NO TENT! Winter Camping Under The Stars With Cheap Gear

Quick overnight camping trip without a shelter. I set up with my very basic gear and two cheap sleeping bags, a tarp, and a folding chair. Beef stew for dinner cooked over a roaring fire.

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[meanstreak]

I see a simple man enjoying simple things and I love it

[Laura-lgzg]

Steve just having fun and using the swing set makes me so happy. It's honestly so nice to watch someone just enjoy the little things

[stuthejew]

Man. I feel like this guy is the most genuine youtuber out there. Just a real guy, no gimmicks. Much respect Steve, I dig your videos!

[elmostong]

"The instructions call for 2 cups of water, that sounds gross, so im gonna use Guiness". LOL, loved the Vid Steve

[flexlex]

Love this dude. Gotta bush craft a fire, opens up bag of store bought wood and a road torch!! ❤️

[gurs]

As a fellow canadian, I gotta say your politeness and likeableness comes through so well in your videos. I wish you the best bud! I hope to live a life as adventurous as your's eventually! 😄

[garamas]

Me: why the hell did YouTube recommend this video to me
Also me: I am now Steve's biggest fan

[b.w.]

Man, I love these videos of yours. People take “camping” so serious sometimes. Like bringing their tactical gear, super knives, whittling a special stick to start the fire, etc. That’s cool and fun and all, but gosh - camping is just being outside, maybe sleeping there, cooking some food, whatever. It doesn’t require a special wardrobe and it can be done with some blankets.

[Cmb]

This was the very first Camping with Steve video I’ve ever watched. I’ve been hooked ever since. Thank you youtube for recommending this to me again. Very good memories !

[noelcunningham]

reminded me of a time when my cousin got a new bag and we wanted to go snow camping to test it out. We got a late start and didn't get to the base of the mountain until after dark. We bought two bushels of wood from the local grocery store... (something we'd never normally do)... and made our way up the icy mountain roads in my Scirocco. T he roads were pretty awful, but we persevered until we found a pullout. We hiked in about a quarter mile... and realized we had forgotten the tent. Whoops. But not to be disuaded, we dug into the snow, put our pads down and got on making the fire.
Trouble was that the town where we purchased the wood was below the snow line, so instead of fluffly powdery flakes, they got rain. All of our wood was soaked to the bone. So we hunkered down in a cold, winter camp with no tent.
Fortunately our bags did what they advertised and we slept great until we were woken by a search and rescue guy. Apparently we arrived so late that we never knew there was a check point at the base of the mountain... a place where they would have told us that there was no camping allowed. So when the Rangers were doing their morning check they saw my car and thought it was cross country skiers who had gotten in some sort of trouble. Fortunately, the radio guy gave us a head start before he radioed that he'd found us.
We slid down that mountain and booked on home. One of the more memorable trips I've been on.

[waynelewis]

One of your best productions yet, Steve. It brought memories of 60+ years ago when my three brothers and I would camp just like that (minus store-bought wood, plastic tarp and a real camp ground). An old chunk of canvas, a pack of hotdogs and all the blankets we could smuggle out of the house, and off to the woods. Sadly, there are only three of us left now, but we still camp that way. I’ve stopped watching most of the bushcrafting channels because they tend to leave folks with the idea that if you don’t use a fire steel and carry at least a thousand dollars worth of gear, you’re not a real bushcrafter. They call themselves bushcrafters, I call them flatlanders.

Please don’t change a thing.

[elihinely]

Once again, best camping channel out there. Humble, simple, and calming. Best thing to watch before bed.

[PennsylvaniaBigfootProject]

I’m just looking at the picnic table & thinking you could wrap the tarp overtop, with a flap underneath as insulation. Leave a portion open for the heat to come through from the campfire, crawl underneath, using the picnic table as your shelter.

[dbryanmills]

I've been camping for 40 years and I've clearly spent to much time thinking about fire starters. My next trip is with flares (from Canadian tire of course). Thank you sir.

[jacquelinemarie]

Going from a 4 bedroom home, to being not so comfortable, I ended up homeless for about 3 months. I had a car, and that's where I slept, but finding a place to eliminate, etc., was difficult. You have given me so many ideas about surviving in the wilderness, and I wanted to thank you. I have my twig stove, lighting materials and tarps, etc. And that Dakota fire hole I knew about but you made it look so easy, and now I know how to make one. I think I could make it if I had to do it again, only this time I'm going to the woods, police can't find you there, and are too lazy to look, thank goodness. I love your videos.

[kyleberns]

I'm so glad he actually got on that swing set lol

[LibbyRal]

Proud to say, in my 50's I primitive backpacked overnight with no tent - slept on a thermarest w/emergency blanket for a cover, just carried an emergency kit, water and gorp to eat. Needless to say, it wasn't snowing. But I'll never forget the thrill.

[russellcook]

This makes tv look so fake it kinda makes me mad that we were raised on watching that fake crap, this is real and I’m thankful for something real, happy thanksgiving from Texas

[jimmygriswold]

I wanna make Steve a shirt that says "Busch craft" .

[andreasdekrout]

Glad to live in a world where a guy like him can do stuff like that and actually have an audience and hopefully some income.