I Slept Outside With No Tent

We're heading into the hills. I'm hoping we can find a good spot there. I don't have a tent with me. Oh, no, that's not holding my weight at all. Honestly, if this doesn't work, I'm actually going to cry. I don't think I've got a lighter. What on earth was that noise? Tonight, we're heading into the hills to try and find a good spot to have a bivy camp. I'm not going to tell you about the forecast because every time I do, I curse myself. But right now, we have got a little bit of sunshine. I'm heading towards Whitbarrow Scar, which is in the south of the Lake District. It's actually a limestone ridge that most people drive straight past, but I'm hoping we can find a good spot there. Let's get the adventure started, shall we? I have literally never been here before and so far, look at the forest. It's so gorgeous. It is currently May here, so it's kind of all come into life again after winter, which is such a nice time of year. I mean, you can tell it's really green. I'm hoping we can see some nice wildflowers as well. There's so much wild garlic here. There's loads of it. It's really pungent, the smell. I could smell it from down there. I was like, where is it? It's all here. That's a big tree. It's currently about quarter to six, but the sun doesn't go down until about quarter past nine, so I should have enough time to get set up, settle in. Wow. It's just opened out. That's so beautiful. Anyway, I should have enough time to settle in for the night. I have left it a bit late, but look at this little bench. It's a bit broken. No, that's not holding my weight at all. Okay. It's a nice bench with a view. I need to figure out which way I'm meant to be going. I think I'm meant to be going up that way, but it looks very steep. Hiya. How are you? Good. Have a nice ride. This is quite a popular area for mountain bikers as well. I've just seen two of them. Now, I'm just getting to my first little peak. I should be able to see some nice views. There are definitely plenty of spots for me to put my bivvy up around here. My bivvy is quite small. If you don't know what a bivvy is, it's basically just a waterproof sack that you put yourself in. I don't have a tent with me. It's just a little sack that you put you and your sleeping bag in, and it goes over you. It's nice and discreet, stealthy, and quite warm as well, if you do it right. I'm just walking towards the highest point, which is called the Lord's Seat. It's only about 215 meters high, but it's still got gorgeous views apparently. It's a little bit windier up here than I would have liked, and the clouds are looking a little bit ominous. It was meant to be pure sun yesterday, and it started hailing at around two o'clock in the afternoon. Sideways hail, so I have absolutely no faith in the weather forecast. Whitbarrow is genuinely unusual for the Lake District, because most of the area is actually volcanic rock, and here is all limestone, so it's so different. The way it looks, the geology that makes it up, is so different to everywhere around. It really sets it apart. Oh, little birdie. It's about quarter to seven now, and I need to get a move on. If I don't like the views at the top of this one, I'm going to Lord's Seat, and if I don't like the views up here, I don't know if I'll have time to turn back. It took a little bit longer than I expected it to. I think it's just because I'm constantly pointing at stuff and going, oh, look at that, and then there's loads of really, really interesting birdies, so I'm getting very distracted. Oh, the views are opening up. I think we'll be okay. I have reached the top of the Lord's Seat, and the views are gorgeous. You can see all the fells over here. Over there is Coniston, I'm pretty sure. Old Manor, Coniston. It's gorgeous. It is pretty grey and cloudy this way though, and it is blue. Over back where I just came, we've got some blue skies. I need to figure out where I'm going. Ah, so this little stone, I'm pretty sure, it's quite hard to read, but it says, this reserve commemorates Canon Carpire. Can't say that. 1893 to 1967, it commemorates the founder of the Lake District, Lake District National Trust. That's so cool. Lovely. So what I'm thinking right now is it's about 7pm. I have enough time to go back to where I like the views more, because up here is really windy. It's quite cold wind as well, and there's not that many flat spaces, and this wind is pretty chilly. It is pretty chilly up here. I think I'm going to go back to the other place, and I will see you there. Sorry, Lord's Seat. Thanks for having me, but you're very cold and very windy, and I like it over there more. Going to have to get a move on, big time. I need to get back to where I came from. Okay, I'm back at the original place. Got a lovely flat patch right here. I've actually finally decided on a spot. We're going to be camping here tonight. Those views, you can just see, it just curves in such a nice way. That river, you can see all out to the sea. I'm pretty chilly though. Jeepers creepers. The hood's going to have to go back on. It's chilly. As soon as I get my sleeping bag around me though, I'm going to be warm, snug as a bug. I've got my slippers as well. I reckon sunrise is going to be nice, you know. I have high hopes. It's meant to be sunny tomorrow morning and pouring it down in the afternoon, so I'm hoping that it stays true to that and pours it down when I'm inside of a house. It feels weird to be in my baby bag and it's not pouring it down. This is so fun. All right, wind it is. Don't even have to use my air. Oh, that's so much better. Where's my pillow gone? My pillow's like receded. There we go. For anyone interested, which I don't know how many of you are interested, my bivy bag is the Alpkit Hunker XL, not the regular version because I like the extra room. In case it's raining, I can shove my backpack in the end. Then my sleeping bag is a minus 10 degrees Celsius comfort rated down sleeping bag. It's the Therm-a-Rest Questar negative 18. Then what else have I got? Yeah, my sleeping mat, this very old mouldy one. That is the Therm-a-Rest Neewer X Therm. It's got an R value of 7.3. Then my pillow is from Timu, from my Timu camping challenge that I did about eight months ago now. I don't know how long actually. Flex tail. I don't know how much it cost. Probably about five pounds. It's still going strong. I need to put dinner on, but I'm very tired. It's like half past eight. We're getting a little bit of a sunset going. The clouds are a little bit orange. I'm going to make myself some dinner. I've got a very basic setup. With Vivian, it is very minimal. I don't have any cover, no privacy whatsoever. If I want to get changed, it's very difficult. If that's something you're worried about, I definitely wouldn't go with a bivvy. I'm good at changing within the bag now, but to start with, it was a little bit scary. A bivvy is basically just, you're just so open. It's so exposed, but it's so lightweight, so versatile. You can just shove yourself anywhere. I mean, I love a bivvy personally, but a lot of people hate them, and that's okay too. I'm going to boil my water off. On the menu for tonight, we have kebab stew. This is the first dry bivvy I've had in months, and you know what? It feels so nice. It just, every time I get my bivvy out, it just decides to rain. Honestly, if this doesn't work, I'm actually going to cry. I don't think I've got a lighter. Go on. Yay. I mean, look at the views right now. It's cold. Yes, I'm exposed. Yes, but I would have been inside my tent with my door shut by now, but instead, I'm out here. I've got my water boiling. I'm watching the sunset. A very pink sky as well. Look at that. We've got some blue. We've got some pink skies. Maybe we might see some stars. Watching the sun go down over the hills over there. It's just gorgeous. Just waiting on this water. It's just coming up to a boil now. I'm really tempted to put the drone back out to try and get a nice shot of the sunset. I think I will, whilst I'm waiting for my dinner to cook. That is what dinner looks like right now. It smells all right. I don't know if I've ever had kebab stew before. I've had reindeer stew. Now, that is my favourite real termite meal. I know it's a bit rogue, but it is really good. There's a hair. There's a hair in my water. I really shouldn't put my finger straight into boiling water. I've got the hair out there. I need to find my spork. Voila! I have a spork. I know. Round of applause. Thank you very much. I will see you in eight minutes. That was so cosy. The most amazing sunset is happening behind me. No, well, in front of me. I'm running in my slippers and I've got my dinner in my stomach. Well, not in my stomach. I've got it in my coat. I can't speak right now. This is the most gorgeous sunset I've seen. I'm falling over. I'm in my slippers running up a hill by myself. Brilliant stuff. Oh, my goodness. This is so... That is just incredible. Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. I'm literally holding onto my dinner for dear life. That is the most gorgeous sunset. Can you see that? It's like the sky is on fire. That's incredible. Me and my dinner. I need to check if my dinner's even still... Yeah, okay. We're doing all right. It's so gorgeous. I almost went flying then. I literally sprinted up the side of that hill. I don't even know where my bivvy is. I've left everything, including my shoes. How far did I go? Jeepers. Right, where's my little bivvy bag? It looks so lonely. Just about to eat my dinner and there's about eight cows coming up to this hill. I think I'm in cow territory. No, that's not good. I don't want to accidentally be trampled. Aren't cows like the number one killer in the UK as well? Oh, well. I'm not going to be scared of some cows. It's all right. Taste test time. Honestly, not the best flavour I've ever had. Reindeer stew really has a choke hold on me. It's about half past nine right now. I've just checked mountain forecast and we are not due any rain overnight. Fingers crossed. Anyway, the cheese that I've got is actually from a shop in Keswick. I'm pretty sure it's called Cherry Tree. I think they have shops everywhere, but their cheese is actually to die for. All right, I need a little bit of cracker with my cheese. Oh wow, we've got some interesting cloud formations over there. Oh no, no, no. It's just deflated. The whole thing's just come out. I really should get myself a new pillow. The valve doesn't work. By the valve I mean the entire thing that, you know, keeps the air in. It just comes out every so often. I think I just need to re-glue it. There's a cloud shaped like a banana over there. That's an interesting shape. It is getting pretty dark now and those cows are getting closer and closer. I'm a little bit concerned about them. It's the only thing with a bivvy is that you are very much out in the open and I know I've said that's a good thing, but it also comes with downsides. Look at all that. It's so open here. I love that I can just watch the world go by from up here with my cheese and my crackers. What on earth was that noise? An owl. It was like a woo woo woo. I was like, what is that? Another thing with bivvies is that every noise kind of is a little bit more scary. Do you hear that? I think I'm going to try and settle in. It's not quite dark 100% yet so I probably won't be able to fall asleep. I need to get comfortable. It's about 10pm. I'm going to try and get some sleep. It's dark but it's still a little bit light over there. I can see one star. I'm pretty sure it's a planet because planets shine brighter than stars. I'm not sure what planet it would be though. I'm going to try and get some sleep but I'll see you all in the morning. Good morning. It's definitely a lot warmer this morning than it was last night. Last night was pretty chilly and my pillow has gone to a very very sad grave. So I woke up and it was just flat so I folded it up and I just shoved my down jacket on top of it and used that as a pillow but I think I jinxed it yesterday. I said it's still going strong and now it's dead. I don't know if you can see the moo cow. Good morning moo cow. I think it is about time I get out of my bivvy bag. I've been sat here for about 45 minutes just taking it all in. I need to go get some breakfast though. I only have a couple of cereal bars with me. I'm going to find a nice cafe or something and get some breakfast when I eventually manage to get out of my bivvy bag. So I struggled to fall asleep last night. I fell asleep at about two in the morning. Honestly this is such a good spot for a bivvy. I mean you could put a tent here. It's nice and flat but because of the rocky ground it's all really rocky because of the limestone. So I don't even know if you'd be able to get pegs in. It's all rock and you can see all the little rocks. Hello cows. The cows are literally right next to me now which is cute. I've got some friends this morning. Oh my goodness there's a really cute little brown one. Hello. These are my friends. That's Daisy, that's Moo and that's Cow. Can you tell I'm not very good with names? The sun's starting to come back out. Found a Morrison receipt. Would you believe me if I said it did not rain one single bit last night? Not a single bit. My bivvy bag is not damp in any way. It's not turned into a swimming pool. Maybe I've lifted the curse. I've replaced it with a pillow deflation curse. The sun is shining. I love the feeling when the sun hits your face and you just feel that warm tingle. I think in the UK because it rains and it's quite miserable all the time we appreciate sun a lot more. Like today I'm pretty sure the temperature is meant to reach about 16 degrees Celsius so there will be people in the beer gardens with their tops off getting drunk at about 2 p.m and that is our culture. I don't drink myself but I do like to partake in the beer gardens with a lovely glass of cold apple juice with the condensation on the outside of it but I'm more of a 20 degrees person and it's very rare that it gets to 20 degrees in the UK. Spunk myself in the head. Ow! What was that? Yeah I've just whacked myself in the head with my portable charger. I actually hurt. Right well that is me all packed up and ready to go. This view is gorgeous. Waking up here in my bivvy you literally can't tell where I've been as well. The views all around. I mean the estuary, the bay, the viaduct in the distance. That sunset last night was incredible. I hope you've all enjoyed another bivvy adventure. It was so nice to get back out in my bivvy bag. It's been too long. I think it's going to have some more regular use. I'm looking into getting a better bivvy bag as well so maybe we might not wake up in a swimming pool quite as often which is a very nice thing. A massive thank you to everyone on Patreon who supports these adventures. If you do want to check it out I'll leave a link on the screen and some details in the description as well but thank you so much for watching and I will see you all next time. Happy roaming! Bye!