Urban Roadside Stealth Camping

Watching you running across the road like a sasquatch in the dark with a rice cooker made me have a laughing fit. You never let us down

Steve “lawless” Wallis running with leftovers through the woods, plugging rice cookers into flagpoles, and almost setting himself on fire. All with a completely calm demeanor, this dude is a rockstar.

It comforts me knowing that somewhere out there in the woods or under the highway Steve is camping

* portable stove literally catches on fire * * throws stove onto ground * “okay, don’t mind about that” lmao I love him

steve almost lights his face on fire says “don’t mind about that” lol he’s awesome

"where's wallis" is such a great name for stealth camping.

"My wife found the most tantalizing sign to sleep behind" 😂😂😂 Now that's a quote I've never expected to hear in my lifetime 🤣

Steve is making better meals behind a sign than I am on a Friday night at home ahah

I like to envision Canada as one small town where everyone knows everyone else. You're pretending to be sneaky but everyone sees you - and they're like "oh look it's Steve again... Camping behind a sign thinking he's being sneaky!"

“I just don’t know how I would explain walking in the woods with a rice cooker!” That made me laugh!!! Content is the best!! Steve is one of my favorite humans!!

You bring back memories of me on the road in the 70s and 80s in the Welsh mountains, cooked a meal on the side of the road on an open fire and a police officer drove past, stopped and came over to me and told me to put the fire out, I explained that I wasn't breaking any laws and was, in fact, perfectly allowed to feed myself on the public highway, he radioed back to his superior who told him I was correct, he then made sure I was ok, asked if I needed anything and then wished me all the best and drove off with a smile. I lived rough for over 6 months but loved every minute of it. Thanks for your videos 🙂 x

Steve is a Canadian national treasure...he should be protected. I've never been to Canada but knowing there are people like Steve up there makes me want to go.

How many others yelled "Don't light it!" when we heard that huge gush of butane escape from the stove? 😂 Anyone but Steve would have edited that out. Gotta love Steve for being so real!

"Thats crime. I prefer bylaw infractions" Never change, Steve

I'm amazed at how encapsulating it is watching another adult male cook a meal, make a bed, and cross a road. Riveting! Subscribed

Been watching a few episodes man. I guess I started stealth camping a few years after I started bike tripping. At first it was just regular campgrounds and provincial parks but then, by about 1977 I started venturing into random woods. Almost 50 years later I'd say I'm a seasoned expert. I watch your dinner making scenes with great fondness for years of amazing feasts in secret places. I love the coffee in the morning even more than dinner. One inspiration to stealth camping by bicycle was the book, Bike Tripping, by a Cuthbertson, out of ten-speed press, which went on to be a pretty hip publisher. He suggested camping at cemeteries. Nobody writes youth literature like that anymore. So I've become a bit of an expert in cemetery camping. Often, just immediately behind a cemetery there's a fence, a tree line, maybe some rocks. Usually great neutral ground where nobody goes. I like communication towers also. There's usually a fence around them so you go far side of the fence. Often handy bush and trees, and often a fence post to string the hammock. Love railroad sides, little low spots beside the tracks, often again with a fence. I have had a whole closed campground on Lake Superior all to myself. I've camouflaged myself as wrapped firewood beside a park building. I've hidden in the groupings of landscaped conifers at tourist information centres in Quebec. Countless picnic shelters, hydro properties, behind dumpsters at industrial parks, liminal shrubland in parks, on gas station properties, beside monuments, like the Terry Fox monument in Thunder Bay. That night was special. East of Sudbury we slept in Mennonite built sheds that were arranged for sale in a large grouping. My brother took one shack and I took another, bike and everything. I love stealth camping. It's a real rush. And it makes bike tripping super cheap, when you consider that it basically reduces the cost of living on the road, getting in great shape and losing weight and seeing beautiful parts of the world down to groceries and booze while on the road. Without the cost of accommodation, a cyclist on the road can live on $20 per day, assuming you're carrying staples like coffee, oats, dry soup mix, etc on your bike. You can lounge at restaurant breakfasts, buy fresh fruit for lunch and a couple cans of beer for supper. Well, maybe $30 per day. It depends. But it's definitely the cheapest way to go free for a while. I've done months on the road many times, crossed Canada many times. It's a subculture of life that I love and know and I know that there are many out there who adventure like this. Onward, comrades!

"He still wanders the woods today, carrying a rice cooker searching for that step 2" - The Legend of Steve Wallis I absolutely love everything about this channel. Another great adventure, Steve!

My family and I have really gotten into hiking lately. While we're trecking around we love to point out places where "Steve could stealth there."

Hey Steve, it’s Steve here. I’m having lots of trouble with anxiety lately and your videos and your commentary really helps me to calm down and fall asleep. I hope you‘re well and we will be seeing lots of stealthy camping and your lovely humor in the future! Greetings from Germany

Steve, you are such a legend. If you just woke up, and heard a remix of some of the stuff he says, you would think he is from another planet. "It's almost twilight here, so i'll just sneak over and grab that rice cooker and see if we have power in the flag pole." Literal comedy genius hiding in plain sight.