Should we have regular wildcamping get togethers?

Should we have regular wildcamping get togethers?

  • Yes

    Votes: 37 75.5%

  • No

    Votes: 2 4.1%

  • Don't care

    Votes: 10 20.4%
  • Total voters
    49
tresrikay said:
Just been tryin to find a post about a get together in cornwall at easter that invites were given, can anyone remember?
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the members name was "robb",
go to memberlist
find robb and view all posts by robb
should find the post your looking for!
 
Yes, wildcamping meets would be great but realistically they would have to be regional (ie. Cornwall would be out of the question for a weekend).
For example I would be interested in a meet within a radius of ,say,Yorkshire to the South and Edinburgh to the North, maybe Carlisle to the west.
Otherwise with work commitments and the travel time outside these points would make it a bit of a chore.
 
***** said:
Yse, robb was the rude person who questioned weather I had my motorhome for posing because I said that I did not want to drive to and back from Cornwall over a bank holiday weekend:eek::D
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Hi ***** Yes I remember reading that post not clever I.ve met you no poser for sure. Just very proud of your van like all of us:D
 
It is human nature *****.
Very easy to say you will do something but when the time comes to actually carry out the task excuses are made.
All too often the case.
If I make an appointment I try very hard not to break my word and turn up whatever.
 
***** said:
The Leek meet last easter had a turn out of 6 vans (with crap weather) and earlier this year at Cromford, we managed 7. (fantastic weather)
This Easter we are struggling at 3:eek::eek:
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***** you can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink.
There are those who want to go to meets and them dont for whatever reasons, i for one am not realy inerested in meets as i like to do my own thing as do many others, but with that said i would not say that i never would go to a meet depending on where the meet was ie if it was not to far to travel, and if i could afford to, and if i did not have any family or other commitments at home.
The main problem is and i am not ashamed to say it is the money factor as i and others probably just plain and simply can not afford to go here there and everywhere as much as we would like to.
And could you imagine a meet with 10, 20, or 30 vans turning up at a proper wild meet, i think if that ever happend we would be asking for trouble from Locals, Police, and Councils and thats not something i want to be a part of.:eek:
 
organised/ regular meets

Trevor said:
***** you can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink.
There are those who want to go to meets and them dont for whatever reasons, i for one am not realy inerested in meets as i like to do my own thing as do many others, but with that said i would not say that i never would go to a meet depending on where the meet was ie if it was not to far to travel, and if i could afford to, and if i did not have any family or other commitments at home.
The main problem is and i am not ashamed to say it is the money factor as i and others probably just plain and simply can not afford to go here there and everywhere as much as we would like to.
And could you imagine a meet with 10, 20, or 30 vans turning up at a proper wild meet, i think if that ever happend we would be asking for trouble from Locals, Police, and Councils and thats not something i want to be a part of.:eek:
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Trevor i agree with much of what you've said."regular" meets don't come into it for me.the nature of wild campers is one of flexiblity,see a good site for an overnight stop, slam on the brakes and do it.the times that i've been heading some where and never make it because something else has taken my fancy. after saying that i'm always glad to be in the company of like minded people and would love to meet some of you guys/ gals.so, casual, affordable meets in various parts of the country would suit me and if 2 or 20 vans turn up, so be it. i also think that too many vans would be a problem but i feel that we've got enough ingenuity to spread our selves about a bit(i've usually got my bike)
 
***** said:
Just bloody frustrating when you are trying to do your best!!!
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I know ***** so why keep banging your head against a brick wall.
Just go and whoever turns up turns up, i am sure that you will enjoy yourself anyway whether there are there are many or not so many turn out, well that is if you don,t stress yourself out before you even get there.:cool:
 
***** said:
Yes Trever, I am leaving it to others from now,;) Done my bit;)
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I am sure you will enjoy yourself's a lot more that way rather than worrying about it.
Have fun and relax mate thats the secret of life.
 
***** said:
The trouble is Trevor, that I have never been much of a follower as I have always been up front:D (a doer and not a watcher):D
If I am interested in something, I always put in 100% plus and it is very difficult to change my ways if not impossible:eek:
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I understand where you are coming from but as i said before ***** you can lead a horse to water but you cant make it drink, no matter how much effort you put into somethings it wont make it any better than what it is.
On a final note i do hope that your efforts bring you a good result and some more members turn up on the day Good Luck and enjoy and do try to Chill out:cool:;) a bit more i am sure you will be a lot happier and have a better time.
 
I think it will start to get so much harder to get meets together the way fuel prices are going. I am going to cut down on distances travelled, rather than weekends away. I am going to the Outer Hebrides this year and that will take a bundle of money, so, I will try to get to Geoffs meet at Stratford and of course if something happens locally I will go but my proposed trip tp Devon in October has been deleted and I wll just keep going to walk myself stupid in the Peak hills as i can go straight after work on a friday and the fuel costs are negligable. I think Trevor has hit it on the head, this hobby is getting EXPENSIVE. I kow ***** works hard to get us together and I hope he doesn't get too despondent, just P.M next time your in Leek. Though I have just sacked the Caravan club as I hardly use them and I prefer the C.C.C.
 
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I think its a great idea and for those that dont they dont have to come to the meet, just one thing we live in the French Alpes could you make it hear.
 
mlynnf50 said:
I think its a great idea and for those that dont they dont have to come to the meet, just one thing we live in the French Alpes could you make it hear.
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I am sure i could if i had the spare money to be able to do it, but i think not in this lifetime maybe the next one.;):)
 
mlynnf50 said:
I think its a great idea and for those that dont they dont have to come to the meet, just one thing we live in the French Alpes could you make it hear.
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Maybe we could have a 'continental' meet ? But not too many of us 'rightdrivers' I reccon on the 'right' side of the channel ;)
 
about regular meets, i was so upset that i missed the matlock one but lifes life i think that we are so scattered about that it can be very expensive to run up and down the country all the time. especially now that fuel prices are so high,unless we run our vans on chip shop fat which by the way where i live we have so many takeaways and fish shops and they cannot give the stuff away the old beddy may be going diesel this year at some point :D:D any way back to meets. it would be nice if at least once or twice a year we could all or at least some of us meet somewhere for a pint and a chat ,which looking back over some old posts seems to happen. any way as soon as the van gets back on the road and the old finances pick up :eek: i will have to see about meeting up with you all and dish some personal thanks out to all
 
spot on there, as soon as were up and running thats gona be our first port of call.
 
If people want to get together they will, but ponder this,
one van wild camping = not noticed:):):)
several vans wild camping in the same spot= noticed and banned:mad::mad::mad:.
Meet ups on legal sites great.:D
I believe it is not snoopers on the site who are responsible for popular wild camping spots being banned but the fact that they are popular and noticed by the authorities possibly as a result of being posted here.
Maybe a self impossed limit of two vans per site would reduce the risk;)
I shall do as my concience tells me. I hope this post cause no offence
 
I should think that we are all agreed that regarding regular Meets we would have to use a commercial campsite.
If we had a DEFRA certificate then it would be different but the chances of us being able to satisfy the requirements are very slim.
 
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great idea should have one every weekend::D

peter
 
I really like the like minded people thing and it would be fascinating to meet up with all these names who are becoming so familiar. I do agree with the wild campers who do it precisely for the isolation it provides but I don't think the odd get together takes away our freedom to do that.
 
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