Hello and welcome to another video. This is just a quick video and it's my just not even top three or in any particular order. It's just three practical hiking tips for you from me. Try and test it. Let's get into it. Number one, gaffer tape, gorilla tape, whatever you want to call it, it's tape. Wrap some of this tape around your hiking poles or just one pole because you can fit a decent amount of it on there. It doesn't weigh anything, it doesn't get in the way and it is excellent for a myriad of different uses. I've used it to, I've had sliced holes in my down jackets, I've used it to patch up them. You can patch up your tent, you can use it for first aid. There's all sorts of different things that you can do with it and it's definitely worth doing and spending a little bit of time just wrapping some around your hiking pole for in case you ever do need it. And that's as simple as that and that's number one. Number two on the practical hiking tip list is bread bags or little plastic bags to be used as camp shoes. When you get to camp at the end of a long day, instead of taking an extra pair of shoes or some crocs or flip flops or whatever it may be, use the bread bags, put your dry socks on, bread bags over the socks and then you can put your feet back in your wet shoes. Your socks still stay dry. As much as it costs for two small loafs of bread, you chuck the bread bags on, your wet shoes go over the top, do all your stuff off the come and your feet are still dry and it's taken up no room in your pack. It's a no-brainer. Number three, shoe laces, tying your shoe laces. I mean everyone takes it for granted, you know, you learn to tie your shoes when you're a nipper and you never you never second-guess it. Especially with some hiking boots. My Solomon GTX, I call GTX, my Solomon, the shoe laces when not tied this way would come undone. So when you're up and down the fells or mountains or whatever it may be, you can be guaranteed that your shoe laces aren't going to come undone because when you've got your backpack on, if it's a heavy backpack and your shoe lace comes undone, oftentimes you might have to take your backpack off just to tie your shoe lace because all that way on your back you might be going ass over elbow. The usual way of tying shoe laces is we go across like that, we create a loop, we go round through and then pull it on its side there and then often people will do a double but the problem with that is it's not quick release and it can be a bit of a pain to get off. Especially if you've got cold fingers and with this knot it's really simple, we're just tying it over again like that, create the loop, we go round, pull it through a little bit, geese on a little bit more of a loop there than the other side and then we go round and through there again, a little bit of adjustment and there it is. It's pretty simple, now that work work it's way undone and it's also quick release. So again over the top, a loop, we go round through and then we're going through again quick release, there it is. So it's a simple tip but it is a tip nonetheless and it's just a different way to tie your shoe laces so they're not going to come undone when they're clattered in mud and when you're when you're halfway up and out and then you don't want them to be coming undone. That's my top three practical long distance hiking tips, you're welcome. I'll see you all again soon, look after yourselves, namaste, now trouble.