If you are on a thruhike and want to get a good night sleep, don't camp within 2 miles of a town. Especially on a weekend. If it's a easy walk for day hikers, expect some to camp there and stay up late. They don't go to sleep at sunset and make noise and will shine flashlights around keeping you up. Best to camp farther away to get your rest.
In the Middle East, washes are called "wadis" i.e. dried river beds. A group of us were out in the desert once and off in the distance we could see two locals sitting on the top of a small sand dune. When we got closer we could see they were next to a wadi, but because it had rained overnight the wadi was now full of raging water. We could also see the top few inches of the roof of their Range Rover - the rest was under water, as was all their camping gear.
Building on a couple of the points: * if a tent spot is flat but the soil is silt or similar material, it probably collects water in the rain and should be avoided if rain is at all a risk. * tent spots usually aren't completely level. rotate your tent so the slope runs head to foot. you want to sleep with your head uphill, and you want to avoid sliding to the side as you sleep. * because it's tough to perceive the slope, lay a nearly full Smartwater bottle on the ground and use it as a level--the air bubble will be on the high side. rotate the bottle to hone in on the uphill direction. * if you're near a creek or wash and hear a freight train, move away--a flash flood is coming.
These are very good tips, especially not camping in dry stream beds. In Arizona, those dry stream beds can be raging rivers in no time at all. A few people die each year ignoring this.
Good advice, particularly about not camping in depressions lest you be flooded out. I'd add that, with or without rain water accumulation, depressions can be colder as they can act as cold air sinks, too.
I was backcountry Philmont Scout Ranch in 2015 when the storm hit and did extensive damage, as well as washing away tents and drowning a scout. We were fortunate to have left our very beautiful site stream-side the day before and were near Baldy base, a high elevation perch from which hikers climb the highest peak in the park. We were slammed with continuous lightning and fire hose rain but all that went downhill - fast! Thank you for continuing to spread good backcountry practices!
There are widow makers in my local woods where the kids go to play. I've been cutting them down to make the area safe. They can be tricky to fell safely! Being hung up dead it's all good dry firewood.
Great great advice ppl need to listen to this woman she knows her stuff i been hiking camping and camping in tents off and on all my life had to learn some this the hard way its best to listen
In the mountains, I've camped near lakes at the height of summer and still woke up cold. I try to remember that but camping close to water is just so darn convenient!
Great advice about wildlife food sources. Also camping by the water is a wildlife watering hole. 🐻 If it's a great accessible spot, it is also a convenient accessible spot for large critters. I did laugh about the app to tell ppl where the sun will rise. If you need an app to tell you where the sun will rise then invest in a compass and GO TO SCHOOL! 🤣🤣🤣
Look out for those game trails! Even small trails will get get you all wide eyed and WTF! in the middle of the night when Mr Cottontail strolls past your front door sounding like a 100 pound monster in the dark. I camped next to bunny paradise one night and was startled awake and up for hours w heart pounding, after what I think was a successful owl hunt that led to an ear splitting death squeal right outside my vestibule. Scared the bejesus out of me!!!!
It's "actually" called a wash here in the UK too. In the Middle East dry river beds are named "wadis" and I'm sure there's a myriad of names for them in other languages.
The sweet spot you mentioned is kinda easy to figure out if you study the geography warm air rises in the morning cool air sinks in the evening don't want to upset anyone but think about where you would set up to hunt from lowest wind mid level on a slope and as flat as possible
Like the wash idea... we had a big winter out west and still have a lot of snow around. Learn to recognize hazards from high cornices and wet/loose potential. It's kind of freaky to be in a big patch of snow and hear water moving below you, too.
In 1967 at Boy Scout Camp Philmont in NM, we were doing 12 days of camping and hiking. One area we were at our guide told us to setup our tents with our feet pointing down hill ( what a mistake that was ) We all of a sudden had a storm come in and it was large hail and heavy rain. Half of the Scouts had to chase their equipment down the hill. I and my tentmate were lucky, we closed off the front and back of our tent and had dug a trench around our tent, but we had to run to the outhouse to get away from the hail. They were golf ball size and hurt. Wonderful experience wish I could do it again.
To add to the "critters" advice, make sure to check for fire ant mounds. If you're not sure what they look like, Google it. The last thing you want to do is stand in one while trying to pitch your shelter. Especially if you're tarp camping and/or setting up in the dark.
When sleeping on a slope, lie across the slope, not in line with it. Put cloths along the downhill side of the pad and you will have a hollow to sleep in rather than waking up ever half hour to scooch back up hill.
My advice re; anticipate sunrise, is to be sure that I will have good morning shade. Unless you want to be up at the crack of dawn, and cooked out of the tent shortly thereafter.
all great advice. We had so many dodgy campsites on the PCT mainly because we hiked so late and ended up having to set up in the dark one really memorable one was right next to a tree on a switchback north of Spanish Needle Creek and in the middle of the night we had hikers coming past shining their headlamps in on us LOL and a big ants nest right next to us. Another was in a big established area north of Stehekin my hubby put his smelly socks in the vestible and some little critter stole them!! he dug a massive hole looking for them the next morning and only managed to find one but it wasn't his it belonged to our neighbour LMAO!
I set up at Flea Markets and sell stuff . My spot last November was up for rent because I was taking a break . This spot has two really large trees . The market grounds has lots of trees . So a friend rented my spot .They were showing a customer some stuff on their table when a gust of wind came up and the a limb came crashing down on their customer . The grounds sent over EMTs who then called in a care flight . They thought the person had died . But the guy lived and the reason they thought he died was his heart was on the wrong side of his chest . I don’t set up around trees anymore . Have not set up in a long time . To Hot
I was just thinking a good video would be about gear people pack that is not always on popular gear lists, and why. Like for me, I like an x-small size nylon packing cube to hold everything from my toiletries to med kit, my emergency blanket, spare batteries and more. It weighs nothing and is flat and narrow and easy to fit in my pack or my brain if I am using one. Other things I’ve seen people pack include a ziplock of dryer lint to start fires, and even a Scrubba dry bag that dubs to wash your britches! 😊
All great advice. Whooshing ’ through the tent! New term for me. Ya’ll take care now, ya hear! You captured me for the whole video! Good job! Links would be a nice touch!
RE slope ... wouldn't it be neat if someone came up with a self-leveling pad? Something on the bottom side that compressed, etc to level out the upper surface without affecting the main pad's thickness, R value, etc. Kinda like how house subfloor leveler works, but much lighter and suitable for hauling around.
@@JessicaTPeterson To be fair, I'm not really looking. I was just speculating. Also, there's apparently already a company called Core77 making your lightning-proof shelter. They call it a BOLT.
@@KimberlyGreen I figured, and I wasn't being serious about you hiring a designer. But I can't believe you actually found (or already knew about?) this lightning-proof shelter. Wow! Thank you so much! It doesn't look like the Bolt is available to purchase yet, but good to know there's actually a design. You made my day coming back with this information.
Widowmakers are one of my biggest camping fears - right next to lyme disease. I try to avoid even stable dead trees, and in the winter i'm squinting at all those bare branches trying to figure out if any are questionable xD
Sand is not soft to sleep on. Established campsites can have left over food that bears like to check out. Leave no trace if you make a new campsite, especially if you build a fire. Katabatic wind/air moves down slopes and is cooler. Sleeping in a pool of water is over rated. I think it's better to be in a tent, that way when a bear comes up to your tent at night you can pretend it's an opossum.
I got scared of bears at Whattum Lake campground in Oregon, just beside the Holy PCT. So I put my tent against the bushes to protect me. Dumb Idea! It wont stop bears and it didn't stop the ticks either! No bears, BUT my tent was COVERED with ticks in the morning! It took forever to make sure they were off the tent and I didn't shake them into my hair! Arrrggghhhh! WWDD??? What would Dixie do? LOL! ( Hey! That would make a good T-shirt for your page! )
Tent slope… Can’t count how times I set up and then found out my intended head location was actually downslope. Now I almost always lay down before pitching shelter.
Dixie in my youth i had a cliff tent for climbers because i hate bugs so i would hoist it up a tree after setting it up in my early 20s i did a bit of ground camping but always had a fir close by but the safety of a tree 20ft up still appeals to me so people should really think of this sleeping system...
@@JessicaTPeterson Yes i bought the cliff tent cheap from a garage sale as i planned to go climbing but had to start working for a living and have been working ever sincebut i used to pack it on motorbike runs park my bike under a tree and the look on peoples faces when they exclaimed someonesleft there bike here and i shouted down no its mine i never got any bugs from being up a tree and no nats or midge's i paid 120 for it but when i checked how much a new one was it was 1200
She's not going to give you this tip because it's not super LNT but if you are worried about bears, use not so established campsites. For example if a campsite isn't given a way point on Far Out but has no vegetation. Bears know where hikers camp most often. Wolves? Wolves probably won't bother you. Granted I have encountered a bear near one of those types of sites too so hangs/canisters are an even better bet.
A little boy died while camping in red river gorge. Because they set up the tent underneath a tree and a huge limb fell and killed him in the middle of the night 😢😢😢 never even thought about that until I heard that story
I would be more specific and say don't camp anywhere that has flash flooding possibilities, especially slot canyons. There's plenty of washes on the PCT with established campsites that I wouldn't worry about during hiking season.
Please also don't camp on a beach. It is surprising how many people don't know about tides. Even if you do check a tide app, if you don't know that exact beach, don't believe what you 'think' the safe tide level will be - it changes day by day, or at least week by week, because of the shape of the sand moved by stronger waves. I walk my dog on two beaches every day, and there are some days we can't pass some spots, even though the tide is supposed to be 'low'. About 2 months ago, in the dawn hours, we found a tent set up on one of the known iffy spots. Doggo was just surprised to see the tent that had materialized, but I sighed to myself - they were centimeters away from knowing what a 'bathtub floor' might mean.... In summer, that also might mean you find yourself wading in the vestibule with box a jellyfish or Portuguese man-of-war. Ouch.
I'm so glad all these come naturally to me growing up alone in the woods since I was a boy . It's all common sense really when you spend enough time in the woods stationary and watching what nature does.
Dixie! It appears as though you are wearing an engagement ring and if so, please accept my congratulations!! I don't have other social media so I may be super behind. Great tips in this video as always- love your channel! ❤️❤
Great info for us want to be thru hikers. Respectful comment. I stayed way yo late last night watching you AT Hike Documentary…. It was assume but it was in 2015 & you had a your 30th birthday on trial if I recall correctly. And now it is 2023 7 years later…. I’m mean this respectfully you do not now look your age . I thought you now were around 26 or 27. Mod am 71 and guess ages of young people is not a talent I have. Love your videos.
Hi, I know this isnt necessarily related to this video in particular but more just a general safety question. How do you find groups of people to hike with? Or make hiking friends to do thru hikes with you? I am new to backpacking and mostly have done out and back trails before now around 10-15 miles in length so it wasn't as important to have a hiking buddy, but I feel like it might be important if I want to do a thru hike or something like the AT one day.
I do not want any advice from others, nor do I want trail angels ,I just want to figure it out on my own. I feel more confident after following this approach. I just do.
@@rangerinthewoodsa. Not what I was hoping for. Showing shade and sunrise with augmented reality was my hope. And all that while offline. Lumos seems to be perfect for that.
I would suggest reading the very first line in the Wikipedia article pertaining to arroyos... As a side, living in Arizona, I've never heard someone refer to them as anything other than a wash.
Love the thumbnail!😂🐻
As an old Eagle Scout / section hiker let me say, Listen to her folks! She speaks truth.
The gypsy speaks the truth.
Another banger thumbnail. Particularly appreciated your bear behind 🤣
If you are on a thruhike and want to get a good night sleep, don't camp within 2 miles of a town. Especially on a weekend. If it's a easy walk for day hikers, expect some to camp there and stay up late. They don't go to sleep at sunset and make noise and will shine flashlights around keeping you up. Best to camp farther away to get your rest.
Plus, staying that close can be dangerous for rowdy Wahoos! looking for fun.
I've heard a hiker say, camp farther than someone would want to carry a case of beer.
In the Middle East, washes are called "wadis" i.e. dried river beds. A group of us were out in the desert once and off in the distance we could see two locals sitting on the top of a small sand dune. When we got closer we could see they were next to a wadi, but because it had rained overnight the wadi was now full of raging water. We could also see the top few inches of the roof of their Range Rover - the rest was under water, as was all their camping gear.
😮😮
Building on a couple of the points:
* if a tent spot is flat but the soil is silt or similar material, it probably collects water in the rain and should be avoided if rain is at all a risk.
* tent spots usually aren't completely level. rotate your tent so the slope runs head to foot. you want to sleep with your head uphill, and you want to avoid sliding to the side as you sleep.
* because it's tough to perceive the slope, lay a nearly full Smartwater bottle on the ground and use it as a level--the air bubble will be on the high side. rotate the bottle to hone in on the uphill direction.
* if you're near a creek or wash and hear a freight train, move away--a flash flood is coming.
A freight train? The sound of that much water moving at speed?
@kevinhart46 It would seem like that, yeah ...
Whats a freight train
Freight train? Tornado comes to mind.
I will remember the water bottle level in a pinch it is very resourceful.
Thx
Thanks for the idea to use a water bottle as a level. So many times I circle a spot in the dying light unable to see which way the ground slopes.
These are very good tips, especially not camping in dry stream beds. In Arizona, those dry stream beds can be raging rivers in no time at all. A few people die each year ignoring this.
Good advice, particularly about not camping in depressions lest you be flooded out. I'd add that, with or without rain water accumulation, depressions can be colder as they can act as cold air sinks, too.
I mentioned that about valleys :)
@@HomemadeWanderlust Cool.
Literally and figuratively
@@Mn690 I almost camped in a sand wash one time because it looked so soft and smooth, but the inner me say: rat trap.
Thanks for the Lumos app info! ☀️ 🌙 ✨
I was backcountry Philmont Scout Ranch in 2015 when the storm hit and did extensive damage, as well as washing away tents and drowning a scout. We were fortunate to have left our very beautiful site stream-side the day before and were near Baldy base, a high elevation perch from which hikers climb the highest peak in the park. We were slammed with continuous lightning and fire hose rain but all that went downhill - fast!
Thank you for continuing to spread good backcountry practices!
There are widow makers in my local woods where the kids go to play. I've been cutting them down to make the area safe. They can be tricky to fell safely! Being hung up dead it's all good dry firewood.
Great great advice ppl need to listen to this woman she knows her stuff i been hiking camping and camping in tents off and on all my life had to learn some this the hard way its best to listen
In the mountains, I've camped near lakes at the height of summer and still woke up cold. I try to remember that but camping close to water is just so darn convenient!
Right?!
Great advice about wildlife food sources. Also camping by the water is a wildlife watering hole. 🐻 If it's a great accessible spot, it is also a convenient accessible spot for large critters.
I did laugh about the app to tell ppl where the sun will rise. If you need an app to tell you where the sun will rise then invest in a compass and GO TO SCHOOL! 🤣🤣🤣
If there is a small tree with an umbrella shape and not tall enough to have any widow makers, it minimizes condensation to pitch under it.
I've recently started camping but I've never heard to look for sources of food for animals. Thank you. Won't let that happen again.
Look out for those game trails! Even small trails will get get you all wide eyed and WTF! in the middle of the night when Mr Cottontail strolls past your front door sounding like a 100 pound monster in the dark. I camped next to bunny paradise one night and was startled awake and up for hours w heart pounding, after what I think was a successful owl hunt that led to an ear splitting death squeal right outside my vestibule. Scared the bejesus out of me!!!!
I always enjoy your Informational videos they have really helped me out alot. and helping the next generation of hikers
Love it! Beautiful thumbnail too haha. Remember that one time? . . . . scary.
I believe the "wash" she is referring to is actually an arroyo which is a dry river bed. Once a river always a river.
It's "actually" called a wash here in the UK too. In the Middle East dry river beds are named "wadis" and I'm sure there's a myriad of names for them in other languages.
The sweet spot you mentioned is kinda easy to figure out if you study the geography warm air rises in the morning cool air sinks in the evening don't want to upset anyone but think about where you would set up to hunt from lowest wind mid level on a slope and as flat as possible
When Dixie says lay down and check the slope of the ground, it is also an excellent time to look up for widow makers.
That thumbnail is gold! 😄 Very well done 👍🏼
Like the wash idea... we had a big winter out west and still have a lot of snow around. Learn to recognize hazards from high cornices and wet/loose potential. It's kind of freaky to be in a big patch of snow and hear water moving below you, too.
Great tips! I wish I could elaborate on some of the many campsite stories I have. Thanks, Dixie.
In 1967 at Boy Scout Camp Philmont in NM, we were doing 12 days of camping and hiking.
One area we were at our guide told us to setup our tents with our feet pointing down hill ( what a mistake that was ) We all of a sudden had a storm come in and it was large hail and heavy rain. Half of the Scouts had to chase their equipment down the hill. I and my tentmate were lucky, we closed off the front and back of our tent and had dug a trench around our tent, but we had to run to the outhouse to get away from the hail. They were golf ball size and hurt.
Wonderful experience wish I could do it again.
To add to the "critters" advice, make sure to check for fire ant mounds. If you're not sure what they look like, Google it. The last thing you want to do is stand in one while trying to pitch your shelter. Especially if you're tarp camping and/or setting up in the dark.
When sleeping on a slope, lie across the slope, not in line with it. Put cloths along the downhill side of the pad and you will have a hollow to sleep in rather than waking up ever half hour to scooch back up hill.
Going hiking in New Mexico at the end of August. Thanks for the good tips!
My advice re; anticipate sunrise, is to be sure that I will have good morning shade. Unless you want to be up at the crack of dawn, and cooked out of the tent shortly thereafter.
Love the ring.
Camping information is great Dixie.
Yaaasss you can make a video on anything and I'm dedicated to watch
Excellent information. Thank you Dixie.
all great advice. We had so many dodgy campsites on the PCT mainly because we hiked so late and ended up having to set up in the dark one really memorable one was right next to a tree on a switchback north of Spanish Needle Creek and in the middle of the night we had hikers coming past shining their headlamps in on us LOL and a big ants nest right next to us. Another was in a big established area north of Stehekin my hubby put his smelly socks in the vestible and some little critter stole them!! he dug a massive hole looking for them the next morning and only managed to find one but it wasn't his it belonged to our neighbour LMAO!
Excellent advice for any camper. New or experienced. Thanks
Great info. Thanks for always having something I forgot about or never heard of before.
The thumbnail pic though!!!
Creek beds flash flood as well as washes
I set up at Flea Markets and sell stuff . My spot last November was up for rent because I was taking a break . This spot has two really large trees . The market grounds has lots of trees . So a friend rented my spot .They were showing a customer some stuff on their table when a gust of wind came up and the a limb came crashing down on their customer . The grounds sent over EMTs who then called in a care flight . They thought the person had died . But the guy lived and the reason they thought he died was his heart was on the wrong side of his chest . I don’t set up around trees anymore . Have not set up in a long time . To Hot
Great advice!
I was just thinking a good video would be about gear people pack that is not always on popular gear lists, and why. Like for me, I like an x-small size nylon packing cube to hold everything from my toiletries to med kit, my emergency blanket, spare batteries and more. It weighs nothing and is flat and narrow and easy to fit in my pack or my brain if I am using one. Other things I’ve seen people pack include a ziplock of dryer lint to start fires, and even a Scrubba dry bag that dubs to wash your britches! 😊
Hello 👋 Dixie, sincere thanks for sharing these vital camping 🏕 tips. Stay safe out there. When is the wedding 💒 date?
All the best to you. 🤗 👋
All great advice. Whooshing ’ through the tent! New term for me. Ya’ll take care now, ya hear!
You captured me for the whole video! Good job!
Links would be a nice touch!
RE slope ... wouldn't it be neat if someone came up with a self-leveling pad? Something on the bottom side that compressed, etc to level out the upper surface without affecting the main pad's thickness, R value, etc. Kinda like how house subfloor leveler works, but much lighter and suitable for hauling around.
When you find the engineer/designer for your self-leveling pad, please ask them to also design an ultralight lightning-proof shelter!
@@JessicaTPeterson To be fair, I'm not really looking. I was just speculating. Also, there's apparently already a company called Core77 making your lightning-proof shelter. They call it a BOLT.
@@KimberlyGreen I figured, and I wasn't being serious about you hiring a designer.
But I can't believe you actually found (or already knew about?) this lightning-proof shelter. Wow! Thank you so much! It doesn't look like the Bolt is available to purchase yet, but good to know there's actually a design. You made my day coming back with this information.
Widowmakers are one of my biggest camping fears - right next to lyme disease. I try to avoid even stable dead trees, and in the winter i'm squinting at all those bare branches trying to figure out if any are questionable xD
Hammock Dixie, Hammock!!!!!!!!
I’ve tried and I just don’t love it lol
@@HomemadeWanderlust Tentsile Una, if you've got the trees for it. I sleep better in that than I do in my bed!
Great tips Dixie 👍
Once it gets dark, things get bigger...slopes, pebbles, roots, noises...
😂
Bears,snakes,Mt Lions……
@@stuartrollings602 😄
@@stuartrollings602 Oh my!
Good tips. And at the 2 minute mark the mosquito on your head likes it too!
Great video .
BTW, thanks for the tip about the Lumos app!
more good tips again Dixie. thanks. stay safe.
Sand is not soft to sleep on. Established campsites can have left over food that bears like to check out. Leave no trace if you make a new campsite, especially if you build a fire. Katabatic wind/air moves down slopes and is cooler. Sleeping in a pool of water is over rated. I think it's better to be in a tent, that way when a bear comes up to your tent at night you can pretend it's an opossum.
Beach-like sand is absolutely soft to sleep on
great tips. really nice thumbnail. bravo!
I got scared of bears at Whattum Lake campground in Oregon, just beside the Holy PCT. So I put my tent against the bushes to protect me. Dumb Idea! It wont stop bears and it didn't stop the ticks either! No bears, BUT my tent was COVERED with ticks in the morning! It took forever to make sure they were off the tent and I didn't shake them into my hair! Arrrggghhhh! WWDD??? What would Dixie do? LOL! ( Hey! That would make a good T-shirt for your page! )
Good tips !
great advice, thanku
Tent slope… Can’t count how times I set up and then found out my intended head location was actually downslope. Now I almost always lay down before pitching shelter.
Dixie in my youth i had a cliff tent for climbers because i hate bugs so i would hoist it up a tree after setting it up in my early 20s i did a bit of ground camping but always had a fir close by but the safety of a tree 20ft up still appeals to me so people should really think of this sleeping system...
What a cool idea! If only we didn't have so much beetle kill in the West.
@@JessicaTPeterson Yes i bought the cliff tent cheap from a garage sale as i planned to go climbing but had to start working for a living and have been working ever sincebut i used to pack it on motorbike runs park my bike under a tree and the look on peoples faces when they exclaimed someonesleft there bike here and i shouted down no its mine i never got any bugs from being up a tree and no nats or midge's i paid 120 for it but when i checked how much a new one was it was 1200
Another video we'll done thanks
All good, thank you 😊🙏
Thanks for another great video. You still have a beer waiting on you over in LaGrange.
Everything very true.
Do you have any advice about camping where there are wolves and bears? Do they have any interest in you sleeping?
She's not going to give you this tip because it's not super LNT but if you are worried about bears, use not so established campsites. For example if a campsite isn't given a way point on Far Out but has no vegetation. Bears know where hikers camp most often. Wolves? Wolves probably won't bother you.
Granted I have encountered a bear near one of those types of sites too so hangs/canisters are an even better bet.
Thanks Dixie ❤
when are you coming to NZ to do the TA
A little boy died while camping in red river gorge. Because they set up the tent underneath a tree and a huge limb fell and killed him in the middle of the night 😢😢😢 never even thought about that until I heard that story
We call those gullies are called Arroyo’s
I'm terrified of bears. If I was absolutely guaranteed there would be no bear, I would camp anywhere!
I'll bet @HomemadeWanderlust has a video segment on this very topic! She's covered a lot over the last few years!
Camp in a buffalo herd.
@@pipe2devnull lol. next trip
But, my wife tells me not to worry about those ole’ widow makers😳. Everything will be fine, she says. 😟
😂
I would be more specific and say don't camp anywhere that has flash flooding possibilities, especially slot canyons. There's plenty of washes on the PCT with established campsites that I wouldn't worry about during hiking season.
Wow! Reminds me to Nepal. It was a wise decision not to camp at the refugio!
Can be real dangerous specially if you are over night on high altitude.
I use a Smartwater bottle as a level.
Please also don't camp on a beach. It is surprising how many people don't know about tides. Even if you do check a tide app, if you don't know that exact beach, don't believe what you 'think' the safe tide level will be - it changes day by day, or at least week by week, because of the shape of the sand moved by stronger waves. I walk my dog on two beaches every day, and there are some days we can't pass some spots, even though the tide is supposed to be 'low'. About 2 months ago, in the dawn hours, we found a tent set up on one of the known iffy spots. Doggo was just surprised to see the tent that had materialized, but I sighed to myself - they were centimeters away from knowing what a 'bathtub floor' might mean.... In summer, that also might mean you find yourself wading in the vestibule with box a jellyfish or Portuguese man-of-war. Ouch.
Dixie we love you!
Thanks for the video
I'm so glad all these come naturally to me growing up alone in the woods since I was a boy . It's all common sense really when you spend enough time in the woods stationary and watching what nature does.
The flat spot in a grassy area is a deer’s nest. They’ll want it back in the middle of the night.
lol!!
Nice job Dixie
Cool content. For me I like to set up camp away from folks. Bad potty habits. That’s just me. No disrespect intended. Thx
Dixie! It appears as though you are wearing an engagement ring and if so, please accept my congratulations!! I don't have other social media so I may be super behind.
Great tips in this video as always- love your channel! ❤️❤
I noticed that too!!!
Yes, she is!
Thank you! I announced it subtly at the end of a video ;)
Congratulations Dixie!!! So happy for you!
Great info for us want to be thru hikers. Respectful comment. I stayed way yo late last night watching you AT Hike Documentary…. It was assume but it was in 2015 & you had a your 30th birthday on trial if I recall correctly. And now it is 2023 7 years later…. I’m mean this respectfully you do not now look your age . I thought you now were around 26 or 27. Mod am 71 and guess ages of young people is not a talent I have. Love your videos.
Love me some midnat visitors and hakers at my campsat. Just kidding, love your accent!
Yeah, she does have a strong accent…😊
Hi, I know this isnt necessarily related to this video in particular but more just a general safety question. How do you find groups of people to hike with? Or make hiking friends to do thru hikes with you? I am new to backpacking and mostly have done out and back trails before now around 10-15 miles in length so it wasn't as important to have a hiking buddy, but I feel like it might be important if I want to do a thru hike or something like the AT one day.
Hey Dixie! Us-all here!
Good Stuff
Check the map so that you don’t setup at night besides railroad tracks. Happened to me.
Ha, me too!
Does anyone have any tips on dealing with sleep apnea? CPAPs and batteries are so heavy.
Working on solving those issues for myself!
Cheers🍻🖖
❤
Tent surfing - way too true
Hey Y’all! Hi Dixie!
I do not want any advice from others, nor do I want trail angels ,I just want to figure it out on my own. I feel more confident after following this approach. I just do.
Go camp in an arroyo during the monsoon season then. You'll figure it out about 10 seconds before you die.
Have always wondered why you use Neoair xlite and not Neoair Uberlite which is lighter?
It’s in the title of this one: ruclips.net/video/YkKs8VC7ZFU/видео.html
Was just about to link the same thing lol
Do you know if the Uberlite will come in a new NXT version like Xlite and XTherm ?
lumos: sun and moon tracker is just for apple what do you recomend for android?
Well dang! I didn’t realize that. Ive never had anything other than iPhone, so maybe an android user can chime in
@@HomemadeWanderlustNokia maybe?
I downloaded weather underground app. It shows sun and moon.
@@rangerinthewoodsdoes this one also show sunrise location when there is no cel coverage?
@@rangerinthewoodsa. Not what I was hoping for. Showing shade and sunrise with augmented reality was my hope. And all that while offline. Lumos seems to be perfect for that.
When did you find the time to train that bear?
Did I see an engagement ring? if so, congrats!
She awesome amazing smart girl so delightfuls beautiful s we love you darlins!
I think your “wash” is an “arroyo.” Recalling from geography class decades ago.
I would suggest reading the very first line in the Wikipedia article pertaining to arroyos... As a side, living in Arizona, I've never heard someone refer to them as anything other than a wash.
@@bollio Now I remember why Michael Scott loved Wikipedia.
Love you bae 😍