Backpacking Snowdon Day 3 Miners Track, Wild Swimming & Wet Wild Camping! + Screaming Goat Fun

Morning campers! Well despite my whinging last night I stayed lovely and cozy and dry last night. It was really lovely and warm and I was so comfy although I didn't sleep very well just because of the constant heavy rain that woke me up. There was a slug in my tent this morning, like in the inner, like hello! So that was nice. Yeah I'm just gonna have some breakfast and get packed up then I've got a little walk around, what have I got, a couple miles on this path still? And then I've got to walk from Penny Pass back to Llyn Gwynn on which is a few miles I think. Good morning world! Much the same weather-wise I see. Looks like a dinosaur coming over the ridge. Guys, it's not raining! Hey cows! Trying not to make eye contact so I don't piss anyone off. I'm at Penny Pass! Made it down! I'm just stopping here in this beautiful place to make some food and thinking about yesterday and the Watkin Path and yeah I think I want to do it again. As much as at the time I was questioning my life choices I did it and I actually I can't believe me with my fear of heights and my clumsiness and my ditziness I actually I did the Watkin Path. I love it the next day after you do stuff like this and like the fears worn off and you're just like yeah that's really cool so yeah amazing and I'm loving being out today like the weather's really it's a lot better it's not sunny or anything but it's pleasant and I'm thinking I might stay out another night we'll see we'll see what the afternoon holds I feel quite warm so I might even try a little wild swim I feel like I do with waking up a bit so yeah loving life. The Watkin Path by the way if you've got fear of heights if you're new to mountains it's not a path I would start with it's really really scary and it's more dangerous than the other paths I mean obviously all mountain paths have an element of danger about them that's what makes it fun but this one more so so just be mindful it's makes it weird. It's so pretty isn't it? I can see Llyn Gwynn on over there that's what we're aiming for for tonight. Absolutely drenched just sitting in a cave trying to get my hands to dry out so that I can eat something. Check this out. It's cool isn't it? Look at that. That is so cool. Oh my god that's so freaky. Donny Darko isn't it? I'm going to take that home. It's wild boar. So I'm going to pitch here in this little clearing with views over the lake over there. Lovely. I'm going to get water. I'm unbelievably excited to get in the tent and get dry. Getting into a tent dry everything wet is in the vestibule everything in the tent is dry I'm dry apart from my hair which is getting a chill. Yay. Jesus Christ. Do you think they're upset that I've got their mate Steve at the front of my tent? Hi guys. So I thought I'd share with you three things I've loved having with me for this backpacking trip in the rain. So the first is talc. Talc has been amazing just for drying myself off like my hands, my feet and stuff when I go to bed. So that's been great. Trekking poles have been awesome for the river crossings and things like that and just generally getting about would have been quite difficult without trekking poles and the microfiber cloth as well has been brilliant. So this has been my second little backpacking trip and I've loved it despite the weather being really challenging but that's all part of the fun I think. I love these little trips I just feel like they satisfy a primal survival instinct in me that goes unseen to in normal life. Like ordering to food shopping is not quite the same is it? Yeah I love it and I hope I get a good night's sleep tonight because I'm really tired. One more night and home in the morning. This map is pretty knackered now but hopefully you can make it out. So we've done the full circular route again. Love it. So we started there at Llyn Gwynedd came past the lake cut across this corner went and visited these waterfalls this is the walking path and we camped around here I think oh there I think it was there that's on the first night and then on the second day we summited Snowdon by the walking path which is terrifying and then came down by the miners track and oh I camped on miners track about here off the path and then today came along miners so you go across that bridge there across the water down to Penny Pass so then came down from Penny Pass following this path here went down visited a little waterfall I did some swimming I think that's around here and also visited these waterfalls came back onto the path and just followed the river along I had to cross over fences up and then come back over the river and then come back down and we camped tonight up here somewhere so yeah it's been amazing again goodnight wild ones see you in the morning good morning guys I had such a nice sleep last night I think over 8 hours I fell asleep before 10 and I woke up just before 6 so yeah amazing I really needed that so yeah still raining looks like I'll be packing up in the rain I'm excited to get home see my little man and actually I'm just excited to have reception again I've not had any since well the whole time I've been here so apart from up Snowdon I was able to let people know I was up there safe but since then nothing so yeah it's so nice being in a tent in the rain I just wish I didn't have to pack it up in the rain the valley looks so pretty all the clouds coming through it I'm ready to go actually I just don't want to move back to reality home time friend goodbye camping place me and Steve we're off home now I'm really happy with how that went considering the weather all that awful rain I had three really dry nice comfortable nights and yeah what an adventure it's been it's been amazing so if you want to do stuff like this hopefully in better weather than what I just had just make a start to it buy something really small a water filter, a pair of hiking socks just something so you're starting on your little journey and if you've got the stuff already give it a go start planning it and you know I'm not going to lie sometimes it's really hard sometimes it's scary and sometimes it is downright unpleasant but it's also amazing and exhilarating and beautiful so if you can get yourself through the tough bits I think you'll be rewarded tenfold and it's totally worth it and you know unless you're a hobbit adventure's not going to come to you you've got to make it happen so do it and find out what you're made of you'll have an amazing time thank you so much for watching guys I'm going home I will see you next time bye