Hello and welcome to my channel. Hope you are feeling strong and well. Now is a tarp shelter better than a tent? Let's talk about that. So I am in Dungeon Wood today. Dungeon Wood is in West Yorkshire, Huddersfield, my hometown and it's very near to Lockwood. And Dungeon Wood forms most of Beaumont Park which was Huddersfield's first public park. So let me just say that since I did the West Helen Way back in September 2021, I've really got the bug for the wild camping and the hiking. And it's going to be really difficult during these winter months not to get the camping gate out and head for the hills. But I did promise myself when I started out with a wild camping. I made a mistake on Black Hill. May my last camp towel and it was minus seven. So I did promise myself that I would stay with the three season camping. So there'll be no campings during the winter. Now I think it's called Dungeon Wood because of the dark and oppressive feel that you might get as you walk through this vast wood. But it's not as big as it used to be now due to the park being put here. And that takes away some of the spookiness because we've got the lovely Beaumont Park just up there. And we're going to have a look through there as we walk around and have a chat. So for those who might be interested I do have a new challenge for my hiking and wild camping coming up in 2022. Now I will tell you more about my wild camping and hiking challenge for 2022 nearer the time. You are going to like it. Now for this new challenge I am going to need a much lighter backpack. The backpack that I took on the West Helen Way. Well we all know how much it weighed don't we? Though I did mention it. I hope you're enjoying the scenery with the leaves, the autumn leaves. Absolutely beautiful. Now I do own the Rab Ridge Raider Bevy Bag. And I've used that a few times. I didn't take that on the West Helen Way because me and my last did that. And this challenge that I am doing in 2022 I will be on my own. So I'm going to use the Rab Ridge Raider Bevy Bag because I already own it. I don't really want to buy much new stuff but have bought something new to go with the Bevy Bag. Is that creative? It is spooky here in Dungeon Wood. And way back in 1812 the Luddites came through here and buried a couple of pistols and apparently they're still here, buried somewhere and they were the very pistols used to murder William Horsesville up there in Krossland Moor. Now the downside to a Bevy Bag is of course it's size. All you can do is sleep in it. You can't sit up in it so for a long distance hike is going to be pretty grim when it's raining for long periods. Now strangely enough the good thing about them is the footprint, the size again. That is actually a pro undercon because it's so small you can pitch it almost anywhere. It's just the size of your actual self so you can pitch that anywhere and take shelter from the rain. And this brings me eventually thankfully to my new purchase which is the DD3 by 3 tap which is going to go with the Bevy Bag and that enables me to take shelter very quickly hopefully anywhere. I haven't even got it out of the bag yet. The DD tap that I bought comes in different colours and I chose the coyote colour because I think it'll go well with the Rabrid Rader. Now it comes already with four guy ropes and four pegs and hopefully that will be all I need because I'm trying to cut down on the weight of my backpack. I'm actually walking along an old railway line. It's pretty cool. It was the Meltham branch line and in its latter years it was mainly used by the David Brown company who made the tractors and at the outbreak of the Second World War they were just getting going with the tractors and they also produced vital gears for the aircraft during the war and a lot of other gear manufacturers around the country. They'd been bombed out like in Donkaster but this area was never targeted so we got the vital gears through. So back to the tap, the DD3 by 3 tap. Yes the image has completely changed hasn't it. My GoPro battery has run out and I can't actually get the the media mod off because I've tightened the screw too much so I had to change to this mystery camera, this new camera that I am using now for vlogging as well. I will let you know one day what it is but what an image, a lot better than the GoPro. Stabilisation, no that's good though so maybe I'll be stood still a lot more. But back to the tap, yes. The 3 by 3 DD tap has 19 fixing points and that allows for different setups and configurations. Best 1080p footage you have ever seen and it's them setups and scenarios with the tap that I'm going to be practicing during the winter months, keep me out of trouble and that includes the knots that I have to learn as well. That will make putting up the tap and taking it down a lot easier and quicker. So if you have any experience with a tap, 3 by 3 in particular, let me know what your favourite setup is, what's your favourite configuration, have you got any tips from it using it with a Bivibag. So in future vlogs I will be testing out your suggestions for setups and figuring out which is my favourite and hopefully by the time the spring comes after the long dark winter, I will have mastered a few setups and have a more versatile shelter to go with my Bivibag for my new challenge in 2022. I will be letting you know more about that. So that's about it for this one. I hope you have enjoyed the little look around Dungeon Wood, Boomont Park. Where will I be next time? Well I don't know the answer to that, maybe I'll be setting up my tap. But I know I want you guys with me. So until the next one. Bye.