My winter camping favourites | staying in (storm Eunice)

So today's video is going to be slightly different. I'm going to show you my favorite winter wild camping items and these things that I use every time that I go camping in the winter. They might seem quite simple but they are things that really make a big difference on a camp when you're in cold, windy, wet conditions. Today it is actually horrible outside. It's miserable and gloomy because we've just had storm Eunice and I think there's another storm on the way, Franklin I think it is. So it's horrible, wet, windy, just not nice out last day so I thought I would do an indoors video and I will pop the links in the description down below so if there's anything you fancy you can have a look. So I'll get on to my first one. My first one is quite a simple one but it is a jet lighter. This is a clipper jet flame as opposed to a standard normal lighter sometimes it's quite difficult to, especially when you've got cold hands, as you light it the flame with any winds tends to go straight out whereas this you put the button down and it lights immediately and when you're lighting a stove with cold hands you need something that's going to be quick and reliable so quite a simple one but that is my first favourite. On to my second item, it is a hand warmer. I've got two of these because I love them so much. I bought these to replace the little sachets, the hand warmers, the single use ones and I've mentioned this in my previous video that these are more environmentally friendly. They also get a lot hotter and they do last for quite a few hours. I've had these on I think for at least six hours continuously if not longer so throughout the night they do keep you warm and they've got three heat settings, the higher up you go the warmer it gets. These are great as well because they double up as a battery pack so you can actually plug your lead for your phone, your cameras or anything like that into these and they will charge them so two birds one stone. With these I like to put them on a low setting and chuck them in my sleeping bag before I get in and it really makes it nice and toasty. The only downside to these is they are heavy. I'm not sure how many grams they are, I will put it down below but they are a lot heavier than obviously the single use sachets so that's the only downside. I think the advantages of this outweighs the cons so that's one of my winter favourites. My third item is this rechargeable battery pack and this is on my winter camping favourites because when you spend a lot of time out in the cold your batteries tend to deplete so I like to have a battery source to be able to recharge them and this is the Anker battery pack and it lasts for hours and hours. I could take this for a multi-day camp and it would last me two or three days. To me this is really essential. My camera batteries, they do tend to deplete quite a bit when I'm filming up on a mountain where it's cold and windy. That is my next favourite, a quick tea break. The next item is something that you will have seen before in previous videos, it is the UCO candle lantern light and it's got a bit of wax because I did actually spin it on the last camp that I went on so I need to clean out the inside but it's quite simple to do. This is not really an essential but I do like to have it because it creates ambient light in the tent. You can obviously use it outside of the tent, you can hang on a tree. I like to have it just sort of in the vestibule area and it just makes it a little bit more cosy. So that is all my favourites for winter camping. You can buy on Amazon which I'll put the link to below. Some spare candles and these do last nine hours like they say on the pack. I tend to use one candle per two camps and I like to use them for about three or four hours in the evening and it's really safe to use. You don't have to worry about the tent catching fire or anything, it's all enclosed. Just as long as you've got it hanging and you're just keeping an eye on it then it's really safe to use. So that is one of my favourites. They do also sell the sleeve that you can buy to put it in to keep the metal protected but instead my partner Nick kindly made me a homemade one which works really well. So that's what I use to protect it. My next item is gloves and these aren't just any gloves. These look like mittens but then you can actually pull the top off and also with the thumb which is really important to me. If I'm using the camera I need to be able to access the buttons so these are great. You can buy expensive photography gloves similar to this but these are ones that I bought from the heat company I think. Yeah the heat company so I'll pop a link to these as well. They are really good, they keep me toasty and you can also pop some thin gloves on underneath as well if you don't need your fingertips. But I find these are great if you need to use your camera, your drone, things that you need dexterity for or even your phone. They're great so without having to take your gloves off because it's a bit of a faff every time having to pull the gloves off. So I love using these. They're great as well for when you're pitching the tent and you're trying to put poles in the little slots. I found them to be really warm. I only recently got them just before Christmas and I'm really impressed with them so they are another one of my favourites. My final favourite item for winter camping is a silk sleeping bag liner. These are amazing. It's so lightweight because they're silk. They keep you warm in the winter and they keep you cool in the summer so you can use them all year round. Silk is also hypoallergenic so it is kind to the skin and doesn't cause any irritation. I have sensitive skin so that's really important to me. They are really smart little things. If you haven't already got a silk liner and you're finding that you need a little bit of extra warmth to add to your sleeping bag then I would highly recommend one of these. Obviously this doesn't make up for if you're using a summer sleeping bag in the winter. You will still need a fairly good quality winter sleeping bag but they do boost the performance of the bag quite a bit so yeah, another one of my favourites. So that is it for my favourite items for winter camping. I hope you enjoyed this video. It's a bit different to what I usually do so let me know if you enjoy it but I didn't really want to take the chance and go out in these storms so even if I do feel confident going out in them I don't think it's fair if anything did happen for the mountain rescue to be called out for me. Staying in for this week's video it's a bit of a change so I hope you enjoyed it and hopefully next week's video will be outside again and possibly a mountain camp but we will see how it goes and I will see you in the next video.