4 season backpacking

Day two on the The Cambrian Way mountain trail 479 km (298 miles) with a total ascent of 22,460 m (73,700 ft). I think it could be Britain's hardest long distance trail. I was in the OEX bush pro bivvi with a light weight summer mat and a summer mountain Mountain Equipment sleeping bag. In the early hours the rain started and then came the lightening i was around 300 meters high on a ridge. I was not sure how far away the lightening was as there was no typical bangs alot the time but it looked very close. The dark sky light up like a giant camera flash. My sleeping got wet from the strong rain but was still ok for another night in the Bivvi. In the morning i set of over the Caerphilly train tunnel by a disused quarry. Next town was Machen which has the last supermarket right on trail until Abergavenny. There is a COOP supermarket at Machen and Machen stores which is what i used. From the village it was a steep at times walk up Mynydd Machen a 362-metre-high (1,188 ft) hill. It was ...

I camped in a old quarry under Kenidjack Cliff Castle that night was 50mph gusts. Today i went back into St just to get the First Kernow bus into Penzance. Buses in Cornwall are not cheap but i am sure they use to be. In Penzance i went to the Library to charge my gear up but hey you say you was going stay at the YHA penzance but i say you can not check into 1700 which made it pointless stopping there but i only was made clear about that after i had paid online. I could have and would have camped on the moors as the wind was going to die down later and i charge my gear up at the Library anyhow. Since i paid i stopped the night there least i got a shower and it was warm but was more of a dribble of water than a power shower. The hostel was clean and kitchen. It was only £10 for a night camping. Buy whats in this video from my affiliate links Salomon Men's Trail Running Shoes, XA Pro 3D GTX @ https://amzn.to/2Yx9Igv Deuter Quantum @ https://amzn.to/2YAZwU8 Please subscribe....

Last night i wild camped by the big waves of Maen dower. I walked along the South west coast path until Porth Nanven where i walked up valley for a bit from the coast path then headed back to Porth Nanven and back on the coast path.  I had a look around Ballowall Barrow  which i have been to a fair few times. After that i headed to Cape Cornwall still on the coast path. At Cape Cornwall i had a look around St Helen’s Oratory which i have been to many times before still i not video it before. After that it was a walk to St just to restock on food however the co op supermarket at the time was being made bigger the irony was because this is was smaller while they was building the add on. So not much choice in ST just food wise. I did get fish and chips which was fantastic only £5 and tasted great. Also got a pasty which was also fantastic. I walked though the mediæval amphitheatre in St just back towards the Library where i charged up my gear. Then i headed back to the coast ...

The magnificent South West Peninsula Day Zero i get the national express coach from Birmingham to Penzance for just £18 one way. I arrive late in the dark and strong rain. I then get the M6 First Kernow bus from Penzance to Mousehole. I arrived at Mousehole harbour from there i walked in the dark along the coast path to find a suitable camping spot which i did after not to far out of mousehole. Day one I set of back to Mousehole had a good look around the harbour then got the M6 First Kernow bus back in to Penzance. Got few bits extra food and drink from Iceland supermarket near the bus station then got the open top A1 First Kernow bus to Lands end from Penzance. From lands end i took in the spot i ended my walk that was twice the length of Britain from John o' groats to lands end on the end to end trail. I walked past the First and last house in England. I then headed for Sennen Cove. I camped at wild camped at Maen dower right by waterfalls that going right onto to small ro...

Wittenham Clumps is the name for a pair of wooded chalk hills in the Thames Valley near Little Wittenham. Round Hill, is 120m above sea-level. Castle Hill site of an Iron Age hill fort is 110 m above sea-level. not normally considered one of The Clumps, is Brightwell Barrow, further to the south-east. The summits are wooded by the oldest beech tree plantings in England from 1740s. North slopes overlooking villages and towns whose sites of the first settlements of the English. The Clumps are the most visited outdoor site in the county of Oxfordshire, attracting over 200,000 visitors a year. Wittenham Clumps are near to the River Thames, and good views can be had from the Thames Path along the river. The white-walled reactor buildings of the Joint European Torus, site of the world's first successful controlled nuclear fusion experiments, can be seen around 6 km to the north-west from the clumps. The hillfort on Castle Hill. The earliest earthworks date to the late Bronze Age. In ...

last night i camped at the End of the Anglo-Scottish border The England Coast Path is a proposed long-distance National Trail which will follow the coastline of England. When complete, it will be 2,795 miles (4,500 kilometres) in length. The England Coast Path has been possible because of the introduction of a UK law, the Right of Coastal Access, giving people for the first time the right of access around all England's open coast. This includes – where appropriate – any land, other than the trail itself, which forms part of the coastal margin and which has public rights of access along the way. This is known as ‘spreading room’. However, this does not include any right to enter private houses and gardens or Ministry of Defence land. The new right of Coastal Access also includes 'roll back', namely that if a section of coast erodes, the path will move back accordingly. Berwick-upon-Tweed a small area around Berwick-upon-Tweed, which was taken by England in 1482. Berwi...

Last night i wild camped on a right of way in woods by the Union Bridge. When there no choice i camp on the path it self making sure my tent is visible incase of bikes. The Union bridge was a highlight of my trip i have been over it before when i walked John o' groats to Lands end may have camped in the same place. After going over the bridge it was a road walk for a while where i came to a bus stop i got a return ticket to Berwick to restock on food and drink. Then it was a road walk again and a highlight was walking along a border track until i realised there was no bridge across the river Whiteadder Water i had to make a massive detour to B6461 road bridge. Then it was a walk along the river back to the border track on the other side of the river. At the border i was walking on the border track all the way to A6105 road. The border took a right turn onto Bailies burn before Clappers. Not long after Clappers i took a track not over to Lamberton had look around the Church ruin...

Last night i wild camped on Clennell Street  had a amazing sunrise on the first day of Autumn. I will walk down Clennell Street today towards cocklawfoot . The walk down was amazing views the whole way. At one point i think i found the worse toilet in Scotland. After the track i came to a road which is where i joined St Cuthbert's Way. Town Yetholm was not long after. Town Yetholm has a small shop which i pigged out and spent almost £20. Not far from Town Yetholm was the border again which where i crossed back into England. I found a abandoned and overgrown cemetery midway between Mindrum and Mindrum Mill. I found some woods by Cornhill-on-Tweed to camp Pennine Way  is a National Trail in England, with a small section in Scotland. The trail runs 268 miles (431 km) Clennell Street is a truly ancient trackway through the Cheviot hills The Cheviot Hills are a range of uplands straddling the Anglo-Scottish border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. St Cuthber...

Today was spent on the pennine way over the Cheviot Hills. On very little food i made my way towards the steep climb before that i had a look at St Francis' Church and to see the closed down first and last cafe good for a photo or a time travelling video haha. After the steep climb the going was easy. Was a nice windy walk mostly along the Anglo-Scottish border fence. Auchope Mountain Rescue hut was a welcome brake but way to early to stop the night. I stopped the night the hut when i walked John o' groats to lands end on the end to end trail. I was planning to make it to the next shelter. The next steep part was upto Windy Gyle Russell's Cairn for the Autumn equinox. I made it to the Anglo-Scottish border gate Clennell Street where i wild camped on the Scottish side of the border  fence on Clennell Street. Border Forest Holiday Park. £8.00 a night for backpacker tent. showers was no extra cost but i bit dated. There was electric plugs in the cooking area i used to ch...

Today walk started after a night wild camping at Newcastleton Forest by the start of Kielder Forest which is right on the border between Scotland and England. Newcastleton Forest on the Scottish side of the border is where i camped right by the forest border bridge into England. Today i walked along the Cross border trail which is a bike route which few people use i only saw 3 people in last 40 or so hours and they was on bikes and it is a weekend still in Summer. I regret not making a effort walking of my route to see the  Old Toll Pillar at Bloody Bush. so apart from a forest walk i also walked along Kielder Water to Kielder castle. I stayed the night at Kielder Campsite. Kielder Forest, one of the biggest man-made woodlands in Europe. Old Toll Pillar at Bloody Bush. Old maps show a 'Site of Battle' at Bloody Bush. It was in fact more of a nasty skirmish (or 'sanguinary encounter', as James Logan Mack tells it) between Border Reivers. A party of english raiders ...

A night spent wild camping by Kershope Burn in Kershope Forest which i will be walking along and in all day long. On the way i passed on the wrong side the border to get to Kershopehead bothy however it is very possible to cross the burn but i was tired with a big bag and sent the drone up top get some footage i ended up camping right by Kershope Burn border river again by the bridge that goes over the the burn to England and the start of Kielder Forest. Today at my wild camping spot i thought i test out my idea of attaching a 4g wifi router to a drone in a area with no signal in the hope of picking up some 4g did it work? well watch the video! Kershope Burn is a burn running in its entirety along the border between England and Scotland. Kershopehead bothy near by murder. Thomas Davidson lived at Kettle Hall on the moors in the north east extremity of Cumberland in the parish of Bewcastle. On Thursday morning, November 8th 1849, Davidson left his home to make his usual rounds, He...

Had a great stay at High Gaitle Caravan Park. Walked along the busy A6071 for abit then joined the A7 where i had the option of walking along part the dismantled border railway overgrown in parts but passable. I would meet up with the border again at the eastern end of Scotsdike. Then the border followed the river Esk. I went through Canonbie which had  a shop which was very handy. It was a walk along the B6357 to Rowanburn which had a honesty shop in a old red phone box with local produce. Tonights camping spot is Kershope Forest Scots' Dike is a three and a half mile / 5.25 km long linear earthwork, constructed by the English and the Scots in the year 1552 to mark the division of the Debatable lands and thereby settle the exact boundary between Scotland and England. The method adopted to dig the Scots' Dike was to dig two parallel ditches, and throw the material excavated therefrom into the intervening space, thus forming an earthen mound of varying height. Borders Rail...

I got a train from  Birmingham New Street to Gretna Green changing at Carlisle for only £16.50 booked in advance via Chilternrailways join https://www.topcashback.co.uk/ref/freemoneycashback free to get cash back on the ticket with them for even bigger saving. I had a brief look around Gretna Green i then headed for the number 79 stagecoach bus to High Gaitle Caravan Park to put my tent up and lighten my load for a walk around the Gretna Green area. Got then got the number 79 bus back into Gretna Green then headed toward the Lochmaben Stone. Then started my walk proper from there. was a easy walk with out the big backpack today. On the was passed few border bridges one with out welcome signs and i walked in the Debatable Lands it was not possible to walk Scots' Dike as it was impassible a local said so manged to get bit drone footage of it from a distance. Shame there no right of way going thorugh there. Then back to High Gaitle Caravan Park Gretna Green is situated on the Sc...

Come and join me on a border patrol hike and wild camping along the Northern English and Southern Scottish frontier Anglo-Scottish border. 96 miles (154 km)  how ever i will be walking longer than that as no always possible to walk right on the border. Along the way i will explore the surroundings of the border and walk right on the border it self. I will walk the border fence yes there is one and no sheep are gonna cross it. In parts the border is rivers streams there even a dyke called Scotts dyke built by the English and Scottish. It became the first Anglo-Scottish border with the annexation of Northumbria by Anglo-Saxon England in the mid 10th century. In 973. The border line was legally established in 1237 by the Treaty of York between England and Scotland. It remains the border today, with the exception of the Debatable Lands, north of Carlisle, and a small area around Berwick-upon-Tweed, which was taken by England in 1482. Berwick was not fully annexed into England unti...

I went camping with a friend so no talking in this one just some fantastic videography and music. I camped at Windmill hill and Edgehill. We did hear the sound of Cannon fire at night which was spooky. From Windmill hill i will have a fantastic view of Battle of Edgehill where 500 Royalists will die and 500 Parliamentarians die on Sunday, 23 October 1642. Come with me on a Civil War wild camp. The haunting of Edgehill Battlefield is one of the most famous hauntings in the entire of The British Isles. A area full of Puritans and witchcraft at the time. The windmill sits on the 180m high Windmill Hill.  Built in the early 18th century.  The windmill still contains all its machinery. The mill operated until 1915 when it was struck by lightening. From here back in time i would have seen Red Horse of Tysoe a hill figure cut into the red clay below the escarpment of Edgehill. The figure was first recorded in 1607. Various dates have been suggested for its creation, ranging f...

I was walking Windmill hill near Tysoe when lightening struck sending me back in time a day before First English Civil War. From Windmill hill i will have a fantastic view of Battle of Edgehill where 500 Royalists will die and 500 Parliamentarians die on Sunday, 23 October 1642. I will have a front row seat from the relative safety of windmill hill. Come with me on a Civil War wild camp. The haunting of Edgehill Battlefield is one of the most famous hauntings in the entire of The British Isles. A area full of Puritans and witchcraft at the time. The windmill sits on the 180m high Windmill Hill.  Built in the early 18th century.  The windmill still contains all its machinery. The mill operated until 1915 when it was struck by lightening. From here back in time i would have seen Red Horse of Tysoe a hill figure cut into the red clay below the escarpment of Edgehill. The figure was first recorded in 1607. Various dates have been suggested for its creation, ranging from the...

Linear Earthwork, Tribal Boundary and Ritual Beheading: Aves Ditch from the Iron Age to the Early Middle Ages @ https://amzn.to/2ZuYexM Aves Ditch is one of the best-preserved and yet most enigmatic of the ancient monuments in Oxfordshire, and it has remained a landmark to the present day. Lined by a straight row of trees, it can be seen over a fair distance. It runs virtually dead straight over no less than 4.2 km from north of Kirtlington to the modern parish boundary between Upper Heyford and Middleton Stoney. For over three centuries scholars have wondered whether it is of pre-Roman, Roman or Anglo-Saxon origin, whether it was a road or a linear earthwork and, in the latter case, what function it may have served. Notwithstanding this centuries-old debate and it being easily accessible just 15 to 22 km north of Oxford, it is also one of the least known of the county's visible archaeological features and is seldom referred to in popular or scholarly work on the history or a...

Last night i wild camped at Sugar Loaf mountain. Sugar Loaf mountain is 596 metres above sea level. It is a popular misconception that Sugar Loaf is an extinct volcano. I woke up to a sunrise over  the Skirrid, or the ‘Holy Mountain’ legend is a dramatic landslide on the north of the mountain was caused by a earthquake or a lightning strike at the moment Christ was crucified. There was a local tradition that earth from the Skirrid was holy and especially fertile, and it was taken away to be scattered on fields elsewhere, on coffins, and in the foundations of churches.  Rudolf Hess used to walk here when he was held prisoner at nearby Maindiff Court during the early 1940s. So today was going home day had not much of a choice and it had been a good 4 days including today which will be spent getting back to abergavenny train station. On the way i took a quick look at Abergavenny Castle. established by the Norman lord Hamelin de Balun in about 1087. It was the site of a m...

Last night i camped on the The Cambrian Way Britain's hardest long distance trail this part of it is also the Beacons way. First Coffee and a all day breakfast can. After getting the tent down i made my way along the The Cambrian Way (Beacons way) for a short while until a small path going down the steep side of the mountain. Care was needed this time of Year as it was all overgrown and hard to see where the big drops of the path was. After being stuck and covered in ticks maybe i got to a road in the end i could stayed up on the ridge on the  Cambrian Way (Beacon way). original plan was to walk back to Pandy  and catch the X3 stagecoach bus from there into Abergavenny. Plans change on a adventure or i make up the plans as i go along. Now i will be heading to Llanvihangel Crucorney. On the way i found what the Ancients of Wales may have called a blwch ffôn it may have been used to contact the dead. The English may have called it a telephone box. So i arrived at  Llanv...

I had what may have been a tick bite and with all the hysteria over Lyme Disease when it is low risk i have had my back covered in them in 2014 and just scratched them of and that was in a red deer area with long grass by a river in North East Scotland while on the End to End trail John o' groats to lands end. Again only a month or so ago i had a tick in the private parts only realised after it being there for few hours i would think managed to remove it in bits i did clean it well this time it did go a bit red but nothing to worry about. I still feel ok. I wounder how many people think they got Lyme Disease when its just a cold or normal pains and i guess they do a blood test i no idea? Because seems a alarming amount of people seem catch Lyme Disease and i have not and i spend alot time in tick areas i even had a tick in the tent i was so tired could even be bothered to remove it from the tent lol.  I even spoke people who know people who died from it so for some its serious ...