How to find a SECRET camp spot - UK 🇬🇧 Nomads

[@markharris4539]

Done a few mid winter camps in the New Forest (Brockenhurst), not too far from a path, but in extremely thick bushes/thicket and surrounding wood with an ideal little circular clearing. Stayed their for 3 days, had a lush fire going for cooking/heat, and got our water from a nearby stream (boiled it, of course!) We checked to see if the fire was visible from the path at night.... Couldn't see a glow! 👍. Like you said, ''use ure noggin'' and you'll be OK! P.S and we didn't leave a trace! Good vid! 👍 All the best!.

[@loghoppers]

@markharris4539 good practice and yes indeed, people will sometimes forget to do a light check. 🤫😆 lol. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@carolinemitchell4871]

Brilliant insight in how to choose the best wild camp area. Often see people camp near pathways and moan about people walking past well derr..what do you expect , think , look and find 🌾🍄🌳🦉

[@loghoppers]

Cheers Cully, thank you. Sorry it's a short one... but we do have something in the pipeline that we're working on. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@Ieatfridays]

Hey you two are flipping hardcore, hats off to you both ☯️

[@loghoppers]

@Ieatfridays thank you for the compliment Cully. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@ColinIreland-s5q]

very useful tips very interesting thanks

[@loghoppers]

@ColinIreland-s5q cheers Cully and thank you. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@excalibur9768]

Basically, the harder it is to get to, the better. I tend to seek a high up vantage point within a woodland area with dense shrubbery and nettles. The lack of path and climb is enough to put most people off, the shrubbery and nettles almost guarantees no one will find you.

[@davidhudson7590]

I'm moving into my garden for winter see how goes first before sell up and be free

[@loghoppers]

GOOD ON YOU!!!!! That's a sound way of trying before you buy aye. Absolutely awesome 👌🏼 really pleased to hear it. Handy hint... always wear thermals top and bottoms in winter, treat them as a second skin. Glad to hear Cully, HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@zedjay81]

Yay welcome back.. I'd been having withdrawals. Love to you,pooch and tara. Happy hopping!

[@loghoppers]

@zedjay81 bless you, 🙌 thanks Cully for your comments and continued support always. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@Robbiedagobbie]

New viewer here. Lived in a van for well over a decade, i wild camp and car camp most weekends as i work live-in care/support work. Loving you content. One question, who is Calli? You say hello Calli..? Apologies if stupid question! Lol.

[@loghoppers]

@Robbiedagobbie Cully is an endearing term we use for our subscribers... it is of Irish and Gaelic origin, and the meaning of Cully is "the woods" or as a name it means great chief or hey 👋🏽 or in a female sense, it's means Dove 🕊. So just our little touch on a more heart felt greeting. Thank you for subbing and commenting too. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@mikew.8925]

I have camped in many places during the last forty years ( 63 yrs old at moment ) and the biggest problem was the ground . I have now switched to a hammock and that has opened up many new places because being off the ground lets you camp over damp and/or rough ground .

[@Dr-Sy]

Everyday I pick up someone's litter and take it home with me, People today are just so lazy, even in their own backyard. Thanks for the video Happy Hopping! 🙏🌻

[@loghoppers]

@Dr-Sy cheers Cully, yep... always seems that way with us too. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@thevikingcraftsman]

Great tips👍

[@loghoppers]

Cheers Cully, there will be more very soon, a lot more in depth tips amd tricks. Cheers for your comments and continued support. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@oioi-skank548]

Weve got some lovely wild camo spots in wales, #leavenotrace

[@loghoppers]

Awesome, cheers for your comment and support. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@WildSimpleCamper]

Trying to find is like finding The holy grail these days…. good video!

[@loghoppers]

Cheers Cully, it's not so bad really... just got to look deeper. And depending on your area, it will be a case of expanding that area of search for new locations. Keep an eye out for our longer video on this and we'll let you into alot more secrets and knowhow. Thanks for your comment, HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼👍🏼

[@WildSimpleCamper]

@ will look forward to them ✊🏽

[@Kexlar]

Great video very helpful, I've just retired from the Forces after 34 years, I've just turned 52 and need to get out and about, looking at starting to stealth camp, and my Daughter really wants to learn bushcraft and outdoor skills. You got yourself a new Sub, Keep up the great work.

[@loghoppers]

Wow cheers Cully, always great to have more family on board. Get out, keep going.. don't stop. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@jessicapayne8622]

Excellent method for looking for a den to make with the grandson. Now we’ve got to persuade mummy to let us go out to the park…

[@liz7217]

Really interesting, back in the days when we were able to do this you could still camp where you wandered. People such as yourselves who tread lightly on this earth should still be able to do…this vlog should help! Shame that some leave litter etc and give a bad name 😔. Happy Hoppy to all 3 of you 👍🤝

[@loghoppers]

@@liz7217 cheers Cully, really appreciated. Please do enjoy. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@ElvisPick]

Hi, just stumbled across your channel and honestly it's quite refreshing, been out a few times and watching yt videos which are pretty much a p*ssing contest about who's gear is best. Either that or a fashion show, so thanks for some honesty and reality 👍

[@loghoppers]

@ElvisPick cheers, thank you so much. Look forward to bringing you along on our life long journeys. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@and3583]

Great stuff! There's a lot of brightly coloured tents out there, or dull ones with reflective tags and glow in the dark guy ropes, a person could almost think there was a secret deal going on behind the scenes or something to preserve the British way of life (house and job only, nature prohibited) 😂

[@loghoppers]

@@and3583 lol, yeah... feel that one. Cheers for your comment and support. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@vaijayanti_prememalcolm8160]

I love your channel guys and interested in paranormal, do you have any spooky stories or experience of fairies/ dryads etc 🙂

[@loghoppers]

@vaijayanti_prememalcolm8160 Never seen or heard anything untowards. But our cave video... there'll be an update very soon on that hopefully too. Thank you so much and HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@stigfloberghagenphotography]

Nice video. I recon thats a much needed skill in UK 🙂👍

[@loghoppers]

Indeed, hard with national parks, landowners and such... but not when you've been a tent dwelling Nomad for 10yrs+ lol. It's just about getting those skills under the belt and practice makes perfect... allegedly lol 😆 HAPPY HOPPING Cully 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@stigfloberghagenphotography]

@loghoppers 👍🙂

[@RoughWalkers]

Like it dude.... we will use these in the future 100% new sub 🤘🏻✌🏼🇬🇧🇵🇱🍻😅

[@jaffcat]

Hi guys Have you had much issue with ticks in recent years?? Many thanks and keep up the great work xxx

[@loghoppers]

Tara has, I haven't. In some areas we travel, it's more prolific than others. In Scotland on loch pitulish... they climbed over the dog to get to Tara lol. There were hundreds of them. But otherwise, the newforest is fairly choca up too.. as long as they're removed before 24hrs, it limits the limes disease considerably. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@jaffcat]

Many thanks. The way it is now I think, I recall “cowboy camping” in the New Forest years back and no problem, as you say not the case now. Stay safe guys xx

[@loghoppers]

@@jaffcat you too. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@therespectedlex9794]

​@@loghoppersDon't use Smidge to get them out, in my experience. Use a different tick spray

[@loghoppers]

@therespectedlex9794 we don't use sprays and that stuff. We have a method that's worked for years and is certainly very effective. Cheers for your comment and HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@MiddysGoWild]

Cool video mate, I’m new to wild camping so always looking for more advice. New Sub here.

[@loghoppers]

@MiddysGoWild cheers Cully happy to bring you along. Stay tuned as many many more years to come. Do check out our other videos too. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@malcolmjackson4984]

Great video, u got to watch out for dog walkers letting their dogs loose, they pick up Ur scents , u got to go well deep.

[@loghoppers]

Yes indeed. Never really had an issue, but guess we go in alot deeper than I suggested in the video. But cheers for commenting and your support. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@jonathan461965]

Use of camo nets and dark coloured tents would help concealment

[@loghoppers]

@jonathan461965 thanks for your comment and support. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@joannemillard5546]

I just cant get my head around why people think it's OK to leave their trash . People need to do better and teach the next generation to do better too. As always some great advice from you though ❤

[@loghoppers]

@joannemillard5546 cheers Cully, appreciated. It's always a sad site, but sometimes we just can't clear it up there and then... but maybe that's why others do it, because us mugs go and clean it up. Cheers for your comments and continued support. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@lifesahobby]

There are no facilities . It's illegal to camp . That's why there's a low respect for nature .

[@grimmar80]

​​@@lifesahobbyI don't think this is the issue. Firstly, folk go camping to be away from facilities. Campers who leave s**t around are usually people who wanted to get hammered but had no money to go to pub or parents/partners won't let them to do it at home. Illegality only can make people more kin of making it look like no-one is using the place, so they can come back to enjoy it.

[@lifesahobby]

@@grimmar80 we don't actually know what happened. or what is usual We were not there. We have insects here that destroy lives . i find their camps often, abandoned, - If we look to areas like the sierra nevada range where they do camp sites. We might agree.

[@grimmar80]

@@lifesahobby yes, I guess we speculate 😊

[@npwn6569]

These are good tips, but I've found that you really don't need to try that hard most of the time. Go to pretty much any country side location that isn't in view of a building after dark, and you can pretty much camp where you like. I've slept in a bivvy bag right next to a footpath quite a few times now and never had an issue. I'm normally up at first light.

[@loghoppers]

@@npwn6569 exactly, some good practices there Cully. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@marklanders630]

I'd want to just go deeper into the woods. I live near a National Park in Hawaii and it always amazes me how empty the backcountry is just ten or fifteen minutes down the trail.

[@loghoppers]

@marklanders630 exactly... there's always that point in nature that people will turn around and not venture further... which is bonus really lol. Thanks for your comment, HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼👍🏼

[@jonathan461965]

That last spot, you would surely be sussed!

[@loghoppers]

@jonathan461965 yes indeed Cully. that's why some numpty did it i guess lol 😆 HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@Exploringinuk]

Do you make use of bothies?

[@stuartclark8910]

Was always told an latest 50 paces off of a track

[@loghoppers]

@stuartclark8910 exactly Cully. If not... go that little bit further aye. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@cabbage681]

Dig a trench 1ft deep 6 foot long and as wide as your shoulders. Lay a tarp in. Put branches across the top Fold the tarp over the top and cover with woodland debris then get in, it will take a dog to find you.

[@loghoppers]

@cabbage681 yeah lol, if you're Cody Lundin. But no one survives here, we thrive lol. Cheers for ya comment and support, HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@ianbracken7973]

If we behave like dicks then even the most chilled out landowners are going to be pissed off. The main reason we need to clean up after ourselves is we want the outdoors to be beautiful to look at. Great advice. I'm lucky that I have never been seen. New subscription here 👍

[@loghoppers]

Cheers Cully, really means alot. And so true.. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@MrArthand]

5.57 bigfoot half way up in the tree . 😮

[@loghoppers]

@@MrArthand lol 😆 HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@deeliscouspie]

So next time I'm out for a hike and dive into the trees for a wee, instead of worrying about someone seeing me from the path, I'm going to be double checking your not camping in there

[@loghoppers]

Lol 😆 some of the things we've seen 🤣 HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@darwa]

What's the hat? Looks like it could be multipurpose.

[@loghoppers]

@darwa nope lol, just cheap and cheerful... it miss shapped when put it in a friends washing machine and stretch so much... I use bands to keep it on me head now lmao. Nothing special sadly. Although... now I carry hairbands too lol, so possibly a multi purpose now 😅 HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@grimmar80]

On the one hand I can understand how me having a piece of land and careless s**theads leaving rubbish, poop and burnt ground - would be a problem for me. On the other hand, when one lives in a country where grandchildren of slave traders hog the land they never worked for, they don't even use it, and hence decent folk have either nowhere to go or have to share overpriced sausages fest campsites - I do support breaking the rules. Luckily for me I chose to move to a country that allows me to enjoy nature without restrictions.

[@loghoppers]

@grimmar80 yeah nice one Cully, and how is the mess over there? Is it much an issue? Where are you based? Cheers for your comment and support, HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@grimmar80]

@@loghoppers Scotland the magnificent 😜 "Lazy locations" will have messy spots. Anywhere where you have to make an effort to get, is spotless and for last 17 years I've never been questioned once about my campings. During Covid a dog walker whom I spoken a day before brought me a coffee next morning. It turned out he was a land owner - bless him!

[@loghoppers]

@grimmar80 yeah!!!!! Scotland is awesome! What a great landowner, more should be like that... there is alot of the Darwalls out there. Will be coming to Scotland next year for a mooch about again, was there in 2022 and stopped in Nairn where we found d work and a plethora of amazing people also. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@therespectedlex9794]

​@@loghoppersWhat work did you find in Nairn?

[@loghoppers]

@therespectedlex9794 worked for a few people, gardening, painting, renovation, storing another's photos with with Lady Cawdor, dog training too. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@tourcheverybridge]

unfortunately, one of the downsides of well camping videos being so popular on KZbin some people watch them think it’s not for them and leave all their shit from other people to pick up and give responsible campers a bad name.

[@loghoppers]

Maybe just too Lazy... or something didn't quite fire in the noggin. It's not right at all. We have noticed that since the right to roam disappeared tho... people are less responsible now than back then in our opinion, of course. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼

[@tourcheverybridge]

Fair points

[@occamraiser]

Why? Why are you doing this? If you have permission to be on people's land you don't need to. If you don't have permission then you are trespassing and deserve to be punished.

[@mink33]

You need punishing for being so dense!

[@Dr-Sy]

@@mink33 lol

[@banksarenotyourfriends]

You're not trespassing until you've been asked to leave and refused. Trespass itself isn't even a criminal offence, so what punishment do you think will be proscribed exactly? 🤡 This land belonged to all of us before it was enclosed so others could make a profit from it. If you want to continue to lick the boot that's been placed on your neck then please yourself, but the rest of us prefer our freedom. Haddaway back to your Daily Mail.

[@loghoppers]

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[@loghoppers]

@occamraiser thanks for your comment. But before nasty comments like this... We're not on private land, it's recreation land and we'd NEVER put ourselves on private unless passing through. Turns out that it's a civil matter unless you refuse to leave private lands and then it becomes criminal. Refusing to leave is something we never practice nor would ever advocate. Don't be a Darwall aye. HAPPY HOPPING 👌🏼 👍🏼