Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
General => General Chat => Topic started by: Mouldsy on May 25, 2009
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Hi all,
I want to ask what people class as wild camping as I have seen it posted on here a few time's
Is it classed as what my hobby is, which is bushcraft or is it classed as something else entirly.
Personaly i don't class what I do as wild camping albeit I try to go out with minium equipment and make the most of what is around, which more often than not is in the wood's, For example I spent Saturday night in a shelter made from what was around us in the forest we where staying but I also sleep in the shelter with a bivvy-bag and sleeping bag, does this class me as a wild camper???
Davy..
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I always classed it as sleeping somewhere not specifically set aside for camping. I thought that sleeping in a tent would still be wild camping as long as you weren't on a proper campsite. I didn't take it to mean that you weren't using modern stuff like tents / sleeping bags etc. Suppose that that would mean that you could sleep in the street and call it wild camping though :D
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I'm with jonno. Wild camping/bivving it's being able to get some kip on the trail with no shower blocks no toilets none of the mod cons off a "proper" campsite.
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ok is this wild camping :o. I went to the pub but didnt make it back home, I had a sleeping bag with me as i was supposed to stay at a friends. Instead I slept in my sleeping bag in the trees at the back of a play park.
This is purely fictional by the way and may or may not have happened to some extent. ;D :D
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ok is this wild camping :o. I went to the pub but didnt make it back home, I had a sleeping bag with me as i was supposed to stay at a friends. Instead I slept in my sleeping bag in the trees at the back of a play park.
This is purely fictional by the way and may or may not have happened to some extent. ;D :D
This sounds like an ideal weekend. You should keep a bivvy bag in your handbag at all times just in case!
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Yes I am beginning to think that!!
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Flipping heck Michelle, it must be exciting in your house. "I'm off down the Pub. Now what do I need, Handbag, Purse, Ohh yes, and a sleeping bag!"lol.
To me, wild camping is simply not camping on a proper camp site, but somewhere well away from modern amenities.
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Flipping heck Michelle, it must be exciting in your house. "I'm off down the Pub. Now what do I need, Handbag, Purse, Ohh yes, and a sleeping bag!"lol.
To me, wild camping is simply not camping on a proper camp site, but somewhere well away from modern amenities.
And what would you know, ehh.
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More than you anyway, Spudmuncher, lol
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you guys seem to know your stuff about wild camping and bushcraft?
But would you go for Bear Grylls, Ray Mears or Survivor Man ( sorry can't remember his name)??
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LOL yeah lippy and a camping stove - need my tea in the morning when i wake up!
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you guys seem to know your stuff about wild camping and bushcraft?
But would you go for Bear Grylls, Ray Mears or Survivor Man ( sorry can't remember his name)??
Ohhhh, don't open that can of worms. I'd combine aspects of all three to make a "Super survivor", Bear's athletic ability, Rays knowledge and Survivor Man Les Stroud's doggedness and iron will.
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you guys seem to know your stuff about wild camping and bushcraft?
But would you go for Bear Grylls, Ray Mears or Survivor Man ( sorry can't remember his name)??
Personaly, I go for Ray as I am all for comfort, But Bear does have his good points in the way of his fittness and Les has a lot of knowledge as well but the Daddy of them all has to be Ray.
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you guys seem to know your stuff about wild camping and bushcraft?
But would you go for Bear Grylls, Ray Mears or Survivor Man ( sorry can't remember his name)??
Thats a tough one. I think Bear and Les are a bit more about making it all look exciting whereas Ray is more about the more gentle art of living outdoors. Also I think Ray popularised the stuff they do and without him maybe Bear and Les wouldn't be so popular. Bottom line, I think Ray is about living and enjoying the outdoors and Les and Bear are about surviving in difficult conditions so Ray is showing me stuff that seems more relevant..
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Difficult conditions and surviving- kayaking holiday in Lough Erne, no bacon butties for two days- I'll tell you now I nearly died!!
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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.
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i was even trying some "tracking " techniques at one point, the smell of cooking bacon is a hard thing to mask when camping.
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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
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This wee country is to small to trueley get away in the wild, or is it ?
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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!
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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 ??
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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...
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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.
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I always go down the north cause walking 666pack, but im dying to get up the mournes for a change.
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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!)
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True chris, hands on, just like in work.
Thats how you learn.