Camping in a Smugglers Cave in Ireland

[@epherepher7795]

I tried to sleep in that cave many years ago. Halfway in I came face to face with a sheep. I decided a tent was maybe better.

[@StephenJReid]

😂 I’ve never seen a sheep in there, I wonder if they’ve stopped using it as more people are visiting.

[@edwardfletcher7790]

​​​​@@StephenJReidI'm surprised you're using hairy string not tarred bank line or paracord. These are the two favorites of the Bushcraft community 👍 PS : There are some terrifying amoebas & bacteria living in caves. Especially caves with bats ! Please wash, disinfect or use wet wipes on your spoon next time 🙁 If you want some great knee pads for caving get yourself some tiling or gardening pads. My Dad used them for years, not expensive and very very handy for gardening too 👍 Your videos are really beautiful mate 🏆

[@zappababe8577]

​@@edwardfletcher7790 Can even pass the spoon through the flame of his little camping stove and that would've killed the nasty bugs and germs.

[@dalyb7555]

You shagged that sheep 😅 haha only joking...

[@jugomebu]

Gods you nail the perfect balance of humour and gentle obaervation and wonder. Freaking loved the upload, and condolences for suffering for our viewing pleasure!

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks! Glad more people are finding this one, it was a bit of a flop when I first published it.

[@MarksShrimpTanks]

Strangest place Ive slept in was a mental hospital that was being renovated in the Scottish Highlands, we had loads of snow that night and I felt like I was on the shining. 😂

[@StephenJReid]

You’re the second person to say Mental Hospital! Do you know the other guy? 😂

[@meinthewild312]

A friend and I missed the last train out of Munich to Ferth (West Germany) and because we were students, we lacked the funds to stay in a hotel for the night. In desparation, it was October in Munich, so quite cold, we slept on some scaffolding that was covered in plastic sheeting. The scaffolding was on the side of a 15th Century church. Very very uncomfortable and COLD, but at least it didn’t rain; silver lining. 😂

[@paulplex]

As a kid, the idea of camping in a cave would have been exciting and enticing. Having recently re-watched the horror film "The Descent", let's just say I'm glad you made it out alive ...

[@StephenJReid]

I should have watched it while I was doing this! 🤣

[@pedroclaro7822]

that one was terrifying

[@coolkumquats]

When Stephen was crawling through that narrow passage into the third chamber on his belly, all I could think of was The Descent and that long narrow passage where things first start going wrong. 😅I've been in several caves and enjoyed them, but you'll never catch me squeezing through tight spaces like that!

[@RatsJones]

Thank you for making these videos fun as well as interesting. I live in the USA. Old and financially strapped, this widens my world. Thank you very much!😊

[@skitsmaxn]

I second this statement!! I had always wanted to leave the USA and see places that are much older then this country

[@SaunterOn]

I slept in the middle of a roundabout in Paris. It was my first time travelling on my own and I was about 21 years old. I had been given wrong directions when I arrived, and ended up walking from one end of Paris to the other...about ten miles, walking in the dark with my massive rucksack, hoping to get to a camp site on the far west of Paris, in the Bois de Bologne (an area infamous for dodgy activity), but at 2am and having not found the campsite, I thought it was safer to quit walking, and saw a clump of bushes in the middle of a large roundabout. I did actually get some sleep, more than I do these days when I am wild camping, even though my Thermarest Self inflating mat punctured 😂

[@StephenJReid]

That’s quite the story! I’d say the long walk helped with the sleep

[@punchingcinnamon9120]

The quality of the work you put in is insane, been on a channel binge and everything you shoot is so beautiful!

[@chad.haggerty]

You’re nuts in the best way possible! 😂 great video, appreciate the chat-thru.

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks Chad! 😁

[@ChrisMinusHumour]

When I was in Scouts, we hiked for miles in February through snow to a bothy in the north of Scotland. It was pretty much a derelict building with a door and an old fireplace. We just hid inside from the elements all night and tried to build a fire. It was freezing but a great memory.

[@StephenJReid]

that sounds amazing. I wish we had more bothies in Ireland. Very few.

[@techvillage]

Wooden clothes peg was genius :) Right thing to bail, but what a fun idea! I do prefer your "adventure" videos and this was another good one :) And nope, you are ahead of me by having slept in a cave, and due to my fear of getting stuck in one, and watching you nearly getting stuck, I never will! :)

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks! Can’t decide if it counts as a bail or just getting up very early. 😂

[@4ajustpeace]

Thanks! Enjoyed watching you bumble around that awful cave. Sometime you'll have to try a West Virginia cave with a dry, wide open, sandy floor, and a few friends. A great night's sleep. That was 50 some years ago. 🙃

[@jasonseery4885]

Irleand is such a beautiful country

[@bartonianoutdoors]

have slept, many times, in the West Kennet Long Barrow. a 5500 ish year old bural chanmer! 2nd on the right is my preferred 'room'

[@LouiseLong-t4b]

That's an incredible place, and last time I visited. looked dry.

[@itsmemaario]

Just gotta watch out for those Barrow Whights.

[@dougiebicker6458]

Many years ago on the way out of that cave there is another chamber to the left just before you do that last squeeze down into the first chamber ,i knew it did go far but my mate wanted to check it out,he got stuck at the bottom of it for over an hour,when he eventually got out he said it was the best feeling ever

[@susana.2631]

Another little suggestion is newspaper. If your batteries run out for your socks, back in the 40s/during the war, I was told by my grandfather that newspaper is a great insulator. He also used it on his boxsprings under his mattress. Just a thought in case you don’t have anything else. 😊

[@LouiseLong-t4b]

I fell asleep once in a chair at the Daytona 500, at a major bend with the vehicles monotonously zooming past me. My husband was appalled.

[@BlastinRope]

them budlights catch to you, 12 dollars or not

[@jackfranks7160]

Thanks for the claustrophobia! Really enjoyed this 😁

[@adventurouseater]

Omg you need to keep making content! Fun, funny, informative and entertaining ❤

[@rednome5443]

So he started to climb out of the hole. He pulled with his front paws, and pushed with his back paws, and in a little while his was out in the open again … and then his ears … and then his front paws … and then his shoulders … and then - “Oh, help!” said Pooh. “I’d better go back.” “Oh, bother!” said Pooh. “I shall have to go on.” “I can’t do either!” said Pooh. “Oh, help and bother!”

[@rednome5443]

That’s you Steve, you are Pooh! 😂 I’m glad you didn’t actually get stuck!

[@StephenJReid]

I can confirm I did find Pooh last time I was there 😂

[@frenchrulesall]

Why was the algorithm keeping this gem of a video from my home page? I don’t even think I could camp alone anywhere without getting too scared, my imagination is simply too.. well imaginative lol

[@jadadallas5891]

I am claustrophobic. I wouldn't have even made it into the cave much less to the third chamber. 😅 The sheer anxiety of watching you squeeze into those tight spaces was uncomfortable. Glad you made it out safe.

[@jackmanning7370]

I went exploring a abandoned ‘mansion’ near rudyard lake with a few friends, we stayed the night there after having a few drinks and had a weird weird night.. it felt like people were walking around all night screams and all sorts of horrendous noises.. anyway the next day we did abit of googling on it snd turns out the previous owner had been tied up and tortured in the house, later dying of his injuries

[@seanclarke8015]

Discovered your channel last night and while I go through the back catalogue, the Tolkien references are fantastic.

[@alanslade2319]

Hi Steven just watched about 5 your videos in a row , thoroughly enjoyed every single one. I did put a thumbs up on all of them but didn't leave comments, but I thought I should tell you that I've done this one just to let you know, and I think we like to go outdoors it's a bit of a primal thing.and thinking time for me, anyway thanks for your time and effort love the show, please take care of yourself and I'll see you soon Alan ⛺💯👍

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks so much Alan! That’s high praise indeed, really appreciate it and especially appreciate that you commented on this video as it didn’t get as many views as I had hoped at the time 🙂

[@TheOC1968]

I'm watching 8months after publication and I'm shocked at how few views. Loved the video, fantastic quality and amazing energy and fun. You deserve more exposure. Thanks Steven,

[@alanslade2319]

@@TheOC1968 great work and fun to watch . I agree 💯👍

[@StephenJReid]

@@TheOC1968 thanks! Appreciate that. I had high hopes for this video and honestly was gutted it didn’t perform better. Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂

[@alanslade2319]

@@StephenJReid see you the man Steven.lol . Hi sheep 🐑

[@meinthewild312]

I was freaking out watching going into both the 2nd and 3rd chambers and I am not claustrophobic. Caving is not for me. Thanks for taking us along for the ride tho. 😅

[@falcolf]

Strangest place I've slept: a village's public bathroom which thankfully had an internal lock. I had to take cover in it due to inclement weather; I'd spent all day hiking through a hurricane and I knew that I couldn't tent again in it after the previous night in the same weather. Also halloumi is soooo good! I've eaten it but once in my life but it was glorious and I recall it with longing.

[@rodoutdoors]

Enclosed places like that cave would freak me out. Cool idea and attempt. Thanks for not getting stuck and dying of hypothermia.

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks! I made a lot of effort to not die! 🤣

[@9945bri]

Just realised how much of a phobia I have of getting stuck in places like that, excellent video impressive that you did that!

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks! That’s about my limit, I’ve seen some crazy scary videos of people crawling through much worse for much longer.

[@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian]

Was in here in May for first time - quite the place. Great channel by the way bro!

[@GearTutorials]

great video Stephen! What may have worked better than the tarp for the drips would simply be wedging a knot in where each drip was coming from (if possible) and leading the cordage away from your bed, the drips would soak into the cord and follow the path of least resistance (in theory). Same way some people put a cord on their hammock straps so any drips don't find their way to the actual hammock.

[@StephenJReid]

Good idea but the drips didn’t come from cracks so would have been impossible (at least with the kit i had to put a knot on them.

[@StephenJReid]

I’ll just have to wait until either summer or a big freeze to try again 😂

[@GearTutorials]

@@StephenJReid duct tape the knot to the drip 🤷‍♂️😂

[@alexandrawessel4717]

great video and love the way you tell us how you feel while doing these ......glad you made it out safe and warm..ish... i have 2 equally fascintating weird places....one was during german winter = lots of snow and I climbed into our dog kennel. Due to the servere winters we had a kennel within a kennel within a wooden shed which was filled with straw to keep the inner kennel nice and warm . i slept in there with our 2 dogs (one was half a wolf) and the heat of them kept me super cozy and very safe

[@StephenJReid]

Why did you sleep in the dog kennel? I bet that was warm though with the dogs

[@alexandrawessel4717]

@@StephenJReid very warm and cozy indeed. I had a bit of an unusual childhood and on some occasions the kennel was my safety haven. You know what they say about dogs and best friends 😊🥰

[@raymart86]

Slept in the airport terminal on a trip to NY when I was too cheap for a hotel room. Stayed at a bar until 2:45am then caught a ride to 27:55 the airport. With no luggage to check I could go thru security & snooze at my gate.

[@StephenJReid]

one way of saving some money!

[@chrisvisser-fee2631]

Not that unusual but the first time I travelled internationally, I was so jetlagged I full on fell asleep while squatting in a corner in the airport. I wasn't aware it was even possible to be asleep while on your feet, but I wasn't lying down or even leaning against the wall, I was just squatting in a little ball out of the way of the people rushing by.

[@peterrobertson8141]

Despite the fact that I suffer from claustrophobia and had to psyche myself up before watching, I did manage to watch the video all the way through. I guess I could probably manage the sleeping in the cave bit (without the dripping water), but I certainly wouldn't have followed you past that first compartment. I'll stick to camping out under the open sky, thank you. Great video though Stephen! 👍

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks Peter!

[@andrewwright2524]

Night b4 my wedding in cyprus i slept in the hotel room bath cus my dad snoring was tht loud and it was the only way of muffling the sound. Brillant video, been waiting on it coming.

[@StephenJReid]

🤣 I've tried sleeping on the floor beside my bed because someone in another bed was snoring. Very jealous of people who go to sleep instantly and ruin everyone else's nights by snoring

[@DavidDoyleOutdoors]

My strangest place to sleep was the Sahara Desert, but it was amazing watching the Milky Way and shooting stars. Should have put your spoon in the flame to sterilise it. Great video but I think I’ll give cave camping a miss lol

[@StephenJReid]

That sounds pretty epic, I’ve been in a desert once, such a weird place for someone from a very green country

[@DavidDoyleOutdoors]

@@StephenJReid which desert were you at?

[@StephenJReid]

Mojave

[@SoloSarahBX]

I just adore your time that is incredibly precious to you so thankyou for sharing it with me/us, one of your fans, a simple woman with simple pleasures very much the same as yours. My favourite parts are hard to choose in your videos, I enjoy how hilarious you are combined with your moments of contemplation when i feel like I’m out with a pal camping and pondering the meaning of life 😂I am a solo camper btw, I mostly just talk to KZbin 😅 tent time is the best, now camping in a cave? Fancy Thors Cave in the Manifold valley? Now that would be a great vid! Thanks Stephen 🙌🏻ATB, Sarah

[@StephenJReid]

Thank you Sarah! Always try and treat the camera like it’s a buddy 🙂

[@markbailey15]

Great video Stephen!..love the food. I was getting claustrophobic watching ya Squeeze through that crack😮. Thanks for the nice wee shot of the BaileyBurner 😊

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks Mark! Glad I was with other people the first time I tried it otherwise I’d never have gone in there

[@Alexis-b17]

I am really enjoying your mountain adventures and the camping bits & laughing a long with you at the minor mishaps! Also hoping & praying you stay safe thank you for sharing with us all, i never did any hiking in my life too old to now! but it looks awesome 😊

[@stschubs]

I love that you tried anyways! I just found you and your whole channel, angle, story telling is captivating. Thanks so much!

[@prendo2601]

The sound of the jacket off the cot … like nails on a chalkboard for me 🙈 enjoying the videos besides! 😂

[@lifesahobby]

Well done brother. Excellent adventure , love the chest mount and the fart hole . . You adapted that soace with all the imaginative genius required to survive . Bravo

[@StephenJReid]

Haha thanks! The chest harness comes I. Handy! Especially in winter

[@halloken7296]

I love these videos! Keep it up. Love from up north ❤

[@lifesahobby]

23:05 , god i know that feeling .. Had a similar situation with a loud girgling animal one night in February that woke me up and for 3 hours i lay there watching Apollo 13 documentary about three men stuck in a tin foil freezing room . . I got some good star lapses all the same . Funny moment though there with how awake you were

[@StephenJReid]

It's very frustrating to be incredibly awake when all you want to do is sleep! I should have brought a documentary±

[@lifesahobby]

@@StephenJReid the Apollo 13 one is actually perfect for camping. As you freeze to death , they freeze to death . Just sayin

[@EmsWolf02]

Just randomly watching your videos as KZbin pops them up and already, 1:35mins in you've mentioned "poo poo". ❤💩🤣🤣🤣

[@StephenJReid]

I talk about poo a lot 🤣

[@EmsWolf02]

@@StephenJReid Yeah, I watched one video where 'sheep dung' was mentioned fairly early doors... 🤣

[@gaz1tinsley]

Thats just the required ball vetilation, cant have sweaty ones, for the cold feet put a carrier bag over your sock and then put your boots on toasty feet !! 20:13 dont forget your canera bag over your socks ? Caves/water, i have been doing caving for many yrs, when i go caving i wear a wetsuit and overals underneath, wit as i said sometimes with a carrier bag over my socks or in some of the seriously wet caves a carier bag over wet socks ! think ov how to retain your body heat in these extrene situations ? when you get cold you loose the will to resolve your plite ? another easy survial tip is to put your sleeping bag into a black bin bag, heat and wterproof !

[@gaz1tinsley]

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[@robertthebruce-geniusofban647]

Great films Stephen, subscribed. I’ve slept in many places including battlefields and old castles… Flodden field I’ve slept on a couple of times…

[@nigelmcardle4112]

Entertaining as always Stephen, thanks for sharing your adventures!

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks Nigel! 🙂

[@Sally4th_]

You're basically trying to sleep inside a massive heat-sink with a forced draft. No wonder you were cold!Cavers usually rig a tent inside the cave to trap the warm air around you. This is where that bivvy tent would come into its own :) Oh and weirdest place: a Secret Cold-War Nuclear bunker (yes, that one at Kelvedon Hatch). We weren't allowed to camp out in the bunker but I was playing a patient in the infirmary and dozed off on the cot. It was very comfy and apparently I looked so peaceful they left me to it :D

[@Ericd-j9g]

wow great video. There is no way i'd have crawled to the back of the cave, too fat for a start. Fairplay to you 😃

[@Expressionisto1]

Thanks for an engrossing video. Your journey deeper, to the cave's inner chambers was nerve-racking. Thanks to for the question at the end. Amongst the weirdest places I've slept was at the foot of the 12th century tower of St Mary's Church, Barnes, in south west London. Attempted sleep would be more accurate, on a early November night when the temperature dropped to -3 degrees celsius. How I came to be there is another story - utterly petrifying. By the time I returned to my bed at home I was wrecked and remain horizontal for several days following. This was way back in the 1990s. What remains most vivid in my memory of that time? The dark, primal creepiness of the ancient churchyard, unease at the proxiimity of a nighttime London street, but mostly the horrifying, dangerous sensation of being chilled to the bone, senses drained: craving calories and some warm, safe rest.

[@StephenJReid]

That sounds horrifying!

[@Expressionisto1]

@@StephenJReid reckless, youthful and ill-prepared. A horrifying time that no doubt left an indelible mark... I'm all the more grateful for those home comforts. As unpleasant as it was: I had the use of a warm bed and shelter, once out of that night's mess. Grounding and perspective. I loved your reflections on the hardships of the outdoors and revelling in those triumphs and joyful moments (to paraphrase). Spot on. Thanks for some lovely videos Stephen. I'm new to your channel and enjoying the insights and discovery... beautifully realised too.

[@TJBadventures]

Slept in the new drainage pipes they were putting in on the carriageway @Conlig. Heading home to Ards after a night out in Bangor back in the 90s. Did have a huge antlered stag beside assisi curiously watching as I lay down 😂😂 Good Times. Love the video's

[@StephenJReid]

That sounds like an uncomfortable night!

[@alanrobertson5497]

On a island that was in lake, inside an army sleeping bag and bivi bag. Woke up soaked from sweat. I think it was near Gosford.

[@StephenJReid]

Off to look for islands near Gosford now!

[@alanrobertson5497]

@@StephenJReid it might have been on lough neagh, not sure

[@pipesandthat]

Hmmm, not sure which was the strangest place I’ve slept. An abandoned herring factory in Iceland, a snow hole on Mt Blanc, or a church in Saraswatipur West Bengal. I’ve thought about sleeping in that cave a few times, but knowing it’s a toilet stop for some put me off that idea. I didn’t know bout the 3rd chamber, so that’s one for the list next time I’m in that valley 👍

[@TheSpectre223]

Late to the party but I slept in an aquarium once. My home city of Plymouth, back when I was a kid they had a Halloween event where kids could go and have a spooky sleepover at the NMA. Everyone turns up in costume, there's some little Halloweeny activities, and then you get sleeping bags and mats and sleep on the floor next to the shark tanks. I dragged mine right over against the glass so I could look up and into the tank, it was pretty cool honestly.

[@matildanorberg]

Way way late to this party, but I'm watching all your videos after recently discovering your channel. My first thought was that I haven't slept in so many weird places, but then my mind said - no? You sure? My top three i think is 3) in the entrance area to a train car in france. Me and a friend with our backpacks tied to us so no one would steal it; 2) all alone in a tent in the forest ( not so unusual) with howling wolfs that i could hear from different directions during the night (kind of unusual!); 1) in a castle ruin in Heidelberg Love your videos, both quality, story and your humourous approch 👍❤️

[@StephenJReid]

Welcome 🙂

[@susana.2631]

When you dropped the spoon on the floor, to sanitize it, I would’ve held it over the flame for a minute or so.☺️

[@arbel7655]

17:30 just triggered a reoccurring nightmare. I really hope I don't have it later tonight.

[@RoadReality]

LOL, never slept in a cave... but a house with no interior doors, in my college days. That was scarier than any cave, given the other occupants :D Great video - I knew you made it out but some of those crevasses you were climbing through [is that the right word?] gave ME claustrophobia!

[@StephenJReid]

Student house with no interior doors sounds like a nightmare! 😂

[@RoadReality]

@@StephenJReid Yeah, well, it was... and I'm glad it was only the one night!

[@Prince_Buster]

That was absolutely brilliant to watch, shame you hadn't a great sleeping experience to match

[@swonder2245]

Subscribed after YT recommended your blue-algae video. Love your content, I agree so much with the sentiment: 'why am I doing this' and that odd sense of discomfort and peace of wildcamping. Congrats on the >1million views video

[@summitupmark5615]

Great video sir. Can I ask what your red food storage box is?

[@Teddy12399]

Love it! Cracking video. Had me giggling.

[@StephenJReid]

thanks Teddy 🙂

[@adventurousdavee]

Fair play for sticking it as long as you did . I would deffo get stuck trying to get into that 2nd chamber so no way I will be trying that lol .

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks Dave! It’s a tight squeeze for sure

[@PeacheyMcKeitch]

Stangest place ive slept is on top of an archway in an abandoned mental hospital. Much nicer then it sounds! There was one near where I grew up in Scotland and we used to hang out there. Also slept on a random couch that someone dumped in there once. (With a campfire going naturally)

[@StephenJReid]

That actually sounds kinda cool. We also had an old house we would mess about in as kids although was pretty small

[@alysonhale3361]

Great video- that cave though- the horror. The public toilets in Capel Curig in 1970 was the strangest place Ive ever slept but probably not the most unhygienic.

[@StephenJReid]

Sounds like an unpleasant night!

[@nigeldevine4619]

Top of Slemish mountain, bloody freezing

[@StephenJReid]

Camped up there twice, first time was one of the best nights sleep I’ve had, bivvied on top of a pile of heather

[@tonystrange3893]

Going in the second and third chamber you need a check up from the neck up lol cool vid thanks x Ps I think we need to see Paul messner get into chamber 3 on your next get together 😉

[@StephenJReid]

Well I haven’t recently have a few doctors say my brain is a bit weird 😂. I’ll ask Paul the question.. 🤣

[@gordyl9247]

I've been in that cave boudoir years ago but just bivied nearby. I have bedded down in a ruined church. (now preserved) The graveyard was the only decent level groundbelow Mt Erigle. Enjoyed this fun video 😅

[@StephenJReid]

I think I know the church you mean, in poisoned glen?

[@gordyl9247]

@@StephenJReid That's the one. Suspension had broken on the car so options were limited, turned out a great place to stay. Set up our kitchen in the bell tower... 😂

[@gordyl9247]

@@StephenJReid Didn't you do a bike ride around that area?

[@Colinrussellscottishwildcamper]

Nice one, camped in a cave as well, there like a fridge😂👍, atb

[@StephenJReid]

yeah it twas not warm!

[@garyforest1708]

brilliant.. been in that cave many times and often thought what it would be like to sleep in .... i now know the answer..😂😂😂 thanks for that mate 👍

[@StephenJReid]

Glad to save you the misery

[@anthonymara4533]

Honestly, to me at least, mine isn't so strange, but it's the best I've got. I once fell asleep in the middle of a thunderstorm atop a bald in Appalachia. Over 6thousand feet above sea level, and there I was sleeping soundly with nothing but a poncho wrapped around myself. Utterly ridiculous, I slept probably a good four or five hours [this has been 20 years ago now].

[@feargusc]

Very entertaining video. I once got set up for a summit camp on mount Shasta in California (4000m high!) and woke up around midnight to see a massive thunderstorm coming. There was a lump of lava towering over a little hole at just enough of an angle to keep the rain out a couple of hundred metres below where I was and I scrambled down to scree to curl up in there and wait out the storm. I think I slept in a few short bursts, but it was pretty scary!

[@StephenJReid]

That sounds terrifying!

[@LMay64]

Definitely call this "type 2" fun!

[@StephenJReid]

Indeed!

[@VincentNajger1]

13:40 is that M45? (That's Pleiades to all the pseudo-neohippies and Alien Abductees). That's a really well done shot!

[@northwestwalking]

17:35 you have now showed me that I’m definitely not a cave person. Good on you sir for having the testicular fortitude for this adventure. Obviously you lived through the adventure but just had to get up and walk around feeling trapped on your behalf 😎

[@StephenJReid]

My parents refused to watch it. I think it’s worse watching it because your not in control

[@northwestwalking]

@@StephenJReid take your mums advice 😉

[@jujujay]

Ps I’ve had a nights sleep in a phone box years ago was pissing rain and just needed it..

[@StephenJReid]

How did you sleep? Curled up on the floor or leaning against the side?

[@jujujay]

@@StephenJReid both but started rolled up ( happy i was good in yoga class 😂)

[@littleoldmanrunning105]

NO! NO! NO! Never again! I used to go caving as part of my job. I hated it. Damp, cold, miserable, all the time. Good on you for calling it though. Once you get too cold, it's really hard to come back from it. I'm liking the idea of the camp bed though. I'm getting way too old to be sleeping on the ground. If you want to try cave camping again though, come to Crete. There are loads of caves here that are not constantly dripping and filled with ... well, you know. ;-)

[@StephenJReid]

What was your job? Now I'm curious!

[@littleoldmanrunning105]

I was a outdoor pursuit instructor. So I taught rock climbing abseiling etc. And caving. But this was not a Hobbit hole filled with comforts and nice food, nor was it a pretty cave, with stalactites and stalagmites, no, this was a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell. Needless to say I hated it.@@StephenJReid

[@Kenbur]

IF I'm claustrophobic? I am wincing and chuckling and saying "NO WAY!" am I going to do that. I've been in many caves, however when they get that narrow and small of a passage I get panicky. Did an MRI last year - worst thing for me ever. Hats off to a wet night (you did technically make it to morning) in a very narrow cave, even IF it was cut short. Thanks for taking us on this adventure. As for the weirdest place I've ever slept - purposely - in the backseat window of a car on a cross-country road trip that we decided to drive straight through rather than stop. It was the only place not filled with people or baggage that I could halfway stretch out in as a teenager(short straw type of deal). Not purposely - under a tree in a forest that I was wandering through and it got too dark to actually find a place to make camp and not wanting to get lost as I had no maps or compass just some general directions - I just wrapped up in a blanket and went to sleep right where I was. Back in those times - we didn't realize or ever thought of the woods/forest as being "dangerous" just somewhat spooky and unfamiliar that you went through on your way to somewhere. Kind of strange when I think of it now 50 or so years later.

[@StephenJReid]

thanks for the stories🙂 There's something special about the idea of just curling up and sleeping under a tree. Back of a car just sounds very uncomfortable!

[@teresawarnke999]

I passed out in the scoop of a snow plow once. It was August, so I didn't freeze. I literally was plowed, lol.

[@colincampbell4261]

Under a hedge in a Barcelona park.

[@evachjourney]

This looked difficult 🙈 on the note of why we chose outdoors when its mostly uncomfortable…I’m reading an interesting book about adventure how it is one of the most healing and growing thing for humans as it brings sense of accomplishment, sense of inner transformation, because after every adventure we experience (and that can be simply stepping out of comfort zone) we became new better version of ourself who is forever transformed and different to what we have been before….this can last months or years until we feel of need of another adventure….so it’s very deeply psychological why we do it and speaks a lot about a need of overcoming ourselves and grow within.

[@MattHikesHills]

Great video! Very funny apart from the part squeezing further into the cave. If only you had taken the bivvi. You only have to sleep in a cave once. I did Priests Hole in the Lake District, great night but I feel no need to repeat it.

[@PierreFarrugia]

Really like the way you shot the cave , you have skill 👍

[@StephenJReid]

Thank you 🙂

[@jujujay]

Make a movie with your mum in it…. Ps laughing always and going to make a Monday post about this film so as always keep up the good adventures and love the born to run buff… 😊

[@StephenJReid]

Haha not sure she'd be up for that 🤣 Thanks!

[@t2fn]

Which brand of electric socks did you get, and would you recommend them?

[@StephenJReid]

I got power performance ones, they work well in providing heat but were expensive and no longer stay up very well. Usually gathered around my ankles at the end of a hike

[@AlexofZippo]

Hmm… green room of Caesar’s Palace, using the wheels of an office chair in police lockup, and the first 4 hours of a very intense LSD experience would be my top 3 oddest places. The LSD trip gets special note because I passed out before it kicked in and woke up just after peak. Frankly I’m amazed I was aware enough to realize I’d woken up.

[@thomasshafe]

Fair play carrying all the gear up. I’d rather not give away the strangest place I’ve fallen asleep. Had a few too many and we’ll leave it at that.

[@StephenJReid]

Perhaps the less said the better!

[@LoneWolfExplorer]

Well that was an adventure you had there but rather you than me 😂 I like the idea of the heated socks, like you I have tried everything including wool socks and even when it’s not that cold my feet are cold 🥶

[@StephenJReid]

I've no regrets with the heated socks, they will be on my Outdoors Christmas gift list!

[@lifesahobby]

Try foot powder , to dry them first

[@LoneWolfExplorer]

@@StephenJReid Well that’s grand, I’d love to be on your Christmas gift list 😀😜

[@brendonbriggs622]

What a cracking video mate, iv got another question for you, what would ve you go too carma for starting out, weather it's a new carma or second hand for photography 📸

[@johnsullivan2449]

Between two large boulders on top of a mountain (Mount Erica, Victoria, Australia) during a complete night of rolling thunderstorms. Can’t say I slept terribly well either 😏

[@PhilProctor0]

Cracking video as ever.

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks Phil!

[@BestlifeWildCampingOutdoors]

Great video Stephen, considered the possibility of bivying on the first flat rock as you enter the 2nd chamber but would have to lose a lbs before attempting it. Think strangest place would be bivy on a semi flat rock on a river bed during a heat wave, not far from cave.

[@StephenJReid]

Thought about that myself, but paranoid about the rocks moving during the night. River bed, now that is a strange one!

[@frosty_soda]

What are your trousers? They look very comfortable!

[@StephenJReid]

Revolution Race waterproof trousers. Honestly not that comfortable, the waterproof material means they aren’t very flexible hence the rip. But they combine well with a base layer.

[@frosty_soda]

@@StephenJReid 🤣 you're a geg. Good lad. Enjoying the vids!

[@NickMcClelland]

Rather you than me Stephen, the space was bad enough before you went exploring 😮 I can only imagine what Louise and Mother Reid said when they seen this one! 😂🙈

[@StephenJReid]

My mum refused to watch that bit 🤣

[@cmcg9035]

Strangest place I've gone to sleep: An amusement arcade, one of those crowded seaside places that have pinball machines, etc. I'd been awake for like 40 hours and sat down.

[@ThomTopics]

Some good lessons learned about cave camping here 😂 have toyed with the idea of a night in a cave for a long time (although I think I will be waiting for those temps to creep up a little again first)

[@StephenJReid]

Yeah warm and dry or frozen solid is the ideal I think!

[@ThomTopics]

@@StephenJReid warm and dry sounds like the best option 😂

[@greyhikes5236]

Has to be on the back of a truck in Kenya on two pallets of bread after a heavy night 😉 Quality stuff again Stephen made me laugh with the spoon drop. As you say getting out is difficult at times but just making the effort does a lot for the soul, even when it doesn't go to plan 😉

[@StephenJReid]

Sleeping on top of bread actually sounds comfortable 😂 Still no ill effects from the poo spoon

[@greyhikes5236]

@@StephenJReid yes it was but not that comfortable next day when people were making toast with it 😁

[@StephenJReid]

😂

[@bannister-lifeoutdoors8004]

Solid effort . Welcome to try some of Derbyshire proper caves for the night . Just let me know lol

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks! Derbyshire caves look a bit too spacious for my liking 😂🙈