Preparing for a Hike 

I hope you are all doing well. Sorry I am unable to answer any comments or messages - I am away on a 5 week camping trip with no signal so sadly I can’t respond to all your lovely messages. I am very sorry but will get back to you as soon as I am back home. I think you will love this video I am currently filming! Take care x

Becky, being a retired military this is a great video of how to prepare for a hike. Thank you for this video for the new hikers. You are doing a great job of helping new hikers. Doing a map reading video would be a great class. Thank you for your informational video. Your the bomb!

Hi Becky, love your content! I'd be keen if you did a video on navigation. An outline of what to research and think about would be super useful. I'm in Australia and I'm getting close to taking the next step to wild camping.

You have done very well Becky. Your knowledge of camping and hiking in all kinds of weather along with how to survive when the going gets tough am sure has inspired many to get off their couch and get moving outside to enjoy the great outdoors. Guess we should be happy that there is an internet. Without it, any contact with others may not have ever happened. So thinking computer technology has been some what good for the interaction with others. This is another super outstanding and informative video. Carry on young lady. Reach for all the heights you can.

Very sound and helpful advice. Your very switched on to the outdoors. Fantastic video. Many thanks 😊 🙏

Recently only started watching your videos always interesting and commentary and info is so informative. I think you are an inspirational young woman who should be really really proud of your achievements Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

You covered a lot of very useful information, especially important for those who aren't that experienced with hiking or backpacking. Very good video!

Thank you for presenting this video. Lots of useful and important information in it.

Love your channel, and your videos. Especially those videos where you don't strictly talk about hiking or gear, but your views and ideas on what life is about for you in general. The perfect example that wisom has nothing to do, of course, with age. Thank you.

Love my gortex lined altburgs, I use the same filter I had a spare hose for my hydration pack so I cut the hose and attached the filter stright to the hydration pack hose

Im Rey from L.A big fan of yours . Thank you for all the videos and advice. Im a beginner. You are so brave and inspirational.

Something interesting you could do on a hike is to check oiut your local library, university ones are best, for old maps, 100 years or more. Can't get these on google often. They can give added intrest on old ruins, walls, paths etc you might come to.

Thanks for this interesting and comprehensive video. Perhaps I may add a couple of tips? The boil in the bag type meals are, in my experience, much nicer to eat than the dehydrated ones. They also save on fuel and water. You just need to bring the sachet to the boil, and simmer for a few minutes. As the food has not been in contact with the water, you use it to make your hot drink. Eat out of the sachet - no washing up. I was once hiking in the Cairngorms when my gas stove stopped working. A tiny grain of sand had blocked the jet. Although not quite as good as when warmed, the sachet meals are still palatable cold. I cleared the stove blockage when I got home, with an air hose. Since then, I have always taken one of the tiny titanium stoves as a back-up. To really get the maximum benefit of the great outdoors, I recommend hiking the wild country in the North of Scotland. You may well have to carry a week's food, as there just are no shops. Practice your skills in a tamer environment first, but try the Country to the North of Ullapool - you will never forget the fabulously beautiful wild scenery, and starry skies.

I use a Garmin Inreach to get the most update weather info. As well it provides me a way to communicate when there is no cell signal. It also provides me a means to have SOS if I ever need it.

I love the rain in the background. It reminds me the the countryside

You have a really awesome channel keep up the good work

Awesome tips! Thanks for sharing

Love listening to your accent.

Thank you for that, I'm still in the process of getting my light weight gear together, and having a go at hiking. Really good words of wisdom.

Becky, you are well prepared for hiking and do have plenty of experience in being out in forest and flatland. I have most of the items I would need for backpacking in my kit and the main thing I have to put in my pack is food and water, along with some clothing to wear depending on the trip.

What a coincidence: exactly today I am going to attend "Preparing for a Hike" session arranged by our local outdoors equipment store. Good video thanks!

Very good video Becky,and informative.well done .hope the Scottish hike is going well for you. X

Great. Favourite bit for me was the description of the dead sheep in the bacteria-infested river. Runner-up was the bit about eating cold uncooked rice.

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nice to see your smile and wish you well. Joseph

Thank you so much for the tips

Hi Becky i really like your videos, they are really good and educational. So keep up the good work. Thank you. Kenneth 😀👍

Do you have any idea how important this episode really is so necessary. I hope you plan a follow up, maybe even show some filter systems and purifiers. Too many people don't take that seriously. Thanks again.

really well done..safe journeys to you

Be safe beautiful girl😊😊

Excellent tips Becky. The map reading would be an awesome topic. You might want to cover minor emergencies also.

Great to see you becky hope your doing well.

Here in the West Coast of Scotland, you would be better to carry a handheld VHF and at 08:10 and 20:10 you can here the weather report pertinent to the area from the coastguard at Belfast.

Good advice. I'm looking forward to getting some winter camps in, love the cold, not too keen on rain though.

Very helpful advice. Thanks.

Lovely upload.. Thank you ..

Very informative, you could teach this as a living if You Tube doesn't work out. Enjoy your camp xx

my boots are a hi tech mdeol ,ravenus mid range ,,very comfortable and waterproof

The british version of young dixie!!!! Great video Becky!!!!

Becky great information...is it just me or do you get prettier every time I watch you. Give me some thumbs up guys and girls ❤from Texas

Great video and it always helps when a pretty young lady, who is somewhat on the beginning of her own journey, explains it to others that might be interested.They can relate more. One important skill I think every hiker should begin with is some basic survival skills. I know you've got that covered yourself, but a lot of beginning and even experienced hikers don't. That's the reason why, out of all outdoor people, (day)hikers need Search and Rescue the most and are also the most likely to die on the trail. They fill up a backpack with all this expensive, light weight, high tech gear but forget to carry a loud whistle around their neck 24/7. So they walk into the woods with their toilet paper to do a #2 and now can't find their way back to base camp where their back pack with all their beautiful gear is and no way to signal for help.

In the military we used to have to carry minimum of 10 litres of water, batteries, plus clothes sleep, so keen to understand 15% of body weight and how this is calculated as that interesting.

Hell, Becky~~ how are you? Great footage there is. Preliminarily your experienced Preparedness for Hiking! great! Thumbs up.

Do you have a one type of setup of knives for solo camping to wild camping or have many setups of knives? Like your main knife and backup knife

Good videos and content keep it up

I stopped buying expensive boots years ago. In the Scottish Highlands in the Autumn, Winter and Spring I wear wellingtons. In the summer I wear sandals without the back straps as I do all year round in the Sahara. My Merrells last about 50 000 kms there until they are exhausted. After around 10 000 kms they become comfortable.

Great informative video Becks. It's also worth remembering there are Bothies. People should check out the Mountain Bothy Association (MBA) website for info & rules & consider becoming a member. It's possible to plan a multi-day hike staying at different bothies, especially in Scotland, though it's probably wise to carry a tent in case the bothy is full or unexpectedly closed.

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Nice info...😎

Don't forget couscous, especially the flavoured ones, great backpacking food

I'm sitting in front of my office desk, and watching the video, I think I'm walking in the woods.

Hiya what about self defense I. E weapons incase the rake tries to get in your tent piece and love from 1 leg UK England

Keep em coming. Glad I was up already for this one. Love your videos. I’m an old fart so I need a checklist lol.

There's the smile there's the face, that lights dark corners in every place!

i used to go out on a 10 mile walks but when i hit my 40s i became diabetic . the last walk i did was with my sister only 4 miles on the north downs i went down twice with low blood sugar its scary i ate enough but went down fast.

Goud morning

Good afternoon everyone from wellington Somerset

have you hiked the south downs way ?? its a fantastic walk with lots of views ,wildlife and nature

Good Informative Video. please do a video on accident and emergency , First aid kits etc.

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Where did you get your coat

Awesome...

I say to prepare for a hike first being shape and second tell people where you're going have good gear and travel light

There's is that beautiful smile beautiful gorgeous young lady thank you for your techniques on camping love your video JSM from Texas

ounce of prep saves pounds of pain

forget met office becky you can read the weather john here hope your ok i make my own waterproofant

I love the way you pronounce kettle. Any chance you could use the word more often? 😀

Hi Becky calling from NZ. Justa heads up..fyi....our wild girl (bush girl) MIRIAM LANCEWOOD has a new book out. Just out about 2 weeks ago. Called "Wild at Heart." ISBN..978 1 98854 738 1. Think you may have read her first book "Woman in the Wilderness." And NO I get nothing from this post. I've already bought it. I'm guessing Amazon will have it. Haven't checked. Look forward to seeing you back in civilization again. Take care and stay safe.

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4 other ladies names out of 123 comments. Annie, Margie, Lilly, Aggie. Thought there would be a lot more for these videos.

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Que hermosa es usted y muy útiles sus videos saludos desde México

cornwall its wet alot ,,

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You could simplify your food by bringing a tub of weight lifter's mass gaining powder, a shaker bottle, and extra water and a means of water filtration and purification as backup.

What!?! Only carry 15% of my body weight? I'm really going to have to redo my 90# pack!

2rd 😂 I will watch later

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Very informative. Love your long hair.

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What a beautiful woman.

Good evening young lady

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