Camping 22
Two camps and a rescue: A wild weekend in the Mournes
An exciting weekend's hiking with everything from a mountain rescue to chance meetups with interesting strangers in the hills.
5 Reasons To Try Bivvying
Five reasons to give the bivi bag a try in place of a tent. You never know - you might become a convert!
From sunshine to storm
Ed and John enjoyed a relaxing camp in the western Mournes followed by a hike up Annalong Valley. The weather went from roasting sunshine to a thunderstorm and back again and the views were spectacular along the way.
Getting a good night’s sleep on the trail
There’s a lot more to a warm night’s sleep than just bringing along your warmest sleeping bag. Follow these simple tips to ensure the best possible night’s sleep on the trail and a productive next day. As someone who frequently camps both after and before a day’s work, or on multi day trips, I’m pretty […]
Video: 2013 – HikersBlog Year in review
2013 was HikersBlog’s first year – and what a busy year it was. This video shows scenes from climbing, the Sliabh Beagh Way, The Lecale Way and other great hikes. Here’s to 2014 – another year rarely indoors!
A weekend of rain, rain and more rain.
It was wet, very wet, and it was only getting wetter. The rain was pouring down and it was forecast to do so all weekend. We had made the long journey to Rostrevor on Friday afternoon and arrived in darkness. The rain was showing its effects in the local rivers as we soon noticed when […]
Two nights of the Mournes at Commedagh and Tollymore
As it had been a couple of weeks since I had last been out for a camp, I decided a one nighter probably wasn’t going to do the trick. Already due to meet some of the others from HikersBlog on Saturday evening, I decided a camp on Friday night was also due. I packed the […]
Ben Crom Exploration
The weather was looking good, it was a bank holiday weekend, that could only mean one thing: it was time to go camping. We packed our kit and enough food to do us for a night and a day, and traveled to Newcastle Co. Down, our usual starting point to the Mourne Mountains. We met […]
Quick Bivvy By The River
After a rather inopportune stomach bug forced me to cancel my plans for a two night bivvy last week, I was itching to get out for an overnighter. Rusty and Eamonn naturally obliged and on Saturday evening we made for Tollymore forest to begin our camp in the Mournes, on the edge of the Spinkwee […]
Survival vs Sleep
After spending a freezing January night shivering, without sleep, under a poncho on Belfast’s Cavehill it dawned on me that what you can survive with and what you need to enjoy the hills are not necessarily the same.
