Wild Camping

[DrRingDing]

Reading this thread makes me sad. I miss the mountains.

:'(

 

[Idaho]

Miss-Shelf

Dartmoor.

It's legit. You don't have to worry about sneaking about in the dark.

It's wild. And feels it.

It's reachable from London by public transport. Okay, it's not "near" but perfectly do-able.

Train to Exeter, bus to Okehampton from the train station, and then it's a short 20 minute or so uphill walk onto the moor (or taxi), you can be at the highest point on the mood within an hour of getting off the bus. Loads of good, flat, sheltered pitches with amazing views on the tors round there.

You just need to check that the military aren't firing on your chosen day.

Oh and have a map and compass and know where you are in case the fog comes in.

Lovely, but not 1.5 hours from London!

 

[neonwilderness]

I've done a couple of wild camps in the Lakes (also more than 1.5 hours from London, but closer to me than Dartmoor ). I need to make the effort to do some more, waking up on top of a mountain is great

 

[chilango]

Lovely, but not 1.5 hours from London!

It's not, no.

But you could catch (for example) an early train on the Saturday morning be on the moor before Lunch, have a good few hours hike about, pitch near High Willhays somewhere, and get back to London in time for (a late) Sunday lunch.

 

[kebabking]

Isn't there some stupidly fast trains that go oop nurth from that London - I'm convinced that I got a train to Durham from Kings Cross(?) and it only took about 2.5 hours...

Twenty odd years ago, so I may have lost a day or so.

Nothing, nothing beats waking up on a mountain with ice forming on your bivvy bag and a getting a brew on. Doesn't matter if it's on Helvellyn, Brown Clee, Cairngorm or in the Hindu Kush - its proper, big style life affirming stuff.

 

[weltweit]

wild camping? ... I could've sworn we just used to call it camping!

 

[chilango]

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[crossthebreeze]

wild camping? ... I could've sworn we just used to call it camping!

and wild swimming is just swimming too!

 

[weltweit]

and wild swimming is just swimming too!

only if you are doing it in water

 

[crossthebreeze]

This thread reminds me that I had a lovely conversation with someone at work this week. She said that like every year she and her husband and her bairns and her grandbairn had taken their caravan and some tents up to near Rothbury - I assumed that she'd gone to the caravan park there - and she said no. They go to a place outside Rothbury (in Northumberland) up near the crags where there is a place that there is a common land right to stop for the night and drink from the stream - and they do that every year (and her husband's family do it more often - sometimes taking their horses up) because its good for the kids to get close to nature (and when they were a younger family they used to do it in tents only). And sometimes, but not every year they get shit from the local landowners - shouting and harassment, dogs set on them, and this year a (scary looking but thankfully calm) bull put on the land - but they don't let that stop them because they know they have the right, and its important to keep the rights going for people who might need to stop there.

 

[sim667]

You did well, you wanna try wild camping in the New forest!!

I booked into a campsite online for a couple of nights. When I arrived in my less than conventional camper I wasn't allowed in. In fact they phoned up other campsites and confirmed I'd get fucked off everywhere

Signs everywhere, rules every where, gettting moved on from any place you stop. Its like the entire place is runn by tourism fascists interested only in funnelling hapless tourist into money sapping campsites, with a wierd snobbery that if you don't have a big white plastic camper van sporting a sattelite dish you are trouble and second class citizens

I drove out of the New forest, didn't spunk any of my hard earned cash in the region and won't do again.

Scotlands a better option, or go abroad, this country is too small and full of small minded money grabbing cnuts

Have a look at

http://www.wildcamping.co.uk/forums/

for some better places to camp up

I had absolutely no problems in the new forest when I went..... One campsite they didn't even bother coming round to pick up the money, so I left it on the door mate..... it was only about £4

 

[pengaleng]

fuck that. nature is everywhere.

 

[antimata]

so are cunts that fuck it for everyone....

enjoy and take all your waste with you.....

nature is everywhere so are cunts.

 

[friedaweed]

This'll put the cat amongst the pigeons....

Right to wild camp in England lost in Dartmoor court case

Wealthy landowner Alexander Darwall wins case against national park after arguing right to pitch tent on moors did not exist

www.theguardian.com

I expect it's another spin to snide income from people doing what they've done for years.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

Mother fuckers.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

A mass trespass and sleep out is required.

 

[WhyLikeThis]

…and this deserves its own thread.

 

[friedaweed]

…and this deserves its own thread.

We did have one I think from a year or so ago but couldn't find it. Set one up dude. I think this is going to grow legs across the UK now.

 

[DotCommunist]

This'll put the cat amongst the pigeons....

Right to wild camp in England lost in Dartmoor court case

Wealthy landowner Alexander Darwall wins case against national park after arguing right to pitch tent on moors did not exist

www.theguardian.com

I expect it's another spin to snide income from people doing what they've done for years.

I think this rich freak decided to give it out to what he assumed were trespassers then received back something along the lines of 'check your bylaws you inbred cunt'. Upon realizing he was wrong he decides to fuck it into next week for everyone.

 

[ska invita]

not sure this acutally changes anything in practice?

 

[DotCommunist]

https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/wild-camping.357882/page-39#post-17759826
this is the longer thread

 

[friedaweed]

https://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/wild-camping.357882/page-39#post-17759826
this is the longer thread

Cheers mate. I'll put the article on there.

 

[friedaweed]

I think this rich freak decided to give it out to what he assumed were trespassers then received back something along the lines of 'check your bylaws you inbred cunt'. Upon realizing he was wrong he decides to fuck it into next week for everyone.

Yup, pretty much my thoughts. I do think there's a bit of a movement amongst the landed gentry to try and milk wild camping more though.

 

[ska invita]

. I do think there's a bit of a movement amongst the landed gentry to try and milk wild camping more though.

a huge amount of room...if scotland can have the right to roam then so can we

 

[Poot]

If you want help finding a nice spot, by which I mean I know which bits are important in this context, I can help you. PM me.

As for me, I never camp in a tent unless it's at a festival, however, I fear that's beyond my organisational capabilities. Shame. I wonder whether this person is right now and whether they're busy?

Six-day illegal rave sees 5,000 people descend on Spanish village

 

[friedaweed]

a huge amount of room...if scotland can have the right to roam then so can we

I totally agree but I think covid has stirred up the hornets nest with some of the dicks that took to the hills during the lockdowns. I've always headed up high enough to not be noticed and left no trace as a general rule but I fear for a while there's been a bit of a shift.

Incidentally, I was out having a twitch on Burton Marsh the other week and a farmer on a quad bike stopped and told me I was on "Private Land" and that I should keep to the path. This is open marsh with sheep on it. I told him I'd been going to the same place for over 20 years without an issue and he said that they had decided to uphold their right to prevent people from roaming off the path. He wasn't particularly arsey and I was on my way back but I know they had a lot of issues there during covid and they actually removed the right of access and closed the path for a month. It's also an MOD firing range which you can't go on when the flags are up and they have an access agreement with the local RSPB reserve.

 

[Supine]

Yeah, covid caused a lot of problems in the lakes. Groups partying in the middle of nowhere leaving their crap behind. Twats.

Wild camping is still fine if you do it properly.

 

[friedaweed]

I've asked for the threads to be merged to save confusion.