{"id":1524,"date":"2013-04-29T17:38:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T17:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/?p=1524"},"modified":"2015-02-24T19:07:47","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T19:07:47","slug":"wild-camp-in-a-hertfordshire-wood","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/2013\/04\/wild-camp-in-a-hertfordshire-wood\/","title":{"rendered":"A wild camp microadventure in a Hertfordshire wood"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post I announced my <a title=\"A microadventure for the spring \u2013 a wood in Hertfordshire\" href=\"http:\/\/martinblack.com\/2013\/04\/a-microadventure-for-the-spring-a-wood-in-hertfordshire\/\">early spring micro-adventure<\/a>: a wild camp in a wood that I pass every day on my commute to, and from, London.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m pleased to say the adventure went well and I spent a very enjoyable, and cosy, night in my hammock.<\/p>\n<p>I took a bunch of photos and shot some video, all of which you can see in the short (5mins or so) clip below.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/HrQRCak0xRE<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The wild camp was great fun and waking up in the hammock to the dawn chorus was very special, there&#8217;s something quite wonderful about sleeping in the open rather than being enclosed in a tent.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 512px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" \" title=\"A wood, a hammock, a wild camp\" src=\"https:\/\/lh4.googleusercontent.com\/-d3iyugOI_nE\/UXkE-F_GijI\/AAAAAAAAAkY\/ZWbQi2Yh2bQ\/s640\/SAM_0601.JPG\" alt=\"A wood, a hammock, a wild camp\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A wood, a hammock, a wild camp<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>I met a dog walker as I was packing up my gear,\u00a0 he pointed out I was on private property.\u00a0 I gave him my biggest grin, explained that I&#8217;d leave no trace whatsoever and\u00a0 complimented the wood on its beauty.\u00a0 He seemed happy with this and went on his way.<\/p>\n<p>So&#8230;what next?\u00a0 A couple of work colleagues have expressed an interest in joining me on the next one, sometime in May.\u00a0 Google maps have been consulted, OS maps looked at, locations considered.<\/p>\n<p>Check back for more!<\/p>\n<p>(and thanks to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alastairhumphreys.com\/\">Alastair Humphreys<\/a> for the initial idea)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a previous post I announced my early spring micro-adventure: a wild camp in a wood that I pass every&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[75,82,40,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1524"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3287,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1524\/revisions\/3287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/martinblack.com\/oldsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}