Camping Event On Dartmoor.

[+davy boy]

Thinking about setting a camping event on Dartmoor in July or August,how many people would be interested?

There are plenty of caches around the area and some very good campsites.

What are the best dates for all you cachers?

[+Tupperware Hunters]

god i love camping count us in we are travaling to scotland soon so dartmoor no probs 2 adults two kids one tent

[+Stuey]

Thinking about setting a camping event on Dartmoor in July or August.

Could be! Might need to wash the algae off the caravan for that one .

 

Just set a date and we'll see what happens. 2 + dog. Great idea mate

[+Mad H@ter]

Would love to come but unfortunately we only have 2 weekends free, 23-24 July and 20-21 August. If it's either of those then you can definitely count us in.

 

edit:

 

That would be 4 of us plus the hound.

Edited May 11, 2005 by Phillimore Clan

[+Skate and Jane]

Sounds fun, hope to make it but not sure of numbers yet.

[+suzylou]

I'd be a definite possible, but I haven't camped in my life so would vote for a campsite with showers and toilets and stuff

 

I DO have a tent. I just don't quite know what to do with it

 

Can make pretty much any weekend, with notice, other than bank holidays!

Edited May 11, 2005 by suzylou

[+davy boy]

Ok,sounds like there are a few interested so far,i will do some research on a few of the sites.

[+davy boy]

This looks like a good site and have spoken to them tonight and they have 5-6 acres of space and take dogs,also drove past the place on sun and is a nice setting.

http://www.harfordbridge.co.uk/camping/

[+Mad H@ter]

This looks like a good site and have spoken to them tonight and they have 5-6 acres of space and take dogs,also drove past the place on sun and is a nice setting.

http://www.harfordbridge.co.uk/camping/

Looks good , I don't suppose you have some co-ords for it do you?

[+Stuey]

Looks good , I don't suppose you have some co-ords for it do you?

This is it....

 

N50°34.251, W004°06.834

 

or 50°34.251'N, 4°06.834'W (Memory-Map copy 'n' paste)

[+davy boy]

Harford bridge campsite coords:N50 34.342 W004 06.620

Market town of Tavistock is a couple of miles down the road and Plymouth about 20mi

[+kernow krawlers]

Lots of midges Harford Bridge campsite if the weather is against you.

Have you considered Higher Longford Camping and Caravan site. It's very close to a cache that is on Cox Tor

[+Stuey]

Lots of midges Harford Bridge campsite if the weather is against you.

Have you considered Higher Longford Camping and Caravan site. It's very close to a cache that is on Cox Tor

Co-ords?

[+Snells Pace]

Higher Longford Campsite is at

N50 33.156 W004 05.625

 

http://www.devon-connect.co.uk/camping-tou...ntroduction.htm

Edited May 13, 2005 by Snells Pace

[+Brenin Tegeingl]

For anyone interested reviews of both sites by visitors to them.

 

Higher Longford Campsite

 

Harford bridge camp site

 

From a quick glance I'm jealous that they are not local to me.

 

Dave

[+davy boy]

Thanks for that Dave,would be great to see you down this way.

What does everyone think about the 2 sites above??? Any preferences?

[+Stuey]

Harford Bridge... Pro's: probably big enough, Con's: midges by the river

 

Higher Longford... Pro's: Less likely to have bad midges away from the river, Con's: smaller site (room for us all?), and they are letterboxers

[+NickandAliandEliza]

We'd be interested.....................although very date dependant

[+DesG]

We'd also be interested.

 

Des & Bren

[+The Hancock Clan]

Sounds like a great idea.

 

What about considering a campsite near to a pub!

 

There's a nice one behind the Plume of Feathers in Princetown.

 

N50°32.621 W003°59.385

[+Stuey]

There's a nice one behind the Plume of Feathers in Princetown.

Handy for the prison too

[+Wadders]

plenty of midges there as well, may be there, dependant on which weekend.

[+plymplodders]

I think I could manage to get to this one, may even put a new cache out for it. Caravan Stuey, it's supposed to be camping not caravanning.

 

Prefer Harford, too many letterboxers at Higher Longford & Plume Of Feathers,

 

Plymplodders (Pete)

Edited May 14, 2005 by plymplodders

[+davy boy]

Ok people,looks like we are on for Dartmoor,just got to decide where and when!!!!

Going out caching tomorrow and will have a think!!!!!!

[nobby.nobbs]

been a few years since last at plume on the moor and unfortunatley can't make it this time.

 

just out of curiosity? what makes the letter boxers a negative point? bad bo or what? how do you tell who's a letterboxer? is it the funny handshake?

 

they do/did great fry ups in the morning....good enough reason on it's own.

[+kernow krawlers]

Yes, a lot of us letterboxers are geocachers too. Letterboxers are experienced hunters and come with all the right gear. Most of us tend to pick up litter and would never vandalise a cache.....What more could you want?

[+Stuey]

Yes, a lot of us letterboxers are geocachers too. Letterboxers are experienced hunters and come with all the right gear. Most of us tend to pick up litter and would never vandalise a cache.....What more could you want?

Some do... apparently....... or so I've been told

 

No reason to tar them all with the same brush though

[nobby.nobbs]

what more could i want??? the list is long and way off topic!!! and small children read these forums!

 

still, no ones said why letterboxers are so obvious or a bad point for the plume? not a major bone of contention but i'm just curious.

 

if i win the lottery between now and then i'll be there in a nice new campervan! love the outdoors especially if i've got all the indoors stuff to hand and heat!!! hypothermia 's not a pleasant thing to see.

[+Nawtcher]

Sounds like it could be fun. I'm getting all set up for camping this year, I have the tent, just got to figure out how to put it up!

Maybe some sort of night cache could be in order

[+davy boy]

It looks like the 23rd and the 24th of july,how does that suit everyone??

I am going for Harford bridge campsite as they have plenty of room and can probably get us all close as a group.

[+The Hungry Caterpillars]

Interested in the rather odd comments about Letterboxers-please explain.

[+Stuey]

It's in the diary Dave. Whether it is caravan or tent, I hope to be there, with, or without Ozzy and Cathy.

[+davy boy]

The cache page is up and and running now,cheers stuey(oops) Edited May 31, 2005 by davy boy

[+The Hungry Caterpillars]

Well

[+Mad H@ter]

The cache page is up and and running now,GCP4EP.

Think you may have a slight typo

 

Is this what you meant GCP4E1

[+Stuey]

Well

I already explained my point before you even asked for it to be explained. One of the other comments was made by someone who himself has over 5000 letterbox finds to his name.

 

Now back to the topic.... Camping Event on Dartmoor... who's up for it then? Post your Will Attends on the page so we can see who's going

[+The Hungry Caterpillars]

Not an explanation rather more of a stage aside-please explain

[+davy boy]

Not an explanation rather more of a stage aside-please explain

Can we move this conversation to another page please as this is an event page not a discussion page about the rights and wrongs of letterboxing!!!!

[+The Hungry Caterpillars]

Nothing to do with the rights and wrongs of Letterboxing and a lot more to do with your attitudes to people who Letterbox. We go down to Dartmoor and Letterbox,Geocache and also Trig. We go down 2-3 times a year including the time the Dartmoor meet is happening. After reading the comments about not going to certain campsites because Letterboxers may or may not be there you become to think there is a problem of some kind that we are unaware of. We would have liked to have come to the meet but are now unsure whether we would be welcome or not so please explain either on this forum or if you cannot explain your attitudes on the forum please feel free to e-mail us. Thankyou?

[+Stuey]

Dave, myself and two others local caching friends of ours did Plymplodders Dartmoor 10 tors (+1) in a day a few weeks ago (some mean feat). We did all 11 tors, but were unable to find one of the caches because it had been removed. We made comments at the time that the cache had probably been taken by a letterboxer, as there are lots of letterboxers who dislike geocaching, and caches. There are some letterboxers who remove any geocaches they find. There are of course many people that do caching and letterboxing.

 

That's it.... My "letterboxer" comment had a wink after it. Nothing to be taken too seriously you understand? At the time, it was very relevant because we had just had our 11 Dartmoor tor caches in a day slightly spoilt by someone who may, or may not have been a letterboxer who trashed a cache. I have nothing against any letterboxers. As far as I am concerned, anyone is more than welcome to come to the geocaching event.

 

Now... can we move on please?

[+kernow krawlers]

Hey, as a Letterboxer (also 5000 +)and a Geocacher, I do NOT believe that a geocache would be vandalised by a genuine Letterboxer. I personally have never heard of a Letterboxer who would remove a geocache but I have heard that sometimes Letterboxers feel that geocachers should be more discerning about where they hide their caches, i.e. NOT in walls etc and yes I do know of at least one that has been hidden inappropriately on Dartmoor. There is a possibility that as caches that are not in the right places could be removed by the Park Rangers, as are some letterboxes, especially in nesting season.

 

Also, Letterboxers are having a great deal of trouble with stolen Letterboxes at the moment, so this is another consideration. We have just replaced a cache we put out that has been stolen from its site in Wales, so it would seem that theft takes place everywhere.

 

Come on, this is the same sort of hobby/passtime, whatever you want to call it and we should stick together!!!

 

Kernow Krawlers

[+t.a.folk]

We made comments at the time that the cache had probably been taken by a letterboxer, as there are lots of letterboxers who dislike geocaching, and caches. There are some letterboxers who remove any geocaches they find. There are of course many people that do caching and letterboxing.

 

That's it.... My "letterboxer" comment had a wink after it. Nothing to be taken too seriously you understand?

 

And no cacher would take it seriously if a letterboxer printed a similar comment about cachers ?

[+Nawtcher]

Seeing as the campsite appears to only allow reserving a pitch for a minimum of two or three (depends which page you read) nights, what are those that are going, doing? Which nights are you staying?

[+davy boy]

I shall be there sometime on friday evening.

[+plymplodders]

I will be there on the Friday evening, probably set a new cache too,

 

Pete

[+The Hancock Clan]

Well, we've gone and bought an old frame tent today so there's no turning back now! We'll be there on the friday night also.

[+The Hancock Clan]

Just booked the Friday and Saturday night at The Harford Bridge and she said it's starting to fill up. Book early to avoid disappointment. She put us down for the Jehovah's Witness group. I explained who we were, so I hope we are in the right group now!!!!!

[+Pengy&Tigger]

She put us down for the Jehovah's Witness group.

Looks like someone will be knocking on your tent!

[+Mad H@ter]

Looks like we'll be making a week of this one, any other teams make a holiday out of this event? If you are when are you looking at arriving?