Stealth Camping in Old Smugglers Cave

Come along with me as I attempt to camp in a cave for the first time in freezing temperatures and make a few mistakes along the way.
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CHAPTERS
00:00 - Intro
00:45 - Dying Of The Light
02:20 - Heart Of Darkness
04:40 - Wardrobe Malfunction
09:30 - Cutlery Catastrophe
13:25 - Surface Tension
16:15 - The Abyss
20:20 - Unforeseen Consequences
25:30 - Non, je ne regrette rien
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[@user-xd3lp1ii7j]

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

[@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 🏆

[@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 🙂

[@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

[@chad.haggerty]

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

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks Chad! 😁

[@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'

[@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

[@seanclarke8015]

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

[@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... 🤣

[@PonderingsofIrishPresbyterian]

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

[@Prince_Buster]

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

[@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]

please leave me your comments about if you have found my comments helpfull ????

[@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

[@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. 😂

[@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

[@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!

[@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! 🤣

[@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.. 🤣

[@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.

[@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. 🙃

[@PhilProctor0]

Cracking video as ever.

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks Phil!

[@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

[@nigelmcardle4112]

Entertaining as always Stephen, thanks for sharing your adventures!

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks Nigel! 🙂

[@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 😂

[@matt4p]

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.

[@Teddy12399]

Love it! Cracking video. Had me giggling.

[@StephenJReid]

thanks Teddy 🙂

[@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!

[@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 😉

[@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

[@landyman33]

Maybe a hammock and some climbers cam lock things to suspend it with diagonally across the space then a tarp with a ridge line over the top of it. So much easier to set up

[@StephenJReid]

I thought about that but those cams are incredibly expensive. Cheap ones are about £50 each.

[@landyman33]

@@StephenJReid wow I didn’t know they were that expensive. But I guess as a life wouldn’t be at risk with a hammock it must be possible to replicate cheaper.

[@StephenJReid]

Yeah I was surprised when I looked into them

[@bobbaird812]

Tailgate of a Chinook for about an hour, back of a mates motorbike whilst doing 70mph… twice….! And in a dentists chair whilst having a crown fitted….

[@StephenJReid]

The last one I can understand, I find long dental work makes me sleepy. The other two, nope 😂

[@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 🙂

[@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 🤷‍♂️😂

[@PierreFarrugia]

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

[@StephenJReid]

Thank you 🙂

[@MikeyMcManus]

You’re a maniac. I don’t have claustrophobia but I think watching that triggered something, perhaps ptsd as I remember nights in Afghanistan being very similar, in type of shelter that is, I’m sure there weren’t attacks on your return to the van.

[@StephenJReid]

hmm someone else said it looked like a trench from Ukraine, it does kinda look like a dugout with the narrow walls and tarp overhead. Can't imagine what that was like for you in Afghanistan, only thing scared me on the way out was my own imagination.

[@MikeyMcManus]

@@StephenJReid I'd say your imagination was pretty terrifying too

[@pedroclaro7822]

Wierdest/funniest place I've slept in is probably a bathtub. Cuz I was piss drunk, it was my Highschool graduation trip (one week of partying in a scenic place) and I came back to my hotel room, the two beds were full with couples, another 3 were on the floor's mats, so I said fuck it and went to the bathtub and covered myself with wet towels 😆 (lucky i didnt get hipothermia tbh) But while camping, it was in a random village, between two posts of a little playing field. It was dark and I hammock camp, so i didnt want to go into the woods and setup camp near a widowmaker. Plus a wildfire had comsumed the area last year so I hadn't many standing living trees left.

[@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

[@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? 😂

[@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

[@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!

[@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

[@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

[@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 😊🥰

[@corei51]

Respect 👍👍

[@daveandemmaoutdoors3171]

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

[@Colinrussellscottishwildcamper]

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

[@StephenJReid]

yeah it twas not warm!

[@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!

[@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!

[@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!

[@summitupmark5615]

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

[@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 🤣

[@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!

[@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

[@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!

[@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 😂

[@Falcorsky]

Thumbs up on camera prepositioning, then crawling back in the way you came, then going to get the camera. I sleep with wolves and bears over here in the Alps but get freaked out about rocks overhead due to seismic movements.

[@StephenJReid]

There was a lot of moving cameras around and repeating things during this. Think I crawled through that squeeze gap about 4times. Ahh we don’t get any earthquakes here so the falling rocks less of a concern, except in my dreams!

[@Falcorsky]

Great job, the journey is part of the fun!@@StephenJReid

[@BestlifeWildCampingBushcraft]

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!

[@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 😀😜

[@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

[@LMay64]

Definitely call this "type 2" fun!

[@StephenJReid]

Indeed!

[@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 😂🙈

[@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]

😂

[@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?

[@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 😂)

[@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 📸

[@ughzombies]

Mine isn't all that weird. I'd say it would be Glasgow Airport.

[@StephenJReid]

On purpose or accidentally?

[@ughzombies]

@@StephenJReid On purpose. Just went over to see a couple of bands and didn't want the extra expense of a hotel. Very little sleep happened. Haha

[@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!

[@AjaySingh-228]

Its cool sir

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks Jay. Would you camp in there?

[@AjaySingh-228]

@@StephenJReid no not much..some people truck weekend.. it's rare to see people camping

[@theoneandonly2402]

Standing upright propped up between a hedge and a gate only place out of the wind doing marshaling at a rally with no sleep was woken by the first rally car going round the stage

[@StephenJReid]

😂 I was trying to visualise that

[@Meibeon]

A telephone box in Weston Super Mare in the 80's, coppers woke me at 3am and left me there because it was raining

[@StephenJReid]

That was nice of them! Where you curled in a ball on the floor or up against the side?

[@Meibeon]

@@StephenJReid sitting on the phone directory shelf with my head against the door, I fell out when they opened it 🤣🤣

[@LazyManJoe]

Stephen, very entertaining BUT I would NEVER 🙂 Claustrophobia would get me before the entrance to the cave 🙂 On dropping the spoon ... maybe next time use the burner to "burn away" the bad stuff? (not sure whether that would be a good idea)

[@StephenJReid]

That would have been a smart idea! 😅

[@stephengraham6194]

That cave footage was giving me serious anxiety

[@StephenJReid]

Genuinely was worse watching it back than doing it!

[@AllyRdr1]

Stephen J. "Gimli" Reid

[@StephenJReid]

Couldn’t find my cousin Balin! I’d be hoping for some salted pork 😅

[@rednome5443]

More like Sméagol J Reid 😆

[@kevinmcallister2938]

dude thats mad... would definitely not be in there under any circumstance... gives me the hebbie jebbies watching this...

[@jj2536]

went with a friend to Led Zeppelins final ever concert at O2 London. She fell asleep during the concert.

[@StephenJReid]

What a waste!

[@TheHoustonWay]

I need to find out where this is.. looks cool.

[@StephenJReid]

Good luck!

[@TheHoustonWay]

Found it! Fair play to ya for trying to sleep in there 😅

[@rohtua1]

Not sure I'd want even try and get into the second chamber!! Slight aside what did you use to mount the camera to your front pouch?

[@StephenJReid]

The chest harness has mounting points so I added shock cord that it just slots into.

[@pissman69]

The amount of times I think I've found an amazing little place to camp but oh no nevermind there's a literal human turd or something even worse

[@StephenJReid]

Always an unexpected nugget 🙈

[@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

[@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!

[@paz11111]

In someones shed in goa in india we were homeless for a bit after a bus crash

[@StephenJReid]

Oh yikes, that sounds bad!

[@Gary_R]

Fair play Stephen. My claustrophobia won't let me sleep in a Bivvy never mind a cave.

[@StephenJReid]

First time I slept in a bivvi I near panicked trying to get out as I’d left a tiny gap and couldn’t find the toggle to loosen it.

[@thebelfastvikingmartinbrow3603]

I not tell aswell I been there a few times 😂😂😂

[@stevenmorgan8721]

We watched this b4 the Ulster match started 🏉

[@StephenJReid]

Pre match entertainment 😂

[@stevenmorgan8721]

@@StephenJReid kept us warm 😂

[@squidwurf]

Nope! 😬

[@StephenJReid]

not for you?

[@squidwurf]

@@StephenJReid that squeezing through gaps underground stuff... Nah. 😬

[@jsimes1]

Strangest place I've ever slept ... hmm so my best friend's older brother's stag do, I wasn't in the wedding party so limousines came and took everyone I knew at the party away. So I was left with a bunch of strangers who were drinking like crazy and chanting "NO SLEEP!" ... somehow I ended up with a bottle of Cointreau or some other sickly orange liqueur in my hand, and mind this was after drinking many beers and toasting the groom to be with champagne and whiskey! I vaguely remember wandering off to possibly sleep in my truck. I awoke the next morning lying on my back in a big pile of hay with a very tall man holding a pitch fork in his hands asking me who I was! I jumped up realizing I was in some farmer's barn ... apologized rather incoherently and ran off. When I looked down I was horrified. This was the 80's so my attire was bluejeans, a shortsleeved white button down shirt, Chuck Taylor Converse sneakers, and black suspenders. My shirt was in tatters, one suspender was missing, and I was covered from head to toe in mud, sick, and hay! I ran to the street and not knowing where I was just randomly chose a direction and started walking. I realized after walking a bit that I was still pretty drunk. And ten minutes a police car drives up beside me as I was staggering up the road. I never stopped and the police officer rolled his window down and asked if I was okay. My response: "It's not illegal to walk drunk is it?" he laughed and said no and then drove off. I learned after the fact that the police had been called and they were out looking for me and because I was heading in the right direction he never bothered to pick me up ... also probably because of the smell coming off me! I ended up staggering into the yard of the party house and found my truck destroyed. I had slept a bit until I was violently sick. I went over to the house grabbed a garden hose opened both doors of my truck and gave it a good hosing down. My buddy called out of the house asking if I wanted any breakfast but I politely declined. I squelched myself into the drenched driver's seat of my truck and drove home ... all back roads because I was probably still way to drunk to drive. I never got the smell out of that truck! 😂 Cave camping ... No. Thank. You. oh man I had to look away at a few of those scenes of you squeezing yourself through ... 😵‍💫

[@StephenJReid]

that's quite the story! 🤣 Bet you felt grim for a few days afterwards.

[@Theorangeman.]

Ive fell asleep under a car at work draining the oil

[@StephenJReid]

😂 did you wake up covered in oil?

[@Theorangeman.]

@@StephenJReid no lol

[@thomasskinner240]

Are you the bear from bo selecta?

[@GAZA2492]

Is that th 2 way cave my friend or just the 1 way cave my friend???

[@StephenJReid]

1 way

[@carl7255]

New Street railway station floor

[@StephenJReid]

There a story behind that? Sounds rather uncomfortable

[@Bokooda]

Great video, but very hard to watch.The cold damp walls slowly sucking all the heat, energy and breath out of you...... absorbing you into the rock with every drip, drip... drip

[@StephenJReid]

I feel cold watching it back, like trying to sleep in a fridge!

[@digiklump]

So you went overnight camping in an outdoor toilet.... YIKES.... you are way more adventurous that me... lol Not to mention very claustrophobic.

[@StephenJReid]

🤣 Thankfully the poo had disappeared in the meantime, assuming something ate it 🤢

[@gerardbradley182]

A butchers table.

[@StephenJReid]

😂 as a former butcher I can kinda understand this with the crazy long days on the run up to christmas

[@GAZA2492]

But you still did it m8

[@StephenJReid]

Absolutely 😁

[@dmytrochan7402]

18:45 Oh my God. This is not for me. :) A great way to reveal your mental problems. 🤣

[@StephenJReid]

😂

[@davidpoots8362]

Terrible camping idea but great entertainment. Santa has promised me a Bailey burner. Strangest place to camp? Bivvying on the floorboards in my dinghy.

[@StephenJReid]

Thanks David! Think I might head back when it’s properly frozen next time, no dripping if the water is solid! 😝 was the dinghy on the water at the time?

[@davidpoots8362]

oh yes, rocked to sleep by the waves, lovely

[@cmpe43]

You ate a meal that wasn't Hello Fresh?

[@jj2536]

nope. no way. no chance. never doing that ever.

[@paulkennedy5021]

You never explained where the toilet paper and poop went? Oh never mind, 🤚🏻I don't think I want to know.

[@StephenJReid]

That was the last time I was there, which was a while before. I’m assuming it rotted away or something ate it 🤢