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potato head:
I have wild camped in the lakes before.
Parked up off the beaten path and then walked up the nearest mountain and set up the bivvy tent. Not so sure about having a camp fire up there tho', no too many trees for fire wood and I would not want to carry it up there in addition to my 3 stone bergen and then start singing Kum by yah.
Disco Matt:
I don't understand this huge horror British authority seems to have of wild camping. Everywhere I go I find car parks and beauty spots with signs screaming "NO OVERNIGHT PARKING" "NO CAMPING". Is it really going to do any harm if the odd person chucks a tent up for a night and remembers to take everything with them when they leave?
Technically you can put the tent up anywhere with the landowner's permission. Given that most places you'd actually want to wild camp are either of uncertain ownership or belong to organisations which really don't seem to like people in "their" woodland it's rather hard to secure this!
Manicminer:
--- Quote from: Disco Matt on October 19, 2010, 15:37:35 --- Is it really going to do any harm if the odd person chucks a tent up for a night and remembers to take everything with them when they leave?
--- End quote ---
Problem is - a lot of wildcampers just leave their litter behind. I see it on a regular basis. It's a lot easier to nail a sign up than pay someone to collect the trash.
sashbash:
they make it seem so easy on the telly lol i think i will just have to go and ask at some farms and offer some cash
Drift:
You could always bivy bag it...yes scotch had been drunk while watching satellites pass over the night before :lol:
In North Wales in the National Park there is no problem wild camping as long as you are actually wild camping and not in someones back garden or too close.
My advise is get an OS map and follow a path to a place you think is right for you (North Wales I am talking here) we now have Google Earth and such like, use that, leave like you have never been, travel light for comfort, keep warm, keep dry, two sets of clothes and line your rucksack to keep contents dry.
1 litre bottle of scotch in plastic bottle (saves weight, see bottle in previous post ;) near lake) food, and chill.
Go for it, in fact I think I will, its been to long since :-k
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