The antidote to a fast-paced world driven by step goals and fitness trackers, this authentic brand takes its inspiration from the bonds and enduring memories made exploring outdoor landscapes with friends and family, seeking out adventure for any purpose and at any pace. Hitch and Roam pride themselves on their thoughtfully crafted, rugged and reliable goods, infused with a sense of nostalgia, yet powered by passion, performance and purpose. Inspired by natural landscapes and featuring high-quality, hard-wearing blankets, throws, sit mats and camp towels, all products in the collection are crafted from natural fibres, sourced from UK and European mills with decades of manufacturing heritage. Moving away from less sustainable, oil-based synthetics and harnessing the unique qualities of natural fabrics like wool, linen and waxed cotton canvas, Hitch and Roam have invented something truly special for modern, outdoor life.

The range debuts with two products at WildBounds – the Roamers Roll (£54.95) and the sustainable and fully biodegradable Linen Camp Towel (lightweight or luxurious waffle edition, four sizes from £5.95 – £59.95). The Roamers Roll is an individually sized sit mat providing the perfect perch for rest stops when you’re out walking or around the campfire. Lightweight and portable, it rolls away for convenient carry and secures with an integrated leather strap and press-stud closure. The underside is made from super-durable, waterproof waxed cotton canvas, while the top is made from insulating and hard-wearing wool. The deluxe version boasts a wool felt inner for extra padding and comfort.  Choose from the Slim (£54.95) or Deluxe edition (£59.95) in a choice of nine rich and rustic colours.

The inaugural range completes with the UK National Park blanket collection – a striking set of ten unique blankets proudly made in Britain and celebrating the UK’s most loved and legendary outdoor spaces.  5% of proceeds from all sales will go to Hitch and Roam’s partners, the National Parks Foundation, to support the amazing work of this charity. Hitch & Roam will be bringing this unique product to life through a Kickstarter campaign, commencing on 22nd October 2024, running for approximately three weeks and allowing early backers and less than 800 people to be the proud owner of one of these beautiful pieces. The Hitch and Roam UK National Parks blankets will be available at wildbounds.com from March 2025 priced at £225, but Kickstarter backers will be able to purchase one with a £175 pledge. Pledges will only be charged when the campaign goal is met. Backers can also pledge support by purchasing eco-friendly National Park stickers (£10 for a pack of 10) and National Park embroidered patches (£50 for a pack of 10). Pledges will only be charged when the campaign goal is met.

Featuring signature stripes inspired by the characteristic colours and distinctive landscapes of the respective park, each blanket is made from 100% pure virgin wool, spun by AW Hainsworth – one of the last remaining fully vertical woollen mills in Britain. Finished with an embroidered national parks patch, they make the ultimate camp blankets, but with a generous dimension of 115cm W x 176cm L (appx.) are also perfectly suited to daily life, offering luxurious warmth, softness and comfort in any setting. A carefully controlled weave and nap gives a luxuriously warm, soft and comfortable handle, with optimum lustre, durability and drape, while classic tasselled ends give a timeless heritage aesthetic. With incredible versatility to be used in the outdoors, as a bedspread or for snuggling under on the sofa, these throws are built for longevity and sure to be loved and enjoyed by generations to come.  Finished with a bespoke, embroidered National Parks patch, the collection incorporates ten iconic pieces;

Lake District NP

Representing the 16 lakes and mosaic of tarns, the blue takes dominance, with the detailed lines showing its many mountain streams. The colours show the wealth of the rolling landscape, from the greens of the lowland hills and woodlands to the greys and oranges of the high fells.

Eryri (Snowdonia) NP

With a saturated landscape, the Snowdonia hills are a lush green, broken by the sharp greys of the mountains and quarries. The larger lines represent the mighty Snowdon and Crib Goch and then the smaller outer lines mirroring how the landscape graduates into lowland rolling hills on the edges of the National Park. The additions of blues show the sparse lakes and waters that are dotted within the valleys.

Yorkshire Dales NP

With vast, wind-swept, rolling heather-covered moorland, the Dales are notorious for its deep greens and browns, broken by swathes of grey limestone. The lines represent lowland rolling hills with the iconic 3 peaks of the Dales breaking the landscape, and the tributaries of rivers and streams feeding the moorland.

Cairngorms NP

Notorious for its high, forever-rolling landscape, with volcanic eruptions of sharp, grey rock faces, the National Park can be dense with rocks and mountains one mile and then for the next 50, a vast open plain of heather-scared hills. The dense collection of the lines represents these populated high mountains and the colours that the rock and basins bring, and then fade into open nothingness as far as the eye can see.

South Downs NP

A boundless, open landscape of rolling chalk downland, rising gently and then dropping dramatically, giving contrast to the surrounding landscape. The colours represent the rolling landscape and green pastures of the hills, giving way to the greys and purple hues of the chalk band, mixed in with the clay of the northern aspect. The lines show the slow rise of the Downs from the South and then the sudden drop off in the North.

Dartmoor NP

Radiating out from its moorland core are deep river valleys cutting through enclosed farmland. With rich greens and browns being the defining colours of the landscape. Cutting through these greens are the harsh lines of granite which are found in the distinctive stonewalls, buildings and hedge banks. The lines represent these features cutting through and defining the landscape without making it feel too densely populated.

Peak District NP

With the distinctive divide of the white and dark areas of the park, the landscape graduated from the green pastures and grey limestone of the south to the deep hues of the heather and bracken and grey tones of the chiselled gritstone edges of the north. The rivers offer cut valleys a route to connect the two.

Bannau Brycheiniog (Brecon Beacons) NP

With grassy moorlands, heather-clad escarpments, and Old Red Sandstone peaks, softened by weather and time, the iconic mountainous areas and limestone pavements, the landscape has unique areas. The colours represent this change in landscape and terrain exposed.

Loch Lomond & The Trossachs NP

Coated in rolling lowland hills, towering mountains, glens and engulfed in seemingly endless lochs, the landscape is relatively simple in comparison with the upper highlands, however, the landscape, small, is still mighty. The colours and lines represent the dominance of the lochs, interspersed with the rolling lowland hills and the steep sided mountains rising from their shorelines, reflecting the change in the palette of the landscape.

Pembrokeshire Coast NP

With its endless curving coastline rising from the waves and flowing into gentle rolling moorland, the contrast is dominated by the blue hues of the sea, the grey & red tones of the cliffs and the moorland that follows. The colours and lines represent this clean-cut comparison of the rolling moorland and dense coastline falling into the sea and the vast, open, nothingness beyond.

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