I was first introduced to the Pomoly Chalet 70 Pro through the YouTube channel TA Outdoors, where the channels host Mike demonstrated using it with a wood stove in his own woodland. For a long time I've been really interested in the idea of using a hot tent, to extend the camping season deep into the colder months, and I also like the idea of using the stove to cook whilst inside the shelter of the tent (especially when in poor weather conditions etc.). After seeing Mike's videos of the Pomoly I started to watch some others on YouTube using the tent, and I even found some up in Alaska which I think was a real testimony to the tent's ability to keep it's inhabitants warm and stand up to harsher weather conditions. So around January, I decided to buy my own and try it for myself, having borrowed a tent stove from a friend so that I could try out hot tenting!  When I bought the tent, I hoped that I would be able to take it out for some cold weather camping within the first...

 Campsite review: Nearly Wild Camping - Woodland Edge This June I enjoyed my second trip to a Nearly Wild Camping site, near Sparkford in Somerset (for a brief introduction to Nearly Wild Camping please see my previous post here! ). Although I have had my NWC membership since last September, I have so far only managed to use it once, despite seeing lots of wonderful sites on there, it's sometimes difficult to find the time to fit it all in with various other events, trips, and general life! Anyway, myself and two friends were planning a trip, but as one of us lives down in Cornwall, we were trying to find somewhere relatively equidistant, and so, we decided to look in the West Country. For reasons that I have already stated in previous posts , England's West Country has so much to offer campers, and we found an array of sites that looked suitable for our trip, but one stood out above the rest - Woodland Edge. If the name alone wasn't enough, then the pictures of the bushcra...

The Bushcraft Show 2024 I first heard about Bushcraft Magazine's 'Bushcraft Show' from the Wodesman Podcast (shout-out to Tom and Liam!) last year, and although I couldn't go in 2023 due to other plans, I found myself watching lots of YouTube videos many of the people who did go, and I made a mental note that I had to go next year. Fast forward to January 2024, and I was on their website, buying tickets, and already mentally planning the trip. I chose the weekend ticket that included camping, as I really wanted to take my hammock and camp in the woodland on site after seeing so many people doing this on YouTube. At first I wasn't sure if I'd be going on my own, as I didn't know if anyone that I'd usually camp with would fancy going to the show, but I extended the invite to my dad, and being a camping nut himself, he was only too happy to join me for three nights of woodland hammock camping (I think the show was just an added bonus for him). Eventually th...