Bushcraft – Bivvy Night – Nov 2014

It’s been a long time since I last had a night out Bushcrafting in the forest, the last occasion was over a year ago and even longer since my friend Jay came with us. 8 or 9 years ago we used to be out a couple of times a month but over the last few years we haven’t managed to make our timetables fit. Thankfully we now have a plan so we can get out again regularly and this was the first of many trips all being well. We headed to our regular Bushcraft location in a spot where we have permission to have a fire, we pitched our tarp, rolled out the bivvy bags and despite the fact all the wood was wet due to recent rains an excellent night was had by all. During the evening we had to really work hard to keep the fire going, thankfully Jay had an axe with him so we managed to split some wood, strip the bark and keep the fire stocked with dry wood.

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Dartmoor - Social Hiking - Tor Bagging Weekend

Dartmoor - Social Hiking - Tor Bagging Weekend This video sees me take my first trip to Dartmoor with a group of friends from Social Hiking aka http://ift.tt/1d62GE4. We stayed for the weekend at the Plume of Feathers Bunkhouse in Princetown and had 2 great walks. the 1st walk was in the area of Haytor/Hound Tor area and the 2nd was near Cox Tor/Pew Tor. I thoroughly enjoyed the trip and I look forward to returning again to bag even more Tors :-) Links Related to the video. Cath - http://ift.tt/1uuPP5A Matt - http://hillplodder.com Paul - http://ift.tt/14KdRRI Phil - http://philsorrell.com Rich - http://ift.tt/14KdUgi Rik - http://ift.tt/1p9hcz0 Day 1 Route Map - http://bit.ly/1AgWxRs Day 2 Route Map - http://bit.ly/1F2lGiz The 10 in 10 Challenge Video - http://ift.tt/1vLXIqy Hadrian Wall Video Playlist - http://bit.ly/1yn9EfA My Websites http://www.DeanRead.net http://ift.tt/13fpNq3 Twitter http://ift.tt/17hz6pN http://ift.tt/13fpNq5 Subscribe to my channel http://bit.ly/YouTubeDeanRead Don't forget to watch in HD! Thumbs up, Comment, Share, and Subscribe! :)

TGO Magazine – 2014 Awards – Best Outdoor Blogger

Well, it’s taken me a few weeks to write this post. At the start of last month I made an interesting discovery while posting my votes in the 2014 TGO Magazine awards, I saw my name on the list in the Best Outdoor Blogger category. As you can imagine I was very pleased indeed to see my name in an amongst names in the outdoor world who I have a lot of respect for. I would like to say thank you to whoever it was that nominated me, I love getting feedback and a nomination like this makes all that effort/hours spent editing/writing worth while.

I would like to say one thing…… Before you vote, check out some of the competition first. To name but a few….

The Outdoor filmmaker Terry Abraham, with whom I have wild camped, appeared in a few of his product advert videos and have a great respect for.

Keith Foskett, I have read his books, love following along with his blog and he has helped me with many kit recommendations.

Alan Sloman, his blog is absolutely fantastic. It is excellently written and he has done great work highlighting the seemingly never ending attack on the Scottish wild areas due to wind farm building. Having walked Lands End to John O Groats via the Pennine Way he offered me some planning advice before we set off on our PW trip, I just wish I’d followed it properly

James Bulter aka BackPackingBongos, another excellently written blog that I love following. James, takes great images and really gives the feel of what it is like to get out there in the remote areas of the UK and beyond.

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