Nowt worse than wind, I know me wife gets really upset at times 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Great video, and lovely views. Up there the weather can change drastically. However you always have a positive spin on it! Keep em coming
Thanks for watching and for the nice comments mate. As long as I know that I'm not going to die, then a bit of short-term adversity is always a laugh Steve.🙂
Glad the tent stayed (just about) up mate. You got some lovely weather the next day. It seems like an age since I've had a nice sunny wild camp. Great video matie. 👍
Thanks mate, the tent did look in a sorry state in the morning but it kept me (not my boots) dry lol. I was amazed that the main pegs for the guidelines which hold the tent up hadn't came out. Thank heavens for the Heather on top of the peat hag, as I buried these pegs in their roots.👍
Loved this video Steve, some absolutely stunning scenes and you got to cover a lot of ground, showing the Kinder Plateau in all its varying glory. I love the fact that you don't let challenges and even kit failures dampen your spirits! I have noticed that you seem to be so much more comfortable in front of the camera in the last few videos and more of your personality shines through. Massive congrats on breaking 1000 subs mate, I think you should see a surge in subs now you've reached that benchmark.
Thanks Bri.👍 I could never get bored with what I refer to as the holy trinity, i.e. Bleaklow, Derwent & Kinder.🙂 Even though this camp was hilarious due to me taking the wrong tent out, I still found it more enjoyable than sitting on the couch and watching the telly. I'll remember this trip, I won't remember what I was watching on the telly last Saturday.🙂 Thanks for the feedback on the latest videos mate, I appreciate it.👍
Brilliant...sat there with your 7.3 talking about the tent collapsing 😂 absolutely love your positive carefree attitude. Lovely cartoon clouds on the way back though! And.. the bonus beer at the trig. Great watch as always ☺️
Thanks for watching Donna, and also, for taking the time to post that nice comment. Sometimes, all that you can do is laugh at yourself. As you mentioned, the next day, I was treated to some lovely scenery on the walk back. That coupled with a mid walk beer was certainly a reward for surviving the previous night.👍🙂
Thanks for watching mate. When you've made the best of a bad job and there's sod all left that you can do about the situation, the only thing remaining is to laugh at yourself.🙂
From my own experience with the two tents Richard, I can tell you that the Tarpstar would easily outperform the Polestar. I've had the Tarpstar in 45-50mph gusts up on Kinder and it was rock solid. The Polestar, I would say that 35mph gusts are at its limits.
@@Hengists_Wild_Camps That’s good to know. Does the lack of guy ropes on the Tarpstar affect its stability in the wind at all? The reason I ask is that I’ve got to lighten my pack due to issues with my knees so a new tent sub 1 kilo is on the cards and I’m after something I can use not only for wild camping in the Peaks but also for multi-day hikes like the West Highland Way.
@@RichardShortland-Neal The lack of mid panel guidelines doesn't appear to effect its wind performance at all Richard. In that respect, it's very similar, performance wise, to an MLD Trailstar and they don't have guidelines either, but could give Hilleberg's a run for their money. Pyramid tents have a long reputation for great wind performance. When I got mine, I did wonder about the lack of guidelines, but it seems to have been designed not to need them (dunno if that's due to the tent height, wall width, wall incline, etc?). The Tarpstar is a much stronger tent than my original Lanshan 1 which does have guidelines. However, the Lanshan although similar, it isn't really a pyramid tent.
I knew that if it came to the worst Tom, there was emergency room for me in Kev's tent, perhaps I would have thought differently if I was on my own? However, if I was on my own, I would have never camped at Fairbrook Naze, in those conditions in the first place, so it's all Kev's fault anyway lol.🤣
The ground is either very soft or thin over the rocks at this time of year. I need to get back to the lovely Kinder Plateau as soon as I can. Love it there. Well done with coping with the conditions. Cheers, Warren :)
Cheers Warren for watching mate. After that trip, and following Kev's advice, I invested in some 9 inch pegs. On last weeks trip up on Kinder, I took my Tarpstar instead. That, along with the new pegs, meant that my tent wasn't going anywhere this time.🙂
Hi, found you from watching Dave Goodman, love how you are showing the route as I want to do this, but I'm too lazy to walk 9 miles for 1 night so I have a question. Is it possible to park for 2 nights in Edale? I did a 2 nighter from the Cutthroat Bridge car park, but would love to try my legs up Jacobs Ladder!
Thanks mate, I'll let Dave know. I love Dave's videos, he has some great content on there. Whenever I go somewhere that I'm not too familiar with, I watch other peoples videos and I always try to remember the landmarks from these videos which I find useful and reassuring that I'm on the right path. So with my videos, I'm just trying to return the favour by also including them, so it's great to know that you find them useful as well.🙂 At the ticket machine at Edale CP, the max stay is 24hrs for £7 quid. However, if you use the Pay by Phone app, then for an extra £3 quid, i.e. A tenner, you can book 3 days, which I do even if I'm going out for an overnighter. It just gives you peace of mind that you don't have to rush back. I normally book it before I set off as it only takes me around 45 mins to get to Edale.👍
Thanks for watching Si. Even though publishing that video was a bit on the embarrassing side for me, I still went ahead with it because I thought that it was funny, and also, to point out that sometimes you just have to make do with what you've got.🙂
Thanks mate, it's been a while since I was last caught out. In the past, on one occasion, I can remember my tent getting destroyed and I ended up wrapping it around me as a makeshift bivvy. It was pouring down with rain and dark, so I decided that was the safer option. In the morning my kit was damp due to condensation, but not as damp as I would have been if I had been out in the rain.👍
Nice relaxing video there Steve 👍🏻 I'm currently lying in bed Ill, I took Ill last Sunday night after an overnight trip to Snowdonia (Dulyn bothy) where I think I've drank/ate something dodgy, I've been back and forth to the toilet like an army recruit on a bleep test😂 😭🤢
Sorry to learn that you're under the weather Woolfie, and here's wishing you a seedy recovery mate. Thanks for watching and I hope that it briefly took your mind off you're current situation.🙂
@@Hengists_Wild_Camps cheers Steve, I'm starting to feel better now thanks, hopefully I'll be able to get out with my daughter over the Easter holidays at some point.
Great video Steve and a a sort of lesson to those out there that may head out unawares and unprepared. Mind you it’s not your fault as finding a pitch can be difficult sometimes. I was out in it last night. Thankfully I was in a Wild Country hooolie on a decent pitch.
Thanks Ray. I really should know better by now, but it just goes to show that it can still happen. I hope that you had a great night out t'other Thursday.👍
@@Hengists_Wild_Camps it was an interesting night on Friday with 40 mph winds and torrential rain. Still I did my bit for the Legion and supported homeless veterans
Aye Hardy, Kev did suggest/offer that if things got past the point of no return then I could dive in his tent. The Tarpstar definitely wouldn't have squeezed in that spot. Although I did return to Kinder last week, and this time, I did take the Tarpstar with me. I've already uploaded the video of this Tarpstar trip and will publish it this coming weekend.👍
@@HardyTempestsWildCampsandWalks For what they are Hardy, the footprints are expensive (they always are for tents I think), but in last week's trip, I used the Tarpstar without the inner. In it's 'tarp' configuration, the footprint does make a difference when using it like that. The inner weighs 450 grams, but I didn't really save any weight as I also took my Hunker bivvy along which weighs under 400 grams. I've gotta say though, that I thought that the Tarpstar was big before, without the inner, it's huge mate.👍
Shocks me how many similar videos there are, I just wonder in British winter rain and wind if there is a right tent for the conditions? I think the expectation is from tent manufacturers that people will be camping on the valley floor overnight on well drained flat grass in a sheltered paddock. If they did build a tent for overnighting in heavy rain and wind on Kinder, It would need to have a heavy PU coated bucket groundsheet, and some structural poles, The old vango Force 10 springs to mind, but the fully geodesic alpine mountain tents might also work with careful pitching, Twice the weight though.
Thanks for watching mate. That is a bug bear of mine when it comes to tents. As you've mentioned, a lot of them appear to be designed for situations like you've described. I can remember years ago, Vango tents (I love Vango tents🙂) saying that they were made to withstand 35mph wind gusts, but that information no longer seems to be mentioned in their literature these days. Last week I was back up Kinder, but this time I took my Tarpstar. It's a pyramid design tent, and it's the best tent that I have for winds. There were 45mph wind gusts on last week's trip, and the Tarpstar was rock solid.👍
I cant believe that you were so calm when you were saying "my tent is going to get blown down"... lol Was this filmed with your new camera? The mic was very impressive, there was obviously a lot of wind but the sound was really good. Its definitely worthwhile taking a longer time to get up, last time I went up the packhorse route at Jacobs ladder I left Edale at 2pm and had to yomp it. With a partially recover broken foot and full of man flu (deadly), I was shattered when I got to Woolpacks and couldnt find a source of water. It wasnt good. You had fun, great camp mate!
Cheers Phil, as there was nowt that I could do about the situation, for some reason, I found that funny.🙂 I did film this on my new camera and I agree with you about the in-built Mic on the camera. I think that it even sounds better than the plug-in Mic that I used to use on my phone. I do have one of those foam enclosure Windslayer things for the camera and it does seem to do a good job at reducing wind noise. There's a couple of settings in the camera for wind noise reduction, but I've just left it on the first/default setting. Sorry to learn about your Jacob's experience when ill mate. Well done for managing to still do your journey.👍
@@Hengists_Wild_Camps Thanks Steve, I learnt a lot that day. The wind noise demon is something I need to conquer. Ive got an external mic thats supposed to beat it, but doesnt. The pixel 8 is supposed to have a tool for removing wind noise, but it doesnt do a good job, and da vinci has some filters, but again they dont work. I will keep battling!
Yes Chris. At the ticket machine, the max stay is 24hrs for £7 quid. However, if you use the Pay by Phone app you can extend it, or for £3 quid extra, i.e. A tenner, you can book 3 days. I do the latter, even when I'm just doing an overnighter.👍
Thanks Fraser. One of the best traits that people can have (in my book), is the ability to laugh at yourself. Some people are far too serious when it comes to stuff like this.🙂
Nowt worse than wind, I know me wife gets really upset at times 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Great video, and lovely views. Up there the weather can change drastically. However you always have a positive spin on it! Keep em coming
Thanks for watching and for the nice comments mate. As long as I know that I'm not going to die, then a bit of short-term adversity is always a laugh Steve.🙂
Glad the tent stayed (just about) up mate. You got some lovely weather the next day. It seems like an age since I've had a nice sunny wild camp.
Great video matie. 👍
Thanks mate, the tent did look in a sorry state in the morning but it kept me (not my boots) dry lol. I was amazed that the main pegs for the guidelines which hold the tent up hadn't came out. Thank heavens for the Heather on top of the peat hag, as I buried these pegs in their roots.👍
Loved this video Steve, some absolutely stunning scenes and you got to cover a lot of ground, showing the Kinder Plateau in all its varying glory. I love the fact that you don't let challenges and even kit failures dampen your spirits! I have noticed that you seem to be so much more comfortable in front of the camera in the last few videos and more of your personality shines through. Massive congrats on breaking 1000 subs mate, I think you should see a surge in subs now you've reached that benchmark.
Thanks Bri.👍 I could never get bored with what I refer to as the holy trinity, i.e. Bleaklow, Derwent & Kinder.🙂
Even though this camp was hilarious due to me taking the wrong tent out, I still found it more enjoyable than sitting on the couch and watching the telly. I'll remember this trip, I won't remember what I was watching on the telly last Saturday.🙂
Thanks for the feedback on the latest videos mate, I appreciate it.👍
Brilliant...sat there with your 7.3 talking about the tent collapsing 😂 absolutely love your positive carefree attitude. Lovely cartoon clouds on the way back though! And.. the bonus beer at the trig. Great watch as always ☺️
Thanks for watching Donna, and also, for taking the time to post that nice comment. Sometimes, all that you can do is laugh at yourself. As you mentioned, the next day, I was treated to some lovely scenery on the walk back. That coupled with a mid walk beer was certainly a reward for surviving the previous night.👍🙂
Love it. ee bye gum, that's good beer, as your home for night collapses 😂😂😂 top stuff mate👍
Thanks for watching mate. When you've made the best of a bad job and there's sod all left that you can do about the situation, the only thing remaining is to laugh at yourself.🙂
I’d love to see a comparison video of the Polestar and the Tarpstar particularly with regards to bad weather and wind.
From my own experience with the two tents Richard, I can tell you that the Tarpstar would easily outperform the Polestar. I've had the Tarpstar in 45-50mph gusts up on Kinder and it was rock solid. The Polestar, I would say that 35mph gusts are at its limits.
@@Hengists_Wild_Camps That’s good to know. Does the lack of guy ropes on the Tarpstar affect its stability in the wind at all?
The reason I ask is that I’ve got to lighten my pack due to issues with my knees so a new tent sub 1 kilo is on the cards and I’m after something I can use not only for wild camping in the Peaks but also for multi-day hikes like the West Highland Way.
@@RichardShortland-Neal The lack of mid panel guidelines doesn't appear to effect its wind performance at all Richard. In that respect, it's very similar, performance wise, to an MLD Trailstar and they don't have guidelines either, but could give Hilleberg's a run for their money.
Pyramid tents have a long reputation for great wind performance. When I got mine, I did wonder about the lack of guidelines, but it seems to have been designed not to need them (dunno if that's due to the tent height, wall width, wall incline, etc?).
The Tarpstar is a much stronger tent than my original Lanshan 1 which does have guidelines. However, the Lanshan although similar, it isn't really a pyramid tent.
Fair play. I imagine others would have bailed. I would have.
I knew that if it came to the worst Tom, there was emergency room for me in Kev's tent, perhaps I would have thought differently if I was on my own? However, if I was on my own, I would have never camped at Fairbrook Naze, in those conditions in the first place, so it's all Kev's fault anyway lol.🤣
great watch as always steve,
Cheers Ken and thanks once again for watching mate.👍
I enjoyed all of that Steve a great trip just that bloody windy weather overnight.
Cheers and ATB
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Thanks for watching Dave. A bloody Polestar in 50mph wind gusts lol, at least I survived the night.🙂
The ground is either very soft or thin over the rocks at this time of year. I need to get back to the lovely Kinder Plateau as soon as I can. Love it there. Well done with coping with the conditions. Cheers, Warren :)
Cheers Warren for watching mate. After that trip, and following Kev's advice, I invested in some 9 inch pegs. On last weeks trip up on Kinder, I took my Tarpstar instead. That, along with the new pegs, meant that my tent wasn't going anywhere this time.🙂
great camp mate love the beer for a morning drink 🤣
Thanks Tom, that beer at the trig certainly hit the spot mate.🙂
Very entertaining video Steve. Brilliant mate 👍 all the best
Stephen
Cheers for watching Stephen and I'm glad that you enjoyed it mate, and also, thanks for the comment.👍
Hi, found you from watching Dave Goodman, love how you are showing the route as I want to do this, but I'm too lazy to walk 9 miles for 1 night so I have a question. Is it possible to park for 2 nights in Edale? I did a 2 nighter from the Cutthroat Bridge car park, but would love to try my legs up Jacobs Ladder!
Thanks mate, I'll let Dave know. I love Dave's videos, he has some great content on there.
Whenever I go somewhere that I'm not too familiar with, I watch other peoples videos and I always try to remember the landmarks from these videos which I find useful and reassuring that I'm on the right path. So with my videos, I'm just trying to return the favour by also including them, so it's great to know that you find them useful as well.🙂
At the ticket machine at Edale CP, the max stay is 24hrs for £7 quid. However, if you use the Pay by Phone app, then for an extra £3 quid, i.e. A tenner, you can book 3 days, which I do even if I'm going out for an overnighter. It just gives you peace of mind that you don't have to rush back. I normally book it before I set off as it only takes me around 45 mins to get to Edale.👍
Wow changeable conditions or what! No tent tent choice for me as I only have 1 at the mo, so far so good.. Good vid mate💪
Thanks for watching Si. Even though publishing that video was a bit on the embarrassing side for me, I still went ahead with it because I thought that it was funny, and also, to point out that sometimes you just have to make do with what you've got.🙂
Nice video mate, we can all get caught out with the weather on the plateau it can change so quickly. All fun and games and you survived 😂😂😂
Thanks mate, it's been a while since I was last caught out. In the past, on one occasion, I can remember my tent getting destroyed and I ended up wrapping it around me as a makeshift bivvy. It was pouring down with rain and dark, so I decided that was the safer option. In the morning my kit was damp due to condensation, but not as damp as I would have been if I had been out in the rain.👍
Nice relaxing video there Steve 👍🏻 I'm currently lying in bed Ill, I took Ill last Sunday night after an overnight trip to Snowdonia (Dulyn bothy) where I think I've drank/ate something dodgy, I've been back and forth to the toilet like an army recruit on a bleep test😂 😭🤢
Sorry to learn that you're under the weather Woolfie, and here's wishing you a seedy recovery mate. Thanks for watching and I hope that it briefly took your mind off you're current situation.🙂
@@Hengists_Wild_Camps cheers Steve, I'm starting to feel better now thanks, hopefully I'll be able to get out with my daughter over the Easter holidays at some point.
Great video Steve and a a sort of lesson to those out there that may head out unawares and unprepared.
Mind you it’s not your fault as finding a pitch can be difficult sometimes.
I was out in it last night. Thankfully I was in a Wild Country hooolie on a decent pitch.
Thanks Ray. I really should know better by now, but it just goes to show that it can still happen. I hope that you had a great night out t'other Thursday.👍
@@Hengists_Wild_Camps it was an interesting night on Friday with 40 mph winds and torrential rain. Still I did my bit for the Legion and supported homeless veterans
Everyday is a school day mate. Looked like plenty of room in Kev’s tent if you needed it. Would have been a bugger to pitch the Tarpstar there .
Aye Hardy, Kev did suggest/offer that if things got past the point of no return then I could dive in his tent. The Tarpstar definitely wouldn't have squeezed in that spot. Although I did return to Kinder last week, and this time, I did take the Tarpstar with me. I've already uploaded the video of this Tarpstar trip and will publish it this coming weekend.👍
@@Hengists_Wild_Camps looking forward to it . I’m still hoping to get a footprint soon.
@@HardyTempestsWildCampsandWalks For what they are Hardy, the footprints are expensive (they always are for tents I think), but in last week's trip, I used the Tarpstar without the inner. In it's 'tarp' configuration, the footprint does make a difference when using it like that. The inner weighs 450 grams, but I didn't really save any weight as I also took my Hunker bivvy along which weighs under 400 grams. I've gotta say though, that I thought that the Tarpstar was big before, without the inner, it's huge mate.👍
Shocks me how many similar videos there are, I just wonder in British winter rain and wind if there is a right tent for the conditions? I think the expectation is from tent manufacturers that people will be camping on the valley floor overnight on well drained flat grass in a sheltered paddock. If they did build a tent for overnighting in heavy rain and wind on Kinder, It would need to have a heavy PU coated bucket groundsheet, and some structural poles, The old vango Force 10 springs to mind, but the fully geodesic alpine mountain tents might also work with careful pitching, Twice the weight though.
This past year as a whole, we’ve had more wind and rain than usual. Just been one of those years unfortunately.
Thanks for watching mate. That is a bug bear of mine when it comes to tents. As you've mentioned, a lot of them appear to be designed for situations like you've described.
I can remember years ago, Vango tents (I love Vango tents🙂) saying that they were made to withstand 35mph wind gusts, but that information no longer seems to be mentioned in their literature these days.
Last week I was back up Kinder, but this time I took my Tarpstar. It's a pyramid design tent, and it's the best tent that I have for winds. There were 45mph wind gusts on last week's trip, and the Tarpstar was rock solid.👍
I cant believe that you were so calm when you were saying "my tent is going to get blown down"... lol Was this filmed with your new camera? The mic was very impressive, there was obviously a lot of wind but the sound was really good.
Its definitely worthwhile taking a longer time to get up, last time I went up the packhorse route at Jacobs ladder I left Edale at 2pm and had to yomp it. With a partially recover broken foot and full of man flu (deadly), I was shattered when I got to Woolpacks and couldnt find a source of water. It wasnt good. You had fun, great camp mate!
Cheers Phil, as there was nowt that I could do about the situation, for some reason, I found that funny.🙂
I did film this on my new camera and I agree with you about the in-built Mic on the camera. I think that it even sounds better than the plug-in Mic that I used to use on my phone. I do have one of those foam enclosure Windslayer things for the camera and it does seem to do a good job at reducing wind noise. There's a couple of settings in the camera for wind noise reduction, but I've just left it on the first/default setting.
Sorry to learn about your Jacob's experience when ill mate. Well done for managing to still do your journey.👍
@@Hengists_Wild_Camps Thanks Steve, I learnt a lot that day.
The wind noise demon is something I need to conquer. Ive got an external mic thats supposed to beat it, but doesnt. The pixel 8 is supposed to have a tool for removing wind noise, but it doesnt do a good job, and da vinci has some filters, but again they dont work. I will keep battling!
Can you pay at carpark for 24 hours
Yes Chris. At the ticket machine, the max stay is 24hrs for £7 quid. However, if you use the Pay by Phone app you can extend it, or for £3 quid extra, i.e. A tenner, you can book 3 days. I do the latter, even when I'm just doing an overnighter.👍
@@Hengists_Wild_CampsHi Steve can you get a signal in the car park to pay?
Magic😊. Optimism beats pessimism 9 times out of 10 ! 😊👍🏼🙏✊️🫵
Thanks Fraser. One of the best traits that people can have (in my book), is the ability to laugh at yourself. Some people are far too serious when it comes to stuff like this.🙂