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Venture Further

Responsible backpack camping on Dartmoor

How do I go further, safely?

Prepare for a weekend on the moor: planning, what to carry, navigation, shelter, water, hazards and leaving no trace, with care for the right to camp.

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🃏 Includes a printable card set: every Wilding activity guide as an A6 card (four to an A4 sheet) to spread out, plan with or use for a lucky dip. See a sample

The ebook
43 Wilding activity guides as printable PDFs
Templates and charts the Wilding activity guides need
A printable card set: every guide as an A6 card

Coming soon. Jay is giving this book and its Wilding activity guides a final proofread before they go on sale as downloads. Ask to be told when they're ready.

Safety first. Outdoor activities carry real risks. Each Wilding activity guide has safety notes, but you are responsible for yourself and anyone in your care. Supervise children, get permission, never eat anything you cannot identify with certainty, and only light fires where it is allowed and safe.

The Wilding activity guides in this collection

Create culture

Making time to know nature & live wilder

Grab bagCreate culture

Live wilder

Knots, hitches & bends

Tying a bowlineLive wilder

Tying a round turn & two half hitchesLive wilder

Tying a clove hitchLive wilder

Tarps

Erecting an ‘A’ frame tarp shelterLive wilder

Erecting a hammock diamond tarp shelterLive wilder

Wood fuelled stoves

Using a storm kettleLive wilder

Using a solo stoveLive wilder

Keeping safe outdoors

+ printablePreparing an emergency action planLive wilder

Weather and exposure

What’s the weather?Live wilder

+ printableCloud matchingLive wilder

ShadeLive wilder

+ printableEstimating wind speed & the riskLive wilder

How far away is that lightning?Live wilder

+ printablePredicting rainLive wilder

Outdoor hygiene

Hand washing in the wildLive wilder

When nature calls!Live wilder

Biting and stinging animals

Checking for ticksLive wilder

Safety around water

Water safetyLive wilder

Plants that scratch or sting

Handling plants & trees that scratch & stingLive wilder

Tree safety

Visual tree assessmentLive wilder

Map reading

Understanding map symbols & legendsLive wilder

Reading contours & understanding elevationLive wilder

Using grid referencesLive wilder

Scaling a mapLive wilder

Orientating a mapLive wilder

Route planning

How to plan a journeyLive wilder

Practical navigation

Using natural & unnatural handrailsLive wilder

Calculating distance travelled using pacingLive wilder

Getting to know a compassLive wilder

Using a compass to take & follow a bearingLive wilder

Using a compass to work out the direction of a slopeLive wilder

Sight liningLive wilder

what3wordsLive wilder

Map & navigate naturally

Mapping your place

Map your worldMap & navigate naturally

Aerial mapMap & navigate naturally

+ printableHabitat mapMap & navigate naturally

Compass creationsMap & navigate naturally

Bird’s eye view mappingMap & navigate naturally

Place names we make upMap & navigate naturally

Finding your way back

BacktrackingMap & navigate naturally

Before you begin

+ printablePreparing a risk assessmentBefore you begin

Venturing further

Essential equipment

Clothing & footwear optionsVenturing further

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Safety, and where the Wilding activity guides come from

Look after yourself and others. Outdoor activities carry real risks: fire, tools, water, weather, heights, plants, fungi, animals and getting lost. Every Wilding activity guide includes safety notes, but you are responsible for your own safety and for anyone in your care. Supervise children closely, get the landowner's permission, follow the Countryside Code, never eat anything you cannot identify with complete certainty, and only light fires where it is allowed and safe. If in doubt, leave it out.

With gratitude to the lineage. Wilding and its Practice Keys are inspired by the work of Jon Young and colleagues: the core routines of nature connection in the 8 Shields approach, also known as Coyote Mentoring, shared in Coyote's Guide to Connecting with Nature (Young, Haas & McGown). Many of the Wilding activity guides grew from those routines.

These ways of noticing and belonging are far older than any book. They grow from the knowledge of Indigenous and land-based peoples around the world, who have lived in close relationship with the land for thousands of years and have kept that knowledge alive, often in the face of great loss. Jon Young describes 8 Shields as built on patterns of nature connection he found in Indigenous cultures around the world, and on what his mentors taught him, including the teachings passed down through Tom Brown Jr. from Grandfather Stalking Wolf. Our own ancestors in these islands once knew the land in this way too.

I offer Wilding with deep respect and thanks to all of them. It does not claim or copy any culture's ceremonies or sacred practices. It is a UK way of carrying forward simple, shared human ways of paying attention, giving thanks and belonging to a place. — Jay