Camping on the most UNLOVED peak in Lake District

welcome back and welcome to copper mine Valley look at that so it is a little bit of a departure from the usual videos I've been doing recently the hiking Wainwright series I really fancy doing a camp so the mountain I'm gonna go and camp on are near two is one that's quite often overlooked by a lot of people doing the Wayne rights around here they just pass it by completely and the reason for that is Wainwright completely ignored it and discounted it and didn't even acknowledge it as being a peak worthy enough to be in his books so what we'll do is we'll go up and we'll try and figure out why why did I leave it out because it really is quite a beautiful little Peak so what I'm going to do is I'm going to head in an easily Direction and get on to weatherland First and come back round and drop onto this mountainous just not loved by anybody it's very tempting to go in there and explore but I'm gonna keep on going up say what it's uh naughty warm day today quite cold but when you get the wind and start going up it gets very hot so as I mentioned this is the copper mine Valley by coniston so connerson Village is down there that's where I've parked isn't it gorgeous it's probably not coming out so well in this camera but there's so many interesting lumps and bumps here you've got low water up there you can't see it you've got kennel Craig here can't really see it the coffee mines have been going since Queen Elizabeth the first perhaps even longer that was when it was certainly industrialized and she brought a whole lot of German engineers and Miners and all that kind of stuff I mean despite all the old history here it's still a real I saw on a landscape isn't it this is whole Rick and if you carry on along this path straight ahead you get a great view looking out towards tibbleford uh love rig all that stuff so once again a little bit more elevation you can see the weather's going a little bit more wild and nasty as you can see over towards the old man put it down more there yeah it's cold still ice on the ground look little patches of it here and there so I think when I'm going will be pretty cold in terms of forecast it's meant to be about minus one tonight but it'll be a couple more degrees in the tent probably I've got a nice new sleeping bag in fact I've got a whole lot of new gear that I'll show you lovely wasn't it look at it raw Beauty gorgeous right let's get a bit further onto whether it's constant water down there yeah so it's kind of like snow very fine but I'll tell you something glad it's falling as this and not rain because it just bounces off I hope it clears out later on it could do I mean you might be able to see the little bits of blue through the cloud there hopefully I don't know if you can so brought the camera as well in fact I've actually brought quite a lot of luxury items on this trip way more than I should I love that jumble of rocks there that would make a really good photograph actually okay getting the first glimpse of levers water down there and in a few seconds should be able to see low water over there as well towards the old man and you know the weather's changed again so got blue sky up ahead there all kinds of weirdness going on behind you can see the ice and snow and everything moving off in that direction towards the bay some really nice light around really nice light yeah could get lucky tonight that sounds really bad doesn't it not like kind of lucky it's very still when you get behind the hill here so the wind's coming from the north so every time on the south side of it it just gets really calm and lovely actually look at the light out there towards grisdale isn't that beautiful not that far to go to be honest with you the place I'm going to is right up ahead I just love it around here kind of missed it because obviously we're doing these hiking away right all my time has been spent over the Eastern Fells and the Far Eastern Fells I haven't spent any time over here recently flipping neck it's looking nice out there isn't it this wasn't forecast the forecast was cold and overcast and that was it and I uh you know very close not bringing my camera I thought what's the point and I actually left a lens at home now I'm thinking damn it I should have brought all of them oh now then look at it down there yes it's all starting to kick off now well if it keeps on doing this this afternoon and into this evening I'll be very happy indeed look at this now look at the light out there that is gorgeous that's a nice little patch of light out there I don't know if you can see that I love this little Talent and another semi-frozen Talent here oh it's looking angry out towards the east it actually looks like Mordor look at it all right as we approach the summit of weatherum which is just it'll be a bit further that weather's moved in I guess they're just spring showers but Falling as as ice and snow so yeah it's not so bad that's weather on there now I'm not going to go to some of that because I don't need to today is not about bugging wearing rights or get into the summer of anything I've been up there lots and lots and lots of times and I'll be going back up there again on the season four of hiking to win rights the southern Fells so yeah I want to get over to where I'm heading that mysterious unloved forgotten Phil just over here a little wild and gnarly back there now towards the old man some wonderful light out towards the east now you can see loughrig here in the foreground loughford town as well so many different layers of mountains beautiful that's looking nice isn't it all this weather coming in sore atmospheric when it does this I really love it I really really love it that is looking absolutely incredible up towards Langdale pikes Pike stickle Pike up let's go here in the foreground some amazing weather going on and then obviously out towards hell villain there kind of just sort of make it out but now at the Saddle between and swirl house which is up there in Great Cars and what have you but the bump what I'm going to now that no one ever goes to is just here so I've branched off a little bit I'm going to head up to the summit there well it is kicking off big time over there now I can't quite believe what I'm seeing all the lights changed biker Bliss goes lit up call Pike just here starting to get lit up crinkle Crag is having all the clouds pulled back from it ah beautiful and obviously the scarfels right there as well nice lateral view right I want to get up here I want to ditch this back because it's just Doom heading it's so heavy because of all my unnecessary stuff bro I want to get it off get the tent up actually no maybe just leave the leave it all there for now and then get back over here and get some shots because it's looking well look at it some incredible light on my other one now incredible oh wow what a treat look at that view [Music] okay here we are on the summit of Black Sails [Music] look look at that view wow that is an incredible View made even more so by this light but it's also amazing down towards leaves water as well look at that and coniston Wainwright chores did not include this place in his guidebooks why what was he thinking I mean look at it absolutely stunning in every single Direction the vast majority of people just skirt by from whether or not as well how or back down leaves water Miss so strange because it is beautiful boy is it windy yeah I think what I'm gonna do then is a drop down get out of that wind oh see straight away that feels so much better already right I've just dropped down from the summit there as I said it was so windy up there really cold and windy and I've been just doubting backwards and forwards here trying to find somewhere out the window the wind just keeps coming from all directions it's really hard to wait you can see it's still windy here so I think what I'm gonna do I've dropped down a little way and onto the ridge that I'll be taking down tomorrow morning this is a beautiful Ridge by the way I'll talk to about that in a minute but in the meantime I think I'm going to pick this area here as a pretty good place to uh pitch the tent fairly flat ish I'm gonna get right up behind this rock here and hopefully get a little bit of shelter from this wind now the back of the tent that way as well so yeah should be all right let's get 10 up okay tent is off as you can see I have a lot of confidence that he's gonna remain there tonight it's all windy now really really windy [Music] let's get the gear inside I'll get rugged up a little bit and uh computer on hey sun's coming out things are picking up I mean not that it went down but got my fingers have gone really cold really really cold all right let's have a look oh it's so much better and I'm a bit worried actually that my head might be slightly lower than the legs of this position I might have to end up sleeping with my head on that side okay I'm all set up packed and it's absolutely absolutely because I don't know how long I've been standing it's a big fridge by the way I have to kind of give you a little bit of a tour of the of the camp a fridge because it is so cold I might ask you to move them back into the yeah the tent and alcohol oh my beer down I can't believe it I think I just clogged it down that rock a little bit hard kind of feels so cold it's too cold to have been it's the last thing I want I kind of feel like getting a blue one and I might do if I didn't that be here and then get a brew on get more layers on think all the lights gone now though it's a real sham and I really can't be bothered running back up towards the top to go and have a look at the other side because I think it's all gone I don't know I might do not there get some heat going actually I think I will but first I'll give you a little tour of what I've got going on in here and the new bits of gear that I've got okay first of all the tent this is the Terra Nova Voyager and I've had this a few years now I bought this for um my Mountain leader training I did a few years ago back in 2019 it's a good tent good Four Season tent so it should hold up to any kind of weather that's thrown at it tonight we'll see if it does so let's go inside let's go and have a look so new sleeping bag this is the RAB neutrino 400 it's a three season bag and uh yeah it should keep me warm enough tonight it's supposed to drop down to minus one outside but it won't be that cold in here got a nice little pillow here sick and tired of not having a pillow and I've got a new sleeping mat as well this is the exped ultra 3r long now already Justin sort of fits in this tent this tent is a bit of a squeeze for me to honest with you I'm six foot two and I can adjust and saw fit in it and talking this just and saw so it is a bit of a squeeze lengthways but yeah as you can see stacks of room here on this side which is Handy for all my camera gear and all that kind of stuff and that is not a bad view is it not bad at all that's the old man right there old man brim fell it goes right over to swirl how here right I'm gonna have a little run up to the top again I mean it's not far it's only up here with my busted kind of beer I'll tell you something there's some beautiful little patches of light out towards griesdale it's not a cool tent love it yeah temperature has dropped a lot just in the last 30 minutes or so that's the truth alcohol though alcohol is not good for your body temperature it makes you cold so it's a good idea when I was back down at home seems like a bad idea now I'm gonna put my hood up because my heart just keeps fun keeps sliding forward that's lovely and warm right I'm gonna crack this open come on this is a Steve Wallace step two okay cheers yeah it's half empty look at this drop this red Dell down here lovely spot it's windy [Music] well certainly some very interesting light out towards garfields and the crinkles there but I don't think it's shot worthy really so wild it's so rugged and unforgiving he doesn't care if I'm here he doesn't care if I die or anything you know it's it's just here doing its thing I have to warn you by the way when I uh when I have a couple of beers I do start to talk absolute gibberish even more than normal hey it might kick off got all that blue sky so all that all that Gap in the cloud there is gonna move in a Wesley Direction which it is wow it's looking all right actually you know over there the rest of the park wow yeah watch and wait I think that's what I'll do keep an eye on things look out how the hell I get back down to 10. [Music] okay heading back up guys all this blue skies moved over towards where the sun is dropping so yeah could get some incredible holes in the sky some light coming through it's like a wind tunnel coming down this bit here oh wow this might pay off because that's looking over towards Hill villain look at the light you know I've not brought my tripod I was gonna bring it and I thought I'm already carrying way too much weight some of it very unnecessary as well I still need to show you that besides the beer right this is like another planet isn't it it really is when you get this kind of very very special indeed here alone as well everybody's gone home and it's at this time of day look at the Fairfield right camera that's incredible [Music] see a little bit of belly tan down there as well if you can see that tiny tiny bit of it got red town here which is between Pike of Lithgow and called Pike or starting to get a bit of light on the Pikes now this is what it's hoping for the lights moving off from Hell villain starting to touch the pipes well I think that's it I think nothing else could have happened now because if you look out to the West you can see it's really thick clouds right on the horizon so below that tiny little bits of light over that way which round of horrible weather is coming in you can see the hole coming in so I'm gonna head back to the Network clumsy wasn't the bigger by the way I've only drunk about half of that camera [Music] gonna get some scrawn on a brew on because it is cold let's get in the tent one of the things I love about this tent is the fact that you can bring the door down from the top so you can zip it up from the bottom we can just zip it up from the top and have a nice little window you know it's great in it on it Grim out there now to the first luxury item I bought was as you've already seen second one was actually a bit of a mistake by supposed to get a smaller gas canister and end up getting this hoofing thing it doesn't actually fit inside the jet foil so they fit inside here you see this one's just well massive right let's get some hot water going I've got another beer on I was going to get a brew but actually started to warm up when I got back in here so I'll just go on with the beer why not tonight tonight's menu chili con carne I do like this I've had it a few times some water in there [Music] temperatures dropped cheers by the way okay we're on let's have a look I've got no idea which line is supposed to go up to there's several and I can't work it out so I'm just gonna guess it always looks a little bit like you can vomit but it left it's good I also got another minor disaster going on I couldn't find my spark earlier on to bring a little wooden spoon with me right I'm gonna seal that up I might shove him a sleeping bag actually inside a dry bag because perfect oh just enough [Music] what a great view that is incredible I would show you but all you'll see is just Blackness these are really good by the way these are the Nalgene bottles and I bought two of them before I went to Nepal back in 2019 and what they do is each night when we got in from trekking they'd pass them over to the um the Sherpas and they would then boil up the water for the next day fill these up for us we'd go and collect them later on and stick them in our sleeping bags so pretty much hot water bottles throughout the night in the morning when they'd cooled off you ready to drink [Music] get your chops around that foreign but you know to sit and look at that view here in the best room in the Lake District I'm gonna eat this and then we'll get him and get close it up and get folded up okay as I suspected there's a slight slope on this tent and the head normally should be that end but if I sleep that way I'll end up just blood pulling in my head so I'll sleep the other way around it's a little bit tight down here but it'll be fine I've done it before on to the other luxury item I brought Kindle I'm gonna watch a film Sunset to half five at the moment and that's a lot of time in the dark so I'll say good night now and uh I'm just gonna watch your film until I fall asleep so yeah see in the morning [Applause] it's crazy out there I keep getting really big guts of wind top 10s by the way move back to the normal way because they're just too drafty down there so it's a really drafty where you are right now I'm kind of thinking should I go out and shoot us all pinned down all right still but it's already cold you can't be bothered again but it is very cold anyway I'll give you a bit of an update it's getting very windy now this isn't Sabbat it's every now and then it just goes absolutely crazy someone out there shaking it the dorm attempt to rip I don't want to blow away I don't think it's forecast little and it's gonna be like this all the way through to the morning I'll sleep I don't think I'm gonna have any sleep right I'm gonna try and get some sleep report back maybe in a few hours let's see it's really close it's not stop flapping all night I'm still here 652 saw sun rise in about 15 minutes a little bit of light up there like oh [Music] Frost as well [Music] oh it doesn't look inviting out there does it at all not one bit but I'm gonna get dressed now and uh have you rubbed up get a coffee on grass gets everywhere it is absolutely freezing out there freezing it's supposed to be around about zero degrees but with the Wind it's about -12 I think they said on the weather so it feels like minus 12 and boy does it feel like myself I just went out there for a quick week before something else is going to fall off as well grass go away I'm gonna be hot chocolate last night oh I think my flicker's gone we're on yeah not much of a sunrise this morning very cloudy not really worthy of a shot I don't think it is but that sleeping bag and the sleeping mat yeah very good very good indeed I mean as you can see it was very cold last night that was really toasty in there it took a while to get warm at once I did yeah that was it did warm all night there's actually light on swirl how now I think what I'll do is I'll grab this coffee and just kind of keep an eye on what's going to go on here because yeah there's this varying levels of cloud and uh and blue sky so Anything could happen oh yeah grass go away [Music] let's get all right out there now you know I mean it's cold but likewise let me just let me just Brew this coffee and I'll show you what I mean yeah that's looking pretty nice isn't it [Applause] you can see a little bit light isn't that lovely oh it's looking really really nice out towards Windermere there absolutely beautiful but very hazy let me spin you around that's great cars there with a little bit of sunlight on it I think I'm gonna make tracks now because it's about half eight actually well beyond breakfast time so what I'm going to do is going to pack the tent away and slowly make my way back down this Ridge here the one I mentioned yesterday it's a really really beautiful Ridge actually loads of weird rock formations we're going to check those out and heading down towards lever's water and from there I'm gonna go and have a look at some waterfalls and I'll show you those they're really really nice and at that point I'll decide whether or not I can be bothered going to the um the pudding Stone because it's kind of round and up a little bit of ready for me brecky so yeah let's get it packed away and uh I'll catch up with in a second [Music] okay all good right all packed up ready to go check the site there leave no Trace as always not a bad spot at all not bad slightly slopping the wrong way but you know can't have everything Let's Get Down The Ridge like I said a minute ago I've got all the layers on at the moment because it's so cold and I feel just right I know as soon as I get going down here and get a bit of Heat Going uh I'm probably gonna end up overheating and having this trip off and as soon as you drop out the wind actually this would have been a good spot yeah it's up to knowing although that said the wind did change direction last night from North to East and that's why this morning you might have seen it in the video the wind was bashing the side of the tent a little bit so yeah it wasn't great but last night it was coming straight down here like a wind tunnel look honestly look at this view look at it what a beautiful path this is honestly I love it down here I love this Ridge if you've never done it never walked up it or down it come and do it it's pretty breathtaking actually you know if you've never done wild camping before I do strongly recommend it it's such a fantastic experience and a really great way to feel a part of nature just just for a short while you know I mean obviously getting out and walking in these environments gives you that as well but going to sleep and waking up here yeah it's very very special indeed it's a little bit of a cliche but it is soul cleansing it does feel like it cleanses your soul a little bit and I just wonder that is because we are creatures of the earth you know we are we've evolved with this planet but for some reason you know in modern times we've drifted away from it and lost that connection and I think when you come to these sorts of places and you reconnect it's almost like I don't know it's like going back to the roots like the roots are going back in and you're connecting back to the origin I don't know I don't know if I'm talking any sense whatsoever but you know we did we evolved in this environment on this planet with nature not apart from it coming here and while camping walking whatever spending time in nature it really does fill you up just like to point out that I had about an hour's sleep last night so if that didn't make any sense whatsoever that's why but hopefully you understand what I'm what I'm trying to say look at that light that is lovely absolutely it's Raven tour there that rounded bit so as you can see there's lots of interesting rock formations around here like this big boulder here and a bit further down some strange angled rocks that just look amazing [Music] some beautiful light over there look that's very nice and it's fleeting by the time I get my camera out it's gone see these little town that's frozen over only a thin layer of ice but still just kind of demonstrates how cold it was last night nice isn't it isn't this lovely and it's actually my kind of shot as well you know typically I love that I love the um the Dark Shadows the light and also the Dark Cloud as well no Blue Sky that's always a bonus okay so just looking back up the ridge as I camped right up there just below the summit [Music] okay these are some of the weird rock formations I was talking about interesting I mean you can see the layers of each volcanic eruption here I think this is tough it might even be welded tough not too sure well the tough is like ash mixed in with the sedimentary rock and that kind of stuff I think a bit Rusty on that but yeah interesting isn't it look at that for a leading line you know off to that incredible View it's almost like a shark's docile thing love it but I love these lines I mean we're talking millions of years there probably between each eruption it's kind of mind-blowing isn't it and it's all over here there's lots of different it's not just this particular Rock ing it back up towards the ridge now all these rocks down here I'm trying to remember if in fact the one I'm walking on right now look and I guess you know as plates have shifted and there's been that uplift of all these different layers of all shifted up in different angles and shot up and that's why they're all sticking out at weird interesting photographically beautiful angles look at this it's like the radiator of a car or something you know when you're inside of it yeah this place is a geologists and a photographer's Paradise in fact if any geologists amongst you I mean I'm just kind of you know well an amateur Enthusiast maybe that gets everything wrong but yeah if there's any experts out there tell me what that is I reckon another five to ten minutes I'll be down at the dam there we are at lever's water doesn't take long at all I'll submit there's not as much water as I thought it would be I thought the water would have been going over the top of the um the dam or the wheel or whatever the hell this thing is here pull it lovely Jubilee look look at this light honestly incredible so you can't actually see where it was last night now it's Way Beyond it's kind of almost as high well it'd be the similar height to that but behind this lump here so this is lever's water back pretty obvious actually because it's coming out of lever's water and then it turns into lever's water falls and we're gonna stand at the top of those Falls right now let's have a look so what I'll do is I'll head over there it's a bit squelchy around there remember rightly and down and we'll have a look back up towards it so that's that there's a nice view isn't it or photograph you know you've got the waterfall and you've got a mount in the background there up towards swirl how that's lovely really really nice and this coat is on around here let's go and follow it a little bit more oh that Sun's Warm oh it's too warm yeah this is a massive drop here so I think what I'll do is get back on the track there and look back on here we'll be able to see it quite clearly look at that isn't that lovely though wow and so easy to get to you can just walk in from the village walk up the copper mines Valley up the track to leave us water yeah so yeah I think I'm going to give the pudding Stone a miss because I'm really hungry so I think yeah it'd be nice just to to get down and see if I can find somewhere to get some breakfast I'm thinking I'm hoping the herdwick cafe in coniston but I don't know if it's open on a Sunday I don't know if it's like a weekday thing I can't see I can't find out well it's turned out to be a beautiful day it actually feels like spring and I can hear buzz it up there somewhere well I don't know why I'm showing you you want me to see it I can't even see it yeah lovely lovely spring morning life doesn't get much better than this foreign [Music] [Music]

Channel: Black Crag

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Keywords: Lake District, Lakeland, Cumbria, England, Hiking, Wainwright, Vlog, Vlogger, Landscape Photographer, Photography, Outdoors, Wilderness, Mountains, Fells, Countryside, Adventurer, Explorer, Instagram, Black Crag, wild camp, wild camping, camping

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Length: 39min 25sec (2365 seconds)

Published: Sun Mar 05 2023