Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.

Username: Password:

Follow NI-Wild

Pages: 1 [2]

Author Topic: Wild camping  (Read 15186 times)

Celt_Ginger

  • Sr. Poster
  • ****
  • Karma: 0
  • Posts: 382
Re: Wild camping
« Reply #15 on: May 31, 2009 »

Difficult conditions and surviving- kayaking holiday in Lough Erne, no bacon butties for two days- I'll tell you now I nearly died!!

No Bacon butties for 2 days? My God, you must have looked like a refugee! I don't think I would have had the will to survive.
Logged

Michelle

  • Top Poster
  • ***
  • Karma: 2
  • Posts: 167
    • Michelle's silly kayaking Blog
Re: Wild camping
« Reply #16 on: May 31, 2009 »

i was even trying some "tracking " techniques at one point, the smell of cooking bacon is a hard thing to mask when camping.
Logged
Fun is not a straight line

Hound of Ulster

  • Has Camped With NI-Wild
  • Top Poster
  • ***
  • Karma: 0
  • Posts: 160
Re: Wild camping
« Reply #17 on: August 07, 2009 »

Huh, you should try camping in some of our official campsites, talk about wild.....

It seems to be the latest drinking craze where you pitch a tent get a skinful and cause havoc and mayhem (until your tent blows down on a windy wet night and you gotta start packing up to go home at 4 am) and the families round about you have to put up with it.

Or is it only in NI this happens. :(

Hound
Logged

Wolf_Larson

  • Has Camped With NI-Wild
  • Hero Poster
  • ******
  • Karma: 37
  • Posts: 1442
  • Adventure
Re: Wild camping
« Reply #18 on: September 24, 2009 »

This wee country is to small to trueley get away in the wild, or is it ?
Logged
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

chris

  • Has Camped With NI-Wild
  • Hero Poster
  • ******
  • Karma: 6
  • Posts: 991
Re: Wild camping
« Reply #19 on: September 24, 2009 »

depends what you mean... wild camping is just camping with no amenities etc. Lets see how wilderness free you think this country is when you eventually get into the mournes, and look how small they are!
Logged

Wolf_Larson

  • Has Camped With NI-Wild
  • Hero Poster
  • ******
  • Karma: 37
  • Posts: 1442
  • Adventure
Re: Wild camping
« Reply #20 on: September 24, 2009 »

To be honest i have not been up to the mournes in years, so i cant wait to see.

Your right chris i never though of the wild camp in that way, without a tent.

What are bivvys like in bad weather ??

Logged
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

chris

  • Has Camped With NI-Wild
  • Hero Poster
  • ******
  • Karma: 6
  • Posts: 991
Re: Wild camping
« Reply #21 on: September 24, 2009 »

wild camping usually involves a tent, by amenities I ment no toilet, running water from a tap etc etc. bivvy's are fine, again it depends what weather you mean, wind is fine, rain tolerable and snow (although i've never experienced it) in a bivvy I immagine would be very cold as it would pile up on you!. I take it you mean a bivvy bag and not a bivvy shelter thing with poles et al...
Logged

666_pack

  • Has Camped With NI-Wild
  • Hero Poster
  • ******
  • Karma: 2
  • Posts: 1693
Re: Wild camping
« Reply #22 on: September 25, 2009 »

To be honest i have not been up to the mournes in years, so i cant wait to see.

Your right chris i never though of the wild camp in that way, without a tent.

What are bivvys like in bad weather ??



unreal wolf.
Logged
LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO HAVE FUN

Wolf_Larson

  • Has Camped With NI-Wild
  • Hero Poster
  • ******
  • Karma: 37
  • Posts: 1442
  • Adventure
Re: Wild camping
« Reply #23 on: September 25, 2009 »

I always go down the north cause walking 666pack, but im dying to get up the mournes for a change.

Logged
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.

chris

  • Has Camped With NI-Wild
  • Hero Poster
  • ******
  • Karma: 6
  • Posts: 991
Re: Wild camping
« Reply #24 on: September 25, 2009 »

I always go down the north cause walking 666pack, but im dying to get up the mournes for a change.



do it then. just get yourself down, thats the beauty of hill walking no need for expensive gear and know it all mates! (that all comes later!)
Logged

Wolf_Larson

  • Has Camped With NI-Wild
  • Hero Poster
  • ******
  • Karma: 37
  • Posts: 1442
  • Adventure
Re: Wild camping
« Reply #25 on: September 26, 2009 »

True chris, hands on, just like in work.

Thats how you learn.
Logged
The core of mans' spirit comes from new experiences.
Pages: 1 [2]
 

Bottom Sponsor

Recent Topics

A comment of appreciation by LandyLiam [August 20, 2024]


Lough Shannagh by Scribble [March 22, 2023]

Where has everyone gone? by Glenn B [March 02, 2023]




Hello 👋🏻 by RedLeader [March 13, 2022]

Overnighter on 21st August by Wolf_Larson [November 02, 2021]

crabbing by Glenn B [July 19, 2021]


Slieive Binnian Hike by Rugged Track [November 06, 2020]

Silent Valley by Binnianboy [June 28, 2020]

Is it safe... by Rugged Track [June 02, 2020]




You've got a mention... by NorthernSky [December 12, 2019]


Hen Mountain Wild Camp by Rugged Track [November 28, 2019]

Happy Valley by Binnianboy [September 30, 2019]