>>2838937
Camp in the woods near my town (UK). You are likely to get your tent set alight by some teenage yobbos.

>>2838937
Why should I care about this thread

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Sometimes it's based.

>>2838937
I think it's a funny idea.

>>2838937
you just do it to not draw unwanted attention when camping is not allowed, no? no one caring is quite the point to do it that way

>>2838937
>I camp 10 meters into the forest line
fixed it

the whole point of stealth camping is taking back your right to roam in an age of camp sites booked 6 months in advance by boomers in massive RVs that cost 50 dollars a night. theres a concerted effort by govs to make campsites scarce to drive up competition so they can charge more. i lived in a tourist town on the west coast of BC and the town is full of abandoned campgrounds from the 90s that the city closed down because they want everyone pushed into expensive campgrounds and hotels.

youtubers do it in ridiculous places because niggercattle on youtube need to a gimmick for a video to get them to click, most places that a normal person should stealth camp are probably large parks where you can natually not be seen.

theres a reason why steve is canadian, its fucking impossible to find good camping anywhere in this country anymore. camp sites are overpopulated shitholes now and the reservation system is camped by bots and theres plenty of places that should allow camping that dont.

>>2839198
Isn’t like 98% of Canada just “crown land” or national forests or something?

> Stealth camping

That's a interesting way of spelling "homeless".


For real though, I did peep a stealth camping setup while stuck in traffic here in Portland, someone had a large tent camoflaged with foliage netting in some bushes right along side this offramp, and it actually seemed pretty secure and tucked away. Granted, if I were homeless, I'd rather go National Forest van life with it, heck, I spend enough time exploring the BLM land near me, I've half thought about at least setting up some caches out there in some of the areas I frequent. Idk.

>>2838937
Back in my day "Stealth Camping" was just being homeless.

If I camp, I go fuck off into the woods for awhile. Not play hide and seek with cars on a highway or some suburban grandpas.

>>2839201
yes but generally crown land is way the fuck outside of cities, technically suburban and urban parks are crown land but will have park rules so you cant camp there.

im pretty sure steve just got into stealth camping because he wanted to drink away from his wife for a day or two and he just turned it into a youtube channel.

>>2838937
Clearly you care, whiny faggot

>>2839198
i think it's called wild camping where you camp wherever

>>2838937
"Stealth camping" is homeless larping for gearfags

>>2838937
It's theft. It's right in the bloody name.

>>2838937
It exists solely for youtube clicks.

>>2838937
I think the name is intentionally retarded for the clickbait effect and to divorce the concept from hobo shit which is exactly what it is
also the youtubers are all fake cause if you squat somewhere urban at night it's almost impossible not to run into drug addicts or simply niggers or other trash who'll stab you for fun
it's statistically impossible that you wouldn't run into this shit if you do it consistently. they meme the video and then take the car and go sleep in a hostel

isnt that called being homeless?

>>2839857
>when all is lost I can still try to start a youtube channel
oh wait you need to be a rich kid to do this. almost forgot haha

>>2839855
I think Steve did it pretty authentically though it's been almost 2 years since I really sat down to watch his stuff and even then he complained for a bit that he's basically done all the "spots" and that police and legality are kind of an issue.

Dunno what he's up to now but yeah I think people probably jumped on a bandwagon after him and it is what it is

Hobo camping is the best method of traveling. Fuck hotels… im poor

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Homeless people will watch "stealth camping videos and think to themselves, "holy shit. Imagine all the cheap liquor I could have gotten from ad revenue after all these years of getting fucked up and passing out in the bushes"

I stealth camp in my local regional park here in California all the time - it's a hilly/wooded grassland area with pockets of dense forest off trail. I hammock and backpack tent camp just a few hills/ridges away from any trail and the suburbanites literally never venture anywhere close. I always clean up, never do stupid shit like have fires (it gets very dry), and enjoy the trails in the moonlight.

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>>2838937
Its just camping where you're not supposed to.

> Im driving 6 hours away to start a hike the next morning and I don't want to pay $200 for a shitty hotel

Stealth camp

> I want to backpack a segment of trail but all the backcountry sites are reserved 5 months in advance

Stealth Camp

> Hey there's this really awesome overlook where it would be awesome to hike and spend the night but camping is only allowed in the glorified parking lot "RV sites"

Stealth Camp

> I'm going out of town for X event and don't want to spend $200 on a shitty motel

Stealth camp

> I'm trying to do a multi day bike packing trip but there's no fucking campsites anywhere on the route

Stealth camp.

Some states have almost no public land. People out west don't realize how lucky they have it, us Midwesterners kind of need to stealth camp to do anything that's a multi day trip unless we're specifically near a national forest or federal land.

>>2839210
>suburban and urban parks are crown land but will have park rules so you cant camp there
Why would you ever want to?

If you don’t camp in the city you don’t need to be stealthy.
If you’re camping in the city you’re not camping.
You’re homeless.

I use a snugpak ionosphere because it is so hard to see, despite it being annoying as fuck to get in and out of at 6 foot with herniated discs, seriously its painful but I never want to be found. I would never camp near a road tho.

>>2838937
Camping is illegal here. Fuck of Mr Officer.

>>2843656
Grim.

>>2838937
>There is nothing more retarded and gay
then OP.

i like to use my flir fpv drone to find them then get real close and play my aztec death whistle. youve never seen people pack camp and leave so quickly might start live streaming it for better toys

A lot of local jurisdictions think they can ban camping, including on private land, and try to claim a commercial monopoly on camping sites they can't even manage.

They hate poor people, if you're not spending hundreds of dollars they don't want you in their area.

I often stealth camp to get into national parks before the crowds, or in coastal areas taken over by millionaire holiday house owners. Sometimes i camp out in urban areas to get flights/trains from isolated stations, again they're usually set up to try to deny people boarding one way flights. Stealth camping is usually associated with unfair prohibitions on who can access something, segregation of access to public land.

I've found that if you just set up a L shaped woobie your camp isn't high enough to be seen, but you're safer sleeping leant up in case you have to roll out.

Authorities always keep an eye on anyone coming in with hiking gear or bedding, so you just take things in a shopping bag, freezer bag, wheeled luggage. Camo isn't a meme, nor is cutting down your ground sheet and soft siding your rain cover to break up its profile, nor is matte spray so that at night lights shone into bushes won't flash you out. Duct tape all zips and fasteners.

If security pulls you up you don't have to speak to them, they aren't police. If you've entered lawfully then failing to leave doesn't typically qualify as a trespass, they will say that you gave implicit agreement to leave by entering but that's thin, if it comes to it you can tell police that
A. They told you that you could come in
B. You're there lawfully
C. They tried to unlawfuly detain you on the premises
D. They seized your belongings so you couldn't leave
E. Now they're claiming to refused to leave
"Make him give me my stuff back so that I can go"

Private security and police can often search you, but they can't seize anything.
Many however won't realise that they have "seized" anything belonging to you, which is on their premises, and they've told you for example that you can't pick up, or can only have after exiting.

"I was here after the park closed so this guy thought he could seize my bag"

And this works because the second they realise they've unlawfully seized something, if it goes on paper their bosses have to investigate whether their staff member acted unlawfully. So they'll just tell you to get the hell out.

The other part of this is who can order you to leave, when, and from where.
So if you're standing on a road, private security can't order you to leave the road, nor lawfully detain you. They will often try to seize your stuff then try to lure you back into the premises to detain you

It also pays to be nice to security, polite, you definitely don't want to agrivate people. They're thugs not lawyers. And it pays to just say "I'm not here to cause trouble, got no weapons", because the sooner you establish that the more chilled out the discussion will be.

And you don't ask them for permission to do something they'd immediately order you not to do- like climbing a fence to exit. You'd just say "if I'm on the other side of that fence then I'm nobodies problem?" Then you just cough into your hand and jump the fence, and security reports they saw someone jumping the fence out and are sure there's nobody inside. They don't have to take any further action.

And you can say "hey how about you ask me when I'm on the other side of that fence?". And they realise they really don't want to ask you, they don't want to know, they just want you gone. And if they've failed to establish that you've even committed the trespass because you're out, they don't have to call the cops, they didn't "see" a crime. "Maybe I lost my phone and I'm leaving".
Maybe you didn't know you were meant to leave because without your phone you didn't know what time it was or how long you'd been "looking for your phone".

And there's an art to entering legally, the hard part to get out of is how you entered the premises. Or how you say you entered.

Firstly when they ask how you got in, you just refuse to answer the question. "I just walked in". You never verify that you've entered unlawfully, even if it's obvious that you did.
Secondly if you get booked you argue you were invited in, for example you saw a sight on a gate that said "entry" and the gate was open. You didn't see for example, the opening hours. You figured the ticket office was inside rather then outside. You can also argue security telling you where the gate is (the locked gate) was an invitation in.

>>2843913
You are such a piece of shit

>>2843914
I see the sunrise on the beach, get onto the trail before the Bluetooth day hikers, board the first ferry/train which arrives even if people usually can't get onto it in time.

I get duty free in airports I didn't even fly into, never pay for parking, never pay tourist price accommodation in peak season, I've been arrested a few times but never charged because I was friendly and didn't admit to trespassing

I wandered into a private car park, jumped the fence to get out of it, and found myself locked in the zoo, saw all the animals and left as soon as a security guard let me out.
Security told me where the entrance was at 1pm, I got there at 6pm and thought it was still open- how was I to know.
I wasn't there overnight i just arrived and was looking for the ticket both.
It's not illegal camping i got lost on the way to the camp site.

The last ten years of my life have been great, rich people just accept me as a stow away because they're drunk and bored and I'm interesting and friendly.

>>2843915
> I get duty free in airports I didn't even fly into

Calling BS on this one unless you elaborate.

>>2838937
Shut the fuck up you fucking goyim. Go enjoy your shitty paid campsite like a little bitch.

>>2845118
>he lives where the only options are paid or stealth
Oh no no no no hahahaha

I had a woman set up a tent literally right off the main road of the park I work at; made no attempt to be sneaky at all.

She'd been biking a good distance and had no more energy, and we're in a very secluded area surrounded by mountains and forest. I was closing up anyway and made her promise to not have a fire and to be on her way at the crack of dawn. Couldn't be arsed to do anything further, and she followed my rules, the good woman.

My suburb has some integrated trails.
Been thinking about trying it, think i found an ideal spot.
Tiny bit of trash, I assume kids fucking around and drinking, but the path is actually blocked by some recently downed trees from a hurricane, that wont be ever cleared since its not an official trail, and you have to kind of work around them.

Its pretty far away from public transit and major roads, but did check out a different spot along another trial closer to the roads yesterday and found a homeless camp.

Mostly just doin it for kicks, but I guess I couldn't do it regularly, and best avoid weekends.
Probly just the one time.

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Stealth camping might sound stupid when you have a limitless expanse of woodland to escape into, but here it's like picrel. When you cannot ever truly get off grid it becomes more important to be able to blend in, to not be immediately visible to passers by and/or land owners.

Picrel is one of my places for winter camping, I can be quite sure that nobody will venture out into those trees once the weather gets good and shit, once the rain makes the fields boggy. Then I can be free, with my little stove and my book, to be left alone. This is why people have to consider "stealth" in their camping pursuits.

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Stealth camping? How about stealth walking in a straight line?

When we were kids called it "hoboing" and it was fun as fuck.

Basically just doing whay they did in the movie "stand by me"

Stealth camping is based

>>2846066
We would say "let's go hoboing", pack our rucksacks and walk across the state for adventure, we did this quite often as teenagers

Most fun ever, we were free.

We stealth camped every night.

I would love to camp out in the woods, spend the night, but I'm so scared of the supernatural and the occult.

>>2838937
It's called homeless.

Stealthing is where I go camping with op and and in the middle of the night I pull off the condor

>>2838987
kek