This happened to me a couple of years ago. I’ve been backpacking for half a century and have never ever had any problems or nothing that scares me, unless it’s an aggressive buck. But a couple of years ago I took my grandson on his 1st backpacking trip. 1st night went fine. I had put a small padlock on the two zipper pulls on the door just in case my grandson decided to get up so he couldn’t unzip the door. I had brought my dog, 100 lb Akita, who slept in the tent with us. 1st night we heard animals softly walking around our little campsite. 2nd night about 1am I woke up to my dog very softly growling and I heard footsteps walking around. Not animal but human. He circled the tent a couple of times, then tried to unzip the door. He seemed baffled that it wouldn’t unzip. I say he because his breathing definitely sounded male. He went around to the window, which was open but the netting was in place. When he started fiddling with the window, I gave the signal for my dog to bark. At the same time I shined my flashlight in his face and pointed at gun at him. I told him run or I’ll let my dog out and shoot you. He ran. Yes, it was a man. I sat up the rest of the night. Thank goodness my son showed up to join us the next morning. I wanted to leave but he wanted to see if he showed up that night. He didn’t. Maybe just a random hiker, at 1am or someone followed us. I haven’t been backpacking since. The world has changed. I’ll face a cougar but not a strange man at 1am sneaking around my tent that isn’t in a public campground
Thank the Lord you and your grandson are okay. No telling what (or who) he was after. That’s a terrifying story/experience. You might’ve saved your grandson’s life (and your own). Give your dog a pat for me, he’s certainly a good boy!
@@-Reagan He must have followed us as we were in a wilderness area and not easy to happenstance across a tent. He wasn’t there for a friendly chat. he tried to unzip the tent. I had put a small lock on locking both zippers together and he was struggling with it. My Akita doesn’t bark, she crouches and bares her teeth, while very softly growling. I haven’t backpacked since then. I can deal with bears, cougars, crazy deer but not a stalker who means harm.
That's a terrible experience indeed. Maybe a random hiker as you say, but definitely a weird one. A normal man who accidentally runs into your tent would definitely say something to find out it's empty or not. His sneaky behaviour from the very start shows he was up to no good. I'm sitting at home while reading this and chills run down my spine. My grandmother used to go to the nearby forests to pick blueberries in the summer all her life. Once, in her seventies, she was busy picking in a hot summer day and suddenly had a feeling she's being watched. She turned around and about ten meters from her, there stood a strange man looking at her. My grandmother froze for a moment, then said something like "Oh, hello! I didn't hear you coming. You scared me so much!" The man said nothing, but didn't stop staring at her. My grandmother grabbed her basket and slowly walked away while he constantly watched her until she wasn't out of sight. Never found out who he was or what he wanted. Since then, my grandmother never went to the woods alone. She noted that the fact the man remained silent after being adressed was the most disturbing.
I was camping near Bremer Bay in Western Australia and had a similar experience. I got woken up by someone walking next to my tent in the middle of the night, was definitely a person because I could see their silhouette standing right next to me through the tent material. They were standing there quietly then all of a sudden they started urinating onto my tent, I was so upset I yelled and jumped out of my tent thinking it was going to be some drunken idiot.... Well it was a kangaroo... A kangaroo pissed all over my tent. 😂
My sister and her husband were not in a tent, but a small cabin in a remote area of Arizona. In the middle of the night they heard two loud shotgun-like bangs (WHOOOMPF WHOOMPF) right outside. They froze with fear. Then they heard two more, and then another. They were too scared to go outside and in too much of a remote area to call for any kind of help. They had no weapons. After a sleepless night they discovered in the morning that they left their beer in the freezer and it had all exploded.
This is extremely rare. If you are concerned about something like this happening, get yourself a flashlight with an ultra setting that is blinding to humans, I have one. If I hit you with the beam on max settings you will feel eye pain for half an hour. If you can then also carry a firearm. Experiences like this should not scare anyone away from camping or hiking alone.
I went camping alone on a Mt. where the roads were closed off to due to fires. 5 days there. Terrified the first night, scared the second night, 3rd night I was dancing naked around the camp fire while wielding 2 machetes, an axe hanging off my neck and bear spray can on my back. 4th night I was brave and listened to coast to coast alien stuff and regretted it. 5th day I left when the sun went down.
I did not mean this in a bad way but there are a lot strange people that are out there at night it could have some trying to scare you that all I meant
Had a similar thing fishing in France years ago, the locals had warned us about wild boar in the area, not really an issue I've had boar in camps before as soon as you make noise they run off. Woke up in the night by something that sounded huge digging around in the bushes behind my tent. I near craped myself it sounded so big. Shouted out and made some noise in tent, normally enough to scare animals off even wild boar, it didn't run off and only paused for few seconds. After about 10 minutes I finally got up the guts to jump out my tent with my torch. It was a feckin hedgehog digging through the brambles at the back of my tent😂
I swear hedgehogs are the loudest moving wild animals. Possibly because you don't need to be quiet when you're spiky I guess! Thought someone was crashing around in our front garden at 2am last summer, turned out to be a hedgehog rifling through the bushes so loudly I could hear it from upstairs with the windows closed 😅
I've slept in the woods a lot. Also in bear and wolf areas. Sweden, Poland, Germany etc. I rarely use tents and usually sleep openly or under a tarp. 90% of the time some animal sneaks around the camp at night. You can hear mice, foxes or even birds. In the dark it all sounds like Big Foot.
@ Madman - wouldn't it be funn y if there WAS a Bigfoot sitting with his mates and saying, "Yeah, I walked right through the campsite and scared the shyte out of those poor bastards!! HA!"
I thought i was getting followed once in snowdonia by a group of young backpackers with cans of beer id seen earlier. After setting up camp,after last light, i left a light on inside the closed tent and sat watching from a couple of hundred meters away. Sure enough they came close throwing stones and trying to scare me. The last laugh was mine though when i scared the shit out of them by banging rocks together.
Is it weird that I'm watching this at midnight while in the middle of the woods trying to distract my self from what ever had beem lurking around my camp site for the past 2 hours
My father used to go on long hikes over several days in the South of France. He was a very wary man who always refused to bring a tent and only slept in trees or in rock cavities, always with visibility of what was ahead and to the sides. He never slept where he ate and avoided light sources as much as possible. On two occasions he saw strange men roaming alone in the middle of the night, more than 20km from the nearest house. They were neither hikers nor hunters. Once he felt like he was being followed even though night had fallen and he was still walking with dim light. He crept into a bush and waited. Three minutes later a man took the same path, without a backpack, without a lamp and being careful not to walk too loudly. He was a very tough man and he has never gone back for a multi-day hike again.
@@kmktruthserum9328 OR....you bring an incredibly powerful flashlight!! I have 55,000 lumen flashlight that cost $3000... it can literally turn a dark forest into daylight with one button...When I use that flashlight, it lights up everything and I would definitely see if someone was trying to follow me through the woods....
@@coolyoutubeluke My father did not move from this bush and waited for daylight to turn back, he did not even finish his route. His past as an elite soldier made him extremely suspicious and he only listened to his intuitions, leaving no room for error. He was convinced that this man was following him, waiting for him to set up camp and become vulnerable. He didn't hide in this bush because he was afraid, he always said that you had to be invisible in the wild.
Done a solo wild camp in a very thick and remote forest in Scotland in 2002 and there was clearly two people walking around my tent about 3am (I heard them whispering to each other), at first I thought they were maybe just passing whilst out on a night hike to where i have no idea but I heard them again an hour later, I just lay in my sleeping bag all night trying not to be sick clutching my swiss army knife. When morning came there was a weird pattern made with sticks outside my tent which I now understand to be a satanic pentagram. I was always an avid outdoorsman but have never been a solo trip since. Strange people seem to show up almost everwhere on earth, I’ve never actually told this story to anyone other than my wife and brother
Motion sensor lights you wrap around trees.. this is why I only want to camp out there in a travel trailer RV. People act crazy when outside civilization.
long time forestry worker, slept in many tents over the years, come across many critters, bears get curious, wolves and coyotes wont really bother, mooses will attack the tent, out of all that i think the worst encounter was a army of racoons, and waking up to the big boy of the group unzipping my tent and reaching his little hand in looking for a snack.
Your lucky. I had giant wild aggresive dogs run into my tent and campsite about 10pm. All teeth and mean and nasty. Ever been stared down by a dog? I have! The size of great danes. Traumatized me. I can still see that terrible dog in my mind giving me that look and growling at us. I'm done camping. They are not afraid of you or your fire! Sitting by campfire, they came up behind us in the dark. We didn't hear or see them until they were in our face. Both black with long shaggy hair. Monsters! Beware!
Dude, had the same thing happen with raccoons. Could hear something big coming towards me. Flipped the light on and like 12 sets of orange eyes, staring. Freaky.
@@goldenlass9488 the same one would take the liner out of my boot every night then bang the boot on the ground, hoping for a treat. you would hear cries of frustration throughout camp as the little buggers wreaked havoc. they would come over from the park across the highway. the rangers were wondering where they had went.
Dan, I've had bears, wolves, moose, deer, and porcupines wander into my camp but. I think hearing what I thought was a fellow human being wandering around my tent in the middle of the night, would add a whole new feeling of apprehension and primal fear. Of all the predators out there man is the most unpredictable of all. I recently heard that two seniors wild camping in their camper van on a quiet road woke up to an extremely loud bang at 2 am, turns out some yobs had thrown bricks through the side windows and windscreen of their van at the same time. It scared them so much, they were thinking of selling off the campervan. It can be unnerving not knowing what is out there as you lay vulnerable in your tent. Take care out there Dan!
Having backpacked most of the Sierras, Cascades, and lately camping in the Uintahs, I have found the last decade or two, people are by far the largest problem in the wilderness. From stealing equipment to being a physical threat. That is why I now never venture into the bush unarmed.
Camped at a well known rest area one night in the semi arid desert of the Northern Territory. 2 busloads of 18 year olds from Europe turned up, and were excited to sleep under the stars instead of their tents. They had a great time. Clear night, the heavens full of stars = a magical time.
Wipe the zip down with a baby wipe, let dry and use a normal soft lead pencil. The graphite will allow the zip to run smooth and will not pick up dirt like candle wax. Stove looks mint.
When you think of prehistoric times and the darkness beyond the encampment it must have been horrifying. I have a theory that human evolution made teens stay awake all night specifically to keep the encampment safe. Which foe would attack an alert settlement of teens just ready for a scrap, none! Lol
I was just thinking about how darkness has basically controlled humans up until the invention of electricity. When it got dark out, it got *dark* . The fear of being snatched up if you’re surrounded by darkness has persisted from caveman times until today.
@@Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson Good comment. I think that's the reason teenagers have different sleeping patterns. We make them fit into a modern world pattern they weren't meant for, instead evolution fashioned them to be up all night to keep the encampment safe. What or what/who would attack a settlement with boisterous teens wide awake and itching to fight
@@ITPFS Oh 😁 I'm in Canada (north of Quebec), if I want to go out of town it's a 2 hours drive trough the forest before I see any sign of civilisation.
Last fall I took my 9 year old son on our first backpacking trip in the Oregon wilderness. It was night two, 10 miles in and we had a large lake to ourselves. We set up camp in a dense area of trees about 100 feet off the lake. It was cloudy that evening and when the sun set it was pitch black outside. Around 3 am I was awakened to loud footsteps I could feel and hear getting closer to our small tent. The ground was full of roots from trees so we could really feel the vibrations of something moving. I thought it was a black bear at first because it felt and sounded so big, I slowly and quietly grabbed my pistol And had it ready in case I needed it. Those few moments when the creature was quiet, as I listened, I was almost deafened by my thumping heartbeat. All of the sudden I heard an ear piercing noise of air being blown out of a snout that caused the blood to leave my face. I still didn’t move and whatever it was made the noise again, I finally got the courage to say “hey bear, you better get going” and seconds later I had sticks breaking and something moving through the dense bush up the hill away from us. I didn’t sleep the rest of the night. The next morning I found big deer tracks around camp. Apparently deer make that noise sometimes. It’s crazy how vulnerable you feel wrapped in a bag laying on the ground with some thin tent material to “protect you”. Freaked me out but we moved lakes and slept one more night out there. I have since been back with two of my boys a few weeks ago and felt much better about getting over the bump in the night incident. Sometimes you just need to keep facing your fears and eventually you get over them.
That happened to me camping way in the backcountry of the sierra, was with my husky , had no gun but the bear didn’t want to leave.. he got a load of bear spray and I was up all night scared asf till morning
Deer arent something to mess around with. When my kids were small we hiked up into the Jefferson Wilderness in Oregon. It was our last trip of the year as it was September. We’ve been up there many times and never had a problem. And we never saw anyone. Before bed the boys and my husband went out to pee. I went after them. I heard something in the undergrowth, thinking it was the raccoon we’d seen playing by the lake earlier, I didn’t pay much attention….until the huffing and snorting started. I knew it was not the raccoon. As I was struggling to get my pants, a giant of a very angry buck mule deer came out of the shrubs straight at me. I kicked off the pants and boots and ran faster than I’ve ever ran, the buck on my heels shaking his great antlers. My kids and husband, heads sticking out of the tent were yelling “run mom run!” I dove into the tent and my husband zipped up the door. The buck snorted, pawed and paced around the tent all night. We didn’t get any sleep. The next day we stopped at a ranger station and the first thing he said was don’t you know you shouldn’t pee in a bucks territory during rutting season!
My wife son and I used to go camping regularly during the summer months. On on such trip to Wells next to the sea we had put up our tent spent time on the beach then returned to make bacon butties for a late tea/supper. then we went to bed I went straight to sleep after a days driving. Then Bang Crash clatter! Intruder in the tent I got the heaviest thing available a two cell torch and un zipped the bedroom compartment door looked round and there it was! A big Hedgehog rifling through the empty plates and the frying pan! I took it out put it under the hedge and went back to bed Ten minutes later it all kicked off again the same hedgehog back in the tent. I had to open the car and put all the pots and pans in the car boot then carry the hedgehog some distance from the tent! what a night!
Dan get yourself a couple of trail cams to cover the front and back of your tent and campsite. It would give you some peace of mind to see what’s out there. Take care keep up the good work love your videos.
I was camping north of Flagstaff, AZ when we heard something walking around our tent and car (glamping). I pulled out my handgun and racked the slide as loud as I could. Heard a voice say ‘let’s GtFOH’ and the footsteps went away. Finally peaked my head out the tent and saw a light bouncing around in the trees about 300 yards away.
Lol😂, They weren’t expecting that lolz. In the U.K. we can’t even pack a Swiss Army knife due to the knife laws lol😂 I might get a pump action shotgun sound clip. Just the sound of it would make anyone shit themselves lol😂
@@BurtReynoldstash the most ridiculous thing ever. First they outlawed guns, so the law abiding citizens won’t carry them, only the bad guys. Then knives and blades became a problem now they are outlawed. What’s next? FORKS? Tire irons? Bats? Outlaw the HUMANS, they are the problem.
@@BurtReynoldstashfunny that , i Carry a Victorinox huntsman for EDC in the uk and it is legal as long as you don’t use it in a illegal way and it dosent have a blade above 3inches and I think it cant lock but not sure on that bit . Also have a .177 glock 17 gen 4 i take with me when camping (with site owners permission of course ) has 500fps and is blowback its surprisingly loud too
People are generally unlikely to stumble across you at night unless you’re in an obvious spot, or they’ve seen you going in. I’m always careful about where and ( importantly) when I pitch camp. Bit of scrim net is also useful to break up the shape of the tent. ...
Oh I was camping in the Scottish Highlands once....middle of nowhere. Heard footsteps walking round and round my tent at 3am. I was absolutely terrified. Turned out to be cattle. Embarrassing... as I grew up on a farm 🤣🤣
It's understandable being more fearful of actual people out at 3am and their intentions. I'd worry about cattle too in case it decided to lay down on your tent whilst you are still in it 🥵
Enjoyed your vlog Dave. With regard to security around the tent I use what Carp fishermen use. Bite alarms. You can set up loads around you to alarm the way you want !!!
Camping in Alberta at Pickle Jar Lake one time and we didn't hear a thing, we went to bed and there was no snow, when we got up there was 2 feet of snow, as we went to the bathroom there was a circle around the tent from a huge grizz.
I ALWAYS have things creeping around me at night, but I live in the US and camp in a massive forest, alone. Things come out and I often include them in my videos. It is fun to watch other people sharing similar experiences. I loved this video.
Keep them coming Dan, they may not be the most polished TH-cam videos but that’s why I like them, you saying it as it is with no scripted b.s. is what I like.
@@englishwoodsmancan you recommend me a nice tent that'll be easy to set up and take down, and isn't that heavy. I would like to know a really good backpack one that is good for traveling long distances without putting strain on yourself.
Reminds me of one of the strangest experiences I had whilst camping. I was camping with a friend, on a campsite where we were close personal friends with the owners. We were the only two on the campsite, as the owners had left as it was only us, and so nobody was able to get onto the site without scaling gates (UK farm gates, so not hard to climb, but still very clearly a locked up site). For context the camp was also off the beaten track a little, as you had to either drive there (although there was no access by road due to gates being closed) or you had to walk up a busy road with no pavement for a few minutes. At around midnight, we had both settled down and were just laying in our sleeping bags, when we heard the sound of liquid hitting the leaves outside the tent, almost as if someone was pissing outside our door. After about 20 seconds of the noise, it stopped, and we heard nothing for the rest of the night. We were both in the same tent and were absolutely positive nobody was out there, and we heard no footsteps, but it 100% sounded like someone pissing outside our tent. To this day we revere the mythical 'Piss Man' as we called him, since neither of us could explain what the noise was. In hindsight, probably just a badger or something, but it was definitely a strange experience.
I remember tenting at the New Forest many years back, woke up with stupid Horses brushing up against my tent. Sounded like the Demons had crawled out of hell lol
Sorry for the unsettled night. We have armadillos where I live, and they make a huge racket foraging through the leaves. Scared me to death the first time I was camping, but now when I hear them they make me smile and put me at ease -- I know that if they are around then nothing bigger than them is around. :) Hope you get your dream tent back in tip top shape.
There was this one time I was camping with my exs family. They are Vietnamese and arnt really outdoorsy people, probably couldn’t survive a 3 day trek if their lives depended on it. Anyways where we were camping had a lot of skunks that would wander into the camp into peoples trash. That night me and my buddy took some weed edibles I have epilepsy so he just wanted a small bit I warned him and only gave me a pinch 🤏. Maybe 10-15mg a small beginner dose, he also drank which made it worse. Anyways so he calls the night early or so I thought and wanders to his tent. I’m sitting around the fire with the family and we see a skunk these people are terrified of any wildlife so I go scare it off. As I’m following it out of camp I’m keeping a torch on it and I have a small group of the family behind me it went around a car so I followed it and out the corner of my eye I notice some movement next to the skunk I quickly shine the light and it’s my buddy he’s so messed up he’s playing in his own throw up and the skunk is literally right next to him. I quickly shushed away the skunk with the lights off and ran back to the family telling them I scared it off. He didn’t want them knowing he ate an edible, I had to run back and save the poor dude turns out he was trying to scare it away but he was so messed up he could only murmur 😂.
hell, squirrels and even small birds can make a hell of a racket in foliage I can stand still for 20 minutes while hunting only to find out it was a common bird foraging tidbits on the ground
@@quebecpatriot1874 don’t know how many times I’ve sat in a stand freaking out thinking there’s a deer nearby only to find out it’s a squirrel or small bird especially during sunrise 🤣
That little woodstove is a gem. It would've been great to have the times I was in the Maine woods in need of heat and cooking. It's kind of pretty with glass door.
Genuinely have been attacked whilst wild camping some years ago, middle of the night a group of lads kicked the shit out of the tent I was in, and obviously I couldn’t get out because I was wrapped up in it. They thought it was hilarious and ran off, I was terrified, being alone and in the middle of fields miles from anyone. I can only assume they were lamping and stumbled across me.
I hope that the arseholes that did that to you didn't put you off camping again,there is a lot to be said for keeping a wooden spiked bar with you once inside the tent for them to kick or a long sharp camping knife that sticks out.
I had that happen years ago travelling around Australia on a motor bike in a done tent but I had a Velcro slit on the back of the tent and a massive bull terrier and I let him out lol A old biker told me about drunk young guys setting his tent on fire when he was camping off the road so he put a back door on his tent so I did the same and sure enough I needed it
The stove is a different design from twig stoves: a broad base of embers and a tower of flame make a lot of concentrated heat at the top of the tube. Thank you for showing us something different on the market.
I had a similar experience and noticed someone walking around my tent quietly... i jumped outside with my flashlight and it turned out to be a COW! it scared the living crap out of me. 🤣 i felt better knowing there were a few curious cows sleeping a few feet away from my tent.
Flashed me back to Kern River Valley in California. Heard world's largest bear outside my tent moving around. After a few moments, I opened my tent to an eagle staring at me.
I don't go into the wilderness at all unless I have my dog with me. He's a stout lab/pit mix with the face of a sweet lab but has the body of a muscled pitbull. As result, people keep a wide berth even though he is generally adult friendly. One day, I was hiking a trail with him just after a light rain so it was misty and wet which meant not a lot of people where going to be around. Though the woods were beautiful, I was slightly creeped out since i couldn't see too far ahead due to the mist. As I'm walking, I see a hooded figure ahead of us on the trail. It spots us and darts into the woods. Unfortunately, I can turn back because at this point me and my dog are heading back to the car which was another 10 minute walk ahead of us. So I have it in my mind maybe it was a jogger and not some creep that was going to attack us and I could no longer see this person anymore anyway. About 2 minutes or so after we pass the spot I intially saw the hooded figure, my dog suddenly whips around and starts growling menacingly. I've never seen him do this so it startles me and I look back. It's the hooded figure again and he's a few paces behind us. He looks like his face is dirty and he's clutching something tightly in his hand. I tell him my dog is not friendly (a lie) and that he needs to keep his distance otherwise my dog will lunge and I'm worried I can't hold him. The hooded figure doesn't respond and my dog starts to get really angry. This seems to convince the figure and it turns around and walks in the other direction. Needless to say I have my dog all the best dog food and treats i could find in the petstore that day
I've been hunting, fishing and camping all round the uk I can mostly tell the difference between animal and or human once I woke up about 2am to the sound of something I had never heard before after laying there for a few min it got louder and all of a sudden I revises it was a lion I jumped up and thought I was hearing things this went on for hours and I bearly slept a wink eventually I fell back asleep when I got up in the morning I realised I has only about a mile away from a safari park and what I heard was indeed a lion.. always makes me laugh the first time people hear a muntjac screaming in the breading season I lost count of the amount of times I've woken up to mates saying they haven't slept a wink as they thought someone was being murdered I sleep through most of it nowadays
I believe you. I do a lot of camping here in Oregon and Washington U.S.A. and the only thing that was truly dangerous was the a hole I made the mistake of inviting to camp with me. I have a little dog that sleeps with me in my sleeping bag, she’s definitely a radiator so soft and cuddly.
There was a time a camped at the mountains close to where i live. I went out in the winter and forgot my heater buddy. The person i was with has Raynauds. What we packed wasn’t enough so i had to pack up my RTT. While i was doing that someone just came out of nowhere and was standing behind me by about 20-25 feet. Never heard them walk up to my site and it looked like they were wearing a thick jacket with the hood having fur. I was a little intoxicated and the ground was covered in snow. They never talked to me or made any noises. I don’t remember seeing footprints either. When i was trying to talk to this person i noticed another guy behind a tree probably 50-60ft. I started working facing them so they could see the .44 magnum on my chest. The person i was with stayed in the car so she could warm up while my truck was idling. She asked me who i was talking to, and i just told her i was talking to myself, but grab my rifle just in case. Nothing happened but it’s pretty creepy looking back on it now.
A bar of soap is what I use on all of my zippers and it works great any old bar soap will do just rub it along the teeth and it'll do just fine. Happy camping!
My first time i'd encounter a creepy things during camping..In the middle of the night I heard a sound with different tone that keeps me awake..as I listened carefully I found out that it was coming from the other tent..my friend snooring loudly like he has an orchestra inside him😂😂😂😂
me.and my partner wont camp anymore unless on a proper campsite after we were woken at around 3am by footsteps around our tent and heard male voices sounded like they were rummaging through what equipment we had left outside the tent. never again it made mw realise just how vulnerable we were. very scary !!
And you think you are safe on a "proper camp site"? We have had loads of problems and been robbed on camp sites. Just be ready to kick ass life is not all sunshine and rainbows.
safety in numbers 😅. bit of a difference between some other random camper sneaking across n pinching ya windbreaker than men hanging round your tent in the middle of the night in the forest .
@@baileyboo198 if someone is motivated to stay out in the woods with thermal and NV waiting to do harm to somebody staying out there you have no chance no matter how many of you there are.
It's a nice little stove that does it all...from heating to cooking to ambiance. It's cute with its decorations the 🦌 deer and the ✨ stars at the end. I saw Grizzly Gaz has something similar.
One time in high school i took some mushrooms on a camping trip. We had a great time and then a small storm came up and we decided to retire to the tents. Head someone outside and freaked out, turned out it was a park ranger telling us to put the fire out because of wind blowing embers. Still will never forget the feeling you get from someone walking up on you in the middle of nowhere and in the dark.
Love the stove / pan combo! A Y shaped stick stuck in the ground would give the long handle some support and avoid tipping. You could use that to move the main pan off the heat and create a spot with less intense heat. Great video mate, thanks for sharing!
Cool s1aitken, the y stick idea. The stove almost has a rocket stove draw to the fuel. If there was a 'half pipe' design to that side door and keep the opening angled up it'd keep the embers from spilling out. I was fretting the uncleared area catching on fire esp if he was going to be in the tent gazing at it further away and get drowsy.
I did an outdoor solo for 72 hours as part of a self development course on a remote property in New Zealand’s South Island. Each night different animals would come past, the possums were the nosiest and nosiest smelling out my food and fighting in the night. One the second night I head something larger rustling about in the woods, got up with my head torch on and my undies, it was a wild pig that got spooked and ran up a hill that was behind where I have erected my bivouac. Freakiest part was it stopped part way up and turned to look at me, eyes lit up glowing green from my head torch. The mind races, especially when the surroundings are foreign to you, you’re by yourself and it’s night time. Weirdest part though was on the final morning of the stint, I woke in the early hours to a full vibration coming through the ground. Felt like a mechanical whirring, put my ear to the ground and could hear/feel the vibrations, faint and subtle but real. Wasn’t overly unserved by it and absolutely nothing it could of been that was nearby, no obvious machines, no irrigation systems. Was cool and odd. Never figured it out
Happened me a couple of times. Nothing as scary really. Although one time we were awakened at sunrise by the sound of automatic gunfire, and it wasn't too far away either. Turns out the area we were camping in was used for "training" by paramilitaries (I'm from N.Ireland)
why are people acting like this is so rare. If you're not camping in some designated campground you get a lot of visitors. I always get opossums and raccoons walking around. First time I ever camped, I had a mountain lion hissing at me. Usually the person's fault, cuz I did food prep where I slept. As for the mountain lion, I was stealth camping in a canyon where there was a known cougar presence.
Get a trail cam with blue tooth/wireless connectivity with nightvision. You can set up a camera on a tree facing your tent with a wide view of the surroundings and you can connect to it via a cellphone to see a live feed.
I'm not sure if being waken up like that or sleeping through something like that is worse. I woke up to a party the animals had with my trash that I thought I'd secured and heard nothing. If it'd been something bad or would have gotten me. Edited to add: I've heard so many accounts of people cutting tents to remove sleeping children I put mine with me in a double sleeping bag. He can't go anywhere without me knowing and nobody can get to him without going through me but I don't want him to have to live with that.
Unfortunately there are definitely oddballs that do wander around in the dark. I hitched and camped a lot in my twenties and had two occasions where someone tried to get into my tent. First time was up in Scotland at around two in the morning when I was woken up by someone unzipping the tent. I woke up and in a startled state asked them what they were doing (it’s amazing how quick you wake up completely!) and to be fair whoever it was apologised and disappeared quickly (they sounded dazed and confused so I assumed it was a drug user). Second time it happened was much scarier, down near Bodmin on a hitch from Birmingham to Cornwall. Camping up in the castle grounds near the main road, I was woken at four in the morning again by someone unzipping the tent. I immediately asked told them to leave but was met with a a few seconds silence before the person said ‘I want to suck your co*k’. Well you can imagine I absolutely bricked myself at this stage realising the seriousness of the situation before saying I didn’t need this right now and to leave me alone which was followed by a scary silence that went on for a few minutes. Obviously unable to sleep, I eventually decided to get out and with a tent peg in my hand ready to stab the nutter outside if I had to defend myself. I leapt out of the tent to find nothing but a wall of fog surrounding my tent. Properly shaken by this stage I packed up the tent and headed back to the main road where the sun was starting to rise (being summertime) and caught a hitch out of there an hour later. Horrible experience but it didn’t stop me hitching or camping but I was a happy man to eventually get a camper van later in my forties which is always safe, snug and secure.
@@LFG7 both were men. I did a lot of hitching and camping by roads and near towns in my twenties so these were unusual experiences, the vast majority of the time it was safe. But of course, the nearer to humans you are, the more you need to be aware of what can happen and so at least be mentally prepared to defend yourself.
@@mooskamoo that would've shit me up, if it was a woman I might've just heard her out😂. Good to hear it was an anomaly, I've been wanting to start camping soon
@@LFG7 yea don’t let these things hold you back. The benefits, fun and adventure I got from hitching so many years was well worth the odd bad experience, and even those make a good story later in your life. The UK is actually very safe to camp around, biggest problem is the ‘get off my land’ brigade 😂 but as long as you set up late and leave early there’s practically zero chance of any problems.
Creepy stuff! Normally sleeping in a tent with rain coming down would be ideal sleeping conditions, but not with twigs breaking underneath the feet of something lurking outside.
Yeah it’s scary. I was in a sleeping bag next to the fire no tent. Woke up in the morning to heavy canine breathing in my ear. I peeked out of my bag and saw coyote feet and legs everywhere. Looked like about ten of them. I jumped up and screamed like a banshee. All I saw was dust going around a curve in the trail. I think I scared them worse than they scared me but it was not a fun way to wake up.
I died laughing reading this comment I get it’s scary but the way I envisioned it is hilarious. They probably were wondering what just leaped up and yelled 😂
@@Mike-mm8nz I had a similar experience. Except it was a squirrel. It was scratching my tent and I woke up to it and everything sounds louder at night I thought it was a bear trying to get in and it took about 5 minutes of panicking before I realized it was a tiny animal and fell back asleep lol. I woulda died if I woke up to coyotes
Back in the 1890s in Northern Australia, some natives with spears snuck up on a Scotsmans permanent camp to finish him off. The long bearded long haired Scotsman walked out buck naked into the moonlight playing his Bagpipes. Legend has it he scared those natives for miles around and never had any trouble since.
I would like to enjoy camping same way you do but I always like to be in a camp ground, park or near to civilization. Scares me a bit to be alone in the middle of nowhere, cause you never know if some criminals are hiding out in the Forrest or mountains. I enjoy a lot watching your videos, thank you for sharing.God bless
Went camping with my girlfriend a few weeks ago in a super remote area in Nevada. Drove 30 miles down a closed road to get to some hot springs. My little awd suv took a beating getting into the campsite, but it was late and we were determined to find what looked like some pristine and large pools! Oddly, I slept unusually well, it was nice and cold out but we had lots of blankets and a good sleeping bag. Another reason was because I figured there was an extremely low chance of anyone being out there. We had even driven down a road to get to a little hidden campsite. I woke up with a start at 6am when it was barely light out and peaked out the tent while saying something loud and unintelligible. It was a herd of (wild?) donkeys checking out our car and tent. Also, turned around to look at the car to see one of the tires completely flat. Had to change it, but worried the spare wouldn’t hold up!
About 7-8yrs ago a woman I worked with had her nephew "pass away". Turned out he enjoyed camping solo, he went up near Heinze Dam at the back of the gold coast in QLD, Australia. His body was found mutilated by knife wounds in his tent, attacked while sleeping. Horrible for the family, i cant imagine. I subscribe to a British ladies YT channel wild something,, and she solos all the time. Man or woman, its not good to be alone in the woods (bush). 😮
@lewistivey yeah, and the tarp setup was pretty ridiculous. Half of me thinks she plays dumb for the videos . But I think her more recent videos she's much better prepared and...skilled 😅
Just watching the intro with rain pouring on tent, really made me want to go camping. I’ve never actually done it but would love to. Has to be really cold and really wet. Unfortunately, I have permeant tinnitus, in both ears so I doubt I’d sleep well but the overall experience, would be great.
As an American, I wasn't sure what the issue was with hearing movement outside the tent. It's very common when camping here to have black bears, which are typically harmless and just want food, or wolves in your camp at night. No brown bears for me in California, which can be more dangerous than black bears, but there are brown bears everywhere else. I was shocked to learn that bears and wolves are extinct in England! That would make things a bit spookier. Bears can be dangerous, but I'd rather have them sniffing around than a human that could be up to no good!
The only thing we fear in the UK is our selves no wild animal in the UK is a threat only another person and we dont have guns to protect our selves from people who want to do you harm
Saw a story of two hiker girls thst got me terrified. Around the middle of the night they heard noises walking around their separate tents and thought it was the other one going to pee, so neither said anything. I can’t remember how the interaction started but I think the strange man opened one of the tents and say he thought they were his ‘friends’, which he said giggling. She shook him off and he left. They woke up in the Morning and talked about it, still scared. Only when packing up did they see the man cowboy sleeping not farther than a few yards from them…. God! I’m a dude and go hiking alone but fuck if any laws stop me from bringing self defense items. No one’s touching my bum
Well, sir, you answered an important question or two that I wanted answered, and I’ve been camping since I was a little girl, and spent time in the army besides. :-) It only seems right, to give back a little something: I’ll start off by telling you about the places I usually camp, so you’ll be able to judge if my ideas will also work in your area: I live in an area that gets many feet of snow in the winter time, sometimes higher than the first story of the houses. It also gets to be “Squeaky cold”. That is to say, it’s got to be about -25 or colder in order to make the snow squeak when you walk on it, And doesn’t get much more than 35° in the summer at the hottest. There are times when we get rain for more than three weeks. So those are the conditions that I camp under. The most experienced campers that I know, carry a little bit of duct tape/gun tape with them. Spontaneous things can happen causing damage to the tent, so it’s nice to be able to just put a quick patch of tape over it, and know that you’re not gonna get rained on. You can either leave the tape on for years, or you can wait to get home and patch it properly. Now when it comes to zippers, I find that soap works a right treat, Assuming that the zipper is just sticky and may be a bit dusty. Otherwise, you may have to take a pair of pliers and snug up the zipper pull, particularly if there’s a chance that it’s had tangential force applied to the zipper, and possibly stretched the Metal on one side of the pull. If you’re not totally comfortable adjusting zippers, or sewing, figure out which one of your buddies knows a little bit about sewing and has a machine if you don’t already, and work out a system with him or her, to show you what to do. It’s not too hard once you get started. You could replace your stuff sack, Particularly if there’s anything else wrong with it, but if it’s just a band torn off, it looks like there’s plenty of space there to just take the stitches out of the top of the band, then trim the top inch or so off the bag, so that you’re past the point of the rip, with an even end to the bag, and then just so the band back in place again. It would be as good as new, just an inch shorter. And you get to keep the original stuff sack. You know sometimes the tents that you have to do a little work on to begin with, turn out to be the best. I have a few tents in my collection, but my favourite is one that I got when I first got out of university, and was in trouble with my health, so I had to move to the city to live near the hospital to deal with my health, once I was actually out of the hospital. So I really didn’t have much money. I went around to a secondhand shop and asked if they had any used tents; it was the strangest thing; the proprietor said that they didn’t carry them and they hadn’t had one in a very long time, but their son had one, and he had been trying to destroy it to keep his son from going out in the woods, as he and his wife were afraid for the sons well-being out in the woods. (!) He said he had tossed it out behind in a bit of swamp, and stomped it into the mud, doing his best to cause damage. I was desperate to go camping, so I rescued that tent, and washed it by hand, at home on the lawn. Then I did a little patching, and it cleaned up pretty well. everyone I know around here, when they get a tent whether it’s brand new or not, at least once a year will take that tent and take it outside in the sun and soak it down without the fly on it, let the sun dry it completely, and then soak it down with the FLY. Because even the most expensive fabric relaxes after a bit, and needs to be tightened up. When the weave is tightened up, there’s less chance of moisture coming through the tent. Once that’s done, the tent gets waterproofed, and all the seams treated. Until those things happen, most of us won’t use the tent. Even brand new. So the tent you got there is not a bad situation. It would not be hard to fix up, and it might even turn out to be your favorite, particularly if it’s got the two layer system going on, including a mesh layer. of all the tents that I have and have had, that one that I had to rescue, is by far my favorite. The fly goes all the way to the ground and has a snow skirt on it, so the wind can never blow up under the skirt and cause problems; and I can take it snow camping. that’s really not something I’ve been able to find when I’ve been out shopping for a new tent. There’s something about that tent that beats everything else I’ve ever had hands-down.
Many thanks for another interesting video. The wood stove looks great. As you mentioned, candle wax is good for zips. For holes that small in the tent I would get a tube of seam sealer. It has lots of other uses too like making things non slip.
Don't know if Bigfoot is present in your area, but an Airhorn works great! What ever was outside your tent last night, if you do a couple of blasts from your Airhorn, It will scare the heck out of whatever was lurking about.
It happened to me too. I would do the7 hour drive up to the Ocoee River to kayak and would park on a forest service road. It was wide, so I wouldn't block it in an emergency. I was actually told about this place by a forest ranager. I would arrive around 2 am, set up my tent and go to sleep. After several visits, I was awakened by a car door slamming and footsteps. Walked past the tent and then it got quiet. Well, it turned out that it was bow hunters going in at dark to set up. Very unnerving to say the least. As it got colder, the hunters were carrying guns.
I almost walked into a tent at night when someone was wild camping. I was taking my lurcher out for a few rabbits. They picked a terrible place to camp. It was right on the edge of an open field near a path. The dog found them easy. We tried not to disturb them. But Try using a bivi bag in the undergrowth for cover it's less obvious. It doesn't bother me if people are camping. I don't care But their are better ways of staying hidden then using a tent. If you hear a dog just don't attack anything outside your tent in confusion. My lurcher has value as a good hunter. I would really be angry if he got hurt. And in self defence he could bite. There will always be a lot going on at night. More then you think. Rabbits, badgers, foxes, rats, weasels, stoats as well as the odd lurcher. If I'm out at night, and I am tired, I find somewhere quiet to kip out during the day under a wool blanket and a poncho if it rains. Make a bed out of bracken and old leaves. Keep your boots on. Don't take anything you can't fit into a shoulder bag. A shopping bag is best. Make a hide from an old camo net. Don't take a knife unless it's street legal. By the way I can smell woodsmoke and cooking from a mile away especially at night. Try an alcohol stove for stealth and boil in a bag stuff. It seals the smell in. I only have to eat a ham sandwich on my doorstep to attract a fox. A lot of them have lost their fear. So your bound to attract something. If you want to take more your better off on a campsite. Keep it simple otherwise. I wouldn't be without the dog though. Early warning system, and their warm. And hide your rabbits, the snares, and your catapult.
The holes can be patched with Sugru inside and out. The zip can be fixed by running a candle or wax crayon on both sides of the zip. Use Nikwax on the main tent and seam sealant on all the seams. It should be good to go.
To fix your zip .. There are two flat glides on the back of the zip , sometimes they splay out , get a flat pliers and make the guides square against the rest of the steel in the zip . . Just go easy as it's weak metal , squeeze the two guides and shape them square . . Fixes every zip type . . I do it a bit at a time , run the zip through a few times . It's not the plastic zip that's the problem it's the splayed guide .
The person your hearing walking around your tent I’m going to say it’s the other person you have camping with you I seen him in the back ground a few times
I hate it when that happens.. I was on the Platte river camping along the bank and I guess about midnight I heard something two legged walking through the water going up stream! Scared the shit out of me
Since you are not traveling far, you could always bring a trail cam with you, and set it up to face the tent. Fun to know what happens around the camp when the lights go out. Just set it a bit away, because those IR lights are about a visible as a flashlight. I had 3 stolen from behind my home because of the IR lights, so I had to put them way high up, and bolt them down.
I honestly can't think of one single time that I didn't hear something in the night over my many times in the woods. And there were times that I heard something that scared me a little too.
Back in the 70s, i went camping a lot with my husband and friends. Deep in the woods in Oklahoma, we set up camp, and everyone went out for a hike. This particular time i stayed behind. I can't remember why because i loved hiking. i suppose i was tired. After they had been gone about 45 minutes, i was sitting by the fire, and I had an overwhelming feeling of being watched. It was terrifying. I had never experienced that before. I got in our tent and zipped myself up in my sleeping bag in a panic. After a few minutes, i heard large two-legged footsteps approaching. Heavy footsteps. Stopped outside the tent, i was shaking, trying not to breathe. Then, this (creature) was sniffing , i could see its shadow, it was massive. In the distance, i could hear my husband calling me he was coming back to camp. Whatever was outside the tent took off. My husband had come back to check on me because he said he had a strange feeling i was in danger. He saved my life . That was the most frightened ive ever been.
So strange and very wierd that some people would choose to wander around someone's property in the early hours of the morning. Those people need to get a life!
Sounds like a sasquatch was outside your tent. I had this happen to me in the back woods of the most northern part of Yosemite. You should have looked for footprints.
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This happened to me a couple of years ago. I’ve been backpacking for half a century and have never ever had any problems or nothing that scares me, unless it’s an aggressive buck. But a couple of years ago I took my grandson on his 1st backpacking trip. 1st night went fine. I had put a small padlock on the two zipper pulls on the door just in case my grandson decided to get up so he couldn’t unzip the door. I had brought my dog, 100 lb Akita, who slept in the tent with us. 1st night we heard animals softly walking around our little campsite. 2nd night about 1am I woke up to my dog very softly growling and I heard footsteps walking around. Not animal but human. He circled the tent a couple of times, then tried to unzip the door. He seemed baffled that it wouldn’t unzip. I say he because his breathing definitely sounded male. He went around to the window, which was open but the netting was in place. When he started fiddling with the window, I gave the signal for my dog to bark. At the same time I shined my flashlight in his face and pointed at gun at him. I told him run or I’ll let my dog out and shoot you. He ran. Yes, it was a man. I sat up the rest of the night. Thank goodness my son showed up to join us the next morning. I wanted to leave but he wanted to see if he showed up that night. He didn’t. Maybe just a random hiker, at 1am or someone followed us. I haven’t been backpacking since. The world has changed. I’ll face a cougar but not a strange man at 1am sneaking around my tent that isn’t in a public campground
Thank the Lord you and your grandson are okay. No telling what (or who) he was after. That’s a terrifying story/experience. You might’ve saved your grandson’s life (and your own). Give your dog a pat for me, he’s certainly a good boy!
@@-Reagan He must have followed us as we were in a wilderness area and not easy to happenstance across a tent. He wasn’t there for a friendly chat. he tried to unzip the tent. I had put a small lock on locking both zippers together and he was struggling with it. My Akita doesn’t bark, she crouches and bares her teeth, while very softly growling. I haven’t backpacked since then. I can deal with bears, cougars, crazy deer but not a stalker who means harm.
That's a terrible experience indeed. Maybe a random hiker as you say, but definitely a weird one. A normal man who accidentally runs into your tent would definitely say something to find out it's empty or not. His sneaky behaviour from the very start shows he was up to no good. I'm sitting at home while reading this and chills run down my spine.
My grandmother used to go to the nearby forests to pick blueberries in the summer all her life. Once, in her seventies, she was busy picking in a hot summer day and suddenly had a feeling she's being watched. She turned around and about ten meters from her, there stood a strange man looking at her. My grandmother froze for a moment, then said something like "Oh, hello! I didn't hear you coming. You scared me so much!" The man said nothing, but didn't stop staring at her. My grandmother grabbed her basket and slowly walked away while he constantly watched her until she wasn't out of sight. Never found out who he was or what he wanted. Since then, my grandmother never went to the woods alone. She noted that the fact the man remained silent after being adressed was the most disturbing.
I literally had something similar whilst camping on snowdonia at like 2am
@@CurtisWood-i3m Do you think you’ll ever go up again?
I was camping near Bremer Bay in Western Australia and had a similar experience. I got woken up by someone walking next to my tent in the middle of the night, was definitely a person because I could see their silhouette standing right next to me through the tent material. They were standing there quietly then all of a sudden they started urinating onto my tent, I was so upset I yelled and jumped out of my tent thinking it was going to be some drunken idiot.... Well it was a kangaroo... A kangaroo pissed all over my tent. 😂
Guess it was marking its territory
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That is such an Australian story! 😂
That’s brilliant 😂
Must have drank too much 4x 😅
I always carry a baby monitor with me, settled 3 metres away from my tent.Night vision, waterproof, works like magic.🤠
Oh this is clever
My God great idea
Great idea!
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What a great idea
Been here for half an hour reading people’s experiences. Some very scary stories to say the least. I should probably watch the video now
Nothing happens.
Same
Lol nice,, good watch, makes me wanna sleep good 🤷♂️☺️✌️📿
Same 😂😂😂
This comment read me 😂 I’ve been here way too long reading instead of wtching
My sister and her husband were not in a tent, but a small cabin in a remote area of Arizona. In the middle of the night they heard two loud shotgun-like bangs (WHOOOMPF WHOOMPF) right outside. They froze with fear. Then they heard two more, and then another. They were too scared to go outside and in too much of a remote area to call for any kind of help. They had no weapons. After a sleepless night they discovered in the morning that they left their beer in the freezer and it had all exploded.
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😂😂😂 husband needs to step up his security measures though. Firearms save lives😎
I don't think anyone should go camping alone as there so many creeps out there so glad you are safe
What about is you're a creep or/and lonny? It's actually a great way to meet other creeps and/or loonies
This is extremely rare. If you are concerned about something like this happening, get yourself a flashlight with an ultra setting that is blinding to humans, I have one. If I hit you with the beam on max settings you will feel eye pain for half an hour. If you can then also carry a firearm. Experiences like this should not scare anyone away from camping or hiking alone.
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I went camping alone on a Mt. where the roads were closed off to due to fires. 5 days there. Terrified the first night, scared the second night, 3rd night I was dancing naked around the camp fire while wielding 2 machetes, an axe hanging off my neck and bear spray can on my back. 4th night I was brave and listened to coast to coast alien stuff and regretted it. 5th day I left when the sun went down.
I did not mean this in a bad way but there are a lot strange people that are out there at night it could have some trying to scare you that all I meant
Had a similar thing fishing in France years ago, the locals had warned us about wild boar in the area, not really an issue I've had boar in camps before as soon as you make noise they run off. Woke up in the night by something that sounded huge digging around in the bushes behind my tent. I near craped myself it sounded so big. Shouted out and made some noise in tent, normally enough to scare animals off even wild boar, it didn't run off and only paused for few seconds. After about 10 minutes I finally got up the guts to jump out my tent with my torch.
It was a feckin hedgehog digging through the brambles at the back of my tent😂
I swear hedgehogs are the loudest moving wild animals. Possibly because you don't need to be quiet when you're spiky I guess!
Thought someone was crashing around in our front garden at 2am last summer, turned out to be a hedgehog rifling through the bushes so loudly I could hear it from upstairs with the windows closed 😅
They make a right racket
Still a hog of sorts, if only a little one. 😅
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Haha had the same. Love em
I've slept in the woods a lot. Also in bear and wolf areas. Sweden, Poland, Germany etc. I rarely use tents and usually sleep openly or under a tarp. 90% of the time some animal sneaks around the camp at night. You can hear mice, foxes or even birds. In the dark it all sounds like Big Foot.
@ Madman - wouldn't it be funn y if there WAS a Bigfoot sitting with his mates and saying, "Yeah, I walked right through the campsite and scared the shyte out of those poor bastards!! HA!"
Agreed , kangaroos hopping through and around my camp in the middle of nowhere in the dark ,freaked me out the first few times it happened
If Sabe walked through your camp , you won’t hear him ! You’d smell him !
You dont think thats unsafe?!
Especially when your ears are closer to the ground even a raindrop sounds like a brick 👍
I thought i was getting followed once in snowdonia by a group of young backpackers with cans of beer id seen earlier.
After setting up camp,after last light, i left a light on inside the closed tent and sat watching from a couple of hundred meters away. Sure enough they came close throwing stones and trying to scare me. The last laugh was mine though when i scared the shit out of them by banging rocks together.
Yeah because banging rocks together is super scary. 😂
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@@ChadFarthouse-h8r maybe it sounds like gunshots in the dead of the night?
@@ChadFarthouse-h8rif it’s pitch black and u hear loud clacking sounds you’re gonna be frightened idc what u say😂
Do this nonsense of scaring campers in North America and you will get shot.
Can't beat laying snug in sleeping bag in a tent listening to the rain - so soothing
It's even better in a hammock under a tarp 👍
I'm at that age, the rain on the tent would make me keep weeing all night! I used to be cool once you know 😄
Yea but not the noise of foot steps
It's even better when you do it in your house while you play some rain audio on your phone.
Don’t forget the footsteps
Is it weird that I'm watching this at midnight while in the middle of the woods trying to distract my self from what ever had beem lurking around my camp site for the past 2 hours
Damn
Your camping, surrounded by animals, wtf do I expect?
@@ianhayes3980 Bigfoot are known to scare away people by throwing rocks, too. Just sayin.
Werewolf is outthere
You alive bro?
I’m not even listening to the guy explaining what he’s doing, I’m just reading the comments 😂
Me too!!
Me tooo 😂
Same! 😂
Haha yeah, just reading the stories until the moment
Y y’all so cringe
My father used to go on long hikes over several days in the South of France. He was a very wary man who always refused to bring a tent and only slept in trees or in rock cavities, always with visibility of what was ahead and to the sides. He never slept where he ate and avoided light sources as much as possible. On two occasions he saw strange men roaming alone in the middle of the night, more than 20km from the nearest house. They were neither hikers nor hunters. Once he felt like he was being followed even though night had fallen and he was still walking with dim light. He crept into a bush and waited. Three minutes later a man took the same path, without a backpack, without a lamp and being careful not to walk too loudly. He was a very tough man and he has never gone back for a multi-day hike again.
This is spooky I need more
Don't bring a flashlight on walks... Ever
@@kmktruthserum9328 OR....you bring an incredibly powerful flashlight!! I have 55,000 lumen flashlight that cost $3000... it can literally turn a dark forest into daylight with one button...When I use that flashlight, it lights up everything and I would definitely see if someone was trying to follow me through the woods....
@@coolyoutubeluke My father did not move from this bush and waited for daylight to turn back, he did not even finish his route. His past as an elite soldier made him extremely suspicious and he only listened to his intuitions, leaving no room for error. He was convinced that this man was following him, waiting for him to set up camp and become vulnerable. He didn't hide in this bush because he was afraid, he always said that you had to be invisible in the wild.
I like this story.
If I was going camping alone, I buy a couple of cheap tents and set those up to make it seem like I’m not actually alone
if they were to secretly followed u and saw that u set up those fake tents, its overr😂
@@blunt1234good point
Still pretty smart tho, they might not have been watching 🤷♂️🫡✌️☺️📿
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Erm.... just get a good dog .... none will bother you and you'll have a friend for life 😊 😊
Done a solo wild camp in a very thick and remote forest in Scotland in 2002 and there was clearly two people walking around my tent about 3am (I heard them whispering to each other), at first I thought they were maybe just passing whilst out on a night hike to where i have no idea but I heard them again an hour later, I just lay in my sleeping bag all night trying not to be sick clutching my swiss army knife. When morning came there was a weird pattern made with sticks outside my tent which I now understand to be a satanic pentagram. I was always an avid outdoorsman but have never been a solo trip since.
Strange people seem to show up almost everwhere on earth, I’ve never actually told this story to anyone other than my wife and brother
Wow! I know the fear that one man brings, but two! And then to come back! I would have been found by some poor soul, catatonic and drooling.
Motion sensor lights you wrap around trees.. this is why I only want to camp out there in a travel trailer RV. People act crazy when outside civilization.
Pretty sure that was just Rab c Nesbit getting home with Jimmy
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That’s really frightening. glad your ok
long time forestry worker, slept in many tents over the years, come across many critters, bears get curious, wolves and coyotes wont really bother, mooses will attack the tent, out of all that i think the worst encounter was a army of racoons, and waking up to the big boy of the group unzipping my tent and reaching his little hand in looking for a snack.
Your lucky. I had giant wild aggresive dogs run into my tent and campsite about 10pm. All teeth and mean and nasty. Ever been stared down by a dog? I have! The size of great danes. Traumatized me. I can still see that terrible dog in my mind giving me that look and growling at us. I'm done camping. They are not afraid of you or your fire! Sitting by campfire, they came up behind us in the dark. We didn't hear or see them until they were in our face. Both black with long shaggy hair. Monsters! Beware!
Dude, had the same thing happen with raccoons. Could hear something big coming towards me. Flipped the light on and like 12 sets of orange eyes, staring. Freaky.
@@kennethrogers3687 should have blew its head off
Wow! Clever little things, with very capable ‘hands.’
@@goldenlass9488 the same one would take the liner out of my boot every night then bang the boot on the ground, hoping for a treat. you would hear cries of frustration throughout camp as the little buggers wreaked havoc. they would come over from the park across the highway. the rangers were wondering where they had went.
Dan, I've had bears, wolves, moose, deer, and porcupines wander into my camp but. I think hearing what I thought was a fellow human being wandering around my tent in the middle of the night, would add a whole new feeling of apprehension and primal fear. Of all the predators out there man is the most unpredictable of all.
I recently heard that two seniors wild camping in their camper van on a quiet road woke up to an extremely loud bang at 2 am, turns out some yobs had thrown bricks through the side windows and windscreen of their van at the same time. It scared them so much, they were thinking of selling off the campervan. It can be unnerving not knowing what is out there as you lay vulnerable in your tent.
Take care out there Dan!
Yes, I saw that one.. poor buggars.
Have a dog with you.
exactly, I am scared of young men attacking the tent, or setting fire to it. I have never heard of women doing this.
Having backpacked most of the Sierras, Cascades, and lately camping in the Uintahs, I have found the last decade or two, people are by far the largest problem in the wilderness. From stealing equipment to being a physical threat. That is why I now never venture into the bush unarmed.
That's why you keep a nifty, metal and polymer buddy easily accessible at all times.
Camped at a well known rest area one night in the semi arid desert of the Northern Territory. 2 busloads of 18 year olds from Europe turned up, and were excited to sleep under the stars instead of their tents. They had a great time. Clear night, the heavens full of stars = a magical time.
So it was nice to see a story in the comments from the creepers point of view 🫡
@Vicariousleighilive 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Wipe the zip down with a baby wipe, let dry and use a normal soft lead pencil. The graphite will allow the zip to run smooth and will not pick up dirt like candle wax. Stove looks mint.
This
The zip broke so need to sort that now
@@englishwoodsman yes noticed. I do use this tip on most tents, especially the cloud peak 2, zips can be a mare. Helps alot.
Never thought of a graphite pencil. 2B or not Ha!
@@moparmarkstpac it washes off. I use pencil crayons because they are graphite and wax and work very well.
Isn't it amazing how we can quickly discover that we still have all our primal instincts (and fears) when we find ourselves out there in the wild ?
excellent point!
When you think of prehistoric times and the darkness beyond the encampment it must have been horrifying. I have a theory that human evolution made teens stay awake all night specifically to keep the encampment safe. Which foe would attack an alert settlement of teens just ready for a scrap, none! Lol
I was just thinking about how darkness has basically controlled humans up until the invention of electricity. When it got dark out, it got *dark* . The fear of being snatched up if you’re surrounded by darkness has persisted from caveman times until today.
@@Brocuzgodlocdunfamdogson Good comment. I think that's the reason teenagers have different sleeping patterns. We make them fit into a modern world pattern they weren't meant for, instead evolution fashioned them to be up all night to keep the encampment safe. What or what/who would attack a settlement with boisterous teens wide awake and itching to fight
@@ITPFS
Oh 😁
I'm in Canada (north of Quebec), if I want to go out of town it's a 2 hours drive trough the forest before I see any sign of civilisation.
Last fall I took my 9 year old son on our first backpacking trip in the Oregon wilderness. It was night two, 10 miles in and we had a large lake to ourselves. We set up camp in a dense area of trees about 100 feet off the lake. It was cloudy that evening and when the sun set it was pitch black outside. Around 3 am I was awakened to loud footsteps I could feel and hear getting closer to our small tent. The ground was full of roots from trees so we could really feel the vibrations of something moving. I thought it was a black bear at first because it felt and sounded so big, I slowly and quietly grabbed my pistol And had it ready in case I needed it. Those few moments when the creature was quiet, as I listened, I was almost deafened by my thumping heartbeat. All of the sudden I heard an ear piercing noise of air being blown out of a snout that caused the blood to leave my face. I still didn’t move and whatever it was made the noise again, I finally got the courage to say “hey bear, you better get going” and seconds later I had sticks breaking and something moving through the dense bush up the hill away from us.
I didn’t sleep the rest of the night. The next morning I found big deer tracks around camp. Apparently deer make that noise sometimes. It’s crazy how vulnerable you feel wrapped in a bag laying on the ground with some thin tent material to “protect you”. Freaked me out but we moved lakes and slept one more night out there. I have since been back with two of my boys a few weeks ago and felt much better about getting over the bump in the night incident. Sometimes you just need to keep facing your fears and eventually you get over them.
That happened to me camping way in the backcountry of the sierra, was with my husky , had no gun but the bear didn’t want to leave.. he got a load of bear spray and I was up all night scared asf till morning
Bigfoot is always curious about stuff.
Deer arent something to mess around with. When my kids were small we hiked up into the Jefferson Wilderness in Oregon. It was our last trip of the year as it was September. We’ve been up there many times and never had a problem. And we never saw anyone. Before bed the boys and my husband went out to pee. I went after them. I heard something in the undergrowth, thinking it was the raccoon we’d seen playing by the lake earlier, I didn’t pay much attention….until the huffing and snorting started. I knew it was not the raccoon. As I was struggling to get my pants, a giant of a very angry buck mule deer came out of the shrubs straight at me. I kicked off the pants and boots and ran faster than I’ve ever ran, the buck on my heels shaking his great antlers. My kids and husband, heads sticking out of the tent were yelling “run mom run!” I dove into the tent and my husband zipped up the door. The buck snorted, pawed and paced around the tent all night. We didn’t get any sleep. The next day we stopped at a ranger station and the first thing he said was don’t you know you shouldn’t pee in a bucks territory during rutting season!
Honestly, these days I feel like a gun is mandatory if you want to do any kind of overnight camping.
Take me with you. I snore so loud, believe not even big foot would dare come closer than 2 miles from the tent.
My wife son and I used to go camping regularly during the summer months. On on such trip to Wells next to the sea we had put up our tent spent time on the beach then returned to make bacon butties for a late tea/supper. then we went to bed I went straight to sleep after a days driving. Then Bang Crash clatter! Intruder in the tent I got the heaviest thing available a two cell torch and un zipped the bedroom compartment door looked round and there it was! A big Hedgehog rifling through the empty plates and the frying pan! I took it out put it under the hedge and went back to bed Ten minutes later it all kicked off again the same hedgehog back in the tent. I had to open the car and put all the pots and pans in the car boot then carry the hedgehog some distance from the tent! what a night!
Tiny terror 😂
Dan get yourself a couple of trail cams to cover the front and back of your tent and campsite. It would give you some peace of mind to see what’s out there. Take care keep up the good work love your videos.
And they come in handy for other tasks as well.
I have two but I forgot to take them
But can you see what the trail cam is picking up instantly ( like a fancy baby monitor camera?)
@@betsygodwin8938 Depends on which one you buy.. But usually you check it out in the morning.
@@jonothandoeser so to late waste off lol
In the southern states of the US we just say, “I’m trying to sleep, if you wake me up again I’m shooting”
Hell Yeah!
Yep, that's exactly how we do it down here in Bama! 😅 You don't F-around with a man's sleep. It's just not done 😅
Lols
“So anyway, I started blasting”
I was camping north of Flagstaff, AZ when we heard something walking around our tent and car (glamping). I pulled out my handgun and racked the slide as loud as I could. Heard a voice say ‘let’s GtFOH’ and the footsteps went away. Finally peaked my head out the tent and saw a light bouncing around in the trees about 300 yards away.
Thank you for watching
Lol😂, They weren’t expecting that lolz.
In the U.K. we can’t even pack a Swiss Army knife due to the knife laws lol😂
I might get a pump action shotgun sound clip. Just the sound of it would make anyone shit themselves lol😂
@@BurtReynoldstash the most ridiculous thing ever. First they outlawed guns, so the law abiding citizens won’t carry them, only the bad guys. Then knives and blades became a problem now they are outlawed. What’s next? FORKS? Tire irons? Bats?
Outlaw the HUMANS, they are the problem.
@@BurtReynoldstash that's nonsense
@@BurtReynoldstashfunny that , i Carry a Victorinox huntsman for EDC in the uk and it is legal as long as you don’t use it in a illegal way and it dosent have a blade above 3inches and I think it cant lock but not sure on that bit . Also have a .177 glock 17 gen 4 i take with me when camping (with site owners permission of course ) has 500fps and is blowback its surprisingly loud too
People are generally unlikely to stumble across you at night unless you’re in an obvious spot, or they’ve seen you going in. I’m always careful about where and ( importantly) when I pitch camp. Bit of scrim net is also useful to break up the shape of the tent. ...
Lmfao depends on who you are. Sometimes more likely to be a person than an animal
@@TheB00tyWarrior Rather have the animal than another person. Animals are predictable.
I like to linger just outside the tents of homeless people to scare them in the night.
Oh I was camping in the Scottish Highlands once....middle of nowhere. Heard footsteps walking round and round my tent at 3am. I was absolutely terrified. Turned out to be cattle. Embarrassing... as I grew up on a farm 🤣🤣
It's understandable being more fearful of actual people out at 3am and their intentions. I'd worry about cattle too in case it decided to lay down on your tent whilst you are still in it 🥵
Wow. Not to sound dumb but isn't that where Brigadoon was supposed to have taken place?
Enjoyed your vlog Dave. With regard to security around the tent I use what Carp fishermen use. Bite alarms. You can set up loads around you to alarm the way you want !!!
What are bite alarms? Never heard of them.
Great idea! I should have thought of that. 🙂👍🏻
@@sandyfleming7516 usually a bell with a clip onto your fishing line if im not mistaken
Camping in Alberta at Pickle Jar Lake one time and we didn't hear a thing, we went to bed and there was no snow, when we got up there was 2 feet of snow, as we went to the bathroom there was a circle around the tent from a huge grizz.
I ALWAYS have things creeping around me at night, but I live in the US and camp in a massive forest, alone. Things come out and I often include them in my videos. It is fun to watch other people sharing similar experiences. I loved this video.
Keep them coming Dan, they may not be the most polished TH-cam videos but that’s why I like them, you saying it as it is with no scripted b.s. is what I like.
There's no need to overwork the videos, turner. That's what tv is about polished shit .. I just go for down to earth
@@englishwoodsmancan you recommend me a nice tent that'll be easy to set up and take down, and isn't that heavy.
I would like to know a really good backpack one that is good for traveling long distances without putting strain on yourself.
Agree..and a lot of sellouts once the channels gain popularity.
Turns into 1 long arse camping equipment commercial. 🥱
I always camp with an air horn.
An air horn SOLVES all your nighttime visitor problems.
I don't understand. If you're in the middle of nowhere, who would respond?
@@reesemorgan2259wut?
@@reesemorgan2259 night time critters scatter at the sound. i am not looking for help from a responder 🤣
@@reesemorgan2259dumbest person on the internet
Brilliant
Reminds me of one of the strangest experiences I had whilst camping. I was camping with a friend, on a campsite where we were close personal friends with the owners. We were the only two on the campsite, as the owners had left as it was only us, and so nobody was able to get onto the site without scaling gates (UK farm gates, so not hard to climb, but still very clearly a locked up site). For context the camp was also off the beaten track a little, as you had to either drive there (although there was no access by road due to gates being closed) or you had to walk up a busy road with no pavement for a few minutes.
At around midnight, we had both settled down and were just laying in our sleeping bags, when we heard the sound of liquid hitting the leaves outside the tent, almost as if someone was pissing outside our door. After about 20 seconds of the noise, it stopped, and we heard nothing for the rest of the night. We were both in the same tent and were absolutely positive nobody was out there, and we heard no footsteps, but it 100% sounded like someone pissing outside our tent. To this day we revere the mythical 'Piss Man' as we called him, since neither of us could explain what the noise was. In hindsight, probably just a badger or something, but it was definitely a strange experience.
I remember tenting at the New Forest many years back, woke up with stupid Horses brushing up against my tent. Sounded like the Demons had crawled out of hell lol
Sorry for the unsettled night. We have armadillos where I live, and they make a huge racket foraging through the leaves. Scared me to death the first time I was camping, but now when I hear them they make me smile and put me at ease -- I know that if they are around then nothing bigger than them is around. :) Hope you get your dream tent back in tip top shape.
There was this one time I was camping with my exs family. They are Vietnamese and arnt really outdoorsy people, probably couldn’t survive a 3 day trek if their lives depended on it. Anyways where we were camping had a lot of skunks that would wander into the camp into peoples trash. That night me and my buddy took some weed edibles I have epilepsy so he just wanted a small bit I warned him and only gave me a pinch 🤏. Maybe 10-15mg a small beginner dose, he also drank which made it worse. Anyways so he calls the night early or so I thought and wanders to his tent. I’m sitting around the fire with the family and we see a skunk these people are terrified of any wildlife so I go scare it off. As I’m following it out of camp I’m keeping a torch on it and I have a small group of the family behind me it went around a car so I followed it and out the corner of my eye I notice some movement next to the skunk I quickly shine the light and it’s my buddy he’s so messed up he’s playing in his own throw up and the skunk is literally right next to him. I quickly shushed away the skunk with the lights off and ran back to the family telling them I scared it off. He didn’t want them knowing he ate an edible, I had to run back and save the poor dude turns out he was trying to scare it away but he was so messed up he could only murmur 😂.
hell, squirrels and even small birds can make a hell of a racket in foliage I can stand still for 20 minutes while hunting only to find out it was a common bird foraging tidbits on the ground
Armadillo!!!!!....
@@quebecpatriot1874 don’t know how many times I’ve sat in a stand freaking out thinking there’s a deer nearby only to find out it’s a squirrel or small bird especially during sunrise 🤣
That little woodstove is a gem. It would've been great to have the times I was in the Maine woods in need of heat and cooking. It's kind of pretty with glass door.
Genuinely have been attacked whilst wild camping some years ago, middle of the night a group of lads kicked the shit out of the tent I was in, and obviously I couldn’t get out because I was wrapped up in it. They thought it was hilarious and ran off, I was terrified, being alone and in the middle of fields miles from anyone. I can only assume they were lamping and stumbled across me.
I hope that the arseholes that did that to you didn't put you off camping again,there is a lot to be said for keeping a wooden spiked bar with you once inside the tent for them to kick or a long sharp camping knife that sticks out.
I had that happen years ago travelling around Australia on a motor bike in a done tent but I had a Velcro slit on the back of the tent and a massive bull terrier and I let him out lol
A old biker told me about drunk young guys setting his tent on fire when he was camping off the road so he put a back door on his tent so I did the same and sure enough I needed it
yes, it is the groups of men that scare me, I sometimes wonder if they will set light to the tent. Drunks and druggies and other anti social youths.
@@matthewwalker6621 Yes, I like tents with two doors, so you have a quick escape route if something happens
I'm American and out here people know better. Lots of campers carrying handguns for safety from bears and etc lol.
In Texas, we have armadillos that come through the woods like tanks. They’re super loud!
I love this, takes some courage to go out by yourself and camp.
Good video and it was interesting.
He wasn't alone lol duh
The stove is a different design from twig stoves: a broad base of embers and a tower of flame make a lot of concentrated heat at the top of the tube. Thank you for showing us something different on the market.
Your very welcome mate
This is why i use aspects of stealth camping no matter how i am camping. Especially solo
I had a similar experience and noticed someone walking around my tent quietly... i jumped outside with my flashlight and it turned out to be a COW! it scared the living crap out of me. 🤣 i felt better knowing there were a few curious cows sleeping a few feet away from my tent.
cows love to smash things over, and I wouldn't be surprised if they'd trod over a tent out of curiosity with you inside.
@@consuminglight i guess i was lucky, the cows were afraid of me and kept their distance when they saw me.
Flashed me back to Kern River Valley in California. Heard world's largest bear outside my tent moving around. After a few moments, I opened my tent to an eagle staring at me.
Bwah ha ha! Classic!
Quick underwear change after? 😂
I can imagine how grateful you were that the eagle chased the bear away
@@ggggloveking9419 he thought he heard a bear, but it was an eagle
Wow
I don't go into the wilderness at all unless I have my dog with me. He's a stout lab/pit mix with the face of a sweet lab but has the body of a muscled pitbull. As result, people keep a wide berth even though he is generally adult friendly.
One day, I was hiking a trail with him just after a light rain so it was misty and wet which meant not a lot of people where going to be around. Though the woods were beautiful, I was slightly creeped out since i couldn't see too far ahead due to the mist. As I'm walking, I see a hooded figure ahead of us on the trail. It spots us and darts into the woods. Unfortunately, I can turn back because at this point me and my dog are heading back to the car which was another 10 minute walk ahead of us. So I have it in my mind maybe it was a jogger and not some creep that was going to attack us and I could no longer see this person anymore anyway.
About 2 minutes or so after we pass the spot I intially saw the hooded figure, my dog suddenly whips around and starts growling menacingly. I've never seen him do this so it startles me and I look back. It's the hooded figure again and he's a few paces behind us. He looks like his face is dirty and he's clutching something tightly in his hand. I tell him my dog is not friendly (a lie) and that he needs to keep his distance otherwise my dog will lunge and I'm worried I can't hold him.
The hooded figure doesn't respond and my dog starts to get really angry. This seems to convince the figure and it turns around and walks in the other direction.
Needless to say I have my dog all the best dog food and treats i could find in the petstore that day
Fake
Stay away from the N and you will be fine
Carry weapons
Lol
@@BeautifulDove-i7u the dog was the weapon
Love the little cooking stove.So neat compact and efficient.What a classic for camping.Cheers.!.
I've been hunting, fishing and camping all round the uk I can mostly tell the difference between animal and or human once I woke up about 2am to the sound of something I had never heard before after laying there for a few min it got louder and all of a sudden I revises it was a lion I jumped up and thought I was hearing things this went on for hours and I bearly slept a wink eventually I fell back asleep when I got up in the morning I realised I has only about a mile away from a safari park and what I heard was indeed a lion.. always makes me laugh the first time people hear a muntjac screaming in the breading season I lost count of the amount of times I've woken up to mates saying they haven't slept a wink as they thought someone was being murdered I sleep through most of it nowadays
I believe you. I do a lot of camping here in Oregon and Washington U.S.A. and the only thing that was truly dangerous was the a hole I made the mistake of inviting to camp with me. I have a little dog that sleeps with me in my sleeping bag, she’s definitely a radiator so soft and cuddly.
This is the A Hole you invited to camp with you and your dog, all I wanted to do was snuggle with you and Toto ....
Never invite a man to your camp.
I would be interested to know more if you feel like sharing.
There was a time a camped at the mountains close to where i live. I went out in the winter and forgot my heater buddy. The person i was with has Raynauds. What we packed wasn’t enough so i had to pack up my RTT. While i was doing that someone just came out of nowhere and was standing behind me by about 20-25 feet. Never heard them walk up to my site and it looked like they were wearing a thick jacket with the hood having fur. I was a little intoxicated and the ground was covered in snow. They never talked to me or made any noises. I don’t remember seeing footprints either.
When i was trying to talk to this person i noticed another guy behind a tree probably 50-60ft. I started working facing them so they could see the .44 magnum on my chest. The person i was with stayed in the car so she could warm up while my truck was idling. She asked me who i was talking to, and i just told her i was talking to myself, but grab my rifle just in case. Nothing happened but it’s pretty creepy looking back on it now.
Just poop in a bag and use it as a hand warmer.
Use the damaged bag to cut a few patches and glue them over the holes on the inside. That way its the same colour.
A bar of soap is what I use on all of my zippers and it works great any old bar soap will do just rub it along the teeth and it'll do just fine. Happy camping!
One perk of being in the woods, plenty of places to dispose of the visitor!
I agree 100% the cooking and eating outdoors brings out something primal. It's fun and can be really peaceful and therapeutic.
My first time i'd encounter a creepy things during camping..In the middle of the night I heard a sound with different tone that keeps me awake..as I listened carefully I found out that it was coming from the other tent..my friend snooring loudly like he has an orchestra inside him😂😂😂😂
me.and my partner wont camp anymore unless on a proper campsite after we were woken at around 3am by footsteps around our tent and heard male voices sounded like they were rummaging through what equipment we had left outside the tent. never again it made mw realise just how vulnerable we were. very scary !!
Get a Kangol dog! Problem solved
And you think you are safe on a "proper camp site"? We have had loads of problems and been robbed on camp sites.
Just be ready to kick ass life is not all sunshine and rainbows.
safety in numbers 😅. bit of a difference between some other random camper sneaking across n pinching ya windbreaker than men hanging round your tent in the middle of the night in the forest .
@@baileyboo198 if someone is motivated to stay out in the woods with thermal and NV waiting to do harm to somebody staying out there you have no chance no matter how many of you there are.
hence why we don't wildcamp anymore lol.
It's a nice little stove that does it all...from heating to cooking to ambiance. It's cute with its decorations the 🦌 deer and the ✨ stars at the end. I saw Grizzly Gaz has something similar.
I’ve been playing with the idea of getting one
One time in high school i took some mushrooms on a camping trip. We had a great time and then a small storm came up and we decided to retire to the tents. Head someone outside and freaked out, turned out it was a park ranger telling us to put the fire out because of wind blowing embers. Still will never forget the feeling you get from someone walking up on you in the middle of nowhere and in the dark.
Thanks for the video Dan, not sure what's with all the downvotes. Keep up the good work mate me and the family enjoy your videos.
Love the stove / pan combo!
A Y shaped stick stuck in the ground would give the long handle some support and avoid tipping. You could use that to move the main pan off the heat and create a spot with less intense heat.
Great video mate, thanks for sharing!
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Could also make or have made a larger cross pot stand.
Cool s1aitken, the y stick idea.
The stove almost has a rocket stove draw to the fuel. If there was a 'half pipe' design to that side door and keep the opening angled up it'd keep the embers from spilling out. I was fretting the uncleared area catching on fire esp if he was going to be in the tent gazing at it further away and get drowsy.
I did an outdoor solo for 72 hours as part of a self development course on a remote property in New Zealand’s South Island. Each night different animals would come past, the possums were the nosiest and nosiest smelling out my food and fighting in the night. One the second night I head something larger rustling about in the woods, got up with my head torch on and my undies, it was a wild pig that got spooked and ran up a hill that was behind where I have erected my bivouac. Freakiest part was it stopped part way up and turned to look at me, eyes lit up glowing green from my head torch. The mind races, especially when the surroundings are foreign to you, you’re by yourself and it’s night time. Weirdest part though was on the final morning of the stint, I woke in the early hours to a full vibration coming through the ground. Felt like a mechanical whirring, put my ear to the ground and could hear/feel the vibrations, faint and subtle but real. Wasn’t overly unserved by it and absolutely nothing it could of been that was nearby, no obvious machines, no irrigation systems. Was cool and odd. Never figured it out
Love the sound of the rain on a tent ❤😊
I've had this happen before at my camp before too, and it's a VERY unsettling experience.
Stove is neat. Love the designs and the glass feature. You could use an extension as a chimney on a hot tent so double up on use
Happened me a couple of times. Nothing as scary really. Although one time we were awakened at sunrise by the sound of automatic gunfire, and it wasn't too far away either. Turns out the area we were camping in was used for "training" by paramilitaries (I'm from N.Ireland)
Oh ah up the
@@BUDDHAZE ah nope, from the area we were in it was the other ones.
Where was this? So I can avoid it haha. I am from NI too
While I was camping alone in Sweden, few years ago, some elks were wondering around my tent at night and this REALLY creeped me out... 🙈
We don't have elk so that would creep me out too😂 red deer perhaps?
@@mattiaslarsson8000 I meant moose of course, my mistake 🤣
why are people acting like this is so rare. If you're not camping in some designated campground you get a lot of visitors. I always get opossums and raccoons walking around. First time I ever camped, I had a mountain lion hissing at me. Usually the person's fault, cuz I did food prep where I slept. As for the mountain lion, I was stealth camping in a canyon where there was a known cougar presence.
They are loud! I had a whole heard traveling through my campsite in Yellowstone National park and it TERRIFIED me when I first heard it!
Get a trail cam with blue tooth/wireless connectivity with nightvision. You can set up a camera on a tree facing your tent with a wide view of the surroundings and you can connect to it via a cellphone to see a live feed.
That's a bit excessive for a jolly in the woods, we are not spec opps here.
I'm not sure if being waken up like that or sleeping through something like that is worse. I woke up to a party the animals had with my trash that I thought I'd secured and heard nothing. If it'd been something bad or would have gotten me.
Edited to add: I've heard so many accounts of people cutting tents to remove sleeping children I put mine with me in a double sleeping bag. He can't go anywhere without me knowing and nobody can get to him without going through me but I don't want him to have to live with that.
That little stove is the cutest!! 🦌💚🦌
Unfortunately there are definitely oddballs that do wander around in the dark. I hitched and camped a lot in my twenties and had two occasions where someone tried to get into my tent. First time was up in Scotland at around two in the morning when I was woken up by someone unzipping the tent. I woke up and in a startled state asked them what they were doing (it’s amazing how quick you wake up completely!) and to be fair whoever it was apologised and disappeared quickly (they sounded dazed and confused so I assumed it was a drug user).
Second time it happened was much scarier, down near Bodmin on a hitch from Birmingham to Cornwall. Camping up in the castle grounds near the main road, I was woken at four in the morning again by someone unzipping the tent. I immediately asked told them to leave but was met with a a few seconds silence before the person said ‘I want to suck your co*k’. Well you can imagine I absolutely bricked myself at this stage realising the seriousness of the situation before saying I didn’t need this right now and to leave me alone which was followed by a scary silence that went on for a few minutes. Obviously unable to sleep, I eventually decided to get out and with a tent peg in my hand ready to stab the nutter outside if I had to defend myself. I leapt out of the tent to find nothing but a wall of fog surrounding my tent. Properly shaken by this stage I packed up the tent and headed back to the main road where the sun was starting to rise (being summertime) and caught a hitch out of there an hour later.
Horrible experience but it didn’t stop me hitching or camping but I was a happy man to eventually get a camper van later in my forties which is always safe, snug and secure.
Damn, man or woman?
@@LFG7 both were men. I did a lot of hitching and camping by roads and near towns in my twenties so these were unusual experiences, the vast majority of the time it was safe. But of course, the nearer to humans you are, the more you need to be aware of what can happen and so at least be mentally prepared to defend yourself.
@@mooskamoo that would've shit me up, if it was a woman I might've just heard her out😂. Good to hear it was an anomaly, I've been wanting to start camping soon
@@LFG7 yea don’t let these things hold you back. The benefits, fun and adventure I got from hitching so many years was well worth the odd bad experience, and even those make a good story later in your life. The UK is actually very safe to camp around, biggest problem is the ‘get off my land’ brigade 😂 but as long as you set up late and leave early there’s practically zero chance of any problems.
This is really scary man. Feels like everyone in the comments has had experience with weirdos during the night
Creepy stuff! Normally sleeping in a tent with rain coming down would be ideal sleeping conditions, but not with twigs breaking underneath the feet of something lurking outside.
Its me a apex predator
Great content as ever ❤
The HONEY STOVE is the one and only you will ever need. Absolutely the BEST camping product I have ever bought. Hands down.
Yeah it’s scary. I was in a sleeping bag next to the fire no tent. Woke up in the morning to heavy canine breathing in my ear. I peeked out of my bag and saw coyote feet and legs everywhere. Looked like about ten of them. I jumped up and screamed like a banshee. All I saw was dust going around a curve in the trail. I think I scared them worse than they scared me but it was not a fun way to wake up.
I died laughing reading this comment I get it’s scary but the way I envisioned it is hilarious. They probably were wondering what just leaped up and yelled 😂
@@leviwisuri782 Oh yeah it’s funny now.😂😂
@@Mike-mm8nz I had a similar experience. Except it was a squirrel. It was scratching my tent and I woke up to it and everything sounds louder at night I thought it was a bear trying to get in and it took about 5 minutes of panicking before I realized it was a tiny animal and fell back asleep lol. I woulda died if I woke up to coyotes
@@leviwisuri782 Lol, squirrels always sound huge. Armadillos are even worse.
Back in the 1890s in Northern Australia, some natives with spears snuck up on a Scotsmans permanent camp to finish him off. The long bearded long haired Scotsman walked out buck naked into the moonlight playing his Bagpipes. Legend has it he scared those natives for miles around and never had any trouble since.
Who else thinks Dan needs an outdoor WildLife Camera for his ventures ?! 💤💯👍🐯🐅🐆🐈⬛🐈🦁🦓🦬
I have two but I alway forget them
A dog. A big fking mastiff. Let’s see who pokes around with that big boy on guard.
Yes a trail cam
Glock 19
And a firearm
I would like to enjoy camping same way you do but I always like to be in a camp ground, park or near to civilization. Scares me a bit to be alone in the middle of nowhere, cause you never know if some criminals are hiding out in the Forrest or mountains. I enjoy a lot watching your videos, thank you for sharing.God bless
As soon as i seen that wood stove i ordered one for me and my son. Thats the coolest little stove i have ever seen. ❤
Went camping with my girlfriend a few weeks ago in a super remote area in Nevada. Drove 30 miles down a closed road to get to some hot springs. My little awd suv took a beating getting into the campsite, but it was late and we were determined to find what looked like some pristine and large pools! Oddly, I slept unusually well, it was nice and cold out but we had lots of blankets and a good sleeping bag. Another reason was because I figured there was an extremely low chance of anyone being out there. We had even driven down a road to get to a little hidden campsite. I woke up with a start at 6am when it was barely light out and peaked out the tent while saying something loud and unintelligible. It was a herd of (wild?) donkeys checking out our car and tent. Also, turned around to look at the car to see one of the tires completely flat. Had to change it, but worried the spare wouldn’t hold up!
I love that stove!! I want to get one. I like the idea of the heat AND the cooking ability.
About 7-8yrs ago a woman I worked with had her nephew "pass away". Turned out he enjoyed camping solo, he went up near Heinze Dam at the back of the gold coast in QLD, Australia. His body was found mutilated by knife wounds in his tent, attacked while sleeping. Horrible for the family, i cant imagine.
I subscribe to a British ladies YT channel wild something,, and she solos all the time. Man or woman, its not good to be alone in the woods (bush). 😮
Wild Beare? Did you see the one where she camped near a haunted church? 😮
I think we might be subscribed to the same one? She stayed 3 times in a stone hut (without a roof) on a mountain?
Call bullshit on this story.
@lewistivey yeah, and the tarp setup was pretty ridiculous. Half of me thinks she plays dumb for the videos . But I think her more recent videos she's much better prepared and...skilled 😅
@@ahj3225 why?
Just watching the intro with rain pouring on tent, really made me want to go camping. I’ve never actually done it but would love to. Has to be really cold and really wet. Unfortunately, I have permeant tinnitus, in both ears so I doubt I’d sleep well but the overall experience, would be great.
What's stopping you? Genuine question.
@@douglasfreeman3229 to be honest, I don’t have anyone to camp with. I guess I could do it with my dog 😭
do it, bring your dog so you have your own alarm. solo camping is fun@@grahamkelly8662
Awesome!! Camping is one of my favorite outings!! I like your stove and your tent. Cheers!
Cool little stove. I need one like that for my house when power goes out
As an American, I wasn't sure what the issue was with hearing movement outside the tent. It's very common when camping here to have black bears, which are typically harmless and just want food, or wolves in your camp at night. No brown bears for me in California, which can be more dangerous than black bears, but there are brown bears everywhere else. I was shocked to learn that bears and wolves are extinct in England! That would make things a bit spookier. Bears can be dangerous, but I'd rather have them sniffing around than a human that could be up to no good!
The only thing we fear in the UK is our selves no wild animal in the UK is a threat only another person and we dont have guns to protect our selves from people who want to do you harm
Just want food??....but WE'RE food for bears!!! 😮
@@debrawebster1356we have a few things...chavs, aggressive dogs , Badgers....and ofcourse chavs with aggressive Dogs hunting Badgers!
@@billdoor3140 not for black bears.
@@j.l.61 bit racist mate
Saw a story of two hiker girls thst got me terrified. Around the middle of the night they heard noises walking around their separate tents and thought it was the other one going to pee, so neither said anything. I can’t remember how the interaction started but I think the strange man opened one of the tents and say he thought they were his ‘friends’, which he said giggling. She shook him off and he left. They woke up in the Morning and talked about it, still scared. Only when packing up did they see the man cowboy sleeping not farther than a few yards from them….
God! I’m a dude and go hiking alone but fuck if any laws stop me from bringing self defense items.
No one’s touching my bum
Exactly. You put a bullet into a bad guy, out in the woods, who’s going to know you did that? And you saved your life, which was the goal.
Well, sir, you answered an important question or two that I wanted answered, and I’ve been camping since I was a little girl, and spent time in the army besides. :-)
It only seems right, to give back a little something:
I’ll start off by telling you about the places I usually camp, so you’ll be able to judge if my ideas will also work in your area:
I live in an area that gets many feet of snow in the winter time, sometimes higher than the first story of the houses. It also gets to be “Squeaky cold”. That is to say, it’s got to be about -25 or colder in order to make the snow squeak when you walk on it, And doesn’t get much more than 35° in the summer at the hottest.
There are times when we get rain for more than three weeks.
So those are the conditions that I camp under.
The most experienced campers that I know, carry a little bit of duct tape/gun tape with them. Spontaneous things can happen causing damage to the tent, so it’s nice to be able to just put a quick patch of tape over it, and know that you’re not gonna get rained on. You can either leave the tape on for years, or you can wait to get home and patch it properly.
Now when it comes to zippers, I find that soap works a right treat, Assuming that the zipper is just sticky and may be a bit dusty. Otherwise, you may have to take a pair of pliers and snug up the zipper pull, particularly if there’s a chance that it’s had tangential force applied to the zipper, and possibly stretched the Metal on one side of the pull.
If you’re not totally comfortable adjusting zippers, or sewing, figure out which one of your buddies knows a little bit about sewing and has a machine if you don’t already, and work out a system with him or her, to show you what to do. It’s not too hard once you get started.
You could replace your stuff sack, Particularly if there’s anything else wrong with it, but if it’s just a band torn off, it looks like there’s plenty of space there to just take the stitches out of the top of the band, then trim the top inch or so off the bag, so that you’re past the point of the rip, with an even end to the bag, and then just so the band back in place again. It would be as good as new, just an inch shorter. And you get to keep the original stuff sack.
You know sometimes the tents that you have to do a little work on to begin with, turn out to be the best. I have a few tents in my collection, but my favourite is one that I got when I first got out of university, and was in trouble with my health, so I had to move to the city to live near the hospital to deal with my health, once I was actually out of the hospital.
So I really didn’t have much money. I went around to a secondhand shop and asked if they had any used tents; it was the strangest thing; the proprietor said that they didn’t carry them and they hadn’t had one in a very long time, but their son had one, and he had been trying to destroy it to keep his son from going out in the woods, as he and his wife were afraid for the sons well-being out in the woods. (!) He said he had tossed it out behind in a bit of swamp, and stomped it into the mud, doing his best to cause damage.
I was desperate to go camping, so I rescued that tent, and washed it by hand, at home on the lawn. Then I did a little patching, and it cleaned up pretty well.
everyone I know around here, when they get a tent whether it’s brand new or not, at least once a year will take that tent and take it outside in the sun and soak it down without the fly on it, let the sun dry it completely, and then soak it down with the FLY. Because even the most expensive fabric relaxes after a bit, and needs to be tightened up. When the weave is tightened up, there’s less chance of moisture coming through the tent.
Once that’s done, the tent gets waterproofed, and all the seams treated.
Until those things happen, most of us won’t use the tent. Even brand new.
So the tent you got there is not a bad situation. It would not be hard to fix up, and it might even turn out to be your favorite, particularly if it’s got the two layer system going on, including a mesh layer.
of all the tents that I have and have had, that one that I had to rescue, is by far my favorite. The fly goes all the way to the ground and has a snow skirt on it, so the wind can never blow up under the skirt and cause problems; and I can take it snow camping. that’s really not something I’ve been able to find when I’ve been out shopping for a new tent.
There’s something about that tent that beats everything else I’ve ever had hands-down.
Jesus lady
Many thanks for another interesting video. The wood stove looks great.
As you mentioned, candle wax is good for zips. For holes that small in the tent I would get a tube of seam sealer. It has lots of other uses too like making things non slip.
Thankyou for watching
Don't know if Bigfoot is present in your area, but an Airhorn works great! What ever was outside your tent last night, if you do a couple of blasts from your Airhorn, It will scare the heck out of whatever was lurking about.
LOL!
Dogman
It happened to me too. I would do the7 hour drive up to the Ocoee River to kayak and would park on a forest service road. It was wide, so I wouldn't block it in an emergency. I was actually told about this place by a forest ranager. I would arrive around 2 am, set up my tent and go to sleep. After several visits, I was awakened by a car door slamming and footsteps. Walked past the tent and then it got quiet. Well, it turned out that it was bow hunters going in at dark to set up. Very unnerving to say the least. As it got colder, the hunters were carrying guns.
I almost walked into a tent at night when someone was wild camping. I was taking my lurcher out for a few rabbits. They picked a terrible place to camp. It was right on the edge of an open field near a path. The dog found them easy. We tried not to disturb them. But Try using a bivi bag in the undergrowth for cover it's less obvious. It doesn't bother me if people are camping. I don't care But their are better ways of staying hidden then using a tent. If you hear a dog just don't attack anything outside your tent in confusion. My lurcher has value as a good hunter. I would really be angry if he got hurt. And in self defence he could bite. There will always be a lot going on at night. More then you think. Rabbits, badgers, foxes, rats, weasels, stoats as well as the odd lurcher. If I'm out at night, and I am tired, I find somewhere quiet to kip out during the day under a wool blanket and a poncho if it rains. Make a bed out of bracken and old leaves. Keep your boots on. Don't take anything you can't fit into a shoulder bag. A shopping bag is best. Make a hide from an old camo net. Don't take a knife unless it's street legal. By the way I can smell woodsmoke and cooking from a mile away especially at night. Try an alcohol stove for stealth and boil in a bag stuff. It seals the smell in. I only have to eat a ham sandwich on my doorstep to attract a fox. A lot of them have lost their fear. So your bound to attract something. If you want to take more your better off on a campsite. Keep it simple otherwise. I wouldn't be without the dog though. Early warning system, and their warm. And hide your rabbits, the snares, and your catapult.
You sound like an interesting fella to have a beer with 👍🏻
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The holes can be patched with Sugru inside and out. The zip can be fixed by running a candle or wax crayon on both sides of the zip. Use Nikwax on the main tent and seam sealant on all the seams. It should be good to go.
It's amazing in the middle of the night in the rain out in the country, there's still someone around. ANd they want to fill us up with more and more
To fix your zip ..
There are two flat glides on the back of the zip , sometimes they splay out , get a flat pliers and make the guides square against the rest of the steel in the zip . . Just go easy as it's weak metal , squeeze the two guides and shape them square . .
Fixes every zip type . .
I do it a bit at a time , run the zip through a few times . It's not the plastic zip that's the problem it's the splayed guide .
Thank you for your comment
The person your hearing walking around your tent I’m going to say it’s the other person you have camping with you I seen him in the back ground a few times
When you was cutting wood I saw ahead other guy. He was picked wood and camping there too.
Great video, the ⛺ tent are very great.
Thank you.
I hate it when that happens.. I was on the Platte river camping along the bank and I guess about midnight I heard something two legged walking through the water going up stream! Scared the shit out of me
Since you are not traveling far, you could always bring a trail cam with you, and set it up to face the tent.
Fun to know what happens around the camp when the lights go out.
Just set it a bit away, because those IR lights are about a visible as a flashlight.
I had 3 stolen from behind my home because of the IR lights, so I had to put them way high up, and bolt them down.
Choo choo choo. Ahh ahh ahh
@@actuary33 True. You might catch a night train going through the camp. Who knows?
I honestly can't think of one single time that I didn't hear something in the night over my many times in the woods. And there were times that I heard something that scared me a little too.
You should set up a mobile trail cam and point it at your tents before turning in for the night....it would be cool to see what wildlife comes around
I have 2 but I always forget them
First thing I would have walked and checked for tracks!
I see that didnt cross your mind?
Back in the 70s, i went camping a lot with my husband and friends. Deep in the woods in Oklahoma, we set up camp, and everyone went out for a hike. This particular time i stayed behind. I can't remember why because i loved hiking. i suppose i was tired. After they had been gone about 45 minutes, i was sitting by the fire, and I had an overwhelming feeling of being watched. It was terrifying. I had never experienced that before. I got in our tent and zipped myself up in my sleeping bag in a panic. After a few minutes, i heard large two-legged footsteps approaching. Heavy footsteps. Stopped outside the tent, i was shaking, trying not to breathe. Then, this (creature) was sniffing , i could see its shadow, it was massive. In the distance, i could hear my husband calling me he was coming back to camp. Whatever was outside the tent took off. My husband had come back to check on me because he said he had a strange feeling i was in danger. He saved my life . That was the most frightened ive ever been.
So strange and very wierd that some people would choose to wander around someone's property in the early hours of the morning. Those people need to get a life!
Sounds like a sasquatch was outside your tent. I had this happen to me in the back woods of the most northern part of Yosemite. You should have looked for footprints.