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Trail talk: Kendal Mountain Tour 2023

In 1980 a group of climbers met to swap stories. The two-day Kendal Mountaineering Film Festival, as it was then called, sold tickets in order to raise funds for further adventures. This has grown to become an annual Kendal Mountain Festival- an eclectic assortment of 'outdoor' films, photography and talks, showcasing all that is different, exciting, innovative, challenging, or simply joyous, in the outdoors. The festival goes on the road as the Kendal Mountain Tour.
Trail talk: Kendal Mountain Tour 2023

Trail talk: our enjoyment of wild spaces and wildcamping is under threat (as always)

Few UK backpackers and wildcampers will be unaware of the recent furore surrounding the incredible, unfathomable, decision in the courts that wildcamping is not recreation, so should be banned on Dartmoor. Three Points of the Compass had hoped we might slowly be moving toward increased access to, and enjoyment of, outdoor spaces. Instead, we are headed in the opposite direction. Protest, action, share, fund, or at least talk about it
Trail talk: our enjoyment of wild spaces and wildcamping is under threat (as always)