I have numerous wild camping memories. I had a Phoenix Goretex bag, and an army surplus sleeping bag. I was paranoid about being spotted and asked to move on (I'd had my share of shotguns waved in my direction as a rambler). One time, I rode onto a disused airfield near York, and went deep into the woods. Early the next morning, I felt a heavy hand on my chest, and woke with a start. I slowly unzipped my bag, expecting to see an angry gamekeeper... ...but it was a pheasant, sat on my chest! Camouflage successful, I think. Full of adrenaline, I couldn't get back to sleep, so packed up and left, when I had a fox run alongside my bike for maybe 150m before darting into the undergrowth, and I rode on for an early morning (and cold) wash on a slipway in the Ouse.

First time I've come across your channel and I must say I'm blown away by your courage. I love the way you rationalize and break it all down with a little humor added. Nature is to be enjoyed by us all and wild camping is one of the best ways to do it.

Is it just me or has everyone else falling in love with this wonderful person, great content great sense of humour

Think this is my favourite of your videos yet - I've always been in awe of your positive attitude

Fun! More out the way the better.....stealth stealth stealth.....I mean really all to worry about is sheep with hoodies looking for trouble ☺️😆.....be safe as can be and get out there.....I hope to get out again soon....🙂✌🏻

Just stumble upon your video and had a good laugh! I spent one night in the woods last summer and it was one of the greatest things I've ever done in my life. And I look forward to doing it again soon. And more than one night! You only live once! That's my motto and it gets me everywhere.

So much I want to say! But I'll rationalise 😂 - you are just coolness wrapped up in sweetness 👌

Brilliant video, a first for me too, but much prefer a tent for bathroom purposes. Stay safe.

Brilliant brilliant 👍👍👍..... Good advice...Great channel 👍👍👍

Man I loved this video so much. Thank you for it, so glad I found your channel!

Really enjoyed the film and watched to the end Kajsa. So many great tips and all done with so many amusing moments too

Excellent, excellent production quality, presentation and advice. Good laughs and kindly spoken too, brilliant!! Thank you so much for sharing!

Thank you for the tip with the scary mask. I'll have to get one or two! :)

Well produced, informative and entertaining video. What more can one say - excellent!

Great video, love the less than serious tone whilst still imparting great advice. Entertaining and informative! Thanks for posting 👍🏼

Love your video, you are funny. This is my dream to do wild camping in the uk. I did it once in Australia two years ago with a friend and since then can't stop thinking about it. It was a great experience except for the possum screaming next to my tent! You got a new subscriber and cant wait to watch more videos!

Such an engaging video - love the friendly conversational style! I think I'm about the same age as you so it's great to see not all wild campers are in their early twenties! Not sure it makes me want to wild camp though. A campsite with some facilities and a nice country pub next door gets my vote. As for axe-murderers, if someone wanted to chop up someone in a tent they'd probably head for a campsite anyway as likely to have more success!

Informative, reassuring, entertaining. Loved this!

I really enjoyed this video. I always see videos on what to take when bike camping, but never one on the fear factor associated with it. Thanks for making this.

That is simply the best video I've watched, excellent thank you x

Hello Kajsa. What a fantastic, inspiring video you've put together. Some brilliant tips and advice to anyone thinking of 'wildcamping' Gonna subscribe to your channel. Look forward to watching more.

This is one for me exactly these are my fears

Great video. Just got into hammock camping myself and love it. 👍

So cool how you combine giving tipps with comedy :D I don´t like vidoes where people just constantly talk and yours is a great combination of tips, humor and visuals.

Perfectly pitched humour, Kajsa, and v useful content. Thank you.

Wild camping is something I've always fancied doing, but, just never got around to doing. I've always associated it with a tent at the very least. It's not until I started watching you again (the channel), that I've found out about bivvys that there is a world outside a tent. Thank-you.

Great advice 👍

What a wonderful channel, so lovely. Enjoyed your sense of humour. Very pleased I’ve found your channel. Made me smile. Well done. Thank you.

Ha ha! The glee! Love it.

I love your videos. You are very funny and brave to go out there by yourself but now you are an experienced camper so it getting much easier for you and more enjoyable too. Thanks and Take Care from Southern California USA.

😀 You are a breath of fresh air, excellent video, with common sense advice. I've made the same windshield as you have, I stapled two beer can sides together and it fits inside my 750ml titanium pot. Looking forward to seeing more of you videos. All the best 👍

Hi .. enjoyed your vid .. love your hammock & tarp ... I like using my DD Camo tarp over my small tent .. Cheers Chris & Sam

Enjoyed watching that. You have a great natural manner presenting in front of the camera. Not easy to do I bet. I've done a few wild hammock nights and always have a bit of fear of the noises in the night!

This is such a great video- warm and humorous. Great tips :]

This was such an excellent video and came at a time when I needed to see it! I'm going to be winter wild camping in a few weeks, by myself, and have been researching and fretting about it endlessly. I do it all the time when I'm bike touring but this time I'll be just hiking in from my car into the forest, and one of the things that I haven't been able to get over is the fear that someone bad is going to see my car parked alongside the road and then come in looking for me. But I just realized I'll have my bike with me in the car!! So I can load up my gear onto the bike, leave the car behind and go an easy 5 or 10 minutes ride from it before I pop into the woods. That feels much safer and I know I can totally do it. And Santa is even bringing me a bivvy bag! Thanks so much for the awesome video. For anyone else overthinking this you might also want to check out the video Sarah put out on @FitforAdventure, kzfaq.info/get/bejne/pL2Ya5Wi0Niag6c.html. I think you ladies are kindred spirits.

A couple of years late, but this video just showed up in my suggestions and I'm glad it did! Great video!

Superb. What an enjoyable and life enhancing video. Don't know how I stumbled across this (I'm about to go on an Australian outback camping trip) but thank you for such lovely and positive encouragement to just get out there.

I am WELL tempted to get in on the hammock train. Great video.

I've just found your channel and it's made my day, thankyou! ✌️🌸

So, you came into my suggested videos, I clicked, I laughed, I learned. Now I've subscribed too! You really need your own TV show but then everyone would be doing the outdoors thing....

Awesome, thank you

3 people havant a Danny, love what you are doing keep up the good work, 🤗💯👏

Great informative video thank you. It’s very inspirational

What a delightful podcast to watch. Thank you for posting.

Fab video-great info and amusing too! These were definitely all my fears when I started out 🤣

Great video and lots of good tips and advice, very usefull. That stove is great, I have one too :)

This is SUCH a great video!!!

Super chill..Nice!

Very informative, thanks.👍

What a great video...loved it...I am a 56 year old who works in a children’s kindergarten in Germany in the forest every day....I am presently doing an apprentice to be a child minder, am nearly finished but still have lots of exams to do. So I am feverishly waiting t go wild camping and do some bikepacking....Thanks again, I shall enjoy watching some of your other videos..

Great advice

The bank robber at the end made me laugh

Thanks - found your channel while looking for bivy bag reviews but you've inspired me to get a hammock instead - more suited to the Aussie climate I think. Plan is to cycle from Sydney to Brisbane via [mostly] stealth camping for 2 weeks

You are a joy to watch 😆

I love your tarp and hammock setup. Did you find an outdoors shop to configure your hammock and tarp setup, or did you learn through online forums and the hard way?

Great video great sound wise advice

Fantastic video😀♥️

Delightful! 😃

I loved this video so much. I'm heading out in a few days....for my second sprint. So excited. Great tips.

great video ! don't know why youtube has not suggested you to me before now ? ! i was nominated to do a five wildcamping beginners tips vid just the other day, so i guess this is why you've come up now ! and i like cyclotouring.... i can see a busy afternoon checking out your other vids !

Fabulous video Kajsa, funny too. I'll let you know if I ever venture out!

If you haven't already get yourself a gear sling from dd, awesome bit of kit, great video by the way

Fantastic advice! You have a new subscriber :)

Just come across your channel. What a great video, thank you. Informative, well put together, and humorous. I’ve noticed though that you’ve not posted for a year………

Got my first bikepacking trip arranged for June this year. About 3 weeks away. Getting caught and moved on is my highest fear as I'll be too far away from home to travel back.

Can you please do a video on your cooking setup in detail? Love it!!

Just subscribed to your channel, it’s great to see a fellow KZfaqr who loves the wild amping, love the videos good on you,

Excellent video! ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

You're so cute. Great presentation. Thanks

Hi. Just stumbled onto your channel today. Don't know how I missed it before, but loved your positive outlook. Cyclist I am, but camping not yet...I must try it one day.

Very good advice. We are not true wild campers like you but we just released a similar video about doing this in a campervan. Your personality is great and made your video very entertaining to watch so we subbed 👍😁

Great vid!

It was a Really Nice video and Beautiful nature. Enjoyed this video very Much. You have a great Channel and Im Looking foreward to more adventure.Atb Søren. 😊😊😊

Great video 👍

Such a great movie. It makes you want to hit the road right NOW. 👍👍👍

My biggest worry is people! drunken youths or those with ill intent! Great vid, thank you!

Love your personality, made me laugh at times, but very sound advice. Couple of things though, yes you will have strange encounters with weirdos sadly, I have had two dodgy experiences and I Wild Camp with two very large K9 dogs. My advice is go more remote as possible, the further you are away from people the better. Also try and reduce light because light can travel miles away and pinpoint your location, so minimise torch and hammock light. As for wild animals, I camp across a black panther in 2009, im sure you have seen reports of big cats being spotted in the UK so always be on your guard, especially at sunset and sunrise in wooded areas that are remote. Finally before sunset and you settle plan a bug out/escape route just in case you have to move quickly, hence have your gear tidy and ready too. Remember the biggest enemy is your mind, shadows and noises always look and sound bad at night. Do like I do bring two big dogs ha ha. Take care, atb Bill.

You made me really miss hammocking *wistful sigh*

My biggest worry is waking up and finding my bike gone? Do you usually lock it up or any other useful tips?

Love it :)

Nice little video you have made here for the beginner, and how far did you travel to your spot

I'm lost in the wilderness of hammock straight jackets and under quilts.

That was great ....I'm thinking of cycling from Herts to Merseyside, I'm a bit elderly, how many miles should I cover per day without exhausting myself.

Got to say I found the hammock or tarp a little more scary than a tent. It's a security thing being enclosed I think

Thanks for the video Kajsa. When did you make this trip? It looks really sunny but also crisp and cold. How cold was it? You look like you've got loads on when you went to bed. Were you too hot? Thinking of trying this, just got to get some gear then make the mental leap... Great bike by the way - I've got a Tripster ATR too !

Would you be averse to doing a kit list in your video notes? I'd love to know more about your hammock and sleep kit set up.

Hey, where did you get all your hammock equipment from? Ps great vid, I’m wild camping in a tent might try out a hammock depending on price hence why I asked you where you got all your equipment from. Thank you

Sorry I had to subscribe i found this so amazingly funny.

Love the video. I gather you have the Tailfin X series rack? I do and have an XS gravel bike and don’t see how the Tailfin trunk bag would fit between my saddle and the top stay of the rack. How do you fit yours?

Great video. I think stealth/wild camping can be just as scary for men , no one feels good about axe murderers :) You're a very funny girl :)

oh man what a great vIdeo !!

Great video, informative and relaxing to watch! Just one thing: It's very hard for me (as a non-native English speaker) to understand what you're saying while you're on your bike at the start of the video

Liked and subscribed

Hi great vid. Where did you buy the hammock tent?

It's quite common to wild camp maybe only a short walk from the car, but for a first wildcamp maybe best to have a long walk first, so when you climb into your sleeping bag you fall asleep quickly . No time for iffy thoughts. Camping near the car is still possible in case anything goes wrong by walking a circular route first . Things going wrong could be a tent pole break, or an empty gas cannister. Not an axe man.

you just inspired me to get off my ass and go for a ride with the tent

This is great. I bought a bivvy last year for a solo cycle pilgrimage from Solihull to Canterbury but I was too anxious to use it. I'm a vicar and the last thing I need is to get in trouble with the law. I'm not afraid of getting beaten up. I've broken up fights in the middle of the night at homeless night shelters in church. It's never occurred to me to be afraid of wild animals. I intended to sleep in old church porches and leave in the morning before anybody was bothered but men are seen as more of a threat than women and I was so worried about getting caught I rang ahead and the vicars invited me to stay inside instead (which was great company). On the last night I stayed in a Premier Inn which was not the experience I was looking for. Should I just do it?

All the lunatics are in the town centers

Btw I have a wood burner same brand as your mug....some great bargains on eBay now...ta ta 🙂

Best to camp with a portable electric bear fence. 2.4 lbs for huge peace of mind