Wild camping is for real men/women!

[ROB 110 HICAP]

This is for Astbury and Mikey 110 and all you other hardened travellers who prefer 'real' camping without having to pay for it, where have you been?

Highlight: both trips to Morocco, sleeping outside staring at the clearest, star filled night sky ever, framed by palm trees gently swaying. In fact any night where you're miles from any other b*gger.

Lowlight: Scottish Highlands when the motorbike was blown over onto the tent missing me by inches.

[Astbury]

All over Switzerland, France, Spain, Portugal, England, Wales, Germany, Austria, France, Itally, Slovakia, Poland, Ukraine, Andora (dump), Lichtenstein, Croatia, Alabama, Tenasee, NY state, Ireland, oh in about a week Morocco

Never in a camp ground

cold 2800 mtrs Switzerland -21 C
Hot Switzerland 41 -C
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[Geobloke]

There is nothing better in the whole wide world than travelling in to the wilderness with nothing more than your truck, a mate and your camping gear!

Used to love just heading out in to the jungle (in Borneo) and just finding places to camp, seeing where we ended up!! (hopefully not in the bottom of a ravine!!!)
Looking back on it now it would be considered bloody dangerous and probably a stupid thing to do!!! 1 vehicle, 2 peeps, limited kit, no back up, and miles from civilisation! Now thats real camping!

Cheers

Geo.

[si_guru]

There is nothing better in the whole wide world than travelling in to the wilderness with nothing more than your truck, a mate and your camping gear!

Your truck, a GIRL and your camping gear??? :angel2:

[Geobloke]

Yeah that would be good too!!!!
But you have to find the right girl!! Mine does NOT do the wild camping thing, has to have toilet/shower block!!

Geo.

[si_guru]

I know exactly what you mean!

Hence the purchase by me last week of a caravan so that Mrs G will come to Land Rover club events.

[Geobloke]

I don't know why they are so convinced about having to have plumbed in facilities! Completely un-necessary and tis quite liberating doing "it" commando!!!

Not to mention the amount of freedom you then get, to go where ever you like, pitch anywhere and as far away from civilisation as humanly possible!

Geo.

[Astbury]

I know it might be hard but leave little messages about maybe a change of wife or girl to a model that likes camping.

Might not work but could be worth a try????

I was blessed from god the night the X wife and I had a blow out and I went down to the local pub and met the new Mrs that same night ;)

At the time I was doing a lot of driving between offices around the country so had a hire car every week...... out of all of them off road was the Ford Focus! its wicked in the mud on steep forrest tracks though you have to use the weight of the engine and drive it up backwards ;) thanks Hertz!! oh any my company that paid for all the paint work that needed fixing plus the odd underbody missing stuff....

Saab 95, are crap, VW Bora's are ok, Audi A5...nope, Ford Puma's not bad but it all has to go to the Focus what a car. Top gear should do a 2WD off road test!

[Mikey 110]

Rob, sorry I didn't reply straight away, but I don't always look at this section.

I'm afraid my wild camping has been limited to the UK, mainly in the winter months and mainly twenty years ago, Lake district, Dartmoor, Otterburn, Warcop, Thetford. My highlight was in 1969, in a little cove called Trevelas Porth, only accessible by an old mining track (in those days), spooky at night camped under the ruins of an old tin mine, but waking up in the morning on a beautiful sunny Cornish morning and cooking bacon sarnies waiting for the surf !!

I'm desperate to go on Chris' Morocco trip, but the wife just can't hack camping of any sort. A couple of nights on the west coast of France last year was a nightmare for her.


Chris,I'm with you on the Focus mate, my last company hack was a 1.8 Zetec, went like sh*t off a shovel, handled brilliantly and went anywhere. Got a new Passat TDi 130 in January, and it's quick, but not a patch on the Focus on the rough stuff.

[paul (panda)]

secondary jungle in hong kong or was it primary cant rememeber , did quite a few nights "camping " well not camping but doing army things in the jungle over the 6 mths posting , twas amusing at night when its pitch black and you have the odd one or two shatting themselves about spiders and snakes etcc.. a few strategically thrown twigs and pebbles had em diving around and scrabbling about WHAT WAS THAT WHAT THE **** IS IT
hehehehheehe


nothing else spectacular just brecon and otterburn


oohhh and the phillipines although not technically camping but i was on the beach with a 50p bang bang girl and 20 rubbers on hahahaaha :D

[Saratoga]

Most of my camping has been rather tame compared. I used to go out with just me, landrover, stuff and a tent and camp up in the wilds of Wales for a relaxing weekend away. Eventuall I carried a vodafone on analog when it first came in but that was only towards the end.

There is a lot more stuff available to go out and do this type of camping in the wilds and as long as you've got backups and the like it is reasonably ok. I know it's frowned upon to go out alone but we all do it eventually.

Besides, I liked the peace.

These days I still spend time on my own as I drive for a living, and it's not multidrop either!!

I am planning my next 4x4 to have the right bits I need for this all.

Oh, and you can get a shower that bolts onto the back of your LR for a nice shower in the wilds...

Cheers :)