The way he says one minute we were laughing, listening to the radio, drinking coffee, and now im alone in the woods. Made me shed a tear, the unintended foreshadowing broke my heart
@@Ryan-nu5hv - I love those, too. While I do have a chuckle at how much of the danger Steve is in exists only in his imagination, he seems like a terrific guy, and he's really clever and creative. The solar boat is brilliant, and that trip he and crazy neighbor took was epic.
I'd imagine if he ever found himself in prison, he'd be hunkered down using a bed sheet as a tent between the bunk and the stainless steel toilet/sink combo, saying "It doesn't get any better than this"
Long live the mischievous teenagers! Camping/hiking/biking/off roading/scuba diving turns my age backwards - I go from being 61 to being 16. Happy New Year!
The average security guard doesn’t want to confront the unknown, in the forest, after dark. They are (Poorly) paid and there job description is “ To observe and report” I really like your videos, they remind me of my youth. Thanks from Portugal.
As a former security guard as well, and having to spend an overnight shift with a guy who'd spend as much time as possible telling me all the stories of his illegal behavior from car theft to near-deadly assault, I was much too concerned with the guy sitting a few feet from me in the middle of a massive warehouse all alone in the night in an industrial park where nobody else is to really care if anyone showed up to steal some stuff.
@@thingtwo676 lol huh? no it's not. not to mention the fact that he's not even homeless. the police wouldn't do anything other than ask him to leave, or worst case write him a fine.
Fun fact: In Sweden we don’t have to go stealthy, here we have this awesome ancient thing called allemansrätten (all mans right) to camp where ever the hell we want for about 48 hours, even on peoples property (!) as long as it’s not in their sight. Just remember to leave the spot just like you found it. Germany is another ballgame! Love your your channel Steve, keep up the good work!
Trickier in Britain as its seen as vagrency (homeless) which is illegal here in the UK not that we dont have rough sleepers but if the police turn up they will move you on and make you take down your tent
Are there pieces of shit people who take advantage of it? Leaving trash, their gear and not cleaning up? Seems like there's always someone who has to ruin it for everyone
In the United States we have something like that called Dispersed Camping. As long as its public land, national forests, or the such, you can camp for a short time, and than cant camp within so many miles of that spot until some time has passed. This doesnt cover public land like in urban areas, but in general forests or tree cover. There are some other parts of the rules for this as well as what you can do or use and what not, but in general it would be entirely possible to legally camp your way across the country, so long as you make sure you follow all the ordinances of the specific area your in at any given time, at no cost.
"I am doing some stealth camping next to the highway." Queue chainsaw. I had to laugh so hard ... What an end to 2020. That was perfect. Happy New Year, Steve!
About half way through when he was doing his walk around and the security guard saw his light, I started thinking this is turning into his 'Blair Witch' episode.
'We're on a stealther today' he says wearing jeans , a beer in one hand , a chainsaw in the other and a couple of dollar tarps in his bag 🤣🤣🤣 love it !
Friendly neighborhood security guard here, I work armed security for a hospital now, but used to do contract security, which occasionally had me planted at construction sites. Unless you're actively on the job site or blocking access to it, you're unlikely to ever hear from us. As far as what authority they have, it's complicated and based on local laws and agency contracts/connections, guards can be anything from just observe and report all the way to bonded and deputized with authorities similar to a police officer. In my career I have only ran off one individual with a tent, he had erected it in front of a driveway to a facility I was posted at, I explained he was blocking the entrance and he quickly moved, that was it. Love the vids, makes me and the wife want to do some camping!
Literally the most terrifying episode I've seen yet... I'm not too scared of wild animals... but... people finding me in the woods... 1000% terrifying...
There was a woman in the US who lived inside a Walmart for a while. She was pregnant and went into labor one night all alone in the store. They made a movie around that story!
Security guy: it’s probably just that crazy hunker down guy. Other security guy: he always has lots of food and a couple of step 2s. 1st security guy: let him get set up and we’ll join him!😂🏕😎 Happy New Year Steve!
18:58- next morning. There's just no point to it. There's better ways to have adventures than looking Paranoid throughout what you "think" is an Adventure lol, not just this video but almost all of his stealth camp vids . I'm guessing his wife and ppl who Know him personally, would agree. If he has access to camping sites and self owned land why not just stick to that, this just looks silly. But it's his channel he can do as he please with it. Just saying, but that's what comment sections are for right. To stir up conversation 😊
After multiple punches to the nuts 2020, very thankful Mayor of Step 2 Town has blessed us with an upload to spear head hopefully a better year. Cheers Steve and fellow subs.
_.... With a 99.96% survival rate.... with hospitals supposedly overcrowded while hospital staff make tiktok dance videos.... centered entirely around Donald Trump?...._
I think Steve is the only youtuber who documents the whole "One minute I'm laughing drinking coffee and the next I'm in the woods" feeling. The alone feeling which in it's own way adds to the experience.
Ppl that live around Steve are probably always telling his wife I think ur husband was in yard last nite. When I went out to ask what he was doing he ran like hell yelling I'm not camping. This guy is great for so many reasons. Love it
@@P_RO_ No, the most they'd do in the US is give you a fine. They wouldn't arrest someone sleeping in a tent/shelter outside lol. It's not like he broke into and slept in someone's house while they weren't home or something.
Just subscribed recently. So sad to watch these older videos before Steve's beautiful wife passed away, when he mentions her picking him up from these trips. I know the feeling re. grieving loss of spouse. If you see this Steve, the pain will ease up in time to a more manageable degree, even though it seems otherwise. Take care.
You forgot to mention that the unit has "central heat" when describing its amenities. Just place the auxillary heater directly in the middle and viola, central heat.
If you're going to leave supplies at these camps, you should leave them a little away from the main camp in big plastic bins buried in the ground and geocached. That way, even if your camp is found and demolished, you don't lose the supplies you might be depending on for that night.
because, as every construction boss says: ''we're burnin daylight!'' classic Steve, you cheer everyone up. And.... we know you are grieving, thanks for letting us know you intend to be back..when some time goes by. We will be here....
If you have been through the woods any length of time you would know getting hit in the face with brush and trees is common. Its a great idea to wear eye protection. I've been there and done that and when you pull a broken off stick out from under your eyelid it makes a lot of sense.
Mr. Wallis, I'm a little light this year so I can't contribute to your beer fund just now. But just know you've helped keep me sane during this dark time. Bless you.
@@campingwithsteve Curious what do mean by stealth? Who are you trying to covertly avoid and you do have cool episodes, but not sure about the stealth part. Your videos are entertaining and enjoyable to watch. RLTW
Thanks for all the tips Steve....some of your info is literally going to be a life saver this winter. My disabled wife and I are about to be homeless during winter in Colorado. There are virtually no resources in our town for people in our situation, so your tips may be the things that keep us alive during all of this
Sorry to disappoint but still alive and well. It has nothing to do with the locations btw....it has to do with the application of useful information. SMH Seriously don't understand the need to get upity when I simply paid a compliment to the channel owner....and for the record...some of us aren't homeless because we're stupid, or an addict, or career criminal.... contrary to popular belief. Hate to disappoint your biased opinion or hopes here. Thankfully I can rely on the fact that I'm good at improvise, adapt, and overcome mentality.
When I worked security I just wanted to get through my freakin' shift. If I could ignore the benign, I did. Is Steve trespassing? He's certainly not stealing. He would be a live and let live in my book!
If you want to avoid people seeing your lights in the woods, use red lights. It makes it a little bit harder for you to see what you're doing, but red is very difficult to see at a distance because red light is harder for the human eye to pick up on at night than white light. Wouldn't be a bad idea to have a dark red/brown tarp as well. EDIT: I forgot to mention red light also preserves your natural night vision, so your eyes won't have to re-adjust to darkness when the light is turned off.
Yeah exactly what I was thinking, when I go on stealth camping adventures I only use red lights, so first it will reduce drastically the odds of someone seeing any light, and second I never have to go check if my space is visible from the outside due to white lights, which by itself decreases drastically the odds of someone seeing me.
@@leeharden4060 Thank you, but I knew that. It's not like he'll see absolute darkness when he turns on a red light just because his eyes can't see red light correctly, that's not how it works. For example, people with complete color blindness (meaning they can't see any colors at all) can still see, they're not completely blind, just as someone with limited color blindness like Steve has can still detect the light, but it just doesn't look red, it'll just look like a different color or grey to him.
@@sjwarialaw8155 Yeah, your eyes adapt to it, but it's not anything to worry about. It happens when your eyes are exposed to any single color for a while, not only red. One other benefit I forgot to mention about red light is that it preserves your natural night vision, so your eyes don't have to re-adjust to the darkness after the light is turned off. I'll update my original comment to say that.
One of my favourite camping and survival channels on youtube. A million times better than any of the trash on TV. Love your dry, self-depracating humour. Love from Scotland
Survival and stealth camping is way different, stealth is like someone dared you to camp there and not get caught, but survival is you die if you dont make it
Hey mr hunker down, you got to get a red light it doesn’t stand out nearly as much as a normal light does in the dark. You could have the light on and walk a good 50-75’ away and you won’t even see the red light on unless you know where it is and have to really focus for it. But throw a few tarps and a few trees on top and you won’t have to worry about anything. You can see just fine with the light all night. Keep it up I’m waiting for that one time someone wants to join you in the step 2 but have questions before that.
Great post, Steve! I'm laughing at the thought of you revisiting this spot over the next few years and it slowly turns into a three-story house. Have a great new year!
My NYE: a bottle of wine and a stealth camping video! Thank you Steve! Lol, not a homeless guy in the woods officer... a famous TH-cam Star with hundreds of thousands of followers...
I honestly have to say, my two Favourite Camping Channels, Camping with Steve, and A Jay in the Woods, have the easiest listening voices, could hear these guys talk for hours and hours, super easy on the ears. And best of all, they’re both Canadian!
Perhaps in future... you might do an episode called: "After The Stealth?" Getting picked up, stopping to get some breakfast, etc. That'd be really cool, Steve!
Then do a drive-by on the security guard. Asking if he heard anything suspicious last night. Say you live in the area and heard someone poking around. Lol Get the full perspective from the guy you were crawling away from
I am so very sorry to hear about your loss my wife will be gone nine years September 13 it is still very hard I don’t know how to express How TH-cam helps your channel and others thank you sorry again
If you can't avoid making tracks in snow, walk backwards. It makes it look like you came from the woods not into them. Also, wear wool, or other moisture wicking clothing in the cold. Cotton can be deadly in the cold.
Whenever the weight of life’s problems drag me down, I just watch Steve and somehow everything gets a little bit better. “This is not an educational channel by any means...” Steve has taught me everything I need to know about stealth camping if I ever run away into the woods to live alone for the rest of my life. Thanks Steve. :)
Security guard has 4 1500watts metal haylide lamps blazing at him, it was like daylight bright next to that truck......there is a 0% chance he could notice Steve.
Steve is scared, but honestly imagine how scared the security guys must have been seeing bright and red lights in the woods on their night shift and hearing voices.
haha, I love electric chainsaws. I ran the life out of a cheap harbor freight green plastic electric chainsaw using it to stealth cut tons of wood out in the open with my truck and an inverter... No one cares if you ain't makin a racket...
"WE HAVE A PROBLEM, A BIG BIG PROBLEM!!! OH GREAT, HERE WE GO!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 STEVE BRINGS BACK CHILDHOOD MEMORIES RUNNING FROM COPS AND SECURITY!! HAHA CHEERS
This is Steve Wallis at his very best, he looks like a stealth camper, sounds like a stealth camper, with just the right amount of paranoia in his voice.
“I’m just on the side of a highway trying to sleep for the night!” 😂 I love your adventures Steve!! “I should have brought some gravy” said no camper other than Steve!! 😂😂
Steve, you're the most positive person on TH-cam. The internet needs more people like you, also you have the best camping channel by far, I genuinely look forward to every video you put out, happy new years buddy, cheers!
I always anxiously await these videos. The stealth camping ones especially are a much-needed escape from the COVID hellscape, and I’m hoping 2021 will let me get back out there with my kids. Thanks for being my quarantine antidote, Steve!
Happy New Year, Steve. You and Beautiful Wife have been a rare beam of sunshine in a dumpster fire of a year. Thank you for hunkering down with the rest of us.
It's funny, the whole time Steve was getting brave and walking towards the road(s) with his flashlight on I was thinking, "Steve, turn the flashlight off"!
Long time bower, fist time commenter.... Love the vids mate! I don't know if anyone has said this before. But have you ever used a bivvie bag? I was in the army and it's like extreme camping hehe. One if the best thing they taught me was the bivvie bag. The ex military ones are cheap and more stealth/hardwearing. In UK they are around £5 used. Cammed up, goretex, so weather proof and add another 1-2 season to your sleeping bag. I've spent plenty of years on top of mountains, burnt building and places I don't want to be seen, safe as sound in my bivvie. It's like a tent you don't have to put up. Just make sure it's not a plastic or cheap thing and you will have it years. Also comfy inside tents/buildings as it covers face from heaters and light once you want darkness plus protects the sleeping bag. Anyways, love the show mate. I've been to your parts many years back. Wainwright all the way to Edmonton.... Good times. You stay safe mate
Thanks for mentioning the bivvi bag, I remember thinking "there must be something like this but way more compact and portable" when Steve showed off that camping cot/tent thing. I don't spend nearly as much time outside as I wish I did and I may soon invest in some gear so if I pass by or think about some secluded spot I can head out on a whim for a night off or two.
@@sid2112 my contention is... when there is a roadway, lumber yard security and high traffic pattern... you are no longer in "the middle of the woods". Bro. Most people know this... you do not. Hence the determination that you are not very bright.
Another re watch! Too cool! I helped my work by working a 5 am to 1 pm shift. I usually work 1pm to 9pm! Yikes...But Now I have sort of a day off! What better to do but to watch The Hunker Down Man having fun!!! And in a few minutes...step 2 will happen!
Steve sounded like the crew in Blair Witch running through the woods!! It is so entertaining and wholesome!! You rock, Steve!! Hello from a fellow Albertan!! 💜🤗🤗💜
Another spurious UFO sighting courtesy of Camping with Steve: "There was a creature with a light. It sensed my presence and crawled like a lizard toward a ghostly green glow in the woods. Then the glow just vanished!"
Coming from someone that’s in the Security industry, you don’t have much to worry about. Most guys especially at night are asleep at the wheel. Can’t wait to see your bike trips. I’ve done lots of trails rides and races but not ride and camps. Love your stuff Steve. Keep it up friend. .
@@trevorbush435 It's not about that, it's about if i build a house and buy whatever is inside it's MINE....and i use what's mine. If someone is unhappy with that then get out...
50 of 74 years a hobo. I wouldn't set up that much unless I was going to have a "base camp" for a fair length of time. I have spent entire winters in a upgrade stealth camp tho. So still spot on.
Been watching your channel for a while Steve, How did i miss this one? lol. classic. Stealth camping with a chainsaw 50yds from the roadside. You my friend are a legend :)
The trouble with using a red light is the high number of sailors on shore leave dropping in 1:30 in the morning who don't want to take "No, not tonight!"
Your advice is backward. Red is the easier color to be seen since it has a long wavelength, is more difficult to scatter, and will be seen by the eye's cones. He should use a blue (or cyan if he wants to retain the eye's night vision); because blue has a greater chance of the short wavelength going lost. Always the best bet is to use an amount of light (lumens) that cannot be picked up by the cones and rods (one's eye) at all, no matter the color. Example: vehicle tail-lamps and radio tower lamps are red because their long wavelength ability to be seen, but will ruin the rods' night vision eventually. Your rods do not detect red; your cones do. And everyone who likes your comment need to get educated; like I did. Happy hiding.
@@AudioAdvisory38 why the snarky comment at the end? Your advice was great until that part, now instead of thinking back to wavelength and carrying out a productive conversation, I’m just thinking, fuck this guy. You ruined your own credible argument because of your lack of humility. And just because blue may be better, doesn’t mean red isn’t still a major improvement-still way better than a bright flashlight.
Steve, you were great entertainment during a not-so-entertaining year. Cheers and Happy New Year. I am raising my Step 2 to you! May 2021 be your stealthiest year ever!
Plot twist: the security guard is in his vehicle hunkering down watching steve wallis episodes
That's a Shyamalan twist.
@@julianricky3620 That would make the twist so... **I am sure everyone gets it so skipping description** LOL
I was thinking the same thing. LMAO!!
A Classic!
Omg that’s too funny
Makes me almost shed a tear when he mentions ‘Beautiful Wife’. May she Rest In Peace, and may all her loved ones recover.
Yeah I feel the same. They really loved eachother, you can feel that even through the videos.
The way he says one minute we were laughing, listening to the radio, drinking coffee, and now im alone in the woods. Made me shed a tear, the unintended foreshadowing broke my heart
@@thaDjMauz Did you know them?
Always keeping Steve and his beautiful angel in my thoughts. We love you Steve.❤
Cry me a river!😊
I remember when I used to watch television. Now I watch Camping with Steve.
same here
Way better than TV
We get wiser as we get older
Same!
Lol you said it!
Never did I think I would find happiness in watching someone sleep next to a highway for 40 minutes
Rabbit hole, of You tube. I'm here also lol
I had to buy the T shirt HUNKER DOWN !
Go to California and you'll see that all the time
I bought a property next to the highway to get peace and quiet, until I try to sleep it beats staying home with the brats!
😊it makes me want to try it just for the rush to not get caught
The way he's thoroughly convinced that this is Mission impossible-level subterfuge is hilarious. This channel is addictive.
22:40 for anyone wondering.
That def got his heart racing lmao
I like the river raft videos the best
@@Ryan-nu5hv - I love those, too. While I do have a chuckle at how much of the danger Steve is in exists only in his imagination, he seems like a terrific guy, and he's really clever and creative. The solar boat is brilliant, and that trip he and crazy neighbor took was epic.
I'm convinced he gets so worked up as a hobby. Get a nice adrenaline dump, then a step 2...
says the obese basement dweller
Steve, regardless of how objectively not ideal his current situation is: "It doesn't get any better than this."
😂
It’s an attitude i aspire to 😄
I'd imagine if he ever found himself in prison, he'd be hunkered down using a bed sheet as a tent between the bunk and the stainless steel toilet/sink combo, saying "It doesn't get any better than this"
There's no such thing as objectivity when I comes to ideal situations. One man's ideal is another man's unideal.
@MiniBoatin' How little you know! Prisoners are skilled at whipping up some hooch.
This was your best one yet. Stumbling through the bush in a panic trying to avoid security; it appeals to the mischievous teenager in all of us.
Long live the mischievous teenagers! Camping/hiking/biking/off roading/scuba diving turns my age backwards - I go from being 61 to being 16. Happy New Year!
If Steve hadn’t gone down the road ...
Turns out the beer was infused with mushrooms
Get busted sometime..then the (constant) eminent danger will seem more plausible...
Exactly 😆 I feel like a kid sneaking out at summer camp.
Steve, if you ever get caught. PLEASE remember to keep the camera rolling. It will be your most viewed video ever!
He ever gets discovered 50/50 chance it will be a fan and ask for a selfie or share a step2
is stealth camping any worse than a homeless encampment? any action taken against the homeless encampment?
I'm glad he focuses his stealthiness on camping and not being a serial killer
The average security guard doesn’t want to confront the unknown, in the forest, after dark. They are (Poorly) paid and there job description is “ To observe and report” I really like your videos, they remind me of my youth. Thanks from Portugal.
As a former security guard, I can confirm this in most cases. I did have co-workers that seemed super eager to use their weapons though.
I was a security guard, I didnt get paid enough to investigate the woods even if I saw activity, fuck that 🤣
As a former security guard as well, and having to spend an overnight shift with a guy who'd spend as much time as possible telling me all the stories of his illegal behavior from car theft to near-deadly assault, I was much too concerned with the guy sitting a few feet from me in the middle of a massive warehouse all alone in the night in an industrial park where nobody else is to really care if anyone showed up to steal some stuff.
Thats what id do
List of jobs I don't wanna do anymore
1. Security guard
2. Unknown
3. Unknown
If I'm just a guy driving past and see someone camping I honestly might just be pretty jealous and get on with my day
Steve always acts like he’s got warrants when he sees someone.
Hillarious
@@thingtwo676 that’s messed up
@@thingtwo676 lol huh? no it's not. not to mention the fact that he's not even homeless. the police wouldn't do anything other than ask him to leave, or worst case write him a fine.
Hahahaha.
It's part of the show.....Drama sells
Fun fact: In Sweden we don’t have to go stealthy, here we have this awesome ancient thing called allemansrätten (all mans right) to camp where ever the hell we want for about 48 hours, even on peoples property (!) as long as it’s not in their sight. Just remember to leave the spot just like you found it. Germany is another ballgame! Love your your channel Steve, keep up the good work!
thats awesome, camping freedom!
Trickier in Britain as its seen as vagrency (homeless) which is illegal here in the UK not that we dont have rough sleepers but if the police turn up they will move you on and make you take down your tent
Are there pieces of shit people who take advantage of it? Leaving trash, their gear and not cleaning up? Seems like there's always someone who has to ruin it for everyone
@@RK-zf1jm Scotland has “right to roam” similar to Sweden, applies to basic camping where you don’t leave any mess as well as far as I’m aware!
In the United States we have something like that called Dispersed Camping. As long as its public land, national forests, or the such, you can camp for a short time, and than cant camp within so many miles of that spot until some time has passed. This doesnt cover public land like in urban areas, but in general forests or tree cover. There are some other parts of the rules for this as well as what you can do or use and what not, but in general it would be entirely possible to legally camp your way across the country, so long as you make sure you follow all the ordinances of the specific area your in at any given time, at no cost.
"I am doing some stealth camping next to the highway." Queue chainsaw. I had to laugh so hard ... What an end to 2020. That was perfect. Happy New Year, Steve!
About half way through when he was doing his walk around and the security guard saw his light, I started thinking this is turning into his 'Blair Witch' episode.
My beautiful wife just dropped me off 😂
With a chainsaw.
@@tphvictims5101
Now..if only the area was somehow called "Crystal Lake'..lol
The penalty modifier was countered by his bonuses.
'We're on a stealther today' he says wearing jeans , a beer in one hand , a chainsaw in the other and a couple of dollar tarps in his bag 🤣🤣🤣 love it !
Friendly neighborhood security guard here, I work armed security for a hospital now, but used to do contract security, which occasionally had me planted at construction sites. Unless you're actively on the job site or blocking access to it, you're unlikely to ever hear from us. As far as what authority they have, it's complicated and based on local laws and agency contracts/connections, guards can be anything from just observe and report all the way to bonded and deputized with authorities similar to a police officer. In my career I have only ran off one individual with a tent, he had erected it in front of a driveway to a facility I was posted at, I explained he was blocking the entrance and he quickly moved, that was it. Love the vids, makes me and the wife want to do some camping!
Wow, great info. You should make videos.
Literally the most terrifying episode I've seen yet... I'm not too scared of wild animals... but... people finding me in the woods... 1000% terrifying...
To be fair, they're probably thinking the same as you: "Who in their right mind would be out here??" lmao
True that!
@Henry Wadsworth Sorry to hear that.
@@UllrT wtf kind of reply lol
@@SpitFactsAndThenDontReply I'm guessing you mean "wtf kind of reply *is that* lol"? In which case, I would ask you the same thing.
Next episode: Steve builds a "temporary" stealth wooden shelter at the Home Depot lumber department.
A true Canadian treasure
It would have to be Rona then.
Like the kid that lived in the toilet paper at walmart
that would be a classic forsure!
There was a woman in the US who lived inside a Walmart for a while. She was pregnant and went into labor one night all alone in the store. They made a movie around that story!
I seen that movie when I was a kid. Called "where the heart is" Natalie portman was my huge crush
Security guy: it’s probably just that crazy hunker down guy.
Other security guy: he always has lots of food and a couple of step 2s.
1st security guy: let him get set up and we’ll join him!😂🏕😎
Happy New Year Steve!
Ohhhh Waaay before that, I'll send you time stamps
18:58- next morning. There's just no point to it. There's better ways to have adventures than looking Paranoid throughout what you "think" is an Adventure lol, not just this video but almost all of his stealth camp vids . I'm guessing his wife and ppl who Know him personally, would agree. If he has access to camping sites and self owned land why not just stick to that, this just looks silly. But it's his channel he can do as he please with it. Just saying, but that's what comment sections are for right. To stir up conversation 😊
Do you mean when he Ran, hid and practically Shit his pants?! 🤣😂
@@sherry866 as opposed to what?
then you hear the "banjo" from Deliverance
After multiple punches to the nuts 2020, very thankful Mayor of Step 2 Town has blessed us with an upload to spear head hopefully a better year. Cheers Steve and fellow subs.
Mayor of Step2 town. I like it.
Don't have anyone to ring in the new year with, so I think settling in with a step two and a Steve video is a pretty close second best.
Cheers, lads! I’m also currently on Step 2 (again) 🍻
@@TheDarklingWolf
We're all here. Thinking of you. Doing the same.
🎉🎆HNY♥️🎄!
_.... With a 99.96% survival rate.... with hospitals supposedly overcrowded while hospital staff make tiktok dance videos.... centered entirely around Donald Trump?...._
Stealth chainsaw is a phrase I never thought I would hear, I kinda dig it.
I think Steve is the only youtuber who documents the whole "One minute I'm laughing drinking coffee and the next I'm in the woods" feeling. The alone feeling which in it's own way adds to the experience.
Yup
True
This is the way to end a year like 2020! I hope everyone has a happier year next year!
Agreed. Happy New Year!
Same to you. I hope you get everything you want and more.
Thank you and same to you, but really anytime I watch a camping with Steve video I get happy
Shit I'm thinking this is the way to start 2021, this might be luxury living in 2022.
You too mate🍻
I wonder how many Bigfoot sightings Steve is responsible for...
Yeah there's no such thing as Bigfoot just Steve
And aliens with the strange glowing lights in the woods, suddenly disappearing
Spotting bigfoot or being big foot
You mean, how many bigfoots have sighted steve?
not many considering Steve is not that big,
Ppl that live around Steve are probably always telling his wife I think ur husband was in yard last nite. When I went out to ask what he was doing he ran like hell yelling I'm not camping. This guy is great for so many reasons. Love it
The day Steve is caught is when the Beer fund becomes the Bail fund 😅
🤣
"If you want to see me get caught, just keep watching."
They'd just write him a trespassing ticket. Most cops don't care unless you have a bonfire going.
Not likely- Steve explained that in an earlier video. Most of what he does isn't highly illegal in Canada though it would be so down here in the US.
@@P_RO_ No, the most they'd do in the US is give you a fine. They wouldn't arrest someone sleeping in a tent/shelter outside lol. It's not like he broke into and slept in someone's house while they weren't home or something.
Nobody wants to see Steve get caught...but we love it when Steve ALMOST gets caught :D
Gotta have tension!
I don't, it is faked....
I really like the channel but he is trying to hard to get this almost situations.
you will remember this as the time you ALMOST caught Campin with Steve!
@@VangelisMatosMedina that’s the point of the channel, stealth camping.
@@nicholasirvine6693 of course and I like it.
What I do not like it is when him pretend to be almost caught just to create tension.
Well, here we are:
6 minutes till "2021," and I've got a 3 lb. bag of trail mix hunkered down in my cozy bed watching Steve.
Life IS good...
Just subscribed recently. So sad to watch these older videos before Steve's beautiful wife passed away, when he mentions her picking him up from these trips. I know the feeling re. grieving loss of spouse. If you see this Steve, the pain will ease up in time to a more manageable degree, even though it seems otherwise. Take care.
You forgot to mention that the unit has "central heat" when describing its amenities. Just place the auxillary heater directly in the middle and viola, central heat.
“Rustic, with a walk-out over there, and a wet bar.”
LOL, I love this guy’s sense of humor.
this turned into the blair witch project for a few minutes there
I half expected him to throw in a gag where we see him just standing there facing into the corner of the tent.
@@dave7038 haha maybe we can get an edited version
I'm hoping he can see better than us, with the amount of grain on screen i would trip and final destination myself trying to run like that. 😱
Yea 20:45 was intense lol
The man pulled a Shawshank Redemption by timing the chainsaw with the passing cars. Love it!
If you're going to leave supplies at these camps, you should leave them a little away from the main camp in big plastic bins buried in the ground and geocached. That way, even if your camp is found and demolished, you don't lose the supplies you might be depending on for that night.
After youtube recommended your videos to me a couple weeks ago, you've become my favorite channel.
Zach, you will not be disappointed!!! Binge all of his videos!!!!
He will stay your fave too! ⛺️
Welcome to the hunker down club.
Netflix is on the back burner at the moment. Camping with Steve and a step 2, doesn't get much better than that. Cheers from England.
because, as every construction boss says: ''we're burnin daylight!'' classic Steve, you cheer everyone up. And.... we know you are grieving, thanks for letting us know you intend to be back..when some time goes by. We will be here....
Steve you’re a god damn legend, no other way to put it.
Hey Steve just a observation how about wearing safety glasses when walking in dark woods I myself have gotten a twig to the eye. Stay safe cheers 🍻
@@jeremyb5198 no it's not. He's just wanting him to be careful. You're a knob
I did exactly that a couple of weeks ago, gave myself a corneal ulcer that didn't heal and had to go get medical treatment. Good grief!
@@jcoats5529 Yea. I agree. I was thinking the same thing when Steve was running through the woods with his flashlight off!
@@jeremyb5198
Hey! You could be onto something here??
Camp out using full riot gear!!
If you have been through the woods any length of time you would know getting hit in the face with brush and trees is common. Its a great idea to wear eye protection. I've been there and done that and when you pull a broken off stick out from under your eyelid it makes a lot of sense.
Mr. Wallis, I'm a little light this year so I can't contribute to your beer fund just now. But just know you've helped keep me sane during this dark time. Bless you.
Never feel the need to contribute, kind words are worth so much to me. Cheers!!
@@campingwithsteve Bless you.
@@campingwithsteve you are a kind soul. I wish you the best and I'll keep watching
@@campingwithsteve Curious what do mean by stealth? Who are you trying to covertly avoid and you do have cool episodes, but not sure about the stealth part. Your videos are entertaining and enjoyable to watch.
RLTW
Thanks for all the tips Steve....some of your info is literally going to be a life saver this winter. My disabled wife and I are about to be homeless during winter in Colorado. There are virtually no resources in our town for people in our situation, so your tips may be the things that keep us alive during all of this
Oh jeez, how are you guys doing?
@@michaellandi5371 they're probably dead by now
Hope you’re alive still
Homeless with a disabled wife, and you are looking to this silly jerk Canadian breaking the law for camping tips???
Sorry to disappoint but still alive and well. It has nothing to do with the locations btw....it has to do with the application of useful information. SMH
Seriously don't understand the need to get upity when I simply paid a compliment to the channel owner....and for the record...some of us aren't homeless because we're stupid, or an addict, or career criminal.... contrary to popular belief.
Hate to disappoint your biased opinion or hopes here. Thankfully I can rely on the fact that I'm good at improvise, adapt, and overcome mentality.
love when he says "my beautiful wife" all the time 🥰
I bet you do. Hahaha
Spoken like a true gentleman..😊
When I worked security I just wanted to get through my freakin' shift. If I could ignore the benign, I did. Is Steve trespassing? He's certainly not stealing. He would be a live and let live in my book!
If you want to avoid people seeing your lights in the woods, use red lights. It makes it a little bit harder for you to see what you're doing, but red is very difficult to see at a distance because red light is harder for the human eye to pick up on at night than white light. Wouldn't be a bad idea to have a dark red/brown tarp as well.
EDIT: I forgot to mention red light also preserves your natural night vision, so your eyes won't have to re-adjust to darkness when the light is turned off.
Yeah exactly what I was thinking, when I go on stealth camping adventures I only use red lights, so first it will reduce drastically the odds of someone seeing any light, and second I never have to go check if my space is visible from the outside due to white lights, which by itself decreases drastically the odds of someone seeing me.
Hes color blind
@@leeharden4060 Thank you, but I knew that. It's not like he'll see absolute darkness when he turns on a red light just because his eyes can't see red light correctly, that's not how it works. For example, people with complete color blindness (meaning they can't see any colors at all) can still see, they're not completely blind, just as someone with limited color blindness like Steve has can still detect the light, but it just doesn't look red, it'll just look like a different color or grey to him.
@@Andy-413 And something "funny" is that when you use the red light for awhile without any other light sources, you get momentarily colorblind.
@@sjwarialaw8155 Yeah, your eyes adapt to it, but it's not anything to worry about. It happens when your eyes are exposed to any single color for a while, not only red.
One other benefit I forgot to mention about red light is that it preserves your natural night vision, so your eyes don't have to re-adjust to the darkness after the light is turned off. I'll update my original comment to say that.
One of my favourite camping and survival channels on youtube. A million times better than any of the trash on TV. Love your dry, self-depracating humour.
Love from Scotland
steve and Corporals corner are my go to survival and camping channels
I'm not sure I'd count his channel as survival.
Survival and stealth camping is way different, stealth is like someone dared you to camp there and not get caught, but survival is you die if you dont make it
Hey mr hunker down, you got to get a red light it doesn’t stand out nearly as much as a normal light does in the dark. You could have the light on and walk a good 50-75’ away and you won’t even see the red light on unless you know where it is and have to really focus for it. But throw a few tarps and a few trees on top and you won’t have to worry about anything. You can see just fine with the light all night. Keep it up I’m waiting for that one time someone wants to join you in the step 2 but have questions before that.
Also, it doesn't destroy your night vision like white light. I love the red setting on my headlamp.
Great post, Steve! I'm laughing at the thought of you revisiting this spot over the next few years and it slowly turns into a three-story house. Have a great new year!
Yaaas!
Maybe he'll build it up enough to rent out spots to other stealth campers.
I love how supportive his wife is of his camping and his TH-cam. I hope to have a relationship like theirs someday :’)
Pays the bills
His beautiful wife went camping a few times.
Well this aged well
@@bumblebee7508 What a fucking asinine comment.
What difference a year makes, sadly enough.
My mother’s oncologist liked your “hunker down” slogan that is on my sweatshirt. He said it was very fitting for 2020. My mother likes it too, haha.
I like how Steve is all responsible, doesn’t operate machinery after drinking
It's always nice to see people be low key responsible, helps people realize that's how they should act as well.
Not on camera at least, and that's what matters.
That's one of the things I really appreciate about Steve too. He really has a good sense of responsibility.
@@jaymethodus3421 I think perhaps you think too little of people and assume everyone has the same morals as you do. The dude abides.
My NYE: a bottle of wine and a stealth camping video! Thank you Steve! Lol, not a homeless guy in the woods officer... a famous TH-cam Star with hundreds of thousands of followers...
I honestly have to say, my two Favourite Camping Channels, Camping with Steve, and A Jay in the Woods, have the easiest listening voices, could hear these guys talk for hours and hours, super easy on the ears. And best of all, they’re both Canadian!
". . . One heated bedroom with a walk-out . . a wet bar and a small kitchenette . . ." = glamping 😁
Happy New Years Steve and everyone who’s reading this. I hope your guys 2021 is full of love, happiness, and blessings. Cheers from Indiana.
Happy New Year 🎆🎈🎊 🍾✨🌟🎊 to you too Cody!!!
@ Cody Lee King
Ditto to you too! A HNY From the not so warm area of Western Massachusetts!
Perhaps in future...
you might do an episode called:
"After The Stealth?"
Getting picked up, stopping to get some breakfast, etc.
That'd be really cool, Steve!
AGREE! One of the best things about camping is the fat breakfast on the way home! Put that in Steve!
Then do a drive-by on the security guard. Asking if he heard anything suspicious last night. Say you live in the area and heard someone poking around. Lol
Get the full perspective from the guy you were crawling away from
Dude, my heart was racing when you spotted the security guard. I need a breather haha!
IKR?! I was here to relax LOL
I am so very sorry to hear about your loss my wife will be gone nine years September 13 it is still very hard I don’t know how to express How TH-cam helps your channel and others thank you sorry again
If you can't avoid making tracks in snow, walk backwards. It makes it look like you came from the woods not into them.
Also, wear wool, or other moisture wicking clothing in the cold. Cotton can be deadly in the cold.
Me: (Driving down a random highway in Canada and seeing a stand of trees) "I wonder if Steve is hunkered down in there tonight?"
@Red Peonies I live in the states too, and have spotted a few prime hunker areas in my region!
Me: walking somewhere not thinking nothing
Also Me: Look at that hidey hole-in-the-wall- I could stealth up in there for sure!
Steve is a guy who is not currently on the lam, who will teach you how to go on the lam!
🌲😃🤣👍🌲
Whenever the weight of life’s problems drag me down, I just watch Steve and somehow everything gets a little bit better.
“This is not an educational channel by any means...”
Steve has taught me everything I need to know about stealth camping if I ever run away into the woods to live alone for the rest of my life. Thanks Steve. :)
Two year later, I wonder if that shelter is still there and how many times Steve has used it?
7 months later, I'm right there with ya! Haha
Security guard: "Hey, what's that glowing green orb in the middle of the pitch black woods?"
Steve: "It's my stealth camping rig. Totally invisible."
I kept saying it was lit up like a glow worm out there
That's awesome 😂
You can’t see me. You can’t see me. You don’t care if you can see me. Lol. You need a brown tarp.
Security guard has 4 1500watts metal haylide lamps blazing at him, it was like daylight bright next to that truck......there is a 0% chance he could notice Steve.
"this is not the shelter you are looking for"
Only steve logic, "we dont want to use any loud hand saws" but pulls out a chainsaw...... I laughed....
It's a stealth chainsaw, all good :)
@@wiinux wonder how long an electric chainsaw lasts for.
@@A.Martin not sure but my Ryobi 4 amp hour circular saw lasts AGES between charges.
I need to learn not read the comments before I’m finished with the video lol. So many spoilers!
@@A.Martin Are you related to Ricky?
I like how Steve tiptoes in the woods and snow so the people in their cars can't hear him walking around as they go Rolling by at 70mph.
I notice that.. ☺️But im sure id do the same...
It’s not stealth camping if you go around making noise unnecessarily. Whether the people can hear you or not.
Steve is scared, but honestly imagine how scared the security guys must have been seeing bright and red lights in the woods on their night shift and hearing voices.
Most videos: "Cutting your own firewood is frowned upon here"
This video: stealth chainsaw
haha, I love electric chainsaws. I ran the life out of a cheap harbor freight green plastic electric chainsaw using it to stealth cut tons of wood out in the open with my truck and an inverter... No one cares if you ain't makin a racket...
"WE HAVE A PROBLEM, A BIG BIG PROBLEM!!! OH GREAT, HERE WE GO!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 STEVE BRINGS BACK CHILDHOOD MEMORIES RUNNING FROM COPS AND SECURITY!! HAHA CHEERS
I watch mostly for the Steve's culinary skills. Whatever's he's cooking always looks so dang good.
I love that Beautiful Wife put up with Steve's stealth camping and often dropped him off. She seemed like a great person. Steve's other half. ❤
When he said “nothing at all!” Did anyone else picture stupid sexy Flanders?? Haha
I knew there had to be others!
There are dozens of us.
You knows it!
Is Flanders Canadian??
@Aurora BoringAlice @ 12:45
This is Steve Wallis at his very best, he looks like a stealth camper, sounds like a stealth camper,
with just the right amount of paranoia in his voice.
Those step twos should help with the paranoia 😂
Lol. Looks like a stealth camper, acts the part, and then pulls out the bright green tarp! Uh oh...
Very entertaining, he is
Dude! That was some Blair witch shit for a minute, got me going.
hahaha i said the same thing before i seen this comment lol..
Blair witch vibes for sure!
haha.... i was thinking that then i seen this comment! well more like blair witch scary movie... i was expecting a camara shot right up Steve nostril
Omg yes those woods were so scary
steve is the master of drama. never have seen one video where anyone would care what he is doing. bravo
$..99 cent Walmart spay paint can really tone down those bright traps
“I’m just on the side of a highway trying to sleep for the night!” 😂 I love your adventures Steve!! “I should have brought some gravy” said no camper other than Steve!! 😂😂
Steve, you're the most positive person on TH-cam. The internet needs more people like you, also you have the best camping channel by far, I genuinely look forward to every video you put out, happy new years buddy, cheers!
Just rewatching the good old videos on Steve. His sense of humor is a lift. It seems like rewatching maybe is good support of my favorite utuber.
**10 steps past the tree line**
Steve: "I seem to be in here far enough"
My first thought! And then all the lights on. Like c’mon friend!
Yeah he could have done himself a favor and walked in another 50 yds.
😂😂
Fire in the sky, Travis Walton. Blair witch project....10 little chicken steps.
hahaha
I always anxiously await these videos. The stealth camping ones especially are a much-needed escape from the COVID hellscape, and I’m hoping 2021 will let me get back out there with my kids. Thanks for being my quarantine antidote, Steve!
Happy New Year, Steve. You and Beautiful Wife have been a rare beam of sunshine in a dumpster fire of a year. Thank you for hunkering down with the rest of us.
It's funny, the whole time Steve was getting brave and walking towards the road(s) with his flashlight on I was thinking, "Steve, turn the flashlight off"!
The problem isn't the green of the tarps or the light inside. It's the nut wandering around with a blazing flashlight. :)
Long time bower, fist time commenter.... Love the vids mate!
I don't know if anyone has said this before. But have you ever used a bivvie bag?
I was in the army and it's like extreme camping hehe. One if the best thing they taught me was the bivvie bag. The ex military ones are cheap and more stealth/hardwearing. In UK they are around £5 used. Cammed up, goretex, so weather proof and add another 1-2 season to your sleeping bag.
I've spent plenty of years on top of mountains, burnt building and places I don't want to be seen, safe as sound in my bivvie. It's like a tent you don't have to put up.
Just make sure it's not a plastic or cheap thing and you will have it years. Also comfy inside tents/buildings as it covers face from heaters and light once you want darkness plus protects the sleeping bag.
Anyways, love the show mate. I've been to your parts many years back. Wainwright all the way to Edmonton.... Good times.
You stay safe mate
you're the second youtuber I see in this channel, much love to you and Steve
Thanks for mentioning the bivvi bag, I remember thinking "there must be something like this but way more compact and portable" when Steve showed off that camping cot/tent thing. I don't spend nearly as much time outside as I wish I did and I may soon invest in some gear so if I pass by or think about some secluded spot I can head out on a whim for a night off or two.
I learn nearly as much from the comments as from the videos.
Dude that sounds awesome and you're a beast. God speed my friend 👍
good words mate
Steve takes one step into the tree line... "and here I am in the middle of the woods" as trucks pass by in the background.😂
1:14
@@sid2112 you're not very bright are you?
@@sid2112 my contention is... when there is a roadway, lumber yard security and high traffic pattern... you are no longer in "the middle of the woods". Bro. Most people know this... you do not. Hence the determination that you are not very bright.
@@darrenstephens3331 really, it sounded like he's in the middle of the city.
Another re watch! Too cool! I helped my work by working a 5 am to 1 pm shift. I usually work 1pm to 9pm! Yikes...But Now I have sort of a day off! What better to do but to watch The Hunker Down Man having fun!!! And in a few minutes...step 2 will happen!
Ghillie suit camping in the wide open would be the ultimate challenge.
Steve sounded like the crew in Blair Witch running through the woods!! It is so entertaining and wholesome!! You rock, Steve!! Hello from a fellow Albertan!! 💜🤗🤗💜
Another spurious UFO sighting courtesy of Camping with Steve: "There was a creature with a light. It sensed my presence and crawled like a lizard toward a ghostly green glow in the woods. Then the glow just vanished!"
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Watching Steve cut the logs and then furtively looking over his shoulder, reminds me of Homer when he was cutting down a pine tree for Christmas lol
Coming from someone that’s in the Security industry, you don’t have much to worry about. Most guys especially at night are asleep at the wheel. Can’t wait to see your bike trips. I’ve done lots of trails rides and races but not ride and camps. Love your stuff Steve. Keep it up friend. .
When I first started watching Steve, I thought "Step Two" was a Canadian beer I had never heard of
🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, dude. Me too😂
It will be, thanks to Steve.
@@fantasyenthusiest6218 the response I wish I made
Some guys get kicked out of bed and have to sleep on the couch. Steve gets kicked out of the van and has to sleep in the woods.
Steve probably gets punished by making him stay home and sleep in his bed.
If you are getting kicked out of the bed you are not a man but a whimp, hey woman this is MY f..n bed so YOU get out of it. End of discussion....
@@MrKveite1 you are so strong and masculine 😍🤤
@@trevorbush435 It's not about that, it's about if i build a house and buy whatever is inside it's MINE....and i use what's mine. If someone is unhappy with that then get out...
@@MrKveite1 guessing you are single...
50 of 74 years a hobo. I wouldn't set up that much unless I was going to have a "base camp" for a fair length of time. I have spent entire winters in a upgrade stealth camp tho. So still spot on.
40min Steve vid that’s my nye sorted
Just heard Mike Gallagher of Wisconsin say he was "Hunkered down" in the capitol, and I know who that guy is watching on TH-cam! Love it.
Gotta keep bear spray on hand for those 2-legged animals.
Camping with Steve is getting me through quarantine man, I appreciate it
Been watching your channel for a while Steve, How did i miss this one? lol. classic. Stealth camping with a chainsaw 50yds from the roadside. You my friend are a legend :)
That was the best horror movie I've seen in years!!
Steve, maybe try a red light to reduce the potential of being seen.
The trouble with using a red light is the high number of sailors on shore leave dropping in 1:30 in the morning who don't want to take "No, not tonight!"
Black Light is good to pick
Maybe try night vision
Your advice is backward.
Red is the easier color to be seen since it has a long wavelength, is more difficult to scatter, and will be seen by the eye's cones.
He should use a blue (or cyan if he wants to retain the eye's night vision); because blue has a greater chance of the short wavelength going lost.
Always the best bet is to use an amount of light (lumens) that cannot be picked up by the cones and rods (one's eye) at all, no matter the color.
Example: vehicle tail-lamps and radio tower lamps are red because their long wavelength ability to be seen, but will ruin the rods' night vision eventually. Your rods do not detect red; your cones do.
And everyone who likes your comment need to get educated; like I did. Happy hiding.
@@AudioAdvisory38 why the snarky comment at the end? Your advice was great until that part, now instead of thinking back to wavelength and carrying out a productive conversation, I’m just thinking, fuck this guy. You ruined your own credible argument because of your lack of humility. And just because blue may be better, doesn’t mean red isn’t still a major improvement-still way better than a bright flashlight.
Steve, you were great entertainment during a not-so-entertaining year. Cheers and Happy New Year. I am raising my Step 2 to you! May 2021 be your stealthiest year ever!
Watching these videos with a bit of zombie apocalypse ambience really takes this to a whole new level.
"We've got a big, big big problem!" Aw Steve man you had me laughin' hard! Sorry to find fun in your adversity but that was funny!