The 7 Rules of Overlanding
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2024
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Will takes you through 7 Common Things That Ruin Camping Trips. Each thing he talks about he has personal experience with out overlanding or camping. Many camping trips can be ruined by things that you might not think about before heading out. This video will help you understand those things that can ruin your camping trip so you have a better time connecting to nature when you go!
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This video is really just a conversation starter. I know many of you have tips to share on these topics and more. Let's here them in the comment section!!! For more V2R vids: ruclips.net/user/venture2roam
For those who still use coolers and not a fridge I tell them to freeze water bottles for ice. It last longer than bag ice and as it melts you end up with good drinkable water. A good way to extend your water supply.
Great tip!
Double tip: Use frozen water bottles to provide block ice and drinking water. Keep such bottles in your freezer all the time because they (1) take longer than you think to freeze solid, and (2) provide a cold source for your freezer in the event that you have a power outage.
@@jguil4d Great tip!
Great tips, I agree with all of them! A few additional thoughts:
1) You mentioned mindset, and I honestly think that is THE most important factor to whether or not a trip goes well. When things aren't going to "plan", or we're having a tough day in the backcountry, I always remind the people we're with that the BEST stories and most MEMORABLE days are the ones where things did NOT go to plan. You almost never remember the days where everything went smoothly, but you'll always remember & tell stories about the days where you had to overcome some sort of adversity. Sure, they might suck a little bit in the moment ... but in the long-run, THOSE are the days to remember & to laugh about. So ... might as well embrace the challenging days!
2) Speaking of being rigid on finding camp, we've been there as well. Too picky, passed up too many sites, and ended up just driving home because the day got away from us. Since then, we have come to an agreement about finding camp, and it has worked out really well for us. Typically, at about 2PM, we start looking (casually) for epic campsites. If we find one that is mind-blowing, we'll stop, setup camp early, and just enjoy it for the rest of the day.
As the hours move on, we become less selective with the campsite we're looking for, and typically by 5PM, if we haven't found a site, we agree to take the next serviceable campsite we come across.
Of course, we're not rigid on that, but it has served us really well as a general guideline.
Loving the videos, keep up the great work!
This is a really great comment. Thanks for sharing it!!
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@Venture2Roam for sure! This is a topic I really love & it's great to see other creators making content like this sharing the lessons learned over time. Anyway, 🍻
thanks dude! lets not let our egos get the best of us. its hard to sometimes but consequences are harder.
So agree
All great tips for anyone who likes to get out in nature and camp! Being flexible is key and rolling with people who are flexible is also key!
So agree with that. It’s why we are really choosy about who we travel with.
Great tips! Enjoyed watching this from the mountaintop where we are camping in southern Utah right now.
Enjoy your trip!!! Isn't it a little weird to have internet while camping? I still haven't gotten used to that.
My family and I love your videos! Keep up the good work!
I love that you love my videos!!! Thank you :)
Great video and an outstanding place to start.
Thank you!!
All very good points to help in having a good time out on nature's trails.
Thank you!
Great video Will and very good advice all around. I would add that make sure you go with people you trust and have a great mindset when things don't go as planned.
Thank you! That’s another great tip. The people you go with make such a huge difference.
some great places I found to top off my water are visitor centers at national parks and small towns. If you happen to be near them. I've also had luck at some out of the way gas stations if I ask nice - they've actually let me in the back to their utility sinks to fill up my large containers.
Great tips!!!! Thanks for sharing.
Some great, well thought out tips!
Why thank you kind sir.
@@Venture2Roam you’re very welcome!
What a great comment section full of cool tips! Mine? Go on a bunch of quick one-nighters to get your gear squared away before trying anything more interesting!
That is a really really good idea for beginners! Our first night out was in a state park 45 mins from our house on paved roads.
Life saving information! Luck goes to the prepared. BTW I noticed our girls sing together at music school!! Mine is the curly haired one!
Really? That’s awesome! See you at the next concert night!
The number one trip ruining reason for me is the two legged animals. The ones I am trying to get away from in the first place. I can deal with the other reasons. Deescalation is good advice especially in the middle of nowhere. In my experience the belligerent ones usually have backup like a buddy or a few of them. Add alcohol or drugs to that and it really boosts their attitude. Then there you are alone or even worse with your wife and kids. Fortunately this happens very rarely but it is something to think about. Maybe do one of your collaborations discussing this topic and the various ways the situation was handled. Not to scare people away from camping/overlanding but it may help someone in the rare situation they have a negative encounter.
I like this idea. I’m working on something similar right now!
Great point about flexibility. I finally learned that ANY camp spot will be great. No need to search hours for one.
Thanks for watching. We still obsess a bit over camp spots…but are not to the point we go home. It’s the people around the campfire that make it great anyway.
Great job on this video thank you . North Idaho Don
Thank you!
I have run out or almost run out of gas on my motorcycles more than a dozen times. Never happened in my Adventure rig.
Even though I've never run out...I've been stressed about it many times...enough to make me change how I plan a trip! Glad to hear you haven't been close in your rig!!
Where i live it's "Wet Season" Bloody tropics. Good video!
Thank you ☔️
Great vid as always. Fuel is a huge one over here where in the outback it can be 600-1000km / 370-620 miles between fuel. Agree always top off especially in a petrol Jeep as sometimes only Diesel is available. As for weather our friends have nicknamed us the rain gods due to how many trips get rained out 😂
lol...our nickname should be the wind Gods then...sheesh...three trips cancelled already this year because of wind. One of these days I'd love to get over there and do some exploring!
@@Venture2Roam I still can’t believe your awning held up in that storm. A trip over here is a must do and we would be happy give some advice on must do trips. We feel the same about the States the landscape is so different too here.
Really enjoy the videos! Fellow Boise guy here and just came across your content a little while ago... off topic, what spare tire bag do you use or would you recommend?
I've used a trasheroo for 3 or 4 years. It's decent. Still trying to figure out what my next one will be!
Yep, wife's coffee creamer. Really hard to find Italian Sweet Cream in the wilderness! Fortunately for me, she's in charge of packing food & kitchen stuff, so I only got to hear frustration instead of anger!
I only had to make that mistake once.
#7 is the single most important one on this list!!! And you'd better know the exact ratio of creamer to coffee before giving the morning peace offering 🤣
Truth!!!! 😂
Great list Will. Along with that last point I think forgetting something important is really key and having a good check list, particularly for those of us that don't have dedicated rigs is an important item. We have been lucky with the two legged issue in never having a confrontation in all our years, only crowded campsites that reduce the experience.
Great tip on the checklist!!
I thought, for sure, when you were talking about animals in camp, you were going to show us some crazy guy, with purple hair, standing next to a blue Gladiator…. I had no doubt… shows how much I know.
Matt is definitely a wild animal…with a really nice gladiator lol.
Thank you, that is really good stuff, aside from the coffee creamer, (wife don't drink coffee) I have endured everything you have mentioned. One thing personally I always carry is a chainsaw. Really bad times can come when a late summer storm blows in and knocks a few dead snags over your road back out. Also, I think I saw in one of your videos an electric chainsaw? What kind may I ask, and do u like it?
Yes, chainsaws can be really handy, great addition to the comments! I use a DeWalt 60V, and I really like it. It has really good cutting power.
I have carried a can of dog food out with me, then walk out of camp 50 yards or so empty the can on a stump then put a trail cam on it and have been blown away by what I caught on film. Bears, wolfs, coyotes, skunks, possums, & BIG FOOT. UFO’S all joking aside I did film some humans checking our camp out in the night. So I made copies and went back a few days later and posted them on trees. I now take 2 Game cameras with me when I go out. I also went to the nearest country store and showed them to the cashier and sure enough they said they new them, called them by name. So I new they would be talked about, LOL. I never gave my name at the store.
That’s crazy. Getting a trail cam might be an interesting idea.
Been thinking about getting trail cams just to see what I find going through camp after waking up to some people stopping right outside my camp at 3am, and after hearing something strange walking by a different campsite of mine.
Happy wife
Happy life 😌
What a ridiculous institution to live in
Does forget the portable toilet bags count after she ask you if we were good with that 🤔😆?
Yes. That definitely counts! 🤣
Some guy rolled into our campsite in the Middle Fork a few years ago. We had been there since Tuesday and it was a Saturday. It was a choice spot, but we took time off work to get it. Anyway, he parked right in the middle of our camp and said it was "his fishing hole and it's public land". He was a jerk, and I was trying to de-escalate the situation, but he was drunk and belligerent. Some friends I was with chased him off, but he went into Idaho City and filed assault charges. A deputy rolled into our camp early evening and I was one of 3 people there. Everyone else went out riding. I got served for assault just because I fit the description given to the officer. I fought the charge without a lawyer, but it took months and the prosecutor had common sense and dropped the case. Idaho does have the Castle law and we are a Stand Your Ground state. It's good to familiarize yourself with these laws in case you run into this asshole on the Middle Fork (he drives an old F-150 and pulls a trailer with an old Washington Redskins plate). If you feel threatened in your "castle", you have the right to defend yourself. De-escalation is always best, but don't be afraid to defend yourself or your family. It's your right!
Really good example thanks for sharing! Human conflict is tricky..especially when you are way out there.
@@Venture2Roam Very true. In the 20 plus years I've been camping in Idaho, most folks have been totally cool! Love the videos!
You were tits on with every aspect as to how we negotiate our adventures, until you said coffee creamer.
Thank GOD my wife does not need or really ever use creamer in her coffee.
One item that we are also on board with being that our truck and many of our previous rigs are manual trans, the wife needs to be able to drive it and possibly tow a trailer if I get injured or super tired.
Lol. Kate likes her creamer. Good point on the secondary driver aspect. The same could be said for breaking down camp…someone else has to be able to close the RTT and get out of there should I be heart. Great comment.
@@Venture2Roam Yup. My wife knows how to break camp solo if I am injured but in a non-emergency situation. If it turns out either of us are in a life threatening situation, camp stays, we scoot! We can replace items in life. We can't replace life.
Wifey also knows how to use the Zoleo (GPS communication device).
NEVER leave food in your vehicle, especially if you’re asleep on the roof. Bears, in particular, will shred your vehicle in an attempt to get to the food, and just may tip over the vehicle, which would not bode well for those asleep on top on it.
It happens quite often to RVs. A bear can open the side of a vehicle like a sardine can. Do NOT cook near your camp, and store all food/leftovers well away from camp and your vehicle.
If you are deep in Griz country and the bears are used to getting food from camp this is very true. There’s almost nothing that can stop them. I’m covering this topic in more depth in another video. I’m no bear expert though, so I’ll be collabing with experts.
10mm and bear spray should do it.
people will ruin your trip way faster and more often than animals ever will lmao
100% true in my case anyway.
@@Venture2Roam The main reason I started down the overland path was to get my kids and I away from campgrounds...... you know, drunks, barking dogs, screaming babies and toddlers, smokers, loud sleepers, all that trash lol...... being out where all you can hear is the breeze, a stream and nature is HEAVEN!!!
@@theangrycamper preach! This is truth.
@@Venture2Roam Literally why my channel is called the angry camper ha ha ha ha
or stop and have dinner an hour before you find camp. I know it takes more work ....but it eliminates the risk.
True!
You should plan for weather not avoid it, I'm not a fair-weather camper I'm an anyweather camper, outside of a possible hurricane, volcano, tornado cetera
Good for you! Knowing what you are comfortable doing is really important. Lots of people claim to be "any weather" campers until they have a lighting strike close to camp, or have their awning destroyed by a wind gust, or have to sit in their rig during a wind/rain storm with their kids in the car, or the trail turns to dangerous mud/snow/ice. So I think there are some good reasons to avoid the weather for most people.
I'm a coastal native and snakes aren't something I deal with regularly. When I head to eastern OR/WA and into Idaho Utah and Arizona what do I need to know? We ground tent camp in very remote and dispersed areas. I've got a venom/sting kit but I'd rather avoid using it.
Great question. I’m making another vid on dangerous wildlife encounters. Same concept with snakes. They generally don’t want to be near you. They might look for food, or be crossing you camp looking for food…but they don’t generally hang out in camp. Snake bite kits are a false sense of security. If you get bit you need antivenin, and you can only get that at a medical provider. Wear boots, look before you step, and don’t camp next to likely snake dens.
@@Venture2Roam Thats a great idea on wildlife. maybe you could get some info on how to treat snakebites while you are miles from anywhere. The usual is stay calm , elevate limb and seek medical help like you are just hiking in the city park, 15 mins from a hospital.....
Careful thou Overlander’s when in places should not have been shared, pity to those whom set camp upon our lair
See nothing,hear nothing,darkness we do creep for we have many of places you shouldn’t choose to sleep 🏴☠️
Well that sounds super scary and ominous! 😂
Choose your vehicle wisely! As fuel is not that easy to find away from civilisation. That is sense, Plan to have enough spare fuel to get out where ever you are on the trip. If you've only got 200 miles before fill ups, don't take that vehicle, take one that does 400 or better 600 miles before fill up with the same fuel capacity. So that also means picking the best engine for the vehicle too, that is usually not the most powerful. Mine does about 500miles a tank and is 111bhp and 210nm torque, that's plenty. as you not going to do thinngs to put yourself into danger, in fact the opposite, you'll not do things that might be bad.
To be honest, getting an "instagram" capsite is not high on my agenda, as safe campsite wins everytime. I guess you want pretty over functional - that choise ruins trips on many levels and applies to many things. Functional should always win.
With people, that also rings with your own crew. Spend time with people you go with or accept they have traits you don't like.
Thanks for sharing your opinion!
A question on the claim jump episode. Did you ck with the FS or BLM on it afterwards? Is there any laws there in idaho on if the claim must be marked or something? Is that area now considered private property you cant camp on?
Great question. No we didn't check before hand. A TON of the Boise river has claims, and yes it was marked...but it's very difficult to know the boundaries of any one claim. We didn't have to leave that campsite. A claim is just the rights to extract minerals, not the right to private land. However, the nuances of the law don't matter in the backcountry of Idaho and we were happy to leave and not have a weird night at best, and a bad night at worst.
#8: Land Rovers
Named Boris.
It’s called bring guns with you plus ammo
Just drink it black maybe little sugar lol
That sounds very logical…and yet…
Folks camping too close is a losing situation. In public land, you have zero right to claim an exclusion zone and a stranger has 100% right to camp too close to you, by law. If you try to enforce your pretend law, you're legally in the wrong and will likely create a dangerous scenario. So, it sucks and people shouldn't arrive and camp too close but there's nothing lawful to be done about it.
Very good point. Plus, even if you run them off...you'll be looking over your shoulder all night. It sucks, but better to just leave if there's going to be conflict.
In the past month we've had countless deer, one cougar and one bear within 50 feet of the house.
Wow! That sounds like an adventurous backyard.
@@Venture2Roam Can't leave the garbage outside - ever. That's mostly the bear, although they cyotes and raccoons will do the same. We're assuming it's the same bear and we've never seen cubs so it's probably a male - not that I'm going to get close enough to find out. The cougar is a rare visitor - it's pretty sparse around here, and they're kind of stuck. Hood Canal on the west, Puget Sound on north and east . South would get them out, but with so much civilization in that direction they're probably just as happy to stay here.