Anyone here have experience of wildcamping in the Yorkshire Dales (and want to share your experiences)?

Right then...reality time from a Dale lover ...not a Dalesman, I'm from south but now living on an island.

Quite versatile as scenery goes. On a right rough day we sail on the Marine Alps. Other days we're in the flatlands of Holland.

My first ever hol by myself was at Malham Tarn Field Study Centre...great geology course and walks on the hills...Fountains Fell, Cowside Beck, Victoria and Albert Caves, Three Peaks, wonderful time.

Since then I've loved the dales and camped many nights alone or in company nicely hidden and well sheltered in a Coleman Raid or Viper or a Vango mountain tent.

First thing....if nobody sees you nobody knows you're there. I taught that stuff in the Army...outdoor living, navigating etc.

How to be seen

Shape, Shine, Shadow, Colour, Tone, Texture, Movement.

Control those, you blend in

Fires make smoke and they send fire odours on the wind......not a great idea.

I set up the tent in the evening and often in the early morning it's down again, and I'm gone. Stop somewhere to make breakfast away from the flat grass give-away the tent made overnight

I'm just up early, out for a walk.

Belt and braces job and not necessary most places, but be aware of the possibility if you're a bit close to a village or a farm or an isolated cottage and want to get the tent up because it's chucking it down or you're just plain freezin'.

You can always move away in the morning....don't have to stay for breakfast just cos you slept there.

If it's still chuckin' it and the tent stays up it wants to be invisible.

That bright orange one loosely pitched so it flaps in the wind and has guy lines that whistle in the wind is ideal.....just the job for dog stew if you can shoot the dog it brings, and get away with it.

Might suit some, not me.

Nah........green/brown for colour, tight pitching, better for keeping the wet out and running water off, and put somewhere nicely hidden and away from paths or convenient short cuts where people might roam.

Some links on here and tips and bits and bobs and stuff......done it for years, will do for years yet. The asker is over the pond and they get all " What if it's somebody's land?" and " You've no right"...gun happy bunch over there, but there are some...lots...like you and I.

Like to camp free as a bird......way to go.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=201004... . . . . .

No compass? Who needs one?

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Eee lad....tha's onnit wi' tha'.

...keep it fun, in the howling rain and the porridge went soggy in the bag. Still does OK with some sugar and powdered milk stirred in.

Happy attitude keeps you going on the hills on a rough day.....

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Have fun.

Have fun

EDIT.....

If you looked at the Viper you''ll have seen it comes in blue or blue....that's it. Excellent 1-man tent though, and a total bargain now at half the price I paid for mine.

http://www.goxplore.net/showthread.php?t=395 . . . .

Here's the little Raid...tiny but weighs only 2lb and very easy to scrim up in....Army for hiding. They call it a summer tent but I've been dry and comfortable in winter in the Cairngorm, on Exmoor and Dartmoor in heavy rain, and on Pen-y-Ghent and Ingleborough on a badly chosen weekend (as well as plenty of dry trips, been baking on Whernside before...red hot).....and even in the Alps. The Raid and Viper have both stood up to very bad weather many times.

http://www.discovercamping.co.uk/Coleman/tents/rai... . . . . . .

Ex Army combat blankets are proofed nylon sheets, very strong. Find them in base camp stores and similar or online.

Put some eyelets in, easy to do, and you've got a green flysheet, useful if your tent isn't a good colour for hiding in.....perfect dark green colour, very useful stuff to take with you for a quick shelter as well or as extra protection for the tent in really foul weather.

For a quick bivvy it's easily strung up between two trees or against an outcrop with a couple of lines or a line and a rock peg hammered in to a crevice with a lump of good old limestone...no shortage of that, haha.

Green washing line is ideal. Does a good job.

My waterproof sleeping bag cover is made of two of those nylon blankets too.

Wild camping..scroll down for mine

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More about proofing and tents

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Mountain weather for UK ...good site. See the cams, click on pic for the latest view.

http://www.outdoorsmagic.com/outdoors-news/weekend... . . .

For pitches...well,you just find somewhere to stay on the way. Can't say more really. I've found dozens of good sites with great views, woken up to a view from the bedroom window, which is also the front door, from the tops of a dozen peaks and on moors spreading as far as I can see.

Wherever you go, there will be a place......settle in and enjoy it.

Even in Settle. On a quiet day.

I did it in Liverpool, 200 yards from Lime Street Station, and nobody knew I was there. Saved a wet walk to Sefton Park at 1am off the National Express bus.

Victoria Gardens, behind the bushes ....very nice too.

Handy little tent, that Raid.

......Another edit....LMAO

Haha, just seen the list on the right....changed my settings.....and I'm giving you all that how to do it stuff?

And I'm on it too. Division 3 player gives a top Div1 some tips....oooops

No idea about it before..

Oh,well,keep it fun........grief,as if you need all that stuff.hahahaha. Enjoy the Dales....and the rest of the land.

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Anyone here have experience of wildcamping in the Yorkshire Dales (and want to share your experiences)?

I know it's technically not allowed, so no answers telling me that please.

I'm hoping to get answers from folk who have actually done this, telling me where they pitched and whether it was any good.

Thanks.

Malham Cove Camping

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