overnight hiking

2 articles

guides

Planning Your First Multi-Day Hike in the UK

A multi-day hike involves layers of planning that a day walk does not require. Accommodation or camping, food and water for multiple days, kit that covers you for nights as well as days, and the cumulative effect of consecutive walking days on your body. Done well, it is a completely different experience to a day hike. Done poorly, it becomes an exercise in managing discomfort while carrying too much.

Read more →
guides

How to Plan an Overnight Wild Camp in the UK: A Beginner's Guide

Wild camping, spending a night on the hill with nothing but your pack, is a different order of experience to a day walk. The mountains at dusk have a quality that walkers who always return to the car before dark never see. Waking at dawn above a sea of cloud in the valleys below, with the peaks emerging as islands in the mist, is one of the reasons people keep coming back to the hills.

Read more →