Thank you for taking us with you on the start of your wild camping journey, I thoroughly enjoyed it and will be looking forward to joining you on your future adventures ⛺ 💙
Hi, so here are some tips for wild camping without regard to your budget or cost and based on what I have seen in your video. 1) Your tent is large and heavy for one man at 2.8Kg, you can get much better tents that are lighter. 2) It has a 3000mm hydrostatic head which is ok, but make sure you test pitch it in really bad weather and check the seams dont leak, if they do, seal them. 3) Its an inner pitch then outer pitch tent which isnt very good in bad weather. Imagine if it had been pissing down, your inner tent would be soaking before you got the outer up. Its better to have an outer then inner pitch or a dual pitch where both can be pitched together. 4) It has no vestibule, so nowhere to keep kit or cook in bad weather, if you had cooked like you din in the video in a storm, you, the tent, the food, everything would have been soaked. 5) Bin the pegs, get titanium ones, and for car camping buy a set of rock pegs, they are like 9" nails and will go into anything, hence the name. 6) get a smaller gas canister, that one is huge and not needed for a wild camp. 7) get a smaller burner and smaller pot, again that one is huge for one person. 8) The air matteress is basic and wont be very warm. A matteress must have a thermal break in it or the air inside will get as cold as the ground and you will freeze. 9) No idea what your sleeping bag is so dont know its weight or warmth rating but you can get lighter and warmer. 10) get some thermal under layers, socks, long john and top. Keeping warm requires layers 11) get a warm hat, a lot of heat lost through your head, especially with no hair as insulation. 12) get waterproof walking boots, those trainers will get soaking wet and make you wet and cold. 13) dehydrated meals are lighter, and some of them are really nice. 14) If you do cook in your tent understand the risks from fire and carbon monoxide. (I wrote this before I saw your other vid where you tried to blow yourself up 🙂) I could go on, but bascially wild camping is a compromise between weight and how much you can afford to pay for lighter kit. Some poeople are ok with an 18Kg pack, some would not want over 12Kg etc. Its whatever you are comfortable carrying AND the remoteness of where you are going and the consequences of your kit failing. Probably a few reasons why you were cold. 1) there was no thermal break between you and the ground, you either need a better mat, or use some some sort of foam carry mat under the matress that does the same job 2) Your sleeping bag is not rated enough for warmth. 3) You were not layered up with thermal base layers 4) get a down jacket (not to walk in) but to use at camp or at night. they also pack up very small. To give you an example I have a large thermorest extreme air mat, it has an R value of 7+ (thermal insulation rating), and it weighs 600g but costs £260. I have a western mountaineering down sleeping bag, 900g, but cost £600 I appreciate that everybody has a budget and lightweight stuff is expensive, but always buy the best you can afford because if you get wet and cold a long way from home you will be at least miserable and at the worst put your self in danger from the cold. Wild camping is always a compromise between what you need and what you would like to take with you and cost and comfort etc etc. Get a set of scales and divide your kit between "must have" and "would like" and weigh it all out and get some idea what the total weight is. Then you can start cutting the grams out. Once you have a pack weight, start going on walks with that weight of pack, your body has to get used to carrying it. Water is heavy, take the minimum and plan to fill up from streams if possible, always use a water filter and/or boil. Rucksacks always let water in, rucksack cover help but it always gets in between your back and the sack, always pack your kit "that must stay dry", in dry bags, at a pinch a bin liner will do. For the first couple of times wild camping, find a place within 1/2 mile of your car, if it all goes tits up you can walk back to it, or get warmer kit. Always take a head torch and spare batteries and be able to change them in the dark. In the middle of nowhere, dark really is dark. This store will give you some ideas as to lightweight kit and its cost (ouch). ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/ You can go wild camping with really basic kit if you are willing to carry the weight, but if you wild camp on top of dartmoor or in the lake district and shit happens in the middle of the night, most of the time you just cannot walk out in the dark its too dangerous (also you need to be able to map read and navigate properly at night, but thats another story). Hope this helps a little.
Oh wow, thanks for taking the time to write all this, it’s great to get some one on one advice from someone who clearly knows their stuff. I have since the last camp bought a flextail R05 which will hopefully improve the warmth issue a bit. I’ve also set my sights on either a Nortent Ly1 or Nortent Vern 1 but as you probably know, they don’t come cheap. I’m also hoping to get a Zenbivy sleep system as I’m a side sleeper so bags especially mummy style ones don’t really cut it. Due to my work I’m quite strong in terms of back shoulders and legs for carrying but no one wants to carry more than they need to! And I was thinking the same regarding the stove, it takes up a tonne of space in the backpack too. Map reading is something I’m in the process of learning thanks to a lot of helpful UA-cam videos and I agree it’s gonna be vital in places with no phone signal. As you said, I could go on but really, I just wanted to thank you so much for your advice, and thanks for watching! It really is appreciated. All the best.
@@touring3604 Those items are all good makes and are certainly a huge improvement on what you are currently using. I am also a side sleeper and I dont like mummy bags, which is why my sleeping bag is American, it specifically has more shoulder room. Always test your kit before use, for instance, you unwrapped your air matress for the first time at the campsite, what would you have done in the middle of nowhere if it had leaked ?, had a very cold night is the answer 🙂 Have a great time camping and take care.
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Thank you for taking us with you on the start of your wild camping journey, I thoroughly enjoyed it and will be looking forward to joining you on your future adventures ⛺ 💙
Thank you for watching and for commenting. Glad to have you along for the ride!
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Hi, so here are some tips for wild camping without regard to your budget or cost and based on what I have seen in your video.
1) Your tent is large and heavy for one man at 2.8Kg, you can get much better tents that are lighter.
2) It has a 3000mm hydrostatic head which is ok, but make sure you test pitch it in really bad weather and check the seams dont leak, if they do, seal them.
3) Its an inner pitch then outer pitch tent which isnt very good in bad weather. Imagine if it had been pissing down, your inner tent would be soaking before you got the outer up. Its better to have an outer then inner pitch or a dual pitch where both can be pitched together.
4) It has no vestibule, so nowhere to keep kit or cook in bad weather, if you had cooked like you din in the video in a storm, you, the tent, the food, everything would have been soaked.
5) Bin the pegs, get titanium ones, and for car camping buy a set of rock pegs, they are like 9" nails and will go into anything, hence the name.
6) get a smaller gas canister, that one is huge and not needed for a wild camp.
7) get a smaller burner and smaller pot, again that one is huge for one person.
8) The air matteress is basic and wont be very warm. A matteress must have a thermal break in it or the air inside will get as cold as the ground and you will freeze.
9) No idea what your sleeping bag is so dont know its weight or warmth rating but you can get lighter and warmer.
10) get some thermal under layers, socks, long john and top. Keeping warm requires layers
11) get a warm hat, a lot of heat lost through your head, especially with no hair as insulation.
12) get waterproof walking boots, those trainers will get soaking wet and make you wet and cold.
13) dehydrated meals are lighter, and some of them are really nice.
14) If you do cook in your tent understand the risks from fire and carbon monoxide. (I wrote this before I saw your other vid where you tried to blow yourself up 🙂)
I could go on, but bascially wild camping is a compromise between weight and how much you can afford to pay for lighter kit. Some poeople are ok with an 18Kg pack, some would not want over 12Kg etc. Its whatever you are comfortable carrying AND the remoteness of where you are going and the consequences of your kit failing.
Probably a few reasons why you were cold.
1) there was no thermal break between you and the ground, you either need a better mat, or use some some sort of foam carry mat under the matress that does the same job
2) Your sleeping bag is not rated enough for warmth.
3) You were not layered up with thermal base layers
4) get a down jacket (not to walk in) but to use at camp or at night. they also pack up very small.
To give you an example I have a large thermorest extreme air mat, it has an R value of 7+ (thermal insulation rating), and it weighs 600g but costs £260.
I have a western mountaineering down sleeping bag, 900g, but cost £600
I appreciate that everybody has a budget and lightweight stuff is expensive, but always buy the best you can afford because if you get wet and cold a long way from home you will be at least miserable and at the worst put your self in danger from the cold.
Wild camping is always a compromise between what you need and what you would like to take with you and cost and comfort etc etc.
Get a set of scales and divide your kit between "must have" and "would like" and weigh it all out and get some idea what the total weight is.
Then you can start cutting the grams out.
Once you have a pack weight, start going on walks with that weight of pack, your body has to get used to carrying it.
Water is heavy, take the minimum and plan to fill up from streams if possible, always use a water filter and/or boil.
Rucksacks always let water in, rucksack cover help but it always gets in between your back and the sack, always pack your kit "that must stay dry", in dry bags, at a pinch a bin liner will do.
For the first couple of times wild camping, find a place within 1/2 mile of your car, if it all goes tits up you can walk back to it, or get warmer kit.
Always take a head torch and spare batteries and be able to change them in the dark. In the middle of nowhere, dark really is dark.
This store will give you some ideas as to lightweight kit and its cost (ouch). ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/
You can go wild camping with really basic kit if you are willing to carry the weight, but if you wild camp on top of dartmoor or in the lake district and shit happens in the middle of the night, most of the time you just cannot walk out in the dark its too dangerous (also you need to be able to map read and navigate properly at night, but thats another story).
Hope this helps a little.
Oh wow, thanks for taking the time to write all this, it’s great to get some one on one advice from someone who clearly knows their stuff. I have since the last camp bought a flextail R05 which will hopefully improve the warmth issue a bit. I’ve also set my sights on either a Nortent Ly1 or Nortent Vern 1 but as you probably know, they don’t come cheap. I’m also hoping to get a Zenbivy sleep system as I’m a side sleeper so bags especially mummy style ones don’t really cut it. Due to my work I’m quite strong in terms of back shoulders and legs for carrying but no one wants to carry more than they need to! And I was thinking the same regarding the stove, it takes up a tonne of space in the backpack too. Map reading is something I’m in the process of learning thanks to a lot of helpful UA-cam videos and I agree it’s gonna be vital in places with no phone signal. As you said, I could go on but really, I just wanted to thank you so much for your advice, and thanks for watching! It really is appreciated. All the best.
@@touring3604 Those items are all good makes and are certainly a huge improvement on what you are currently using.
I am also a side sleeper and I dont like mummy bags, which is why my sleeping bag is American, it specifically has more shoulder room.
Always test your kit before use, for instance, you unwrapped your air matress for the first time at the campsite, what would you have done in the middle of nowhere if it had leaked ?, had a very cold night is the answer 🙂
Have a great time camping and take care.
Where’s this campsite?
It’s in Marden Kent