Dartmoor North to South - The Dartmoor Podcast Episode Twenty Five

A three-day whimsical wander across the whole of Dartmoor with some wild camping, beautiful views, naughty ponies, and plenty of daft nonsense. Enjoy!
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[@Camped_on_Dartmoor]

Probably the best Dartmoor KZbin channel. this channel deserves more views.

[@TigerLily7.]

What a wonderful adventure!!! You put so much effort to "take us along"; I honestly feel relaxed after watching, like I've just spent some time in the nature (minus all the difficult bits of course, ha ha). 💚

[@BoxTunnel]

Enjoyed this. Personally prefer immediate commentary rather than a narration over the top but still a great video. I'm now gearing up to go and "reclaim" Dartmoor after suffering a beasting 35 years ago during Royal Navy basic training. I'll hike a few miles, camp overnight and possibly find some of the places we visited, cook some food on something other than a hex stove and raise a beer from a cosy tent, rather than shivering in a huge tarpaulin sleeping several of us during a cold November week! Might take a hex stove for nostalgia though.

[@gamevidz6319]

Absolutely love this channel, I always look forward to a new video. just basic kit and everyday clothes and a adventure every time. I am glad this “isn’t a podcast”

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Very kind! Thank you!

[@gamevidz6319]

@@thedartmoorpodcast no thank you. I try to get to Dartmoor as often as I can to wild camp and your videos scratch that itch. Should be out on the moor next week. Keep doing what your doing.

[@guybirks9299]

Terrific video. Thanks for the footage. Grew up in the South West. Love Dartmoor. Now live in Melbourne Australia. I miss the moor! I will check out your other videos. Good food for the soul!

[@mudsweatandtrails]

So relaxing to watch your videos. Thanks for taking the time to bring your adventures to our eyeballs.

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

It's a pleasure - thank you!

[@h.bsfaithfulservant4136]

Thoroughly enjoyable video...I'm so glad your podcast didn't pan out 👌👍.

[@tickettothestars7362]

What a fabulous commentary of your walk! I've done many hikes and backpacking on Dartmoor will be planning a North to South hike next summer or as soon as the weather is better! Refreshing! Keep up the good work !

[@matthewwakeham2206]

I always tell anyone who will listen that it's easier and quicker to follow the stone row to Three Barrows rather than walk the puffing billy track. Definitely wetter I'll admit but shorter and easier on the feet. The views from Three Barrows on a clear day are not bad either. The trick is not to miss the turning off of the Zeal Tor Tramway otherwise you end up at Shipley Bridge. You would have missed those scenes at Left Lake though so it's swings and roundabouts I guess.

[@AnthonyFrancisJones]

Great - good to be 'out with you!' You are clearly enjoying your D365ing!

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Thanks! Yes, I'm certainly enjoying it more than letterboxing at the moment!

[@scotbotvideos]

Barely begun to watch it and I'm already digging the old skool map.

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

I'm old skool through and through.

[@jonathanpork-sausage617]

Grammar skool was the guess here. @@thedartmoorpodcast

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Very good guess - I went to Torquay Boys'!

[@jonathanpork-sausage617]

Interesting. Nearly right, as ever. Thought that might be where you teach. @@thedartmoorpodcast

[@devonwalking]

Brilliant thank you. I had a goal of crossing the north moor this year (not quite as much as an achievement as the whole thing but to do with logistics and how fit I am not 🤣). Haven't managed it but we will next year I am sure. We also got 'lost' once walking up the East Okement (despite the fact we had done it several times before but they were some time ago) and ended up going up Moor Brook, was rather nice though coming out at Cullever. Don't know south of Princetown really at all (walking wise anyway), need to get down there one day. Thanks again George, looking forward to you next 'not a podcast' :)

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Thank you again for watching. It's so stupidly easy to get lost out there, isn't it! Plenty of cool stuff to explore in the south!

[@WalkingDevon]

Good to see I'm not the only one who gets lost on Dartmoor! On your first night you were at most 100m from a nice flat spot where I've camped a few times. Well done for completing it!

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Ha! Typical - I suppose that if I'd been organised enough to get there earlier, I might have found it. Thanks for watching!

[@timrumble6945]

Fabulous

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Thank you! New episode 'East to West' should be up in a few days...

[@simonmundy5387]

Really enjoyed this daft nonsense! So much more authentic and genuine than other videos. It's been an ambition of mine to do the North South walk. I would like to know how I get back to Okehamton from Ivybridge though? I've researched this with no success, apart from a train that takes more than two hours and and apparently there are no buses. Any ideas, apart from turning around and walking back! Love your quirky videos! Simon, Somerset.

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Thanks very much! Yeah, public transport and Dartmoor don't exactly go hand-in-hand... it'd be Ivybridge/Newton Abbot/Exeter/Okehampton on the train and not much better on the buses. Maybe starting in Ivybridge and doing it backwards would at least mean you end the trip closer to home, although you still have the issue of getting to Ivybridge!

[@HeffalumpHorralump1]

BlackBerry definitely counts as a forage. Great adventure, beautifully presented. I hope you’re chuffed with this as you should be 👍

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Thanks very much, buddy!

[@armyrepelentcz4090]

Perfect thanks 🙂

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Thanks for watching!

[@torbaggermaxpiper]

Interesting route indeed! :o)

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Yes, it went completely off-piste on the second day. All part of the fun, though!

[@Moor2Sea]

Really enjoyed this , new SuB 😊

[@dartmoorlife]

Loved watching this video George. I’ve ran most of that route 3 times on a north to south Dartmoor race. Watching your video has made me want to walk it next time and enjoy the views a lot more, rather than my eyes focused on the ground running. You’ve also answered a question for me, I’ve often wondered what the ‘settling tanks’ were at Red Lake. I’ve walked past them numerous times and often wondered but couldn’t find any info on Google 😁 Thank you again for a great watch 😁😁😁

[@mudsweatandtrails]

Im the same, i've ran around a lot of Dartmoor but in the last couple of years started walking and wild camping so that i can take my time and take it all in properly. Likewise with the South West Coast path

[@mudsweatandtrails]

hello Graham, sorry, just realised its you that left this comment 😉

[@jonathanpork-sausage617]

Good work. No BS or grovelling, but this is by far and away the best thing of it's kind on YT I've seen. PS when you did that jump, my internet froze and I had to reboot. Very odd. PPS what bus did you get on for the return and why not the train?

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Thank you very much! I was heading to Torbay on the Gold Bus!

[@jonathanpork-sausage617]

Didn't know of that route. Will have to look it up. @@thedartmoorpodcast

[@stuarttyler6724]

Great feature-length episode, congrats on bisecting the Moor! (though all the instances of you saying 'due south' has now caused the theme tune to the '90s series of same name to get stuck in my head ...)

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Genuinely thought that myself and considered sneaking in a little guitar cover... annoyed I didn't now, knowing that one person would have got it!

[@stuarttyler6724]

@@thedartmoorpodcast Ah well, I feel like your niche reference quotient is still well in credit from that Apocalypto scene in previous episode :)

[@bechilled3875]

That was an excellent video, until the cheap dig at Ivybridge my current home. Almost lost you Like. Good job I enjoy your vids. Looking forward to digging out your past vid ref Red Lake history. Cheers.

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Thank you again! Yes, I was a bit harsh on poor old Ivybridge! I think it was just the shock of coming back from the tranquillity of nature into a busy town making me grumpy - ha!

[@steppib.4598]

You are a complicated man! Thing to do: take a wild swim - Thing to avoid: getting wet feet! 😂 Looking forward to watch your solution of this dilemma! 😉

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Haha! Hadn't realised this contradiction!

[@ConkerKing]

I'd definitely avoid the getting killed....

[@Rat.Boy.with.a.Movie.Camera.]

🍄🖐💥🤚🤣

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

Yep, think that might have been quite a poisonous one!

[@Rat.Boy.with.a.Movie.Camera.]

@thedartmoorpodcast Well we're glad you survived that and the fall off the Thurlestone

[@scoles7779]

I think traditional letterboxes are die-ing (how DO you spell that???) out. I've been up a number of times and struggled to find any. some with really obvious locations. Great shame.

[@thedartmoorpodcast]

I had a look into this recently - kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5akdHaoibqSg9U - turns out that although it does seem to be in decline, there's a group of younger folk keeping it alive! Thanks for watching :)