It's FEBRUARY!
Probably the best month we get for winter conditions

You have been out playing in the snow... right anon?

Obligatory discord invite shill post
https://discord.gg/w2QK2UsgRP

In the Carneddau last weekend

>>2806072

>>2806072
Coming up to the summit of Carnedd Daffyd

Perfect weather and almost no snow in the Glyderau the week prior

>>2806075
Which in typical Welsh fashion quickly turned to cloud as we attained the summit

Saw this poor lad recently. During the flooding his boat got lifted over the piling, drifted onto the towpath, then when the flooding receded he was stuck. Been there for months now

>>2806090
>free spirit

Lmao

>>2806064 (OP)
where?
is it that snowy? i been thinking uk might be my hiking sanctuary when it gets too bad in norway. i just want rolling hills and small lakes without snow, dont care if its freezing temperature.
t. goon to wildbeare

>>2806100
Creag Meagaidh
top of easy gully, im going back there tomorrow and I think the snow will still be the same
this place catches loads of snow but further north it has been bare

https://torridonblog.sais.gov.uk/2025/02/windy-again/

this website updates daily with photos of winter conditions and avalanche risks from around the country so you can kind of see what its like. if you go to the coast the salinity kind of wipes away loads of snow

>>2806108
thanks, snowdonia right? im as i said from abroad.

40degrees,, and rainingnow.,
,canadian geese carryed the first humming bird on their back.,wasuper happy to find i had feederset!

>>2806147

There is no fucking snow here

>>2806173
it snowed on my way back from work today (not bongland)

It’s fucking grim in winter lads

>>2806452
pvre kino

>>2806064 (OP)
I swear Graham's have started to put a little less milk in their 2l cartons.

>>2806064 (OP)
god you guys have the coolest winters. its a lifetime dream of mine to sew up a nice gully climb out there in horrid conditions

>>2806444
Pengrim if you ask me lahhr

We had one week of solid -1 to -11 and it was great. Things actually stayed frozen.

>>2807065

Do I need water proof trousers for ten days im Scotland starting first week March? Visiting. Want to do some highlands stuff, but will be based in a city.

>>2807236
If you want to keep your legs dryish in rain, then yes. But I think they are shitty to walk in, often you get wet with sweat and unless the weather is very extreme if you are going back each day and not staying out does it really matter if you get wet? Consider gaiters as an option unless you are walking in the rain they will go a long way to keeping your legs and feet dry.

I carry w/proof legs and jacket as well as thermal baselayer waterproofed in my daysack when I am out for day hikes but rarely put on a waterproof as I rarely stop long enough to get cold and am usually out for only 4-8 hours. I'd rather get wet than overheated and get sticky/sweaty, for whatever reason I walk hot and am comfortable at 0c in shorts and tshirt + gloves unless there is a moderate or more windchill.

>>2806846
love this
>>2806969
this winter has been really warm
keeps getting sunny and melting the snow
in the past it really builds up
>>2807066
where lad?
>>2807236
yes.
trust me

I had a good weekend lads, done multiple gullies and a nice ridge walk

>>2807418
w2c an ice climbing gf?

>>2807538
>gf


probably some homosexual discord server anon

View from Eccles Pike in The Peaks last week.

Any East Anglia pricks here? I love walking in The Fens, into bleak, shitty landscapes.

>>2806136
Nah Snowdonia is in north Wales. Creag Meagaidh is the Scottish Highlands.

Contrary to what the name would have you believe, the winter in Snowdonia is far more unreliable than what you'd get further north - see my pics in the thread, some of my "winter" excursions have practically been like a summers day.

>>2807538
she's trans and we met at the bouldering gym

Out on Helvellyn this week enjoying the last of the winter conditions with some frens

>>2807642

>>2807600
Hi, ice climbing anon here! (^‿^) I'm actually trans (^-^) and find this very insulting. (︵,) I hope you have a think about what you said. (・_・;)

>>2807626
>Any East Anglia pricks here? I love walking in The Fens, into bleak, shitty landscapes.
Lived in Chatteris. As for the Fens the entire area is a god forsaken shithole, like they could set one of those Chernobyl Stalker games there. More abandoned asbestos sheds than trees. Norfolk is pretty nice in places, like going back 50 years.

>>2806064 (OP)
oi
when are you gonna release more youtube videos

>>2807732
one coming out in the next month
it is better than the previous

>>2807645
hi ice climbing tranon i hope you slip and fall and are surprised when the NHS doesnt treat your injuries cos they spent too much money on trannies

>>2807753
fug yeah

>>2807769
that's just not nice anon

Actually felt almost like spring yesterday, but I won’t be tricked

>>2806100
>t. goon to wildbeare
Based.
Ponder the aroma.

To be fair she goes out in some pretty sickening conditions as well as her basic LARP stuff.

poo

Winter und Frühling ist sehr schön hier! Ich wandere oft im natür. Prost !

>>2808116
yeah she got bigger tolerance for shit weather than me. i usually dont like female ytbers, she is the exception.
i honestly thought all of uk was dead boring before i watched her hiking videos and now i want to go there.

I had a good weekend lads
good sun but windy up here
picrel is some crazy euro who ski'd down the gully I just came up

>>2809440
cool pic, nice landscape

>>2809443
Thanks, Glencoe is a lovely area

There hasn't been any snow where I live lately. But there was a lot in January. I didn't manage to get very far because it was actually impassable with the equipment I have. But I did a hike in the nearby moors.

There was basically 1 foot of snow, which I could handle with gaiters, but higher up it was deeper and impossible to see where the paths were, with snow drifts of 4-5ft. I fell in a snow drift up to my chest just from stepping on what I thought was safe ground.

Next year I want to do some actual winter skill training in the Cairngorms, and then maybe I can try to do some proper hills in the Lake District or Scotland in the snow. Because it's clear I'm not really very good at this, but I did better than last year where I got lost in the frozen fog after dark and ended up with frostbite.

Sorry for the unexciting picture with electricity pylons and the town I live in visible, but like I said, I couldn't get far in these conditions. I couldn't even drive anywhere. The dry stone wall here is about 3-4 foot high so the snow was up to my thighs/waist in places.

I really want to get up some proper mountains in snowy/icy conditions though. I hate these flat moorland bogs.

>>2808235
Fuck off this is a BRIT out thread you retarded spaz

>>2809860
+

>>2809860
this

These threads never used to be this dead

>>2807732
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95PrXsXJlUw
new one lad

>>2806090
you can't park there mate

>>2806452
>no trees
>no animals
why does all of your nature look so absolutely life-less?

>>2811429
>what is a tree line
please, please go outside

>>2811431
oh don't worry I will. around here we have trees you know. and animals. and proper nature. not just some mossy rocks and shit weather 24/7 kek

>>2811429
so eh
this is creag meagidh, which is actually a nature reserve, there are no trees here because this is quite far up, and in a corrie which isnt the best place for a forest
there are loads of wildlife there from things as small as a bug to as big as a deer
Scotland did used to have loads more forest but it was dramatically deforested
Trees do not mean a lack of life though, moorland and alpine habitats are very biodiverse, and you are just ignorant to that fact

>>2811454
why are you not re-growing the trees?

>>2811458
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SdhP2pLvD8

>>2811234
kino

>>2811433
>>2811458
t. never been outside and/or retarded

It's already been explained to you and you don't understand simple concepts like altitude and latitude and can't comprehend that there is a world outside of America or even your own state.

>>2813010
>simple concepts like altitude and latitude
first of I am not a mutt, and second of all, there used to be trees there - so they CAN grow. why you don't regrow was my question, make it a bit more lively you know

I want to go hiking + camping in Scotland from East England (first leg by train), but I've never been /out/ in the UK.
What trails/places/spots would you guys recommend?
I hear around Fort William is nice.
For my first time I thought I'd do a 3 day, 2 night trip, but maybe a 2/1 would be better...?

>>2806444
come to canada

The beach counts as /out/ even though there are no trees and it's always windy as fuck and seems lifeless.

>>2813384
We even made a friend.

Been doing lots of /stalker/ing with out buddies over winter. Got some nice shots with some vintage lenses.

Went to an abandoned office complex and had to climb up an elevator shaft to get to the roof.

>>2813385
Kill the fucking dog
Kill it
All dogs deserve to die
They are evil baby eaters

>>2814099
what a strange thing to say

Question
I encountered snow for the first time in my life on a mountain peak in spring, it was an amazing experience but left me with some doubts, is snow supposed to be crunchy? (Like the ice frost that forms inside a refrigerator) I always thought it was fluffy like sand

>>2814425
How southern are you that you've never seen snow

>>2814598
I'm not from Britain, I just saw this thread about snow

>>2814425
Snow can be slushy, icy, powdery, whatever.

Apparently you need to verify your email to post on 4chan now... gay

I know urbexing isn't criminal if you aren't nicking or breaking anything, but has anyone had the police give them trouble after getting caught?

>>2814893
and where's a good place to share leads... I have so many places that aren't on 28dl or urbexology

>>2814894
You should share them here

>>2813197
It's probably worth spending a couple nights up in Scotland because you'd end up spending most of your time travelling there if you just go for one night.

If youre down south and nearish any airports then I'd just recommend getting a flight to Inverness and the train to fort William from there because it'll be quicker, cheaper, and more straight forward.

I've just spent a couple days on the isle of Skye but we passed through fort William... From what I can see you won't be short of hikes in that area as it as right in the middle of the tallest and largest mountain range in the UK.

Would it be possible to start seedbombing all the fucking green deserts out there or are sheep just going to fuck up any spouts that actually appear?
Thinking of maybe going for stuff that sheep won't want to touch, but I'm not sure what that is at the seedling level.

>>2816861
I've been thinking about planting native plants that are poisonous to sheep. Things like ragwort and foxglove seem reasonable. That would build up some cover for more structural things like gorse and hawthorn to further shield trees. IDK, probs just a pipe dream.

I don't know what the farm animals won't touch because surely the rewilding projects would already use it. or maybe they don't need to because they can just remove farm grazing.

>>2816861
>>2816868
plant thorns to shield the saplings

>>2816861
Maybe something fast growing with rhyzomes that spread underground that grazers can't touch. Bamboo is the obvious one but you don't want to put such a bad invasive out there.

>>2816861
don't need to, agenda 2030 and the gov are already on it. won't be able to explore the new wild lands from the 15 minute city

Has any one noticed how all the wildcamper youtubers are all gear shills now. Every other video they upload is some tent / item review, then in their next videos they stopped using it and have moved onto some other tent / item.

>>2814607
He strikes me as a man who is in desperate need of a shag.

Did Pen y Fan earlier in the spring. (Yeah, I know, normie level, but I'd never been up it and I had an opportunity to stay in Brecon for a few days for other reasons.) Couldn't see shit from the summit, but at least it drove off most of the tourists (me excluded). Cribyn and Fan y Big were pretty ace, though, since the cloud was only above about 820 m. Descents were a bit suspect with the wind/rain and me not being the most confident on the steeper bits so I didn't get to run as much of them as I'd hoped.

>>2819017

I wish I lived in the UK. The countryside looks so comfy with the mist.

I'm heading to Exmoor in a bit, looking to enjoy the nice weather and get away from everyone. Hoping to hammock in the woods by the cliffs. Any recommendations of locations to walk past from any of you who've been around that area?

>>2806064 (OP)
I am going camping in the next week when I go traveling. Where in West Yorkshire would you recommend for wild camping? Preferably with water that I can boil.

>>2809481
I think your photo is very nice.
>>2808086
What's going on with your boat? Big flat solar panels over the whole boat? Do they power a tiny motor?
>>2806076
Still a cool photo though.

>>2819925
They charge the batteries that power everything inside the boat. Actually only the two closest in that image work, need to replace a diode on the smaller one. The boat moves using a diesel engine

Planning on doing the Ridgeway next year as a charity thing for a friend who died from cancer. Anyone walked it before that can share advice? I've done half of the Pennine Way before and apparently the Ridgeway is a lot easier. I'm planning on wild camping as much as I can along the route but I'm local to a lot of the route anyway so I know a few of the farmers.

>>2819911
Back from Exmoor and jfc lads, dont even bother. Full of fucking ticks. I had two on my fucking inner thigh. Little creeps.

>>2821572
Just tuck your trousers into your socks next time

>>2811458
They use it as grassland to feed livestock

Thinking of guerilla rewilding around me (Derbyshire).
Try to find areas in the peaks where the sheep are failing to graze and start putting down tree saplings and maybe something fast growing like blackberry for protection. Was thinking willow trees because they grow several meters a year, hopefully allowing them to survive grazers spotting them.

Forest camping for the storm in Essex tonight lads. What am I in for?

Any of you lads picked or grown magic mushrooms before?

Big fan of sheep

>>2826120
I like all sheep but one. First step of the Pennine way when I was younger, I was following an old map and missed my route so ended up camping up on Bleaklow as it got dark rather then pressing on to the actual campsite in Crowden. I slept like shit so packed up my tent at about 6am, surrounded by clouds. The descent towards the reservoir is along a gorge with a narrow track along it. It's been a long time since I did it, but in my 22 year old mind I had a fairly vertical rock wall on my left and a deep drop into a river far below on my right. Exhausted and regretting everything, I was trying to make my way down the path on a couple hours sleep when a sheep looms out of the cloud at me and wouldn't move. There's no way I can move around it and if it's startled when I move, it'll push me down and probably kill me. I ended up yelling at this stupid fucking sheep for about 20 minutes when eventually he turned and disappeared.

I wasn't moving particularly fast but by the time I followed the path the sheep had completely disappeared and there was no trace of it. The farmer didn't have his sheep in the nearby fields either so it must have been an extremely lost sheep looking at a lost hiker.

All other sheep are okay.

Two days in the peak above 30c and everybody is close to dropping from running out of water while also getting lost. Kinder scout: the home of the muppet-helicopter ride.

Not checked this thread for over a year. Hope all are enjoying the APOCALYPTIC and VOLCANIC warmth from the sunshine.

pro tip anons: you can fly to norway and buy a DNT membership for £40 which gives you access to huts in the mountains for £10-15/night. flights there are usually £130 and the country is so high trust you can bunk the trains by being asleep. works out cheaper than scorland

>>2827522
I had a sheep try and lure my dog off a mountain, fortunately he's too smart too but if my gf wasn't there I would've chinnedl them

>>2825238
Liberty Caps grow in any field where cows and grazers have shit, and it stays pretty wet. Look for areas on North facing slopes and areas of grass that look super green and fertilized.
London has Psilocybe Cyanescens and subaeruginosa that people have spread spores about. These are wood loving species, look in areas of decaying wood, bark, mulch etc.
This year will probably be pretty shit because of the drought.