Hello and welcome to my channel. Hope you're all feeling strong and well. What do you think of that last vlog? Biting off more than I could chew. What did you think? Well, I know exactly what you thought because I've been reading your comments. Just a nice steady woodland walk today. Nothing too strenuous. So yeah, I thought I was going to get pulled apart ripped a bit in the comments section after my last vlog when I didn't quite achieve what I wanted to. But I thank you for your kind words. Even though I didn't complete my challenge, I really enjoyed trying. It was great exercise and a great first time out this year while camping. So yeah, I got caught out. The gear that I had was just good enough and I did have a couple of other layers. So I wasn't chivering but definitely felt the cold at night. And I've got to say that at one point of it, I really did think to myself, why do I do this? I'm really enjoying it. Now let me just tell you about a YouTube that I've been watching lately. New to me, just discovering them. I've just discovered them and hope you're going to discover them as well. I'll leave a link in the description below of his channel, great channel and on his channel you will find him hiking and wild camping and waffling on. Yeah, I don't know why I like him. But I do like him. He's absolutely brilliant and I think you'll enjoy it. So definitely check him out. Now on one of his more recent videos, he was saying that he got a comment from one of his viewers and he said, do you hike to wild camp or do you wild camp to hike? And I thought it was a really good question and it did make me think. Now if you'd have asked me two years ago when I kind of started this out, I would have said that I wild camp to hike because I basically wanted to get further deeper into the moors and things like that and discover more. And I always used to sort of annoy me that I had to go back to the car and I wanted to just stay there and then go on further the next day if you know what I mean. So I would have said that but now the booths kind of leveling out because I've really sort of got the book for this wild camping and I kind of want to master it. This is all still relatively new to me and certainly not that experienced but I'm really enjoying the journey. So that's where I am with it anyway but it's a great question. So do check out Tony Higgins channel. I will as I said before leave a link in the description below. He is a southerner now you can't have everything. It's a great channel, great guy, great content but he is a southerner. And make sure you let him know that Robert Juncker sent you. So it's reached that point where I'm going to lose the jacket. He's getting lovely and warm and it's lovely and quiet as well. Great day, great little walk in the woods to hope you're enjoying it. And when I've lost the jacket I'm going to have a little think about that question. Why do I do this? Why do we do it? Put your comments in the comments section below. Why do you hike? Why do you wild camp? There's other hobbies. Why do we do this? Yeah because it did get me thinking when I was doing that last walk. What the heck am I doing? I feel a lot better without the jacket. So why do I hike? Remember to let me know why you hike in the comments section below but I'm sure we're all very similar like minded in that it's not just one particular thing. I think first of all for me it's the randomness out today just like any other time you're out. Anything could happen. It's got random ingredients. Something just ran through the bushes there. And that was random. Yeah you could see anything. You could see anybody. You could meet anybody. And they ever change in environment every time you go up. I've been on this walk before on this trail before but it's different every time. The different skies, the different weather, the sunsets and the sunriders unique every time. And you've got to get out there to see them. There's nothing I like better than when you just spot a bit of wildlife, fox or a deer. Birds of prey love seeing them and do get some buzzards around here. I haven't seen any deer around here for a long time but it's just a bit of a lot of it and it is that random ingredient that as I walk down this path. I could see anything. That is definitely something that attracts me to hiking. Now the wild camping I really enjoy just having to get by on what you can carry. The basics, the basic living of wild camping. And I even enjoy the preparing of the roots and reading of the maps even though I do go wrong. Yes I do know I need to brush up on them skills. There's definitely something good about not having the home comforts around you and there's definitely something good about not having people around you. I mean I just don't like people. That's a joke. Actually not having people around you for a while can be good for you socially I think because I think it can make you appreciate people, your family around you and the home comforts. It does make you appreciate that a little bit more. Now there's someone down there, big in a hole or bury in something. I'm hiding behind a tree just watching him. I think I'm going to go down and have a word. I don't know what he's doing. You might be at sea. Right, I'm at the distance. I've got problems walking in. But I'm really intrigued as to what he's doing. This is the randomness that I was talking about. This is a bit crazy random. I'm going to have to go down and have a word. I owe it to you guys to go down and see what's going on. So I'm still at the same tree and he's really going for it. He's putting a lot of effort into whatever he's doing. He's got a shovel and he's like saying really going for it. It's interesting. Okay, he's leaving now so I'm going to go down exactly where he was doing his digging and whatever. I don't know what he would do. So that's what he would dig in out. So that's what he would dig in out. So that's what he would dig in out. Is it a watering trough? Maybe spotting deer. Maybe deer will eventually come here and drink out of that. That's all the leaves that he was clearing out. And I was right over there, right through them trees. That's where we were. And I couldn't see the trough. It looked like he was just buried a body. My imagination. So where were we before? We were just going to see the tree. I was going to see the trough. It looked like he was just buried a body. My imagination. So where were we before? We were disturbed by the guy buried in the body. Well, he wasn't buried in the body. He was just clearing out an old trough for wildlife and doing some good. And I never doubted it. So yeah, hiking, wild camping. Why do we do it? What's so good about it? Well, what I've realised is, as I'm walking along now when I'm out on the trail and camping out, I am in the now. I'm living in the now, in the moment. Nothing matters, but what is around me and what is happening right now. And it's a good place to be. And when I'm out on the trail, I also feel like I'm slowing down time. Time seems to move a little bit slower. The pace of life is a lot better. And it's a much simpler way of life, of course, when you're camping out, when you're wild camping. And I really like that. So I'm going to the end of this vlog now. Hope you've really enjoyed it. I have enjoyed your company. Or of course, I would have been all by myself. Another thing is that it's absolutely free. In this expensive, now very expensive world. We need some free exercise. This costs you nothing. And you won't find a gym like this. So that's about it for this one. I don't know where I'll be next time, but I know I want you with me. I upload vlogs very regularly, at least once a month. So I will see you in the next one. Bye!