Thank you mate. I agree. All the best

Thank you brother 👏 much love and thanks for watching

I don't get hangovers mate so I'm fine 🙂

@@TheMackemMountaineer Lucky bugger, I get them just off sniffing a beer haha

Haha very true. We live to fight another day 😄 thanks for watching

@@TheMackemMountaineer My first tent was flattened at carngorm in 80mph forecast winds. This was a declaration of war by the weathergods; so got a Hilleberg Tarra with a second set of poles, it later was followed by 6 more hilleberg tents. Currently have 2, the Anjan 2 and for mental weather, the AKto with 2x10mm poles.

@@DemiGod.. how does the akto cope? I've looked at it with a thought of buying one

Thanks for watching mate. I'm very new to wild camping and hiking so this was a first for me experiencing a situation like this. Lots of lessons learned though

Cheers mate

Thank you 😊

Thanks mate

Certainly was. Some big mistakes made and lessons learned.

Yeah mate I still don't understand how the delta pegs come out twice!! Lessons learned.

Thanks for watching mate. Yeah defo still in the memory.

It's scary when it happens mate, especially first time bit these experiences are how we grow All the best

Bloody hell mate sounds like a nightmare too. Rubbing against a buckle is something you just wouldn't consider. I'll certainly be mindful of that situation too going forward. I have no idea what the wind speed was in this video either. It was only forecast for around 20mph

@@TheMackemMountaineer Those winds were def around 50+. maybe even more...

Yep fair to say I'd made some mistakes. Especially with not packing majority of gear up ahead of the night. Winds weren't forecast to get as bad as that to be fair and changed direction, another lesson learned... don't always take the forecast as gospel haha thanks for watching. ATB

Thanks brother. Yeah I've camped over 70 nights in 12 months, eventually something was bound to happen. Love it though and all good experience

Cheers brother. It's a great spot

Absolutely agree mate. Footy teams aside, anyone who loves an adventure has my respect. Thanks for watching brother

@@TheMackemMountaineer I love mountains more than footie! It is great to see some great videos by us Geordies + Are friends in Sunderland, Do we hate mackems all just banter unless Ur a thicko! The great outdoors is far better than a 90+ minutes of football game! The Scottish Highlands is a fantastic place! Mark!

@markalanshaw4950 I 100% agree mate and some of my best mates ate geordies. I wish them all the best also.

@@TheMackemMountaineer How would the Vango force 10 fair against these new tents in a storm? Pity it's too heavy for backpacking! Unless Ur are rich your tent will be sub £400 . Mark.

@markalanshaw4950 I dunno mate I've not had that tent. In terms of rich I'm defo not brother, I'm a single parent with a decent job but work a lot of overtime to try buy hillebergs etc. Not easy but because it's my passion I really try

Thanks for watching mate

Thanks for watching mate. Lessons learned haha

I was so glad the girls didn't come as emily had planned on coming up until the last minute. Not going to lie, I was bricking it coming down as I've never hiked in the dark, then the head torch went out 😳 defo big lessons learned mate. All the best

8.50 Jesus flipping heck yeah that wind didn't half pick up good man keep safe buddy question for ya what L is the bag you use I'm thinking of getting one but was looking at the 80 L

@Butchyboysadventures cheers mate. The bag is 65L bud. Great bag very comfy

Yeah I never buy expensive shit i like roughin it with the low gear just for a giggle but I've got some good electrical kit and think a good bag will help look after my kit well looks like I need santa for a bag hahaha enjoy buddy ATB

Thank you brother. All the best and hopefully more entertaining vlogs to come ☺️

Haha totally agree, but max forecast was said to be 20mph winds so totally caught me out. It is what it is though :)

Thanks mate. Couldn't film on way down. Defo a hairy one haha

Thanks for watching mate. All the best

Thanks for watching brother. It had me anxious for days lol

Not going to lie mate I wasn't calm inside haha when I got out the tent my headtorch failed. Completely pitch black darkness. Thanks for watching 🙌

@@TheMackemMountaineer scary stuff.

Thank you 😊

Thanks for watching mate. So the problems in my opinion were as follows. I bought the tent pre owned and thinking back one of the poles had an excessive bend in it. I think this made the pole flex too much and caused the delta peg to continuously pull out of the ground. I also made quite a few mistakes. I should have pitched the tent the other way around as with the doors open as they were it was like a sail. I should have also pitched even further down than I did or tried to find some form of shelter but I suppose you can't predict the wind change sometimes. I've since bought the 10mm pole set which feels much better and the tent has a better shape now I'm not using the old bent 9mm pole mentioned above. All the best.

@@TheMackemMountaineer Hello. That’s very interesting. Thank you for the info. I’m looking at getting a new tent and will go camping in the Lake District too, so trying to avoid dangerous situations like this. Your experience and feedback are valuable.

@_Chris390 no problem, I've only been doing this 12 months myself so I'm quite new also so I'm learning on film I guess. I have hit 70 camps though in the first 12 month so learned a lot so far but usually the hard way 😅🤦‍♂️🙈 all the best for your camping adventures. My best advice would be simply put as always be prepared because conditions can change so quickly. :)

Thanks mate, all for learning lessons it's what makes us grow

its true !@@TheMackemMountaineer

Yep agree in retrospect haha

I made so many mistakes mate. In hindsight I'd have stayed put a d tried again to re-peg the tent and use rocks. I went out and bought 10mm poles the following week. Another mistake was a crap head torch. It actually went off when I got the tent packed down. Terrifying to be honest. I went out and bought a ledlenser h19r which is amazing. So many mistakes but a good way to learn I suppose haha

Cheers mate. All the best for 2024

Thank you mate

Thanks for watching. All the best

Absolutely agree mate. All part of building experience in the hills :)

To be fair mate I really feel like this one was my error in the way I pitched It I made a lot of mistakes and can see that in hindsight. Thanks for watching ☺️

@@TheMackemMountaineer Fair play to you, glad you're safe, I was only saying everything has a failure point, even the mighty Hilliberg.

@@stevegresty4181 100% mate everything has its weaknesses.

Thanks for watching. All the best 👍

Very interesting comment, thank you. I don't know mich about it personally but I'm going to further research 😊 all the best

What could have happened if he stayed put?

Haha way more extreme videos out there than this mate but thank you for watching. All a good learning curve for my young camping journey

Absolutely terrible mate. Headtorch went on and off. Yeah much better 10 mm poles. I made a lot of mistakes in this one. In reality I should have just tried to re peg the tent and stay put. Haha

@@TheMackemMountaineer every day is a school day mate we all learn and improve our skills 👍🏻

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Cheers mate, yeah she definitely won that one haha and I'm sure it won't be the last victory for her lol

I do love my soulo top. All the best

Haha I'd have rather been anywhere other than there mate lol

@@TheMackemMountaineer I’ve got a camp scheduled between Christmas and new year but if the forecast is anything like your night I’ll be having a rethink 😂

@cheviotoutdoors hope its OK for you mate. Cheviots?

@@TheMackemMountaineer yep, deffo Cheviots, my favourite place 👍

always said ill always be honest with my emotions on vlogs and not going to lie it had me nervous! what i didnt mention in that is that when i got out the tent the headtorch went off completely 🤦‍♂️ i was very lucky.

It was mate I think because it lost its composure water was coming in from Angles. Thankfully I've not had another issue with it since and have used it a lot (although not in similar conditions)

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Thanks for watching mate ATB

This is exactly what I was worried about yeah. Once I got out the tent headtorch went off and I was basically at the summit. It was either try get down or sit there is driving rain. Luckily got down OK in the end

Cheers brother. Thanks for watching. All fun and games haha

Since upgrades to 10mm poles, much better now. All the best

Nice. Share a vid with in the same condition's with your new poles if you get the opportunity again please. @@TheMackemMountaineer

@thegroove2000 will do mate, defo try to avoid the wind haha but if I'm caught up I'll post with the better poles as it should defo make a big difference :) the new poles are o. My most recent video (but the conditions weren't as bad). ATB

Hahhha I know mate totally curs3d myself a few times in this vlog haha

@@TheMackemMountaineer Briiliant video though mate, you've got yourself a new subscriber.

@sicr7373 thanks mate appreciated. Will try repay you with some banter bro

It was in the lake district, it was down to tye peg coming out and tye pole being excessively bent. Thanks for watching

I think one of my poles were excessively bent mate causing the problem with the peg coming out. All the best

Yeah mate defo lost some faith in it. Thanks for watching

Thanks for watching mate. All the best

Thanks for watching mate

These are the adventures we remember ! very entertaining, glad your safe@@TheMackemMountaineer

These are the adventures we remember!, very entertaining, glad your safe @@TheMackemMountaineer

Haha fair one mate. Is the DCF material the stuff that literally doesn't stretch? I'm always open to new tents so I'll have a look at it. All the best

@@TheMackemMountaineer That's the stuff...Once you go DCF you won't want anything else.

@@alfoutdoors9660 I've heard they're difficult to pitch ? Is that true or a falsity?

@@TheMackemMountaineer Not at all...Mine needs a minimum of four pegs, but 8 is ideal. I always carry 12 pegs so I can use guy lines if required. I use TITO ultralight Titanium shepherd hook pegs. They are 165mm long and I have 6 that are 3mm diameter and 6 that are 3.5mm diameter. They only weigh about 6g each and they have sharpened tips so you can easily push them into the ground by hand. I use a single four section folding 55" (1.4m) Carbon Fibre tent pole made in the states by Mountain Laurel Designs (MLD), which weighs 90g. I slope the pole out at the bottom towards the door so it doesn't get in the way inside. But I can also dispense with the pole completely by simply hanging the tent up via a taught ultralight Dyneema ridgeline tied between two trees, via a webbing loop on the peak (not all DCF tents have this though). It's really a doddle to put up. To cover the floor I use a large 10 foot x 5 foot (1.5m x 3m) sheet of Polycro (the lightest 100% waterproof groundsheet material you can get). My Ground sheet weighs 112g. It only cost me £7.99 on ebay. My tent has two huge doors that can both be open at the same time without the tent falling down and they can double as windbreaks...I can guy them out via some guy line tied to a trekking pole and then down to the ground so I can sit outside cooking on my Helinox Chair Zero without any windchill.

@@alfoutdoors9660 sounds great mate

@peterq1978 haha I did mate. Lost a jet boil and some clothes but all good otherwise

well, it seemed quite a experince, lets hope the next ones are without incident. it did look scary

Love Northumberland mate. Oy, our footy team is shit not our people hahaha

Nah I like a beer, but bare in mind I drank a few at 4pm so was easily sober by 1am, back at the car 4.30am and slept until 6.30am - I'm not stupid lol headtorch and bivvy... that's a lesson I learned from this and bought the ledlenser h19r which is awesome

Yeah defo in retrospect wrong decision to pitch there. I genuinely think the issue stemmed from an already bent pole.

yep, location is everything. Also we would sometimes double pole if the wind was bad.@@TheMackemMountaineer

Thanks for watching mate. I do love the hillebergs but only now I'm using 10mm poles on both allak and soulo. To be honest I love pretty much every tent available to man regardless of make haha 😄

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But please. Why do we use Hilleberg during winter in the arctic???? I am quite sure that you dont know what you are talking about

I’ve got a Hilleberg and a Naturehike. The Hilleberg is 3x stronger. If a Hilleberg failed a Naturehike would be totally destroyed. And let’s face it, all that happened was a peg came out which can happen no matter what tent you use.

How is a hilleberg a rip off mate.

Absolutely correct, Always a learning curve and learned do much on this one. All the best for 2024

Hahaha its more than the weather that can make something a nightmare? Gear problems, state of mind, unforseen circumstances? To top of it off my head torch went off out the tent so was totally blind. All the best.

No sympathy required mate haha there has to be a cross over section of risk and reward. With a Hileberg you'd expect to be OK. To me 25mph is the top end of that chart which was forecast. When I say its due to get worse, I mean to 25mph ish opposed to the 15 ish I encountered on the way up ☺️ of course though, it ended up being way over 25 which wasn't expected hence the retreat. Personally don't camp I'm anything over 25 - 30mph tops. That said, a good learning curve with harsh lessons

Thanks for watching mate. ATB

Glad you were o.k, must have been scary, I haven’t been wild camping in wind half the strength of that! , p.s subbed

@stevenvitali7404 thank you mate, I'd be fibbing if I said I wasn't worried but it's a good learning curve. Thanks for subbing brother

Oh I didn't double peg the deltas mate, I took it out and double pegged with v pegs as I always carry a selection. Haha agree Scotland hills are better but at any elevation, in the wrong conditions, someone can get into trouble. It was that exact level of complacency which got me into bother here

@@TheMackemMountaineer I know. Using a Soulo BL just now, my first Hilleberg though was a Tarra which I got because a Wild Country tent got destroyed in the Caringorms in a storm with 80mph forcast winds. Have also had an Akto ripped out of the ground due to my mistake in 90mph forcast winds. Winds can be much worse though, upto 173mph being recorded on Cairngorm.

Thanks mate. All the best fellow mackem haha