Wild Camping: Experienced campers on how and where to do it

With lockdown behind us and staycations on the horizon, many are looking at wild camping as a way to enjoy the freedom and beauty of the outdoors. Helen O’Callaghan finds out how to do it in a way that’s protective of the environment.

Camping in the wild on the Irish coast in the Galway region.

For Carl Lange and Ellie Berry, it was a point of pride that when they packed up their camp in the morning, nobody would know they’d been there.

Between April 2017 and July 2019, the Dublin-based couple walked all 42 National Waymarked Trails in Ireland — a total distance of around 4,000km — becoming, they say, the first people to walk them all.