Animal Outside the Tent FOLLOW UP 3 Years Later

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Intro: 0:00
What was it?: 1:21
Why not confront it?: 2:21
Bears: 2:45
Guns: 3:49
Humans: 6:22
Bigfoot: 7:13

Animal Outside the Tent FOLLOW UP 3 Years Later - Discussing Bears, Bigfoot, Guns and More

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[BaumOutdoors]

I typically camp with a wifi trail camera. I point it towards my tent and if I hear anything, I can check the camera from my phone. Works great! lol

[alanbierhoff]

I think it was actually Les Stroud himself, pacing around, working up the nerve to ask you for your chili and garlic toast recipe 😆

[tattletale_tarot]

Hi...I felt so sorry for you during your initial video. I'm so glad you're ok and really like your videos. Thanks! PS. I've been to Chapl;eau for the coldest ice fishing derby I've ever encountered!! Now I live off grid in northern BC. Cheers. You're awesome!

[davidspoelstra]

With something like 90% of all Canadians living within 100 miles of the US border, I CAN ONLY IMAGINE the kind of parks and wild spaces you have at hand. I am severely jealous. I'm also amazed that you talked in your tent in that original encounter. My wife and I had a pretty crazy bull moose/moose harem experience during the rut at an alpine lake in Idaho and we didn't make a freaking 5 agonizing hours.

[oneeyedwillie]

Years ago a friend was on a bike {not motorcycle} trip from Albuquerque NM to Ohio and had stopped late in the day on a side road for the night. It was already light out when something outside his tent woke him. After listening for awhile he finally opened the tent to check it out and as he stuck his head out a horse blew in his face. Scared the crap out of him. Still laughs about it today.

[wyndwalkerranger]

"Solo campers nightmare" I think many of us can relate to that. Being an old guy I have to get up once or twice during the night to P always wonder what's out there. Enjoy your videos.

[BonasticFantastic]

I love the honesty right away. "I was too cheap to pay for a hotel." Such a dude thing to do. I can see my wife asking me "I couldn't get a hold of you" "yea I saved a few bucks and just camped out without cell reception"

[wcolautti]

Great reply video. I’m from Northern ON and I love the outdoors - in my 20’s I camped solo everywhere from the interior of B.C. to Northern Quebec - it never occurred to me to have a weapon. Just my dog.

As a now 49 yr old who’s watched plenty of Dateline however, I think I was reckless at times as a female to travel /camp solo.

I recall stopping at a Husky for breakfast and telling an elderly couple that I was driving from Calgary to SSM - just my dog and I - and we had a nice chat.

When I was paying on my out a wise old waitress told me never to announce I was travelling alone (and definitely not sleeping in a tent) she said you don’t know who else is listening.

[raymondcava]

On my solo canoe camping trips I carry a 970 mL detergent bottle cleaned out with the pour spout removed for better access. This P bottle comes in handy in pouring rain or if the bugs are swarming making leaving the tent not necessary. These detergent bottles have a very good seal and in the morning empty them out rinse them out and you’re good to go.😂👍

[rick]

In 1969, one summer, as a junior in high school, I hitch hiked from the Bay Area(Calif) to Prince Rupert and then hopped a ferry to Ketchikan. Of course I was young(and loaded with testosterone and very naïve, ) but I was hardly ever afraid sleeping out in the bush but always scared to death if my last ride left me too near a town, even the smaller ones... Slept one night beneath and behind a billboard in a suburb of Vancouver....That was something! Have never been in any similar situation with respect to your story; just being capable of filming and speaking into you GoPro shows amazing "cool" in my book. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't have been able to do it...rr Normandy, France

[James-dxvs]

I've always been amazed at how quiet a deer can be, and also how loud it can be when it walks thru woods.

[trailtimeszr]

Im sure it was Bigfoot looking for some leftover Chili toast. 😂

[LookingForNostalgia]

I had almost the exact same experience. I was finishing up a roadtrip from Northeast down through the South and back up into the Midwest (America). I was coming from Ann Arbor back home to Philly, but didn’t want to do the whole 9 hour drive (i had been consistently driving 6-10hrs a day for a week and a half) so I booked a private camp ground on the side of a mountain a few hours outside Pittsburgh in Western Pennsylvania wilderness. It was my first time camping in any seriousness since I was in the Scouts (where I made Eagle) and my first time ever camping solo.

Woke up around 3am to a pacing around my tent. Not unusual, but it quickly became obvious this thing wasn’t a deer or racoon. The only three viable options given the size of its footsteps and the exhale of breath I heard a few times (uncomfortably close to my head with only a thin membrane of tent between) was: large farm dog, feral hog, black bear. And given where i was and the time of year (late summer, northeast), black bear absolutely is my guess.

Unfortunately I had no bear spray (it was a road trip), my only blade was a utility knife, and I don’t carry guns. But I did have the foresight to hang my car keys from the top of my tent within easy reach and parked my car to face my tent. So I was lucky in that I had the (frankly only) option to set off my car horn & high beams which scarred the creature off, after which i quickly but assuredly scurried into my car where i (didn’t) sleep til dawn when i could hit the road again.

[JJTFishing]

I had what I thought was a racoon walking around my tent in the Gatineaus for 5 minutes. Then it took a loud piss that lasted for a minute! It was a bear for sure. We waited it out and it just left. It's amazing how the intensity mounts after a while. I alway have bear spray and bear bangers with me now but I've never used them. I feel safer in the backcountry rather than campgrounds.

[Venantium]

I had a solo camper nightmare once. I thought it was an animal. The wind became super strong very suddenly in the middle of the night and collapsed my pop tent onto me. I thought something jumped on top of my tent. Absolutely wild experience.

[jackp]

nice update with very good explanations about the questions. I like the way you give your opinions & why you believe so.

[bumblebee]

A few years ago I said the same thing you did about bigfoot but today, still not seeing one for myself I do believe 100% they are here. Along with other crypids. To many people had encounters so are they all lying. No I don't think so. I did have an experience though with my dog one night. I didn't see it but my dog did. We were driving I pulled to the side of the road as something fell by my foot I went to stop to grab it, my dog started growling, snarling, biting at the window, doing things hes never done before. It scared the crap out of me. I took off. This happened up in the thumb of Michigan. I pulled off to the side of the road with the woods both sides of the street. It was about 11pm. I believe my dog spotted something. Also I was driving a big pickup truck, it sat up high. And being that it was super dark out whatever it was had to of been tall.
Ever Ever since that little encounter, I started obsessively looking into everything crypted. I believe these things can cloak themselves and blend in with the surroundings around them that's why nobody can find them.

[jeffreyberube]

Ya know John, no matter the content, there will ALWAYS be someone to pass comment/judgment.
Moreover it is vastly difficult not to take these remarks personally.

Stand your ground brother, you are sharing your love of gift with others, with sound & great content.
The ones who take the risk and share with others are the folks who truly live, & not just sit on the wings and mock others.
Keep going dude …..

[MOAB]

I salted & sanded HWY 17 in 1980/81 at Marathon ON, I was 21 years old. I beleive it was January or February, it was a very cold crisp morning right around dawn and it had snowed quite a bit during the night. About 5 miles east of the Little Pic River I noticed some tracks heading south towards Lake Superior. I decided to check them out on my return trip when the sun would be up a bit more. The snow plow had already plowed the road ahead of me so no tracks were visible on the highway. I only saw tracks on the one side of the road. possibly 20"-24" tracks in 6 feet of snow in a pretty straight line. I climbed the snow bank to get a better look, but the tracks were so deep I couldn't see the bottom. I know snow distorts the size immensely. But here is the weird part. There was no drag marks between tracks at all. Zero. What ever left the tracks raised its foot straight up and straight down. Tracks were 3 feet apart my guess. I wish I had a camera. Coincidently in March of that year I got pulled over by the MTO for a routine spot check near the Little Pic and they discovered I didn't have a Class D drivers License for Trucks. That was my last days living and working in Marathon. A Jewel of the North.

[jamesm.]

Last year I was car camping in the mountains around 8500’, bear country. In the middle of the night, I got out to “water a bush” and just as I finished, I heard a deep growl which sounded like it was the other side of the jeep. I said, “Oh crap!” And jumped back into the jeep. It paced around for a while and growled repeatedly before finally leaving. I found the bear prints the next morning around my jeep and around my campsite. I didn’t have a gun or bear spray or what not, and it was nerve-racking so I can relate.