Autumn Wildcamping in the Lake District

Good morning. So we're in the Lake District this weekend. We're currently in Rydal and Heather is going for a swim. I should be going for a swim but it's so cold. It's raining. It's about five, six degree air temperature. No idea what the water temperature is like but it's going to be freezing. So I've bailed. I'm a bad person. Hopefully I'll go in tomorrow but Heather is so brave and loves wild swimming. So yeah, I'm going to go. Wish me luck. No. Is it not? Aww. Really cool. Nice, yeah. Your hair matches the colours amazingly. Yeah, it actually does. Last I saw you I loved you many years before you came. In my hopes and my dreams with the wax and the moon away. I knew so what I could be. Please teach me how to be what I was made to be. See without you, I'm as nothing. But with you, I can be anything. Oh, you know me well. You know me well. Know me well. You know me well. You know me well. Know me well. What can I fear? When I know that I walk by your side. You're the fortune. Within which I got nothing to hide. Hello. So we've just set off for our wild camp from Paterdale. It's about three o'clock and we think we've got about two and a half miles. So not a massive hike. Hopefully won't take us too long. I think the route is pretty straightforward. So hopefully we won't get lost. We waited for a while for the rain to stop and now it's absolutely gorgeous weather, super sunny. And hopefully it's going to stay like this now for the rest of our trip. Saucy Troll in the view. When the day, when the day falls to the light. At the end, oh the end of my time. To the dawn. Take the bones off my back. And I chant to the black. You were my lady divine. Cause my children are in hiding. Mortar and pestle they grind. Those songs whistled through white teeth. To scuff the days. With songs for children to sing. How are you feeling Heather? Hot. Hot and tired? Tired and ready for sunset. Yes. I think this will go like over the top of the tarn and I think that's Angle Tarn Pike. Tarn should literally just be down there. We made it. This is Angle Tarn. There's a couple of other people wild camping. I think it's quite a popular spot. So we might pitch up like somewhere here or here. Yay excited. Beautiful. I know it's so nice. Take the tent out. Put on my down jacket. There's the tent. There's my leg. There's my mat. There's the tent. Those songs whistled through white teeth. To scuff the days. With songs for children to sing. We've got some tea cooking. So we're all set up camp now at Angle Tarn. I think it's about 5. 5 o'clock. 5.15 something like that. Just boiling up some tea or boiling up some water. Going to have some tea and then going to have some dinner. It's really cold but it's lovely. Thought I'd just show you where we walked from and where we are now. So we started in Paterdale which is here. We just parked in a lay-by so we parked for free. And then we passed the school and we walked up to Syed Farm and then up this path all the way to Bordale House. And then we walked along this path past Angle Tarn Pikes and over the top to Angle Tarn and we camped somewhere around here. So we will do the same path back tomorrow. I think it took about an hour and a half. Yeah about an hour and a half. But we did stop a lot to take photos and videos and all that jazz. So yeah probably only about an hour down tomorrow. This is Heather's happy stove. I bought it for her birthday. And this is the first time she's used it. We're both very excited. But we're cheating. We are using firelighters. But it's so cold. Yeah. It's freezing but look at that. Smells good. So for breakfast we are having waffles and berries. Dipping our waffles into the berry. Yummy. We are just on our way back to Bordale now after our wild camp at Angle Tarn. Coming down into Paterdale through this beautiful autumnal valley. It is so so nice here. We actually both slept really badly. It was so cold. And the forecast had given it to be a clear night but it ended up chucking it down with rain all night. And was incredibly windy and the side of the tent was just blowing all night. So we both didn't have the best night's sleep. But never mind. We're going to head over to a cafe now and warm up a bit. Have a coffee and then go bouldering at Langdale Boulders. Which I've never been to before. So very excited. Just walking through this beautiful little fern valley. Absolutely love the Lake District at this time of the year. It's definitely my favourite time of the year to visit.