Since our recent camps have been gentle affairs near the car I had been itching for a wild camp for a quite a while. Not 10 minutes after I had tentatively floated the idea of a Friday night away to the wife, Matt from NI-Wild texted me to say that he was bored lying around […]

Since NI-Wild started one of the things that we have never done is a pure car camp. As a group we have usually avoided organised campsites mostly because we like the remoteness and peace of a wild camp but also because they can be uncomfortable places sometimes. I wouldn’t paint all car campers and caravanners […]

Continued from here I rarely take a tent camping these days preferring to rely on a bivvy bag and tarp which I find generally much more enjoyable. The experience of spending time outdoors is only improved by bivvying. Lying staring at the open sky you feel much more involved with your surroundings than you would […]

I was driving to the local garage for a bottle of milk when 30 seconds from the house I realised I’d forgotten my mobile phone. After pondering turning round I thought I’d just “chance it”, after all the garage is only 2 minutes from the house – what could possibly go wrong in such a […]

An NI-Wild peak bivvy was called for. We hadn’t been on a group wild camp since our Xmas dinner in Donard Wood and our last proper summit overnighter on Chimney Rock seemed like a lifetime ago. We decided to tackle Meelmore as it’s handy for secure parking and was one we hadn’t overnighted on yet. […]