Mountain Wild Camping in extreme weather. First real test for Hilleberg Allak 2 - Gale force winds!

I am just going to go for it okay once the tents down everything's packed away it's not gonna be that bad it's just seems so much worse because the tape is acting like a giant Sail to work one day one day my friend afternoon or oh back in the Welsh mountains love it here tonight I've mustered up some enthusiasm to get back out might I've accidentally bought a new tent to give myself that enthusiasm we'll show you that later I'm sure you know what it is because you've seen the title of the video anyway it's like six o'clock I only just got here um I'm doing three nights that's my plan I always change things about so three nights is the plan for this one and I'm in the renaults I've got I'm not gonna film too much tonight because I think today is going to be the only decent day with a bit of sunshine so I'm gonna try and get a nice pitch see if I can get a bit of a sunset and uh show you around the tent day two hopefully it's gonna be a little bit more of a summit camp day three thanks to a lava lake I've found on the Eastern side of the Renault so we'll check it out and see if we get on anyway less chatting sites more walking foreign I don't know whether I should drop down a little bit but I've got some views here over the sea saving in the background yeah I'm thinking I'm just going to pitch Up and Deal With the Wind tonight because I want to get that Sunset that's going to be beautiful without clouds clear so you might do fingers crossed it'll be a stunning Sunset over the over the ocean so we'll go back got a flattish pitch here it's a little bit boggy and Marshy but nothing we can't deal with yeah we're gonna do it might find some rocks to tie the tent down as well because it is well blurry as I say that the window is down anyway let's get up foreign set tonight plenty of ventilation plenty of things but that's my dirty chicken curry for tonight right back on the GoPro it's map time okay so started as usual when I come to the Reynolds cumber can link cumber can car park and Afraid Canberra way all the way up to here which is where I'm camped for night one I don't know if you can see that looks Focus foreign that's just behind me uh now so tomorrow I'm gonna go down here into these Woods there's a little waterfall I've swam in before down there and cut through here I'm not gonna do Renault power or Reynolds fat I'm just gonna go round I might do Renault fact actually so yeah I'm gonna miss out Renault Fowler whoa getting windy man and got burnog fact and go all the way down to Olivia Olivia so that's 756 meters which is actually quite a bit higher than the rest of the renaults and then after that the next day I'm gonna maybe I was gonna do a summit camp but it's quite high and windy here so I'm thinking I might just go down here somewhere and then the next day I'm gonna go back down through to the woods and make my way up right the way through and for the last night I'm gonna Camp around here somewhere I'm waiting about an hour down from the car park so I join it up onto the Caribbean way there back down so that's the plan for the three days um it wasn't actually planning to camp out wild camp tonight I was going to camp at the car park I actually got there in bed time than I thought I would so there's a campsite down down there by the way so yeah I'm a little bit ahead see where it takes me that's the general idea of what I'm doing anyway well I don't think I'm gonna get my Sunset because that cloud there doesn't seem to want to go I don't know how it doesn't want to seem to go over all this wind so it's not looking like a sunset tonight but it might do we never know anyway no other new equipment I can show you it's all very samey this one but just wanted to get out it's been ages since I've had a three nights to do it so I'm making the most of it thank you oh yeah that is uh filming done for the night yeah not much else to report tonight so I call it and get fresh start in the morning see you then [Music] [Music] testing the tent well needless to say I did not sleep well at all last night it's been like this the whole night so so get some breakfast on get some clothes on venture out are these things started raining yet did have a few little pizzapatters this morning but it seems to have disappeared for now but it does look a bit gray where I'm going so yeah it could be a wet one and it's pretty cold I need to layer up I've only got shorts and my waterproof uh bottoms and my beds leggings obviously but where are my bed leggings out and abouts look like a girl anyway let's get some food on and I'll pack up see you in a bit that's not gonna work up there filming is off this morning Camp is broken was where I was laying let's get down off this windy top get some shelter leave no Trace it's British summer the grid listen to it when are we gonna have this Indian summer I keep talking about that's what I want to know at the Cambrian way now so we renew flower behind me rental fact only two Summits on this trip but I think I can remember coming down this way it's a bit brutal so put me down right away no rain yet how fast the clouds are moving blow me over up here still got all that way to go so marinog fact Summit up there not even going to bother going up there because we won't be able to see anything second time I've been here similar views last time to be honest so this one's not for me last three mountains I've done the weather has been like this so I'll do a good one soon maybe next time right on to elithia I don't know why bothering [Music] foreign just started backtracking after doing the two mountains and look it's all cleared behind me now if you're getting views the wind seems to drop down a little bit so I'm just carrying on my route I'm going to get to the end of it I sound like three o'clock I reckon I'm only a couple of hours from where I was going to do my last Camp so I'm gonna head there anyway to see if it's not too windy to Camp by that Lake because I do want to have a swim on this hike and it's been too cold and windy today so if the wind stays as it is should be all right um yeah that's the plan now find those little dinky Maps they're not big enough area for me to cover but so going forward I even need to do just do two nights camping or need to get a bigger map so even though I was saying I'm gonna do three nights there's a possibility I might go home tomorrow after tonight's camp it is nice for me to be able to have a Sunday uh just to get all my stuff sorted and ready for work on the Monday luckily this time I got away on Thursday so I have technically if I get home tomorrow I've got tomorrow afternoon and Sunday which will be good because I'm still doing stuff to my house but yeah that's why sometimes if I come up to Wales I do just one night and it seems a long way to go on a Friday night camp out and then come home on a Saturday night but like I said I need the time sort everything out because I only get every other weekend now when I have the kids next weekend so time is a bit more precious of late but anyway it's getting muggier now as well it feels like it's actually a little bit summery it's been nasty proper nasty anyway bulk time see you at camp in the deep dark woods again a bit eeriest one bit of a funny feel to it is part of the trail that I've marked out that it's very overgrown so I can't believe I don't believe it would get used much really dense had to put my uh bottoms on but I did a little while about I think it's like tick City where if it isn't it should be give him a magic bow nice oh that's good needed some energy well Camp spot anybody right out of the Enchanted Forest now and I'm as far east at the Renault snails I can get so that mound up there behind me the lake I want to come back is the other side of that and just one ascent up there so I only have I think it's about 500 meters so I only have a couple of hundred meters to go and then uh see if I can find a camping spot it looks very Rocky trained by the RS map so it could be a bit problematic but I'm sure we'll find something oh starting to flag a little bit now tired it was me giving it the big earlier I'll just walk all day and now I've just been poisoned by some blackberries [Music] [Music] lots of Perfect Pitch by any stretch of the imagination but not half as windy here as it was last night so fingers crossed it stays that way blocked off nicely by this big lump here the wind's sort of scooting over there anyway that's cumber can so that's where I'm parked and tomorrow I think I can just scoot down there I'm gonna have a look at the map later if not the Cambrian way runs a bit further on down there which joins up to the car park so that will be that cream crackers all right I'm gonna get in lay down I think I'm going to be rolling downhill a little bit tonight so I might have to pack the right hand side of me out with some bags or something stop me rolling down but I'll take this any day over wind and Noise so how we go I might have to swap my head end with the foot and I've set it up the head end here whereas it looks like it's rolling down hill a bit there let's go and have a look inside actually struck like you now I've got a massive bulge there that's um right in the middle of the tent but luckily where I'm laying I'm in between two so I'm Not Gonna Roll anywhere and we must have a patch of Heather right behind my head which is keeping my head up a little bit as well so kind of a result there but I'm not going to do any more filming now until I do the map later on my good nights because yeah I'm shattered I just want to have a bit of a Down time now it's been a long old day so see you at nap time calm and rain on the tent I like that sound I don't like [Applause] foreign [Applause] just off the Roman steps like I said they came all the way down the Cambrian white well all the way that little bit down the camera away and then I dived off into go through a nature reserve here dived off down to the waterfall pistol going uh which I filled up water with and then just came out of the woods down there and started to go in between um Reynold flower and Renault fact and join the Cambrian way all the way up to top of Renault vac and then all the way up to the Elysia not sure how you say that please help me out um and my original plan was to go back the way I came and join the path here I actually went down past Lin Harrell and it was an easier route to be honest than going back up fat and down again just got steeper there so it was a nice easier route and then it came back through into this big Forest and walked all the way out here and ended up said those waffles there but I couldn't see him so I just scooted on up here and then checked out this first Lake wasn't really anything suitable wasn't really much suitable there so I kind of come around the corner there and I'm somewhere out there tonight so tomorrow morning I'm gonna just join the Cambrian way again and then back down to right I've Loved this trip um again saying I was gonna do three nights to be honest I've run out of map well I haven't run out of map I could have gone anywhere but this weather is set to stay in now all of tomorrow all tonight or tomorrow so I'm definitely just gonna call it um it's been a good test for the tent so I've had that in the strong winds last night and obviously the rain today you know they're going to be good tents my first impressions of the tent are it's fantastic it's just like the solo but a lot bigger which I need the space because I spread stuff out everywhere the price obviously you know stupidly priced over a thousand pounds now with the footprint but I'll make good juice out of it and it's going to be my go-to now yeah loved it so got a nice little high camp in last night and then a good seven or eight mile high correction today and didn't get my swim unfortunately wasn't going to be doing it today in that wind that would have been awful getting out and trying to dry off so there's always next time anyway guys I'm not going to do any more filming now tonight because there's nothing else to see it's just me sitting here chatting [ __ ] in a tent happy dinner I had a hot no had a decaf coffee that was ranked so I chopped most of that that's it I'm gonna put my head down and relax for a bit so I am shattered it's only like half seven eight o'clock but I'm just gonna layer if I fall asleep I fall asleep I'm not expecting a great night because I haven't got a great Lane anyway catch up in the morning has changed Direction that's battering me luckily I did put some rocks on a few of the guy lines out there and a double pegged all the guidelines so I hope that I can get out I've looked out the window and everything looks like uh we've got a weather report it said there could be up to 65 per hour gusts I feel like it's about 60 miles an hour let's get one of those little wind measurement devices I can't remember what they're called this weekend but I do my MSR we've handled it I'm definitely not a landshan or the Nemo I'm gonna tried the Nemo in Rain yeah I feel like the money is Justified already anyway try and go back to sleep can't see it happening I'm so glad I'm going home tomorrow I can't wait for my bed all right I think whatever [ __ ] broken tent blew the whole wall in hold on there's a guy line coming up looks like this is gonna be fun let's try and film it it's like Paul's right that's what I'm worried about that's double-picked as well so that's gonna be I think the Pole's okay I need to find a rock or something let's try yeah all right can you see that oh my God I'm holding on to this [ __ ] here life it's all tangled I've lost a peg as well let's see on the pig God I'm glad it's not right what I'm doing is taking out of the ground sheet there we're going to Triple take this one problematic I've got rocks on these two hoping that'll be all right wow what a night for it I think holes right okay I've never triple pegged a tent before that's for sure right let's try again Jesus man I actually thought the worse then put polar gun luckily it was just a guy line come out this is awful mental all right where is it now I'm sorry it's now half free don't think I'm gonna get back to sleep who's gonna worry that pigs are coming out and stuff so it's a long night this one a very long night there's me getting all cocky thinking I was safe in a nice sheltered bit from the rocks little did I know the wind was gonna have other ideas if you're worried about a guy line going again I'm just trying to support the tent s starting to pack up stuff while I'm up I ain't eating in the morning I'm just getting straight out of it say in the morning this morning now this is horrendous this is by far the windiest Camp I've ever been on ever and I'm not enjoying it I must admit I'm actually worried about it how it stands up to this I don't know it's even blowing water through the vent here at the top because the wind's coming straight up under it absolutely horrendous I've never experienced anything like this in my life go check the guy rights again lay down or anything it's worried it's just gonna hold in on me bad this is but we'll walk right there it's coming through how hard it's blowing in I could have this door shut but I need to be supporting this wall I think as soon as that's light I am out of here Jesus it's moving me around I think I'm gonna have to go now I can't sit here and hold this tender oh this is not good at all not good it's too dangerous for me to get out in the dark down because I can't see where I'm going I'm kind of off the track as well so I'm literally gonna sit in here and wait until I get a bit of sunlight because it wouldn't be wise to go now I don't think I'm all right I'm dry I'm not going anywhere it's just I'm uncomfortable yes just worried about these temp holes raging which I shouldn't be considering the price will pay for his tent but it's always in the back of your mind and the way the wind is coming from behind me it's very possible that I could so I'm gonna wait it out here they probably won't be much more filming now because obvious reasons really um but I'll say goodbye and uh an outro when I'm back on my van if I get back there in one piece see ya right got the beginning of daylight out there so I am just gonna go for it I think once the tens down and everything's packed away is acting like a giant Sail bye I keep thinking I'm gonna stop and wait for a break in it but I don't think it's going to be breaking it because I'm just gonna go for it see you at the other end no Trace foreign just got back to the safety of the van a little nib at the top up there somewhere that was where I was camped so just to fill you in a bit on what happened after I stopped recording so I packed everything away into my bag you might be steaming up a bit in here a little bit sweaty packed everything up and um I was literally sitting up against where the wind was coming from uh of this Gully right up this Gully um so all of yesterday and the whole weekend the winds have been coming from the East southeasterly apparently and then overnight about two o'clock in the morning they dramatically changed from East West and this is west facing here going in that direction so I was battered by him and it wasn't like they were just gusts of wind they were Non-Stop barrages of gale force winds what it seemed like so anyway just to recap yeah I packed everything away as soon as I got myself and my bag out of the tent it acted like a sales or doors were open and it took off by it actually flew all the pegs that didn't have rocks on them flew out they were double pegs bear in mind so number one tip for me after this trip is always if you can always put some rocks down on the guidelines or onto the pegs at least because that saved my tent on this trip I had three guidelines that would anchored down by pegs and they stayed Sorry by rocks and they stayed in whereas the others just took off yeah I've learned a lot on this one um never take the mountains with a pinch of salt I mean always taken with pinch assault don't take them lightly because this is believe it or not still our British summer and I've never experienced winds like that so going back to what I was saying earlier in the video was it worth the money paying out for that 10 just on this one Camp alone I'd say yes I'd say that any other tent I have apart from probably the sulo wouldn't survive the night there I don't know if any of the poles are damaged because everything was flying around when I was I was trying to hold the tent down whilst packing it away because it was just blowing everywhere so yeah it's been a bit of a testing one but I'll look back on it and I'll enjoy it at the time I'm sitting there in a tent I was not enjoying it because I've literally been up since half two I think I started to worry a little bit and then I think it was about three o'clock where my guideline came out so I had to get out and do that and then I was just worried about it coming back again or coming back out again so I was literally sitting up against the wall as I just said so it didn't happen again and what time do you leave about six o'clock I don't even know what time is now it is now seven o'clock yeah so just before six I reckon I I left down there and the wind was so strong it was blow me over up there on the walk down onto the Canberra mine so it's a little bit more sheltered down here I believe it or not but up there is something else anyway I would recommend the hilleberg alak II two two person tent four Mountain camping I'm definitely gonna think twice about taking anything else up the mountains now after this so also know people whose msrs have broke and land shans have collapsed I've had a poll come out on lunch and in the Peak District before so yeah it's one of those I think if you're doing this sort of thing in all weather conditions it does pay to spend that little bit more that's if you're going to be doing it a lot anyway I did have my enthusiasm back for a while camping but I wonder if it's taking a little bit of a dive again anyway I said I wasn't going to chat much waffle in this video and I have because it's not been the Cinematic production that I've had in mind it's just been me talking you know what to the camera anyway from the renaults and the hillyburg ad act thank you for watching catch up again soon bye all right

Channel: Ash Outdoors UK

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Length: 38min 36sec (2316 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 10 2023