What is included in our Wild Camping multi day experience

• 2 or 3 day Wild Camping trip with our Guide

• Equipment list

• Gas for our stoves if hired

What you can hire from us

• Lightweight backpacking tent (1 person or 2 person depending on requirements)

• Camping kit (drybag, sleep mat, stove)

  Please check avalabity and costs

What you will need to bring or provide

• Lightweight backpacking tent (1 person or 2 person depending on requirements), but can be hired

• Camping kit (drybag, sleep mat, stove & fuel), but can be hired

• 3-season sleeping bag, with a comfort rating of between 0 and -5 degrees C

• Lunches, camp food, drinks, snacks, mug, spoon / spork, hand wipes and rubbish bag.

• Personal walking clothing and equipment (base layers tooth brush and light wash kit)

• Travel to the meeting point and return home.

• Personal insurance for the activity

Expedition food that you will bring

We recommend dried food due to it being lighter in weight and easier to prepare and eat form the pouch for main meals. high energy cereal bars and snacks for breaks and supplement to main meals. All can be found at most outdoor shops and on line stores.

Breakfast

• Dehydrated popridge, muesli, cereal bars and tea or coffee.

Lunch

• Instant soup, energy bars and snacks.

Evening Meal

• Dehydrated meal, dehydrated dessert and or energy / cereal bar, tea and coffee

General snacks

Just a few ideas like energy bars, cerial bars, GORP (good old raisins and peanuts), tea, coffee and high energy powdered drink mix.

Avoid

• Tined food and drink

• Glass jars and bottles

• Anything that will melt

About Dartmoor

Dartmoor is a vast moorland in south Devon, England, covering about 954 square kilometres (368 square miles) and our chosen destination for wild camping in the County of Devon, South West England.

It was designated as a National Park in 1951 and is managed by the Dartmoor National Park Authority.

Dartmoor is famous for its granite tors—rocky outcrops formed by erosion. There are over 160 named tors, with High Willhays being the highest point at 621 meters (2,039 feet).

Dartmoor has one of the highest concentrations of Bronze Age remains in the UK, including stone rows, circles, and ancient settlements.

Dartmoor ponies roam the moor freely and have been there for centuries. They’re semi-wild but are owned and managed by local farmers.

The area is steeped in folklore, with tales of ghostly hounds (inspiring Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles), haunted tors, and pixies.

Parts of Dartmoor are used by the British military for training. Access to these areas can be restricted during exercises.

Dartmoor supports rare habitats like blanket bogs, heathlands, and upland oakwoods, home to endangered species like the marsh fritillary butterfly and skylark.

Dartmoor’s weather is notoriously changeable and often wetter and windier than the surrounding lowlands.

Dartmoor Prison located in Princetown, was built during the Napoleonic Wars and still functions today as a Category C prison.

About the Ridgeway

The Ridgeway is a historic National Trail in southern England, often referred to as “Britain’s oldest road.” Stretching 87 miles (139 km) from Avebury in Wiltshire to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire, it follows ancient pathways used for thousands of years by travellers, herdsmen, and soldiers.

The Ridgeway has been in continuous use for over 5,000 years, forming part of a prehistoric track that once extended approximately 250 miles from the Dorset coast to the Wash on the Norfolk coast. 

The trail traverses two Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONBs): the North Wessex Downs and the Chilterns. West of the River Thames, it features broad tracks through open chalk downland; east of the Thames, it meanders through wooded hills and valleys. 

Along the route, you’ll encounter numerous ancient monuments, including Neolithic long barrows like Wayland’s Smithy, Bronze Age round barrows, Iron Age hill forts such as Barbury Castle, and the iconic Uffington White Horse depending on our route for the day.