over the top and back towards stickle town I tell you what while it’s a little calmer let’s just have a bit of energy what have we got in here whoa that’ll do it some of those which are from science and Sport and these are just in fact let’s put you down I’ll show

You let’s put you down great for doing endurance things because these are like little jellies really literally jell as you remember it as a kid but straight away you just know there’s lots of uh sugar in that so I’ll eat a couple of blocks of this and then in another half hour I’ll

Have a couple more right let’s do it M they go down well very nice I quite like having jelly babies but it has to be the Harry Bell ones they’re great for me but they’ve changed their recipe and they’re not as good anymore yep more bugs Fe soing hey fogs

That’s the thing of the day which I’ve not enjoyed but I’m loving exploring new places there’s no path I’m just going freefor all oh of this that looks cool it looks like some sort of puzzle anyway while I’m out of the wind just for a second I’ll show you where

I’ve been that wind has been Relentless though I’m absolutely battered but if I just show you exactly where I am you can see the man behind me that’s Sergeant man and if I turn you around now I’ve got stickle town in the bottom there and

I’ve been all the way up that P cont to The Summit dropped off onto the far Summit and then I’ve done all that Ridge line there right the way around the back of this High raises Beyond there and then I dropped down into the valley way

Over there and then I came back over the top and now I’m here so I’m just going to try find somewhere to pitch a 10 out the wind because I’ve only got a very flimsy hillberg tent so I need to make sure that we’re going to be sort of safe in it for

The evening but it be a to have a cracking view like that won it yeah anyway it’s also getting on a bit it won’t be that long it be dark so let’s do it get up blue complete concentration I’ve come down through all these cracks and just had a good scout

Around for a place to pitch this tent there’s quite a lot of little places like this all these little flat sections but it’s quite exposed this wind coming through here still a bit much so I think I’m going to aim down for the water’s edge and just hope that it’s a bit nicer

There what about this near the water’s edge that’s not too bad is it let’s have a scout around we’ll find the best place but it’s actually nice cuz we’re out of the wind because we’re sort of set behind this here it’s fantastic though look at this just under Pac that is just

Incredible and that’s Jack’s rake that line that runs up through there and that’s what me and the dog have done it’s quite a tough one to do definitely a a decent scramble the dog he managed probably 95% of it but he’s pretty good at it that’s

The only thing so if you were going to take your dog up I’d be very very careful I really would because it is definitely one of those places that you and the dog could end up getting pulled off and as you can see it’s a long way bloody

Down right dog this is it I think hey what dog what hey what do you want right then dog let’s dig into the bottom of this bag and find that tent we have a drone can’t use it too windy head torch some socks dog food all my gear for my my GoPro and

Batteries that sort of stuff my food we’ve got a big bag of goodies here got Lads of little tools and what have you in there that’s full of all the Sleeping stuff and finally we have got a tent and this is an old hillberg it’s pretty lightweight squash

Is quite small let’s get get this bad boy up we’ll do it as fast as we can 3 2 1 boom and just like that there we have it what a tent tell you what she does look well it’s only a single skin so it’s just going to keep the weather off and

That’s all we need really but she’s sat beautifully there we’ve got a door both sides and no porch area there’s this little overhang section here which just throws the water off away from the door but you can just tie that back if you need just a let a

Little bit more sort of light in but if it’s wet that’s stay in there it is pretty cool though is it not bad at all considering this is a lot of years old and I’ve not had this out for a long time anyway speaking of cool and

Freezing let’s get inside and get some nice warm down trousers and jacket on to sort me out what do you think blue look at that dog this dog’s not coming in look at that all that oh my god dog hey he can’t come in he’ll have to go for a swim

First go on go for a swim so today I was using the Ravon Ultra 28 L backpack and this is designed for sort of ultra runners or just fast packing you know just out for one or two nights and I fit all my gear in here for

Pretty much cold weather camping so it’s big enough for that it’s a fully sort of taped seams and you got this sort of roll top so you don’t really need to think about putting everything into like a dry bag inside which is quite good although I wouldn’t risk that so I’ve

Actually used a dry bag inside here it’s just got like simple stretch mesh stuff on the sort of sides in the back here and plenty of space just to sort of shove all those bits in that you might need fairly quickly it’s also got different sort of stash pockets and wa

Belt pockets and a bit of an air vent system there so yeah it’s not bad it’s not going to be as robust as most of backpacks because obviously it’s designed to be light but it’s going to do the trick for me here and there anyway inside here let’s see what we’ve

Got to keep me warm so in here can’t remember what this one is uh we have a set of a Down socks that’s going to keep my little tootsies warm later and then these are the Minimus down trousers from pH designs and these are I think a 900 fill

Power down so they do Loft really well so I’ll get them on in a minute because I’m actually getting pretty chilly what else have I got in here oh pair of leggings first what’s in this one it’s exciting so I’ll pull this one out this is my

Jacket so again a this is a th000 fill power down in this one and once that’s lofted that should keep me nice and warm as well so tonight I’m going to be sleeping in this sleeping bag which is the pH designs M degree 2 200k sleeping

Bag and this is designed again for ultra light backpacking or for doing multi-day endurance events hence why it packs so small and it only weighs 340 G so there’s now to it it’s made with 1,000 fill power down just pull this out give it a shake and then just let

That start to Loft it’s a very simple design we don’t have any Zips with just got this draw code around the top here a little bit of a hood section just to pop me pillow in and it just fits fairly snug to the body just so obviously then

You are maintaining as much heat as possible close to you rather than trying to warm a big massive void which is almost wasted energy it’s made with box wall construction on the top so you’ve got that nice sort of solid layer of down all the way through and on the

Bottom just to keep it light we’ve actually got like a stitch through construction what’s dog growling that must be something walking past anyway hopefully that’s going to keep me nice and warm tonight as my outer layer but the fact that I’m going to be sleeping in some down bottoms and

A down jacket with some little down socks I’m going to be well worn anyway the final thing in here is me sleeping mat oh and this the uh the usual sea suic pillow but this therm Neo uh what have we got so this is the xite NXT sleeping

Mat and this would pretty much do you for all season in the UK unless it was really extremely cold so let’s get this blown up let all this down Loft and then I’m going to have to get some clothes on because it’s breezing start with this e and then I

Got some nice to sit on sh it is just so peaceful here absolute Tranquility just me the mut and the mountains although they are quite menacing up there yeah such a contrast from earlier in the day though from just being battered by the wind and having to concentrate constantly where you’re

Putting your feet when you’re running it’s actually quite draining on the brain so just to come back to this you just feel like you deserve it ah yes anyway I’m nice and warm now got a will at on down jacket down bottoms looking like a ninja and we’re just going to chill out

Here for a bit longer whilst we still got a bit of light and then we’ll get back and make some dinner the dog has his eye he keeps just looking up there and I can see something but I don’t know what it is but he Hasen taken his eye off it for

The last 5 minutes or so so should we go see them blue come then can’t get through that bit bogy let’s go see what it is whoa bogs blue up here it does look a bit odd oh hell what the monkeys it did look a bit strange from down

There I could see this green thing and it just didn’t quite sit in to this landscape that’s what it is fly campers not wild campers fly campers and that is an absolute disgrace I tell you what it pisses me off it really does what have we got sort of a bin

Bag with a tent in it all the poles cooking gear we’ve got a a plate there I mean go Blue to I mean it’s things like that they’re like 5 quid chucked socks links deodorant I mean come on what is going on is that another full tent as well sandwich boxes cup

Spark plastic bottle an absolute disgrace anyway for me it’s actually not that far back down to the uh car pack from here so come morning I’m going to gather up what I can and I’m going to take that back down because I can’t leave it here what do you reckon

Blue not good is it you would’t do that would you no ah de me some people right I’ve decided to pack it all up now whilst it’s dry because I think in the morning it’s going to rain so I’ll just try to get it into some sort

Of fashion that I can move it I’ve got this big sort of tap tent type thing here so I’ll make that into a bag I think what a fraking mess absolute Muppets honestly just Muppets I just do not understand humans sometimes right I’ve packed it up into something a bit more

Manageable although because it is been out for a while it’s pretty bloody heavy ah it’s probably 20 kilos hour reckon anyway leave no bloody Trace that’s what it’s all about let’s set this but down and I’m going to uh struggle back down the hill tomorrow if I don’t do it who the hell’s

Going to do it anyway back to the peace and Tranquility of all this take some nice deep breaths and just understand there’s a lot of good people in life as well definitely for dinner we have chicken Korean potatoes which is a very much out ofd ration pack from

2020 it’ll be fine and I’ve also got some nagger nagger rice which says it’s a fiery hot rice flavored with nagger Naga chilies coriander cumin and Indian style spices that’ll go well with that two servings luckily I’m wearing this so I’m probably about the same size as two

People anyhow to keep it light I didn’t bother bringing a stove I’ve just brought one of these which wears a few grams and all it is is a exothermic reaction once you add a little bit of water drop the this in and then hopefully it will heat it up enough to

Eat so I’ve used one of these a few days back just got to rip the top off and inside there’s these little sort of saet which obviously have some sort of chemical in which is activated by the water and produces a hell of a lot of heat let’s get this opened

Up we’re going to drop this one In and I’m going to put this one in as well it’s only designed for one really but if it fits which it does I want to see if I can make this work so we just need some water and we going to fill it to the

Line at the bottom which might be a little bit bit different because I’ve got two packs in not one probably a bit much there but we’ll see what [Applause] happens just give it a little bit of a shake and hopefully start feeling some heat yep that’s one definitely activated there and you can

See it’s starting to expand right let’s leave this for 12 minutes and then hopefully I going to have a nice warm dinner to eat on this freezing cold night and I’ll feed the dog as well right the moment of truth that is absolutely roasting red

Hot I did have it on my lap but it was too much it was burning my legs so let’s open this up you can see it’s steam coming out of there amazing eh so I’ll open this up first job without getting it all over me I would be gutted especially because it’s

Like a curry staying everything let’s get this rice out now and hopefully this has got a bit of heat to it as well this was on the top of that one though so I’m not expecting this to be that pop but as long as it’s taking the edge off it that’ll do

It oh it smells good I’ll pour that into there let’s have a taste that was a bit too ricey the curry is really good bloody H it’s spicy the rice is just sort of lukewarm it’s better than having it cold is it really anyway I get it mix

Up and I’m going to get this eaten and I’ll feel even more like a fat ninja in this stealthy outfit dinner was pretty good actually I would give it a five and a half out of 10 and five goes for the potato and chicken curry cuz that was actually

Really nice and the point five goes for the rice because it was pretty much uncooked although it has filled me up and left me with some pretty spicy lips anyway luckily in my little bag of tricks this is my toiletry bag we’ll call it and all I’ve got in here is my sonoff

Toothbrush save a few grams I’ve got a tiny little toothpaste and I’ve got my little pot of Vaseline and I always put Vaseline on my lips after I sort of brush my teeth and I also put it on just to sort of protect them if you know like today with the

Wind and all that my mom has always said to me that Vaseline heals everything so it don’t matter what what’s happened to you she’ll just say just put some Vaseline on it and it’s like well mom I’ve brought my leg just put some Vaseline on it’ll be all right put Mom the bones

Hanging out put some Vaseline on it’ll be all right in the morning literally everything is healed by Vaseline I can’t have a cup of tea but I am going to have a little bit of a snack as me put in and that’s going to be me

Really let’s get this out it’s been a pretty good day though really nice to get out and do some good solid exercise I did not enjoy the bog trotting because that was was just nonstop and the wind has been pretty atrocious too and that’s just absolutely drains you but it’s

Still been a pleasure to be out in the mountains and I’ve seen some amazing things today the dog’s had his exercise and obviously he’s just tired out now and relaxing in the corner just star straight out May bless him yeah the only thing that’s really annoying about the day is the fact that

You come somewhere I like this which is just so beautiful and so natural and then you find a load of rubbish left so I’ve bagged that up obviously and I’m going to take that back down the mountain so at least it rectifies the situation but still just

Knowing that people are out there doing that sort of thing is absolutely atrocious and also it ruins it for the legitimate wild campers that get out there and leave no trace and these people just scar what we’re doing and that’s what gets put into the newspapers

And you know in all the sort of media and all that and it just makes us look bad when it’s nothing to do with the wild campers and that’s the difference there’s a massive difference between fly camping and wild camping and I just hope that people understand

That yeah that’s me ran over anyway I’m going to sit back enjoy me little bit of a cake thing which tastes pretty good I’m going to get myself ready for bed brush my teeth not have a cup of tea get in me lovely sleeping bag which is just lofted

Well and that’s going to be it for the night layer this lug so we’ll see the up morning say good night morning flowers well it didn’t rain at all in the night and there was just this gentle breeze rolling through so the tent wasn’t really flapping that much so I

Slept really well I woke up a few times once because I was sweating to death so I just took off my down jacket inside the sleeping bag and then that just balanced my temp out nicely and then a couple of other times just when I’m sort

Of turning from side to side which I always do on a matte anyway cuz one hip starts to hurt sometimes and I flip myself over but I’ve definitely realized that I don’t like a regular sized mat I feel that it’s just not wide enough so I definitely prefer the regular wide or

The uh large it just suits my style of sleeping better the fact fact that I sleep on my side anyway let’s get ourselves up and see what the world has to offer us out there it looks like the sun might just be trying to poke itself out for

I have just had a complete nightmare I got the Drone out and just started gliding it and showing this Lake off beautifully and I I took it up a little bit higher and it decided to get caught by the wind and it just went off way over Pac and got

Lost so I legged it all the way up got the GPS location of it and searched for it for about 2 and 1/2 hours and nothing literally nothing and it’s really windy up there I started getting really cold pretty hungry and now we’ve come back down just to sort ourselves

Out we’re going to pack away get ourselves back down the mountain and then I’m going to have to come back up because I can’t afford to lose that not a chance I think YouTubers have to be rich to be able to do what they do I’m

Not rich and for me to lose something like that is just it’s like oh [ __ ] me yeah not good not good all packed up leave no Trace as always I’ve just got to carry someone else’s Trace back down that hill and then once I’m back down I’m going to

Gather me thoughts work out exactly what I’m going to do and I’m going to attempt to try get my drone back because I can’t afford to lose it so even if I pack up a backpack again and come out camping for 2 or 3 days financially it is worth it

Anyway time to get some muscles used that’s I feel like a sherper they are tough fellas aren’t They There de you so there we are back down again off another wild Camp a bit of a fast packing one this and it’s just nice to get out and get some decent exercise done which has been added to by running to try find the Drone and also carrying

30 odd kilos down the hill as well my neck’s killing me my back’s killing me and I can’t wait to get this off make sure that you leave no Trace it’s pretty obvious to do but we need to make sure that we differentiate between the two things of wild camping and fly camping

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