Can you "be camp" anywhere?

[Blasphemous]

To be serious though, we (me, the wife and my young son), went to stay in my Father-in-laws Caravan last year and we had a great time (it wasn't in anyone's field, garden etc ). I don't think I'd like it if I were a Farmer and someone pitched their tent in one of my fields though.

Fair enough. It's to do with "up in them there hills", for example wales which has large expanses of land used for grazing (if for anything), where a quick overnight pitch as an adventure for me and my kids, left tidy (or even tidier!) wouldn't do any harm, and identifying or even finding tha owner would be problematic.

Just wondering why it's OK in Scotland and Dartmoor, but not elsewhere.

You sound like a canny lad, you can pitch in my field.... well, I have a massive back garden if that helps!

I take your point Dextrous and I think it's a fair point. I also think however that it is the mindless few who ruin it for the concious many! I bet those mindless lot are all camp!

 

[libby lou lou]

They don't like it, because they see it as loitering within tent.

tlms attltude

 

[joe-90]

Just don't get your ridge pole out of kilt-er.

 

[tim west]

Hi-De-Hi Campers!

 

[mattylad]

It's not completely cut & dried about camping on Dartmoor.
See the Bylaws

6 Camping

(1) No person shall knowingly use any vehicle, including a caravan or any structure other than a tent for the purpose of camping on the access land or land set out for the use or parking of vehicles except on any area which may be set apart and indicated by notice as a place where such camping is permitted.

(2) No person shall knowingly erect a tent on the access land for the purpose of camping:

(a) in any area listed in Schedule 2 to these byelaws;

(b)within 100 metres of any public road or in any enclosure.

(3) No person shall camp in a tent on the same site on the access land for more than two consecutive nights, except on any area which may be set apart and indicated by notice as a place where such camping is permitted.

 

[squowse]

i can't see it being popular enough for petitions. and if it was that popular then some nice places would be trashed.
i always take my rubbish home but there will always be some impact - burning forest floor wood, deposits of shall we say "organic" waste, footprints=erosion. it would all add up if everyone was doing it.

what annoys/mystifys me most is how it is nigh on impossible to pay a farmer for basic camping facilities where you can have a little fire. they could build a pit or similar to make it safe. i mean it's not often a high risk of bushfire in Britain is it? thus i am forced to find my own spots out of sight.

camping without a fire is cold and boring.

 

[Richardp]

ooh you are awful...but i like you

 

[tim west]

ooh you are awful...but i like you

Hope you dont mind me saying so Richardp?You're using just a bit too much eyeliner.

 

[Richardp]

really? I made it myself out of dog ****!

 

[yme]

Scared to ask where you got the lippy from.

 

[Shutpa]

Camped in a tent once and when we woke up in the morning, the tent was covered with thousands of earwigs. The kids were terrified and we all vowed never again.

 

[tim west]

Camped in a tent once and when we woke up in the morning, the tent was covered with thousands of earwigs. The kids were terrified and we all vowed never again.

perhaps they were earwigging your conversations?

 

[tim west]

really? I made it myself out of dog s**t!

And i thought it was the perfume you were wearing, Chanel No 2's

 

[Shutpa]

Camped in a tent once and when we woke up in the morning, the tent was covered with thousands of earwigs. The kids were terrified and we all vowed never again.

perhaps they were earwigging your conversations?

I wondered why they had antennae!

 

[tim west]

I wondered why they had antennae!

Nah thats so they can watch the footie on TV, havnt you heard them singing earwigo earwigo earwigo before?