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Hey guys, welcome to We Film Things.
I am gonna start this video with some amazing shots from a scramble that we did at the weekend
in the Lake District.
Be careful, sheep!
If you are wondering why there are no drone shots whatsoever - we want to, but we have
crashed the drone back in a rice field in Bali.
So no drone shots today or for a very long time till we are millionaires again.
We're currently driving up to the Lake District for a little Sunday adventure because we were
feeling it people.
We have been missing the mountains and we just thought you know this weekend, we gotta
get out there, get in nature and do something a bit fun, so what we're gonna do is a grade 1 scramble.
I don't think we've done a proper full grade 1 scramble before have we?
No.
Pedal to the metal.
Jack's Rake.
Let's smash this thing.
That's where we're headed.
We're gonna scramble up that thing.
That is Jack's Rake.
This is Pavey Ark, it's like a huge rock outcrop.
How're you feeling?Hoping we're not gonna get blown off the wall.
It's really windy.
That's my main thought.
It's insanely windy.
Very windy!!!
This is where everyone is hiding as you can tell.
We're just drinking the last of our tea, preparing ourselves mentally and physically to reach
the top of - what's this actually called, Pavey's Ark?
Yeah Pavey Ark.
Pavey Ark via Jack's Rake.
It's not actually Jack's Rake, it's a route on Pavey Ark called Jack's Rake.
So it takes you about an hour to walk up there and then the actual scramble happens on this
rock face.
I'll just draw the route on for you as well.
The route looks - I mean it's not scientific, but the route looks something like that.
It's pretty obvious the route, it's pretty cool.
There's like a big crag in this rock, which you can climb up.
So to get to the rake, you have to come across this scree path to the bottom.
Alright, at the bottom of the rake.
This is where the scrambling really begins.
As you can see, it's kind of a very narrow gulley kind of carved into the rock face up
here and um, I don't know if you can see that up to that tree, maybe not so much, pretty
narrow, pretty tight, pretty scrambly.
I think with this one it looks a lot more daunting than it is because it looks really
high and steep but actually this is a grade one so it should be fairly accessible.
It's really fun, it's a little bit scary.
It is pretty scary.
Scary.
That like slippy bit was a little scary coz you don't know how like slippy the holds are.
Ok I want to show you something here because you hopefully get a good idea of what the
rake is actually like here.
Look at that.
Right that's a really good view of what the rake is like, you've kind of got these lovely
sides, kind of in that lovely V shape all the way up.
Some bits are obviously steeper than others and some bits are narrower than others, flatter
than others, but in general, that makes it quite easy to climb, but also in a cool location,
look at that behind me, wow!
This section looks pretty fun, you've got to climb up here and then get onto this ledge
and over this rock, so that's like a little problem.
And this side, I don't know if you can see, it's just completely smooth so it's going
to be quite hard.
You've got to kind of I guess lever up onto that using that side as like a bit of anchorage.
Oh dear god.
I guess - I don't know!
Maybe you can just pull yourself up.
We've done a really good section of the climb now.
I'm really enjoying it.
It's pretty scary.
Sometimes you get into your own head a little bit too much and you have to just think "I
can do this, this is fine."
But look at this location we've ended up at.
Look behind you.
Whaaaat!
Say whaaaat!
Wow.
This is the kind of hold that I'm talking about.
Boom.
Look how good that is.
You get your whole hand around it.
They're not all like that though.
Most are.
You can look around, just take your time.
The trick is, always have three points of contact on the wall.
And you'll never fall off!
We made it everybody!
We're at the top!
I'm very proud of us.
I'm proud of me, I'm proud of you, I'm proud of us both.
It was really good.
It was a good climb.
I got scared at two points and like froze a little bit and I needed some moral encouragement,
but I wasn't frozen for that long was I?
I provided that.
Yeah.
I provided that.
Be serious.
I am serious, I did provide that.
You did.
That's it from this vlog, I hope you enjoyed a little bit of a tour, I mean I think this
is the end of the vlog, maybe we'll do a little bit more.
And maybe this will be published in 2020 when Eliska gets around to it.
You could do it too!
Now there's a couple of things to know about this incredible scramble.
First is, it starts at a pub I would say called Sticklebarn, or Dungeon Ghyll and they are
both amazing pubs, so it's a really good place to start.
Parking's really easy there too.
The hike up actually takes you through some beautiful scenery, you pretty much follow
a river and a couple of waterfalls up to Stickle Tarn which is the lake underneath Pavey Ark.
You're then confronted with this massive wall of rock which you realise you've got to climb.
You then kind of go skirt around the tarn and get to a kind of V in the rock and that's
where the rake starts, which is the thing you're gonna be scrambling up.
It's actually quite easy to find it.
You then have to shuffle up a V kind of crag in the rock.
The trick that Eliska and I kind of found when we got a little bit scared on this route
was that if the more confident person actually goes behind the less confident person rather
than what I think is the more intuitive way which is the other way round, that really
helped Eliska out and made us both feel a lot more confident actually.
But the thing that Eliska and I loved about this is that you're so high up when you start
this scramble, you have incredible views all the way throughout.
We were very lucky because there was no rain.
When you get to the top, you get an amazing sense of satisfaction.
It's such a satisfying feeling having done that scramble.
And then you get this amazing view.
Both down onto the tarn itself but then you kind of get another drop away, which is down
into the valley and the mountains beyond that are really stunning.
For us it was a clear day, the evening light, it just looked amazing.
Really really cool.
The way down is super easy, it's pretty much the way you came up so you don't have to worry
about that and the bonus is that of course you're gonna finish at the Sticklebarn.
Or Dungeon Ghyll, which are pubs slash hotels.
I think they've got accommodation there if you wanted to stay there.
The Sticklebarn is run by the National Trust and it is lush, it's so good.
And when we went there, there was a little Oktoberfest, which was pretty darn cool actually.
What a way to finish the day, we're now back at the Sticklebarn and I told you it was an
excellent location because guess what's going on?
It's Oktoberfest.
We've got ourselves a delicious dinner.
These Nachos with pulled pork.
Lamb stew looking at the founders of the feast.
Pretty good right?Yeah, it's pretty good, it's actually so...
Great timing!
This is actually one of the best times of year to go for a walk.
Yeah, it's beautiful, it looks so autumnal.
Right, gonna eat this now.
Bye.
So turns out the only disadvantage of scrambling is that this is what your knees look like
the day after.
Very attractive.