@@gilesbinyon FYI. Constance Marten: Missing couple and baby thought to be camping in Sussex keep an eye out if your out and about in county, have a knife on you just in case (for bushcraft 😉) and a mobile if you see them call police and track at a safe distance 👍
Best programme I've watched on a Saturday night for a long time. I hear people talk about mindfulness, well imho this video is 36 minutes of mindfulness. Thanks Giles for another lovely film.
Really nice watching. I have for years been gathering outdoor kit and using modern materials but increasingly find myself intrigued by what kit was perfectly useable only a generation ago, and was the normal materials for use going back aeons before. As a result I'm now moving my outdoor kit towards more sustainable materials wherever I can. For me it all started when I realised I had gone through five pairs of modern material boots whereas my wife was still using twenty year old leather boots. And then it was canvas tents, and now bags. I haven't yet moved away from using sleeping bags, and although I've always coveted down, I am still using a sleeping bag from the mid'90's. I might try a wool blanket on a trip one time but I'll wait for warmer weather! Subscribed.
Thanks very much for that support Chuck. Great to hear about your kit progression and sounds like you are getting on okay with the more traditional stuff. It can be heavier but I find that makes me think about reducing the actual amount carried. Thx again 😊👍
Joyous 🙏🏻 A wonderful hike and camp Giles. It just shows you that even at this time of year this wonderful land has so much to offer and explore. Cheers old chap 👍🏻 Regards, Paul 🙏🏻
Thank you as always my Friend. Appreciate the support. You are right - our land is uplifting if one can get the time to get out there 👍 Keep warm and dry Paul 😊 Cheers 👍
Cheers Allen. Appreciate you watching Mate. Yeah, always adds a touch off interest to take in a little human historical activity in our hikes. And let’s face it …. on this tiny Island it’s hard not to go far without stumbling on some previous man made intervention. !!! Keep warm and dry Mate 👍
Love the no nonsense camping but with the luxury of fresh food, your comment regarding the brickwork was so true as a retired bricklayer it’s nice to see someone appreciate those skills from an age that we have truly lost today, great video.
Thanks very much PW - appreciate you watching and commenting. Yeah, those Victorians built stuff for future generations - not just the fast-buck, 5 year economic cycle which a lot of things seem to be done like today. Nice to have a comment from a craftsman whose work, I expect, will be visible for generations to come - Cheers 👍
A wonderful trip out for us Giles! Many thanks also for the snippets of history. I believe that adds a super depth to your yomps👌👏I'm reading a book that mentions Laurence Binyon the Great War poet. I wondered if there was a familial connection? Anyway, great stuff🖤😎KTF🙏
Thank you very much Marty. I do appreciate your kind support my Friend. Re Laurence Binyon - my dad looked into it many years ago and concluded that a family connection was unlikely 🫤 - that makes sense …. my English is pretty appalling !!! 🤣😂🤣😂 Thx again 😊👍
Great video as always Giles. Some how my notifications for your channel got turned off so I only just noticed you had a new one out. They’re back on now. Cheers
Thanks as always for watching Jon. Glad you liked it and not sure what happened to your notifications? I’m pretty useless at keeping up on that kind of thing 🫤 Cheers 😊👍
Nice one Giles, all credit to your commitment to getting a good video, doing all that climbing up and down the cutting to retrieve your camera! Looked like a good camp though, definitely drier than your last video. You've got me thinking that I need to venture out for a camp with my Plash Palatka. Thanks as always for sharing 👍
Cheers Gavin. Appreciated Mate. Yeah, do you find things a lot slower going when filming ? Yeah, things just beginning to dry out - hope it continues 🤞🤞🤞 Good luck using your military cape - I see from your videos that you are an ‘old hand’ at using it !!! Thx again ⛺️😊👍
Hello Giles, I've just watched a video by a channel called 'Swedwoods' that might interest you, it seems your shelter is half of a 'two piece' setup, didn't know if you knew. It would make your life considerably more comfortable during the winter months, oh and perhaps another blanket, we do worry about you lol! ATB Pete
Thanks Pete. Appreciate you watching and commenting….. and worrying 😂 Yeah, I watch some of Swedewoods videos - blimmin’ fantastic stuff - he knows what he’s doing alright. Cheers 😊👍
I agree. I tend to take a lot of Giles' camera work for granted... until I watch my pathetic tat, hahaha. it is well shot and well edited and we tend to forget it takes a lot of extra effort to set up the camera, get out of shot, get back into shot then collect the camera again!
Another great video Giles, I think you might benefit from a pair of insulated camp booties as you only seem to have a second pair of socks ! Also I was thinking that you are just the type of walker who would have a staff pole to support you on uneven ground and slopes, I think it would be helpful to you, your dinner looked very tasty well-done and thanks for sharing.
Thanks very much for watching Phillip and the comments too. Yeah, I’m finally getting onto the cold feet problem - and the socks seem to help a lot. And yeah, I have tried a walking staff a few times when out for the day. Not sure it would be so good when also carrying the phone ‘monopod/selfie stick’ thingy as well. Cheers 😊👍
As soon as I start your vids and hear your intro music I’m transported to the woodlands, Giles 😁👍🏼 All you’re seeing is RIBS 🤣 Sensitive wildlife spot; Bats? Oh blimey Giles, you do put yourself through it 😮 Get a 100% wool blanket or llama blanket or something 🥶 Roll on summer, eh 😉👍🏼
Cheers Tim. As always Mate, really appreciate you watching and commenting. Yeah, RIBS everywhere on this one Mate - it was enough to give a vegan the willies 🤣😂🤣😂 Yes, I think I’m getting pretty expert now at ensuring a disturbed night 😂🤣😂🤣 - it’s just like when the kids were babies but with the added challenge of being blimmin freezing as well 😂🤣😂🤣 As you say Bud, roll on summer ☀️🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺 Thx again and hope you and all yours are well ⛺️😊👍
@@gilesbinyon Hahaha, good stuff, Giles 😁👍🏼 We’re all well thank you. I know how you feel on the disturbed nights ground dwelling. I’m hoping I have sussed that out a bit now after my recent “urban wild camping” on Instagram. Keep getting out my friend!
Brilliant Giles,when I was a youngster in the 60/70s we had a coal fire,every morning it was my job to shovel the ash onto the garden as my parents said it does the ground good for plants 👍
... That was my Saturday evening sorted! (with a glass because that's the rules)...... I know weight is an issue with you, (me too, I turned 61 last week, the spirit is still willing but the flesh is weak!) and you like to stick around the 10kg mark, but I'd be tempted to take out that woollen sleeping bag you had out recently, I really liked the look of that. Is it just a shade too heavy to lug with you?..... Great stuff again Giles. Always interesting and at a proper pace.
Thanks as always Tannahill. Appreciate all the support and thx for watching. Yeah, although not seriously warm I like that blanket/sleeping bag. But yeah, bulky and heavy for the warmth it could provide 🤔 . Hope to bring it out again sometime tho. Hoping you get the chance to head out to Bute and enjoy the outdoors…… along with a single malt of course …. ‘Rules is Rules’ ….😂🤣😂🤣🥃🥃
Nice one, Giles. Had a break in the weather yesterday in Somerset, so a mate and I wild camped the top of the cliffs at Cheddar Gorge.Sssshhhhh….🤣 Keep making these vids, I love em! All the best.👍🏾🇬🇧🏕
Thanks very much Soggz. Always appreciate your support. Ha !!! I bet that was a beautiful camp. Nice one. Actually we hoping to visit there this summer (just ordinary camping not wild camping) and looking forward to it 👍 keep warm and dry Bud 😊👍
Amazing video well worth the wait giles you do a lot off walking in them that's different from the rest off the others people make we can see all the place where you go hope you kept warm and safe Mt nice one yer again
Cheers very much Keith. Always appreciate your kind support Mate. Yeah, I like to cover a few miles so I can check things out while I’m out and about. The filming slows you down quite a bit so I have to keep cracking on quick 😂🤣😂🤣 Take care Buddy 👍
The variation on sleeping position worked but it still would have been rough. Your 'disturbed night' is the epitome of English understatement, Giles! I was in the army for the best part of a decade so I know what a 'disturbed night' can be like. But you get through it and you know you can do it again. I doffs me lid to you. We have to be of a similar vintage (1961) but very different build. I am leaning more your vegetarian/vegan way with a switch to a sugar free diet but mostly meat, eggs and leafy vegetables, no sugar in my tea and beer is a rare treat indeed. We'll see if it helps when our weather turns colder but I hope to change my channel name to 'Skinny Bloke Skiving'. Love your work as always. That shot scrabbling down the cutting meant you went down, set up camera, scrambled up then back down again! The effort is appreciated.
Ha ha !!! Loving the (potential) new name for your channel !!! 😂🤣😂🤣 Hoping you get to use it Buddy. Thank you very much as always for watching and those are very kind words too - thanks. Yeah, always a disturbed night when camping with minimal gear ….oh hum 😐 …. You are right about the filming - it is deffo a lot slower going when you are going backwards etc with the camera. Take care and ATB with the diet - cutting out the sugar can only be good for you Mate. And respect for your will-power cutting down the beer 👍
Hi Giles thanks for a brilliant watch, I like all the traditional gear and how you make it all work for you. Makes me want to get out there and give it a go.
Thanks very much Daniel. I’m happy you liked it and appreciate the kind words. Yeah, the old gear can do a good job sometimes 👍⛺️😊 - may be worth a go …..
Fantastic viewing Mr Giles,absolutely great to see you out doing the things.I know i don't frequently comment as i work away long hours but its magic to watch. Ill be out in the woods tomorrow for a day mission on the quantock hills. Keep up the good work your content is surely a reward for those who cant for whatever reason make it themselves.
Thanks very much indeed Chris. Appreciate you watching and that’s a great comment. Hoping you’re having a great day out in the woods and on the hills. ATB 😊👍
The” Bramhope tunnel-north portal “ , linking Harrogate to Leeds, is a similar Victorian tunnel opening but on a more grander scale. Looks like a castle! Great content as always Giles!
Another really satisfying watch, thank you. Walking beside busy roads without a verge is no fun at all. I like smoked paprika and this meal sounded particularly nice; something I might like to try (I usually enjoy a break from all but minimal cooking when I'm out as I do most of it at home).
Thank you very much as always Catherine. I know what you mean about country roadside walking - and there just seems no such thing as a quiet road anymore !!! Such a contrast from the peace of the footpaths and trails. Yeah, I customise my wife’s recipes for camping - even if I have to miss out bits they are still pretty good usually (they start from a very high level 😊). Take care 😊👍
As always a great video Giles the chilli looked spot on I've not tried cooking on in the woods I don't think Roney has might have to get him to cook one that was a interesting walk up the old railway would make a interesting video camping in the old tunnel 🤔🤔 atvb Jimmy 😎😎👍👍
Thanks as always for your support Jimmy. Yeah, I adapt my wife’s recipes for camping - she’s a great cook like Roney. Yeah, it would be a spooky night in one of the tunnels - but they’re all blocked off. Take care Buddy - hope Roney is 100% now 👍
Good Morning Giles .. 👍👍👍 .. always a pleasure seeing you again and hearing the hillbillies sawing and plucking away at their instruments 😁. A really catchy little ditty and recognisable anywhere 😊. Old disused 'workings'. Watching this always gives me a sense of nostalgia. Going back to my days in the mining industry (and now for something completely different .. 'useless history' to follow .. 🙄😏). Mining Shaft Complexes no longer in production and that had been shut down and fenced off. Exploring the Shaft Offices (having been in the Industry, Security where present, normally treated the incursion sympathetically). Offices once busy, vibrant. Men coming and going, Miners signing on and off in their individual timesheets (a document where one, as a Supervisor, NEVER allowed any error, especially regarding 'working pro rata's', unless one wished to incur the wrath of the Union Shop Steward and worse 😳). Shift reports .. production figures, accident reporting, requests for material to be ordered, the 'powder' (explosives) order sheets, etc, etc. Hearing from the Mine Captain's Office, a 'chewing out' taking place behind a closed door regarding some transgression or other .. not 'making call', and more.. Now .. deserted .. dusty. Often still with some remnants therein of days gone by. Furnishings, paperwork, forms, files and more. The passing of an era .. gone .. More 'useless information' 🙄😏. Your gloves. I had to, just this week past, move a metal cupboard from our bay in the flat complex communal undergound parking area. The Authorities are installing heated insulated water piping. Not, as one would think, for the individual households, but, as I am led to believe, to protect the integrity of the water piping feeding such households in case of extremely cold weather and extended power outages. The entire neighbourhood is being so serviced with major road excavation taking place and pipe installations surprisingly deep. The water heat generation will take place at a central point somewhere in the town which will then service all and sundry. Method (now hear this). WOOD. (with gas / other as backup). Very pragmatic, the Swiss 😊. Back to the gloves. During the cupboard relocation, I discovered a forgotten 'stash' of gloves, similar to yours, leather and cotton. From my mining days, we knew them as 'Chrome Leather' Gloves. I used only them as the alternate 'plastic' versions would end up after a day or two with a smell 😳 that could never be persuaded to go away 😏. So, a bonus for me 👍😊. Giles, that was quite a yummy-looking chilli that you rustled up there .. I must give that a go sometime. All credit to your commitment to minimalism. I am not yet strong enough to survive on one pot .. boiling, cooking, eating AND drinking 😁. Although, to save on water, I am experimenting with using a slice of bread to clean out and dry the pot after food prep .. the only time where one can eat the dish cloth 😊. There .. my version of Tolstoy's War and Peace is finally over .. 👏. Thanks for sharing, my friend .. another good one, and until next time, take care .. Tommy
Ha ha !!! I hope other people get to read and enjoy your wonderful comments too Tommy. Fantastic stuff thank you. Interesting stories from your past career. Sounds like busy but fulfilling work 👍 Glad you found that stash of leather gloves too. And wood fired boilers are a great way of closing the carbon circle. I should think having one central large boiler is even more efficient - in fact if the Swiss are doing it I know it must be efficient 😊👍. interconnected with other boilers of similar capacity should one become defective. Yeah, the chilli worked okay. I take my wife’s brilliant recipes and customise them for camping. Even after my fiddling they usually work out well because they start from such a high level 😊 As always Tommy, thanks for all your support and, moreover, the entertainment !!! 😂 ATB my Friend 👍
Cracking time out as always Giles . Enjoyed it mate . That chilli looked good . Love how you keep things so simple yet so effective . Really shows you don't have to have all this new fangled equipment ( even though I have some 😂) . Take care Giles . A pleasure as always mate 👌🏕
Good to see you again Giles. Another very enjoyable video. But I must admit to being more than a little disappointed not to see or hear a Ghostly train go thundering bye in a shower of steam and sparks ! Those were the days .
Thanks for watching and commenting Allen. Always appreciated. Yeah, atmospheric places these old tunnels and bridges - one can just imagine……🤔🤔🤔 Cheers 😊👍
Hi Giles. I can never get tired of watching your setup, I really love it. I have here next to me a disused railway line with it's accompanying bridges. In fact there's a bridge that closed off that i have been on many years ago, it crosses the river tay and is a work of art. There is even a trap door and you can walk downa ladder into a lowerpart which was unseen to the eye. Platforms to walk with piles of pigeon poo. I'll try get a shot of it for you one day. It's called cargill viaduct if you're interested. It's made of iron and bricks and the train crossed the river. What's also of interest is the way trees and shrubs reclaim the line. So our line is a walkway and well used, but the trees encroach. Hawthorns, Pinus, Blackthorn, but really interesting is the willow. There is none about. Yet here it grows, I can only imagine the birds are depositing seed there in a neat bundle of fertilizer and they are now present. What's also of interest is the amount of birds that are there, in particular yellowhammers. Quite a few wild flowers too. I would imagine the closed off tunnel you saw could potentially be a home for bats. Interesting to see. thank you sir, great feed too!
Thanks very much Chris. Really appreciate you watching. And that’s a great comment- there’s some good pictures of Cargill Viaduct online. It looks amazing and I think I could see the walk ways you mention. That would be a fun day exploring alright. Yeah, it’s wonderful how nature claims back what it loaned to us. Think our species has got too bold and forgotten that nature always will out in the end. It’s beginning to look like ‘pay back’ time is coming for civilisation …..oh boy … how did I get onto this morbid theme !!! 😂🤣😂🤣 Thanks again Mate and keep warm and dry up there 😊👍
@@gilesbinyon Hello again, indeed I hear you, I have ths idea now it's better to look back to be able to move forward. Technology can be good but it can go too far as well. I now use a willow basket for my shopping. Fill it up, empty at cahier and refill. Easy, I'm the only person doing it here. Cutting up an ice cream container to use as plant labels, better to use wood of course but it's a start, reusing the plastic to which i'm trying use less and less. Trouble is the source of the problem is the supermarkerts, everything is in plastic! Rewilding is a battle, it's hard to change mindsets, I'm 100% for it but I fear not many of us are. I had some people come up to me and complain about beaver damage. I said it's not beaver, it was the wind, you can see the roots are upturned Oh they said and then proceeded to tell me everything bad about the beavers! Funny thing was on the other side of the river they had bulldozed down all the trees to build a fishing hut! That seemingly is OK. I could go on ha ha, have a great day.
@@northernembersoutdoors1045 thanks Chris. And I feel your exasperation Mate. Great to hear the things you are doing to be ‘part of the solution’. But we need to attack this urgent problem from the very top as well as more local levels. And that unfortunately means breaking the inappropriate connection between Business and Government. Not sure about Holyrood but I fear it is rife at Westminster. If this were to happen our leaders would be free to implement measures without constantly being stone-walled by powerful lobbying. Sadly we are some way off this scenario….. and it could all be an academic exercise anyway …. because there is a chance we are already too late 😐 Cheers Bud 👍
Another joyful night out with you, Giles. Just think, it's less than 5 weeks until March🙂 We have a lot of disused rail routes here in Norfolk. There's talk of converting a few of them in to paths & cyles paths, but so far it's just talk. Bring on the warmer days & shorter nights. A pleasure as always. Thanks👍
Thank you very much as always Dug. Really hope the disused rail line gets turned into paths / cycle ways. Brilliant for every one . But, as you say, there won’t be much profit in it so it is just talk 🫤 Yeah, spring around the corner ☀️ Cheers 😊👍
would love a video on the giles byron back story on how you became vegan and your general outlook on life, I feel, and may be wrong, you have a military background? maybe a little to divisive for youtube so id understand if you purposely avoid that sort of subject. main thing id really like to understand as an amateur wild camper, is how you don't get scared alone in the dark, in the middle of nowhere?
Thanks very much. I do appreciate you watching the vids. And that’s a very interesting comment too. No reason to be scared out in the ‘boonies’ at night - nothing in the UK can seriously hurt you. And just remember - you’re the guy creeping about the dark woods AND you are the one with a very sharp knife !!! (or even an axe maybe !!!) Not a military background but maybe something similar I suppose …. a disciplined uniformed emergency service all my life….. Cheers 😊👍
You never fail to amaze me. As one of the world's coldest sleepers, I'd have been off home before the rice had come to a boil. Well done sir, can't wait for the next one. P.S I take it the Greek sleeping bag from the hot tent video is to heavy for the lightweight pack?
Thanks very much Rob. Ha !!! I reckon you would be fine with this setup 😊 - I’m a cold sleeper too !!! Yeah, I like the Greek blanket bag but it is heavy and bulk. And probably not seriously warm for the extra bulk …but would be nice to have more often …💤🛌 Cheers
Wonderful to see you again, Giles. I’m always amazed 😮by some of the great vistas you get in your videos. I enjoy the gear you use and watching you set up camp. The same basic gear seems to work for you and your camps are always similar. Hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Just tweak it a little. I noticed you using the second pair of socks idea. Good one, and it doesn’t add much weight to your pack. Another idea uses two wool blankets to make what we call a cowboy or Boy Scout roll. But, that would add some weight to your pack, but only in colder weather. Speaking of weather, we’ve had 7” of snow so far and it’s going to be pretty cold this coming week. Again, excellent video. I do so enjoy watching and ⛺️ camping with you. Take care, my friend. Until next time 🙏👍
Thanks very much Steven. Always great to hear from you and I very much appreciate all your support. Crikey !!! 7” of snow !!! Anything like that over here and everything just grinds to a halt 😂🤣😂🤣😂 We’re just not used to it - especially down south. I hope you guys manage okay in those conditions. I know the US has had some really severe weather recently. Yeah, you’re right - I tend to stick with a setup that seems to work in most places/conditions (as you say ‘if it ain’t broke ….) Take care Buddy 🍺🍺😊👍
Thanks very much indeed - appreciated. Yeah, the tarp is actually the NVA Zeltbahn - a military cape from the Cold War era I believe. They are almost identical to the Russian Plash Palatka which are also usually available from various sources. Cheers 😊👍
Thanks very much Peter - appreciate you watching. Yeah, the fire pit is actually a vegetable steamer. Easy and cheap to get hold of - they do a pretty good job. Take out the centre piece and you may also want to knock out the little stud legs for ease when packing. Cheers 😊👍
Another well shot video, its amazing how people can leave a tunnel in the middle of nowhere, there must be something they can use it for like properly drying those cut logs out . Please try and keep away from non pavement main roads the Police can pick you up over it . Great vegetable 😋 chilli 🌶 😋 👌.
Thanks very much as always Owen - appreciate the support. Yeah, shame the tunnels aren’t used but I reckon maintenance cost might have something to do with it 🤔 Thx for the heads-up. I wasn’t aware Police would pick you up for that. Trouble is, despite trying to avoid the roads I pretty much had no choice 🫤 Thx again Bud 😊👍
Thanks very much for watching Bob. Yeah, this is an old M&S hat (100% cotton). But I got it secondhand sometime ago and forgot I had it !!! So I’m not sure they are still available like this …🤔 There must other similar around tho. Cheers 😊👍
Hi I'm quite a new subscriber and I'm loving your vids but I've got a question what is the metal collapsible dish that you make the fire 🔥 in please what is it called and what was it originally made for many thanks 🙏🤞
Thanks very much for watching and supporting the vids Dean. Yeah, the ‘fire bowl’ is a medium sized vegetable steamer. Available easily and cheaply. Just remove the centre piece. You can also knock out the legs/studs (replace with removable bolts perhaps) for ease of packing. 😊👍
@@gilesbinyon bless you thanks so much for getting back to me I really appreciate it I've got one exactly the same but I never knew what it actually was so I was curious so thanks for for letting me know I'm going out for a walk and wild camp in the forest tonight and I'll be definitely using it for a the very same love what you did with it thanks so much for sharing I'll look forward to seeing more of your adventures 👊😉👍
Thanks very much as always James - appreciate your support. I was traveling really light and using my full body wool ‘onesie’ type of thing. It packs smaller and lighter than half a wool blanket. Maybe not as warm …. but it stays on when I move around in the night 😊👍
Really personal question so tell me to mind my own business but may I ask how old you are as you seem pretty fit for an older gent. Must be all those veggies and exercise.
Thanks for watching and commenting 👍 Yeah, I’m very nearly 58. I do believe that science has been telling us that less meat consumption is good for health and Planet ….🤔 Cheers 😊👍
Thanks very much Roger N Sophie. I have a few packs. The one in this vid is a Yugoslavian military haversack - very compact but good. I also have a small Croatian backpack in camo pattern. It lays very low on the back but adjustments would be easy. And I have a Swedish Airforce framed backpack. They are all pretty much 100% cotton fibres. Keeping an eye out online (eBay and various surplus websites) is a good way of picking up stuff like this. Cheers 😊👍
@@rogersleep in this video the one clipped to my belt is ex Swedish military (not sure what era) and the one in my pack was, I think, ex Russian military possibly 40 or more years old. Cheers 😊👍
Thanks Neil. I mostly use an ordinary working glove but the handling surfaces have to be leather. I think the gloves in this video are made in Poland with goat skin for the front working surface (ART.MaSten ?). Cheers 🔥🏕️
Another splendid transmission on the wireless Giles Old Chap! What a cool historical place that old Railway and they don't make them arches like they did back then! I'm glad you found it warmer sleeping across the shelter. Question: How do you sleep without a cover, do you have a blanket or is it the natural fibres and fleeces that are so much warmer? The Chilli Looked a great winter warmer. Bravo Old Chap!
Thanks very much Steve Old Chap. Appreciate the splendid support as always Old Chum. Yeah, I use a wool all-in one layer (like a onesie) at night. It helps a bit and stays over me when I move about. But I need to keep the fire ticking over to get through the night 🥶 Thx again Old Chap and Spring is around the corner HURRAH !!!
Thanks for watching Matthew. Yeah, that’s a vegetable steamer (medium size). Just take out the centre piece. You can also knock out the studs/legs and replace with longer bolts for easy packing 😊👍
Very nice video & country side . Have you looked at 58 pattern British army webbing it my be in your interest as it’s all cotton, no man made material.
good one Giles, pretty hardcore sleeping arrangements IMHO but good on you for managing it. does make me want to sneak in and toss a woolly over you but I reckon you know what you’re doing so best mind my own business there I suppose. 👍🏼✌🏼🖖🏼
Excellent video again Giles I really enjoyed that as always! Just a thought 🤔 if you dug a fire pit 12" down and still used your heat reflector, wither the heat from the fire would warm the ground underneath you, to prevent losing your body heat to the ground!
Thx very much Cornish kellboy - appreciated 😊👍 And that’s an interesting comment. I’m not sure how far the heat would conduct laterally through the ground towards the bed area - it’s an interesting concept. I think I may leave it to someone else to test out - I try to keep the impact of the fire and fire pit to the minimum … 🤔… Cheers 😊👍
Another great video Giles, you obviously know a bit about food similar to myself. I wondered Giles how long you have been doing this style of camping and if you have done any UK long distace footpaths?. Cheers 🙏👍
Thanks very much Dave. Appreciate the support. Although I’ve camped all my life on and off, it’s only last couple of years have really gone ‘hard core’ old style - although I think like many others I have always been drawn towards this kind of thing when it’s possible/practical etc. I’ve only done bits at a time of our beautiful National Trails. Cheers 😊👍
Thx David - appreciate you watching and that comment. Yeah, I had one of those, but it wore out. Have replaced it recently with something very similar - actually wearing it around my neck on this video. Cheers 😊👍
Hi Giles, great video as always sir. Your dried vegetables, do you dehydrate them yourself? I've tried buying them and was disappointed with the taste and quality, so now I prep, small quantities and pack them in medium sized Mylar pouches - I wash out and reuse the pouches regularly.
Thanks very much as always Mark - appreciate the support. Yeah, it’s easy to dehydrate stuff at home - I have a very old and basic dehydrator. Some things are nicer than others for taste/texture etc when cooked. Eg mushrooms = good, onions = don’t even bother 😂😂 But great for weight and bulk savings if you have the water. Cheers 👍
Thanks very much for watching Angela. Yeah, always hard to look after glasses in the woods. So I only take the cheaper ‘off the shelf’ ones. Unfortunately I believe the lenses may be of some kind of plastic composite material 😐 Cheers 😊👍
Thanks very much Allen. Yeah, all fine here thx. Hoping likewise with you and yours too. Not sure when I’ll be turning the camera on - sorry 🫤 Happy new year ⛺️🔥👍
Have been watching all your videos. Really enjoyable. Thanks for the effort to produce and publish these. What are your final thoughts on Firebowl vs Steamer? Do the holes help or hurt in anyway? Cheers!
Thanks very much for watching and commenting Jerry. I think the holes in the veg steamer have a negligible effect on the fire. They are very small and so soon covered with ash. They might even help to get the fire started. A timber fire (as opposed to coal) works better with the air coming from above - but as I say the holes are covered quickly. At less than half the price and different size options (mine is medium I think - about 29cm diameter) I prefer the veg steamer 😊👍
Evening Giles, always a pleasure to enjoy your adventures on the Downs, tell me, do you imagine the damaged bridge near the beginning of the vid was to allow access for large farm vehicles? because as you said our Victorian fore bares definitely build things to last, seems unlikely it fell down on its own. Thanks as always for your enjoyable content.
Thanks ultrarunner. Appreciate your kind support to me. Yeah, I think you may be right - it would be extremely unlikely to fall down. Also unlikely to have become structurally unsafe methinks. I hope they recycled all those quality bricks !!! Cheers as always 🍻😊👍
Hey Giles!! This is was absolutely fantastic! I love old architecture. Hey Giles I was wondering if you had s chance to fix your tarp where it was leaking last time? Great watch and such a joy to see your stuff up on my notifications! Take care sir. NQU
Thank you kindly NQU - always appreciate you watching and commenting my Friend. Glad you liked the architecture. Haven’t sussed out what happened with the tarp yet. It seemed to cure itself later that night. I have washed it ( using Tech Wash) to try and get the smoke out of the canvas - not sure if that would interfere with the swelling of the fibres … 🤔 Cheers 😊👍
Looks to be a better sleeping position, keeping you warmer at night Giles. All the woods near me seem to be smaller, plus many folk take their dogs for walks. So I'm not sure I'd get away with lighting a fire, unless I had prior permission from a farmer.
Thanks very much Terry. Always kind of you to watch and support these vids. Yeah, that sleeping position was deffo warmer. I know exactly what you are saying - it’s so hard to get distance from tracks, paths and trails in the UK. Especially so in south and south east England 😐 Hope you manage to find the odd spot - at least for, perhaps, even a ‘day’ camp. Take care 👍
Hello again Giles, it's so great to see you out and about, on yet another thoroughly enjoyable, Giles. A back-to-basics video with the staple camp set-up. Were they 'soft shackles' I saw hanging from your pack at about 3:14? They looked very similar. I've been experimenting with soft shackles since I saw them on a video, and have found them very useful to have about. Thanks for showing us more of the hidden parts of the countryside in southern England, places that are now usually unseen. It's amazing that places which were once busy hubs and veins, integral parts of things, can then fall so silent and become hidden away again. But then on the other hand, perhaps it's a relief that they can! I'm glad that it worked out well for you sleeping sideways-on with the fire, nothing worse than cold feet I reckon. The cooler space at the back might be good used for storing things. I loved the way you used your pot hook (coat hanger?) to secure the rope you use to wrap your bedding up. A good example of the multi-use principle. The old disused railway lines used to be a source of endless adventures and exploration when I was growing up. There were a lot of them in our area, and we lived on a farm near where some of the lines used to cross each other. There were still small brick railway buildings dotted around with proper fireplaces in, they would have made for an easy night out! Over the years there was less and less of the original railway remains left, as they got turned into footpaths and tidied up. Watching this I now realise it's now been far too long since I last slept out. Three months I think! I'll definitely have to start planning my next one. Thanks again, Giles, always such a pleasure. Take care and I hope to see you again before too long.
Thank you very much as always Adrian. Really appreciate your kind support my Friend. I don’t have any ‘soft shackles, but they sound like a very interesting option- must check them out or perhaps make some with natural fibres if possible. Yeah, these old structures are always atmospheric I reckon. And I know what you mean about those little brick maintenance huts - they are still occasionally present along side working railways. And they always seem to have a lovely little fireplace chimney as you say !!!! Yeah, lying across the fire really helped - lucky I’m so short 😂🤣😂🤣 Hoping you get the chance to get out soon Bud. I know what it’s like - sometimes ‘life’ just gets in the way …. oh hum …. . Thx again as always Adrian. Keep safe and well my Friend 🍻👍
@@gilesbinyon I would imagine non-synthetic soft shackles would grip better, too. Here's a video showing how to tie them: ua-cam.com/video/hXG17Q__6aY/v-deo.html
@@gilesbinyon By the way, Giles, I realised afterwards that what I saw must have been your prusik knots. This made me think that soft shackles could double up as prusik loops, if the knot was big enough. Interesting! 🙂
Absolute joy to watch, honest, no nonsense camping. Thank you once again Giles
Cheers Taff. Really appreciate you watching and that’s a lovely comment which boosts me up indeed - cheers 😊👍
@@gilesbinyon FYI. Constance Marten: Missing couple and baby thought to be camping in Sussex keep an eye out if your out and about in county, have a knife on you just in case (for bushcraft 😉) and a mobile if you see them call police and track at a safe distance 👍
@@soton5teve yeah, I noticed that. Thx for the heads-up 👍
hi giles. love what you do
Cheers Superhands - very kind of you 😊👍
Always enjoy your videos
Thanks Alan - appreciated 😊👍
Nature's television providing so much pleasure on a basic night in the woods.good for the soul 👌🌲👍
Absolutely Geordiefellwalker !!! - wise words.
Thank you for watching and commenting 😊👍
Superb I’m going to enjoy watching this one I’ve been waiting for your videos with much anticipation Giles
Thanks very much for those very kind words.I hope you do enjoy the video. Cheers 😊👍
As usual you have been able to take the viewer out in the woods with you. Great work.
Thank you very much for watching Videostories and I really appreciate those kind words. 😊👍
Best programme I've watched on a Saturday night for a long time. I hear people talk about mindfulness, well imho this video is 36 minutes of mindfulness. Thanks Giles for another lovely film.
Thanks very much for watching Tom. And really appreciate that lovely comment 😊👍
Always entertaining. Quietly and comfortably entertaining. Thank you.
Thank you Barry - appreciate you watching and commenting with those kind words 😊👍
Nice and peaceful.
Really nice watching. I have for years been gathering outdoor kit and using modern materials but increasingly find myself intrigued by what kit was perfectly useable only a generation ago, and was the normal materials for use going back aeons before. As a result I'm now moving my outdoor kit towards more sustainable materials wherever I can. For me it all started when I realised I had gone through five pairs of modern material boots whereas my wife was still using twenty year old leather boots. And then it was canvas tents, and now bags. I haven't yet moved away from using sleeping bags, and although I've always coveted down, I am still using a sleeping bag from the mid'90's. I might try a wool blanket on a trip one time but I'll wait for warmer weather! Subscribed.
Thanks very much for that support Chuck. Great to hear about your kit progression and sounds like you are getting on okay with the more traditional stuff. It can be heavier but I find that makes me think about reducing the actual amount carried. Thx again 😊👍
Joyous 🙏🏻 A wonderful hike and camp Giles. It just shows you that even at this time of year this wonderful land has so much to offer and explore. Cheers old chap 👍🏻 Regards, Paul 🙏🏻
Thank you as always my Friend. Appreciate the support. You are right - our land is uplifting if one can get the time to get out there 👍
Keep warm and dry Paul 😊 Cheers 👍
Myself and my daughter enjoyed the video and we will look forward to the next one. Thanks
Thanks as always to both of you for watching. Especially glad your daughter enjoyed - thx for letting me know. Take care 😊👍
Another amazing trip! It’s awesome how you got it down, whalers everything goes, how everything is folded and tucked, great job!
Thanks very much indeed. Appreciate you watching and that great comment 😊👍
Now that's got me thinking. I have a disused railway near me, I might try to walk it on a nice day. Good video as always my friend.
Cheers Allen. Appreciate you watching Mate. Yeah, always adds a touch off interest to take in a little human historical activity in our hikes. And let’s face it …. on this tiny Island it’s hard not to go far without stumbling on some previous man made intervention. !!! Keep warm and dry Mate 👍
Another great camp . Thanks for sharing
Thank you very much Glenn - appreciated 👍
THANK YOU for a lovely video dear friend - May the week smile at you 👣🌲🌲🌲
Thank you very much Ofer. Always appreciate your support 👍
Have a great week yourself too my Friend 😊🌲🌲🌲👍
As always another fine expedition! Thanks for doing these , I like to think we enjoy them as much as you!
Thanks very much. Appreciate you watching these and that’s a very kind comment 😊👍
Really nice video. Love your recipe instructions as you make your dinner. Great!! Enjoyed your video very much!!
Thanks very much Outdoor Immersion, that’s very kind. Really appreciate you watching and commenting 😊👍
Always a pleasure watching you out and about Giles 👍
Thanks very much. And thank you for watching and making a comment- appreciated 😊👍
Love the no nonsense camping but with the luxury of fresh food, your comment regarding the brickwork was so true as a retired bricklayer it’s nice to see someone appreciate those skills from an age that we have truly lost today, great video.
Thanks very much PW - appreciate you watching and commenting. Yeah, those Victorians built stuff for future generations - not just the fast-buck, 5 year economic cycle which a lot of things seem to be done like today.
Nice to have a comment from a craftsman whose work, I expect, will be visible for generations to come - Cheers 👍
Were watching this movie with the whole family and love it!
Ha ha !!! Thank you very much - appreciate yous watching and commenting too. Hope you enjoy the vid - cheers 😊👍
Excellent content good sir
Thank you kindly also good Sir - appreciate you watching me commenting. Cheers 😊👍
A wonderful trip out for us Giles! Many thanks also for the snippets of history. I believe that adds a super depth to your yomps👌👏I'm reading a book that mentions Laurence Binyon the Great War poet. I wondered if there was a familial connection? Anyway, great stuff🖤😎KTF🙏
Thank you very much Marty. I do appreciate your kind support my Friend.
Re Laurence Binyon - my dad looked into it many years ago and concluded that a family connection was unlikely 🫤 - that makes sense …. my English is pretty appalling !!! 🤣😂🤣😂
Thx again 😊👍
Disused railways and wild camping, two of my favourite things!
Thanks very much Alex - hope you enjoyed 😊👍
Great video as always Giles. Some how my notifications for your channel got turned off so I only just noticed you had a new one out. They’re back on now. Cheers
Thanks as always for watching Jon. Glad you liked it and not sure what happened to your notifications? I’m pretty useless at keeping up on that kind of thing 🫤 Cheers 😊👍
Hello Giles. Well done .always glad to see you
Cheers very much Barry - appreciate it 👍
Newcomer to your channel, great! I'll keep watching 👍
Thanks for your support 😊👍
Nice one Giles, all credit to your commitment to getting a good video, doing all that climbing up and down the cutting to retrieve your camera!
Looked like a good camp though, definitely drier than your last video. You've got me thinking that I need to venture out for a camp with my Plash Palatka. Thanks as always for sharing 👍
Cheers Gavin. Appreciated Mate. Yeah, do you find things a lot slower going when filming ?
Yeah, things just beginning to dry out - hope it continues 🤞🤞🤞
Good luck using your military cape - I see from your videos that you are an ‘old hand’ at using it !!!
Thx again ⛺️😊👍
Hello Giles, I've just watched a video by a channel called 'Swedwoods' that might interest you, it seems your shelter is half of a 'two piece' setup, didn't know if you knew. It would make your life considerably more comfortable during the winter months, oh and perhaps another blanket, we do worry about you lol!
ATB Pete
Swedeoods the best bushcraft channel by a mile
Thanks Pete. Appreciate you watching and commenting….. and worrying 😂
Yeah, I watch some of Swedewoods videos - blimmin’ fantastic stuff - he knows what he’s doing alright. Cheers 😊👍
Nice little adventure.
Thanks very much Patrick 👍
This is brilliant my friend, simply enjoyable cinematic experience. Shots are spectacular, your composition is just outstanding!
Thank you kindly. Appreciate you watching and that very kind comment too 👍
I agree. I tend to take a lot of Giles' camera work for granted... until I watch my pathetic tat, hahaha. it is well shot and well edited and we tend to forget it takes a lot of extra effort to set up the camera, get out of shot, get back into shot then collect the camera again!
Superb as ever Giles, still number 1 bushcraft channel in my opinion.
Very kind of you to say so Yeti Dodger. Thank you for the support 😊👍
Love it ! (and I'm sure I could smell that gorgeous chilli!) Thanks again Giles for a truly inspiring video .👍
Thanks very much Martyn. Glad you liked it and thanks for the kind words too (yeah - chilli was nice !!!) 😊👍
Thankyou Giles for another great camping video always a must watch 👍
Cheers Richard. Appreciate the support 😊👍
Another great video Giles, I think you might benefit from a pair of insulated camp booties as you only seem to have a second pair of socks ! Also I was thinking that you are just the type of walker who would have a staff pole to support you on uneven ground and slopes, I think it would be helpful to you, your dinner looked very tasty well-done and thanks for sharing.
Thanks very much for watching Phillip and the comments too. Yeah, I’m finally getting onto the cold feet problem - and the socks seem to help a lot. And yeah, I have tried a walking staff a few times when out for the day. Not sure it would be so good when also carrying the phone ‘monopod/selfie stick’ thingy as well. Cheers 😊👍
Spot on as usual Giles very interesting looking at the old railway routes.
Thanks very much. Appreciated the support. Yeah, the old structures are very atmospheric 😊👍
As soon as I start your vids and hear your intro music I’m transported to the woodlands, Giles 😁👍🏼
All you’re seeing is RIBS 🤣
Sensitive wildlife spot; Bats?
Oh blimey Giles, you do put yourself through it 😮
Get a 100% wool blanket or llama blanket or something 🥶
Roll on summer, eh 😉👍🏼
Cheers Tim. As always Mate, really appreciate you watching and commenting.
Yeah, RIBS everywhere on this one Mate - it was enough to give a vegan the willies 🤣😂🤣😂
Yes, I think I’m getting pretty expert now at ensuring a disturbed night 😂🤣😂🤣 - it’s just like when the kids were babies but with the added challenge of being blimmin freezing as well 😂🤣😂🤣
As you say Bud, roll on summer ☀️🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺🍺
Thx again and hope you and all yours are well ⛺️😊👍
@@gilesbinyon Hahaha, good stuff, Giles 😁👍🏼
We’re all well thank you.
I know how you feel on the disturbed nights ground dwelling. I’m hoping I have sussed that out a bit now after my recent “urban wild camping” on Instagram.
Keep getting out my friend!
As always enjoyable video leaving no trace take care and quote Ken Kramm " Be no trace "
Thanks as always Allan - appreciated. Great quote by the way 👍Cheers 😊
Hello giles. And thanks for posting 😁😁.
Thanks very much Dave. Appreciate you watching and commenting 😊👍
a other nice one keep them coming summer on its way or should i say spring nice one 😉
Cheers Hugh - always appreciated. Yeah, days getting longer - hurrah !!! ☀️😊👍
Brilliant Giles,when I was a youngster in the 60/70s we had a coal fire,every morning it was my job to shovel the ash onto the garden as my parents said it does the ground good for plants 👍
Thank you kindly as always Eport Wild. Yeah, potash is good for the garden ( not too much in just one place tho) Cheers 😊👍
... That was my Saturday evening sorted! (with a glass because that's the rules)...... I know weight is an issue with you, (me too, I turned 61 last week, the spirit is still willing but the flesh is weak!) and you like to stick around the 10kg mark, but I'd be tempted to take out that woollen sleeping bag you had out recently, I really liked the look of that. Is it just a shade too heavy to lug with you?..... Great stuff again Giles. Always interesting and at a proper pace.
Thanks as always Tannahill. Appreciate all the support and thx for watching.
Yeah, although not seriously warm I like that blanket/sleeping bag. But yeah, bulky and heavy for the warmth it could provide 🤔 . Hope to bring it out again sometime tho.
Hoping you get the chance to head out to Bute and enjoy the outdoors…… along with a single malt of course …. ‘Rules is Rules’ ….😂🤣😂🤣🥃🥃
Nice one, Giles.
Had a break in the weather yesterday in Somerset, so a mate and I wild camped the top of the cliffs at Cheddar Gorge.Sssshhhhh….🤣
Keep making these vids, I love em!
All the best.👍🏾🇬🇧🏕
Thanks very much Soggz. Always appreciate your support.
Ha !!! I bet that was a beautiful camp. Nice one.
Actually we hoping to visit there this summer (just ordinary camping not wild camping) and looking forward to it 👍 keep warm and dry Bud 😊👍
Never thought of using the steamer in my kitchen for camping. Thank you!
Ha ! Yeah, they do a good job and pretty cheap too !!! Thx for watching and commenting Keri 😊👍
Amazing video well worth the wait giles you do a lot off walking in them that's different from the rest off the others people make we can see all the place where you go hope you kept warm and safe Mt nice one yer again
Cheers very much Keith. Always appreciate your kind support Mate. Yeah, I like to cover a few miles so I can check things out while I’m out and about. The filming slows you down quite a bit so I have to keep cracking on quick 😂🤣😂🤣 Take care Buddy 👍
The variation on sleeping position worked but it still would have been rough. Your 'disturbed night' is the epitome of English understatement, Giles! I was in the army for the best part of a decade so I know what a 'disturbed night' can be like. But you get through it and you know you can do it again. I doffs me lid to you. We have to be of a similar vintage (1961) but very different build. I am leaning more your vegetarian/vegan way with a switch to a sugar free diet but mostly meat, eggs and leafy vegetables, no sugar in my tea and beer is a rare treat indeed. We'll see if it helps when our weather turns colder but I hope to change my channel name to 'Skinny Bloke Skiving'. Love your work as always. That shot scrabbling down the cutting meant you went down, set up camera, scrambled up then back down again! The effort is appreciated.
Ha ha !!! Loving the (potential) new name for your channel !!! 😂🤣😂🤣
Hoping you get to use it Buddy.
Thank you very much as always for watching and those are very kind words too - thanks.
Yeah, always a disturbed night when camping with minimal gear ….oh hum 😐 ….
You are right about the filming - it is deffo a lot slower going when you are going backwards etc with the camera.
Take care and ATB with the diet - cutting out the sugar can only be good for you Mate. And respect for your will-power cutting down the beer 👍
Hi Giles thanks for a brilliant watch, I like all the traditional gear and how you make it all work for you. Makes me want to get out there and give it a go.
Thanks very much Daniel. I’m happy you liked it and appreciate the kind words. Yeah, the old gear can do a good job sometimes 👍⛺️😊 - may be worth a go …..
Fantastic viewing Mr Giles,absolutely great to see you out doing the things.I know i don't frequently comment as i work away long hours but its magic to watch.
Ill be out in the woods tomorrow for a day mission on the quantock hills. Keep up the good work your content is surely a reward for those who cant for whatever reason make it themselves.
Thanks very much indeed Chris. Appreciate you watching and that’s a great comment. Hoping you’re having a great day out in the woods and on the hills. ATB 😊👍
That place really calm.. good for camp
Thank you very much for watching and yeah, that was a calm woodland camp. Cheers ⛺️😊👍
The” Bramhope tunnel-north portal “ , linking Harrogate to Leeds, is a similar Victorian tunnel opening but on a more grander scale. Looks like a castle! Great content as always Giles!
Thanks very much Sam. Appreciate you watching and that interesting comment. Soon as I’ve done a few comments I’m gonna look it up on Google 😊👍
Another really satisfying watch, thank you. Walking beside busy roads without a verge is no fun at all. I like smoked paprika and this meal sounded particularly nice; something I might like to try (I usually enjoy a break from all but minimal cooking when I'm out as I do most of it at home).
Thank you very much as always Catherine. I know what you mean about country roadside walking - and there just seems no such thing as a quiet road anymore !!! Such a contrast from the peace of the footpaths and trails.
Yeah, I customise my wife’s recipes for camping - even if I have to miss out bits they are still pretty good usually (they start from a very high level 😊).
Take care 😊👍
As always a great video Giles the chilli looked spot on I've not tried cooking on in the woods I don't think Roney has might have to get him to cook one that was a interesting walk up the old railway would make a interesting video camping in the old tunnel 🤔🤔 atvb Jimmy 😎😎👍👍
Thanks as always for your support Jimmy. Yeah, I adapt my wife’s recipes for camping - she’s a great cook like Roney. Yeah, it would be a spooky night in one of the tunnels - but they’re all blocked off. Take care Buddy - hope Roney is 100% now 👍
@@gilesbinyon he's getting there thanks Giles 👍👍👍
Good Morning Giles ..
👍👍👍 .. always a pleasure seeing you again and hearing the hillbillies sawing and plucking away at their instruments 😁. A really catchy little ditty and recognisable anywhere 😊.
Old disused 'workings'. Watching this always gives me a sense of nostalgia. Going back to my days in the mining industry (and now for something completely different .. 'useless history' to follow .. 🙄😏).
Mining Shaft Complexes no longer in production and that had been shut down and fenced off. Exploring the Shaft Offices (having been in the Industry, Security where present, normally treated the incursion sympathetically). Offices once busy, vibrant. Men coming and going, Miners signing on and off in their individual timesheets (a document where one, as a Supervisor, NEVER allowed any error, especially regarding 'working pro rata's', unless one wished to incur the wrath of the Union Shop Steward and worse 😳). Shift reports .. production figures, accident reporting, requests for material to be ordered, the 'powder' (explosives) order sheets, etc, etc. Hearing from the Mine Captain's Office, a 'chewing out' taking place behind a closed door regarding some transgression or other .. not 'making call', and more..
Now .. deserted .. dusty. Often still with some remnants therein of days gone by. Furnishings, paperwork, forms, files and more. The passing of an era .. gone ..
More 'useless information' 🙄😏. Your gloves.
I had to, just this week past, move a metal cupboard from our bay in the flat complex communal undergound parking area. The Authorities are installing heated insulated water piping. Not, as one would think, for the individual households, but, as I am led to believe, to protect the integrity of the water piping feeding such households in case of extremely cold weather and extended power outages. The entire neighbourhood is being so serviced with major road excavation taking place and pipe installations surprisingly deep. The water heat generation will take place at a central point somewhere in the town which will then service all and sundry. Method (now hear this). WOOD. (with gas / other as backup). Very pragmatic, the Swiss 😊.
Back to the gloves. During the cupboard relocation, I discovered a forgotten 'stash' of gloves, similar to yours, leather and cotton. From my mining days, we knew them as 'Chrome Leather' Gloves. I used only them as the alternate 'plastic' versions would end up after a day or two with a smell 😳 that could never be persuaded to go away 😏. So, a bonus for me 👍😊.
Giles, that was quite a yummy-looking chilli that you rustled up there .. I must give that a go sometime. All credit to your commitment to minimalism. I am not yet strong enough to survive on one pot .. boiling, cooking, eating AND drinking 😁. Although, to save on water, I am experimenting with using a slice of bread to clean out and dry the pot after food prep .. the only time where one can eat the dish cloth 😊. There .. my version of Tolstoy's War and Peace is finally over .. 👏.
Thanks for sharing, my friend .. another good one, and until next time, take care .. Tommy
Ha ha !!! I hope other people get to read and enjoy your wonderful comments too Tommy. Fantastic stuff thank you. Interesting stories from your past career. Sounds like busy but fulfilling work 👍 Glad you found that stash of leather gloves too. And wood fired boilers are a great way of closing the carbon circle. I should think having one central large boiler is even more efficient - in fact if the Swiss are doing it I know it must be efficient 😊👍. interconnected with other boilers of similar capacity should one become defective.
Yeah, the chilli worked okay. I take my wife’s brilliant recipes and customise them for camping. Even after my fiddling they usually work out well because they start from such a high level 😊
As always Tommy, thanks for all your support and, moreover, the entertainment !!! 😂 ATB my Friend 👍
@@gilesbinyon 👍
Cracking time out as always Giles . Enjoyed it mate . That chilli looked good . Love how you keep things so simple yet so effective . Really shows you don't have to have all this new fangled equipment ( even though I have some 😂) . Take care Giles . A pleasure as always mate 👌🏕
Cheers Mark - really appreciate your kind support Mate.
Yeah, amazingly that chilli tasted superb 👍
Hope all good with you and all yours Bud 😊👍
@@gilesbinyon No worries Giles . Yes mate everything OK my end . Hope all is well with you and yours to mate . 👌
@@treksntarps 👍👍👍Cheers ⛺️🍻
Absolutely perfect. Just what I needed on a lazy, slightly hungover Sunday 😉
Cheers Josh. Hope the hangover has gone by now 😊👍 Thx for watching and commenting 👍
Good to see you again Giles. Another very enjoyable video. But I must admit to being more than a little disappointed not to see or hear a Ghostly train go thundering bye in a shower of steam and sparks ! Those were the days .
Thanks for watching and commenting Allen. Always appreciated. Yeah, atmospheric places these old tunnels and bridges - one can just imagine……🤔🤔🤔 Cheers 😊👍
Thanks for the video Giles,i do like a disused railway line,i find them a bit spooky 👍
Thanks very much John - and yeah, I know what you mean about old structures like these - ghosts of a busy past 😳 Cheers 😊👍
Hi Giles. I can never get tired of watching your setup, I really love it. I have here next to me a disused railway line with it's accompanying bridges.
In fact there's a bridge that closed off that i have been on many years ago, it crosses the river tay and is a work of art. There is even a trap door and you can walk downa ladder into a lowerpart which was unseen to the eye. Platforms to walk with piles of pigeon poo. I'll try get a shot of it for you one day. It's called cargill viaduct if you're interested. It's made of iron and bricks and the train crossed the river.
What's also of interest is the way trees and shrubs reclaim the line. So our line is a walkway and well used, but the trees encroach. Hawthorns, Pinus, Blackthorn, but really interesting is the willow. There is none about. Yet here it grows, I can only imagine the birds are depositing seed there in a neat bundle of fertilizer and they are now present. What's also of interest is the amount of birds that are there, in particular yellowhammers. Quite a few wild flowers too. I would imagine the closed off tunnel you saw could potentially be a home for bats. Interesting to see. thank you sir, great feed too!
Thanks very much Chris. Really appreciate you watching. And that’s a great comment- there’s some good pictures of Cargill Viaduct online. It looks amazing and I think I could see the walk ways you mention. That would be a fun day exploring alright.
Yeah, it’s wonderful how nature claims back what it loaned to us. Think our species has got too bold and forgotten that nature always will out in the end. It’s beginning to look like ‘pay back’ time is coming for civilisation …..oh boy … how did I get onto this morbid theme !!! 😂🤣😂🤣
Thanks again Mate and keep warm and dry up there 😊👍
@@gilesbinyon Hello again, indeed I hear you, I have ths idea now it's better to look back to be able to move forward. Technology can be good but it can go too far as well.
I now use a willow basket for my shopping. Fill it up, empty at cahier and refill. Easy, I'm the only person doing it here.
Cutting up an ice cream container to use as plant labels, better to use wood of course but it's a start, reusing the plastic to which i'm trying use less and less.
Trouble is the source of the problem is the supermarkerts, everything is in plastic!
Rewilding is a battle, it's hard to change mindsets, I'm 100% for it but I fear not many of us are.
I had some people come up to me and complain about beaver damage. I said it's not beaver, it was the wind, you can see the roots are upturned Oh they said and then proceeded to tell me everything bad about the beavers!
Funny thing was on the other side of the river they had bulldozed down all the trees to build a fishing hut!
That seemingly is OK.
I could go on ha ha, have a great day.
@@northernembersoutdoors1045 thanks Chris. And I feel your exasperation Mate.
Great to hear the things you are doing to be ‘part of the solution’.
But we need to attack this urgent problem from the very top as well as more local levels. And that unfortunately means breaking the inappropriate connection between Business and Government. Not sure about Holyrood but I fear it is rife at Westminster. If this were to happen our leaders would be free to implement measures without constantly being stone-walled by powerful lobbying.
Sadly we are some way off this scenario….. and it could all be an academic exercise anyway …. because there is a chance we are already too late 😐
Cheers Bud 👍
Another joyful night out with you, Giles. Just think, it's less than 5 weeks until March🙂 We have a lot of disused rail routes here in Norfolk. There's talk of converting a few of them in to paths & cyles paths, but so far it's just talk. Bring on the warmer days & shorter nights. A pleasure as always. Thanks👍
Thank you very much as always Dug. Really hope the disused rail line gets turned into paths / cycle ways. Brilliant for every one . But, as you say, there won’t be much profit in it so it is just talk 🫤
Yeah, spring around the corner ☀️
Cheers 😊👍
Fantastic! 👌
Thanks very much Toby - appreciated 👍
would love a video on the giles byron back story on how you became vegan and your general outlook on life, I feel, and may be wrong, you have a military background?
maybe a little to divisive for youtube so id understand if you purposely avoid that sort of subject.
main thing id really like to understand as an amateur wild camper, is how you don't get scared alone in the dark, in the middle of nowhere?
Thanks very much. I do appreciate you watching the vids. And that’s a very interesting comment too.
No reason to be scared out in the ‘boonies’ at night - nothing in the UK can seriously hurt you. And just remember - you’re the guy creeping about the dark woods AND you are the one with a very sharp knife !!! (or even an axe maybe !!!)
Not a military background but maybe something similar I suppose …. a disciplined uniformed emergency service all my life…..
Cheers 😊👍
Why would you get scared?
There are no wolves or bears or lions here in the UK to attack you. mind you a Somerset mosquito would make a mess of you?
Great Giles what about a pine tree 🌲 branch down the back as a baffle 😉
Thanks for watching Nick and yeah, that’s a good idea - I should check it out sometime 👍👍🌲
You never fail to amaze me. As one of the world's coldest sleepers, I'd have been off home before the rice had come to a boil.
Well done sir, can't wait for the next one.
P.S I take it the Greek sleeping bag from the hot tent video is to heavy for the lightweight pack?
Thanks very much Rob. Ha !!! I reckon you would be fine with this setup 😊 - I’m a cold sleeper too !!!
Yeah, I like the Greek blanket bag but it is heavy and bulk. And probably not seriously warm for the extra bulk …but would be nice to have more often …💤🛌 Cheers
Yes, but you is WELSH and born under water so understandably, you can endure the wet and the cold and is why you have webbed feet and hands. 😉😜😂
Wonderful to see you again, Giles. I’m always amazed 😮by some of the great vistas you get in your videos. I enjoy the gear you use and watching you set up camp. The same basic gear seems to work for you and your camps are always similar. Hey, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Just tweak it a little. I noticed you using the second pair of socks idea. Good one, and it doesn’t add much weight to your pack. Another idea uses two wool blankets to make what we call a cowboy or Boy Scout roll. But, that would add some weight to your pack, but only in colder weather. Speaking of weather, we’ve had 7” of snow so far and it’s going to be pretty cold this coming week. Again, excellent video. I do so enjoy watching and ⛺️ camping with you. Take care, my friend. Until next time 🙏👍
Thanks very much Steven. Always great to hear from you and I very much appreciate all your support.
Crikey !!! 7” of snow !!! Anything like that over here and everything just grinds to a halt 😂🤣😂🤣😂 We’re just not used to it - especially down south. I hope you guys manage okay in those conditions. I know the US has had some really severe weather recently.
Yeah, you’re right - I tend to stick with a setup that seems to work in most places/conditions (as you say ‘if it ain’t broke ….)
Take care Buddy 🍺🍺😊👍
Brilliant ta. Warm a few rocks in the fire for your feet? Good as always..
Thanks very much Mike - appreciate you watching and the warm feet tip too ! Cheers 😊👍
great post as usual . Please share the Tarp make as it seems compact and great for one person
Thanks very much indeed - appreciated. Yeah, the tarp is actually the NVA Zeltbahn - a military cape from the Cold War era I believe. They are almost identical to the Russian Plash Palatka which are also usually available from various sources. Cheers 😊👍
Great video again can I ask where did you find that firepit
Thanks very much Peter - appreciate you watching. Yeah, the fire pit is actually a vegetable steamer. Easy and cheap to get hold of - they do a pretty good job. Take out the centre piece and you may also want to knock out the little stud legs for ease when packing. Cheers 😊👍
You really need a lightweight wool blanket. I have always hated sleeping cold. Unless its 90 degree's out in the summer :)
Cheers James - appreciated. Yeah, 90 degrees sounds nice at this time of year ! ☀️☀️☀️ Shame wool blankets are a bit bulky 🤔… Take care 😊👍
Another well shot video, its amazing how people can leave a tunnel in the middle of nowhere, there must be something they can use it for like properly drying those cut logs out .
Please try and keep away from non pavement main roads the Police can pick you up over it .
Great vegetable 😋 chilli 🌶 😋 👌.
Thanks very much as always Owen - appreciate the support. Yeah, shame the tunnels aren’t used but I reckon maintenance cost might have something to do with it 🤔
Thx for the heads-up. I wasn’t aware Police would pick you up for that. Trouble is, despite trying to avoid the roads I pretty much had no choice 🫤 Thx again Bud 😊👍
Hello Mr B - I need a hat like yours. Where might I procure one? Great video, by the way, as always. Cheers.
Thanks very much for watching Bob. Yeah, this is an old M&S hat (100% cotton). But I got it secondhand sometime ago and forgot I had it !!! So I’m not sure they are still available like this …🤔 There must other similar around tho. Cheers 😊👍
Hi I'm quite a new subscriber and I'm loving your vids but I've got a question what is the metal collapsible dish that you make the fire 🔥 in please what is it called and what was it originally made for many thanks 🙏🤞
Thanks very much for watching and supporting the vids Dean. Yeah, the ‘fire bowl’ is a medium sized vegetable steamer. Available easily and cheaply. Just remove the centre piece. You can also knock out the legs/studs (replace with removable bolts perhaps) for ease of packing. 😊👍
@@gilesbinyon bless you thanks so much for getting back to me I really appreciate it I've got one exactly the same but I never knew what it actually was so I was curious so thanks for for letting me know I'm going out for a walk and wild camp in the forest tonight and I'll be definitely using it for a the very same love what you did with it thanks so much for sharing I'll look forward to seeing more of your adventures 👊😉👍
You sir are an original............
Thank you Leaf Cutter 😊👍
WAIT: a really cold night and NO wool blankets?? They are normally part of your kit.
Thanks very much as always James - appreciate your support. I was traveling really light and using my full body wool ‘onesie’ type of thing. It packs smaller and lighter than half a wool blanket. Maybe not as warm …. but it stays on when I move around in the night 😊👍
Really personal question so tell me to mind my own business but may I ask how old you are as you seem pretty fit for an older gent. Must be all those veggies and exercise.
Thanks for watching and commenting 👍 Yeah, I’m very nearly 58.
I do believe that science has been telling us that less meat consumption is good for health and Planet ….🤔 Cheers 😊👍
your video’s are a joy to watch thanks for sharing, what backpacks do you use or recommend for old school no synthetic’s
Thanks very much Roger N Sophie.
I have a few packs. The one in this vid is a Yugoslavian military haversack - very compact but good.
I also have a small Croatian backpack in camo pattern. It lays very low on the back but adjustments would be easy.
And I have a Swedish Airforce framed backpack.
They are all pretty much 100% cotton fibres. Keeping an eye out online (eBay and various surplus websites) is a good way of picking up stuff like this. Cheers 😊👍
@@gilesbinyon thank you for your time much appreciated 👍
@@gilesbinyon sorry to be a pain what type of water canteen do you use regards
@@rogersleep in this video the one clipped to my belt is ex Swedish military (not sure what era) and the one in my pack was, I think, ex Russian military possibly 40 or more years old. Cheers 😊👍
@@gilesbinyon many thanks 🙏
My mistake Giles, Swedwoods was actually using two ponchos !!
ATB Pete
Thanks again Pete. Yeah, I checked out the video. Very good stuff although some I don’t think I would use. 👍
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Hi Giles, hope your doing well. What is your make of gloves you use? Neil
Thanks Neil. I mostly use an ordinary working glove but the handling surfaces have to be leather. I think the gloves in this video are made in Poland with goat skin for the front working surface (ART.MaSten ?). Cheers 🔥🏕️
Another splendid transmission on the wireless Giles Old Chap! What a cool historical place that old Railway and they don't make them arches like they did back then! I'm glad you found it warmer sleeping across the shelter. Question: How do you sleep without a cover, do you have a blanket or is it the natural fibres and fleeces that are so much warmer? The Chilli Looked a great winter warmer. Bravo Old Chap!
Thanks very much Steve Old Chap. Appreciate the splendid support as always Old Chum.
Yeah, I use a wool all-in one layer (like a onesie) at night. It helps a bit and stays over me when I move about. But I need to keep the fire ticking over to get through the night 🥶
Thx again Old Chap and Spring is around the corner HURRAH !!!
@@gilesbinyon amazing Giles! Impressive Old Chap! Looking forward to spring 😁👍♨️
Brilliant minimum gear😍.but you eat like a king .Never skimp on the food Giles
Thanks very much Desmond. Appreciate you watching and commenting. Yeah, things just taste even better after a day out in the woods 😊👍
Can I ask where the fold out fire tray is from please? Never seen one like that. Thanks
Thanks for watching Matthew. Yeah, that’s a vegetable steamer (medium size). Just take out the centre piece. You can also knock out the studs/legs and replace with longer bolts for easy packing 😊👍
Very nice video & country side . Have you looked at 58 pattern British army webbing it my be in your interest as it’s all cotton, no man made material.
Thanks very much Dustoff. And that’s a good point. I have considered webbing and I’m always open to upgrading gear so I’ll look again. Cheers 😊👍
I live on a former line that went from Preston to Fleetwood and Lancaster. The station was turned into a café in Forest of Bowland in Lancashire.
Sounds nice. I hope the line has been turned into a footpath too ? 😊👍
good one Giles, pretty hardcore sleeping arrangements IMHO but good on you for managing it. does make me want to sneak in and toss a woolly over you but I reckon you know what you’re doing so best mind my own business there I suppose. 👍🏼✌🏼🖖🏼
Cheers very much Tee Flo. Appreciated. And please feel free to throw the odd wool blanket over me if you’re passing !!! 😂🤣😂🤣 Take care 😊👍
Excellent video again Giles I really enjoyed that as always! Just a thought 🤔 if you dug a fire pit 12" down and still used your heat reflector, wither the heat from the fire would warm the ground underneath you, to prevent losing your body heat to the ground!
Excellent video Giles. Its such a pleasure watching someone just enjoy nature simply. Thank you for taking us along.
Thx very much Cornish kellboy - appreciated 😊👍 And that’s an interesting comment. I’m not sure how far the heat would conduct laterally through the ground towards the bed area - it’s an interesting concept. I think I may leave it to someone else to test out - I try to keep the impact of the fire and fire pit to the minimum … 🤔… Cheers 😊👍
Thanks very much Hanksbud - really appreciate you watching and those very kind comments 😊👍
My guess is that conduction through the ground would not be noticeable.
Another great video Giles, you obviously know a bit about food similar to myself. I wondered Giles how long you have been doing this style of camping and if you have done any UK long distace footpaths?.
Cheers 🙏👍
Thanks very much Dave. Appreciate the support. Although I’ve camped all my life on and off, it’s only last couple of years have really gone ‘hard core’ old style - although I think like many others I have always been drawn towards this kind of thing when it’s possible/practical etc.
I’ve only done bits at a time of our beautiful National Trails. Cheers 😊👍
@@gilesbinyon cheers Giles.
Was it raining or snow?
Thx for watching- appreciated. Yeah, this was rain with perhaps a bit of light sleet. Cheers 👍
The Victorian railway tunnel looks like the setting from the Signalman - the BBC Christmas ghost story from the 1970's.
Thanks for watching Gordon. Maybe they used this structure for those scenes ??? I’ve just checked it online and I don’t think it is ..😐 Cheers 😊👍
Cool mate,the more u know less one carries
Thanks very much for watching and commenting Gunter. Cheers 👍
A British army cotton shemagh would be a good blanket! Weigh next to nothing and also use as a scarf! 👍
Thx David - appreciate you watching and that comment. Yeah, I had one of those, but it wore out. Have replaced it recently with something very similar - actually wearing it around my neck on this video. Cheers 😊👍
Hi Giles, great video as always sir. Your dried vegetables, do you dehydrate them yourself? I've tried buying them and was disappointed with the taste and quality, so now I prep, small quantities and pack them in medium sized Mylar pouches - I wash out and reuse the pouches regularly.
Thanks very much as always Mark - appreciate the support.
Yeah, it’s easy to dehydrate stuff at home - I have a very old and basic dehydrator. Some things are nicer than others for taste/texture etc when cooked. Eg mushrooms = good, onions = don’t even bother 😂😂 But great for weight and bulk savings if you have the water. Cheers 👍
Nice one. Are your glasses safe in your leg pocket?
Thanks very much for watching Angela. Yeah, always hard to look after glasses in the woods. So I only take the cheaper ‘off the shelf’ ones. Unfortunately I believe the lenses may be of some kind of plastic composite material 😐 Cheers 😊👍
Where are you Giles ? Hope all is well with you and yours.
Thanks very much Allen. Yeah, all fine here thx. Hoping likewise with you and yours too. Not sure when I’ll be turning the camera on - sorry 🫤 Happy new year ⛺️🔥👍
Have been watching all your videos. Really enjoyable. Thanks for the effort to produce and publish these.
What are your final thoughts on Firebowl vs Steamer? Do the holes help or hurt in anyway?
Cheers!
Thanks very much for watching and commenting Jerry.
I think the holes in the veg steamer have a negligible effect on the fire. They are very small and so soon covered with ash. They might even help to get the fire started. A timber fire (as opposed to coal) works better with the air coming from above - but as I say the holes are covered quickly.
At less than half the price and different size options (mine is medium I think - about 29cm diameter) I prefer the veg steamer 😊👍
Evening Giles, always a pleasure to enjoy your adventures on the Downs, tell me, do you imagine the damaged bridge near the beginning of the vid was to allow access for large farm vehicles? because as you said our Victorian fore bares definitely build things to last, seems unlikely it fell down on its own. Thanks as always for your enjoyable content.
Thanks ultrarunner. Appreciate your kind support to me. Yeah, I think you may be right - it would be extremely unlikely to fall down. Also unlikely to have become structurally unsafe methinks. I hope they recycled all those quality bricks !!! Cheers as always 🍻😊👍
Hey Giles!! This is was absolutely fantastic! I love old architecture. Hey Giles I was wondering if you had s chance to fix your tarp where it was leaking last time? Great watch and such a joy to see your stuff up on my notifications! Take care sir. NQU
Thank you kindly NQU - always appreciate you watching and commenting my Friend. Glad you liked the architecture.
Haven’t sussed out what happened with the tarp yet. It seemed to cure itself later that night. I have washed it ( using Tech Wash) to try and get the smoke out of the canvas - not sure if that would interfere with the swelling of the fibres … 🤔 Cheers 😊👍
Looks to be a better sleeping position, keeping you warmer at night Giles.
All the woods near me seem to be smaller, plus many folk take their dogs for walks. So I'm not sure I'd get away with lighting a fire, unless I had prior permission from a farmer.
Thanks very much Terry. Always kind of you to watch and support these vids.
Yeah, that sleeping position was deffo warmer.
I know exactly what you are saying - it’s so hard to get distance from tracks, paths and trails in the UK. Especially so in south and south east England 😐 Hope you manage to find the odd spot - at least for, perhaps, even a ‘day’ camp. Take care 👍
@@gilesbinyon I'm thinking of doing some day hikes with my 15y.o. son soon, in preparation for a longer trip with overnight stays later in the year.
@@TheTerryMarsh1 sounds like a great plan - good luck 👍
When you think about it sleeping the other way is a no brainer 😂
Thx for watching and commenting. And yeah, I’m beginning to think the same- although it’s a tight fit !!! Cheers😊👍
Why do they always fence off these places?
Probably so that they don't have to maintain the tunnel!
Cheers Moors Hound - it is usually the way. And I think you are right Terry - saves a fortune on liability insurance I should imagine ?!?! …🤔
@@gilesbinyon we would walk the old tunnles of our local old lines here in Somerset as a lad.
It also gave a dry place for the homeless to sleep.
@@moorshound3243 I bet those were some exciting adventures - I wonder if kids are missing out on stuff like that these days ……
Hello again Giles, it's so great to see you out and about, on yet another thoroughly enjoyable, Giles. A back-to-basics video with the staple camp set-up.
Were they 'soft shackles' I saw hanging from your pack at about 3:14? They looked very similar. I've been experimenting with soft shackles since I saw them on a video, and have found them very useful to have about.
Thanks for showing us more of the hidden parts of the countryside in southern England, places that are now usually unseen. It's amazing that places which were once busy hubs and veins, integral parts of things, can then fall so silent and become hidden away again. But then on the other hand, perhaps it's a relief that they can!
I'm glad that it worked out well for you sleeping sideways-on with the fire, nothing worse than cold feet I reckon. The cooler space at the back might be good used for storing things.
I loved the way you used your pot hook (coat hanger?) to secure the rope you use to wrap your bedding up. A good example of the multi-use principle.
The old disused railway lines used to be a source of endless adventures and exploration when I was growing up. There were a lot of them in our area, and we lived on a farm near where some of the lines used to cross each other. There were still small brick railway buildings dotted around with proper fireplaces in, they would have made for an easy night out! Over the years there was less and less of the original railway remains left, as they got turned into footpaths and tidied up.
Watching this I now realise it's now been far too long since I last slept out. Three months I think! I'll definitely have to start planning my next one.
Thanks again, Giles, always such a pleasure.
Take care and I hope to see you again before too long.
Thank you very much as always Adrian. Really appreciate your kind support my Friend.
I don’t have any ‘soft shackles, but they sound like a very interesting option- must check them out or perhaps make some with natural fibres if possible.
Yeah, these old structures are always atmospheric I reckon. And I know what you mean about those little brick maintenance huts - they are still occasionally present along side working railways. And they always seem to have a lovely little fireplace chimney as you say !!!!
Yeah, lying across the fire really helped - lucky I’m so short 😂🤣😂🤣
Hoping you get the chance to get out soon Bud. I know what it’s like - sometimes ‘life’ just gets in the way …. oh hum …. .
Thx again as always Adrian. Keep safe and well my Friend 🍻👍
@@gilesbinyon I would imagine non-synthetic soft shackles would grip better, too. Here's a video showing how to tie them: ua-cam.com/video/hXG17Q__6aY/v-deo.html
I find a figure-of-eight knot is very good for the stopper knot.
@@adrianhyde thanks very much Mate - I’ll deffo check that out 👍
@@gilesbinyon By the way, Giles, I realised afterwards that what I saw must have been your prusik knots. This made me think that soft shackles could double up as prusik loops, if the knot was big enough. Interesting! 🙂
Enjoy your minimal approach to your wild camping.
Did you paint one side of your windshield with green stove paint or find one that came like that?
Thanks very much indeed. Yeah, I use stove paint on the wind shield/ heat reflector. I suppose any other heat resistant paint would do too 😊👍
@@gilesbinyon Good idea to have one side reflective and one side camouflaged.
Taken your lead and ordered some green stove spray paint.