Wild Camp on Fur Tor - The Dartmoor Podcast Episode Thirty Two 

I enjoyed your video. Interesting. You are a brave man! My friend is trying to persuade me to include the stretch of marshy bog between Dinger Tor and Fur Tor in our next three night hike across Dartmoor. I don't fancy the bog. Can you please (immediately) make a video showing how terrible and treacherous it is and how no one should ever try it. Thanks.

Excellent, our favorite bit of the moor although we still haven't quite made it to 'The Queen', in some ways I don't want to as when we have it will feel like there is nothing else to conquer 🤣 I liked the fact that this was a straightforward normal vid with no weird stuff 😉🤣🤣 It was great while it was frozen wasn't it, except perfect ankle turning conditions. Brave coming back via Black Ridge, we did that in the summer when it was nice and dry!! 😁

Wonderful! I'm itching to get back to Dartmoor now, having watched this. I enjoyed as ever the strange split personality between past George and (present?) George (who I suppose by now is also another past George?). They make a very good double act, I laughed out loud at "yes that was pretentious"! It's also fascinating how different those two voices sound. I suppose it's partly down to the acoustics (out on the moor versus presumably indoors) but also the reactive "in the moment" voice versus the after-the-fact contemplative voice. It's a really nice way to construct a narrative actually, the best of both worlds. Your ever calm temperament hides what I imagine was actually quite a tough trek! Well done. Although your Dartmoor credentials were never in doubt!

Remember, you are never lost as you know where you are, you are right there, its all the other people, towns and villages that you can't find, technically, in my mind at least, they are lost...

brave man , i wouldn`t , not with that equipement in Winter time anyway . But fair play for having the kohoonaah`s to try and succeed! Kudo`s for a brief flash of my home town (Teignmouth) on the way out! wasn`t expecting that on a video about Fur Tor

Impressive adventure!! Watching this felt surreal - like a strange dream on a strange stormy planet. Eerily beautiful.

Good effort, you must be fitter than a butchers dog to carry that kit that distance over by far my least favourite route. I'm torn with the name. 'Far Tor' fits nicely, but in my mind too nicely. As in Brentor (Tower Hill) I prefer Veur Tor (pronounced Vur Tor) meaning 'Great Tower'.

Be temptation so far Or dream so near A simple straight line From which not to vear Is often not The greatest idea Dartmoor so wide Or New Forest's inside Nature's found road Is the best way to steer

Nice one George lad really enjoyed thàt 👍

Another excellent piece, thank you. Aside from the filming, I really enjoy your commentary - accompanied as it is by "out of the box" thinking, and thoughts which inspire. Great job!

Fur tor is a wonderful place, and you managed to avoid the never ending cut hill, which would have been no fun at all in that wind! Here’s to hoping that one day I spot the dartmoor podcast in his natural habitat!

Excellent film. A tough walk that! It’s on the list. Thank you

this is why we love Dartmoor !

Some brilliant geography here, but feel you missed a pun in not calling it Dartmoor-dor when referring to N.Dartmoor as Mordor 😂

Wow, now that was an adventure. How many miles was round trip do you think ?. 🤔

Epic achievement ✌️ ...I did wonder how you slept through to 6.30 in that wind George. 1am makes more sense, given the conditions... Excellent entertainment...thankyou 🙏

Bold George, bold.

liked before its even finished.

Much as the open landscape is dramatically bleak, its emptiness is the result of centuries of sheep ( over) grazing and human tree felling - i wonder if it is time to 'rewild' and return to mixed woodland?

Amazing visibility at this time of year. Video would’ve been just a big lump of white mist normally

What was the tarp, that will stand up to that, please?