Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
General => Meets, places, trips and reviews => Topic started by: kiltedrunner on April 10, 2013
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Spent the night at my super secret camping location trying out a Belgian army bivi bag recommended and reviewed by mrbushcraftsurvival. Uneventful quiet night, just the way I like it :). The bivi worked very well with my nanok 0 and a British army liner, it didn't rain bu the three layers kept me warmer than I've ever been in a sleeping bag. Used a mini IKEA utensil holder to get a small fire going. The large remains are from someone else's fire. Definitely recommend this cheap bivi (£10!!)
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Looks good, glad that you had a pleasant night. With the new forestry bylaws, the future may be discreet camping for us all.
fred
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I honestly cant get my head around those. Entire businesses and organisations exist to facilitate people enjoying a night or two in the woods, but yet actually doing this is illegal?? So scout trips are illegal, DoE is illegal, it just doest make sense and I intend to ignore them the best I can.
Unless I'm getting it wrong?
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I suppose that groups like the scouts will obtain permission to camp so their activities wont be illegal. I wonder if the department would issue a "blanket permission" for such groups provided that they adhere to a certain code of conduct.
Fred
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I was fairly certain that camping on forestry land without permission had been against the law for a number of years, since the 70s as far as I was aware and that generally it was just a largely unenforceable law.
Looks good, glad that you had a pleasant night. With the new forestry bylaws, the future may be discreet camping for us all.
fred
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Nice camp mate 8)
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Looks like a great night was had and a bivvy for a tenner, sure you couldnt beat it :o :o :o