KINDER SCOUT WILD CAMP - Episode 68
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2019
- We take a couple of days away from the boat and go hiking/camping on Kinder Scout in the High Peaks, Derbyshire.
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Wonderful to be able to join on your lovely off-boat adventure!! 😍 Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it, We would like to do more of this
We watch you as we’re eager to add boat life to our van life experiences.
It’s really good to see the camping element added too as we’ve done a number of wild camps in the Lake District and Snowdonia.
It’s good to see that you can make it work from the boat as that’s one thing potentially putting us off getting a boat, that the canals don’t tend to be in mountainous areas.
Keep them coming you two 👌🏼
We are in Yorkshire now and there are lots of opportunities although we haven't managed to go since Kinder Scout. Would love to go again
@@FloatingOurBoat yeh we’ve seen your lovely mooring 😍
You’ll no doubt make it happen if you want it enough, no rush though eh 😁
japan, where I live is an incredibly beautiful country. Honestly, it is breathtaking. However, after 20 years out here, I sometimes forget how unbelievably beautiful parts of the UK are. Thank you young people...
So glad we can show you that some of our country's beauty still remains x
As a sometimes backpacker in my younger days, carrying a water filter is a must. All that hiking exertion requires a lot of fluid replacement. It also makes it possible to enjoy a nice cup of coffee or tea when you wake up in the morning after a cold night. I might also suggest a small flask of liquor. There is nothing better after a long day of hiking, arranging your camping site and cooking dinner than a little nip of your favorite spirits.
The water filter is on our must have list and Rich has a little flask stached away somewhere so we must find it.
I loved this video. What a great adventure. I wouldn't worry about pitching your tent up there. You are obviously responsible campers and I bet you left no evidence of being there overnight. Thanks for taking us along.
The best way to see Kinder Scout is on my sofa watching you guys. Looks very bleak and not a little hazardous if you get properly lost.
You are right there
@@FloatingOurBoat Lol.
Loved this vlog, what an adventure. We stayed in Chinley and walked a little bit. Walked the canal at Bugsworth basin, thougherly enjoyed it. 🚤🚶♂️🚶♀️💖
It is a lovely area
No bear, no cougar, no elk in rut. Very civilized. Lotsa rocks though. A great view, really nice camping.
This brought back many happy memories especially going down Jacobs Ladder carrying a road bike in 1960 when I was 15! 😉 Happy days 👍
that sounds great, it is a wonderful place
So true about life getting in the way of what you want to do...... we are really pushing now to finish paying off everything so that we can spend more time on boat/bike/van/canoe adventures. Loved this 👍❤️😊🌱💚
🤪but beautiful! Thanks for sharing. 🤗
What a beautiful walk and stunning views🏞. Really enjoyed this vlog (and the other vlogs😊), this is fantastic.
Thanks so much! 😊 We are really looking forward to doing something similar soon
You scofflaws, bless your hearts.
Is that a real word? Love it.
Really enjoyed your trip hiking Kinder Scout, nice photos. When I was younger use to do a lot of Back packing and camping.
Hi Peter, we enjoyed it too. Hoping to do more this year, but need to get some better equipment.
The great advantage of walking Pennine Way further North above Todmorden is you can see Stoodley Pike (a Napoleonic War Memorial) for miles in the distance so can't get lost
Loved going on the walk with you both. Over here in Northern Ireland we have the 600 mile long Ulster Way. It was actually inspired by Stephenson’s Pennine Way. I still walk little local parts of it at times.
We hope to do more big walks soon
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Great wild camp story - funny :)
Glad you enjoyed it
Great walk you two!!! Lovely video and pictures... thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it
Great vlog, and it did bring back memories of our walking and backpacking days years ago of doing the the same kinds thing in Norway. And what Fran was saying about signposted walks that lead to nowhere, they end at some beauty spot or lookout, but nowhere in particular!!........................................ Very enjoyable vishon guys, thanks and cheers from down under!!
Glad you enjoyed it
OMG - the Penine Way is one of my dreams and I am so excited to see some of it, especially the beginning. It seems that every long trail has to climb out of town and go up, up, and up! Sure brought back memories, but the views look so worth the effort and it was lovely scenery all the way up - and most importantly, good water sources on the way up so you don't have to carry so much. Now I'm psyched to watch more of your journeys during this section to see if you do more of the Penine, or link it in on other canal journeys.
Slope tenting - a bugger isn't it! Have had that happen, it looks fairly level and not too bad, but then you lay down and realize it's just not going to work. I've had to pull down my tent and search for a better spot more than once. I have found that I can live with a slight slope a bit more if I put my feet on the uphill side, but it has to be fairly small slope to prevent ending up crunched into the bottom wall of the tent! Turning everything sideways and putting my pack along my back to stop me from rolling downhill did work once. You guys have such a good attitude that you can laugh about it!
I don't like commercial camping food and long ago started dehydrating my own. A dehydrator would take up too much space on the boat, but you can do it in an oven. It takes quite a while so would be a job for when you are about to refill the tanks or are in a marina or the cottage or a relatives. It does store for a long time if you keep it away from water and air and relatively cool-ish. Frozen or blanched veg dry wonderfully, keep well and add to anything. Tomato pasta sauce dries into something similar to a fruit leather, rehydrates easily and angel hair pasta cooks fast for good spaghetti. You can also take some 'normal' packaged food and use that, but it is a lot of preservatives and salt. Red beans & rice dries nicely also and rehydrates well & is filling.
Thank you so much for the tips. We have so much to learn and haven't done much more camping, but we are up in Yorkshire again now and have been doing some lovely walks including the Pennine way again. When the weather improves we may do some more camping trips
Fran you’re a champ. I used to drag my wife though crazy stuff like this and in the end she loved it. By the way you were gorgeous in the baseball cap at the top of the hill.
Cous cous is good for camping food because you can pour boiling water over and leave it to soak, cuppa soups add flavour and then throw in some tinned veg. Pre-cook some potatoes for snacking on, boiled eggs too are good. Warm sleeping bag liners help alleviate chills. I've just come back from a week hiking in the Pyrenees (no camping on this occasion). I've had mountain withdrawal symptoms all week, so this video was perfect! Xx
Beautiful part of the country....walked over Kinder Scout a few times......use to live 1/2 hour from there x
How cool is that, to have the dogs take the climb with you. So well behaved, to have them running about on their own - yet staying along as you progressed. It always seems that the smaller animals are so quick and graceful when compared to humans, like when they were actually running up Jacob's Ladder. 🐶👍
Hi Gilbert. We are lucky with the dogs, they hardly ever stray and make such light work of the hills. They must walk three times the distance we do. They were very quiet for the next two days!!
Love the English countryside. You guys should come to New Zealand and walk the South Island mountain trails!
You brought back so many funny memories of Jacob's - I remember one very hot Bank Holiday Monday being sent up there to help a young American Lady who was clearly suffering with exhaustion and heat stroke when we arrived we found she was wearing a thick polo neck sweater. Our priority was to get her re hydrated and cool. You will appreciate how little shelter there is up there, when we attempted to relieve her of the sweater we discovered why she had kept it on - she had nothing on underneath - happy days! On many occasions I have been stopped by confused tourists looking for an actual ladder! Thanks guys take care.
Aah, maybe that explains why we saw so many people over dressed earlier in the day when it was hot. Is this a thing, being naked under your top layer?
Beautiful countryside.
It really is!
I am such a city girl, walking and camping in the wild would for me be a total nightmare. I applaud your tenacity and endurance. Glad you had fun.
Hi there, Ken here in Canada, originally from Ashton Under Lyne. Well you really brought some memories back for me and tears. You had the tears for doing something you have always wanted to do. I had the tears for the memories of what I used to do as a teenager in the '60's, and cannot do again. Climbed Jacob's Ladder to Kinderscout and beyond on the Pennine way quite a few times. Yes it certainly is beautiful scenery once you get to the top and look around. You will see even more scenery once you get past Stalybridge on the way to Diggle and the Standedge Tunnel. Take care & stay safe. Ken. How about a shout out when you get to Ashton. Cheers.
Thank you Kenneth. You brought s tear to my eyes with that comment. It is one of the reasons we are doing this now is that we know we may not always be able to. We are looking forward to more views to come and more walking. Look out for the Ashton video.
Fran x
Hi Ken, sorry to jump into the comment but seen your originally from these parts and may like to see some of my drone videos from the area :)
@@droneuk - Thank you , will do
The more you do it the more you learn from your experiences. What kit works and what kit doesn't. Great video!!!
Loved this episode.
Very proud of the years I lived in Derbyshire and lovely memories of walking my first beautiful labrador in the Peak District. The most beautiful and wild part of England in my opinion. We used to drink from the streams - still alive.
Wow, we did say we would have used boiled stream water if necessary. Hope we brought back happy memories. X
Well done you two, and welcome to the world of Wild Camping. Now you have the bug nothing will stop you. Like you I take two dogs Wild Camping on Kinder Scout and Bleaklow, trust me the dogs will get used to it, they will love it. Things you will need on your list for the coming months is a low profile, possibly geodesic tent, warmer but light sleeping bags, and good mattresses. During summer there is hardly any water spots on Kinder Scout because the cloughs dry out, unless you want to filter really peaty water? Water filter....go for the katadyn Beefree because Sawyer filters clog up due to the peaty water. Don't follow tracks unless its the main one because some are sheep tracks, easy way to get lost. Definitely need a compass, electrics can fail and like you said gps and signals are not reliable up there. Walking poles help tremendously, im 61 years old and have been doing this for years but my knees still ache at the end of the day. Also you will feel chilly at the end of the day not just because of the weather but because your body is cooling down and you have been on the move for hours. When you feel safe to do so try the northern edge of Kinder, its very quiet, great views and you can pitch earlier, there is some water sources but can be a bit daunting to get down to if your not used to it so make sure you have water. I have just subbed because I want to see how your Wild Camping travels go. Atb Bill.
Thank you for your comment. We know we have a lot to learn and we will gradually improve our equipment if we continue to love the camping. We both had aching knees at the end of the trip, but we hope as we strengthen our muscles it will get easier. Warmer sleeping bags, a compass and a water filter are top of our list. Thanks for watching and subbing.
Hi both,brought back memories of edale,spent a few weekends there in my younger days(lads weekends).managed 188 miles of Pennine way but got rained off.inside of boats looking nice.take care love to both,hope wedding goes ok.rob x .
Oh what a shame you had to stop after that far. We are toying with doing the whole walk, but not sure we will do it in one go. We will see how fit we are in the spring. Thanks for watching.
Hi Fran & Rich really want you to know how very much we look forward to your wonderful videos , we've seen every one & start getting withdrawal symptoms as soon as we've finished each one ! Can't wait till the next. Keep 'em coming as long as you can. Bless you both, you spread a lot of good cheer, thank you.
Thank you so much June. We love making the videos and sharing our life. We don't intend to stop anytime soon. Thank you for watching
💕💕 I have a feeling I’ll watch this one a few more times! Absolutely gorgeous!!! 💕💕
Aww, you two. Wonderful, keep doing the things you've wanted to, before life got in the way. As you said Rich, life gets in the way, so right. I bet you feel great, though, after the sore bits stop aching, that is. Haha. All the best, take care.
Thanks Anthony. If there's one thing I've learned these last few years is make things happen. Life's too short and who knows what's around the corner. Thanks for watching 👍
Excellent
Fantastic
Hi Fran and Richard 🤔 well thanks for sharing this video 🤔 that was different 🤔has long as you had fun and getting lost is part of the adventure 👍👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
So comical...really enjoyed your story!😂
Thank you
Hay you guys, Well Done ! Thank you fore the views .I feel another painting coming on!
I went on a cycling trip some 45 years ago ,but never got as far as Kinder Scout.
To old now. Simple amazing Vid.👍😉
That was great , thank you both for sharing 👍
Great stuff. glad you had a great time...
Thank you Steve and thanks for watching.
probably over 40 years since I did Kinder, the Downfall was it's usual self with more water being blown back up than was falling down lol but well done guys, that is definitely not an easy walk
Great video, beautiful, beautiful scenery.
Well done, what incredible views...
Absolutely brilliant guys - we really loved this vlog ❤️❤️❤️ well done xxx
Our country may be small but there are still wild areas that are just wonderful to look at, great photographic footage but did you have those well deserved couple of pints on the way down.....
Hi Gaz, we certainly did have a couple of pints and a well needed bite to eat in the pub with our boots kicked off under the table!
A very interesting excursion for you. There's no gain without pain and I'm pleased to hear you're planning your next adventure. I used to do a lot of walking on Dartmoor late 80s/90s. Cheers Alan x
wow - stunning! What an adventure!
They have enough camping items for a luxury vacation.
That looked great . Yes you must have been exhausted but looks as if it was worth it. 😉
Yes we were and it was! Hope you enjoyed watching.
Nice adventure, something a bit different and lessons learnt. All in all a very good few days. Thank you.
That was great guys,well done😁👍👏👏👏
Another marvellous video and great scenery thank you
Thanks Keith.
Sounds like you had a great time. Hope you have many more.
Great video guys well done!! Been over 30 years since I was up on Kinder Scout, please get yourself a compass! When the weather come through there it can be scary .Take care...🇬🇧🇨🇦🇬🇧
we will definitely geta compass before our next trip. Thanks for watching
I enjoyed this divergence from the Canal and opening up about how you've waited so long to be able to do this kind of thing Rich. It's also why I crave a piece of calm and tranquility. Congrats on your upcoming wedding all the best from Cayman Islands.
Thank you Mark
Excellent. Thank you!
Hi enjoyed it all. Well done. Would love a look around your boat, some time, thank you very much.
We just came back from the Peak district. It is such a lovely place! Glad you enjoyed your wild camp. Looked like a lot of fun x
Thank you. It was a new experience for us and we loved it. Hopefully there will be more to come. Thanks for watching.
Well done, a great achievement, especially camping in those winds.
Thank you.
Well done. Lovely views
Thank you
Yep, you should definately get a real compass. It and a good old fashioned map are the only things one can trust if visibility goes down to naught and/or electronic aids craps out for some or another reason (which they invariably do, as you'd know). Once, me and my father was way up in the mountains west of Lake Femund in Norway. Thick fog set in, as is so typical in the mountains (this was in early October as well, so it was a bit chilly...), with visibility down to max 5 metres. This was way before smart phones and GPS, but the trusty old map and compass got us safely back to the car. It should be part of the "mandatory" kit for anyone who ventures out in the terrain like this, I think.
We did have the OS map and thought we would use the OS compass app on our phones in the absence of a real compass, but we will buy one now. Thanks for watching
Very enjoyable to watch, well done both of you. We enjoy walking but tend to stick to level routes, like by the canals 😜
Well done you...
I've done several wild camps on kinder.
I used the SAWYER Mini Water Filter combined with a 2 minute rolling boil.
Thanks Edward. It's on the shopping list.
Whew, you are very brave, you have been defeated, but you have succeeded brilliantly
What a marvellous adventure and a hoot. I always get lost on long walks. 🙄. Well done. Magnificent scenery. 👍😁
I always rely on Rich as I have almost no sense of direction but even he couldn't work the footpaths out up here
Fran x
An interesting time...
Really enjoyable video you two and the dogs are great, we are still stuck in the house in Gloucester and cannot wait til we get our boat. Well done!!
Hope you get on board soon. Thanks for watching our adventure.
Great vlog. Just found you guys and love ya travels. 👍
Thanks David, glad you like.
Great vlog, certainly got more energy than I have..
Blimey you chose one of the hardest routes to go up Kinder Scout, but well done great effort. Thanks for the fantastic video shots. Cheers J
We didn't realise this was the difficult way up. While we were struggling walking there were a couple running up the hill. Put us in our place, but at least we did it. Thanks for watching.
@@FloatingOurBoat Hi thanks for your reply if you go up again, try the route from Hafield village from Hayfield camp site it's so much easier with fantastic scenery.
I love Kinder - I wild camped there myself last year in just a bivi during the droughts looking over towards Manchester and then up in the morning down through the mist and fog from Kinder Low to Edale to catch the early train back to Marple and to work. Very easy to get lost up there... I have the MSR Trail Shot water filter for when I go up in the hills.
Looking forward to your next video of Marple :)
Wow! We didn't get the morning views because of the cloud, so will definitely have to go back. The Marple video will be coming soon! Thanks for watching.
Great stuff👍
That was lovely - thank you .. I bet it's 'hard' up there in winter eh.- Your boat interior looks very comfy-smart.
Thank you Martin
Well done guys at least you can still laugh about it,get it all in ,don’t forget them 4 walls. Keep at it,can you by any chance get to Scotland on the boat? Thanks for giving me another lift
Wow, only the best for the best,awesome vlog guys, I loved it, in Scotland you can camp any where you wont, it's the law guys, but wow, the morning views, tops.
It's wrong that you can't camp anywhere in these open spaces. The world is full of fun busting rules!
Absolutely love this area. Great video. Have friends in Chinley. Looks like Archie and Jess had a fab time too.👍👍🐕🐕🐕🐕
The figs loved it just as much as us and then slept for the next two days 😄
Thanks for another great vlog, well done you four rather you than me though. All the best Stevie
Loved this video... While the wife and I can't narrowboat here in the USA, we travel in a vintage travel trailer at times. America's equivalent to your boats. But our true passion is wild camping and we do that as often as possible. Instead of a tent though, which we do have, we sleep in hammocks hung from trees. Something that was lacking in this video were trees. But we loved watching you two doing your wild camping. A nice change of pace. Keep it up, makes watching the videos nicer.
Thanks for your comment Bob. We also watch some campervan and trailer vlogs to relax and love the idea. Not sure about hammock camping though. You're braver than us. Hopefully this was the first if many camp outs for us.
Interesting, great vlog
Thank you Hugh.
Thats a tough climb and then down into Crowden
We didn't get down into Crowden as we had been lost, we just came back the way we went down Jacobs Ladder so we know where we were. Thanks for watching.
Brave people! What a wonderful adventure.
Thank you.
What a great adventure! Looking forward to seeing your Kinder Scout weaving Fran 😊
I'll be working on it soon
Sawyer water filters
Try the MOD 24 hour ration packs as all you do is put the whole pouch in water and boil it up and simmer, no washing up, minimum of water plus the water you heat the meals up in can be used for a hot drink, some lovely menus including veggie don't weigh too much either!
That sounds like a good tip. We'll look into it thank you.
I started to watch this and expected to be skipping through it as it wasn’t about your boat travels but ended up being hooked and enjoying it. Looked fun 👍
Me too Dulcie!
That looks so much fun. Weather could have been a bit kinder. We'll done,great vlog.
How wonderful, you are so lucky, im not jealous at all im not honestly, lol thanks for another great vlog.
More equipment e.g a land cruiser. :-) Bet you were glad to get back to a warm shower and a soft (level) bed! Makes you appreciate home comforts even more.
A warm bath would have been welcome, but sadly those days are gone, the bed was the best bed in the world that night.
Not sure what you may have experimented with or discovered with camping and food since this video but thought I'd share some of the things I like to do. There are all sorts of recipes online for homemade jarred soup mixes you can make and take with you that are much tastier than the store bought stuff, especially if you add at least one fresh veggie to them. Rehydrated mushrooms are pretty good rehydrated and you can stir fry with some fresh veggies or add them to noodles with some bouillon and either fresh veggies or dried. I like having at least fresh onion and garlic with me and they can easily be in a net back and strapped to the outside of the bag and travel quite well. Mixing the dehydrated and dry ingredients with a little bit of fresh veggies is really the secret to making it taste good. Oh and last one...I usually do this more so for site camping but it could work for backpacking...falafal. Powdered falafal mix (some are better than others) are great and I even use them at home. You just add water and need oil and a pan to fry them up. Put on a salad or pita and a little tziki or a tahini dressing. I usually also like onion and tomato (olives are tough for backpacking and not using single use plastic but there are tiny tupperware type containers).
Brilliant suggestions thank you. We would much prefer to take some fresh food rather that rely on those packets!
A great vlog by a wonderful couple. In NZ now but originally from Derby. Only discovered your channel recently, so still catching up on episodes. Love the changes to the narrow boat.
Thank you for watching Christine. Plenty more to come.
@@FloatingOurBoat On one of the vlogs of foxes afloat, the one where they go play mini golf, they show and mention a Farmers market in a building but they didn't go in. They will be able to tell you place. It was on a canal further North that you plan to visit. Really enjoyed seeing you explain and point out on your map planner where you have been and where you plan to go. I learnt how to ride a motorcycle in my mature yrs, nearly 60. So relate to the sense of freedom and nature that you love about narrow boating. Its a feeling that is very hard to convey in words. So understand the emotion you feel.
christine Smith we are moored next to the foxes right now so Ill ask them about the market. Thank you x
@@francesmccarty1544 Great, I sent them a msg saying I would have enjoyed them filming inside market after I watched video. Interesting for us outside of Uk. I buy all my veg from a local farmers market. In NZ, they are mostly outside.
Wow that was impressive! I’ve done a lot of walking in the Lake District but for some reason I’ve never ventured out of Cumbria and into Yorkshire. When I saw all the kit in the boat before you set off I thought you’d never be able to carry it all but you did. I really enjoyed the video and the beautiful photography so I would love to see more of your hill walking adventures. Those views were definitely inspiration for your weaving. Thanks as always for sharing your adventure. I loved it.
Thanks Sylvia. The backpacks were a bit of a shock to the system but we soon got used to them. We are definitely in walking country now, so we may video a few more walks in between boating of course
Ooh a lovely next episode trailer too
Walked the pennine way twice as a 16 year old , well done
No, well done you!
I was getting out of breath just watching both of you, But obviously you did iy and got back, as always some great shots, well done. John NZ
Gosh guys, thanks for taking me along. I really, really enjoyed that. Almost as much as the pups. Rich, you look so handsome when you're clean shaven...you look good scruffy too, though. Fran, I could just see the wheels turning when Rich mentioned the colors of Kinder Scout and weaving. I can just picture that wall hanging. lol. Merry Ann from Minnesota
Hi Merry Ann. He is a handsome guy isn't he. I'm looking forward to doing a Kinder wall hanging. There was so much purple heather up there. It was beautiful.
@@FloatingOurBoat purple is a good color for scarves, eh