Kielder Forest Rant And Wild Camp
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- čas přidán 30. 12. 2016
- Re-edited and re-uploaded due to a copyright issue. Audio had been muted. Video is available in all countries but may not play from some devices such as mobile phones or game consoles but should play on a PC or laptop. If not go to www.proxfree.com/youtube-prox... and paste video link into bar. If using a mobile device try selecting desktop not mobile mode on your web browser.
Music by Dion & The Belmonts
The Wanderer - Zábava
Great video really enjoyed it kielder forest its Beautiful, my grandad was the chief Forrester responsible for the planning and planting of kielder Forest , when they were excavating the site they found quite a lot of bog oak which my grandad gave to the MouseMan and he made some furniture for our family from it im really proud of this family history . Thanks for making these videos I really enjoy watching them
Glad you keep it real and are not plugging products and advertising butcher shops and kit shops ... you know it makes sense...
You’re right, Damien, it’s hard to put in words the feeling of wild camping, especially when you’re solo. But anyone can see the joy on your face.
My favourite video on this channel and I've got a few. Definitely gets me tempted to try wild camping out for the first time. This area looks like a stunning place for some camping. Cheers for the upload.
Thank you so much. I really enjoy watching your films, thanks for being so honest, on my last trip I got so cold I said I would never go out again on my own.
Another good one Damian. Love your sole camping the most.
What a beautiful place. Really enjoyed this video, very inspirational. Nice one 👍✌👍
Cheers for uploading this again mate, its one of my favourite videos ever. Top man 👍
im from mexico and live in mexico love your videos wish we had forest like that
great little fireside chat, keep up the good work. enjoyed immensely
Great to watch this again Damien, Beautiful part of the UK/Scots border.
So enjoyed this.* Loved your shared thoughts & sentiments at night. :-) wishing you all the best *
Happy new year to you and the family Damien.. wishing you lots of wild adventures in 2017... enjoyed your rant def food for thought.. love your simplistic set up... great stuff mate ATB Julie ;)
Thank you Julie, atb for 2017 and many wildcamping adventures ahead. Damian.
From the USA. Enjoyed the show keep em coming best wishes to you the wife and the lad like to see him again . Take care friend
Thank you for watching and atb for 2017, Damian.
Great video and a super site to have an overnighter. Well, at least you had the company of nature for a while, but at least woody didn't serenade you during your sleep. As for the rules of the forest, it's always do as we tell you and not do as we do. Very enjoyable video Happy New Year Fell Wanderer.
Thanks for watching, atb for 2017, Damian
What a great place to camp.
May I share two things with you? 1.) Your honesty about the things you talk about is so refreshing!! I miss that in so many other videos. Guys are trying to make you believe they are deep forest wild camping and you can hear traffic in the not so distant back ground. So many talk about how great their night was while looking haggard and tired just to slip up later in their video to tell you the night sucked. I'm so tired of that crap and so glad you are not that way! Thank you! If you're hot you say so, if you're cold you say so. Others think they are less a man if they don't talk like they have steel balls or some other kind of testosterone imbalance that they think makes them tough. Their just pigeon heads. So thank you for being straight, I appreciate that more than Mr. Bill trying to be the Terminator. 2.) You pick some of the best camp sites I watch on utube. I love seeing the places you go to, love your camera work and let's not forget you great sense of humor. Great combinations. Yeah, after all that butt kissing I'm not even going to ask you for money!! HaHa!! :-) Keep up the great work, thanks for bring so encouraging, all the best to you! Bibsoutdoors
Hi Bibs, I try to be myself in the videos, there is no acting just me in real life. All the best for 2017 and thanks for watching, Damian.
So entertaining. You are. Your vids lift me. thank you. Stay well. SID.
Another great vid. Watching your back catalogue now. Picking up lots of tips from your vids and 'waffling' 😊. That looked like a good spot. I've Mountain bikes all over Kielder but didn't recognize that trail. Wild camping now and have done 4 in the Cheviots and made a vid or two too. ATB
That walk and wild camp was in the area behind Leaplish park. I can't remember the exact location but there are logging tracks to explore.
great video mate cracking little spot have to have a camp soon atb
Thank you Muss, pleased to see your uploading again. Hope you see you out in 2017, ATB
You're hilarious, great video. LNT, perfect!
Brilliant footage mate , that’s a beautiful part of the world and it’s reet on our doorstep ( well , an hours drive or so ) we’ve not wildcamped there yet but once this lockdown is lifted we’ll certainly be following in your footsteps 😎
The best time for Kielder is from autumn until summer when the midgies come out and makes camping hell. There is no light polution so dark and clear for star gazing. Thanks for your comments and for watching, Damian.
worked great for me great video mate as always mate happy new year atb stuart
Thank you Stuart and atb for 2017. Damian
From your videos I've waded through so far, this woodland area must rank amongst my most favourite. Even from the video it's got a great vibe about the place. I'd have taken the British army arctic bag myself - you can always open the zip but you can't add what you don't have.
Cracking!
The arctic bag is warm but its size puts me off buying one. I carry around 35L in a pack so have choose gear which strikes a balance between weight/bulk and a comfortable, warm and safe night out in the hills.
@@Fell_Wanderer It's the only area I won't compromise on. Elsewhere I'll go minimalist, including the stove. I've done a minus 6 in the arctic bag and it was as expected -
warm as toast. I think it's rated to minus 15.
Great camp, great video
one of my favs Damien
That box in the pine tree looked like a bat house. Bats fly in up thru the bottom. Or it could be a Bigfoot feeder. Sounds like here, using the reservoir as a Private Lake. I would have made it a point to piss in their lake lol. Great Video Damian, Thank You for sharing it with us. ATB in 2017
Thank you, good luck for 2017. ATB, Damian.
Annoying copyright notices from Google. Half the time they get them wrong, I've got one video flagged and it is the wrong group claiming copyright. Dion and the Belmonts - The Wanderer is no longer protected by copyright in the EU.
Good video... I must've missed it the first time round. I need to get up to Kielder this coming year... got a few places I want to walk to but need to get myself a decent fulltime job before I can afford to go wild camping... can barely afford to hike.
Thanks for sharing.
cracking video Damian, all the best to you and the family, think I will have more bivi camps this year. Speak soon bud.
Thanks Pete, bivy wild camping is the way to go until the midgies come out to play. Hammocks are more comfortable but can be a bit of a faff to get setup right so thats why I like the bivy so easy to setup and lightweight, atb for 2017
Great video loved it 😎
This is the video that made my finger press the sub button 🔥
Great video. We get to see it as it is.
Just my cook kit to decide on and I am ready to go wild camping. Was nearly put off by some campers
I was scared to make a mistake. But you have shown me it doesn’t matter
Just get out
Big thank you 🔥
Hi Kenneth, thanks for your comment and subscribing. I could suggest gear to use but what works for me, might not work for you. In the beginning, I used cheap gear and upgraded later because I wanted more lightweight items, but thats usually more expensive. As you probably know from watching my videos, it doesnt have to cost much but has to be up to the job. I swear by the Crivit brand from LIDL, they usually get camping and hiking gear in the spring and doesn't cost the earth. Whatever you choose, good luck.
@@Fell_Wanderer well that’s news to me. Will have a gander in Lidl. Thanks for getting back to me. 🔥
Nice one, Happy New Year to your and your family. G.
Thanks same to you, ATB for 2017. Ps.. is that Gary who goes to Camp Gus?..
No, I'm the mad one who been trying to send you something for the past 6 months :) G.
Thatcher stole milk from children’s mouths Cow springs to mind!
Love your sentiments in this vid, you captured the essence of wildcamping in a nutshell! Really enjoyed this vid. We too had copyright/device availability on our last vid too, oh well lol. Will be checking some more camps of your later tonight. Great channel, subbed! All the best, Gareth&Zoe Wildcamps
I used a cover version by Eddie Rabbit of The Wanderer in my initial upload. Usually I run into copyright issues using original artist's music so I like to use covers. The irony is, Dion's version works fine apart from not being playable on some devices but will play on a PC or laptop. The cover version by Eddie Rabbit is shite compared to Dion & The Belmonts and wont play. There wasn't any copyright issues for months and recently it was muted. CZcams mentions that copyright status can change anytime. If there is a piece of music you are interested in using, check out its copyright status beforehand, this is a great help czcams.com/users/music_policies
ATB for 2017 and thanks for the sub, Damian.
Fell Wanderer Thanks Damian for the reply, yes we do check the youtube link for music policies beforehand, unfortunately it doesn't tell you if it'll be restricted to certain devices until after its been uploaded (never has on any songs we've used at least). Someone moaned about not being able to view our vid on a mobile device and we had to explain that we make the video's for our pleasure and record 1st and foremost, so we use music we personally use. It's a hard for some to understand this unfortunately but most will view the vids on a desktop machine if they really enjoy the content. There is always the option to view youtubes desktop site on a mobile device in any event, getting round any restrictions from copyright. Happy new year, hope you have a great 2017 too, Gareth&Zoe Wildcamps.
I totally understand where you are coming from as the same has happened to me with complaints about not being able to watch. Some people aren't techie minded and whine at the uploader for not being able to view the content. There are ways for them to get around the restrictions and I've explained how to in the video description. I make videos for my own enjoyment first as I don't make money from it so it annoys me when people whine caus they didn't like a video because of a piece of music or they didn't like the people I went camping with as they drank too much beer, its actually laughable and sad how people behave on CZcams. If I don't like a video or channel I just switch off or unsub. Anyway hope you have a great 2017, atb, Damian.
Great speech around the 26minute mark 👍
Hey bro, was at the Scottish Deer Centre yesterday with the kids and we went on the Carnivore tour with the education ranger wifie. Part of the tour is about the Northern Lynx. A beautiful animal indeed. She told us that they are about to reintroduce them to the wild in the UK and the chosen destination is....Keilder Forest. Not sure if you were aware of it but I thought I'd let you know. They'll certainly add an extra bit of interesting noises etc to disturb yer Yeti hunting.
Great video.
This just popped up so why not watch it 😂😂 looked like a good spot I've never camped up kielder but had lots of walks up there that tree looked spooky in the day light strange how the mind see thing's atvb jimmy 😎😎👍👍🤘🤘
I like Kielder but in a couple of months the midgies will be too bad. On a night time the sky is so dark its amazing the views of the stars, well worth a look before the light nights spoil it.
Tell that blackbird to put a sock in it he must be on redbull.
Yeah thought I had see this before bro, any way happy new year from NZ
Don't forget this is a reservoir, drinking water, we don't want drowned bodies floating in there.
Drowned bodies aren't the issue with clean drinking water. Bacteria and virus's get removed at the water treatment plant
they call you the fell wanderer they call you the fell wanderer you rome around around around around around LOL joking aside atb to you & yours damion. keep them coming. ps vid was put up 3 hours ago on new years eve & has 300 views. cheers
Thanks Geordie, I'm surprised its had so many views as its a re-upload. maybe people missed it first time around. Atb for 2017.
Hi Damian, as a playwright I understand where you are coming from when you mention the miner's. My first play The Redundant Blade was set during the miner's strikes of 1984.
I remember the miners strike, I was 17 and my dad was a mine worker. It was a tough time and my dad held out for as long as he could but went back to work towards the end of the strike. Thanks for your comment.
@@Fell_Wanderer I'm a bit older than you Damian but I remember it well. I was on the rally that went down to Whitehall in London. I carried the Banner. Give me a shout if you ever want to go on a wild camp - I'm in Wallsend.
Nice one!
Sorry I did see this the first time you posted. Nay goin to watch it agin.
It was uploaded a second time due to the audio track being muted because of copyright which made it unwatchable for first time viewers. ATB
Aye had the same problem at that water myself a while back. I had the 2* qualification and the insurance they asked for, but apparently there needs to be a certain number of craft on the water at the same time in order to assist in an emergency (muppets) so they can stick it. Best off heading west to Lake district or north into Scotland mate. Anyway rant over, class video cheers.
I don't rate Kielder water at all because of the restrictions, the wife wanted to camp at the Leaplish caravan park so I had no choice lol.. my escape was wandering into the forest for a wildcamp alone and perhaps sneaking onto the water with the Kayak but the ranger made it clear to us no one was allowed on the reservoir without going through all the red tape and shite. Its a joke that place, I don't bother fishing there anymore because of the small fish sizes and hassle off the midgies. I love the Lake District and Scotland, and if more people had sense we should all head off north away from Northumbrain water and Kielder. ATB for 2017
Thankyou Damian I have tried no luck yet will keep trying
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Cheers for posting mate, and a belated happy christmas and new year to you and yours bud. Keep posting, and hopefully get to meet up soon, are you coming to Edale this year? Stay safe pal, and all the best, Nick
Hi Nick, I'm not sure what I'm doing yet, would like to go down sometime
as there are a few good lads I wanna meet. I haven't got time to camp with
everyone one on one so the bigger meet ups are the way to go. ATB
Bitta love for the Quo!
Cracking video mate, great location, love your Kielder wild camps, where did you get that hoodie from. Oh and that wasn't a woodpecker it was the Predator lol 🤘
I bought the hoodie from Aldi when they had the fishing gear in, thanks for your comment.
That's soon zoom lens on your camera, pretty powerful !
It has a x12 optical zoom and x28 digital which only zooms into the pixels but the quality is ok.
Works OK in the States.
hi Damien I remember this one. love dion atb Gordon
only £3m for insurance, bargain...., Great to see the flint and steel in action too, where did you learn the woodpecker call, it was uncanny :) Another nice film buddy, thumbs up.
3 million liability insurance incase my small kayak and I cause damage on a grand scale like a massive tsunami, or paddle to fast creating a wave of water causing the dam to break and flood the North Tyne valley, millions of pounds worth of damage and the good feeling knowing I was adequately insured lol..
it might chuck pine cones at ya if you snore at night
damn that looks like New Jersey
Class video, again. You did a good job early on of hiding ya quivering lip ha ha. Borrow my SNUGPAK cocoon anytime you want fella. All the best for 2017 .
Thanks for watching and ATB for 2017
Awesome vid..great location..where did you get that hoodie.?
Its a fishing snood from either Aldi or Lidl, can't remember where now, thanks for watching
liking your videos buddy where did ya get your hoodie thing from think it would come in right handy here in South Wales
I got the hoodie from ALDI here in the UK. They don't have them in stock all the time but usually in the spring with the fishing gear. Thanks for watching.. ATB.
That box in the tree looks like a owl box.
Its a big box fo small birds, I thought it might be for red squirrels or pine martins but would certainly make a nice home for owls.
I'm pretty sure that you get public liability insurance with your membership in the British Canoe Union up to that sort of value - might be worth checking out.
Thanks for the info, I don't go out that often now and I would still have to do a competence test to acess the water. Its their loss as I won't use their campsite and facilities now and the lake district is only 2 hours away. Atb, Damian.
Well that's Kielder off my list then, I'm not abandoning society to have some git chopping my treehouse down every five year lol, Scotland it is then :-D
we were told our boat needed to be a hard bottom boat.
Its all about making money from you. Do what I did and never go back, take your custom elsewhere. Go to the lakes and have a much better experience.
The campsite warden at one of the Kielder sites was a local lad who lives near me and told my wife, "If your husband wants to use the lake he will be disappointed". I was and won't go back.
Great rant ! We all have the right to roam and boat on lakes... Can I ask which camera you use ? as I do Geocaching and would like to improve the quality for my CZcams uploads... Keep up the good work and happy Wild Camping - Simon :)
The camera I use is a Panasonic HC-X900, they don't make it now but have newer models out. I also have a Gopro Hero4 Silver but prefer the Panasonic, as it has image stabilisation, a zoom lense and better microphone. Thanks for watching, atb, Damian.
Thank you Damian for the info it was really useful - I have a Panasonic HC-V210 with image stabilizer + Zoom ! I thought about getting the GoPro 4 silver, but now I will stick with my trusty Panasonic - Thank you and happy wild camping :)
Great video. Do you mind me asking what cooking pot that is?, looks ideal.
I got the cookset from a local camping shop, think it was Go Outdoors or United British Caravans in Gosforth, Newcastle., can't remember which now. It only cost £12 about 5 years and not sure of the make but I've seen the same style of cookset in lots of places where 1 pot nests inside the other and the lids are cups you can eat/drink from. They are made from aluminium so not as sturdy as steel but I've cooked in hot fires with them and havent melted or misformed so happy with them, thanks for watching..
Thanks for the reply mate, I'll check out my go outdoors.
Ye, Thatcher.. gives witches a bad name, but
that was a bat box by the way, hence the hole in the bottom.
Good call ! ty
Thanks, I was wondering what the box was for. Atb, Damian.
"I'm not spiritual or anything like that" of course you are man. atb jB
An interesting remark, I don't believe in any current religions but I believe some great power or being must havr created the universe but then my brain starts to hurt because if there is a supreme being or higher entity, whatever you want to call it. Who created it?.. Thank for watching..
spiritual as in nature, you spend time in nature, we are part of nature,
what ruck sack you usin in this video please? you're bang on about gettin home and reflectin i do the same.
Its a Karrimor SF Sabre 35L backpack, very comfortable and lightweight. I can get an old model crusader cookset in one side pocket and my tarp/shelter in the other pocket. Its a adequate for overnight camping but a bit small for winter use when you need extra clothing.
Fell Wanderer Brilliant. Al Ave a look at em!
Ref: Your Rant-
All you need to do, is get yourself a BCU 2 star certificate and along with that you get your £3000000 worth of public liability insurance.
But to get that, you'd need to join a kayak/canoe club and join the BCU.
I won't be going back to Leaplish water park, Kielder. The Lake District is only 2 hours travel from my home and I don't need any certificates of competence or what ever they are called. Joining a kayak club is a good idea though. ATB
To be honest kayak/canoe clubs aren't really my thing but that's pretty much the only way you can get the certification.
If you're thinking about coaching or instruction though, you could do a hell of a lot worse than get in touch with Kim Bull who's a 5 star coach in our area (Northumberland/Tyne & Wear) and a natural teacher. I did a couple of weekends with him back around (I think?) 2013 ish paddling hardshell Canadians and I've never looked back paddling wise.
I currently paddle a Gumotex Palava 400 so maybe we could get a couple more pump hull paddlers and see if Kim could put a training program together for us? It'd cost of course but honestly, it's money invested rather than spent.
I've done quite a bit of time paddling Ullswater since 2008, so you never know, we might bump into each other anyway!.
Keep up the good work anyway.
cheers
Steve
No wolves, no big cats, no bears, no alligators, and no snakes. Easy camping.
Damian, what size/litres is your backpack mate
The pack is a Karimor Sabre SF 35 litre. Sometimes it's is a bit small for some camp trips but you feel the benefit of less weight on your back.
@@Fell_Wanderer cheers for the info Damien. Merry Christmas mate.
hi Damian.im gutted mate can't watch due to copyright issues
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Forestry Commission are hell bent on destroying easy access to the forest without using pay and display fell wanderer, walked out to the bloody bush earlier this year and we parked at Lewis Burn car park, went back a few months later and got stopped by forestry commission bloke in his pick up truck, car park closed because of forestry work he said but added it`s not opening up to the public again and that there are plans to close other easy access car parks as well. he did say that walking in the forest is still ok but would have to use the pay and display in the future, it`s all about the money...
They are greedy money grabbers and thats putting it politely, Its a shame they are doing that, it will only make people go elsewhere rather than get ripped off. The last straw for me was when they wanted me to do a training course and receive a certificate of competence just to access the water with my kayak so won't camp there again at the recognised campsites. I'll still wild camp but will park on the small verges and layby's where its safe to do so but even then they will put no parking signs up which doesn't bother me as they won't clamp the car because they have to put specific signs saying clamping will be done before they can legally do it, which won't happen because the roads are still public highways unless you drive onto the forest tracks which are private
Tried to post a question on Kielder website asking why the car parks are being closed, any posts on the website have to go through an administrator, needless to say its not appeared and no email from admin explaining whats going on. Seems they have everything sewen up nice and tight with no way of questioning Forestry Commission online. Forgot to say, like the videos.
yee naaawww it makes sense lol
Any snakes?
Didn't see any snakes but the weather was cold so they may not have come out of hybernation.
With you man.... the warden and the insurance ..... ridiculous.... In Canada they have boaterexam.com (internet based boating exam... for a nice fee) .... more like boaterscam.com
Its a scam and a way to make money. I won't go back to Kielder and use that camp site ever again. Its a massive lake and you hardly see a boat on there. Its such a waste of a great resource.
@@Fell_Wanderer I hear ya.....
Bloody job's worth. What sodding good is an empty lake. EU nonsense or what? stuff him, i would have gone for it up the other end of the lake. Makes me angry. Great vid mate, enjoyed it the second time around as well. Cheers Moose
Thanks for watching Moose, the thought of going in the reservoir had crossed my mind, but the family was stopping at a waters edge campsite and the ranger had mentioned to my wife I wasn't allowed on the water. I didn't want to risk being kicked off the site, if I'd been there alone and stealth camping, I would have gone kayaking anyway, ATB.
Thats fair enough Damian lad. I just don't get the British mindset any more. Wheres our sense of adventure and sharing got too mate?, imagine that twat trying this in the 70's and 80's, my old man would have told him to get stuffed. Sodding red tape and oversight has stolen the imagination out of our kids. They just want robots on shopping websites all day buying tack i reckon, lol. :-) Any how, lovely views bro. Cheers Moose
Sometimes it's really nice not watching the news. Here in the US we are bombarded with Democrats vs. Trump drama on minute by minute basis. But if you shut the TV off it is all gone!
Has CZcams removed this video as unable to watch
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Fell Wanderer cheers ill try the laptop thanks
Did you take your cycling proficiency test certificate with you. That might do
It won't be long before they ask for that, a CBT for bicycles.
Doesn't work ! Says "Video is not available." Maybe copyright issues? Music,maybe ?
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Video isn't working mate
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Fell Wanderer thanks just watched it,looking forward to another kayak video in the future.cheers,Paul.
Bugger me your not playing mate
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Won't work mate
It wont play on some devices like mobile phones and game consels but should play on a computer or laptop
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