Max Piper

Max is a tor bagger, Dartefacter and author who has always been fascinated by Dartmoor, but became even more hooked after training for the Ten Tors Challenge in 2018, despite not participating in the actual event. It was when he came across Paul Buck and Tim Jenkinson, at around the same time, where his relationship with the National Park became permanent and addictive. It was here that he completed several walks exploring Dartmoor's many treasures and, not least, its well-known and less well-known tors.

What Max has gained from these early experiences is the motivation to get out and explore, finding quite a few undocumented outcrops, and enthusiasm to create his own website which can be found at www.torbagger.co.uk. He also contributes to the database of Dartmoor Artefacts, at dartefacts.co.uk, a website designed to enable enthusiasts to discover many of Dartmoor's points of interest in an innovative format.

In October 2022, Max's first book 'East Dartmoor's Lesser-Known Tors and Rocks' was published by The Dartmoor Company. This specialist publication is a companion to the Tors of Dartmoor database and describes 300 tors and rocks on East Dartmoor.

On a personal note, I have met Max on several occasions, and he is a genuinely lovely and great to have around when you need to know something about Dartmoor!

I wrote a blog entry about one of our meeting on my photography website - Click here to read more about Max 

More links about Max on his Linktr.ee