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October 2009 
Getting serious
Posted on Oct 9th, 2009
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Serenityjunkie
Serenityjunkie
I have sat around for too long. I need to refocus gently and get things back on track.
I will go back on my CR regime as I felt much better on it.
I had a lovely time a couple of nights ago when i went for my first wild camp alone. I parked my Smart car at a local ymca and headed up the mourne mountains via Donard wood.
I stopped after 200 yds and took half the stuff out of my pack and dumped it back into the car.! I found walking with a 35lb pack plus a coolbag totally exhausting but found a welcome place to camp. I set up my tarp between two trees and lit a small fire. I boiled some water to purify it and had a quiet relaxing night and I slept like a log.
The forest was wonderfully serene in the morning and deathly quiet and this is an experience I tend to repeat.
In the forests there are several levels. deciduous tree levels, conifer levels,snow levels and rubbish levels. In future I will go above the rubbish level. I was dismayed to find remnants of campfire and bottles and cans, and human scat unburied, there was also a plastic cheap picnic seat which someone had carried 1000' up the mountain and had discarded.!
I managed to burn the obvious rubbish that was safe to handle and I reused the half burnt logs for my own fire.
We have tremendous problems with rights to roam in Northern Ireland and mindless vandalism and littering doesnt exactly help.
So i will go again and hope by the time next summer comes around i will be a couple of stone lighter and a lot stronger.....
Todays picture was taken on Machrie Moor isle of Arran. If you ever want to go to Scotland and visit. I thoroughly recommend Arran it is one of my favourite place
I will go back on my CR regime as I felt much better on it.
I had a lovely time a couple of nights ago when i went for my first wild camp alone. I parked my Smart car at a local ymca and headed up the mourne mountains via Donard wood.
I stopped after 200 yds and took half the stuff out of my pack and dumped it back into the car.! I found walking with a 35lb pack plus a coolbag totally exhausting but found a welcome place to camp. I set up my tarp between two trees and lit a small fire. I boiled some water to purify it and had a quiet relaxing night and I slept like a log.
The forest was wonderfully serene in the morning and deathly quiet and this is an experience I tend to repeat.
In the forests there are several levels. deciduous tree levels, conifer levels,snow levels and rubbish levels. In future I will go above the rubbish level. I was dismayed to find remnants of campfire and bottles and cans, and human scat unburied, there was also a plastic cheap picnic seat which someone had carried 1000' up the mountain and had discarded.!
I managed to burn the obvious rubbish that was safe to handle and I reused the half burnt logs for my own fire.
We have tremendous problems with rights to roam in Northern Ireland and mindless vandalism and littering doesnt exactly help.
So i will go again and hope by the time next summer comes around i will be a couple of stone lighter and a lot stronger.....
Todays picture was taken on Machrie Moor isle of Arran. If you ever want to go to Scotland and visit. I thoroughly recommend Arran it is one of my favourite place
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