oh hi guys how you doing so I know a lot apologies for how long this has taken
me to do a lot of you been asking what I have with me when I do my wild camping
and landscape photography trips so I thought I'd go through everything I bring with
me on my trips I wanted to leave it a few months because I do keep changing my
gear and I wanted to make sure anything I do talk about I can actually recommend
that I've used enough to do so so okay I talked about the everything I've got in
my bag this firstly is a Osprey Kestrel 68 liter rucksack absolutely fantastic I
can't recommend this enough it is a stunningly well-built back soon any well
designed yeah not too heavy but it's very very I mean I've used it quite a
lot and there isn't any signs of marks on the at all so I can definitely
recommend that bag okay what we've gone the outside well I don't this is kind of
a new thing but trekking poles it's something I've only done in the last
source three to six months I used to laugh at people using trekking poles but
to be honest with you when you're carrying a lot of weight normally around
20 kilos these are a tremendous help and I probably wouldn't be able to do half
the stuff I do without my trekking poles so they're just Leki quantum
the quantum checking poles were particularly expensive 50 60 quid that
sort of thing I'll put a link to everything that I
talk about in in the description of the video below so if you want to click
on anything it would take you through to Amazon and you can pick them up so yeah
very very good they're very I do recommend that okie-dokie what else have
we got in the bag on the other side I've got my tripod and I just in clip this
drop back down there right then so the tripod II used I bought this solely for
hiking landscape photography wild camping it's a Sirui T1204X carbon fiber
tripod it's extremely light it's less than a kilo without the the tripod
leveler I've got there and without the head I think it's probably about 1,500
in total but it's an extremely extremely well-made tripod it's really really
strong I didn't expect it to be quite as sturdy as it is to be
- so ya 1,500 1,500 grams those so with the with the ball head there and the
tripod leveler there so this is really really really good I do I'm very
impressed with the the Sirui brand of tripod anyway value for money this is
exceptional really really do enjoy using this tripod I do use it for my pro work
because while it's that strong it's a really good video tripod because it's so
light yeah so that's my tripod set up and this is the K10x Sirui tripod head
as well really really nice I like having just
the one of there to control the yet to control the movement of the camera and I
said that's the tripod leveling system which you can pick off Amazon for about
40 45 quid brilliant with olive do my panoramix they're really really quick
way of leveling the camera very very quickly and very easily
yeah love that system so yeah put a link to that in the bottom I can highly well
know a few of you actually sort of told me that you've bought these after
watching my videos as well so thanks for picking them up
hope you enjoy them they're brilliant really really really recommend them okay
what's next right then okay so back into the bag like a TARDIS this thing is it
actually contains loads so I work through what I put where I always have
my head torch this one is a Pezl actic core rechargeable head torch is
absolutely fantastic pick that up for about 40 pounds very
very good value for money anatase rechargeable stick in the car whatever
it takes of crocodiles and it's fully charged brilliant brilliant the power on
this thing is incredible definitely recommend that so that's the Petzl
actik core ill link to that and that's the okay well so we've got the next
pocket down hi this a bit of a luxury and for my YouTube channel
I always bring my drone and to be honest with you love some of the
photographs I get off this as well so this is a maverick air drone and I do
have a spare battery in one of the bugs as well but yeah just a mavic air
little tiny thing fantastic don't weigh anything
what are they way so they Tindra grams that is yeah good all right don't go
anywhere without my mavic air do like that
next thing on the back we've got my water hydration system this is an osprey
water bag it holds two liters are normally around the 1 and after two
liters depending you know how much walking I'm likely to be doing and two
weeks two liters is kind of a minimum for wild camping and if you're you know
going to be needing coffee or to cook your food and stuff like that so 2
liters and then on the side here I've got another another metal sort of water
bottle which has got a half a liter in there as well so that won't probably be
for the coffee if I'm if I know I need to make extra allowances for the coffee
that's there ok and tripods in the pocket on the front sometimes if I'm
going somewhere don't know and I don't exactly know where I'm going me camping
I always put a map in the front of the bag I'll open up the bag there's a
compartment on the top there for your car keys I don't intend to use my car
keys in there ok so this is the order attend to pack everything mainly so that
as I get to it location if I want to take a photograph as soon as I open my
bag I can get access to my camera straight away so that's the last thing
to go in the bag is the camera bag ok so this I can't array I can't recommend
highly north this is a 10 burr BYOB 10 so this is a fantastic little ICU I
suppose they're called and just it gets it's perfect to me I've got my 70 to 200
f/4 lens Sony I've got my Sony a7 3 with a 24 to 70 f/4 lens on there I've also
got a small rig out bracket over I mean these are keys and custom for the for
the sony but you don't need to get a custom one you can get cheap ones off
Amazon and then I've got my Tokina fearian 20 mil f2 so that pops in the
side there as well so I just goes in the bottom there dead easy nice that lens
out is further than football camping because it's so small and then that will
just go in the top there obvious little polarizer on there on the top there as
well so that will go in there I've also got I've got obviously the peak design
left straps on there as well so I can wander around with that I'll keep my
filters perhaps I should be doing this but I'll keep my filters
just in the front here I've got a nd grad I tend to take one Andy Grove this
is in an nd8 0.9 grad filter so that will go in that one that's ready and so
that's not going to break but in this pocket
I've got my two glass Nissi filters i've got ND 8 and a 10 stop Nissi filter
these are both got rubber gaskets on that foam gasket so they protect each
other quite nicely so I know that they're glass and they always go facing
up so they'll be fine there like that on the side then because don't ask me why
but the sony doesn't have a intervalometer built in so my
intervalometer goes in the side there try not to use that if I can avoid it
but yeah with the sony not have been built in the intervalometer a choice I
guess and on the other side there I've got a I tried several loads of these in
every single pockets there's just a lens wide there they actually got one in the
top there and in the top there also I've got some spare batteries spare one for
the video video camera spare one for the sony and another lens wipe ok so that's
that's what I can't recommend these enough I do it did actually use to use
the f-stop I see I've got two or three of these as well
I don't think the quality is comparable between the two I think the f-stop bags
are good and they're great when they're in the f-stop and your bag or whatever
you're using I think they're fantastic for that but for wall camping and just
being able to they actually it's just a standalone bag as well it doubles
obviously zone bag your subject I can't fault it I think superb these are good
but definitely when you've got any weight in and you're hanging them up
like that I just don't feel that the field is rigid as this so yeah can't
rake that enough the ten Burt BYOB ten this is I've obviously got the peak
design strap on there as well so it just means that when I get there I can wander
around with that like a standalone bag actually fantastic so that is my camera
system ID anything off oh yeah on the back then I've got my filter
holder which scripts in the back there this is a format hi-tech filter fire
crest filter holder nice quality metal foil to hold up good so that whole
system weighs in at three point seven kilos so not bad since I've gone to
mirrorless things we've got a lot lighter which it's good
next in the bag I tend to keep a access quick access to of my water so my
waterproofs I've got them in a separate dry bag basically this is an eight-litre
Osprey dry bag and I've got my Rabb the top I think it's called an drab
waterproof trousers just it quick if you just start tipping it down and get
access to them dead quick and yeah that it's always handy to keep them at the
top of the bag okay that's that that boat looks good because it compresses
down quite nice that jacket is a bit heavy to be honestly I've got a cheap
one which is though a good waterproof Ramon tan which is not as not as
insulated but it weighs quite a lot less than that so if I'm conscious of weight
I will swap out that Rab I do actually tend to keep all my bags all my clothing
everything enjoy bags bio I've ordered the van Gogh dry bags because they're
all different colors and basically what though is the green one I'll keep all my
clothes in it so I know that when I'm looking for gloves or something or a hat
it's going to be in the green bag I might have a thermal pair of trousers in
here as well which you're just just there but this is pretty much all I have
in here so what you have really really light packable Montana gloves and this
is a RAB microlight think they call them down insulated jacket if we're going
somewhere super cold I'll bring this one instead this is a rabble Ektron so it's
a bit bit more yeah a bit big as a pack down but it's a lot more insulated than
that one but this one's really good because it goes underneath my waterproof
really well so that is the RAB microlight I think they call them
fantastic little coats really really good yeah what happened so and as I say
we're going anyway cold I've got some insulated trousers or put in there as
well so the green bag is for all the clothes and that weighs in at just over
500 grams nothing at all all IDEs up though next up I've got my orange bag
and in this we've got this is all my cooking stuff so
know that everything that's gonna be potentially - he goes into this one so
I've got metal cup for my coffee don't always bring it but there's a hip flask
I've got my coffee only bring a little bit of that just try and keep that
weight down a new addition to my camping gear but one of my favorite additions is
my Aeropress coffee press can't can't tell you how good that is if you're
gonna if you're gonna start while camping pick that and you like coffee
pick one a my opposite the one of the best things you'll buy is that at work
as well it's actually fantastic coffee out of its stunning pot noodle I like
pot noodles because they taste great but they don't weigh anything without any
water in so just keep weight down pot noodles are really good drop any dry
food is a really good way to go I used to use the the Wayfarer and me
also I found them to be a bit heavy so yeah so we've got our hiking snack bar
their breakfast bars I normally go for something like a nature bar over you're
kinda caught on and then a couple of soups if I if I fancy and then that's
just the measuring spoon for the coffee and then a couple of sports I normally
have two of these with me one for the coffee to stir the coffee and one then
to eat so keep one clean at all times makes life a lot some more pleasant on
the mountain and that weighs in at 800 grams 800 grams okay next up I've got
this little pouch this is just something I know to go for go - as soon as I get
to the tent the tents been put up this is one of the
things I need to keep handy it's got a few handy things in there like a toilet
roll for obvious reasons a little light which will clip on in the inside of the
tent this is superb actually tiny little thing there's no way anything and it
literally lights the tent up a lot of that so this is a LUMO LUMO little thing
I don't know brilliant actually yeah nicely got paracetamol I never go
anywhere without power seat moles ear plugs just in case it's howling will
wind and a few spare tent pegs just in case somebody forgets them okay so this
I mean cars have just picked up one of these each this is a sea2summit eros
pillow I've gotta be honest I've used it two or three times carousels and use
those yet it's just an inflatable pillow this really is just a couple blow
you know gay quite soft and blow up too much it weighs literally nothing and
it's so comfortable it's about 25 pounds but I can't write I can't rate that and
off I mean that's going to be about 30 grams that thing is just ridiculous
yeah 30 grams absolutely superb really really really really good thing that is
I'm glad I picked that up so that's that little pouch there sometimes I'll put
another spare battery in there for the camera or for the drone or something as
well so just so I've got batteries in other places yep so that's just a little
bag that came free with allo allo Pro bag I bought ones what's next now that
the blue bag the blue bag doesn't always come with me it should do really because
it's got first-aid stuff in it it's got if one goes to our hot Sun Tan Lotion I
normally go for a fact 250 because there's nothing worse than worrying
about sunburn on the mountain and a head net if you're going anywhere that you
might get mosquitoes or something and lip-lip suntan lotion another cloth for
my lenses spare batteries strangely they shouldn't be in there but spare
batteries for the little light I should have been in the other bag a compass so
this is a bag that I know you know that these these non essentials are in their
pocket perhaps the compass maybe you shouldn't really go anywhere without a
first-aid kit I normally use that for obviously for paracetamol justify that
but bandages are in there and stuff okay so the next thing this is looks nothing
but it's absolutely fantastic it is literally a kneeling mat but it has so
many uses if you're cooking and stuff you can knead on this while you've got
your while you're cooking the dinner you if you're sitting outside with your
friends socialising you can you can use this and sit on keeps the cold away from
you it literally weighs nothing it's got those uses and to be honest with you
when I'm sleeping I'll put this at the bottom of my sleeping mat so that if my
feet go off here then they're still not touching the cold surface the fleet will
be on this so it's really handy I wouldn't go any over that if I actually
take that for my long normal landscapes over shoots a normally take that with me
as well just goes in the side see a wet rock or whatever you've got something to
sit on nicely brilliant that's three pound and
literally no point way and that because it doesn't write anything next thing
I've got is this water to go but I'll only take this if I'm going somewhere
that you need to try and keep water weight down and
I know there's actually going to be a clean water source no point taking this
up a mountain if you know that the top is not to be any water but it's
absolutely brilliant he literally put a non stagnant water obviously from a from
a stream hasn't gotten the animals or something nearby stick that in there
give it 15 minutes shake it around give it a chance for the carbon and all the
stuff that's in the filter to react and then you drink out of that it's
completely perfect yeah this is about 13 pound this just recommended to me in a
shop when we're in Snowdonia at once and it's been fantastic it really has saved
me bacon on a few occasions so next I've got one of my favorite purchases the
lids come off it but this is my Jetboil I can't tell you how good this is it's
absolutely brilliant so the Jetboil has everything inside a little camping stove
so that clips on there and that screws on there and then that goes on top of
there and then it's a wind proof it but if you get the right gas seal bought
it'll go down to minus 25 degrees it's absolutely fantastic cook your dinner in
it you can boil you can use it as a kettle it's you know it's just brilliant
then I've seen another spork on the side there but no these are quite expensive
but they're actually I bought this I think from Decathlon or something like
that and it was about sixty pounds so it's one of the best 60 pounds I've ever
spent to do with the wall camping it's absolute I wouldn't go anywhere without
that in fact another thing I take to work with me and it's very very handy
indeed so just remember a lot goes back in
there goes on top of that that and then what also should be in there just fell
out is you can buy them with the ignition with the igniter built into and
I wouldn't do that I would recommend just getting them on that without the
ignition built in and just get a separate ignition thing because the ones
built in do tend to be temperamental and you'd have to bring one of these
separately anyway so they said this would be my option it's a tad small but
if you're going on your own this is these the Jetboil zip I think it's
called jab or zip so it's a smaller of the
family they do do giant ones and that weighs in 500 grams actually heavier
than I thought at 500 grams
right okey-dokey next up we've got my exped downmat this is just been a
godsend this again was recommended to me by a few friends few shops I know my
friend grant uses these they are absolutely superb there they can be
quite expensive but if you look out for money that on a deal that I think I paid
about 6070 pound for this one I've got two unfamiliar one for carats and it's a
fantastic little sleeping mat so you comes with a pump and what you do is you
you you give it the pump ball inflate it like that but it's actually got down in
the top of the the it's like a lie low but it's got down in the top of it
so it keeps your body heat away your your body temperature away from the cold
surface by about five or six centimetres and yeah obviously because it's got the
down insulation it's - we can go to about minus six I think
and I'll put accurately how far down in temperature you can go but this is it's
really really comfortable I can't really recommend this in office it's been
superb so yeah very very highly recommended that so we're definitely
something you don't want to compromise on when you're getting into wall camping
and you're gonna start spending money and this is definitely one of the things
I would recommend you spend the money on a good sleeping system ok next thing
I've got is my tent so I've got two tent options now this is just kind of falling
out the back so I'm doing it all properly but this is my Crookes x2 storm
tent this is a four season winter very very strong boat like an absolute tank
ten is an expensive tent but I tell you what I can't I can't speak highly enough
of the Crocs tents they're absolutely absolutely bomb-proof
and uh knowing in good strong wind this is a very heavy wind this is going to be
absolutely rock-solid as well so what I tend to do though is I tend to pack the
tent poles and the pot and the tent separately this is an expert snows will
bag this is actually designed to inflate the mat so you trap all the wind the air
in there and you can push the air straight into the mat using that but I
find it works very very well as aids wet tent back so what do because this is
an inner tent in a pitch first I touched the owl to put the outer part of the
tent in in first and I can grab the the inner straightaway and then obviously
when you're packing off it's dead easy to get it in the bag when it's wet
having this hole at the bottom there I can just sort of push all the air
through it and and it will compress down nicely into the into the bag obviously
you wrap that around there and it keeps everything else I'm being getting wet as
well this is quite a heavy 10 it's as I say for season 10 it's a very strong
tent so there's no real compromise on the 10 off it's probably the most
important part of any wall camper for me I wouldn't be I wouldn't recommend
anybody goes out and by compromises on on the quality of a 10 well if you're
going to do that you need to be aware of sort of environments you're going to be
pitched in and make sure that even if you bought a cheap tent make sure it's
going to be okay for the environment like the wind the rain and it's just
especially in the UK when sister unpredictable oh I've I'll be very
thankful I've been in this tent on a few occasions so this tent I want by the way
in that because I haven't got the poles on it but together with the poles this
way is about 2.6 2.7 kilo so it's quite a heavy ten but it's definitely worth
it's worth carrying extra weight for that okay so next is the poles for the
tent say this is part the crook system I have the poles separately so I can push
them down the back of the bag and then I can force everything else that's not
rigid down into the bank it just means that I get to save quite a lot of space
and also it just means that I can get there I haven't got to worry about that
so much I can just get the poles out straight away I can pitch the poles up
and get them ready to go without anything below in a way so obviously
when you're taking a tent putting the tent up on a mountain and it's blowing a
gale all you want you want a little of these very very light bags hanging
around as possible so I tend to put this separate so I've got that this in the
bag if I'm putting the tent or POC and leave the tent in the bag well then you
just got this one one bag to get out so yeah that's how I tend to pitch and
obviously the tent pegs are in there always carry a few extra tent pegs as
well so that's the tent sorted and I think it's my sleeping-bag so
obviously there's a second part the second system is your tent first being
your am out a third being your sleeping bag
three areas of wall camping you do not want to compromise on I I can't I do all
their sleepy back it's a it's a rapper sent five hundred it as you can see it
compresses down to absolutely nothing it's a down sleeping bag and there's an
age-old debate to be debated whether or not a down versus a synthetic I would go
down every time but obviously it's crucial that you keep the down bag dry
down compresses less it weighs less so it compresses more weighs less and it's
a better insulator so certainly I mean we in this country never really it's
that cold unless you're on the top of Benton areas or something like that top
of Snowden in the winter but this is a good I'm quite a cold sleeper so this is
probably most of this would be my winter sleeping system but during the summer
because I've never actually camped anywhere in the summer that's been that
warm and this has been a good bag for taking me throughout the year so very
very highly recommended this sleeping bag as they just compresses down into
this little bag and yeah it's been really good it does actually shed off a
little bit of water on the outside of it as well so if it does get slightly wet
in the night with condensation it's not actually a problem for the sleeping bag
so yeah very very good so this weighs in at
twelve twelve hundred grams at one point two kilo so not the lightest sleeping
bag but yeah I do really like that that is everything I think I'll just check
that I've missed anything out but yeah just a little water ball on the side
there 400 mil anything as recommend it's put in just a few sugary snacks I've
known about harrybo's or something in that pocket there a Snickers or a char
bar in that one anything sugary you can bring fruit or
whatever jelly babies just to keep your sugar up then important as you're hiking
but that is pretty much everything so that's the gear sorted there's a few
other things I wanted to talk to you about and put important things about
while camping and landscape photography and just things that you need to be
aware of things you need to plan for sort of thing so the obviously the
difference crucially when you're buying gear is that you make sure if you're
going out for the first time you're buying gear for the right season so if
you're going out in December you make sure you buy in winter come
in gear it's very important that you know the limits of your gears not very
many things out there that are actual foresees in gear if you're going to use
anything that's for season it means you're going to sweat in it in the
summer or if it's a suitable for the summer you're probably going to freeze
in the winter so make sure you do dress accordingly and you do pack accordingly
and your tent it's going to be suitable for the other the summer or camping
conditions so it needs to be strong in the window needs to be insulated it
needs to you know make sure you're going to be safe as your sleeping bag meaning
needs to make sure that if the temperatures do drop you're going to be
insulated and the sleeping mat meat needs to make sure that you're off that
cold ground so definitely make sure you know the limits of your camping gear
everything will be rated so do keep an eye on that when you're buying it always
prepare for the worst of your obviously with Britain it's quite unpredictable
but we never actually get that cold unless you're on the top of a mountain
or top of been nervous or something like that top of Snowdon in the winter but do
be prepared for obviously hope for the best
but be prepared for the worst weather as well I always bring waterproof so I
always bring windproof so I always bring it down jacket just in case and if
you're sitting around outside talking to your friends you can't get called like
that anyway it's never that warm in and on a night in Britain so it's always
worth carrying them close do check the weather before you go a couple days
before and again on the morning you go or the night before you go just to make
sure look at the pressure map see if you can see any storms coming in take it
deadly serious you can get stuck and been there done that so yeah do take the
weather serious and do as much research as you can and be prepared for it I
wouldn't recommend buying cheap gear and because a lot of it breaks it doesn't
doesn't I mean I started off with it with the bottom either bottom the range
stuff and it did me a few times but then you don't feel as confident and it
doesn't seem like it's gonna last and obviously if we were mounting off you're
somewhere away from home you want to be confident in the gear that you're using
so I wouldn't recommend and it's Falls economy as well because you world
companies addictive you are going to enjoy it so as soon as you start
enjoying it you can end up going out and buying the the better stuff anyway just
so it's going to last you longer I mean that my tents and all my stuff I hope is
gonna last me a long time otherwise it is an awful lot of money to waste
so yeah I wouldn't recommend buying cheap gear make sure you're not on
private land it's very very difficult sometimes to find out why the lands
private or public access if you are going to be on private land make sure
you ask permission first for whoever you're whoever's land it is
they can get really really difficult with you and ask you to shift on in the
middle of night hour so that's not very nice and you can be faced with fines in
certain instances as well so yeah don't camp on someone's land without their
permission don't wear cotton I'm wearing synthetic everything I've got a
mid-layer quite thick base later on and then underneath that I've got a sports
t-shirt on she's a nice sports t-shirt and that's crucial he said that if you
if you're hiking everybody you'll get into your tent and you're soaking wet
because you've been sweating it whatever the the clothes are gonna wick the
moisture away from our body so during the night because the moisture will get
further away from my body and then it will dry if you're wearing cotton cotton
doesn't wick it stays wet and then obviously when you stop moving the the
moisture will go cold and then you could you could get ill just based on them on
how cold they you're and Hulk hold and wet your t-shirts and your clothing is
even dancer underwear and base layers you'll notice that they're all synthetic
and try and avoid any cotton on your body at all yeah so trousers boys always
bring up a pair windproof sizes from going up top of a mountain I'll bring
some thermal trousers as well for the winter just like a fleece line trouser
add a bit of extra weight but at least you know you're going to be safe this is
a great idea as a zip on hoodie and obviously got the hood there so if I'm
in the tent at night I can just chuck the hood over my head if it starts
getting cold and obviously then if it gets really cold I've got more work out
as well but no this is all this is all good because it's all breathable it
wicks everything away so it's been fun it's absolutely fantastic yeah I have an
idea where you're going to camp make sure you've researched the area
even if it's done you don't know exactly have an idea when you're going to camp
and anybody if you if if it's all possible make sure that somebody who's
not coming knows exactly where you're going to be camping as well just in case
you get into difficulties in the Avenue they know exactly where you were and he
goes wrong they know where to look and obviously you need to make sure that
there's options there for if it's ridiculously windy when you get there
you can calm down a little bit you can get out the window just have an idea a
bit of a bit of preparation so pack as light as possible I've got a bit
obsessive over the weight of all my gear purely because if I don't know how far
and then we walk you know how high I'm gonna be walking every kilo makes a
massive difference so our year I do tend to literally pack exactly what I need
with the exception of the vlogging camera and the drone oh yeah yeah
there's even down to batteries spare batteries and things like that so yeah
do do take notice of everything you're packing because it does all our job and
if you can save a half a kilo a couple of grams here there and everywhere do it
honestly you will you all be thankful for doing it yeah definitely definitely
want to keep an eye on the weight of your bag and I'm just gonna say again
don't leave any mess anywhere if you're going to anything you take up a mountain
bring down the mountain there's an awful problem in Snowdonia and a few other
places I've been with people while camping and leaving that rubbish there
it's it's gonna make it very very difficult for the rest of us to enjoy
these environments if it looks like somebody's just sort of abandoned
everything there looks like Glastonbury some parts of Snowdonia so yeah please
don't do leaving any litter it's it's it's make it's making its spoiling the
environment and it was completely unacceptable really I don't know why
people do it bring a bag I normally use the bag I
have my food in just to chuck all my food but waste in there and then
obviously if you need to use a toy passivity to make sure you dig deep
enough to form a toilet but yeah please be respectful for the land and other
people that might be enjoying it as well anyway that is it off probably rambled
on too much I hope that has been useful and I hope I'm going wrong if there's
anything that anybody can say that perhaps I needed to add to the video
feel free to drop me a comment I look forward to that any tips advice for me
that's more than welcome to hear that as well but yeah please go out and enjoy
the the environment please go out enjoy the mountains be responsible have a
great time thanks so much for watching take a
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