I live in Torquay. Despite having beautiful coastline, Dartmoor is the place to spend every free Saturday. The widerness, the landscape is just extraordinary. And that magic you feel. Knowing that somewhere, many many years ago this place was full of people, who worked and lived in this harsh enviroment. From bronze era, through middle ages and very recent granite quarries of XIX century. Traces of this people you still find in Dartmoor. It is very, very special place.

Absolutely beautiful my friend, thanks for sharing..

Apart from Ray being so wonderfully articulate, knowledgeable and blessedly modest, I love that he ALWAYS DRESSES in EARTH colours. He blends in so nicely every time I see him, like he is part of the landscape itself. No OTT army camo either, just simple earth colours of greens, browns and greys, respecting the landscape and Nature's abode all around him; not being an eye sore to any looking his way from a distance.

Very nice video, thank you. I am a new fan. 👍👍👍👍

I was born in Plymouth and have lived here 30 years. Dartmoor is in my veins. Beautiful and haunting landscape.

@thedr00

7 жыл бұрын

My cousin and I would spend 2 weeks every summer on dartmoor, traversing across the moorland, camping overnight near Burrator. It's a special place.

Thanks for uploading. You have to admire Ray's passion for nature, it's a pleasure to see the world through his eyes.

..........Great program , Ray........you show us England in a light that I have rarely seen before. Please continue to do so.............

At 14:13 Bronze Age settlements; these could also have been temporary 'sheilings' (as they are called in Scotland) or summer grazings. By the time of the Bronze Age, settlements would have been quite significant and developed and settled. The 'huts' look relatively small for entire families to live in for long periods and were perhaps lived in by shepherds or people guarding the cattle during summer grazings etc. When the seasons changed they moved the cattle, sheep elsewhere and so forth.

Ray Mears is an Amazing, Kind, Considerate, Well travelled Man with a Hunger for Information about Landscapes of the World! For these reasons, along with his Immense Knowledge of Nature’s Wonders/How to survive off the Land, is why he teaches the UK Special Forces parts of their ‘Combat Survival’ Course. Good Skills Ray!! 👍🏼👍🏼

There's something so magical about Dartmoor - I have done a little wild camping and walking there which I have made videos of on my channel. Love the place.

@WildCamper

6 жыл бұрын

DSLR Life - Nigel Bailey Dartmoor and ray . Not a better combo 😉

@John-tc9gp

3 жыл бұрын

Seems a bit barren and featureless, but intend to visit

@kurtjakes

2 жыл бұрын

@@John-tc9gp there are many places on dartmoor that are little gems especially the first time you visit.

Ray Mears. All I can say.

Excellent program. Really admire Ray and his work.

Simply enjoyable. Yeah an 8 gram African flyer. Amazing!

Wow. Ray has grown much older since I started following him way back in the day.

@Steveoffgrid

6 жыл бұрын

katanaburner thinking the same, the small 'tracks' segments he did.

@cherryrotella3714

6 жыл бұрын

katanaburner as do we all ☺️

@sarahstrong7174

5 жыл бұрын

Ain't none of us getting any younger.

right on my doorstep, beautiful 🌹

@petetee2123

6 жыл бұрын

And mine !!

Thank you for uploading this.Its hard to get your hands on this series from Ireland

Great program, thanks for sharing it

8:58 "I'm hooked on things you can eat". Yes, Ray. We call it FOOD. We're all somewhat addicted.

@ashscott6068

3 жыл бұрын

@Lionel Rich Tea Someone who could miss the point that drastically, AND refer to just eating something they didn't buy, as "bushcraft", probably doesn't spend as much time outdoors in reality, as they do in the Rambo fantasy in their mind. You'll never survive the zombie apocalypse without a sense of humour. It's more important than the flint and steel you think you'll somehow have in your pocket the day some shit hits the fan, which stops all the lighters and matches from working.

@gedofgont1006

2 жыл бұрын

@@ashscott6068 I think @Lionel must have taken his comment down. Shame! I'd love to see what it was he said, to prompt your excellent and witty reply. I noticed Ray's original gaff, too and hoped someone would make a joke out of it. Kudos to you, matey!

Dartmoor is such a special place. So much great archaeology to explore.

@moreofzoella

9 жыл бұрын

Archaeo routes i live there

You can tell that Ray eats to many takeaways. He has such soft and chubby hands for a man of the Bush. 😲

@adamjordan5312

3 жыл бұрын

I like to think it's just that he can identify so many edible things in nature, every time he goes for a walk it's like going to a buffet.

great quality, thanks for the video!

@timpattenden8915

6 жыл бұрын

Dominic M No. High Willhays is actually higher by about 30 feet

Nice journalism.

Thanks for the program. Are you going to put the rest up?

Dartmoor is the place I have finally chosen to hide all the bodies

@jamesfletcher474

3 жыл бұрын

There's probably loads there already

@MrMecabih

3 жыл бұрын

@@jamesfletcher474 shhhh. thats top secret. remember. :)

Wonderful 👏👏👏

Got recommended after watching top gear 'mears my ride'

Did you hear the wild howls of the Baskerville hound! (joke) . I´d just LOVE to know that landscape.

I like it😁😀

God I love ray me.

Wish he'd make more..

Dartmoor is definitely harsh come Winter, it's why the army practise there.

@cherryrotella3714

6 жыл бұрын

skaterbun I live very close to Dartmoor 🙂👍🏻

ok. viddeo super . 0

how are the wood warblers doing ?

Our Dartmoor adventures started at High Willhays too - a great place to start - The Highest point in England south of the Brecon Beacons. Hop on over to our channel if you'd like to see some more of Dartmoor. (Shameful plug I know - but its everyman for his own on KZread these days lol)

@RyanKeane9

3 жыл бұрын

Summit or Nothiiiiiiiiiiiiing! Bonjourno Trev n Nath👍🏻👍🏻

I am totally surprised that Ray Mears is walking on high rocks with his HANDS IN HIS POCKETS. #1 Rule when walking anywhere, NEVER EVER PLACE BOTH HANDS IN YOUR POCKETS. If you fall, there is no time to take your hands our and your face is MINCED MEAT...and most likely your teeth too. A very dangerous practice.

Dartmoor looks very tame to be honest, could survive there by just going to a shop

@RyanKeane9

3 жыл бұрын

Give it a go then, we’ll see how you get on

@readmycomment3157

3 жыл бұрын

@@RyanKeane9 I've spent loads of time in the real wilderness, the uk doesn't have real wilderness just parks etc

@RyanKeane9

3 жыл бұрын

@@readmycomment3157 it’s British. It’s supposed to be a bit shit.

He could have become a tor to tor salesman.

lichen country

The climate changed: it became colder and wetter. Imagine that.

Those birds were nicely camouflaged until they got tagged with red bands, why not make them the same colour as their legs so they don't become easy prey!

@diabolicalartificer

6 жыл бұрын

Good point.

@mrsgbee8246

3 жыл бұрын

We just have to keep interfering. Thinking we know best.

Wasn't there some sort of breeding programme of birds of prey in the UK in the 90s? I seem to remember the programme had some success and the result came close to wiping out Sparrows. Maybe the Wood Warbler is another victim of said programme?

@mellowfellow4755

5 жыл бұрын

Nonsense

15:32 - Apparently global cooling was as bad 3000 years ago as global warming it is today.

@Sionnach1601

3 жыл бұрын

We're supposedly going into a Grand Solar Minimum (Forbes article 2020), like the little Ice Age of the middle ages. That killed a LOT of people due to famines (esp. Great European famine of 1315) and inability to ripen crops, dry hay etc. It is supposed to last at least for the next 60 years or so. Combine that with the fact that the British govt have now officially admitted that they have been spraying aerosols to deflect solar heat in an effort to curb "climate change". Add covid scam on top of that, where farms are now being shut down on top of already disastrous growing seasons (cold & rain) in the Northern Hemisphere and you would not be wrong in saying: "WINTER IS COMING".

@bradleywoods3742

3 жыл бұрын

The difference is that it had hundreds of years of transition, allowing nature to adapt.

@lamppostinnarnia

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sionnach1601 it's a normal part of the sun's 11 year cycle, don't worry 😊

@lamppostinnarnia

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sionnach1601 and thank god we're still burning fossil fules offsetting any losses 😊

@Inexpressable

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sionnach1601 elaborate on the 'covid scam', you muppet.

This England

nice one petetee!!

Miracle of nature is Gods creation

It's always funny when British people call their climate "harsh" :D

@evil_bop

8 жыл бұрын

it can be harsh

@evil_bop

8 жыл бұрын

don't speak about what you don't know

@robinturner2300

7 жыл бұрын

We built the prison there because the climate would prevent escapees.... And as other have said we train the worlds most elite troops the SAS there...

@SmevMev

6 жыл бұрын

Not the most harsh, definitely, but harsh enough - you wouldn't want to be (or last very long if you were) stuck out on Dartmoor, without the right kit. Same goes for plenty of areas of the Lakes, Yorkshire, Scotland, etc.

@MrPaddy1000111

6 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, go on Dartmoor in the winter with minimal equipment. People have died up there before.

Clitter lol

I love all this and all your work and everything about it etc etc, but I believe our history is supressed and we've not been told exactly everything over the course of history. Look at the size of those granite boulders man! Seems a hell of a lot of effort to quarry and transport rocks that size to use as a wall for cattle? Must have took years going off the amount of huts, estimated from presumptuous life possibly have lived there, from god knows where they got it from, probably would get an answer if searched local area and quarrying etec, lol think about it. Always had the "answer" rammed down my throat where I'm from, holyhead, old hut circles n stuff etc etc, the answer is only as good as the evidence the theory you can base the answer in in the first place. So theoretically there is no true answer without countless dead certain archeological find which can only back up a theory but never lead to a certain hypothesis. This shit is up for debate and always will be. Which is what is amazing about it lol

If you're going to steal stuff from the internet then upload it illegally to the youtube then at least to it in HD. SD is for poor people.

@RetroRoadshow

9 жыл бұрын

If you're going to watch videos that have been illegally uploaded instead of going through the proper licensed channels, then at least stfu and appreciate that it's in a format you don't have to pay for. Bitching is for bitches.

@mclovin8739

9 жыл бұрын

RetroRoadshow It's OK, I downloaded the HD version illegally from a website which allows you to share copyright protected material, however, having being forced to pay a lot of money annually for the privilege to watch TV with the threat of prison if I don't, I feel morally self-righteous that I can download anything that has been broadcast on the mainstream channels in the UK. So indirectly, I do pay for it. I appreciate HD more than poor man's SD, bitch. :)

@netfischer

9 жыл бұрын

yeah its ludicrous. I am not from the UK but what from what I can tell it seems you have a mandatory television fee you have to pay for, don't you? Here in Germany it´s quite the same unless you are both blind and deaf they make you pay that bloody fee. Even if you don't own a TV and if that wan't ridicolous enough even without internet access you have to pay so you can appreciate their electromagnetic airpollution (just in case you hide a radio or something). You don`t pay, they send you the debt collector... Imho that by itself is legalized illegal activity... so I fully agree, aslong as the tv channels are funded by illegally collected money, they´d better shut up.

@mclovin8739

9 жыл бұрын

Daniel Crash How dare you call me rich, salt of the earth I am.

@mclovin8739

9 жыл бұрын

Daniel Crash Do you mean at the end of a rope as in a good old game of tug of war or do you mean as in a hanging, if it is a hanging then that is a very extreme reaction over a lame comment on a youtube video, this suggests to me that you may need to seek some sort of professional psychiatric help before it's too late as you may read other comments you don't like then completely lose it and go on a killing spree resulting in a life sentence at a high security prison with no chance of parole, even the threat of it on any form of social media can land you with a prison sentence. However, you may also mean at the end of a dog leash rope which suggests something kinky, you naughty boy you.

9:57 That scared the shit out of me. It sounded like the Howl from American Werewolf in London. The most frightening fucking sound ever

Fail!!!!! Yes tor is higher. What's he on about

@paularnold2651

5 жыл бұрын

Yes Tor is 619m, High Willhays is 621m.