A Night At Big Bear Lodge

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Me and Emily spent a few days in the heart of Shrewsbury for a little break in spring and spent the night at big bear lodge, its a fantastic location for a short break!

Hope you enjoy!

Tags: bushcraft,firelighting,craft,carving,camping,hammock,axe,knife,hiking,wild,ray mears,bear grylls,cooking,big,bear,lodge

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hello people so mean Emily wrote again and we've come out for a bit of camping there we just come to Wales for a night oh and we've stopped off at a public walk before we get to the campsite how we're going you're going to nestle and this is place where like this famous guy basically he camped out in some clichés like a highwayman back in the day and he like lived in the caves there for a bit and we're going to go check out the caves apparently it's famous for its wonderful views there we go let's enjoy it redwood tree that's it there's redwoods yeah that's really cool not gonna hit the trail so I wasn't even playing like coming here today I didn't even know what coming I knew it work on me camping book too I was completely unaware that welcome to a wood so I'm pleasantly surprised she can imagine emily is a lot more prepared than I am I've just literally called my camera she's got the lunch water everything waterproof I've just come she'll be the way rain really but then come to this really lovely woodland seems a bit like an ancient woodland these trees look really old it's colin of a woodland on a hill this is what a really steep embankment here they relate to an ascent man it's about half past one the afternoon and we're planning to get into the cup of sight for a bit of four o'clock because that's when we can get you good i love this film I with us to cave all right we got--okay me apparently please familiarize are they going what oh what the hell do wonder where these tree got chopped there well ha lardy strange Oh

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okay so there's the cave or the entrance of the couch beside it's cool she called the kinnison's cave and an outdoor structures Robin Hood lived here for quite a while robbing from the rich and helping the ball and he was clatters there's something says about his horse yeah apparently he was like five must-have in an impressive horse that was capable of leaping over men and gates and I'm a gaping hole in the bridge over river seven I like that God unfortunate we can't get into the case because there's a fence but I really come to like quite a few through the boxes are oh yes four different breeds of but what's cool but just clone a cliff face this is quite surprising hi Emily struggling yes pretty nice walk this is I like it there's a lot of red cedar up here but you don't actually get that much off in this country so I'm what gather gather some of the bark on my back foot in there

God then a look three okay Robin Hood Z that's a thing ok so you continued Ramage got to the top of the hill this is called all of this point now I think it's quite a bit of a rocky rocky bottom it's a couple of chairs called into the tree stumps we're gonna go over that I oh I know there's all carbs in the rock Emily no carvings in the rock I oisin like shropshire for looking in the right direction do you know what those hills over there at all though you can't see it on the camera you know what they call Yeah right we can smell pine wood burning somewhere just saw a bit of smoke someone's got a fire going I'm assuming it's the Rangers but I want to try and see if I can track it down so Cory interested yeah we're just saying how nice this woodland is so diversity different evergreens of deciduous trees what firewood around like the perfect for camping from work I don't move it in my bitch up all that we didn't worry fault I don't wife on this qualify based virus okay so we found the foyer some guys over there they'll have a conservation group I think just call it all go he's in there originally I thought he was a griever use I was wrong which is pleasantly surprising and we're trying to find our way back men time yeah we're not we're not numbers you got my new desert boots on it's a bit wet boredom something to avoid all the mood it's all good I wish this would ruin is close to a to my house he's the perfect books crafting would build TP top shelf in it look all that that's actually quite well built it's even fashion stuff we're gonna get any yeah I've all get over too much more you can get off pop for more pocket in ditch the bag there you go off i'll see you next week okay then so we're we're heading back to the car now I started to rain yeah we've covered pretty much all of that woodland and we've just found another woodland this way will lead up to the damping just found a map which is quite convenient we now know where we're going we're gonna follow this road and get back to the car so will they bring you back when we get to the cam saw it and we'll show you around right then so with a roller cam saw it like when are you went on a tent well on the top 10 in hammocks anything like that we've come to this camp in pod and we came here this time last year I really enjoyed it so we've come back again basically what it is is we're in the middle of shock here which is a central wales and that building right head you is called Big Bear Lodge and it's basically IBM be in the in the kind of style of a lodge it won a competition on channel 4 a corner what competition he was I think it was called for in a bed here it was for a bit and for being on the best DMB in the country or something like that hey so do that I've got for camping pods to their 1 i'm standing in another one where and i've also got a comes out it's pretty cool as well because of them all the other lodges have their own name this one's called

eagle's nest I'm here representing the wolf pack with wolf's paw and it's a couple more there's mammoths and something else bear you can make sense and they also do kind of a canoeing over there rock climbing look all sorts of different activities that you can take take part and we just like this same welcome to a pot because it's what we do you do camping as well but we just like this because young got to mess about putting the tent and stuff up so they can just pop in all right come for the day or a couple of nights and I will appoint a gentle you bring all your own camping gear and stuff so you bring all your camp in bed and sleep magnet off it literally is just an empty pot and so I last often put the wrong mats on the floor store follow-up window all you basically get is a light and a heater and an information booklet of stuff we can visit nearby but it's an absolutely great little we're building and we really enjoyed nothing lead with mouths because it's just such good customer service and the people that running it's a couple and they were just fantastic they're awesome and the do naps that well apparently and some of our friends have been here before and they stopping the B&B apparently the breakfast is awesome in the morning and she's told us to air if you stand the camping pod you can also go in and have a breakfast you can you can we have to boil that obviously and she told us to do that but we like to cook their own so we're gonna stick to that on the stove but it's absolutely beautiful location just in the middle of farmland little sheep in the farm in field next to us and the middle of the week so normally the big kids and stuff playing with only sir piece of grass in front doors but it's absolutely lovely little location only come for the night just for a bit of a getaway but it's great it's quite cheap as well it's 35 pound annoyed for the pot so I between two of you that's nothing and the two of two pods two pods or two people near the two pods are two adults and two trolls so this'll only bigger Emily's just going back from the toilet and we're going to get a coffee on fee right then 60 time we drag this picnic bench from over there and we're cooking up a chicken Cory I believe I think of it my wooden broke my windbreak yeah broke so i took honor and i forgot to make another one someone from the corner user uncle ben's box but yeah I'm gonna wear emily is going to disappear freshen up the water on top of it but yeah I'm looking forward to this should be nice I need to fry up some chicken you probably for the broad chief stylist just easier because the the rocks is currently cooling down while we're trying to cook the chicken off but rather with the same problem last time we didn't learn from our mistakes I've got this thing going on got this one work though it's meant for some beer locker plant a plant a plant watering thing system but it's just like a tough works pretty well just hang up the aerial save is walking all the way over there for the top Colin yeah I think start struggling ok so we've comment after tea for a little walk we walk around this area last time and we came last year it's such a nice area it's a slot in proper har to the countryside or little lanes and cottages oh so much wildlife around where you can hear your song birds and and Wildlife just chirping away there's some hills in the distance and I really want to climb them right maybe next year but they're really high dad daughter yeah who shot the pigeon no it's a girl I don't wanna say this or two why do you write God Buddha yeah they are pretty high I mean I reckon they they're getting up to the whole it is Snowden amazing little be lesser will give it a crack i like that can we have one like that one master we have that one please thank you it's nice that's the hair in the distance you can see there's a tail on the top was I told you no no no the research that

badda dan turner what you find them and just areas like this you just the so much more war life even in a woodland you don't get this mess on birds yeah I think it's all hedgerows remember on the lap one run the air removing the laminate college yeah alarms are thinking you woulda loved it they're always running around what my dad's he doesn't want drunk that's a nice trip you're not interested so it's hot chocolate I'm varnish it's all down thank you an egg wraps for the morning to be me to do for scissors and Steve do it in last month's well last of night indeed the peaks you look Reno so that's the proper one good morning people it's the following day and check out this view to wake up to it's pretty solid no roads none of it and there's so much warlog around later coo coo several times yesterday and i will landed in that tree and what else we're pheasants there's a game a woodpecker rule so what's going on in the futon root down would put town butcher right to ask the owners for some ketchup because we forgot get 20 business extra free so three percent Oh

oh yeah baby okay then that's the end of our little trip we were only spending more know dear but are off now for a day out to a National Trust property we're trying to be going to church castle and that's our head in a but we're not going to put it as part of this video we're going to put it as a separate video it's part of the series that we're doing that you already know a bit so that's good boy to your spoor lodge we're going to date all packed ready to go hope you do it the little video and will wear capture again soon bye