{"id":254,"date":"2010-07-01T11:00:03","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T11:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.lib.sussex.ac.uk\/intranet\/index.php\/2010\/07\/01\/free-camping-on-dartmoor\/"},"modified":"2016-07-06T08:58:17","modified_gmt":"2016-07-06T08:58:17","slug":"free-camping-on-dartmoor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libsocial\/2010\/07\/01\/free-camping-on-dartmoor\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Camping on Dartmoor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking about free camping on Dartmoor near Bovey Tracey\/Widdicombe-in-the-Moor soon. I went to a basic campsite there\u00a0last year but love the idea of going freestyle\u00a0out on\u00a0the beautiful rockey moor\u00a0this year \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone have any advice about practicalities etc?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m thinking about:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Conveniences&#8221; (dig a pit and take some sawdust? How deep to dig is reasonable? There are v. few trees on the moor to shelter\/hide by.\u00a0Or bother with some kind of\u00a0chemical affair? Not that happy about the idea of chemicals, but open to suggestions<\/p>\n<p>Showering at campsites\/youth hostels\u00a0you&#8217;re not staying at &#8211; try to ask\u00a0if anyone&#8217;s there, then just do it ands see what happens? They all cost $ anyway.<\/p>\n<p>Tips on how to drive a peg into a hard surface (a hammer and determination alone?)<\/p>\n<p>Anything I might not have thought about particular to camping on a moor &#8211; silver bullets, dog food,\u00a0etc.\u00a0(obviously I&#8217;ll find out where the boggy bits are and avoid).<\/p>\n<p>Cheers,<\/p>\n<p>Julia W<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi All, I&#8217;m thinking about free camping on Dartmoor near Bovey Tracey\/Widdicombe-in-the-Moor soon. I went to a basic campsite there\u00a0last year but love the idea of going freestyle\u00a0out on\u00a0the beautiful rockey moor\u00a0this year \ud83d\ude42 Does anyone have any advice about practicalities etc? I&#8217;m thinking about: &#8220;Conveniences&#8221; (dig a pit and take some sawdust? How deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[107525],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1114,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/254\/revisions\/1114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sussex.ac.uk\/libsocial\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}