We’ll all go up Donard …it will be fun……. they said. This was a wake up call “Run Fatboy run “was all I could hear between the sound of my lungs trying to get air. I had always loved the freedom of the hills now I had an excuse ….. mid life crisis will get […]

With so much new gear kicking around the house but my weekends filled with duties I threw caution to the wind and took a midweek camp. Initially I didn’t have much of a plan in mind just wanting a bivvy somewhere preferring a peak in the Mournes as it had been a while since my […]

With a baby nipping at the toes leisurely camping trips which were once a welcomed chance for wifely peace and quiet home alone are now the mark of the man who not only abandons his wife and child for a night but does it at extreme distance and altitude. Thusly hiking and camping loiters on […]

Cove Cave is one of the more talked about places of interest in the Mournes and as yet I’d never been there but after seeing it visited by Darryl Grimason on the BBC TV program “Off The Beaten Track” I decided it needed pushed up the list. It’s a 6 mile round trip, starting at […]

Being the end of July with a good weather forecast, Meelmore Lodge Campsite was pretty busy by the time we got there. Its 3 fields were full of stupidly large tents and the smell of barbequeueing sausages hung heavy in the air. We were proper late. The plan had been to set out before 8pm […]

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 […]

Yeah right!!! A short dander up through the forest from St.Aiden’s church ,hang a right and head up towards the right hand corner of the ridge. Views up here are fantastic. Binevenagh is AONB ,we should have more of them. Check out http://www.ccght.org/binevenagh-aonb/ for the full story.. Walking along the ridge line on a clear […]

This week I took the family on a camping trip which started at Knockalla Donegal for 2 nights and finished back at Banone for a further 5 nights. Unfortunately I didnt get the chance to explore Knockalla range so made time for myself to explore Bienvenagh. I am not familiar with this area but do […]