Hi Athena, I have just got into wild camping and come across your you tube channel on camping and hiking. I have just watched this video I then visited your website called Ramble Guides, just dropping you a line to say thanks for the heads up on the website, found it to be very helpful with planning some of my wild camps. It as also give me some places for future camps. Just like to say thank you again and keep up the good work with the website. Kind Regards Phil Atherton
Loving what you are doing Athena, great to see your sister Amira with you. Looking forward to seeing more adventures in the future. As always great sound track, you are introducing me to new artist’s so thanks for that 🙏
Lovely edited vid of the area. Brownber is a wonderful place to stay (lovely walk to Smardalegill viaduct which is not far away), plus Peter and Amanda are amazing hosts. I've only just come across your channel Athena and I have to say that I have watched a few of your walks and everyone has brought a smile to me, thanks. Good luck with your dreams of a guide book, I'm sure you'll get there :)
Hello Athena 🙋🏼♂️Another great video, you are definitely on the right track (if you pardon the pun). Love the scenery oh and Brownber is now on the list to visit. Thanks again. Amira made me smile. keep um coming.
I watched this video today, end of September 2020, and it was so warming to hear that you dream of writing walking guides, knowing that you are about to finish your book! Very happy for you! Thank you for inspiring this community to appreciate and explore the beauty that surrounds us
So good to see the countryside of home, and in the sun! That sunrise was well worth waking up for 😍 This video has made me want to get out in the hills again when I visit home for Christmas, so thanks for that 😊 (and sorry again for spamming you about squirrels when you were enjoying a quiet weekend away!).
James F haha no worries! Great I could inspire you to go out into the hills when you head home. I really found it such a beautiful area and can see why people move up there 😍 didn’t manage to get to your parents squirrel farm (is that what it’s called??) but would love to next time!
@@RambleFamily Haha! I WISH I had grown up on a squirrel farm! 😁 It's not far off though - they're all wild but many will climb up your legs and eat from your hand 😊
Hello Athena. Excellent video again... As with all your vlogs, the content and music going together perfectly. I enjoy the detailed map section, gives myself and other viewers a better idea where exactly you've been walking. Thanks again for sharing..always a pleasure to watch.
Hi Athena , just discovered your channel. Beautiful footage in all of your videos that I've watched. Looking forward to many more. Also checked out Ramble guides. All the best with your channel and website, Randall ( from Australia )
Love Love Love your uploads Athena.... I too adore The Yorkshire Dales and The Peak District and The Lake District to name but just a few of my favourite places to explore on my motorbike. Please keep your wonderful vlogs a coming 'cos they are so inspiring. Take care girl and have a wonderful Xmas.
Great vid. Thanks for sharing. Makes me envious watching you two in the hills when I'm stuck indoors with flu!! Keep the uploads coming and see you on the hills sometime! 👍
Mark Thompson I’m also a little ill so editing this video was nice and transported me back there 😊 hope you feel better soon! Hope to see you in the hills at some point, do say hey 👋🏼👋🏼
@@RambleFamily will do. Will be gadding round the lakes in May so will give you a wave. BTW I didn't see your flask of tea. Tell me you had a flask of tea on them there hills!
Mark Thompson oh no... you caught me! The most terrible thing happened and I forgot to take my flask up there with me! Rest assured I had a tea in the morning before leaving and a hot chocolate on my return. I think this may be the only video on which I haven’t made a tea 😂😂
@@RambleFamily thank goodness for that. We all know it is written that thou shalt drink tea when the top of mountains are reached. It should also be sweet tea regardless of whether you take sugar or not. However I was assured you had biscuits. Quite posh ones too! Lots more vids please and I shall RTN the favour in May and upload my jaunt up Grasmore 👣
The more of your videos I watch, the more I really want to visit the UK. You have really good videography skills, and I really liked the ramble guides site as well. 😊
Hi Athena, I am a new subscriber, you enthusiasm is both contagious and inspiring. Pity you could not make it over to Australia when you were in NZ. Australia's high country is just amazing and sparce. I have now doubt you would love hiking Falls Creek, Mt Hotham, Mt Buffalo and many more. Keep up the great content.
Yep, all caught up on that one and an interesting introduction Athena. Looked like you had a fantastic day for it too. The Howgills always look very prominent when you track north from Yorkshire into Cumbria and are probably one of the quieter peaks to visit compared to others.
Lovely video, that is a nice walk. Nice surroundings. I will be walking there next year in spring i hope. I'll make sure to check your website! Thanks.
Hi Athena. I know The Howgills very well. We had a farm house in Newbiggin on Lune not far from the old railway station. I used to wander The Howgills every day with my Collie Jack. It’s a very quiet area all year. Navigation can be tricky in bad weather. Years ago we used to winter climb on Cautley Spout. I don’t think it’s been frozen since 2010/2011. Good place to Mountain Bike as well and Kirkby Stephen Railway Station on The Settle and Carlisle isn’t too far away. Great place to live with good access to The Lakes, Dale’s & Pennines.
You should check out Uldale more on the W - there's the most adorable herd of cows lives there! I camped there going S a few years, then just this October left my wife at Garsdale to go home on the train and hiked over Baugh Fell, down to Cross Keys, camped by Cautley Spout then back to Uldale in the opposite direction to visit my friends the cows again! I love the Howgills, they were also Wainwright's favourite area I believe - but seem to be invariably gale-force winds on the top!
Lovely part of the world. Also usually fairly quiet as most folks go to the lakes. I've ridden my horse around that area quite a lot in the past. Good country for horse trekking. In fact, my picture is taken with Cautley Spout in the background.
It's a lovely area for walking. I remember a half wild pony tried getting into my car near Cautley to snaffle my sandwiches when I left the window down. A wonderful area for quiet walking.
Another great video Athena with amazing assistance from Amira. I especially love your Scottish content but then again I'm biased. I'll check out your Instagram and Ramble Guide. Take care.
Far back in geological history, the Caledonian mountains of Scotland, Wales, and maybe parts of Northern England were continuous with the Appalachians in the Eastern USA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian_orogeny
Perfect mix of the right music and scenery! U must have a great camera the color in your vids are amazing. I prefer the hiking ones more so than the rock climbing...but i watch both to relax.greetings from America.
I once signed up to a photography course that was taught by a professional photographer. He told us he had a friend who was a chef, and he agreed to photograph his friend's new restaurant for promotional reasons in exchange for a three course meal. Two friends scratching each other's backs. The chef was impressed by the photos, flicking through them while his friend tucked into his meal: "Wow, these are great. You must have a really good camera?". The photographer looked up and calmly said to his friend "This food is delicious. You must have a really good oven?". I'll just leave this here 🙂
Thanks so much! I use a Canon G7X which is a good little camera but not a big fancy one! I put a colour grade on my videos to give it a style I like 😊 glad you’re enjoying the videos! Would love to know if there’s anything you’d like to see different or more of? 😊
i have gosh this is brilliant AM. just back from a weekend at Little longstone by Monsal Head - Bike and hike. i have looked at the Ramblers guides, do we print any routes off there or just get the OS maps
Hi Kevin, for the moment they are just links to OS Maps and written walking descriptions. Some print-out routes is a good idea for the future though! Lots to do!
Hi , very inspiring to see your videos. Just seen another of yours from november. I'm planning a wild camp with my dog, to Scotland, Wales which I understand is permitted... Just wondered about the laws around wild camping in the UK..? Any advice would be much appreciated!
Wilcamping is not technically allowed in the UK aside from Scotland and Dartmoor, but I believe if you follow the principles of 'leave no trace', are fairly discreet and sensible you won't have any trouble :)
Hi Athena , As you said in your video you need to have a good sense of direction when out walking in the hills, because most of those small indistinct paths are not shown on maps . They are not really paths but are in fact sheep trods (paths made by sheep). The hills here in Cumbria are crisscrossed with them. Take care.
What type of house do you live in Anthea? I noticed your windows are stone mullions. That is very unusual unless you live in a very old historic house.
Sorry to be pedantic but the Howgills are not the Yorkshire Dales. Technically some parts may be in the Yorkshire National Park, but that's different to the Yorkshire Dales, the Howgills are firmly rooted in Cumbria. Really enjoyed the film, but as a local it did spike every time you said Yorkshire as you were in Cumbria specifically the Westmorland Dales. Haha just saved yourself ..........11 minutes in. We really don't like being told we are Yorkshire Dales ......sounds pedantic but .....
Haha thanks for your comment. I know the Howgills are not in Yorkshire however I was under the impression they were part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. That is what the map suggests anyway but apologies if I am wrong.
No your correct it is the Yorkshire Dales National Park, but that comprised of the Yorkshire Dales and Westmoreland Dales etc in the grand scheme of things it's not that important, bit the Yorkshire Dales and the Yorkshire dales National Park are not the same thing I soon discovered this in Orton, just up the road from the Howgills where the signs were painted over until they were changed from: YORKSHIRE DALES NATIONAL PARK Westmoreland Dales, to WESTMORELAND DALES, Yorkshire dales National park. The difference is obviously quite sharp for the people who live there. And ivuess peoe referring to the Westmoreland Dales as the Yorkshire is irritating. Yorkshire Dales is aveographic region, the national Park an administrative one. It's really not that important and 99.9% of people couldn't care less. But locally it an be an issue. Sorry for being such a pedantic tw*t but over lockdown etc I've watched a lot of TH-cam videos, mostly coast-coast where they refer to the area of the Westmoreland Dales as the Yorkshire Dales and after a whileit grates I did e joy the little film and will be heading through the Howgills to Sedbergh (in the car lol) in about 15 mins Dales
The thing I love most about being outdoors is how inclusive it is for everyone, and that we all come together with a common love of the hills and nature. I hope this channel to be like that as well so I won’t respond to your question, but rest assured I will be voting on Thursday 😊 thanks for the support also!!
Nothing more peaceful than Yorkshire in the winter sun 🥰 one of my favourite videos of yours that I’ve seen...! So cosy xx
Ramble Guides is awesome - thanks so much for putting it together
Beautiful that. Thankyou. I've walked the Howgills loads of times with my family. My two lads loved playing up there as well.
Another joy to watch and chill music to boot
Hi Athena,
I have just got into wild camping and come across your you tube channel on camping and hiking.
I have just watched this video I then visited your website called Ramble Guides, just dropping you a line to say thanks for the heads up on the website, found it to be very helpful with planning some of my wild camps. It as also give me some places for future camps.
Just like to say thank you again and keep up the good work with the website.
Kind Regards
Phil Atherton
Loving what you are doing Athena, great to see your sister Amira with you. Looking forward to seeing more adventures in the future. As always great sound track, you are introducing me to new artist’s so thanks for that 🙏
Wonderful video. Kudos to you to be able follow your passion for outdoor life. As always your choice of music is top notch.
Lovely edited vid of the area. Brownber is a wonderful place to stay (lovely walk to Smardalegill viaduct which is not far away), plus Peter and Amanda are amazing hosts. I've only just come across your channel Athena and I have to say that I have watched a few of your walks and everyone has brought a smile to me, thanks. Good luck with your dreams of a guide book, I'm sure you'll get there :)
Lovely editing and music selection as always. Shout out to Amira for the additional footage!
Thanks! And yep she always provides some added entertainment :D
Hello Athena 🙋🏼♂️Another great video, you are definitely on the right track (if you pardon the pun). Love the scenery oh and Brownber is now on the list to visit. Thanks again. Amira made me smile. keep um coming.
I watched this video today, end of September 2020, and it was so warming to hear that you dream of writing walking guides, knowing that you are about to finish your book! Very happy for you! Thank you for inspiring this community to appreciate and explore the beauty that surrounds us
So good to see the countryside of home, and in the sun! That sunrise was well worth waking up for 😍 This video has made me want to get out in the hills again when I visit home for Christmas, so thanks for that 😊 (and sorry again for spamming you about squirrels when you were enjoying a quiet weekend away!).
James F haha no worries! Great I could inspire you to go out into the hills when you head home. I really found it such a beautiful area and can see why people move up there 😍 didn’t manage to get to your parents squirrel farm (is that what it’s called??) but would love to next time!
@@RambleFamily Haha! I WISH I had grown up on a squirrel farm! 😁 It's not far off though - they're all wild but many will climb up your legs and eat from your hand 😊
Hello Athena. Excellent video again... As with all your vlogs, the content and music going together perfectly. I enjoy the detailed map section, gives myself and other viewers a better idea where exactly you've been walking. Thanks again for sharing..always a pleasure to watch.
Hi Athena , just discovered your channel. Beautiful footage in all of your videos that I've watched. Looking forward to many more. Also checked out Ramble guides. All the best with your channel and website, Randall ( from Australia )
Lovely video Athena watching down under I miss the Dales thanks for taking me back to T’ Howgills. 👍
Love Love Love your uploads Athena.... I too adore The Yorkshire Dales and The Peak District and The Lake District to name but just a few of my favourite places to explore on my motorbike. Please keep your wonderful vlogs a coming 'cos they are so inspiring. Take care girl and have a wonderful Xmas.
Great vid. Thanks for sharing. Makes me envious watching you two in the hills when I'm stuck indoors with flu!! Keep the uploads coming and see you on the hills sometime! 👍
Mark Thompson I’m also a little ill so editing this video was nice and transported me back there 😊 hope you feel better soon! Hope to see you in the hills at some point, do say hey 👋🏼👋🏼
@@RambleFamily will do. Will be gadding round the lakes in May so will give you a wave. BTW I didn't see your flask of tea. Tell me you had a flask of tea on them there hills!
Mark Thompson oh no... you caught me! The most terrible thing happened and I forgot to take my flask up there with me! Rest assured I had a tea in the morning before leaving and a hot chocolate on my return. I think this may be the only video on which I haven’t made a tea 😂😂
@@RambleFamily thank goodness for that. We all know it is written that thou shalt drink tea when the top of mountains are reached. It should also be sweet tea regardless of whether you take sugar or not. However I was assured you had biscuits. Quite posh ones too!
Lots more vids please and I shall RTN the favour in May and upload my jaunt up Grasmore 👣
The more of your videos I watch, the more I really want to visit the UK. You have really good videography skills, and I really liked the ramble guides site as well. 😊
Thanks!
Hi Athena, I am a new subscriber, you enthusiasm is both contagious and inspiring. Pity you could not make it over to Australia when you were in NZ. Australia's high country is just amazing and sparce. I have now doubt you would love hiking Falls Creek, Mt Hotham, Mt Buffalo and many more. Keep up the great content.
Another great video! You've kicked me back into gear 🤟. I'm finishing off my campervan and hopefully get out on the fells soon! Thankyou! ❤️
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I will watch this later. Love it up there and the Lune has some intersting geology too.
MrDazp1 thank you!! And hope you enjoy when you get round to watching 😊
@@RambleFamily Will do Athena, I'm just editing a Heptonstall cycling video - busy busy...
Yep, all caught up on that one and an interesting introduction Athena. Looked like you had a fantastic day for it too. The Howgills always look very prominent when you track north from Yorkshire into Cumbria and are probably one of the quieter peaks to visit compared to others.
Lovely video, that is a nice walk. Nice surroundings. I will be walking there next year in spring i hope. I'll make sure to check your website! Thanks.
bsidez ah great! Make sure you head to the Three Hares, great little cafe 😊 have fun while you’re up there!
Really liked the music too , good choice :)
You two are great, Love your adventures I can’t wait until I start documenting mine too. Looks super fun!
Nicely done. As a Yorkshireman living in California this video gave me some serious homesickness.
The Howgills are full of magic, endearment and mystery. A must visit for all walkers and ramblers.
Loving the videos. I need to get back walking ticking off the wainwright's.
Hi Athena. I know The Howgills very well. We had a farm house in Newbiggin on Lune not far from the old railway station. I used to wander The Howgills every day with my Collie Jack. It’s a very quiet area all year. Navigation can be tricky in bad weather. Years ago we used to winter climb on Cautley Spout. I don’t think it’s been frozen since 2010/2011. Good place to Mountain Bike as well and Kirkby Stephen Railway Station on The Settle and Carlisle isn’t too far away. Great place to live with good access to The Lakes, Dale’s & Pennines.
You should check out Uldale more on the W - there's the most adorable herd of cows lives there! I camped there going S a few years, then just this October left my wife at Garsdale to go home on the train and hiked over Baugh Fell, down to Cross Keys, camped by Cautley Spout then back to Uldale in the opposite direction to visit my friends the cows again! I love the Howgills, they were also Wainwright's favourite area I believe - but seem to be invariably gale-force winds on the top!
My favourite channel!
Lovely part of the world. Also usually fairly quiet as most folks go to the lakes. I've ridden my horse around that area quite a lot in the past. Good country for horse trekking. In fact, my picture is taken with Cautley Spout in the background.
Bill O'Brien ah that’s great! I loved how quiet it was up there. Gave it a really nice feel.. 😊
Hi Athena Pretty Much newbie** But enjoying The Vlogs>>> Nice Feel and pace Chilled Too brilliant makes a Change thanks Tc x
Tony Carroll thanks a lot, hope to keep them that way 😊
Great choice of snack!
very nice ! love !
Beautifully filmed.
Lovely video and the scenery is grand in the lush sunlight. Maybe my favorite so far. The land James Herriot wrote about, I believe.
It's a lovely area for walking. I remember a half wild pony tried getting into my car near Cautley to snaffle my sandwiches when I left the window down. A wonderful area for quiet walking.
Walked south of the Howgills on the Dalesway, need to explore this area, always zoom past on the way to the Lakes, tfs
Yes same! Such a beautiful area to visit :)
Another great video Athena with amazing assistance from Amira. I especially love your Scottish content but then again I'm biased. I'll check out your Instagram and Ramble Guide. Take care.
Being from the states i notice the UK has its own beauty in landscapes.
It does indeed!
Far back in geological history, the Caledonian mountains of Scotland, Wales, and maybe parts of Northern England were continuous with the Appalachians in the Eastern USA. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caledonian_orogeny
I love the Howgill Fells
I did that exact walk a few years back! The climb up is a bit steep but so worth it
welcome back :)
Perfect mix of the right music and scenery! U must have a great camera the color in your vids are amazing. I prefer the hiking ones more so than the rock climbing...but i watch both to relax.greetings from America.
I once signed up to a photography course that was taught by a professional photographer. He told us he had a friend who was a chef, and he agreed to photograph his friend's new restaurant for promotional reasons in exchange for a three course meal. Two friends scratching each other's backs. The chef was impressed by the photos, flicking through them while his friend tucked into his meal: "Wow, these are great. You must have a really good camera?". The photographer looked up and calmly said to his friend "This food is delicious. You must have a really good oven?". I'll just leave this here 🙂
@@jamesf8864 Where im from...they call you ah mook...😉😉
@@V.T.1989 I Googled it but am still none the wiser, so I'll just keep my fingers crossed that it's complimentary 😁
@@jamesf8864 Oh yea it is but think you lean closer to Stunad!
Thanks so much! I use a Canon G7X which is a good little camera but not a big fancy one! I put a colour grade on my videos to give it a style I like 😊 glad you’re enjoying the videos! Would love to know if there’s anything you’d like to see different or more of? 😊
Very nice and interesting blog
Inspired female hiker here, I will go to Scotland early next June for 10 days hiking, staying in a cabin and youthhostelling.
neckdaisy ahh that’s awesome!! Hope you have an amazing time 🙏🏼 glad I could inspire you. Hoping to get up there myself for some hiking in March 😊
Very interesting 😁
Beautiful place :D in my neck of the woods to :D
i have gosh this is brilliant AM. just back from a weekend at Little longstone by Monsal Head - Bike and hike.
i have looked at the Ramblers guides, do we print any routes off there or just get the OS maps
Hi Kevin, for the moment they are just links to OS Maps and written walking descriptions. Some print-out routes is a good idea for the future though! Lots to do!
After the Lake District the Howgills are the second greatest set of mountains in England.
Hi , very inspiring to see your videos. Just seen another of yours from november. I'm planning a wild camp with my dog, to Scotland, Wales which I understand is permitted... Just wondered about the laws around wild camping in the UK..? Any advice would be much appreciated!
Wilcamping is not technically allowed in the UK aside from Scotland and Dartmoor, but I believe if you follow the principles of 'leave no trace', are fairly discreet and sensible you won't have any trouble :)
If you guys visit again... spend more time away from the calf it's much quieter.... Simon's seat area is absolutely stunning
I thought you might visit the Three Hares......but it looked you went there twice 🙄😁. Top cafe 👍
Great vid! What's the music? It's lovely.
Great views of Yorkshire ! Will check out yer website , my question is do you play Acoustic Guitar as u seem to like natural acoustic music ? 👍🙂
Hi Athena ,
As you said in your video you need to have a good sense of direction when out walking in the hills, because most of those small indistinct paths are not shown on maps . They are not really paths but are in fact sheep trods (paths made by sheep).
The hills here in Cumbria are crisscrossed with them. Take care.
Watching the bit where you got a wee bit lost...do you use what3words for addresses? It’s super easy to use and really starting to take off.
What type of house do you live in Anthea?
I noticed your windows are stone mullions. That is very unusual unless you live in a very old historic house.
Sorry to be pedantic but the Howgills are not the Yorkshire Dales. Technically some parts may be in the Yorkshire National Park, but that's different to the Yorkshire Dales, the Howgills are firmly rooted in Cumbria.
Really enjoyed the film, but as a local it did spike every time you said Yorkshire as you were in Cumbria specifically the Westmorland Dales.
Haha just saved yourself ..........11 minutes in.
We really don't like being told we are Yorkshire Dales ......sounds pedantic but .....
Haha thanks for your comment. I know the Howgills are not in Yorkshire however I was under the impression they were part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park. That is what the map suggests anyway but apologies if I am wrong.
No your correct it is the Yorkshire Dales National Park, but that comprised of the Yorkshire Dales and Westmoreland Dales etc in the grand scheme of things it's not that important, bit the Yorkshire Dales and the Yorkshire dales National Park are not the same thing
I soon discovered this in Orton, just up the road from the Howgills where the signs were painted over until they were changed from: YORKSHIRE DALES NATIONAL PARK Westmoreland Dales, to WESTMORELAND DALES, Yorkshire dales National park. The difference is obviously quite sharp for the people who live there.
And ivuess peoe referring to the Westmoreland Dales as the Yorkshire is irritating. Yorkshire Dales is aveographic region, the national Park an administrative one. It's really not that important and 99.9% of people couldn't care less. But locally it an be an issue.
Sorry for being such a pedantic tw*t but over lockdown etc I've watched a lot of TH-cam videos, mostly coast-coast where they refer to the area of the Westmoreland Dales as the Yorkshire Dales and after a whileit grates
I did e joy the little film and will be heading through the Howgills to Sedbergh (in the car lol) in about 15 mins
Dales
Followed for a while now and inclined to throw some significant support your way. One question about your character though? Remain or leave?
Or just enjoy the common interests and leave political debates for their own arena ✌️
Questions of character are above political debate surely?
The hills are a politics free zone dude 🙄
@@markthompson9332 agreed, not a political question
The thing I love most about being outdoors is how inclusive it is for everyone, and that we all come together with a common love of the hills and nature. I hope this channel to be like that as well so I won’t respond to your question, but rest assured I will be voting on Thursday 😊 thanks for the support also!!