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Hopefully trying my first bivvy this weekend and was trying to chose a location. What makes a good and a bad spot? I am guessing grassy, flat-ish, not neer a bog.
Is it good to have a stream for water? How far off the beaten track should you aim for? I know "the book of the bivvy" would be helpful in all this but still trying to find an ebook copy of it.
Get an OS map, find the small streams high up in the hills and look for a loop in the contours where they open out. This will mean a flat spot with water, away from farmers 🙂
The exception is forests - they contain lots of flatter spots which are good for biviying if not camping, and they provide lots of cover to hide from landowners. And you often end up face to face with wildlife 🙂
EG see the dead centre of the map at this link:
Might not be any flat ground there but it looks promising, and you don't need much for a bivi. For this reason of course it's good to have options in case your planned spot turns out not to be suitable for some reason or other. And an ortlieb bag in your pack so you can go get water on your bike if you can't find a nice spot near a stream 🙂
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That picture has slightly worried me... Mostly scared of those bobble hats.
😆 That's pretty unlucky!
Nana... That's a good example of where not to camp.
Textbook in fact.
and look for a loop in the contours
FYI - contours on OS maps are accurate to +/- 5m, so not always useful.
worth checking out geograph too for pics of the area.
OS map showed a wall, geograph confirmed it. so I slept here:
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FYI - contours on OS maps are accurate to +/- 5m, so not always useful.
Not always perfectly accurate, but useful for seeing where the terrain flattens out a bit. Better than the alternative which is nothing at all, since it's all you've got 🙂
Nana... That's a good example of where not to camp.Textbook in fact.
If you knew the story behind it you'd be more forgiving. That was the comedy end of a night of mayhem, which began with someone forgetting their mountain tent and us stopping at Argos to 'make do', the tent went in a skip on the way home. That pitch wasn't where we started the previous evening, it was were we escaped to during the night. It's a good example of what tent to not take to the Lakes if you're high mountain camping in a storm. We had no choice but to pitch the tent at the lowest point behind the wall otherwise it wouldn't stand up, as all the poles had snapped during the night and were only held together with tape 😀
if in scotland, stay as high as you can would be my advise to avoid the midge.
It will be in yorkshire so hopefully not to bad midge wise. Harder to find secluded areas with water though. Can you legaly have anything done to you if you are cought sleeping on someones land? I guess asked to leave but is that it?
Anyone know any good spots kinda whitby area of the moors?
Can you legaly have anything done to you if you are cought sleeping on someones land?
In Yorkshire? On the Moors. Hmmmmmmmmmm
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"Can you legaly have anything done to you if you are cought sleeping on someones land"
Section 4 of the Vagrancy Act 1824 says the police can try , but they never would.
What about the CJA?
Best check its not a local dogging spot, beforehand!