Cracking video! Really enjoyed this. Looked a tad chilly up there! Food looked amazing too. Congrats on your highest ever wild Camp Alan 🏕😊👌 All the best, Pete and Shell
Hiya guys, yeah it was a great camp, defo worth the effort of getting up there, it was cold but that wind in the morning was freezing Hope you’re both well Atb Alan
Nice one Alan, congratulations on your highest wildcamp and with the snow makes it special. It's always great when you overcome those doubts and achieve your personal goals, well done lad, enjoyed the video 👍
Cheers Lee, A lot of head games going on recently, doubting myself etc, I think this has put them to bed Cheers for watching, it’s appreciated ATB Alan
Banging video mate. Them conditions looked and sounded brutal. Food looked awesome. You can do anything you put your mind to,your a machine mate. ATB Dan 👍 👍 👍 👍
Cheers Dan, You’re right, anything can be achieved, it’s too easy to doubt yourself and make excuses Good luck with that Jake Paul fight homie ATB Alan
Hi Alan 😊 that looked a great camp but cold. You are so good to carry a heavy back pack up helvellyn especially with a winter kit as it’s heavier. I’ve been up helvellyn several times as it’s my fav in the lakes, but only just done dollywaggon and nethermost pike on my last trip up there. Food looked good. You need a good meal like that in that sort of weather. Great job 😊
Cheers Yas, yeah it’s a cracking fell and and most do winter one, no better place to start off the 2024 winter season. It’s the heavy bag and long trek that puts off, once I get out though it’s ok lol As always cheers for watching ATB Alan
cheers Dave, yeah its proved a little point myself, its to easy to talk myself out of out sometimes, looking forward to the rest of the winter season now ive actually just checked and im on 83 not 85 ffs lol ATB Alan
Cracking video as always mate! Looks like a got lucky with my conditions compared to yours 🙈 I went up the same route as you did, must of done Helvellyn about 12 times and Ive never done that route before. Its actually a cracking route up, not as much as a slog as Swirls but obviously not as fun as the edges haha. Banger mate keep them coming 👌🏼
Ive never been up from swirls, I found this route relatively easy on the legs which was a surprise, yeah you defo got better conditions mate, but still not a bad start to the winter season. cheers for watching ATB Alan
Great watch mate well done for doing it. I sometimes doubt myself I decided to bottle camping tonight with storm bert hitting early tomorrow. Gale force winds is one thing but when it’s forecast snow turning to heavy rain in 60mph winds and extensive fog down to around 150metres I don’t fancy it 😂 I only wanted to camp high to get above the snow line but I’ll have to wait for the next dumping of the white stuff
Hiya mate, recently I’ve found myself making all sorts of excuse up for some reasons, so happy I actually got on with it, Probably the right decision this weekend mate,bad weather is coming early tomorrow Cheers for watching mate Atb Alan
It was forecasted for clear skies in the morning as well … saying that snow was forecasted that night too … don’t trust thd forecasts lol Cheers for watching mate Atb Alan
hat was great always thought helvelen was 3210 feet maby like me it got smaller with age but loved the video always great to see a test against the weather
@@Paul-hl4cj hiya mate, thanks for watching first of all, I know it’s 950m so unless I got my calculations wrong , which there’s a good chance I have, I’m gunna go check 😂 ATB Alan
@@54DegreesNorth just remember in boysbrigaid many years ago i was told it was 2210 feet it stuck in my mind when the wife and i climed it also but wish there was more videos like that insted of going on about tents and cookers
@Paul-hl4cj yeah it’s hard to get a good balance, I get people telling mr I don’t put enough of the camping in it , or others say I put to much in Can’t please everyone I suppose, happy you enjoyed it 👍
Yahoo Alan, Congratulations to you on marking another milestone 1.5K OMG, no fall foliage, but snow on the ground. Brrrr Are you filming with the latest Gopro? You mentioned the battery is failing. Indeed, they cause stop filming under hot weather, too. A mustard color beanie is good on you. haha What? Che Alan, you can cook. Have ever worried if the wild animals come after your meal? Oh,,the winds picked up really bad now.. what? I cannot hear you..haha Did you say you are going to work after such challenging backpacking? Well, I guess You are being Alan haha stay safe, Alan Great hike. As I may have mentioned before. We are away from home evacuation after the natural disaster for months. My city is paralyzed by it. We evacuated to FL the 2nd day with no power, no gas, no clean water, no internet, no cell service, and food shortage. The city just lifted boiled water advisory. PPL were line up for shower, laundry, bottles of water and MRE(meal ready to eat) just like soldiers have at wars. The most of hiking trails at Smokey and Blue Ridge Parkway are closed. I miss fall foliage the most.. my comments disappeared...so this may not be delivered to you neither...haha drop it off with my sub anyway.
Hey Cumin, I do most the filming on the GoPro 10 just with standard batteries though, then I use the GoPro 9 for my Timelapse's etc, I just need to get some winter batteries I think sorry to hear about your home, hopefully something gets sorted quick for you x thanks for watching ATB Alan
Nice video, great to get up there in the snow. You could hear the wind starting to pick up after about 20 mins. That's the only problem with Helvellyn - absolutely no shelter from the wind. Still worth it though. Keep 'em coming, Alan.
Cheers Mal, easterly winds as well, it was forecasted, so they got that part right at least lol, yeah its been on the winters hit list for a while, so super happy ive got that done. ATB Alan
@@54DegreesNorthHeya, could you possibly recommend one of the easy paths as we're planning to go in a few weeks? Hugely appreciated and great video! 😊
@Abspro50 to be honest I think This one maybe it, you can go up from Swirls carpark it’s shorter but steeper Again you can go up from white side,but I’ve not been up this way before Hope this helps and thanks for watching ATB Alan
Morning guys, ive been up Helvellyn a few times but just kept putting off doing a camp up there, even in the not so great conditions its a stunning place, so definitely get yourselves up there thanks for watching and there sub, its really appreciated ATB Alan
Nice one mate. I pitched just round towards Nethermost, lovely flat bit near the edge. I loved it up there in winter. Definitely have to go back.......love all that wondering about like you 😅. ...... jealous of your food 👍
Hiya John, I think Helvellyn is the most hit winter fell, definitely want to hit that pitch on nethermost pike to, I stay out my tent as long as possible, so just walk about having a few drinks lol . Always try and make some decent food too, Cheers for watching pal Atb Alan
Nice one bud, made me excited for my first winter camp this year - although I’ll have to correct you on your comment about it being the first ice of 2024 😜😜
Where you thinking of heading mate ?? Yeah I knew someone would pick up on it, I meant the winter season lol, earlier in the year is still winter 23 😂😂😂 Cheers for watching Atb Alan
Nothing planned as yet but hoping to get out very soon. Barely camped at all this year so def due one 😜 If Ollie fancies it it’ll be one of the lower Wainwrights just incase we encounter problems but if not, think it will be somewhere in the Howgills 🤷♂️
Cheers for watching mate, I think it has to be in everyone's top 5 of fells doesn't it ? the food was super quick and easy to make, ill never understand these dehydrated meals lol ATB Alan
Nice vid Alan, Worked out why you were limping?, it's because of your big sausage you have at 21.19 lol. Manage to buy a Vango Banshee 300, so I'm all ready for next years adventures.
lamb koftas them mate lol ... super quick and easy to make, just had a look at the banshee 300, not a bad weight for a 3 person tent, hope you get out in it soon ATB Alan
@@54DegreesNorth Aww i'll have a look on how to make them. Yeah that tent is good, I paid £70 for it as it was used on Ebay. Defo going camping next March or April
Cracking video! Really enjoyed this. Looked a tad chilly up there! Food looked amazing too. Congrats on your highest ever wild Camp Alan 🏕😊👌
All the best,
Pete and Shell
Hiya guys, yeah it was a great camp, defo worth the effort of getting up there, it was cold but that wind in the morning was freezing
Hope you’re both well
Atb
Alan
Nice one Alan, congratulations on your highest wildcamp and with the snow makes it special. It's always great when you overcome those doubts and achieve your personal goals, well done lad, enjoyed the video 👍
Cheers Lee,
A lot of head games going on recently, doubting myself etc, I think this has put them to bed
Cheers for watching, it’s appreciated
ATB
Alan
Wow 😮..
Nice one Al.. 👍
Cheers jimmy, hope you’re well mate
ATB
Alan
Congratulations on your highest wildcamp. What a camp that was. Good on ya. Loved the video 🎉
Thanks Emz,
Cracking camp to be fair,
ATB
Alan
Love it mate. 👍🏻
Cheers pal
ATB
Alan
Banging video mate.
Them conditions looked and sounded brutal.
Food looked awesome.
You can do anything you put your mind to,your a machine mate.
ATB Dan 👍 👍 👍 👍
Cheers Dan,
You’re right, anything can be achieved, it’s too easy to doubt yourself and make excuses
Good luck with that Jake Paul fight homie
ATB
Alan
Hi Alan 😊 that looked a great camp but cold. You are so good to carry a heavy back pack up helvellyn especially with a winter kit as it’s heavier. I’ve been up helvellyn several times as it’s my fav in the lakes, but only just done dollywaggon and nethermost pike on my last trip up there. Food looked good. You need a good meal like that in that sort of weather. Great job 😊
Cheers Yas, yeah it’s a cracking fell and and most do winter one, no better place to start off the 2024 winter season.
It’s the heavy bag and long trek that puts off, once I get out though it’s ok lol
As always cheers for watching
ATB
Alan
Nice work there brother.
Thanks for watching mate
ATB
Alan
Nice one Al & well done for not doubting your sen mate 👍
Keep ticking em off ⛰️
Take care
Dave
cheers Dave, yeah its proved a little point myself, its to easy to talk myself out of out sometimes, looking forward to the rest of the winter season now
ive actually just checked and im on 83 not 85 ffs lol
ATB
Alan
Cracking video looked a tad chilly up there. But with the right gear anything is possible
Hiya mate, it wasn’t to bad tbh, just the wind that was nightmare
Thanks for watching
ATB
Alan
Cracking video as always mate! Looks like a got lucky with my conditions compared to yours 🙈 I went up the same route as you did, must of done Helvellyn about 12 times and Ive never done that route before. Its actually a cracking route up, not as much as a slog as Swirls but obviously not as fun as the edges haha. Banger mate keep them coming 👌🏼
Ive never been up from swirls, I found this route relatively easy on the legs which was a surprise, yeah you defo got better conditions mate, but still not a bad start to the winter season.
cheers for watching
ATB
Alan
class video mate, really enjoyed this.
Cheers Jack and it was good to meet you, just a shame we didn't get the sunrise we was promised lol
ATB
Alan
Great watch mate well done for doing it. I sometimes doubt myself I decided to bottle camping tonight with storm bert hitting early tomorrow. Gale force winds is one thing but when it’s forecast snow turning to heavy rain in 60mph winds and extensive fog down to around 150metres I don’t fancy it 😂 I only wanted to camp high to get above the snow line but I’ll have to wait for the next dumping of the white stuff
Hiya mate, recently I’ve found myself making all sorts of excuse up for some reasons, so happy I actually got on with it,
Probably the right decision this weekend mate,bad weather is coming early tomorrow
Cheers for watching mate
Atb
Alan
really enjoyed this vid, new sub :)
Thanks mate it’s appreciated
ATB
Alan
Looked an awesome camp, shame there wasn’t a sunrise to top it off. 👍⛺️
It was forecasted for clear skies in the morning as well … saying that snow was forecasted that night too … don’t trust thd forecasts lol
Cheers for watching mate
Atb
Alan
hat was great always thought helvelen was 3210 feet maby like me it got smaller with age but loved the video always great to see a test against the weather
@@Paul-hl4cj hiya mate, thanks for watching first of all, I know it’s 950m so unless I got my calculations wrong , which there’s a good chance I have, I’m gunna go check 😂
ATB
Alan
Just checked, google says I’m right 😂😂 cheers again 👍👍⛺️🏔️
@@54DegreesNorth just remember in boysbrigaid many years ago i was told it was 2210 feet it stuck in my mind when the wife and i climed it also but wish there was more videos like that insted of going on about tents and cookers
@Paul-hl4cj yeah it’s hard to get a good balance, I get people telling mr I don’t put enough of the camping in it , or others say I put to much in
Can’t please everyone I suppose, happy you enjoyed it 👍
Yahoo Alan,
Congratulations to you on marking another milestone 1.5K
OMG, no fall foliage, but snow on the ground. Brrrr
Are you filming with the latest Gopro? You mentioned the battery is failing.
Indeed, they cause stop filming under hot weather, too.
A mustard color beanie is good on you.
haha What? Che Alan, you can cook. Have ever worried if the wild animals come after your meal?
Oh,,the winds picked up really bad now.. what? I cannot hear you..haha
Did you say you are going to work after such challenging backpacking?
Well, I guess You are being Alan haha stay safe, Alan
Great hike.
As I may have mentioned before. We are away from home evacuation after the natural disaster for months.
My city is paralyzed by it. We evacuated to FL the 2nd day with no power, no gas, no clean water, no internet, no cell service, and food shortage. The city just lifted boiled water advisory. PPL were line up for shower, laundry, bottles of water and MRE(meal ready to eat) just like soldiers have at wars. The most of hiking trails at Smokey and Blue Ridge Parkway are closed.
I miss fall foliage the most..
my comments disappeared...so this may not be delivered to you neither...haha drop it off with my sub anyway.
Hey Cumin, I do most the filming on the GoPro 10 just with standard batteries though,
then I use the GoPro 9 for my Timelapse's etc, I just need to get some winter batteries I think
sorry to hear about your home, hopefully something gets sorted quick for you x
thanks for watching
ATB
Alan
Eyup Alan, great vid. Lovely, kept missing the windows last couple of week. Cheers for that one, David
Hiya David, cheers for watching mate, yeah the second I saw the forecast I took the day off work , missed far to much snow last year
Atb
Alan
Nice one , found your channel after your post on the Facebook group 👍 , class video mate
Nice one Kev
Hoss can accomplish anything with the proper mindset. 🛡
That and rum mate
Nice video, great to get up there in the snow. You could hear the wind starting to pick up after about 20 mins. That's the only problem with Helvellyn - absolutely no shelter from the wind. Still worth it though. Keep 'em coming, Alan.
Cheers Mal, easterly winds as well, it was forecasted, so they got that part right at least lol,
yeah its been on the winters hit list for a while, so super happy ive got that done.
ATB
Alan
@@54DegreesNorthHeya, could you possibly recommend one of the easy paths as we're planning to go in a few weeks? Hugely appreciated and great video! 😊
@Abspro50 to be honest I think
This one maybe it, you can go up from
Swirls carpark it’s shorter but steeper
Again you can go up from white side,but I’ve not been up this way before
Hope this helps and thanks for watching
ATB
Alan
@54DegreesNorth that's great Alan. Thanks so much 😊
Nice one matey. Top camp up there and shame about not getting a sunrise so all the more to go back again 😂 ATB Chris
hahahaha tell me about it, ill defo go back as the climb up wasn't anywhere near as bad as I thought with my gear
cheers for watching Chris
ATB
Alan
Awesome video! Really enjoyed that. Really want to get a camp up Helvellyn. Congrats! New sub from us.
Morning guys, ive been up Helvellyn a few times but just kept putting off doing a camp up there, even in the not so great conditions its a stunning place, so definitely get yourselves up there
thanks for watching and there sub, its really appreciated
ATB
Alan
Nice one mate. I pitched just round towards Nethermost, lovely flat bit near the edge. I loved it up there in winter. Definitely have to go back.......love all that wondering about like you 😅. ...... jealous of your food 👍
Hiya John, I think Helvellyn is the most hit winter fell, definitely want to hit that pitch on nethermost pike to,
I stay out my tent as long as possible, so just walk about having a few drinks lol .
Always try and make some decent food too,
Cheers for watching pal
Atb
Alan
@54DegreesNorth yes it's been my go to winter fun for years.....gullys, ridges, all of it. Long nights what else!?! 😅... Glad you had a good time.
@@MountainManJohnFilms cheers mate
Nice one bud, made me excited for my first winter camp this year - although I’ll have to correct you on your comment about it being the first ice of 2024 😜😜
Where you thinking of heading mate ?? Yeah I knew someone would pick up on it, I meant the winter season lol, earlier in the year is still winter 23 😂😂😂
Cheers for watching
Atb
Alan
Nothing planned as yet but hoping to get out very soon. Barely camped at all this year so def due one 😜 If Ollie fancies it it’ll be one of the lower Wainwrights just incase we encounter problems but if not, think it will be somewhere in the Howgills 🤷♂️
Wow, looks good
Cheers mate, can’t go wrong with a snow capped mountain top
Atb
Alan
You campers are mad 😂😂😂 Food looked nice . Good video always a favourite Fell of mine would need to be warmer for me to sleep up there 😂
Cheers for watching mate, I think it has to be in everyone's top 5 of fells doesn't it ?
the food was super quick and easy to make, ill never understand these dehydrated meals lol
ATB
Alan
@@54DegreesNorth definitely in the top 5 fells
Brilliant video mate. Why do we carry all that heavy gear up just to spend 16 hours in a tent 😂. If you know, you know…
😂 cheers matey
Atb
Alan
Nature can be so cruel. Blessing people with a love of the outdoors, but also cursing those people with a terrible taste in music.
Nice vid Alan, Worked out why you were limping?, it's because of your big sausage you have at 21.19 lol. Manage to buy a Vango Banshee 300, so I'm all ready for next years adventures.
lamb koftas them mate lol ... super quick and easy to make, just had a look at the banshee 300, not a bad weight for a 3 person tent, hope you get out in it soon
ATB
Alan
@@54DegreesNorth Aww i'll have a look on how to make them. Yeah that tent is good, I paid £70 for it as it was used on Ebay. Defo going camping next March or April
Which sleeping bag pal?
Rab ascent 1100 mate
Here mate I say will ya do us a favour and will ya sell uz ya hilleburg?
Speak proper english
hahaha to be honest mate I'm thinking of switching to the Allak for winter, cheers for watching
ATB Alan
@ Why you’re some Kevin Costner 🍑❤️
Why do you walk like you have a limp 😂
If I’m going up it’s because I’m
Half dead trying to drag myself up there 😂
@54DegreesNorth You sound so full of life though. 🍻
@WaysideWade we need a catch up mate x
@54DegreesNorth i wss referring to you walking in the car park 😅 Old man now mate. Best bring some WD40 on your hikes going forward 👍👊❤️
We just going to abuse each other on comments to now mate 😂😂
I might of 💩 myself 🤷♂️