Camping in Gale Force Winds | My Tent got destroyed - The END of the Centurion

This is the worst ever, mate. It's so so loud. It's just caving in, man. Mint. Let's get out of here. Shut it. It's been a mar. Oh my god. What an absolute may have been gently out here. Come on. Come on. Fly up eight. Anyway, that's it. That's it. Zap me now. You win. You win. Get me out of here. Oh, mate. You can't kick. I can't kick. Right. Leave no trace. What a nightmare. I've had a me get down this hill. Get out of that wind. [snorts] That wasn't forecast. I didn't see it coming, mate. It's me. Gale force winds [snorts] and rain or sleep. It was absolutely pagering it down last night and all night, mate. I had a wink asleep. It was like It was like lying down inside an AK47. If an AK-47 was made out of a what's it bag and was constantly going off like a Gatling gun, like a quaver's bag gatling gun I've just been asleep in or tried to sleep in and it's bust me 10. That's the That's the real kicker. It's ripped off both the loops that hold my hiking poles in. So I've now got two two holes in floor. And what time is it? 20 6. I've just got up. I've done none of me drills, mate. None of me drills. I've not brushed me teeth. I've just bounced off that hill. Clock watching all night. Clock watching all night. Ones, then two, then three, four, five, six. I'm I'm getting up. This is it. And because it's a DCF, it's so loud. I'm calling it, mate. Binning it off. Am I binning it off? I've got to bin it off. And I I've got to bin it off. Me tent's bust. What can I do? It was so aggressive. And then when I knew the tent was bust, the disappointment as well of that just I could have cried, mate. I could have cried with a tent that's now busted. No, I can't do it. That's it. I've sat in chair. I've sat in the chair of contemplation and I've contemplated that I can't do it. My tent floor has got two big holes in it and it and it doesn't hold on to these anymore. So, it's just going to be all over the place. That's nice though. Look at that. See a lot of these now with yellow handles on. Lovely. Oh, bit noisy. Bit noisy. I don't need that. I need to soo myself. Yeah, not bad. Life goes on. That bit was on the tent and that has just come off and then ripped the the floor with it on both sides. [snorts] I'm hiding behind this wall. [laughter] That's why it's come to me. I'm hiding. I feel mad. I feel so drained and sad about it. walk. >> Now that it's raining more than ever, I'll end you my sweater. Strolling into town as a defeated man. I'm on a downer. And I guess the main thing is just staring down the barrel of of having to leave this hike and not being able to finish it. That's the thing that's doing me. This bit's nice, isn't it? Oh, fish in there. Oh, sunshine's out and I'm out of the wind. I'm back. I'm back. The feet are covered. Covered in blisters. I nearly tapped out. Right, we're here now. We're doing this, mate. Had a cup of coffee. Nearly tapped out, mate. I was googling uh how to get back like how to get like trains and stuff and I had a word with myself, had my coffee and I'm just thinking I was just thinking I'm here. This is it. This is the This is the story. Hold on. Where am I going here? This is the story where I keep making wrong turns and that ain't it. Yeah, this is the story. The tent's broke. [ __ ] it's windy. The tent's broke. The weather's turned on me. Uh, and my feet are shot to bits. But that's the story. I'm getting to that train station. Whether I like it or not, we're doing it. You know, it's a place I've been before where the chips are down. It's hard. And it's it it's easier. The easy thing is to tap out. That's the easy thing. And that's what I need to keep conditioning myself not to do is the easy route. You can't believe it was a heat wave a couple of days ago. And now I'm hiking in fleece. The mindset is I don't have to finish this hike. I get to finish this hike. There'll come a time when, and I I say this a lot, but there'll come a time when I can't hike. So, I thank my lucky stars that I'm able to finish this hike. It's not a challenge. It's a gift. I've put the gators back on and got me t-shirt on. We're uh I'm taking it seriously now. I almost rage quit, but we can't. Kirk B Stevens, a nice place to stop if you're doing this hike. Plenty of options for a bed. You can resupply. There's a pharmacy and they've got a little section with loads of like foot care because it's about the halfway mark for the coast to coast. I think I got a knee brace and an ankle brace from there when I did it cuz I went over on my ankle on day one or day two ankle if when I say I've been here before sprained me ankle on second day I just kept going and I know you shouldn't do that cuz you can cause longlasting damage but I was just too determined mate and now I'm determined now and if I can do it if I can do coast to coast with a gummy ankle I can do this with some blisters and no kip. Oh, bit bit clunky but ankle nearly snapped. Do another one. Take two. Let's have a little look on this bridge. I'm not going over it, but it is nice to appreciate it. Can you swim there? Wow. Yeah, that's deep. Oh, no. You can't get down cuz he's put fence all the way around. Anyway, here we go. We're leaving the coast to coast path. We're off through here to Raven Stone Dale. Come on. Noodle's gone. What's going on here? Ah, right. He wants me to do that. Awful business. Awful business. I need Gates to be on my side when I need you the most. No. Go on. [sighs] Terrible business. Got another one straight away. Please make up for it. I just need a good gate. Please be good. Be good. Be good. Be good. Be good. I like these. I do like these. Look, it's it's too stiff. We've got to move move that back and that'll come up and that'll come out. Not very satisfying. Okay, that's probably a me problem. Uncharted territory for me now. I've done all that. This is new stuff from Gavin New stuff. I'm doing this. I've got to put more factor 50 on. It's going to be a long day in it. Just don't want that sun to beat me. Get it on lugs. I'm all out. So legs are going to have to just deal with. See if we can crack into bottle. There we are. Leaving it all out here today, which is, you know, shouldn't really be doing it like that. I've learned nothing. I've learned nothing of it years. But this is teaching me it. I'm learning now. Actually, there's quite a lot in there. Get some arms as well. Treat myself. Oh, yes. I've gone Rogue. I've gone rogue. Rogue one. Just done a bit of road work there, which is like a pass up and over these things. But lovely walking. No cars. Um cuz it's a dead end road, so no one on it. Lovely walking. Lovely views. And I'm just looking at my map and I'm just shooting off all over the place. All over the place, mate. just and I'm enjoying it. I'm just linking little bits of different uh roots together. This isn't good. Maybe I've goofed, have I? I can't get wet foot. Oh, this is just a bog, mate. Right, I'm going to see what this is saying a little bit more and then if it's too much or if it threatens to bog me out on my feet, I'm backing off and going a different way. I'm doing my best to link up um tried and tested roots so that I don't get any surprises like this. This isn't a tried and tested route. This is one of me little linking bits. which you uh you do roll the dice on. But it's blowing a gale anyway today. Same as it was last night, which is worrying, isn't it? It's worrying when you're sleeping in AR-15. I don't know where I'm going to end up tonight, what state I'm going to be in, but I cannot sleep in an exposed area. I've got to find some woodland or just get tucked in behind a wall or something like that. Yorkshire's still Yorkshire in there all the while. There's a mega herd with calves and bulls all in middlelet path. I'm not even going there. I'm just going to give them a wide birth. Pin myself up against this wall so they can get me. It's not that I couldn't do. It's just I'm a bit tired. I'm running on no sleep, so it just would be a bit of an unfair fight. How many is there? 20 of them. Just a little bit unfair. Worth it to not have to lay out 20 cows. Flagging. What time is it? Half one. Flagging me. Flag Christi. This is a lovely little bit. Dropped down out of that wind. It's nice and sheltered in amongst the trees. There's blue bells. It's wonderful. It's amazing. Amazing for wildlife. As I say wildlife, soon as I say wildlife, a deer just stood up and ran off over there. That's unbelievable. Ref. Ain't this pretty? Pretty as a picture. Look at that. That tree's come down and there's just like a sheer drop and a little plunge pool in here. It's too good not to get in. Look at that. Get goggles on. Oh, headache. Oh, wow. What I'm doing is a bit mad. This a bit mad. [laughter] No, no crayfish. Not in that bit anyway. >> It feels amazing just staying in a little bit too long and until you're like cold to your bones and then now I can feel me myself thoring out in the sun. It's wonderful nature at its finest. It's really glorious, is it? Look at it. You could just happily [ __ ] in there. If I had just been in, I'd be in there. What's this lad got set up here? Is this electrified? Look at it. The light there is going to go off when I get when I get tasered. What the I don't know what's going on here. That's not for me that mad. Oh, I could just go missing in there, couldn't I? And that would be it. Some farms are like, "Yeah, this is quaint and nice." Some farms you're like, "Oh, this is this could be a horror movie. That's 16 miles done. for the day so far. 16 miles. Stopped for a swim. I haven't really stopped for else, mate. I've had not to eat. Flagging a little bit. A lot actually. I'm knackered. Some bunny views though. Go through quite a few farms, which is nice. I like to see the different farms. What's going on? How do you keep your farm? Is it in good nick or is it something off a horror movie? It's a wonderful little game to play and I'm going to play it again in a minute. Am I allowed to go? It just feels very intrusive. No one's been this way for a long time. Not even a remote path. MEDIC. In through the nose. Out through the nose, mate. I'm running because it's all pretty like steady downhill so I can make good time here. [snorts] And also there's a village called Dent down there and it has two whale houses in it. And I'll have exceeded now then. I'll have exceeded my the miles that I set myself. I'll have reached my goal by the time I get there. And hopefully they're still serving a bit of food because I'm starving, mate. Really hungry. Right. Which way am I going here? Is it this way? Is it that way? Double check. Always double check. always here mate down there. I need some calories in me. I don't know what I'll find at the pub. Might not have out. Might not be doing food. But if I don't give myself a chance to get there, it won't matter anyway, will it? So [laughter] today's been absolutely not. It's been a mad one. And I'm just going to keep going. Like I could run downhills, but I'm not I'm not doing any running uphill. That is that's a mad thing that. Anyway, this will uh hopefully get me to also, [laughter] Jeffrey. put a good shift in there on running maybe two mile started running right on the tops as soon as I'd turned off to come down and then stopped now because it's on a flat bit. So that has saved me. It might all be for nothing if they closed. I'd rather not know. It's the carrot. It's the dangling of the carrot, isn't it? The dangling of the steak and nail pie and chips with a pint attempt Timmy Taylor's is dangling that in front of me and whether it's real or not, it really doesn't matter cuz it's real to me at the moment. But the devastation will be real as well if it's not open. And uh also I realized what I'm doing like I'm just not thinking I'm just not thinking about the next step, the next phase. All I'm really thinking about these gates are starting to do my sweding. If they were just the normal latch ones, but you don't know what you're dealing with. You got to reach your hand through and you're like, "Oh, it's one of them. One of them lads. Fair. Look at it. Ready for filmmaker. Go. Yeah. I'm not really thinking beyond uh something to eat and a drink really. I What I'll do is I'll cross that bridge while I'm eating and drinking. I'll have a think. And uh look at this. What's going on here? We've got a big slab fence either side. And then we've got a little metal metal fishing gate. They're better. Look, they're just easier to get through. Here we go. Look through these buttercup fields. Yeah, there's a good chance I might have to leave the a house uh late and then just find somewhere to to rough it for night. And a sleeping bag is good for that. But I've got me quilt like a sleeping bag. You can zip it up, put your bug net over your head and just get down anywhere, but the old quilt, everything can climb in and uh spend the night with you. That's not what I want. Tell you what, that was a hard thought for 20 miles. It's 7:00 a little bit late, didn't I? Cuz at pharmacy, but still, besides that dunk in the water, that's all I've done really. They haven't stopped. Just been steady away. Lower expectations. That's my thing. That's what I'm learning. Just because I've done like 30 plus mile days before, it doesn't mean that that's my normal and that's what you're going to do on every route because the terrain's different for this route. 20 mi is a big day. What's it say? Dent. Tim Dent. And it's not far to go. Just down this road. Please have me some cold to drink and some warm to eat. Please. That was wonderful. A nice pine and a pie and chips. Pie chips and veg. Glorious. Oh, it's 9:00. My legs are KOed for the day, mate. And I'm just thinking, do I carry on? There's some lads down there. Hello to them lads who watch my videos. Good to meet you. [snorts] But I'm thinking, do I get in this church? What's it like to camp in a church? Let's go. Don't they haven't seen me? Have them lads seen me? Is it bad vibes? Like the thing is, you can't camp on a gravestone cuz that is bad vibes. What about inside a church? Is that m Is that mad? God would God would like it, wouldn't he? It'd be scary, would it? To leave so early in the morning. Nah, cuz obviously that people would just use churches as bothies, wouldn't they? This is mad. I can't get in. Church is on lockdown. Okay, but that's it. Looks [snorts] like it's going to do a bit. I put me rain jacket on cuz look at that on the horizon. Looks very ominous. It's already open. Look. What's crack? Can I close it? That'll do. There's cows in this field. Biggins. Let's have a look. What's map saying? Map's telling me to go this way away from the cows. Good map. Thank you, Map. Matthew McConn. Right. No. Oh, mate. Look at that. That is Orinous. Beautiful though. Look at it. Stunning behavior. Hey, up pheasant. Oh, it's kicking off. I've also now got two holes in the bottom of my tent. And the hiking poles don't attach to the floor anymore. So, it'll be a different sort of setup. These oyster catchers miles away from the sea and just out at night. I love that for them. Right, I've come off the path. I'm just checking that there's no monsters, no bovine bullies. This is it. I'm going to pitch in here. No one can see me from path. No one can see me from up there. I think I'm going to be just all right, aren't I? I'm doing it. I'm doing it. I'm doing it. Ref. I'm going here. That's all right, is it? It's a nice spot. Let's set up. I'm getting eaten alive. I'm getting absolutely tortured. The bugs are out of control. Out of control. What even is it? I think it's midgetes. Get in. You get in. Just get in. Everyone get in. Both door. Absolutely done in it. Lock it. Lock it. That was brutal. Where? Where are you? That was brutal. Oh wow. [sighs] Ah. Oh wow. Look at that. It's just just a hail of I didn't guess it was midgetes. Horrible. Yeah, midgetes, mate. That was brutal. I had that for a while. Not as bad as that. Right there I am. Quilt air bed pillow. I've covered the holes with my shoes for what good it'll do. But that's okay. I'm going to leave this door open cuz that just looks out onto that other field. So, no drama. That's cuz there's no wind down here. In stark contrast to last night, this is one of them no windy ones. So, I'm going to leave this open so I don't get flooded with condensation. There's midgetes in here. They're everywhere. You can see them all outside wanting to get me. You can't get me. Well, you can get me if you come through floor. I'll leave you uh with everyone's favorite time. Woke up here to the devastation of a broken tent and off we go. We head down here. It is easy walking. Ed was a bit of a shed though. Um, big quarry here and then into Kirkby Steven. Good options here if you want to stay for the night. There's a pharmacy shops, good little rest spot there. I waited, grabbed a coffee, waited for a while till the pharmacy was open. Got some earplugs and some comped and off we went through this farm and up over the fields. Through these fields. Tiny little bit of road work there. Nothing too major. Back over onto the Mland. And we're following the coast to coast path here. A little look at this bridge. Wonderful behavior. And then off. This section was lovely. The sun came out for me. Cross this busy road to Raven Stoneale. There is a couple of pubs here as well. You could spend the night, get something to eat. I think there's a cafe as well, but I just pushed through and then we joined this road here. I didn't mind this road. There was no cars. It is just a a deadend road. So, not very busy at all. A good leg pumper up and through here. I'd originally planned to go this way, but I kept looking at mess and I thought, you know what? I'm going to go this way. And it was a little bit boggy around here. It did pay off in the end as we go through this wonderful woodland where I found a little bit at the bottom there for a for a swim. And then off we go. And then we traverse around here which was really nice. It's feeling quite chipper at this point despite having no kip pasted and then we join on to the Dale's highway. Now, all of this isn't the original route over the tops, which I will put in the final map, which I'll leave below here, because my tent was bust, and I didn't know if I was keeping another night, and I just wanted to do the loop back to the train station. So, I came this way and linked onto the Dale's Highway. Followed the Dale's Highway for a while, and then we start to descend. I just ran all the way down here over this bridge and then we follow the river into Dent where I got a pine and a wonderful feed and then cracked on again. Joined the river. It was getting dark by this point. Kept going into this field. The midgetes were killing me. I was all but done. And that is where we spend the night. Good morning. It is half 5. I thought I'd get up super early and bounce because that's just the way that's just the way of the uh the hiker if you're keeping in someone else's field pitch late which I did. It was getting dark. I've got [ __ ] to bits. There's still some of them about but the breeze has picked up so hopefully they'll have done one but I've got my bug net just in case. And these are the holes. Look where the um the loop has just come off one there. So, it just means that I've got no way of attaching my um my pole to the bathtub and I've got a hole in it. This side is is just a lot worse. I mean, I've got it in me to do it to to try and fix it. It's a bit of a beast in it. Maybe give it a go. Anyway, anyway, I can't think about that now. I'm going to enjoy my last day of hiking. Just doing a few stretches. Feet are as bad as they've ever been on a hike. Just them first couple of days. These trainers, we move on. Feel strong. Right, let's go see what today brings. Leave no trace. Let's go. Them first few steps. [snorts] These steps I'm taking now. Yikes. I think we're going to get a bit of rain this morning and I've got 14 miles to the train station and there's a train at like 12 something and then there isn't a train till tea timeish after 4. Decent few hours keep [snorts] and we're back. Oh, I'm just going to like stumble over at finish line. A broken mess. [laughter] Me tent broken. Arm broken. Boom. Cheers, Yorkshire. Look how dark it is. You often see these and they're all dark brown and worn away. There's a new one. Look how deep it is there in there. And it runs to nowhere. That looks a bit gummy, actually. Keep it. Batteries are running out on this thing. Battery's running out on me phone. Everything's just on its last legs, including me. Cuz you're running getting making good time and then you're like, "Oh, what's he done here?" Bit of bail band. What sort of lock What's he got? Oh dear. You're just You're just fumbling around blind. Luckily, I'm the SEO of latches and locks, so I kind of know what I'm feeling. I was like, "Oh, it's one of them." Boom. I'm through. But that could take a civilian 2 hours to figure that out from the other side. Nice along this path, but it is broken up by these gates. You get into your flow state and then you've got a flow gate to deal with. What's got That's new, is it? What's that? Oh, it's come off. It's not even Oh dear. Oh dear. Oh no. We don't like to see it. Look, that's where it should be. It's a bit punky in it. Don't even That's got to offer. The clag has rolled in. Temperature has dropped. But the uphill struggle sort of battling that keeping me warmish from a heat wave to biting cold mist going down me lug hole. Everything was getting soaking in this mist. So put the bag cover on, [snorts] rain jacket on. I'd never imagined this a few days ago. I've come over the tops cuz I thought I might get some nice views. But it's this stuff. And what I'm thinking is I should have uh stuck to the Dale's way and followed the river around because at least I would have been able to see the river. >> Probably about this time I should start talking about space. [snorts] Oh, don't worry. I've got tickets to go see Brian Cox, though, so that'll get my space that'll scratch the space itch for me. I can think about space, can't I? I don't have to externalize it on a camera to strangers on internet. My mad space. Anyway, [snorts] this is me talking about space while saying I'm not talking about space. Don't think of a pink elephant. Think of one or something like that. So Ed's a little bit uh gone a little bit to mush mush. He's turned on me. He's turned on me. I was never not on me. What am I on about? It tried to b It tried to boil me alive. Now it's trying to freeze me and drown me. She's turned the winds against us. She's turned the WS against us. She's turned the WS against Y. She's turned the WS against us. She's turned the WS against us. She's turned the rains against us. She's turned the rains against us. I believe this to be the highest point for the day. and where I was going to get me uh 360 degree vistas as it is. It's windy and bitingly cold. So, we start walking down now. Oh, wow. The iconic Ribbles Head vioaduct synonymous with the Yorkshire Dales and an unbelievable feat of engineering in it. I'm making good time. I just ran I've ran pretty much all the way down. I've made real good uh progress in about seven or eight miles already. And it's only quart 8 in the morning. I don't even want to look at me feet. If you look at your body as a as a vehicle, you don't want to be pulling up to pearly gates with not a mark on it smelling fresh with hardly any miles on clock. Dear, you want to just like in a cloud of smoke reaching handbreak turn and as soon as it stops wheels fall off big puff of smoke bush done. Thanks for the use of this vessel. I've used it and abused it and had a wonderful time. That's how it is, mate. That's the metaphor for this hike really. Just like pulling into train station, battered and broken, but satisfied. I'm glad I ran when I could to gain the time cuz now I I can't now, mate. Medicate broken. There it is. My battery is running out on this thing. And that's my last battery. I didn't think I'd see the end of this one, but with a broken tent, [music] broken feet, but not a broken mind. We pull up at Horton in Ribblesdale train station [snorts] where I set off almost a week ago. The Dales, mate, did me, didn't it? chewed me up and spat me out. But what an adventure. I'm too tired. I was like I was hobbling the last mile or two and just going into me uh me mind cave to try and [music] get to end. So, it's difficult to to sum it all up, but it's been brilliant and I hope I've showcased it. And please do, if you fancy it, take on the [music] challenge yourself. My battery is running out. If you've lasted this long, salute to you. Thanks for watching. [music] Take care of yourselves and I'll see you soon. The final day back onto the path and along we go. So, I did think about going around here, sort of going around this mound, around the mound and following the river, but I thought no, we'll go up and over and see if we can get some views. But that didn't really pan out that well for me. It was a complete clag out all the way. Raining, very cold up tops, but then we started to come down. So I started to run here, ran all the way down here to the vioaduct and round over the road. Bit of road work here. Ed was completely caving in here. Cut across here. And then we join up to the penine way. Follow the penine way. This was just put one foot in front the other and just try and get to the end. and get to the end. I did. There we go. Back to where we started. What a journey. Thanks very much if you got this far. Thanks for following along. I really do appreciate it. [snorts] And uh much love to everyone. I'll see you soon. Bye for now. [music] >> [music]