Far North Summer Solstice Camping

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  • Historic heat wave delayed my stealth camping!
    Well, it doesn't really get dark in Indian Cabins on June 21/22, which I felt was the perfect place to go camping and test out our solar panels. The bugs were ferocious, the weather was hot, but it was a blast. We will definitely return most likely in the fall for some insect-free camping.
    I picked up some flexible solar panels from amazon and they are doing a fine job. I had them hooked up in series, but the charge controller didn't like the voltage that high, so I'll have to rewire them in the future.
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  • @campingwithsteve
    @campingwithsteve  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1036

    Hey everyone! I had fully intended to get a stealth camping video up this week, but there's a historic heatwave happening here right now and we are still stuck with a broken-down bus. The heat should subside in the next couple of days and I'll be back at the stealth camping I so dearly miss. Cheers!

    • @fleshcanon
      @fleshcanon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      You’re my hero, Steve.

    • @DrAlexanderTobacco
      @DrAlexanderTobacco 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Looking forward to it!

    • @CadillacCabinLife
      @CadillacCabinLife 3 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Hope your bus is back up and running soon!

    • @fletch397
      @fletch397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      No problem Steve!

    • @DanzRdy
      @DanzRdy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Steve, when you going to lake Hazen 82 deg north? Up by Alert base NVT. That is a place I’d love to go. Lake only not frozen 2 months out of the year. Way to escape a heat wave!

  • @stevemalibu99
    @stevemalibu99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +662

    The “salad edit.” One of the best scenes ever in any YT video. Hunker Down!

    • @treyparker7764
      @treyparker7764 3 ปีที่แล้ว +62

      It was pure comedy gold. I don't remember Steve ever editing a cut like that in previous videos for comedy effect.

    • @MontserratGyal
      @MontserratGyal 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      It was soo funny!!!

    • @Ellomarshall50
      @Ellomarshall50 3 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      I laughed hard when i saw that. Great stuff

    • @losangeles007
      @losangeles007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Cue the sad music violin

    • @Blaze-cy8os
      @Blaze-cy8os 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Haha omg i couldnt take it

  • @doctorgonzo5358
    @doctorgonzo5358 3 ปีที่แล้ว +840

    "For dinner, beautiful wife has whipped up a salad."
    *cuts to Steve having an existential crisis*
    Pure comedy. Intentional or not.

    • @samflynn3891
      @samflynn3891 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Yeah...sometimes morale can get low at dinner time...

    • @numbereightyseven
      @numbereightyseven 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      @@samflynn3891 only when it's salad. Or vegetarian.

    • @bucky716
      @bucky716 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      searched for this comment and here it is. Meme worthy.

    • @shannontricker24
      @shannontricker24 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      That made me lol sooo hard.

    • @Living366
      @Living366 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      That’s part of what makes this channel so great! I can never tell if the comedy is intentional or not.

  • @rhondam1970
    @rhondam1970 3 ปีที่แล้ว +262

    My husband came home from work the other week saying "I could have sworn I just passed Steve's bus. I almost turned around, but thought ...naw, he wouldn't be this far up" We live about 10 minutes from TANGENT! LOL

    • @zenues
      @zenues 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      That’s awesome

  • @johncrichton5767
    @johncrichton5767 2 ปีที่แล้ว +156

    the cut from Steve saying she made a salad to him just depressingly staring off is perfect.

    • @GoldVP...
      @GoldVP... ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Omg I just watched it...saw your comment at the beginning of the video, just running through comments, and holy omg it was so funny when that part came... duuuuuuuuuh....just staring out...I think herby was involved there though haha

    • @karljakober
      @karljakober 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      i cant stop laughing. steve contemplating existence

    • @kishascape
      @kishascape 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      and with the events that happened in the after years now it hits differently.

  • @commonsense5489
    @commonsense5489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +641

    “Wife made a salad” camera lands on Steve showing the saddest expression we’ve ever seen😂😂😂 we’ve seen him camping in thunderstorms and in drainage pipes with a happier expression 😅😅😅

    • @elizabethmunroe3676
      @elizabethmunroe3676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      My cat left the room when she heard that. The whole point of watching stealth camping from her point of view is that the nice man cooks a great meal.

    • @deekorbel5259
      @deekorbel5259 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I thought the same thing.

    • @commonsense5489
      @commonsense5489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@deekorbel5259 seriously Steve has been camping between two highways with his mini electric chainsaw or in below zero temperatures with his favorite wool sweater that was ridden with holes with a giant smile on his face but as soon as “salad” and “dinner” with nothing else said his demeanor sulks. I’d rather live thick and happy then healthy and hungry and angry and malnourished and…😂😂😂jk my guys. But this man needs more then a salad…

    • @commonsense5489
      @commonsense5489 3 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@elizabethmunroe3676 too funny 😂 ya cat heard “salad” and she said “ lettuce leaf… goodbye”😂😂😂 let us leave- goodbye😂😂😂 I have dry humor sorry but not sorry😅😅😅

    • @elizabethmunroe3676
      @elizabethmunroe3676 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@commonsense5489 Oh, no!! I bet the bears cleared out too.

  • @greghaines2770
    @greghaines2770 3 ปีที่แล้ว +672

    'For dinner beautiful wife has whipped up a salad'...next shot is Steve staring into space looking sad. Lol.

    • @drakesteak
      @drakesteak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      (There could be meat on this fire)

    • @TheLoneZephyr
      @TheLoneZephyr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      LOL, I busted out laughing the instant it switched to that shot

    • @BillyBobAndCompany
      @BillyBobAndCompany 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      haha that was perfect!

    • @tibib0ss
      @tibib0ss 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He was looking at the wood burning for nothing that day xD

    • @darrellcaruk8880
      @darrellcaruk8880 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      very funny indeed

  • @JustinWitmerVisual
    @JustinWitmerVisual 3 ปีที่แล้ว +197

    LOL at that crazy bug at around the 20:21 mark. Great episode, Steve!! The Hunker Bunker is awesome!

    • @Seekah_
      @Seekah_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Spotted it too damn

    • @KarlBast
      @KarlBast 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      WTF was that bug??? I didn’t think Canada had the same giant bugs like we have here down south.

    • @skeenaaa
      @skeenaaa 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Pine beetle and they bite lol

    • @nineghoti
      @nineghoti 2 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      it was stressing me out so much!!!!

    • @vitz3
      @vitz3 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      We call 'em Haireaters up here. They get caught up in long hair.

  • @CharlieStalk
    @CharlieStalk 3 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    I found this channel a couple of weeks ago and I'm hooked. Myself and my 7 year old boy are now planning our first wild camp out. Love from Cornwall, UK

    • @dannyjonze
      @dannyjonze ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i found this channel a couple of nights ago, in cornwall too... definitely makes me laugh and thinking of a stealthy summer campout

  • @mikewilks1608
    @mikewilks1608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +699

    It’s not everyday a celeb rolls thru town… Saw your bus Steve, and just had to leave a half sack of step 2’s for you. Wasn’t sure if you were stealthing in plain site or actually staying at the hotel, so didn’t want to intrude. Anyway, love your channel. Cheers!

    • @campingwithsteve
      @campingwithsteve  3 ปีที่แล้ว +271

      Thanks so much Mike! I found it days later, I’m guessing you’re in St. Albert.. haha it blew my mind. Thanks again, too bad I was in the hotel and couldn’t get to meet you! I’ve gotta buy you a beer next time we come through! Thank you so much

    • @mikewilks1608
      @mikewilks1608 3 ปีที่แล้ว +125

      @@campingwithsteve 😂 I’m sure you found them well shaken bouncing around on that hitch carrier. I’d love to take you up on that beer next time you roll thru St Albert.

    • @deebunny178
      @deebunny178 2 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      That was so sweet of you.

    • @enerzise3161
      @enerzise3161 2 ปีที่แล้ว +59

      ​@@campingwithsteve I am 54 and only recently started drinking beer. Is it just me or is it a real common feeling... I have an urge to sit with people when I drink beer and when I see someone open a beer in a movie or an online video, I have an urge to want to have a beer while they are having their's.
      So after 50 years of enjoying iced tea or soda by myself(I still do), it feels odd having a beer by myself. Something primal maybe in the DNA or Gene Pool stirs some ancient bonding ritual. The same with a camp fire... feels odd sitting at a camp fire alone. I know my crushed frozen pineapple is better with Jamaican Me Happy Seagram's Escapes fruity malt beer while sitting with my wife.
      I live in Florida and have only tried about four or five regular American brands of light beer and about four or five fruity malt beer flavors with frozen crushed fruit. I guess I will have to live beyond 100 to get to try all the beers there are. When he opened that beer, I almost climbed out of bed to get a beer and it's 4 in the morning.

    • @MakeCriminalsIllegalAgain
      @MakeCriminalsIllegalAgain 2 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      @@enerzise3161 wow you only just started drinking and you're already addicted. Good luck my friend.

  • @jekster
    @jekster 3 ปีที่แล้ว +267

    You know you're doing a TH-cam channel right when people leave a note and beer on the back of your bus. Keep it up Steve!

  • @4Y2NO
    @4Y2NO 3 ปีที่แล้ว +45

    The abandoned buildings were used for forest fire crews in the late 80s! They moved it a few miles down the highway to steen river. Indian cabins was the last time stop for before heading North!

  • @yrp237
    @yrp237 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Been binging on Steve all day...even went back to the beginning Boondocking days. I had to chuckle a bit...Steve's now in a bus, with a full bed, mini fridge & air fryer and using duraflame logs! No shade Steve, you paid your dues! Good on ya.

  • @RicanStudio
    @RicanStudio 3 ปีที่แล้ว +77

    Stealth camper on your right shoulder at 20:22 🦗

    • @jiffijoff9780
      @jiffijoff9780 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      😂 the bug's got a YT channel of his own... "stealth camping on crown land" 🤦🏼‍♂️😂😂

  • @tex_gil117
    @tex_gil117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +233

    That sucks about the guy who owns that store and the road being closed but hope he gets some exposure with this vid! Good stuff Steve!

    • @Beth-ie
      @Beth-ie 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Nice mention, Gilbert. 👏😎

    • @ce2flaco
      @ce2flaco 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      It sucks that Canada has become a police state and the citizens have allowed it.

    • @jacopo1498
      @jacopo1498 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@ce2flaco nice trolling bud

    • @billydeewilliams9104
      @billydeewilliams9104 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      ​@@jacopo1498 terrible reply comrade.

    • @thedeafcattledog8608
      @thedeafcattledog8608 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@ce2flaco The road was closed for good reason was it not? I mean, in a place with a population density of 0.03/km2, a beaver might have gotten a cold or something. 🤐

  • @carn1fex_
    @carn1fex_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +71

    Steve: 'For dinner, beautiful wife has whipped up a salad.'
    Also Steve: 15:18 stares in to the void and has an existential crisis

    • @Loopsguy2
      @Loopsguy2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      i lost my shit when that happened

    • @pambrown6260
      @pambrown6260 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Not a great fire so far. The solar cardboard is flat I would store it for a bit may be needed.

  • @OnTheRiver66
    @OnTheRiver66 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It is so relaxing for a change to see someone camping that uses a lighter to light the fire, doesn’t have to split fire wood with a knife, or make feather sticks.

  • @mattkrea
    @mattkrea 3 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    The bug on Steve's shoulder when he's talking about filling the gas tank 👀

    • @TheHobbsTV
      @TheHobbsTV 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      THAT IS THE STUFF OF NIGHTMARES!!!!!!!

    • @SirRobertDole2
      @SirRobertDole2 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      yeah wtf is that thing

    • @dotterel4530
      @dotterel4530 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@SirRobertDole2 some kind of beetle, fortunately. not a roach i can tell

    • @redechelon37
      @redechelon37 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@SirRobertDole2 pine sawyer beetle

    • @nyarlathotep616
      @nyarlathotep616 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Pine beetle
      They are the reason vast swathes of the forests in the rockies are brown

  • @TahoeJones
    @TahoeJones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    During my Park service career,
    I learned a terrific deterrent to
    a bear rushing you.
    A black umbrella with big eyes
    painted on, white works great.
    Simply open it toward them.
    Yelling helps keep em moving.
    Doubles as a walking stick.

  • @jeraimie
    @jeraimie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    "odds are if you knock on the door, I'll have a beer for you!" the wholesome is top notch, brother.

  • @codyking3949
    @codyking3949 3 ปีที่แล้ว +285

    Little do you know you’ve help me out with a lot. Losing my mom recently was rough and your videos, personality, and the positive support from your subscribers that they give is truly mind blowing. I thank you. Very much Steve.

    • @saginawdan
      @saginawdan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Hang in there!

    • @netzilla77
      @netzilla77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      So sorry for your loss

    • @sevantookmanian
      @sevantookmanian 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Take care 👍

    • @davidwhite6243
      @davidwhite6243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Sorry for your loss!!!! In time it gets easier just remember that she is in heaven and no longer suffering.

    • @smsmoof8128
      @smsmoof8128 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Heres a Step2 toast to your mom !!🍺

  • @buzz1843
    @buzz1843 3 ปีที่แล้ว +236

    20:20 Mr. Cockroach pays a visit on Steve's shoulder. lol

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      What an eye!

    • @chrisrobson8540
      @chrisrobson8540 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      have to budget if that thing is staying aboard......be like having a child............and glad i wasnt seeing things

    • @mountainbound1315
      @mountainbound1315 3 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      That was a huge effin cockroach. They better get some raid and bomb the shit outta that bus.

    • @alishamccoy9123
      @alishamccoy9123 3 ปีที่แล้ว +55

      I saw it and gasped! Had to run to the comments to see if anyone else did! That beast was the size of a small dog 😖☠️

    • @volvo09
      @volvo09 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@mountainbound1315 that's what i thought the first time i saw a cockroach... I lived in this house for years and never saw one (but in hindsight i did see them outside, just didn't know they were actual cockroaches.) So i find one in my cabinet one day and i just lost my mind, you know what they say... "Where there's one there's hundreds more". So i absolutely tore the house apart and found nothing. Then i started to recall seeing a few outside over the years and i figured this one just got in. I calmed down, and saw occasionally they'd fly onto the window screen or sit on the house wall at night, i later found out they were natural in pine forests, and unless your house is a moist food filled place they just can't take hold, like ants.
      But i will say, i found that thing while cooking dinner and i was up till the sun just about came out cleaning, hahaha! Lesson learned.

  • @lukemyers4595
    @lukemyers4595 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    You probably found a fuel cache, not waste fuel. Planes flying in the far north leave caches close by to their landing sites, which aren't always what we think of as airports. Could be just a clearing. That old camp site would make a great visual landmark, and if you're right about it being for oil workers or loggers, those would be the people receiving transport or supplies from the air service. Pretty cool find!

  • @theburrus1
    @theburrus1 วันที่ผ่านมา

    I can never say it enough (to myself at least) but Steve deserves Person of the Year award. Every year.

  • @MattExzy
    @MattExzy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +143

    "Food. Gas. Liquor. Fire works." Well that indeed covers everything.

    • @traitorouskin7492
      @traitorouskin7492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Yes! All the important things!
      Your so right friend.

    • @sevenhighclub2339
      @sevenhighclub2339 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Salad?? 🙁

    • @traitorouskin7492
      @traitorouskin7492 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@sevenhighclub2339 beautiful wife already had that covered but your right. That store should branch out into a salad bar then everyone would be happy.😀

    • @earthangel8730
      @earthangel8730 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      No fireworks!!!

    • @daveh7720
      @daveh7720 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Except bait.

  • @Garrett9339
    @Garrett9339 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    One thing that I don't hear mentioned nearly enough is the crystal clear audio that Steve has dialed in on his videos. No matter where he seems to be standing in relation to the camera, you can hear his voice crystal clear accompanied by the sounds of nature (or the generator humming).

  • @BotanyDegreePilkerton
    @BotanyDegreePilkerton 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    16:12 the time lapse of the night sky is incredible, more of that, especially on cloudless nights where we can see the milky, when you watch them, imagine you are falling off the planet to get a feel of how earth rotates thru the ether, tumbling after the sun at 75k kph, like a tiny dinghy bobbing along behind a massive cruise liner

  • @n0rsca392
    @n0rsca392 3 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    That sad salad scene is gold lol. This has to be a new meme format.

    • @caseybruno7225
      @caseybruno7225 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Need meat lol

    • @shawnlauby2688
      @shawnlauby2688 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Watching him eat it was gold as well.

    • @emainz1
      @emainz1 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I laughed out loud so hard with that edit. Hilarious.

  • @stephens6896
    @stephens6896 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    Steve looked like he was considering all his options when told it was salad for dinner. Happy Canada Day regardless!

    • @ferrisk9116
      @ferrisk9116 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      im dying at this comment section

  • @markstanton2362
    @markstanton2362 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    "Assembling furniture is a test of any marriage..."

    • @dskywalker3397
      @dskywalker3397 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Classic!

    • @sunni7768
      @sunni7768 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's why i just let my wife do it all

    • @Geethreeohm
      @Geethreeohm 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Only if the good lady is involved 😜

    • @davidwhite6243
      @davidwhite6243 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Tell me about it!!!!! We are currently setting up a nursery for my firstborn son. Let me tell ya the crib is the true test lol

    • @slowjamcdub
      @slowjamcdub 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Facts!

  • @CyrLIVE
    @CyrLIVE 3 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    your content makes me really happy, and it's very cozy. thank you

    • @WHiT3_SHAD0W
      @WHiT3_SHAD0W 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your stream today reminded me of this guy, had to come back and watch him again.

  • @ellierfromthebronx4531
    @ellierfromthebronx4531 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I was fascinated by the 60th parallel info and how light out it was after 10 pm! Belated happy Canada day...which is also my late sister's birthday...(it's our Independence day here in America today, July 4th)

  • @andrewh8747
    @andrewh8747 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    Steve's version of being green: buy solar panels and burns the packaging haha

  • @exmo74
    @exmo74 3 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Having salad.
    Sad Steve pose...
    Classic!

    • @pete8018
      @pete8018 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I thought the same thing HAHA :)

  • @blatinobear
    @blatinobear 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I watched like 9 of his videos before and this was so out of left field I had to laugh out loud. Brought me back to when Crazy Neighbor was dealing with Steve’s alien questions and was like “and you call me crazy?!!”

  • @gangsta891
    @gangsta891 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    15:19 loooool the absolute perfect look of emptiness and despair that a man feels when he is offered salad

    • @opieutt9038
      @opieutt9038 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      😂😂😂😂 Thanks for the laughs!

  • @TheMindfulHomestead
    @TheMindfulHomestead 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    At 11:11, when you hear the gong like sound. That’s one of the aviation gas barrels that someone sealed back up after emptying it. As the air inside heats up and cools down, it expands and the barrel will make those noises. I have a few here on the farm around the side of my barn and they don’t regularly.
    Edit: 14:11 Yup! You nailed it!

  • @NicksGarage
    @NicksGarage 3 ปีที่แล้ว +118

    Happy Canada Day in the Hunker Bus!

    • @wessthemess117
      @wessthemess117 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      We don't do that here anymore

    • @jakobperkin7417
      @jakobperkin7417 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@wessthemess117 get mad at the pope, Canada is awesome

    • @MikeLitiorus
      @MikeLitiorus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      No more canada day

    • @robertwilson9999
      @robertwilson9999 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Can’t wait for Friday night at Nicks Garage.

    • @jakewakelin5751
      @jakewakelin5751 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I'm enjoying everyone's sanctimonious Facebook posts with regards to the recent realization of past horrors. Not having a bbq won't change the past.

  • @johndonahue4777
    @johndonahue4777 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I wish beautiful wife had let herself be filmed so that we could remember her too. Her putting together that little sideboard with baskets for Steve's bus is heartbreaking testament to her love for him. Thanks.

  • @mattstark44
    @mattstark44 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That's awesome people drop beer off for, I just found your channel and enjoy watching it. Keep up the good work 👍

  • @kappakate57
    @kappakate57 3 ปีที่แล้ว +106

    If the women don't find ya handsome, they should at least find ya handy.

    • @thetubbyunicorn4085
      @thetubbyunicorn4085 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      and keep your stick on the ice.

    • @stevemorris3710
      @stevemorris3710 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I can change, if I have to.

    • @LadyLexyStarwatcher
      @LadyLexyStarwatcher 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Quando Omni Flunkus Moritati

    • @davestelling
      @davestelling 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      And...
      "We're all in this together... "

    • @jointhejoiners
      @jointhejoiners 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Why? Beautiful wife put the thing together lol

  • @punker2534
    @punker2534 3 ปีที่แล้ว +65

    Shout out to HD Forest Services for being the sponsor for this awesome content!

    • @Alcoholic_Nerd
      @Alcoholic_Nerd 2 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Oh so they are sponsors? I thought maybe it was a way to pretend they belonged somewhere, lol.... "HD Forest Services, move along. Nothing to see here."

    • @KLiNoTweet
      @KLiNoTweet 2 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Hunker Down Forest Services?

  • @Awkwardstefan007
    @Awkwardstefan007 3 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    Hey Steve! I love your videos. My friend Stefan accidentally left his TH-cam logged in here so I thought I'd introduce him to the wonderful world of Camping with Steve! I guess you could say I'm stealth subscribing him to a stealth camping channel.... it's like Inception! Also, hey Stefan, all in good fun buddy :) --Nick

  • @robdajuiceman1328
    @robdajuiceman1328 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    It's so awesome that you took the time to show us the camping rig take off from the spot, thanks once again for the entertainment Steve and Beautiful Wife!

  • @sevenhighclub2339
    @sevenhighclub2339 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

    15:24 is priceless….. I laughed so hard. All you needed was some sad violinist music

  • @jenniferhill3511
    @jenniferhill3511 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    My husband’s aunt lives a little south of there in High Level and I love it when she sends me photos from her midnight softball games in the summer. What a reward for making it through the winter!

  • @tracyeaster1901
    @tracyeaster1901 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Whatever you shall make it’s all wonderful because it’s so real. Thank you Steve!

  • @starfallen8985
    @starfallen8985 3 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    Thanks Steve i needed that laugh when you said wife was making you a salad hahaha. Thank you man!. im running the jackery 160 for my camping with my boys.. my wife bought it for me i love it.. think im going to upgrade it for next season your doing an awesome just i love seeing the wilderness of Canada.

  • @johnhorner1821
    @johnhorner1821 3 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    When you got to the Ferry, I knew exactly where you were going to camp. I've camped in that park myself, as I lived in Peace River for over a decade. It's nice to see a little bit of home once in awhile. Keep up the awesome videos!

    • @marthajmm6244
      @marthajmm6244 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Speaking of the ferry, maybe one day territorial borders will reopen and you'll venture up the Dempster Highway. (I don't know if a schoolie is the right vehicle.) The Mackenzie River crossing is really something. They have heavy equipment at each end so that they because they can rebuild the ramps to the ferry as the river rushes past. Incredible!

    • @marthajmm6244
      @marthajmm6244 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      I meant to add how great it is to see places I plan to go in the next few years. Thanks!

  • @chiapagringa
    @chiapagringa 3 ปีที่แล้ว +23

    "Food, Gas, Liquor, Fireworks." What more do you need? It's so cool that you took us to the Northwest Territories. Would love to go there someday.

  • @Ghostdog4
    @Ghostdog4 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    Consider using something additional to hold the front edge of the solar panels. A strip of something screwed to the roof. Might keep them from being lifted up by the wind while traveling. Love the channel Steve!

    • @karencarpenter7894
      @karencarpenter7894 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      OH your wife oH she so Beautiful I know how she feels I don't like it at all no videos . No pictures. The best to her and you keep on keeping on. Doing good Doing Awesome.

    • @Simple_But_Expensive
      @Simple_But_Expensive ปีที่แล้ว

      Or, check out the aluminum strip and caulking holding the emergency escape hatch down. Edge the panels the same way. I have used RTV in the past to glue items down (fiberglass safety signs). When the time came to remove them, I finally got them off, but the RTV also removed the underlying paint! That stuff rivals superglue once it has had time to cure.

  • @James-3000
    @James-3000 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    15:12 we’ve all been there, Steve! Funniest reaction/contemplate one’s existence shot I’ve seen lol

  • @Xktree72
    @Xktree72 3 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    Hey Steve, if you haven't done it already, you might want to run a bead of caulk, at the very least, along the front (leading) edge of the solar panels to keep the air from getting under them and peeling off while you're driving.

    • @campingwithsteve
      @campingwithsteve  3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      I climbed up there and did the whole front edge on all the panels, and i don’t like heights haha even on my bus

    • @JehanineMelmoth
      @JehanineMelmoth ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh ‘caulk’! Thank you. I was trying to work this out.

  • @mattc6615
    @mattc6615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    The drums are jet fuel for helicopters. One of them was labelled 'Delta' which is a helicopter company in High Level. Oil/Gas and Forestry use helicopters all the time up there for accessing their sites, especially in the summer.

    • @wmmad5777
      @wmmad5777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Probably not jet fuel. More likely high octane leaded aviation gasoline. Big difference. But Steve could start a good fire with either.

    • @mattc6615
      @mattc6615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@wmmad5777 I've driven some of those barrels to that exact location 😋

    • @wmmad5777
      @wmmad5777 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mattc6615 I likely wrote the Section 14 Transport Information for the MSDSs for the product in those drums. And developed the Proper Shipping Descriptions used in the Shipping Papers per 49CFR HazMat Regs. Not to mention 50 yrs of experience manufacturing/marketing/distribution of transportation fuels. Part of the time… I kept people from putting jet fuel into aviation gasoline engines.

    • @mattc6615
      @mattc6615 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@wmmad5777 I wasn't trying to be smart. The barrel literally says Jet A1 Turbine. It's for Delta's fleet of Astars and 206s. Steve's in a parking lot, not an airstrip. The only thing landing there are helicopters and theres no R22s around there.

    • @maarten_notjustagrip
      @maarten_notjustagrip 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@wmmad5777 says JET A1 on the label.

  • @danstaifer2028
    @danstaifer2028 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I just love seeing rural Canada

  • @andsterlastname7905
    @andsterlastname7905 3 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I don’t care how old I get, I will always giggle at “grabbing caulk”

    • @uriah9638
      @uriah9638 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Say what you will but Steve sure knows how to handle caulk.

  • @suebrown3465
    @suebrown3465 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    Captain's Log: There are bears by the bucketful in “Bearea”

  • @wh0aheavy
    @wh0aheavy 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    I wanted to go camping this week but the weather wouldn't cooperate. Camping with Steve is the next best thing!

    • @user-fh8vz1bu1c
      @user-fh8vz1bu1c 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Same here ! I have a waterproof tent but I really want to cook over the fire . Nothing but rain where I'm at .

    • @DoctorRobertNeville
      @DoctorRobertNeville 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      We have a burn ban here so it wouldn't be quite the same thing without a small campfire.

  • @Peaceandlove20240
    @Peaceandlove20240 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Thank you! I have never seen that part of Canada and seeing the sunlight for that long is very cool!!!

  • @joerogan9554
    @joerogan9554 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Awesome videos man. Found your channel a few days ago and have been binge watching ever since. I did some stealth camping for an entire summer to save money and sounded fun ( before I had kids) there was a vacant field in namao by the no frills, (north edmonton) got all my stuff from the Canadian tire right there and was all set.

  • @rousedg
    @rousedg 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

    15:19 Steve looks like he needs a Frosty Delicious Step Two after hearing about the salad.

    • @LUISga55555
      @LUISga55555 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      A couple shots after that when he's showing the hour I'm pretty sure he was quite a few step two's in

  • @mrknoch
    @mrknoch 3 ปีที่แล้ว +145

    20:21 Is that a pine beetle crawling on Steve's shoulder?

    • @miclap
      @miclap 3 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      Was surprised not to see more comments about this. I was wondering what that was lol

    • @codgods12345
      @codgods12345 3 ปีที่แล้ว +26

      I was scrolling through checking to see if anyone else saw it! 🤣 the beetle was in good company

    • @oxgon
      @oxgon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Went back and rewatch that didn't seem real lol

    • @CynLG
      @CynLG 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      😳

    • @RobboElRobbo
      @RobboElRobbo 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      oh god those are the worst

  • @roybrookton7938
    @roybrookton7938 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Having a bad run of luck lately so lm enjoying one of your videos you always pick me up thanks Steve 😊

  • @johnbarber7952
    @johnbarber7952 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Comic GOLD 15:00 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Goes from "beautiful wife whipped me up a salad" to "I think it's time for a stealther"(solo).🤣🤣🤣 I absolutely love Steve Wallis.

  • @USAMontanan
    @USAMontanan 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    “Step two is...step two” classic line in the spirit of W.C. Fields

  • @tumblebugspace
    @tumblebugspace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +104

    “HD” Forest Services? The “HD” has got to be for “Hunker Down,” right? Funny note!

    • @ASBO_LUTELY
      @ASBO_LUTELY 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I can't remember that sign being on it when he bought it, so what's with the sign???

    • @devilsknight
      @devilsknight 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Im pretty sure it does. He said it in an earlier video!

    • @Roushfan5
      @Roushfan5 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ASBO_LUTELY Probably an effort to make it stealthier.

    • @Flashahol
      @Flashahol 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Hunker Down Forest Services.... somehow, it sounds ominous; a bit like "HEY! Check this out!!" but larger scale.

    • @tumblebugspace
      @tumblebugspace 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@Flashahol Hence the use of the abbreviation!

  • @kelvinGJwarman
    @kelvinGJwarman 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Come across your videos whilst watching other stealth camp videos here in the UK and I just love your videos.
    Informative, funny and so calming. I now have you whole back catalogue to get through.

  • @OnyxProducts
    @OnyxProducts 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The footage quality has really come a long way! Great to see this channel grow and see you get to enjoy more camping trips!

  • @cameronragan4159
    @cameronragan4159 3 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    “Beautiful wife has whipped up a salad 😐😐”
    Lmaooo

    • @jcmarquez5731
      @jcmarquez5731 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I died hahaha

    • @nseifner
      @nseifner 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Then the clip of him looking sad sitting by the fire. Very nice and subtle Steve LOL.

    • @forestcityfishing4749
      @forestcityfishing4749 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      What did Steve grab at the hardware store

    • @charliesmith643
      @charliesmith643 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      About the time he was wondering why he didn’t invite crazy neighbor instead...

  • @ctyler009
    @ctyler009 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    You know the saying “there’s no wrong way to silicone solar panels to a bus”
    Love it!

  • @troya8869
    @troya8869 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The salad bit!!! Omg I loved it!! Not just a chuckle but a full blow laugh!!

  • @codyp8557
    @codyp8557 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great video Steve!! Definitely love the longer videos. I love all your videos but it’s definitely been better since you got the bus. So happy for you man!

  • @jayjenkins4721
    @jayjenkins4721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I worked a temporary duty assignment near Fairbanks Alaska at Eielson AFB a few years ago during the summer and on the first day we all bought beverages and said we'd drink until the sun went down. Well, about 0200 in the morning we finally had to call it quits because it never did get dark...lol.

    • @chuckrobinson599
      @chuckrobinson599 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I spent 2 1/2 years at Eielson, I didn't realize anybody was still there. That was from 82 - 85.

    • @jayjenkins4721
      @jayjenkins4721 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@chuckrobinson599 They do Red Flag there as well as at Nellis. F-16 aggressors, KC-135 tankers, and F-35s.

  • @Killingmesoftly7773
    @Killingmesoftly7773 3 ปีที่แล้ว +50

    "That doesn't seem very safe"
    Says the guy that went stealth-camping behind Lowe's ..

  • @j2dar04
    @j2dar04 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You make this look so easy and fun. Love it .

  • @billinhouston3291
    @billinhouston3291 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Steve has posted some funny stuff, but the salad sadness at 15:19 is the first to make me laugh out loud. Great stuff, Steve.

  • @kuguar13
    @kuguar13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Oh its always a good day when Steve drops a video. Thank you and stay safe!

  • @drakesteak
    @drakesteak 3 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    Bears in the bearea. That’s a good one

  • @montananerd8244
    @montananerd8244 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I just realized how weird it is that Americans make a big deal of the northern contiguous states, and how "far north" we on the northern border live... I love how warm, cozy & tropical this channel makes me feel lol! It's good to be reminded that I live in the barely-north...

  • @kencoles3591
    @kencoles3591 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    you're the best, Steve!! Thanks for another beauty of a video!

  • @jmr1068204
    @jmr1068204 3 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    11:08 The mosquitoes are formidable. *someone hits a gong in the background* Sounds like those skeeters are ready to kick some ass in battle, Steve...I'd be careful. When they pull out the gong, it's serious. Taken right out of a bad martial arts flick.

  • @davidrobertson3641
    @davidrobertson3641 3 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Great episode! Mike’s donation. The 60th sign. Everything!

  • @brnrecluse2946
    @brnrecluse2946 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love watching your series, Steve. Keep them coming bro.

  • @ricsmith2185
    @ricsmith2185 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Man Steve this is the first video I've watched in a while haven't seen much since you bought the bus but I have to tell you this was a jaw-dropper! Great job and keep up the good work sir!

  • @Brutal_truthus
    @Brutal_truthus 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Maybe Steve and CN could drive the bus to “sunny vale trailer park” get step 2 up with Ricky and Juuuulien.

    • @0iangell
      @0iangell 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He should def hook up with Canadas other you tubers. Eamon and Bec have bought a nice cabin by a lake somewhere in Canada (they lived in a van travelling the world pre covid times) or the vanwives.

  • @ProfessorOutdoors
    @ProfessorOutdoors 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Steve, you’re such a nice guy. You always take what’s there and make a cool adventure out of it. Thanks for being so positive!

  • @deblay7347
    @deblay7347 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love watch you do this. Because you are a normal guy doing normal things.
    Breath of fresh air 😘

  • @AlanRodriguez-jd5se
    @AlanRodriguez-jd5se 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I’m just a guy from Southern California I recently suffered 12 gun shots wounds, and my recovery process I’ve been extremely bored lol so these videos pop up and they made my physical therapy and time go by extremely fast . I’m healing from a artery that was hit and 2 broken femurs but EVERY LITTLE THING IS GOING TO BE ALRIGHT

  • @conqueringlion420
    @conqueringlion420 3 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    The fan that left the beer and the note is also a cable guy.

  • @coreyjanvier3678
    @coreyjanvier3678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    My wife's brother passed away lastnight and just needed to take a break from everything, thanks Steve for giving me 30 mins to take my mind off everything

    • @coreyjanvier3678
      @coreyjanvier3678 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Having a step 2 as well

    • @campingwithsteve
      @campingwithsteve  3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      So sorry to hear that Corey, our condolences. Have a step 2 for me as well in his honour.

    • @coreyjanvier3678
      @coreyjanvier3678 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@campingwithsteve thank you I will send some step 2 funds your way,

  • @Macizem73
    @Macizem73 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Happy 4th my friend to the north, I'm reminded of the words of that great Canadian, who once said "Go with the flow, like a twig on the shoulders of a mighty stream.” Del Griffith, better known as John Candy :)

  • @BeeKay4444
    @BeeKay4444 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ahahaha. This was GREAT! I particularly had a giggle when that huge spruce beetle was tickling your ear and you had no idea. 😮 Huge ❤to you Steve. We all miss Beautiful Wife and I know she is so proud of you for keeping on.

  • @241143637
    @241143637 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It's so cool to watch you decide on a reasonable camping site for the audience to explore, I feel like I am a part of the camping experience and I cannot wait to see where we will be camping next.

  • @davewhomri
    @davewhomri 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks Steve, you always come through for us even under rough circumstances!

  • @johndebolt5853
    @johndebolt5853 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video Steve. Thanks and be well.

  • @jamesdavey570
    @jamesdavey570 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    love it when u explore the areas

  • @Argent808
    @Argent808 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Stealth camping while watching this is just life. 😍♥️ much love, Steve!

  • @voetbal12
    @voetbal12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    😂🤣😂🤣 when he says.. "and for dinner, beautiful wife has whipped up... a salad" and then there's a quick shot of him staring into the fire. 15:13
    Nevermind, seems every other comment is the same thing.

  • @josephinegibbs3902
    @josephinegibbs3902 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Oh my. Trip down memory lane for me, Steve!
    Late August 1972, I was 11 years old, my dad decided to use his two week vacation to make a dash from Seattle up to Yellowknife. The highway north was dirt then and we were 2 miles south of the NWT border when my dad tried to pass whatever was making the dust cloud ahead of us. He stacked our brand new car into the back of a truck whose brakes had dynamited and stopped it in the middle of the road. Minor injuries only, but the car was totalled.
    The people at the visitor center took us in over night, then took us home to Hay River NWT with them. We camped on the shore of Great Slave Lake for a week waiting for an insurance adjuster to come up from Edmonton. The 18 year old son of the visitor center people was a working bush pilot who took us up in his Norseman floatplane and told amazing stories of bush flying adventures. A super moon rose laying a huge path of white light over the mouth of the Hay River where it enters Great Slave Lake and imbeded itself in my memory.
    And I remember that ferry across the Peace River!
    Thanks for making my day!

  • @dandog7653
    @dandog7653 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Just going back watching some of my favorite old camping with Steve videos and realized you were camping where my parents and I had ridden through on motorcycles back in the mid-nineties. I Zoomed in on Google Earth to Indian cabins after watching this video and seen the label "Camping with Steve" right where you were camped. You know you're famous when Google Earth marks your campsite! Always fun to re watch your videos they never get old! Just a subscriber in Seattle