Wild camping bike Trip to Lake District, from Hampshire

At the moment we (bikers and others) are not welcome in most of the popular tourism areas (and I appreciate that the very idea of stealth camping means that you don't really care about the feelings of the locals) but surely there are other areas more local to you where you can play with your tent.

(Personally I reckon that we should boycott for ever all of those areas where the tourists authorities are telling us to stay away. That'll teach them when all of their shops are shut down and boarded up, just like in our towns)
 
Apart from those living in larger towns and cities we probably all have byways that we can legally use so buy an OS map, go for a slow ride along those lanes and look more closely at your surroundings than you would normally.

The more energetic could use a mountain bike and widen the area open for research then bung a groundsheet and a sleeping bag in a small rucksack and go for a night out. I can’t be alone in the fact that I’m not exactly spending much money on socialising at the moment so buy a camouflage goretex bivvy and you even get a bit more comfort :hippy
 
Forgetting the idea of riding a couple of hundred miles to do it; what’s thoughtless about being totally fed up with being trapped in a bubble and deciding it’s time to go and chill out by sitting/sleeping in some local woods until daybreak then going home without seeing another soul all night?

Admittedly I could sleep in my garden but if I decide to hop over the brook that forms the boundary at the bottom of our garden and shuffle off to some dilapidated old farm buildings about 1/2 mile away and sleep there with the rats and the nesting birds am I doing any harm :nenau
 
The most telling point in the newspaper report is that a local resident shopped them. Following on from a thread in another section of the forum I have absolutely no doubts that if anyone was rash enough to post pictures and other information regarding a night of law breaking and putting the lives of others at risk during a time of national crisis someone here would inform on them.
 
I live in the Lakes (well...partly, I live on the Cumbria border)

You are right, my community FB page is full of ranting about people coming into the area. The other day I was in the village shop, and someone at the front of the queue was buying an ice cream.
Shop attendant "we don;t see you in here usually"
Outsider "we drove over from Skipton (50 miles) to walk our dog on the beach and have an ice cream"
Queue of people in the shop "F*ck off home, don't be so inconsiderate, and get out of our village"

Huge confrontation (I was not involved, but heard the kerfuffle from the other side of the shop), basically the pitchforks are out.

I think it will be a while before this beds down (I am not taking sides here, I know the dog walkers did something legal etc etc)

But yes, there's a lot of distrust and fear of "outsiders" just now.
 
Do the villagers shop using home delivery only or do they go and endanger others away from where they live?

We get the same in our village but it doesn’t even have a shop yet some of the residents put up signs telling people to walk their dogs where they live and don’t endanger villagers. I totally disagree with the insular attitude of those that would ban ‘incomers’ and thankfully now people are allowed to travel to take exercise the signs in our village have been removed.
 
Do the villagers shop using home delivery only or do they go and endanger others away from where they live?

We get the same in our village but it doesn’t even have a shop yet some of the residents put up signs telling people to walk their dogs where they live and don’t endanger villagers. I totally disagree with the insular attitude of those that would ban ‘incomers’ and thankfully now people are allowed to travel to take exercise the signs in our village have been removed.

The local community council have put wash facilites at the entrance to the shop even so we can all was our hands on the way in and way out! So far the village seems to have stayed safe. That's good news because a lot of retired people live in the Lakes, and they are obviously very high risk. Just alon the road, Barrow in Furness is a local hot-spot for COVID
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-covid-infection-rates-cases-uk-a9516636.html
"It is one of England’s remotest towns – surrounded to the south, east and west by sea and to the north by the wilds of the Lake District.

But it would seem such isolation has not protected Barrow-in-Furness from coronavirus.

The industrial Cumbrian seaport has this week been revealed to have the highest infection rates anywhere in England and Wales.

Government figures show some 553 people here have been diagnosed with Covid-19 – a rate of 823.7 cases per 100,000 people."

On top of that, I am doing shopping for a couple of high-risk neighbours who are still self-isolating because they are in high-risk groups...
 
Outsider "we drove over from Skipton (50 miles) to walk our dog on the beach and have an ice cream"
Queue of people in the shop "F*ck off home, don't be so inconsiderate, and get out of our village"

But yes, there's a lot of distrust and fear of "outsiders" just now.

Tbf my first thought was of ancient rivalries and I wonder if they'd said they were from Lancaster they may have got a different response :green gri
 
Tbf my first thought was of ancient rivalries and I wonder if they'd said they were from Lancaster they may have got a different response :green gri
Anyone from outside the village itself is being considered a threat - people are scared.
 
Anyone from outside the village itself is being considered a threat - people are scared.

I’d have thought there’d have been a few people commute from Silverdale to BAe Systems in Barrow so how do they react to them or do they leave before 5am and return after 10pm?
 
Fellow GSer's,

Anyone fancy a a trip to lake district, wild camping bit of hiking in the next couple of weeks.

PM me if interested

Cheers

Ty

The only thing wrong with suggestion, in my opinion, is posting it here. Going on your own, keeping yourself to yourself seems more appropriate at the moment.
 


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