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Hi there,

Has anyone been Wild Camping at Galloway Forest?  We are looingtog camping ext year to the area and we stumbled across the 'wild camping' on the forest website. Has anyone been?

Head for Newton Stewart & then take the road to Minnigaff. From there, cross the river and head north along a small road that follows the east bank of the River Cree.

From about 2 miles on this road to the mouth of the water of Minnoch, there are good wildcamping sites, especially in the woods to you right. There is also good fishing in the River Cree.

A group of us wildcamped there for 2 weeks, each using only a personal axe, a knife and what we could carry in a tobacco tin. We were also allowed to use what we could find.

It was an interesting fortnight!!!!!

Sounds fun,  I am hoping to use our tent lol.

I am aware there will be no facilities.  The things I was hoping to hear about is if there were any 'visitors' to the tent at night etc

Sorry, the area I described is not suitable for tent camping, especially with a tent of that size!

I thought you were talking about a bivvy sized tent camped in a forest type area.

Quote: Originally posted by s_a_kenz on 27/10/2009

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Sounds fun,  I am hoping to use our tent lol.

I am aware there will be no facilities.  The things I was hoping to hear about is if there were any 'visitors' to the tent at night etc

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Quote: Originally posted by HT James on 28/10/2009

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Quote: Originally posted by s_a_kenz on 27/10/2009

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Sounds fun,  I am hoping to use our tent lol.

I am aware there will be no facilities.  The things I was hoping to hear about is if there were any 'visitors' to the tent at night etc

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Bears? Ladiesof a certain profession?

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Or even Bear(?) Ladies of a certain profession