STEALTH CAMPING IN A HUGE SNOW PILE IN A WALMART PARKING LOT - Using Walmart Camping Gear and Food.

Answer Steve Wallace. Oh, hey, how's it going, man? I'm good, buddy. I'm in a snowbank in a Walmart parking lot. Really? What a different night that was. All right. There's somebody right there. That's what we're looking for right there. All right, folks at Walmart. How you folks doing? This is a really different video today. I'm getting my inner Steve Wallace on. Show it to Steve because he's the inspiration behind this idea. So we're going to camp in the Walmart parking lot in a snowbank. I've seen him camp. I've seen Steve Wallace camp in Walmart parking lots before, but never in a snowbank in the parking lot. So this is what we're going to do. We're going to go on inside Walmart, buy all the gear we need or 90% of the gear that we need for this overnight. I'll take you along with me and then we'll find a suitable snowbank in this parking lot. There's some big ones. I'm hoping that they're not all full of ice underneath and we'll dig down into a make type of a quinzhee snowbank type shelter, dig it all out, set it up for camping and hopefully not get kicked out before we get this around the night i'm pretty excited and uh this is a first for me so let's head on inside buy some gear and uh and get started i'm gonna have to mute it for a minute here just don't want to get any issues with the music uh looking at the Ozark Trail sleeping bags they're five degrees plus rated to five degrees but tonight it's supposed to get to negative five celsius so i need to grab two of them and the best ones that i could see were the five degree ones so we just grab two of the same we'll put them inside each other and together it will be plenty okay i forget my diarrhea relief let's see any sleeping pads i'm gonna get a couple yoga pads put them on top of each other that should be good enough all right off to find some food now all right we're gonna take supper nice and easy we got a Tim Hortons chicken noodle soup got some Ritz crackers and this little nut cheese uh lunch meat medley while we're here we're gonna get a heavy duty shovel to help build the quincy to dig all the snow out and i got this secondary uh lightweight shovel just to scoop it out or potentially use because it's lighter no i do but i i never activated it it's okay you want me to give you a new one no thank you i know i know i know i gotta do it i'm silly i'm a silly man right my wife yells at me all the time i know i know and have a new type like a month ago if you spend two hundred dollars you can split that into six payments oh yeah yeah okay okay all right thank you all right all right debit please thank you have a good day all right back in the truck now we got a bunch of gear i ended up getting some of those uh foam pads that you like puzzle piece pads as well to put down so i got three layers of insulation underneath me two sleeping bags should be good let's go drive around and find a place we need to find a place that i can spend the day building and digging out without getting without seeming like a transient without getting kicked out of here so um yeah let's go drive around and see if we can find that perfect snowbank in the Walmart parking lot to camping overnight Steve Wallace style all right i think i found a good spot there's like a delivery guy back here right now but after he's gone this looks pretty skill pretty slick um there's a big mound oh it's snowing quite a bit actually there's a big mound right there that i can make a quincy type shelter out of with a little tiny tiny bit of bush behind and there's the parking lot um see there's another delivery guy right there man there's tons of people back in here tons of people anyways we'll make our move soon this is so weird that feels so weird doing moves all right in the parking lot here i found a decent spot i'm just i parked as close as i can to it we're just going to take the shovel for now and my tripod my hat and gloves and we'll leave the rest of stuff here for now certainly easy in there that's the reason i bought this big heavy duty shovel it's around it's gonna take a hot minute there's people looking at me what would you think if you saw this what would you think what a weirdo probably think i'm a transient hopefully not anyways all i have to do here it's snowing a little bit better here all i'm going to do is go in as far as i can and then hollow it out make like a quincy igloo snow trench type thing i made a little bit of leeway my favorite method is to get your feet in here and just start booting out this is like building forts in the parking lot the snow snow plow when you're a kid but it reminds me of making some progress lots to go still ah getting cozy though getting cozy i had to take off my sweater man i mean my coat i'm just steaming up a storm in here i've got a change of clothes in the truck i'm going to need it because i'm going to be soaking wet one good bonus about doing it this way is that i don't have to wait for the snow to settle because i imagine i won't be done this before dark normally you have to let it settle few hours to be solid this has been sitting for weeks it's a little too solid getting somewhere a lot of this is just loosening it then i gotta go in with my feet my hands and dig it out excavate it if you want to get technical joe okay smokes oh it's freaking snowing but working up a sweat too loads right there i'm gonna lay from that end to this end here i've got enough headroom i just have to make it level now enough headroom and enough body room just have make it level oh okay getting there here i'm showing you the uh black foam mats the puzzle pieces that i bought at uh walmart i didn't show buying them i don't know why i thought i got enough stuff i actually kind of grabbed these on the way out because i wasn't sure that the two yoga pads i had was going to be sufficient uh padding off of the ground i just got to squeeze these puzzle pieces in there a little slippery squeeze these puzzle pieces in there and then head on in I end up needing to use three of them in the shelter proper got a little light here first stop we are gonna need three of these bad boys you see there we go still on the foam squeeze down a little bit okay we got room hey we got room in here feet are a little cramped but once I get my shoes off actually I can even just dig a little farther just make a little foot room there it's no big deal let's get the other one in here hello sun's going down over there ah see the sunset we'll get the pad on top and sleeping bag in there too that smells like rotten fish that's a weird smell for a yoga mat that's got that's pretty dense actually i think with these two oh i have the other one too i have that thinner one i bought on top too yeah i'll be fine with this cool cool to see what you can make work for you especially in the winter time not going to be the most even sleep it would be the worst of that for sure cool cool cool cool cooly cooly cooly supper going here soon too two of these sleeping sleeping bags as well because they weren't rated very cold plus five i think it's not gonna get too cold tonight negative five maybe but with both of them i'll be fine or i should be we'll see with the idea behind the quincy is that snow isn't insulator so in here we actually warmer than out in the open actually warmer than a tent because of the snow insulation okay other way other way around there we go okay cool pretty squared away pretty squared away for now i could have had a pillow i should have brought a should have bought a walmart pillow oh no can you hear that hope you heard all that so i didn't even really notice this street lamp here before and it ended up being right behind or right in front of my quincy shelter uh ended up giving me a little bit of light on the outside at night but inside the quincy i could see no light from it at all just uh walking back to the quincy after walking down to the to the road to check things out at the road watch a couple cars go by but i looked a little weird holding my camera in my face down there oh i found a white claw when i was digging out the uh the quincy from inside i found a few cigarette butts too whatever that was on the uh parking lot ground got obviously plowed up and into the into my pile didn't they know i was gonna make a quincy here we're all squared away in here got my bigger coat on got this area here where i'm gonna cook i've got my secondary sleeping bag but i'm just gonna put it at the door to kind of block the light that's coming out of here I got my foods all right, Ritz crackers, freaking Tim Hortons so a lot of the states I know don't have Tim Hortons, the states that are bordering Canada or near Canada, Ohio, Michigan I'm sure like I don't even know if like Wisconsin would have it, places like that have Tim Hortons it's a Canadian staple, it's like a donut shop that sells everything now, it's just Timmy's, they call it Timmy's, we call it, we call it Timmy's, I'm Canadian, we call it Timmy's, anyways just making a spot here, this is so fun, I feel like a kid, okay I got my small titanium cup my pocket rocket little canister stove, might be called the Micro Rocket, I got this one a long long time ago when I first started getting into like, excuse me, lightweight excursions backpacking, canoe tripping, and I remember getting it and it was a different model because they were sold out of the one I wanted, the Pocket Rocket, I think this is the Micro Anyways, it's a good stove. it's been served its purpose for years, let's hope this this butane will work, or whatever is it, isobutane We shall see and the nice thing about this soup is that I didn't spill chicken noodle soup all over my hands this is a pop-top so you don't have to get a fancy the you know, I'm trying to say, can opener, can opener is the word can't do something and talk at the same time as you know, my wife will get a kick out of that one Okay, let's see. There we go. I'll try to not spill this and all of my sleeping gear. This is cool, man I should have got a candle. I should got a couple candles and put them in here just for like extra warmth it's not a big deal i'm not going to need it but in other instances you can use it to solidify the top of the quincy like to make it like into an ice like this as it is now again i didn't have to do that because it was already ice so the warmth from the candle will kind of glaze it all over and then it'll solidify again so that nothing's falling down on you it's not too bad not too bad at all i already ate my lunch my uh cheese and crackers and nuts medley you can see the steam coming off my pants actually if i just left this going this will probably heat it up in here a touch it takes some ventilation every now and then but so the way this goes is it's lower there it kind of goes up gradually onto a slant and then plateaus out here but thinking that they're the thinking behind that is that there's a cold well where most of the water or sorry cold air will get trapped and uh stay down there i'm sleeping in snow though sleeping in snow you I'll tell you I can hear traffic, but it's only when it's like a a loud truck or a big like a fast car Zooming down the street. I can't hear most of the traffic on the road That's a pretty busy road as far as Sault Ste. Marie goes. I can't hear it, but it very faintly So this thing is doing a lot for soundproofing and honestly, it's not that cold like I you can see my breath like crazy There's a lot of steam. It's really not that cold. I don't feel like I even need to have gloves on I'm so hungry All I had was that freaking Nothing like warm In this case hot soup Hot soup and crackers So this is fun You know what this is a lot of fun Actually I had an idea Let's try to call Steve Wallace I'll have service I'm in the city Let's try to call Steve Wallace And tell him what we're doing And see if we can get a Couple words of wisdom From the master Stealth Camping Master I promise you he has no idea I'm going to call him Let's see Call him on Instagram Oh my gosh what is this Okay so we need to Camping Steve that's his name Let's see if we can call him Let's see if we can call him right now This is funny I've never called him before Answer Steve Wallace Oh hey how's it going man I'm good buddy I'm in a snow bank in a Walmart parking lot Really Yeah. I'm trying to do that, but I was scared of, like, a snowplow dumping more snow on me. That is something I did not consider, yes. I will have to get out of here before there's too much more snow coming down. Well, I had to call you. I got you on video here just to let you know. And I wanted to get a couple words of wisdom for you. This is my first stealth camp. Yeah. No. There's no excuse for this. Okay. Sorry, I'm interrupting, man. If you want to stay warm in your sleeping bag, you've got to strip down to your skivvies. and you're gonna sweat too much that's not a good thing for stealth camping because when you get busted i saw that yeah listen my sleeping things would have looked a lot more creepy right yeah dude like look look yeah i'm in a like i'm in a quincy there's a sleeping i went so i went into walmart right and i bought all the gear that i needed or most of the gear i had brought like a cup and stuff like that but i brought like a yoga mat for the bottom and like a couple crappy sleeping bags you know what i mean then i i freaking tried to try to get into an area where it wasn't so obvious and i tunneled right in here people were looking at me left and right but like at some point you just got to be like whatever like no it's not really cold at all not in here no it's like negative five out but it's pretty warm in here actually yeah it's like negative it's it's just impossible to stealth it minus 30 in any successful way so yeah no i'd say those are those are my pointers uh for like trying to stealth it out well i'm i'm a real bad for never stripping down anyways when i go to sleep you know what i mean i just like overdo it with the sleeping bag usually so it's fine for me that way an excuse for sure like my only excuse could be like they let people camp in the walmart parking lot in trailers or in tents on this like why can't i just you know what i mean oh is it any different that just seems like elitist that you need to camp you obviously have a shovel with you yeah or two i just get creeped out with those things that they're gonna come down on me yeah this one's pretty solid it's uh the biggest concern like you're saying is is if a plow dumps more but i'm on the other side where it won't even really i don't think it'll affect it so much you know what i mean but you're right like if i hear a plow coming i'm freaking bolting for the door yes sir and hopefully a perfect setup well man it's all the inspirations from you so thank you inspired me to start up a channel so remember sitting there going to school and i was like watching your channel like oh man that'd be so cool to like you know have all those subscribers and all the comments coming in you were like the guy and you know you still are pretty much the guy out there doing look at you man freaking blow me away i do the lazy like every unless i start bushcrafting with power tools like that that's that could be your niche man that could be the next thing there you go well i appreciate it steve Hey, well, stay warm, my friend. Yeah, when you find your way out here, give me a call. 100%, buddy. Awesome. Cheers, man. Take care. Stay warm and down, my friend. Thank you. Oh, that was cool. What a good guy. That was the first time I ever talked to him. We messaged back and forth before, but that was cool. All right, I've got to eat my soup. I've got to eat my soups. What a nice guy. I will have to get together with him soon enough. I like giving credit where credit is due. There's one thing that really irks me. It's like, you don't have to, like, I don't claim credit for anything. I would like to have some kind of kudos thrown my way here and there I know I didn't create anything but like there are some things that I was the forerunner on in YouTube there's no question there's no doubt about it nobody can contest that and you know what I don't really ever hear it um I think it's pretty uh selfish to be honest with you I always give credit where credit's due I'm not the creator of anything nor is anyone in this day and age but you should give a little shout out to who you learned something from or who you got inspiration from or who you who you found out about something from you guys have always heard me give shout outs to Terry Barney and people in the past um Iowa Woodsman is his name but anyways is it big headed of me to think that i deserve some flowers as well you know what i mean i was a forerunner on youtube the outdoor like posting hour-long videos posting once a week posting things about your dog in the title i told so many different people who have big youtube channels now bigger than me how to do things and i'm not taking credit for anything they did except for what i told them to do how to how to better themselves it took me a long time out of trial and error to figure out that if you could put like a bunch of cut pieces of firewood on a thumbnail that people are going to click it you know until the trial and error i told people that and they didn't have to go through it themselves Anyways, my point is, I have been doing this for a long time, and I hope you don't take this as egotistical or anything like that. It's not that at all. It's a fact. It's a straight up fact. I would give kudos to anybody else in this, and I do. And I do. To people that deserve it, that's for sure. Okay. Well, that was really cool. Super happy to talk to him. I was afraid he wasn't going to answer there for a minute. Well, it's nighttime, that's for sure. Let's go outside and look around. I can't believe I'm doing this. i don't have a fire or anything so it's kind of just like lay down and relax i think it's around seven i'm gonna pull my phone out i just get this other sleeping bag in here and uh lay down listen to a book on tape or start reading i know i'll fall asleep pretty soon and then i'll be up early and out of here before it gets too light and the day starts and everything everybody's buzzing around and freaking wondering why there's a man sleeping in the snow pile in the parking lot so let's get all this squared away here nice checkered checkered pattern on the innards i don't even need to go inside both of them right now i'm not even cold i do need something for my head though there we go phone eight o'clock bonus hell yeah all right well i'm going to uh i'm just gonna chill out here i'll get back with you i might pass out i might not we'll see uh go back if anything crazy happens i get busted but uh other than that this is my home sweet home for tonight, oh you'll never know the feeling of this unless you do it, it's actually very comfortable it's very very comfortable the middle of the night i can't sleep very good i don't know why i'm a little chilled from the bottom but it's not too bad i think it's more just me understanding I'm in the middle of the city, and it's weird, but there could be people coming around any time It's just kind of tripping me out a bit. I have slept not great. I go back to sleep though. Wish me luck Oh, it's getting bright out there. That was uneventful. I did end up getting back to sleep a few more hours I'm just gonna lay here wake up and get up pull this stuff out of here and I go to the truck and I'm gonna try and pull the truck actually right up just haul this stuff right in here throw it right in the back get on out of here i got uh it's new year's new year's eve today i hope to have this video out by new year's day which is tomorrow for you guys i imagine everybody's gonna be partying tonight so please be safe obviously you're not gonna see this till after that but the day after i hope you are recovering well i hope that you're taking it easy and you have some time to sit down and watch a good old joe video all right so last look at the old snow cave ended up being pretty pretty flat a little bump there but pretty flat not too shabby in the freaking snow cave but what a different night that was all right over there there's somebody with sirens on cue check check check all right folks well we're in the car now trying to defrost the windows i probably didn't get as much footage as i normally do but this is how it was man like i got here had to work and then i didn't want to be filming too much at night um in the thing but anyways fun trip hope you guys enjoyed it i did notice watching back some of my clips last night that the audio was messed up on my big camera so i cut a bunch of clips and i'll have to voice over some of it but that's how it is i'm using my old camera because my my newer one broke i have to get it fixed but anyways i hope you guys enjoyed it happy new year's i have big news I'll probably post it next week or the week after It's big news I promised you guys I'll tell you about for a long time I just wasn't allowed to talk about it Now I am So yeah, it involves a TV show Talk about that next time You guys have a good day Be kind to each other Thank you for watching Hope you enjoyed it Goodbye