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10 Things To Do In Your Tent While Winter Wild Camping by @silverstackeruk on 3Speak
10 Things to do in a tent in the winter months while wild camping in Annalong woods/forest in the Mourne Mountains, Northern Ireland. Winter wild camping can be a magical experience, but the cold w...
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Hi guys, thank you very much for clicking on the video. Today we look at 10 things that you can do inside your tent. So the reason to make this video today is because it's almost November. Sunset is around 6pm. and in a couple of weeks it'll be 5pm, and when we're arriving it'll be dark. So over the winter, you're spending a lot more time inside your tent, just because it's dark. So I thought it would be a good idea to make a video, and I'll include 10 things that we can do to beat the boredom. Right, let's go out the camp. Marcus? Baggie, mate, you all right? What do you hear? That's my hydrated, got some water there, very very tasty, lovely and cold, fresh. Today, we're not walking too far, because like I mentioned before, it's getting dark earlier, and I need to get the tent set up ASAP. So for handling a sec, I'm going to stay in Annal Woods. I'm going to camp somewhere where I've never been in it before. So we're headed down this way, and the next time I'll see us, we'll be at camp somewhere. Very cloudy today. Look that there. Everything's all covered up. Apart from binion, you still see binion alright. Alright, that's just in the forest. Sort of just looking for a spot. Look at this here, there must have been foxes, must have got a sheep. It's all over the place, there's the skeleton there. See them feet? I buy them for my dog, my dog absolutely loves them there. Apparently the her is good for the dog's stomach. Right, so we'll continue on with the hunt. Oh, I need to find a spot, need to find a spot. Do you know, I've actually walked past two or three good spots already. I'm just, I'm just cherry picking at the minute. Here looks like a good spot too, right there. Alright. I think that's the spot right there. That looks like a good part. That's the tent all set up. Happy days. So I've already emptied my rucksack. You see, I've got my bed, got my food, my rock sack, and then I have loads of clear space here. You can see today I'm out in the OAX Jackal 2, just because it's a nice big tent. I want to do a wee bit of cooking today, so I'll have room to do that there. You can see the place that I found is really, really nice. up beside this river here. The tent is at a bit of a slant, sort of like this way, but you'd hardly notice it, and I've set up my bedding in a waist, it'll be very comfortable for me to sleep. Out of the forest, it's not safe here, it's not safe for you. It's not safe for you. Godspeed. There we go guys, that's the tent all set up. Rock sack is empty. The time now is about 20 to 6, sunset is in about half an hour, so I'm not going to waste any of this light, I'm going to run around here, look for some wood, because I might make a fire later on, and I'd like to have some wood ready for that there. So, like I say, I'm going to run around the woods here for half an hour, like a madman, and then whenever it gets dark, we'll start cracking into this list of top 10 things to do inside your tent to bite the boredom. I'm going to go this way. That's the fire setup, happy days. I don't know if I'll use it or not, but it's there for if I do want to use it. It's starting to get dark now, in about 20 minutes, it's going to be pitch black. I'm going to chill out here for a minute, I'm a wee bit tired from running around. It's really, really warm today for some reason. There's no wind, there's no nothing, it's actually really, really nice weather. It's motivating me, it's making me look more forward to the camp. So it is, so I tell you what, I'm going to chill here for 20 minutes. and then when it starts getting dark, I'll check back in me us, and then we'll get a look at these 10 things that we're going to do in our tents to pass the time. I'll ask me back in the tent now. I've been, well, I've been here for 20 minutes, sort of just relaxing, chilling out. I think it would be time to start moving into these top 10 things to do. The first one is an easy one. The first one is cooking. But, listen, if you know you're going to be coming out, you're going to be spending more time in your tent, because it's getting dark early or it's raining or whatever. Bring something proper with you to cook instead of bringing a pot noodle or a ratty meal or some sort of freeze-dried thing or something. Bring something with you and cook something. And you know what? It would be a good time to get something to eat. On the menu tonight is a breakfast pack. It's four sausages and four veggie rolls. And to have that, I've got some smashed potato, salt, pepper, crispy onions. and some gravy. I was supposed to bring some onions, but I left them in the fridge in the house. So, that's what we're going to get for dinner. Oh, that's my mashed potato, and it takes about 150 mil of water. Water here, nice and easy. Besto does it best, as this is it. Looking like a pretty good dinner. There are we go, some smashed potatoes. Good. One, two, nine, four. And you know what, I think I'm just going to keep two of these veggie rolls for breakfast. I think that'll be nice for breakfast. And then, last but not least, I've made the gravy way too watery, so I'm not going to put tons on, just going to put a wee bit. You can see it, it's like water. Time to get this down me, been looking forward to this. Help from some old friends. Brick Sanchez, you son of a bitch. Need some people for a thanklar. My name's clear in these... Number two, watch a movie. I have finished dinner. It was absolutely delicious. But the night's not over. Time to move on the number three, which is exercise. Cool. And then when you're done doing a set of 15 or 30 or 50 or whatever you're doing, you start a timer for 30 minutes. Time to do it again. Go! Pretty tired now after doing some exercises. Number four is you could draw, not really one for night. This is maybe one for if you're stuck in the tent and it's raining or something, but nevertheless, I've decided to do a wee bit of a drawing here myself. You only really need a piece of paper and a pencil. So, like I say, it's dark outside, but that's what I see right now. So it's like the size of my tent, my festival, and then pitch black outside. But drawing can be very calming, very relaxing. Like I say, you only need a piece of paper and a couple of pencils. And that brings us on the number five, which is learn something new, maybe a new hobby or something. You could grab a piece of wood from outside, using your knife, everyone has a knife, try to carve something out of it. You could use your extra cord. practice doing your knots. You can do something a bit more fun, by harmonica and practice with it. Or you could do juggling's good too. Juggling keeps your hands nice and busy. Oh, flip. My tent is on a slant like this, and every time I drop a ball, it rolls down to the bottom. So I need to keep getting up. and getting my balls, it's pretty hard to do it in the tent when you juggle it, you know, but if you can learn to do it in a tent, then you'll be very, very good at it. I don't, I'm going to try and do it a wee bit more serious. It's a wee bit harder because I have three lights directly pointing right at my face, sort of blinding me as well. But, oh, there you go, if I chill out, but you can see I'm capable. Juggling. Bonus! Shadow puppets, anybody can do these, they're pretty easy to do. Pretend to be a sheep, maybe. That brings us on the number six, which is what people used to do before the internet. Get pushed, so I don't know me drink, but I thought I'd get a Jack and Coke. I was going to get an IPA and sort of take the piss out of it a wee bit, but... I was standing in Tesco's and to be honest, I was a wee bit overwhelmed with the selection, there was just way too many, so I got a jack and coke. Mmmymy, alcohol. So I'm going to mix number six and number seven together here, because when you're having a drink, you can listen to music or a podcast. Now, I don't listen to podcasts, I watch podcasts, but I don't listen to them. But I do like to listen to music. I like to, but I don't like to listen to music. Just go down, huh? Please tell me that I can't, that I want, that I fail, that I'll never make it out, yeah. So, the disco gets the heart going. But, uh, need to do something to sort of slow myself down. It's coming up near half 11 at night. There's the sound of the stream outside. Meditation. Push out all your inner thoughts. become immersed in the ambient sound of the flowing stream, the crackling of the trees and the branches and the gentle wind, and become one nature. I'm enlightened. Number nine is do what I do, make YouTube videos, or I make a video or a mega diary or whatever, but for the past four or five hours I've been taking all these wee tiny clips that I've put together into this video and, you know, that keeps you pretty active. I should probably touch on what happened recently with my YouTube channel. So, here, it's been going real well, by the way, like, even, like, a month ago, I was happy to have 100 subscribers, and now I've got over 300, so, you know, things are going real well, and I've been getting really good views as well, but I made a mistake. A couple of days ago, I was deleting off some unlisted videos that I have. I have about 250 videos on YouTube, all unlisted. Nothing to do with camping, ones that I uploaded years and years ago for personal use. And I was deleting them off, and what I did was I deleted off my five most recent videos as well, which destroyed me because all of them videos had over 1 ,500 views each. And I just completely gutted. Thankfully, I had backups, so, you know, I was able to re-upload them. I've put them out one day at a time, and today, you know, if you're watching this on the day of release, it's Sunday, so that's them all sorted now, and I've put them all back in the order too, so that's a bit of a bummer. But, you know, like I said, you know, the YouTube channel's been going good, subs are up, views are up, so thanks very much for everyone watching. and that brings us on to the last thing, number 10. So, what do you do when you have nothing else left to do? Well, it would be time for, I'll see you in the morning. And that's 10 things to do in a tent. Down to get some coffee. It's half nine, it's pretty late. I didn't get to sleep last night till about 4 in the morning. Sitting up watching movies, so that's John Mac Number 4. class, tons of action in it. But I woke up at about 8, fell asleep again, and then I heard rain hitting off my tent at about quarter 9, and then I got up. So, I think the weather today, the afternoon, it's going to be rainy, it's going to be very windy, and I'd like to get home before that, so, like I say, it's half 9, if I could be out of here, if I could be in the car park, for 11 o'clock. I'll consider that a win. But apart from that there, it's been a pretty good night. Brought my hot water bottle, didn't need it. Slap in my flipping boxers and a t -shirt. I don't know why, it was absolutely roasting last night. So anyway, I'm going to get my coffee here. I've got a veggie roll left over from yesterday's dinner. And then I'm going to start packing up the tent and get out of here, ASAP. Gonna just enjoy my coffee. Parkour, parkour, look at them! I went for a pee at about half one in the morning last night, and I had my headlight on, and the only thing that I could see was about six eyes, stirring at me from the other end of the forest. It was the sheep, so it was, but... They just stand there and stir at you, they don't move. If you didn't know that there was sheep. If you would think that you were being hunted. Time to get packed up and get OTF. Right, it's starting to spit. All of my stuff is outside because of this two-man tent, because it's big, this needs to go into my rucksack first. So I'm going to get this done ASAP to get everything in my bag. So let's go, let's pack the tent up. Alright, that's what the tent was, you can see the flat grass there, backpack, rubbish bag, and my funny wee rings from doing my disco part last night. Well, good bay camp spot, good fae var that we never let. There's a black sheep, and it's been up here on this side of the fence, ban for about 20 minutes, and there's all the white ones there. Do the white ones not like the black one, or what? You know what I noticed, see even the black one when it's going bah? It sounds weird, it's not like a normal bah, it's like, buh, buh, whereas the normal sheep's bha. I guess that's why they called the black sheep. Where are you going? It's not actually black, he's a wee bit brown. Hey! That's me walking up the side of the wood now. I'm really thirsty. There was a stream right beside where the tent was, but I didn't really want to drink out of it because, because of the dead sheep that we found yesterday. It was all right last night when it was boiling all the water, so, but I can't drink out of it. I can't drink out of it. I can, but there's a river up at the top. of the forest here where you meet the cargo little path. So I'll just wait and just get a drink there instead. Spitting a wee bit. It's, I would say that it's not enough to get you wet. It's actually kind of nice on the face, but I hope it doesn't get any much stronger. I'll check Emmys here when I'm getting a drink. That's me reached the end of the forest now. Just gotta walk up this carg little path until I get to the gate, and then it's like a couple hundred meters to the car park, so happy days. It's looking very, very cloudy today. There's some of the peaks is covered, there's a, I think that's called Lama getting up there. You can't even see North Binion. The wind's coming, I can feel it. Time to start getting up this carg little path. Back toward the car park. Ha ha ha ha ha. Right, and that's us back at the gate. Time to sign out. I didn't take too many videos there on the way back because I'm walking in a straight line, the rain's coming in, and I'm sort of rushing home. But listen, as always, guys, thank you very much for... watching the video, I hope you enjoyed it. 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