Just wanna reassure you all that there will definitely be more straight line missions. I plan to film at least four this coming February / March. Right now I shall begin editing the Europe adventure and try my best to weave some more goodies in there in the mean time. Hang in there my beauties.
@@waswer6901 Straight line mission? No, it would be as soon as i can edit it, so probably around May, but plenty of adventure to be released before then.
@Disobey @Clayton Today for real. Just watched this and was thinking ohhh man gloves....then he burnt the blanket and meal. Super confidence move. Like yeah I got this so hard who needs shelter and food, let's make this harder....or just temporary insanity
For an April's Fools episode, do Denmark, starting in the very north and going from the sea of Kattegat to the sea of Skagerrak. Depending on the tide, you can take it in a single step.
It seems to me like the line has moved a bit to the south since your trip? Most of the time when you deviate on this map, you seem to be on the north side of the line, as if you actually were on the line, but this software displays the line further to the south. You also mention multiple times (like at Lake Vyrnwy) that the deviation was not as far south/further north than you remembered it. Either way, good job, both with the semi-succesful trip and the excellent UA-cam content! You should cross Denmark next. --- Okay, so having written that, I just spent at least 90 minutes trying to find a good line through Denmark, and I think I found the one! It goes from N56° 23.460 E008° 10.400 to N56° 32.080 E010° 13.021 You could probably find one the same length as your Wales-line if you crossed further south, but it wouldn't feel like crossing the country to me. My line is 130 kilometres long, and crosses the Jutland peninsula from east to west (not ocean to ocean, but counting fjords as the official coastline). Here's my analysis of how an imaginary trip along this line would go: Because the route is pretty long and because Denmark is a pretty urban country, the line crosses directly through a few farms and countryside houses, so a bit of veering off the line is inevitable but shouldn't ever be more than 50 metres. I steered clear of most towns, except for one that is traversable by following a road straight through it. Similarly, you go underneath the highway through a tunnel at one point. I tried at first to avoid railroads too, but that was simply impossible, so the route crosses four of those. All lakes and rivers are small and without strong current, there are no mountains, but I think you would encounter some nasty wetlands right before the Highway. All in all, this trip would be a few steps up from the Wales line. The terrain would be easier, but the longer route and the amount of farms and would be the real challenge. Almost all Danes speak English, but your language would no doubt affect anyone's weirdness radar considerably. On a positive note, if you do the line at winter when no crops have been planted, noone will care about people in their fields. In their yards, however... Ramble over. Looking forward to more straight lines next year!
I agree with your first point, it seems like he was always north. I attribute it to software errors, and therefore he stayed more on line than most think he did!
that song you used in the series brings me untold amounts of comfort, the mission across wales was a genuinely incredible miniseries, one of them youtube classics you come back to every couple years!
Does anyone else remember this. If you put a distant country in google maps it would tell you to swim 3,000 miles across the ocean. I assume someone tried it and that's why it was removed.
We use pounds for weight and currency in the UK. Most people use a mix of units for different things (e.g ml for plastic bottles, pints for beer, miles for roads etc). The EU law requires us to use metric only but it still ends up being a mix.
a couple weeks ago I got lost in the woods hiking around a mountain and lost my phone, ran out of water. Really felt like The Mission Across Wales Guy, bushwhacking straight across pricker bushes, down ravines. It was five hours, not five days, but your spirit kept me going.
You're a legend mate. You should go back one day to that little gap, with some climbing equipment, and cross it to prove it can be done, and theoretically complete de mission
In my opinion, the spirit of the challenge is more important than the letter of it. I don't care if you deviated 50m from the line, I get my enjoyment from watching you overcome challenges, listening to your commentary and and looking at the environment you are in.
This GPS 'wobble' is a deliberate bug coded into the software. Use a second GPS unit, and leave it recording in a fixed position to record the wobble. You can then subtract the wobble from your actual GPS run. (works reasonably well for field mapping/geological mapping ect... not sure how much accuracy you'll lose over a long straight run)
It’s so interesting to go back to these older line reviews and seeing how far Tom’s come. His “whops, I wasn’t watching the GPS closely enough” are bigger deviations than his biggest obstacles in later adventures. Truly showing growth and development of skill. In a way, i hope this never ends. Straight line Mission: Attempt 13. Come on!
Your line was consistently 5 to 10 meters north of the line. I’d say, since this was the case for nearly the entire trip, this was more the +/- GPS error, and less your error.
Tom you little bugger, this was an amazing effort to be fair! You will learn how to improve on each mission I'm sure, can't wait for the future videos :)
I can't even draw a line that straight! ~20 metres accuracy to me is more than enough when you take in mind that gps accuracy and map accuracy combined can deviates up to 100 metres sometimes!
It feels weird watching this now, because I can think back to where I was when I watched the certain parts of your journey. For some of it, hell, I was in Iceland watching on the hotel TV.
I don't think anyone that was following you journey cares if you strayed from a perfect straight line. Every deviation from the line just adds to the total distance you had to travel. The added distance, struggles, and determination you showed are commendable. Few will be brave enough to copy. Well done.
Thanks for the analysis. If it's not to much of a struggle, could you provide a link with the gps data and line data? I would like to calculate the average distance from the line to give you some kind of 'score'. This way you can compare to score with the score of your future planned missions!
Doesn't really matter though due to GPS variance. I'm a little confused though. The GPS on my phone gives me nearly perfect accuracy. Its throwing me out the window right now in my house, where it has no direct satellite signal, but the window is only 1 meter away. Maybe it also uses cell signal or wifi somehow.
@@crowmigration8245 You are right - your phone uses a variety of sources to determine your location, including GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and IP address. For Android phones, this data is periodically sent to Google servers which do some computationally demanding operations and return your location - it also tries to determine the story of tall buildings.
Another thing I'd like to do with the raw data would be to calculate the actual line he followed most closely (i.e. the one that gives the lowest quadratic deviation) and see how much better the score is there vs this one - because I'm also in camp "it looks like he followed a different line than the one on that map". As for how to score a given route, I'd first smooth out the line by only taking the points closest to the line to mostly eliminate any jitter caused by janky GPS signals/ standing still for a long time, then calculate the integral over the square of the distance between the ideal line and the actual route taken and lastly average that out over the total length of the ideal line. (Using the square instead of the absolute value is obviously to rate big deviations as worse than little ones. Maybe even use the fourth power to further smooth out the curve with respect to signal noise.)
Maybe subtract a GPS error band around the line, and only count variances beyond that. Not so much as an absolute score, but as a relative metric to compare other attempts, or over different sections/terrains. For example, the total area outside of the error band, divided by the length of the route.
A long while ago I had a job which involved some quiet and immensely boring shifts. I watched a great many videos of a guy playing Geoguessr and having a go at it myself, it was actually pretty awesome and I had a jolly good time, although I wasn't logged in as me so never subscribed or anything. Now I'm living in America (used to live by Oswestry!) and came across this straight line challenge, and somehow didn't connect the channel name with my binge-watching at work. Took me until the end of episode #2 to realise why his voice sounded so familiar! Amazing to see how far the channel has come, and even better to hear some good old British humour. Finishing this series left me with the same feeling you get after finishing a good series on netflix, can't wait to watch the Europe trip. Solid work mate, big respect from across the pond x
This was great. You learned a lot and we enjoyed the whole process! You did a good job and I'm sure we're all really looking forward to the next adventure. Thank you for everything you're posting.
You Sir are a hero and a legend. Brilliant video series. Reminded me in a strange way of "The Long Way Round" by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman. PLEASE make more. You're amazing at it.
The deviations are interesting. Is it possible that google maps and ypur GPS tracker are using different map projections? That could distort the line, I think.
This series is why I subscribed. I'm glad to see there will be more. It's got me out of the house more just to try and find some adventure like you did. 10/10
All in all very well done. And it was the right decision to stop when you did. It would have been way to dangerous to cross those mountains in the shape you where in. I'm looking forward to watching your next mission. Good luck.
What a weird room 😂 I dig the shirt though. Being a lifelong drummer, Ginger Baker was an idle of mine. For three blokes to pump out the sound they did was remarkable. 🤟🏼
25:20 The most likely explanation is simply that it was a forestry plantation for timber, and the trees had simply been cut down by the time you got there. I live near one, and trust me, they work fast when the word comes to chop 'em down. It can go from full forest to a bare hillside within a week.
I'm going on a straight line trip through Liechtenstein with a friend during Christmas / New Year, if anyone sees this are there any recommendations for other gear that I should bring? This is the list I have right now: >Warm clothing. I have. >Waterproof clothing. I have. >Snow camo. I have. >Benzincooker. I have, needs fixing. >First aid kit. I have, possibly add more emergency blankets. >Dry extra clothing inside a waterproof bag just in case. I have. >Warm sleeping bag. I have. >Tent. I have (1 person tent) >GPS. Don't have. Not getting one because €800 LOLE >Boot spikes / spores for snow. Don't have. >Good gloves. Don't have
Tom Davies aka mike skinner you are fast becoming one of my favorite youtubers. Very articulate and thoroughly enjoyable character to listen to/ watch. Keep up the good work🤙
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I was waiting for this video! I think you did the best you could and that's already impressive. Can't wait to see more!
Late comment, but something my dad and I discovered with our Garmin is that it seems to over account for momentum. If we were to accelerate quickly up to 60 on our motorcycles and then back off immediately and check the Garmin, it would say we got up to at least 65, sometimes even 90. I imagine that combined with it not being 100% accurate is what caused the insane amount of wiggles when you were stopped. Any little wiggle and the GPS kinda guessed that you actually moved and kept your momentum up, then realized you were still at the same spot so it moved you back.
I'm entirely happy with 10m of unintentional wiggle if it means you get to keep looking up and around giving good commentary. I think the most important aspect is stuff like hedges and fences, but as long as you 'think' you are on-line and cross directly wherever you are fated to approach I think that keeps to the spirit of things, so doesn't matter too much.
Pine trees are one of the fastest growing commercial trees and they are already somewhat developed when they are planted. They don't just drop pinecones on the ground and hope for the best.
Just found your series the other day and I'm really enjoying it. When you do this next time, please wear gloves and bring a first aid kit. I'm glad you had your girlfriend and Joey helping you along the way.
Really interesting to see this analysis - thanks! Would love to see the original series with this below, PIP, picture-in-picture, to follow your progress. Found you many times on google earth but couldn't draw the exact tracking line. Got very close, but ever-so-slightly off. Keep up the good work! Aloha to you Mr. Big Ones! ;)
Maybe you could do a mission in the south of Sweden? We have what's called "Allemansrätten", you are allowed bo be on anybody ground as long as it's not a back yard and you don't destroy anything.
you are allmost everywhere 5-10 meters north of your line you could have just moved your intire line up a bit and it would seem that you where more on track. well done mate i absolutely enjoyed watching you do this keep it up!
Iv loved this mate. a couple of my friends had told me about their idea for this a few years ago.. but countries were far past what we were talking about.. but we thought the cliffs would be " in" and we would have climbing gear, and some experience climbing. kind of a 8-12h extreme straightline with no stashpoints, and min 2 people, probably max 4. A different discipline of the same sport. Olympics sport in the next decade.. surely
You should hit up mountain warehouse or another similar company see if they'll sponsor you, send you free gear to use in your vids. Love the content bro, subbed and patreoned can't wait to see what you do next
If your're looking for precision of GPS measurement, you could setup an RTK-GPS basestation/rover system in which the basestation is either public entity provided correction data or data provided by a friend setting up a basestation every 10km, and the rover is your gps system that is connected to a smartphone to get cm accuracy position with the help of the basestation correction data
Just wanna reassure you all that there will definitely be more straight line missions. I plan to film at least four this coming February / March. Right now I shall begin editing the Europe adventure and try my best to weave some more goodies in there in the mean time. Hang in there my beauties.
Tom, do you have a twitter?
Somebody told me that the next "mission" video was going to be released in around a year, is this accurate?
It'll be worth waiting for!
@@waswer6901 Straight line mission? No, it would be as soon as i can edit it, so probably around May, but plenty of adventure to be released before then.
Try on Portugal please!!!
*Goes 20cm off line*
Tom: That's poor, sorry about that guys
20cm on the screen are 20 meters in rl
@@Marquis-Sade it was a joke..
@@kamilpalka7837 Not so good
Marquis 400 people disagree
@@ConnorXlV out of 145k
spoiler alert: he saved pack weight by not carrying gloves.
And burning his survival blanket and his final meal in the same moment of madness
@Disobey @Clayton Today for real. Just watched this and was thinking ohhh man gloves....then he burnt the blanket and meal. Super confidence move. Like yeah I got this so hard who needs shelter and food, let's make this harder....or just temporary insanity
For an April's Fools episode, do Denmark, starting in the very north and going from the sea of Kattegat to the sea of Skagerrak. Depending on the tide, you can take it in a single step.
You don't have to excuse for the blurry map. It's not that blurry and instead we appreciate you for spending the time to review your path with us
Speak for yourself 😋
farms to the left of me, farmers to the right, here i am, stuck in the middle with you... :D
Stuck in the middle with Ewes.
SEE YAI AYE YES.
Honfitársaimat is megtalálom ezen a hihetetlen csatornán! Elképesztő!
@@ArcticWind717 Bori da lsti, Prywn du?
I had that song in my head during all parts of the trip =D
Hearing the music from the series is already giving me supernostalgia. I do hope it gets uploaded eventually.
Thanks Patrick. It will, It will, all in good time.
I love it, it reminds me of exploring minecraft for hours funny enough haha
it sounds like gymnopédie no.1
Where is the music from?
Really was a great music choice
It seems to me like the line has moved a bit to the south since your trip?
Most of the time when you deviate on this map, you seem to be on the north side of the line, as if you actually were on the line, but this software displays the line further to the south. You also mention multiple times (like at Lake Vyrnwy) that the deviation was not as far south/further north than you remembered it.
Either way, good job, both with the semi-succesful trip and the excellent UA-cam content! You should cross Denmark next.
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Okay, so having written that, I just spent at least 90 minutes trying to find a good line through Denmark, and I think I found the one!
It goes from N56° 23.460 E008° 10.400 to N56° 32.080 E010° 13.021
You could probably find one the same length as your Wales-line if you crossed further south, but it wouldn't feel like crossing the country to me. My line is 130 kilometres long, and crosses the Jutland peninsula from east to west (not ocean to ocean, but counting fjords as the official coastline).
Here's my analysis of how an imaginary trip along this line would go:
Because the route is pretty long and because Denmark is a pretty urban country, the line crosses directly through a few farms and countryside houses, so a bit of veering off the line is inevitable but shouldn't ever be more than 50 metres. I steered clear of most towns, except for one that is traversable by following a road straight through it. Similarly, you go underneath the highway through a tunnel at one point.
I tried at first to avoid railroads too, but that was simply impossible, so the route crosses four of those. All lakes and rivers are small and without strong current, there are no mountains, but I think you would encounter some nasty wetlands right before the Highway.
All in all, this trip would be a few steps up from the Wales line. The terrain would be easier, but the longer route and the amount of farms and would be the real challenge. Almost all Danes speak English, but your language would no doubt affect anyone's weirdness radar considerably. On a positive note, if you do the line at winter when no crops have been planted, noone will care about people in their fields. In their yards, however...
Ramble over. Looking forward to more straight lines next year!
I love this idea
I agree with your first point, it seems like he was always north. I attribute it to software errors, and therefore he stayed more on line than most think he did!
Effort comment 👊
If he's always off the line but in a straight line at least it's still a straight line.
It would seem that that is only true for the first day or two
that song you used in the series brings me untold amounts of comfort, the mission across wales was a genuinely incredible miniseries, one of them youtube classics you come back to every couple years!
I'm amazed by how much everyone loves this. The like to dislike ratio reflects your work very very well.
KilliKonKarnage I disliked the video just for you.
@@stevejobs5488 send proof
KilliKonKarnage no
You should find a sponsorship for a decent gps for the next Mission
And a Gopro or camera sponsorship so that he can record 16:9, Ik he used one previously but It would be nice for better quality next time
And he should actually do it for Charity so he can use it as an excuse if he gets caught by an angry farmer.
And an OS Maps subscription to see ravines and mountains.
@@SAStarbucks google earth is free
DoakyDoaky Good for iPad viewing not much else, lucky for me I'm watching on iPad
if ima be honest that series was the best thing i’ve ever watched period.
"Hi welcome to the straight line across literally the entire world, starting in Wales we'll..."
Would be cool but maybe 1km wide😂not straight line. Also not just walking needed
Go to the south/north pole and you can do that by walking couple meters
Does anyone else remember this. If you put a distant country in google maps it would tell you to swim 3,000 miles across the ocean. I assume someone tried it and that's why it was removed.
@@crowmigration8245 Yes!!! I remember.
Me: Google, how do I get from Las Vegas to Hawaii?
Google: Drive west 400 miles then swim 3000 miles.
"The charming land owner, 50th in line to the throne" LMAO
I can't wait for more of these videos, your commentary is too good
I think next adventure you should fill you backpack with nothing but gloves
edible gloves
Fly Technically all gloves are edible. You just wouldn’t appreciate the after-effects...
@@Fs3i Spongebob, anyone?
I wonder if anyone will give you a glove sponsorship?
GeoWizard: "Comes with a 25 pound battery..."
Americans: "Wow! That's heavy..."
HAHAHA
u got me, that's almost exactly what I thought (did he mean volts?)
Triamcinolone Acetonide no you spakker
We use pounds for weight and currency in the UK. Most people use a mix of units for different things (e.g ml for plastic bottles, pints for beer, miles for roads etc). The EU law requires us to use metric only but it still ends up being a mix.
I think that he means he paid 25 Pound for the battery not that that's the weight of the battery itself it was In reference to the currency
The series' music is already iconic
Watched the series with my two boys. Now when things get tricky for my 11 year old son and I, we look at each other and say "Brambles."
This is so sweet
I'm assuming that your boys are now proficient at cursing?
25:30 Google Earth has images from 2009 and 2017. The trees have indeed moved. It's Fangorn forest.
a couple weeks ago I got lost in the woods hiking around a mountain and lost my phone, ran out of water. Really felt like The Mission Across Wales Guy, bushwhacking straight across pricker bushes, down ravines. It was five hours, not five days, but your spirit kept me going.
You're a legend mate.
You should go back one day to that little gap, with some climbing equipment, and cross it to prove it can be done, and theoretically complete de mission
Yeah but there's only one time for him to get it wrong, then no more videos. I'd rather not see that attemped and enjoy the future videos
@@incandescentwithrage maybe it isn't that dangerous with proper equipment, but you're right
In my opinion, the spirit of the challenge is more important than the letter of it. I don't care if you deviated 50m from the line, I get my enjoyment from watching you overcome challenges, listening to your commentary and and looking at the environment you are in.
Season 2: mission across Russia
I'll just.... this ua-cam.com/video/VTsD2FjmLsw/v-deo.html
@@ForsakenDreamer7 lol
@Draggy654 r/wooosh
@Draggy654 how can you not see such obvious sarcasm? And why do you take it so seriously? Your ego hurt?
You guys having an argument over a joke? Really, whether you got it or not, it's the internet, calm down :)
This GPS 'wobble' is a deliberate bug coded into the software.
Use a second GPS unit, and leave it recording in a fixed position to record the wobble. You can then subtract the wobble from your actual GPS run.
(works reasonably well for field mapping/geological mapping ect... not sure how much accuracy you'll lose over a long straight run)
It’s so interesting to go back to these older line reviews and seeing how far Tom’s come. His “whops, I wasn’t watching the GPS closely enough” are bigger deviations than his biggest obstacles in later adventures. Truly showing growth and development of skill.
In a way, i hope this never ends. Straight line Mission: Attempt 13. Come on!
My brain is having to learn a new definition for 'online'
Your line was consistently 5 to 10 meters north of the line. I’d say, since this was the case for nearly the entire trip, this was more the +/- GPS error, and less your error.
Still a line :]
Great stuff, can't wait for the next one.
Tom you little bugger, this was an amazing effort to be fair! You will learn how to improve on each mission I'm sure, can't wait for the future videos :)
I can't even draw a line that straight! ~20 metres accuracy to me is more than enough when you take in mind that gps accuracy and map accuracy combined can deviates up to 100 metres sometimes!
Lee Tom Drawing a line with 20m accuracy sounds pretty easy to me 😏
Your vids of the mission across wales were very entertaining and the first kind of video like that I've ever seen. Great work.
It feels weird watching this now, because I can think back to where I was when I watched the certain parts of your journey. For some of it, hell, I was in Iceland watching on the hotel TV.
I don't think anyone that was following you journey cares if you strayed from a perfect straight line. Every deviation from the line just adds to the total distance you had to travel. The added distance, struggles, and determination you showed are commendable. Few will be brave enough to copy. Well done.
Thanks for the analysis. If it's not to much of a struggle, could you provide a link with the gps data and line data? I would like to calculate the average distance from the line to give you some kind of 'score'. This way you can compare to score with the score of your future planned missions!
Doesn't really matter though due to GPS variance. I'm a little confused though. The GPS on my phone gives me nearly perfect accuracy. Its throwing me out the window right now in my house, where it has no direct satellite signal, but the window is only 1 meter away. Maybe it also uses cell signal or wifi somehow.
@@crowmigration8245 You are right - your phone uses a variety of sources to determine your location, including GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and IP address. For Android phones, this data is periodically sent to Google servers which do some computationally demanding operations and return your location - it also tries to determine the story of tall buildings.
Yes! That'd be great
Another thing I'd like to do with the raw data would be to calculate the actual line he followed most closely (i.e. the one that gives the lowest quadratic deviation) and see how much better the score is there vs this one - because I'm also in camp "it looks like he followed a different line than the one on that map".
As for how to score a given route, I'd first smooth out the line by only taking the points closest to the line to mostly eliminate any jitter caused by janky GPS signals/ standing still for a long time, then calculate the integral over the square of the distance between the ideal line and the actual route taken and lastly average that out over the total length of the ideal line.
(Using the square instead of the absolute value is obviously to rate big deviations as worse than little ones. Maybe even use the fourth power to further smooth out the curve with respect to signal noise.)
Maybe subtract a GPS error band around the line, and only count variances beyond that. Not so much as an absolute score, but as a relative metric to compare other attempts, or over different sections/terrains. For example, the total area outside of the error band, divided by the length of the route.
A long while ago I had a job which involved some quiet and immensely boring shifts. I watched a great many videos of a guy playing Geoguessr and having a go at it myself, it was actually pretty awesome and I had a jolly good time, although I wasn't logged in as me so never subscribed or anything. Now I'm living in America (used to live by Oswestry!) and came across this straight line challenge, and somehow didn't connect the channel name with my binge-watching at work. Took me until the end of episode #2 to realise why his voice sounded so familiar! Amazing to see how far the channel has come, and even better to hear some good old British humour. Finishing this series left me with the same feeling you get after finishing a good series on netflix, can't wait to watch the Europe trip. Solid work mate, big respect from across the pond x
This was great. You learned a lot and we enjoyed the whole process! You did a good job and I'm sure we're all really looking forward to the next adventure. Thank you for everything you're posting.
"Farms to the left of me,
Farms to the right of me,"
I can hear the next verse in my head.
" need a vasectomy,
Hedgerows been fighting me" 😂
here i am, stuck in the middle with ewe :p
And I thought this amazing content was only available for Patreon. I’m glad that you made it available for everyone. :)
You Sir are a hero and a legend. Brilliant video series. Reminded me in a strange way of "The Long Way Round" by Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman. PLEASE make more. You're amazing at it.
I really loved this series, u did a great job
I'm pumped for your next mission!
love hearing the music kept me going through the summer holidays waiting for these every monday loved it keep up the hard work 👍🏽
I miss having the mission across wales episodes every week to look forward too
The deviations are interesting. Is it possible that google maps and ypur GPS tracker are using different map projections? That could distort the line, I think.
This series is why I subscribed. I'm glad to see there will be more. It's got me out of the house more just to try and find some adventure like you did. 10/10
All in all very well done.
And it was the right decision to stop when you did. It would have been way to dangerous to cross those mountains in the shape you where in.
I'm looking forward to watching your next mission.
Good luck.
What a weird room 😂
I dig the shirt though. Being a lifelong drummer, Ginger Baker was an idle of mine. For three blokes to pump out the sound they did was remarkable. 🤟🏼
Hope you've now fully recovered from your hangover at XYZ Summit ;) Super excited for more content man! Keep it coming.
25:20 The most likely explanation is simply that it was a forestry plantation for timber, and the trees had simply been cut down by the time you got there. I live near one, and trust me, they work fast when the word comes to chop 'em down. It can go from full forest to a bare hillside within a week.
I honestly didnt expect this mission across Wales to get so intense Great job man.
I was like watching a kind of miracle. A man across Wales, in a straight way. How could this happen??? Amazing!
I'm going on a straight line trip through Liechtenstein with a friend during Christmas / New Year, if anyone sees this are there any recommendations for other gear that I should bring? This is the list I have right now:
>Warm clothing. I have.
>Waterproof clothing. I have.
>Snow camo. I have.
>Benzincooker. I have, needs fixing.
>First aid kit. I have, possibly add more emergency blankets.
>Dry extra clothing inside a waterproof bag just in case. I have.
>Warm sleeping bag. I have.
>Tent. I have (1 person tent)
>GPS. Don't have. Not getting one because €800 LOLE
>Boot spikes / spores for snow. Don't have.
>Good gloves. Don't have
Is this evidence B in your trespassing trial?
Cant wait for the next mission!
Tom Davies aka mike skinner you are fast becoming one of my favorite youtubers. Very articulate and thoroughly enjoyable character to listen to/ watch. Keep up the good work🤙
I was waiting for this video! I think you did the best you could and that's already impressive. Can't wait to see more!
Late comment, but something my dad and I discovered with our Garmin is that it seems to over account for momentum. If we were to accelerate quickly up to 60 on our motorcycles and then back off immediately and check the Garmin, it would say we got up to at least 65, sometimes even 90. I imagine that combined with it not being 100% accurate is what caused the insane amount of wiggles when you were stopped. Any little wiggle and the GPS kinda guessed that you actually moved and kept your momentum up, then realized you were still at the same spot so it moved you back.
Thanks mate for all the quality content, your the only decent channel on this site now! Keep it up
You did a great job on this! Also the pack list was super interesting, I love this kind of background information videos :)
Thanks for the debrief, Tom.
Can't wait to see the Europe adventure footage.
All the best for future missions.
Stay safe. ☺👍
I'm entirely happy with 10m of unintentional wiggle if it means you get to keep looking up and around giving good commentary. I think the most important aspect is stuff like hedges and fences, but as long as you 'think' you are on-line and cross directly wherever you are fated to approach I think that keeps to the spirit of things, so doesn't matter too much.
When you want to try this but your country has old minefields
Or leopards
Or a house every 5 metres
Are you Bosnian?
@@Braycali Hrvat
@@bruc1555 I was just thinking of trying in Croatia too 😂
Isle of Man - north east to south west. Straight line
please do another straight line mission! the mission across wales series is some of the best content i've seen on youtube
hes started another one
YESS!! Long awaited video to rid off my stress!
Pine trees are one of the fastest growing commercial trees and they are already somewhat developed when they are planted. They don't just drop pinecones on the ground and hope for the best.
Dam it's been a month since then :( I remember I would watch them when I was getting changed the following Tuesday 😂
Farms to the left of me, farms to the right, stuck in the middle with me 🎵🎵
You're stressing over the deviations but really you accomplished the mission, when you scale it off the length your journey you were bang on.
All right, you know the drill, take a shot everytime he says: deviated or any form of that.....
"Farmers"
"Old man jenkins"
I love that series so much omg the music fits it so well
One of the most amazing series' I have watched.
So cool. Well done. It was such a great series, it feels nostalgic now.
I'm happy that you're getting the attention that you deserve
you should just make the "line" 10m thick, so those small deviations wont matter
But then on things like branches and big messes he could walk around them, I would try to keep it more like three meters or four perhaps.
How thick is it at the moment then?
@@thejfoshow1320 i think he mentioned in the video it is 2 meters, but i watched this a long time ago XD
Just found your series the other day and I'm really enjoying it. When you do this next time, please wear gloves and bring a first aid kit. I'm glad you had your girlfriend and Joey helping you along the way.
I must say i am genuinely looking forward to seeing what you do next.
The entire map I was imagining angry 8-bit red sprite farmers chasing after you :D
Looking forward to future missions!
Really interesting to see this analysis - thanks! Would love to see the original series with this below, PIP, picture-in-picture, to follow your progress. Found you many times on google earth but couldn't draw the exact tracking line. Got very close, but ever-so-slightly off. Keep up the good work! Aloha to you Mr. Big Ones! ;)
29:43 You seem such a smart chap, I still can't believe you had all this but no small first aid kit!
How about mission across Denmark? It's super flat (the highest point is 171 meters) and the whole thing would be about 60 kilometers.
Your voice is so soothing.
Clearly a calibration issue, given that you never ever seem to deviate to the left of line.
Maybe you could do a mission in the south of Sweden? We have what's called "Allemansrätten", you are allowed bo be on anybody ground as long as it's not a back yard and you don't destroy anything.
Nice t-shirt, rest in peace Ginger Baker.
Dont know why I watch this, but when I do I love it
been waiting since the first video for a line analysis video, superb
Finally, the line analysis, I've waited a long time for this^^
you are allmost everywhere 5-10 meters north of your line you could have just moved your intire line up a bit and it would seem that you where more on track. well done mate i absolutely enjoyed watching you do this keep it up!
Ingress players won't be even slightly surprised by all that GPS drift!
Good effort lad. Loving your work
I'm gonna watch this whole fucking thing... As usual.
xD Same
Fuck off.
one of the best parts about this series was the music choice. it just fits so well while being interesting and not in the way of the video
Iv loved this mate. a couple of my friends had told me about their idea for this a few years ago.. but countries were far past what we were talking about.. but we thought the cliffs would be " in" and we would have climbing gear, and some experience climbing. kind of a 8-12h extreme straightline with no stashpoints, and min 2 people, probably max 4. A different discipline of the same sport. Olympics sport in the next decade.. surely
I feel like you are a time traveler, your old school style videos are a definite feature of your channel
You should hit up mountain warehouse or another similar company see if they'll sponsor you, send you free gear to use in your vids. Love the content bro, subbed and patreoned can't wait to see what you do next
Excellent job my friend. I have always heard a handheld GPS is accurate anywhere from 5 to 15 meters so you have that on your side.
If your're looking for precision of GPS measurement, you could setup an RTK-GPS basestation/rover system in which the basestation is either public entity provided correction data or data provided by a friend setting up a basestation every 10km, and the rover is your gps system that is connected to a smartphone to get cm accuracy position with the help of the basestation correction data
The maddest of the lads.
oh mate u did great dw about the deviations, what a banger series though, really enjoyed it :D