How I Spent My Christmas - Solo Camping in the Rain
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- Solo Wild Camping in the rain and 100+ km/h winds, in my brand new tent. On Christmas eve I hiked up a mountain in the dark and spent a sleepless night while my tent got battered by rain and wind. At 4am I decided to call it quits and packed up and headed to the nearby mountain hut to try and get a few hours of sleep.
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Sadly these days I am not able to hike rough ground so I have to enjoy all of the gorgeous Backcountry of New Zealand via your videos. We went to New Zealand for our third time in October/November of 2024 and still live it.
Your Christmas adventure looks great. Good story to tell around future campfires. 😊
I think the eating Pringles at 4am was my favourite part 😂 Note to self - tent may be storm proof but you get bugger all sleep !!
Haha thanks mate! Yeah not much sleep was had! But the Pringles were good!
Cheers
Hey Zeb good to see you back on deck with a reel. Pretty freaky weather but that's NZ at Christmas time. Only thing missing was a bit of snow ❄️. Love your enthusiasm. Take care and stay safe Eddie 😎🙏
@EdwinMonk thanks Eddie! Yeah the weather is always weird at Christmas.
Cheers
How good Zeb! Awesome to see the footage from this mission!
Thanks Georgia!!!
Good on you for bailing when you did and great there was a hut near by. Amazing to be alone in such a nice wee hut too will have to add it to my list.
@wadly312 thank you! Yeah i could've stayed in my tent but I had work the next day and wanted to get some sleep haha.
Cheers
Thanks for another enjoyable vid bro. You’ve got a great attitude. Very cool.
@gared6389 glad you enjoyed it! Cheers mate, I try to remain positive.
Thanks for watching
Good Way to Test the new Tent Bro 👍
@woofwoof9647 definitely a good way. It's a sturdy one!
Cheers
Woah - that was an exciting trip! An awesome story for the re-telling with a video to back you up. Nice one.
Thank you, it was an epic trip!
Enjoying your videos, I would have so loved that! Ahhhhhhhhh so fun,
@@samieyjoannah thank you! It was a good trip.
Cheers
Good test for the new tent, BK, glad you didn't get blown off the mountain! Great to see you making videos regularly again. Cheers.
@rickkearn7100 Thanks Rick! I've been on a few trips recently and got some more ideas aswell! I'm glad to making regular videos again.
Thanks heaps.
There’s a reason they have to tie down huts and now you know what that reason is. What a trip! Great to see you back making content. Happy New Year!!
@@allye5949 thank you! Yeah it was blowing an absolute gale!
Happy new year!
Happy New Year Dude
@woofwoof9647 thanks mate!
Happy new year to you too!
The Barrett Cup & BRS 3000 stove, is still my lightest Cook kit too. Had a similar situation last week, turned up at an empty hut at 10pm, just crashed in hut, it’s just not worth risking the tent so I’m glad yours wasn’t broken. Happy new year fellow adventurer 👋
Thanks Dave! It was nice to know if had the hut to bail to nearby.
Cheers
Awesome vid mate. Was this Christmas just been 2024 or one before that? Cheers
@@TMichael1991 this was Christmas 2023. Cheers!
Great video and looked like a "fun" night ;)
I've yet to encounter any really bad weather in my Mont Moondance so it's reassuring to see it stand up pretty well to conditions like that.
Yeah it'll handle the jandal!
Cheers mate
I was at Minchin Biv the same night, I started walking in on the 21st, and the forecast for the whole week was raining or about to rain but just got a smattering of rain on Xmas Eve/Xmas Day. What a difference a valley makes 😂
@garyk0 oh cool! Yeah crazy how the weather can be different another valley over. To be honest though, a night in minchin biv in a storm would be pretty cool!
Did you do the minchin pass route into the taramakau?
Cheers
@BackcountryKiwi No, I had so much fun bush bashing and wading my way up to the Biv from Linwood Creek, that I just wanted to do it all over again on the way out. Besides, my car was at Andrews Shelter. The gravel up behind Minchin Lake would be a good place to camp a night. Kiwi tracks everywhere when I walked through.
😂 your a legend mate
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They say only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun .. you my friend are a bloody mad Kiwi going out in the midnight rain and wind .. lol. What a tent test. Glad you survived Christmas even if it wasn't quite so Merry. Great vlog mate this one's gunna be hard to beat. Happy New Year 2025 guys. Bushyboy Oz.
@ewengillies9826 thanks heaps mate! Really appreciate it.
Yeah it was a fun one.
Cheers
Definite flash backs to being in a tent in horrendous wind and rain like that, not fun. Stayed positive as you do but it would have been good to get home I’m sure. Look forward to the next one - cheers!
@tleej26 thanks TJ! Yeah it was nice to get some sleep haha.
Cheers!
Enjoyed this video mate. Interesting summer we're having isn't it? 14oC in Welly today :-(
Oh yeah it's a chilly one! It was similar up north in the waikato. Weird weather. Hopefully it warms up again!
Cheers
Hi Zeb, I was going to say youre bloody mad but then I got to think of the (crazy) fun things we did in younger years so instead, Im saying great video, well done and what a great way to spend Christmas.
Cheers.
@FrancisBedford-sv3pz thanks heaps man. It was a great way to spend Christmas!
Cheers
I want to do something like that tbh,
@@samieyjoannah do it! Be safe and have fun!
Merry Christmas and HYN, wow what a memorable Xmas that was... Good old Carroll Hut being there for some decent kip after a wild night! I bought exactly the same tent last year and have used it once (injury prevents me from camping for now) but found it to be a pretty versatile tent. Like you I went for the FN. What made you choose that model? Guessing you'll be doing some winter adventure funsies. Look forward to those as with all your videos, they are highly entertaining. Nice one.
Thank you! Happy new year to you too.
Sorry to hear about your injury, I hope you can get out soon.
I went with the fn as it will perform a bit better in colder conditions but I can still unzip it for more ventilation. Its a pretty bombproof tent and nice and roomy for a one person.
Cheers!
Hey Zeb, I absolutely love your videos! Is that the Macpac Nitro fleece you are wearing? Do you recommend it? It looks like a nice light weight warm option. Thanks :)
@courtney4849 hi Courtney.
Thanks heaps! Yeah this is the macpac nitro. I really rate it as a good active insulating layer. I'm using the women's version because I didn't want the pocket that the men's has.
Cheers
@@BackcountryKiwi Thanks heaps 😊
Zeb, that tent company should give you a free tent! That was great marketing for them!
Great to see ya buddy! Take care.
NQU
@@notquiteultralight1701 haha thanks mate!
Hope you are having a good start to your new year.
what sort of tent did you get mate? Plus, your a mad man and you made great time!
thanks for letting us know which tent you have
@@johnrutter3985 thanks man! Yeah it's a mont moon dance 1FN.
Cheers
There's nothing better than bad weather for campers.
-Kampcilar icin kotu hava kosullarindan daha iyi bir sey yoktur.
-Walang mas mahusay kaysa sa muhamang panahon para sa mga camper.
-Nihil melius est quam tempestatibus campers.
-Nao ha nada melhor do que mau tempo para os campistas.
-Tidak ada yang lebih baik daripada cuaca buruk bagi para pekemah.
-No hay nada mejor que el mal tiempo para los campistas.
-Non c'e niente di meglio del brutto tempo per i campeggiatori.
-Il n'y a rien de mieux que le mauvais temps pour les campeurs.
-Fur Camper gibt es nichts Besseres als schlechtes Wetter.
-Za kampere nema nista boljeg od loseg vremena.
-Nincs jobb a rossz idonel a taborozоknak.
-Нема бољег од лошег времена за кампере.