go hiking and camping

Just got back from more camping, in Dorset. It blew a gale and pissed down for 2 days. Still, at least I got the camper cliche of “putting the tent up in a howling gale” out of the way.

Got back from camping in the New Forest over the Easter holiday – it was great fun, and for the first time I wasn’t cold at night! Mind you, that may have been due to the two of everything I was wearing, plus thermal liner, sleeping bag, hot water bottle and three blankets (it’s cold out there in April!)
I thought the fact that it was early in the year and a bit chilly would keep most people away, but it seems we’re a nation of masochists here in the UK, because the site was absolutely jammed. We’re probably going again later in the year, when it warms up a bit. Meanwhile I’m trying to persuade my best friend to go camping in August, but her girlfriend seems to be being a bit boring about it (who invited her anyway?!)

When I was a kid, in college, and even in my 20s, I loved to go camping, hiking, fishing. Now in my 30s, I just haven’t done those things. I began having kids, life got busy, and my husband isn’t the hiking, camping type. Well, we’ll see as the kids get older. I love doing this stuff. Can you believe my husband has NEVER been camping?

It’s soo fun i walk 3-5/52 weekends a year last summer i walked hadrian’s wall on the scotland england border it was 85 miles over 7 days but it was well worth doing!! Camping is fun to if you want kit there’s an outdoor show at the NEC birmingham the OS run it it’s biig and great for kit the pictures from years ago in the lakes

I did the harbour walk (I can’t really call it a hike) in about 50 minutes! It was a good one, as I was just starting to hurt when the walk was coming to an end – so I didn’t push myself too hard. Got to plan the next walk now!

I’m gonna go for a hike around the harbour. Probably about 3 miles, which isn’t bad, and there is a little amusement arcade I like to play in. K is role-playing. I don’t see the appeal of pretending to be a balrog for the day, so I don’t participate…

K didn’t go to see her sis until 4pm yesterday, and by then it was too late to go walking, so we both went today. Got 3 miles into a 7 mile trek before K started feeling rotten – bad knees, cold coming on, hungry, cold, etc. So we broke off and got a cab back from Pyecombe. Still, 3 miles isn’t bad to start with (and I must admit my feet were aching a bit after that). I’ll try and come up with something maybe 3.5 – 4 miles for next week…

I love hiking – it’s cheap!

I’ve already booked for us to go camping this Easter, but K is off to see her sister this Saturday, so I want to find something more interesting to do than sit playing on the computer. I’ve printed off a couple of walks, one at Seven Sisters, one a bit nearer in North Brighton, so hopefully I’ll give one of those a go.