It looks like a pine forest in Europe, I live on the coast of British Columbia and spent most of my life working in the woods. Very different here, lots of underbrush and large trees. But there is the odd place like that. 👍
Last winter camping on Lake Mauthe in Wisconsin, I saw two bald eagles standing on the ice. There were a couple Canadian geese nearby, so you could tell how massive the eagles were by comparing their sizes
Did a camp similar to this north of Townsville ( Mt Spec) many years ago. Unfortunately, it was on a slope. During the night, it rained heavily. The uphill side of my tarp filled with water and was pressing on me, woke me up. Without thinking, I pushed the tarp up to clear the water, which proceeded to totally drench my bedding! At the time I was driving a mini moke with no top, so I decided to drive back to Townsville and home. As I left the tiny township at the top of Mt Spec, I hit a major band of pea soup fog. The road down Mt Spec is narrow, winding with some big drop-offs, so I thought that would be a bad idea. 😅 instead, I drove back to the cop shop, woke up the officer, and asked if I could spend the night in a cell. He laughed and said yes. I then used my gas cooker to partially dry my blanket, went to sleep, and managed to get a reasonable rest😊. That's the night I spent in jail cell in Queensland 😅
2024 will be a memorable camping year for me. Took the leap and started a YT channel myself. I wanted to spend more time in the woods( not that i dont already live in the the middle of them) and making videos has definitely helped out . My pack has a lot less idle time and i love it. Keep up the great work🤘
Oh man, this is some top ASMR... crunching, frosty footsteps, sizzling bacon, crispy toasted sandwich.... phwoar I sometimes cheat with my little cooker and take a few bbq charcoal bricks out with me. You get a nice slow, flameless burn that you can cook straight on and it lasts ages. I need to get one of those sandwich presses though
Thats a very good idea, that would be far better and easier to cook on! These spruce branches Arent worth a damn for longer cooking. I'll have to try that next time 🙂
Best camping of 2024 was in southern WI. Me and a good friend took our motorcycles to Bong Rec Area, ran the offroad trails, and continued along to the Cheese Trail, camping along the way each night. Simply... Delightful.
PS the next day I saw the bald eagle swoop down and grab a fish right next to my boat and then fly back to his massive nest at the lakes edge 👍 . Maine is my escape from my life in a touristy Beach town in Rhode Island. When I get there no cell service. The nearest supermarket is 2 hours away 😎
In 2024 it has to be waking up at Belvidere campground south of Perth. (Two airbeds or an airbed with foam topper for the aching hips buddy! Yep, hate to say it, but your getting older 😅). Anyway. Waking up at Belvidere, first coffee in hand, watching a 😅 grey kangaroo and two babies feeding on the grass around my campsite. Very Zen and peaceful way to start the day.
if you take a 1 lb net hammock, you dont need a fallen tree you're up off of the ground, dont need flat ground and can set it at anyheight you want If you stake-guy out your trekking poles, they will hold up the foot end of the hammock, so you only need ONE good sized tree A pair of poles can brace a small tree and hold up the head end of the hammock. You can also rig the hammock as a sling chair, lean back on a pile of brush, stacked against the tree trunk. Another pile of brush will hold up your feet and you can sleep like an astronaut, in the reclining position. The ground is often mud, brush, snow, rocks, roots, thorns, bugs, and is best avoided.
All very good tips man🙏 i have a hammock, but mostly for summer camping, with a net and quilt. But in winter i really like an open tarp Setup, and waking up on frozen ground, peeking around and being nice and warm on the ground, but a hammock at this point would be more comfortable.
@@Bushcraft_Bullshit when i escaped from terrehaute camp, mid Feb of 1990, I slept on frozen ground for 8 nights. all of the debris was wet/moldy and all I had was an Army field coat, 4 layers of cheap cotton clothing, cheap cotton socks, gloves and beanie. When you hang a hammock just 6" off of the ground (with you in it) and kick debris under it to stop airflow, it works fine. I pull the hammok and one ridgeline thru the reflective tyvek bivy and the "envelope" made of 2 of SOL's "heat sheets". Then I pull another ridgeline between the bivy and the "envelope". The bivy cannot be allowed to touch either you or the envelope. You NEED those two layers of 'trapped air". I wear a couple of amazon's bugnet 'suits" and a coupe of their "cut leaf" style of camo nets as long johns. Twise the camo nets so that the "leaves' cannot "lay-flat. Then a lot of air will be trapped undere your cammies, providing lots of insulative effect. but the netting can't get wet from your sweat. So your cammies dont get wet either. Wear the bivy, maybe also the envelope as a poncho, wrap the 3x6 ft hunk of clear PEVA shower curtain around one leg and the heavy duty 55 gallon drum liner around the other leg, Then neither rain nor walikng thru wet brush can soak your cammies. I carry a pair of water sandals for crossing bodies of water or mud. I'd rather have to stop and warm up my feet now and then, keeping my shoes dry in my pack then have to dry out wet shoes. There ARE limits to such things, of course, Sometimes you just have to do things the hard way, if you can't just hole up in your shelter and let the bad stuff pass.
My best wildlife experience just recently happend..... My friend Craig and I were kayak fishing for bass on the upper reaches of the Manning river here in Australia when we saw a platypus come up for a breath of air rite next to Craig's kayak the platypus them swam under my friends kayak and resurfaced between our vessels looked at us both and then calmly swam away ....once in a lifetime experience
Best camp last year for me was simple. Backpacking site at Whitewater Lake in Wisconsin, dome tent and a fkn amazing Tomahawk Ribeye and taters. Pure relaxation.
My favourite camping moment was censored for I don't know why so you'll have to take my former story about lots of wild ponies watching me over a cat hole like it's a spectator sport as my finest 2024 moment!!!
From South Africa clock in number 2.... 😂 what stove are you canteen cooking on ? Got satisfaction teaching 2 "upmaket" lads how to construct, light up and cook on a dakota fire pit at a trailer / camping resort that I often frequent near johannesburg
@@Bushcraft_Bullshit I've never considered cooking just on the fire until 2 days ago when I saw this done on u-tube. But I'm gonna give that a bash for shure... Haha. I can just imagine 2 piss-elegant youngsters from an exclusive Enclosed estate in Johannesburg, eating "unsanitarly" cooked meat ..... no, I used my "tranny-pan"..... (Trangia pan)
@@Bushcraft_Bullshit mine shipped rolled up, and I fought the bastard to get the curl out and have since employed the accordion "hack" I saw some months back. No more curl fighting. R value is minimal, two at best.
Mate, standing in my commuter train I just had a wonderful bushcraft bullshit moment. Two kids were watching RUclips shorts and a "bushcraft hacks" video came up. Dude was scraping the coating off a coke can and then using a lighter to start a fire with the scrapings. The children were like, man this is stupid, why didn't he just use the lighter to begin with? They were like 10 years old and still already above the level of that short!
I think I see what happened here...your aches and pains were brought on by your camping style choice...the tarp setup. Now, if you had spent 6-8 hours excavating a subterranean pit and covering it over with moss, leaves, and other debris...you could have slept in the cold dank seclusion of a shallow grave and experienced no ill effects to your health. I see videos demonstrating that technique here on YT quite often, so it has to be true...right?
October backpacking trip in the Canadian Rockies during a storm. My son likes it because he figured he now has some bragging rights.
Sounds challenging💪 and bragging rights sounds like a good motivation 😁
It looks like a pine forest in Europe, I live on the coast of British Columbia and spent most of my life working in the woods. Very different here, lots of underbrush and large trees. But there is the odd place like that. 👍
Last winter camping on Lake Mauthe in Wisconsin, I saw two bald eagles standing on the ice. There were a couple Canadian geese nearby, so you could tell how massive the eagles were by comparing their sizes
Beautiful campground
Another good time camping was when I found The Land of 1,000 Porcinis. I love foraging for mushrooms.
Dude, you make my day. Stay warm.
Glad to hear man, have a good day🙂👍
captain price... going dark... awesome video
Did a camp similar to this north of Townsville ( Mt Spec) many years ago. Unfortunately, it was on a slope. During the night, it rained heavily. The uphill side of my tarp filled with water and was pressing on me, woke me up. Without thinking, I pushed the tarp up to clear the water, which proceeded to totally drench my bedding! At the time I was driving a mini moke with no top, so I decided to drive back to Townsville and home. As I left the tiny township at the top of Mt Spec, I hit a major band of pea soup fog. The road down Mt Spec is narrow, winding with some big drop-offs, so I thought that would be a bad idea. 😅 instead, I drove back to the cop shop, woke up the officer, and asked if I could spend the night in a cell. He laughed and said yes. I then used my gas cooker to partially dry my blanket, went to sleep, and managed to get a reasonable rest😊. That's the night I spent in jail cell in Queensland 😅
That is a memorable trip😅🤘 sounds like a good dude that officer.
2024 will be a memorable camping year for me. Took the leap and started a YT channel myself. I wanted to spend more time in the woods( not that i dont already live in the the middle of them) and making videos has definitely helped out . My pack has a lot less idle time and i love it. Keep up the great work🤘
Nice man, congrats on that, sounds like a good choice,i've subbed🤝
@@Bushcraft_Bullshit hey thanks brother, been subbed to you as well, nice
Oh man, this is some top ASMR... crunching, frosty footsteps, sizzling bacon, crispy toasted sandwich.... phwoar
I sometimes cheat with my little cooker and take a few bbq charcoal bricks out with me. You get a nice slow, flameless burn that you can cook straight on and it lasts ages. I need to get one of those sandwich presses though
Thats a very good idea, that would be far better and easier to cook on! These spruce branches Arent worth a damn for longer cooking. I'll have to try that next time 🙂
@@Bushcraft_Bullshit yeah, but it's tough getting that creosote-y flavor without burning Christmas trees. Nothing like it! 😂😆
Awesome video! Curious about your tarp. And where I might find one
It's the dd hammocks superlight 3x3. They are very good and compact, but as you can see from my patches, a bit fragile
Best camping of 2024 was in southern WI. Me and a good friend took our motorcycles to Bong Rec Area, ran the offroad trails, and continued along to the Cheese Trail, camping along the way each night. Simply... Delightful.
@@fortunaterunt6834 awesome! Thats one of my goals, getting a bike again and go camping!
Seeing an eagle's nest while watching a sunset on a lake in the mountains of Maine❤
PS the next day I saw the bald eagle swoop down and grab a fish right next to my boat and then fly back to his massive nest at the lakes edge 👍 . Maine is my escape from my life in a touristy Beach town in Rhode Island. When I get there no cell service. The nearest supermarket is 2 hours away 😎
Those are the moments man! Sounds great
My top nights sleep alone in the woods was topped off by waking up to a house-martin cleaning the scraps from my pot great to watch from the hammock.
Sounds very very nice, nothing better than a show while laying cozy in a hammock🤘
In 2024 it has to be waking up at Belvidere campground south of Perth. (Two airbeds or an airbed with foam topper for the aching hips buddy! Yep, hate to say it, but your getting older 😅). Anyway. Waking up at Belvidere, first coffee in hand, watching a 😅 grey kangaroo and two babies feeding on the grass around my campsite. Very Zen and peaceful way to start the day.
Sounds awesome!!
if you take a 1 lb net hammock, you dont need a fallen tree you're up off of the ground, dont need flat ground and can set it at anyheight you want If you stake-guy out your trekking poles, they will hold up the foot end of the hammock, so you only need ONE good sized tree A pair of poles can brace a small tree and hold up the head end of the hammock. You can also rig the hammock as a sling chair, lean back on a pile of brush, stacked against the tree trunk. Another pile of brush will hold up your feet and you can sleep like an astronaut, in the reclining position. The ground is often mud, brush, snow, rocks, roots, thorns, bugs, and is best avoided.
All very good tips man🙏 i have a hammock, but mostly for summer camping, with a net and quilt. But in winter i really like an open tarp Setup, and waking up on frozen ground, peeking around and being nice and warm on the ground, but a hammock at this point would be more comfortable.
@@Bushcraft_Bullshit when i escaped from terrehaute camp, mid Feb of 1990, I slept on frozen ground for 8 nights. all of the debris was wet/moldy and all I had was an Army field coat, 4 layers of cheap cotton clothing, cheap cotton socks, gloves and beanie. When you hang a hammock just 6" off of the ground (with you in it) and kick debris under it to stop airflow, it works fine. I pull the hammok and one ridgeline thru the reflective tyvek bivy and the "envelope" made of 2 of SOL's "heat sheets". Then I pull another ridgeline between the bivy and the "envelope". The bivy cannot be allowed to touch either you or the envelope. You NEED those two layers of 'trapped air". I wear a couple of amazon's bugnet 'suits" and a coupe of their "cut leaf" style of camo nets as long johns. Twise the camo nets so that the "leaves' cannot "lay-flat. Then a lot of air will be trapped undere your cammies, providing lots of insulative effect. but the netting can't get wet from your sweat. So your cammies dont get wet either. Wear the bivy, maybe also the envelope as a poncho, wrap the 3x6 ft hunk of clear PEVA shower curtain around one leg and the heavy duty 55 gallon drum liner around the other leg, Then neither rain nor walikng thru wet brush can soak your cammies. I carry a pair of water sandals for crossing bodies of water or mud. I'd rather have to stop and warm up my feet now and then, keeping my shoes dry in my pack then have to dry out wet shoes. There ARE limits to such things, of course, Sometimes you just have to do things the hard way, if you can't just hole up in your shelter and let the bad stuff pass.
Finding an epic camping spot(shown on insta) and seeing a Snowy Owl
Nice, are they rare?
@Bushcraft_Bullshit They are big, beautiful and not common in my area.
@pharaohzhoundz awesome!
420! You should have been 😂pain free!
Lol, true, i only realized it while editing 😂
Camping trip of the year was a very remote two-week canoe trip with my brother. Lots of fish and a great time. And zero batoning.
Haha, zero batoning sounds nice😁
Trying to understand the recipe.... Are you boiling bacon and then adding canned tomato soup?
Yes, excatly, just to add some crunch and flavor🙂
My top moment was sharing a double swag with my favourite camping companion...and yes hanky panky was happening 😅
@@SmithandWesson22A lucky bastard you😂 forest hanky panky is a rare treat😂
Nice camp out brother
Thanks man, good to be out🤌
My best wildlife experience just recently happend..... My friend Craig and I were kayak fishing for bass on the upper reaches of the Manning river here in Australia when we saw a platypus come up for a breath of air rite next to Craig's kayak the platypus them swam under my friends kayak and resurfaced between our vessels looked at us both and then calmly swam away ....once in a lifetime experience
@@craigmears5985 wow, lovely experience 💪👌 are they known for being shy and not interacting? I dont know alot about them
@Bushcraft_Bullshit yes very shy creatures quite a special moment
@craigmears5985 awesome stuff🙂
Wait, are you batoning a 25cm tree?!?! 😮😮😮
Had too😂
@Bushcraft_Bullshit 😂👍
*Holy shit it's dark*
😂
Very! Had to put on my big boy thoughts for a second there😅
Best camp last year for me was simple. Backpacking site at Whitewater Lake in Wisconsin, dome tent and a fkn amazing Tomahawk Ribeye and taters. Pure relaxation.
@@jabooutdoors simple always seem to turn out great👍🙂
@@Bushcraft_Bullshit agreed. Hoping to get out in a few days for a cold one. Currently 5°F here. Probably stove weather. Keep up the bullshit!
@jabooutdoors a cold one in nature is always a joy, same bro 🙂 i'll keep the bullshit warm for ya, happy trails🤝
What’s the temp? We started at 0 F and got all the way up to 23 F. Woo hoo. At least the wind wasn’t stupid. Only 5-9 mph and gusts around 11😂😂
It was -1 and then -4 in the morning actually🙂
@@Bushcraft_Bullshit F or C
I remember that comment😅 what is a cat hole?
My favourite camping moment was censored for I don't know why so you'll have to take my former story about lots of wild ponies watching me over a cat hole like it's a spectator sport as my finest 2024 moment!!!
Camping on a cliff at about 1200' overlooking a valley.
Sounds wild!!
@@Bushcraft_Bullshit It was pure awesomeness and the view is still in my head.
From South Africa clock in number 2.... 😂 what stove are you canteen cooking on ?
Got satisfaction teaching 2 "upmaket" lads how to construct, light up and cook on a dakota fire pit at a trailer / camping resort that I often frequent near johannesburg
@@warren6899 it's the Titanium stove from uberleben🙂 sounds awesome. Cooking on just the fire or in pots and pans?
@@Bushcraft_Bullshit I've never considered cooking just on the fire until 2 days ago when I saw this done on u-tube. But I'm gonna give that a bash for shure... Haha. I can just imagine 2 piss-elegant youngsters from an
exclusive Enclosed estate in Johannesburg, eating "unsanitarly" cooked meat ..... no, I used my "tranny-pan"..... (Trangia pan)
Curious what you squirted into the pot before the bacon? Was that honey?
@@islandjason just cooking oil, i always carry a little bottle in my utility pack🙂
@Bushcraft_Bullshit that makes sense.
I use a Savotta FDF sleeping pad. Good enough for Finnish Defense Forces, good enough for me.
Ill give that a look, is it bulky, and whats the R value?
@@Bushcraft_Bullshit mine shipped rolled up, and I fought the bastard to get the curl out and have since employed the accordion "hack" I saw some months back. No more curl fighting. R value is minimal, two at best.
Mate, standing in my commuter train I just had a wonderful bushcraft bullshit moment. Two kids were watching RUclips shorts and a "bushcraft hacks" video came up. Dude was scraping the coating off a coke can and then using a lighter to start a fire with the scrapings. The children were like, man this is stupid, why didn't he just use the lighter to begin with? They were like 10 years old and still already above the level of that short!
@@Ibikyo1 there is Hope! 😂🤘 Awesome! Even kids are more common sense than the content goblins
Didn't expect to hear the words "hanky panky in the woods" but I'll be damned if that's not worth a sub.
@@alexanderoutdoors hell yeah dude, thanks 🤝
Oh you totally lost everything when you didn't bring your Bushcraft heated waterbed mattress
@@thetopnacci haha, should just have brought Cooper tubing for water heating😁
I think I see what happened here...your aches and pains were brought on by your camping style choice...the tarp setup. Now, if you had spent 6-8 hours excavating a subterranean pit and covering it over with moss, leaves, and other debris...you could have slept in the cold dank seclusion of a shallow grave and experienced no ill effects to your health. I see videos demonstrating that technique here on YT quite often, so it has to be true...right?
Haha, that might just be the way. Body ain't aching if you are a corpse😂 corpse camping is gonna be the new Craze!