Luke thank you for making my last days Better I have always loved nature Thank you for being a good husband and the Greatest father Your personality and interesting voice is entertaining I am a born again Christian Great success with your Channel❤

@Secko1Secko

Ай бұрын

Your last days?

Hello, I am from Korea.^^ The forest is so dense that the air will be clear. If I spend a night alone in nature, I think I can relieve the stress of city life. I enjoyed watching my friend's video. 👍 👍 👍

@kangarookangaroo702

Жыл бұрын

Where is Korea?? I've never heard of it, it sounds beautiful

@JohnPlak

4 ай бұрын

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I would watch these videos just to watch coffee! Love it that much. That is the whole reason I camp is to have coffee in the mountains

Black bears, bobcats, so on and so forth, NO BIG DEAL 😂 I live in South Korea and our biggest problem would be ticks and mosquitoes. Love your videos and occasional small talks about nature, family and life. Thank you for sharing your adventure. Looking forward on your next one.

Currently in my back yard in a hammock and tarp set up waiting for the storm here in Tennessee. Best time to watch your channel 👌

@raptordc5

2 жыл бұрын

Rain teased us all weekend long in mid tenn

@Silenttoxx

2 жыл бұрын

@@raptordc5 i know!!! I'm in east tn, the few hours we had was very enjoyable!

@lilschnowyguy

Жыл бұрын

you should have filmed you watching this so we could watch you from under a tarp, under your tarp watching this channel under his tarp. 😂

My first big tarp was a canvass army tarp from Vietnam. I loved it, but it took some friends to help set up. I used to put it over my el cheapo tent, which I shared with my big dog. Then I set my cook fire up at the other side of the site ( wilderness) and ran a zip line down the middle, for my big dog. It was deluxe. I was there for two weeks, and the locals came to check on me. They showed me around, and we found a an eagle nest, with chicks. They invited me to Snowbird, a huge privilege. Just as we got everything set up, came a heckofa storm, and Doggo wasn't scared, at all. It was s beautiful trip. Thank you for the memory.

On the west coast I see those insulators often, they held telegraph lines that went up to the fire lookouts. It's always fun to find one, is like a piece of history!

@mawmawvee

2 жыл бұрын

Aha! Thanks for this information. Being female, I'm ate up with curiosity. LOL!

@mikepatten1373

2 жыл бұрын

Yes insulator for telephone line.

@mishannockpa2008

2 жыл бұрын

We used to find them when I was a kid camping and hiking. Sometimes we could sell them for a dollar.

@berthapitts2905

Жыл бұрын

I thought it was a insulator I used to see them in the mountains when I went riding

Contained/controlled fire is so beautiful to watch, plus it's tranquilizing, as well.

Nothing like the sounds of rain hitting a tarp

This probably the closest I will ever get to bushcraft camping! Watching your videos are awesome! Thanks for letting me tag along!

I have the volume full blast just to hear the back ground noise . Such as the birds ,crickets , rain etc. I watch and listen to your show while I am welding at work , and it's so relaxing . Thanks buddy!!!

Love that set up! That is one heck of a tarp, WHEW. I always use a tarp with my tent. Used to set up big tarps, truck camping, with my family. Used a rock to toss tarp cords up higher. Could park the truck under one edge. The tarp covered our picnic table and two tents. As you know it rains a lot in the Smokies. We enjoyed a great time in the mountains, rain or shine. So glad to see your set up. Thanks for sharing. Kentucky

@gregsalerno1434

2 жыл бұрын

We can refer to Luke as the Tarp Master !!👍✌️

Backpack glamping I love it look at all the stuff you brought , the ultralight guys are wet and cold soaking food and your in a Hilton 🤣

There is something soothing about the shelter of a huge tarp on a rainy night. In the damp humid environment it’s nice to have the ventilation of the open sides with the precipitation protection. I did something similar one day with my North Face Windy Pass tent in the boundary waters of Wisconsin when we had an expected hot sunny day. I propped a reflective side of a polyurethane tarp over our inner tent to create some shade were we could not find any. Hours later, we used the same tarp as a third layer to keep us warm during a cold downpour. Tarps are a great addition to four season tents! Loved the video!

Now that's camping. That is how I step up my Wal-Mart tent, which is only good to keep bugs out and guaranteed to leak. A nice tarp and a cheap tent. Live like Kings during a rain storm, cook, eat, and just sit around enjoying being out there in the woods. With not a worry at all regarding the rain or getting wet. Dont trust those more expensive tents. plus when it is raining hard, no rain gets in when getting in or out of the tent. Love my tarps. Great video's enjoy them.. Stay dry and take care.

As a kid, I was always scared of T-storms. Now, I love them. My, to date, worst storm camping trip was a group hike on Mt. St. Helens. You could see the lighting bolt move across the sky, THRU the tent wall and fly!!! Rain was like an open faucet, a straight downpour. Tent leaked quite badly after a couple hours of the storm, so i moved to the big canvas tent, some of the group were in. Great trip. Great storm. Great mountain to hike!

My favorite part of camping is the fire. Or a fireplace. .something very relaxing about snuggling close to a fire. With my thoughts. Even better if I can fall asleep listening to rain.....

I've been using that setup for years. I love it.

Where I am in Northwest Arkansas it's get..yes...all of the above! Super hot, super cold, super comfortable, super wet, super dry, super windy, super still, blue skies, clouds, tornadoes, earthquakes, et cetera.

I am in Texas and we have already had 100 degrees days. Funny thing about this state is there can be a partly sunny day and you will suddenly have some intense rain like we did this morning. I am so used to it. Enjoy, Luke. Another great video!

@gwaddles

2 жыл бұрын

I was there for 20 years. I don’t miss that

We love the way you say "Cheers" with your British accent, Mate!

Luke are you kidding brother.dont sell yourself short you have great ideas and your skill of teaching others is impeckable.never think any of your ideas are wrong you my friend do a Great Job at this.

Definitely a tarp master

Absolutely love your videos Luke, you inspire many to get out and enjoy the beauty and peace nature brings.

Strength & compromise , very needed. Along with respect & responsibility. Your choices are your own. Obviously many things are out of your control. How you deal with them, however, is not. Use logic , not feelings , hard work = great rewards. Ty looks amazing.

Thank you, great episode! We are two peas in a pod. I always have an enormous tarp set up when I camp in my van. I put it up between trees and use a very long nylon rope to attach if trees are far apart. I put half higher than the van and half to drop like a wall. The van can be totally under cover if it's raining. I bring chairs, a table, and a tiny kitchen, all collapsible, all under cover. I can catch rain water for washing up; if water is scarce, it can be filtered for drinking. I love camping in the rain! 🦋

I live about 650 ft. Above sea level. Its been nice in North Alabama. Used AC very little this year. The woods keep us about 6 degrees cooler than my Husband's Sister which lives 3 miles away. Love the weather hate ticks and chiggers. I love camping in my backyard. I am a lucky lady.

The tarp and inner tent is a great summer setup if you can find a spot with some air movement. I learned to Siege camp in the Army with SF. Spent a bunch of time in Norway, Alaska, and Ft Drum, NY. Was in the Blizzard of 77 when it snowed 75" in 2 days at -35. Elementary school collapsed, and we shoveled it out. No students, as all the roads were closed. I hate camping in hot humid weather, but they don't really care what you like. 90% of the time they sent us in winter. I love winter camping. You are a very good example for the camping community. I'm 73 now and getting back into going out this fall winter. It's amazing how things change, yet they really are the same. Ultralight is relative. My Team SGT would always say we are going to be walking around with 300 pounds of light weight s%^t. The person from the lab would always say it only weighs 8 Oz. We would say "Great that will barely be noticed in the anchor tied to our back. Love your attitude and grateful for your suggestions. Tarps are really the common connection to my past and now. I really need a break from all the politics. Thanks.

Super comfortable weather not hot or cold just right

Yes storms are fun!

I just love your videos!! I’m new to your page!!! But now can’t stop watching your videos!! I love the outdoors, learning new things!!!

Your statement about compromise and strength is so true!! Glad your son is enjoying college and cute girls in his dorm, been there with our son LOL:) So impressed with your clear ,concise explanations of the gear you use in certain conditions. I always learn something new. Lovely video, verdant with mist and rain. Cheers.

I love that tarp

Hello. Typo in the title of the video. Thanks for all your inspiring videos

Denmark is always windy. I wouldn't pith a tarp that big in Denmark. Always colliding storms fronts from the southwest. Never silent outdoors. Love your channel, your reviews and work.

I did same set up when we lost our rain cover works so much better here in Florida because you get much better airflow and shades larger area around the tent.

That looked like an awesome set up in an even more awesome environment. Thank you for sharing your adventure with us

Right behind you that spot on the sun looks good for a sit to camp.

The most wonderful camping experience I've had was in the North Cascades in Washington. It was a campground, but that was fine. I had a great tent that was tall enough to stand up in. I had an inflatable mattress, with bedsheets, pillows and a quilt from home. I know that it's a bad idea to bring food inside a tent, but I was only going to be there one night, so I took a chance and brought my cooler of drinks and a bag of snacks inside. I was expecting a storm and I luckily grilled my steak, cleaned up the site and packed the car just as the rain started. Then I went into the tent. What made it so great was that the rain came down hard. It rained for hours. I was dry, warm, snug and happy inside with my books, my sodas, and my snacks, while the rain tried in vain to reach me. Water poured off the walls, and I could hear it flowing under the floor. I fell asleep sometime near midnight and the rain never relented. I slept great. night

Great overnighter! I love those setups that start as an idea, but work out so well you suddenly wish you had food and a clear schedule for a week 😉. This one would be a total trigger for me.

I love camping one day I hope I can do it again 🙏🏽 💓 ❤️

The porcelain ring on the trees are, in my area rings to support wiring to link up fire control towers with other remote locations. Also logging operations used that technology back in the day

I am so grateful for this channel. I really believe I could set up camp in an emergency. Thanks Luke!

Always enjoy your videos. Thank u. They make me relax.

Hi Luke my friend you are so very much appreciated 😊 Katie

I live in Alaska. Have used similar tarp and tent setups for over 30 years of camping! Ain't nothing better. I could literally live that way and be happy.

Gotta love those "Thinderstorms"

Outstanding camping love the rain! awesome tarp and tent!

We have been hanging a plow point tarp over our tent for years. Glad you were able up just discover it 😉😉

Another great video. I always use a tarp as it has so many advantages , the biggest advantage is that you can carry on working underneath it and it affords daytime shelter unlike a tent. Tents are small and confined, just for sleeping in at night.

Missouri here. Literally every season and type of weather possible, sometimes all in a few days. We get the brutal cold and miserable heat, floods and droughts, snow, tornadoes (on rare occasion in same day), thunder snows, hail, I even remember a dust storm when I was a kid. I live outside Nevada MO, right by KS border. Storm chasing and fishing my long time favorites. Love sitting under a tarp or in my hammock during a storm.

Luke I so love the way you and when Susie is with you how you point out safety and how you make it so enjoyable being in nature is so real and so mind soothing and peaceful thank you for continuing to bring us all the joy of the outdoors …. Strength and honor Luke your the best thank you

That's a huuuuuge tarp! Looks a bit like glamping.

I always crack up when you make your coffee. That stuff has to pack a wallop. :-) ~Sam

All I got to say is I really love that tarp it is so big and covers a lot of ground you could put up to three tents ⛺️ under it enjoyed this video a lot thanks for sharing

@visnuexe

2 жыл бұрын

I bought a 12x14 tarp to do the same kind of large living area for an extended stay that would allow me day activities throughout a rainy spell for me and my cat. I would stay in a hammock and she in a single man tent that all I have to do is throw on the ground. I would not need the fly for the hammock, though I might bring the fly to set up a shower.

@visnuexe

2 жыл бұрын

It's rainy here. A thunderstorm went through at sundown. It cooled us down from a low 90°F to I guess a low 80°. It will get cool here tonight around 75°F. We are watching for a tropical storm headed straight for us that may begin to be felt tomorrow evening. We re looking at 8 to 12 inches of rain before it passes through! Glad I am not hunkered down under a tarp then!

I'd love to live in NC and have a patch of land I could go hide away in. Kudos to you for living it.

Luke, I've learned soo much from your videos and the inspiration to camp, even for a near-60 yo newbie, is priceless. Thank you, my friend, thank you!

I often use an inner and a tarp. You have cover, no bugs, and a lot more livable space under the tarp. It's my preferred set up.

Great video , great setup and a great camping adventure.. thank you Luke I always enjoy your videos awesome work.👍

This is actually a breath of fresh air. So many videos of a tarp not even big enough to cover a person in a storm. Thank you. I also love the idea using a tent inner with a tarp. Doing this should give other tent inners a more comfortable hot weather camping. Stay active and safe.

Adapt may be a better word than compromise. Always good info. Huge tarp.

Always such a joy to watch you camp (and Susie too). Love storms. Lived in Oklahoma for a while lol the bigger the better!!

Great video camping with Steve and ab camping sits up like this

You know it’s going to be good when Luke calls it a Thinderstorm.

Glad I found this channel. Enjoy your videos.

You're awesome my friend😄😄.

Your channel is fun to watch thank you!

Thank you so much for sharing.

Tying off to roots where the soil is too loose is a great 'hack.' TAKING A SON to college reminded me of my 'day' long ago: My eventual wife and her mother were unpacking her stuff about three cars down from where my Aunt and Uncle were helping me unload. Her mother had 'turned her out well,' with the most effective hairstyle and an 'upmarket' wardrobe that had been custom made at home. We were in the same group in Freshman orientation and we started dating. Neither of us sought relationships with anyone else and soon enough, married, we had two fine sons...and two useful college degrees! I am an AGED supporter of your channel now. My wife is lightly paralyzed, and I am a caregiver rather than an ardent suitor or Lifetime Lothario.

I have kept all of the old tent parts that are still good. During this storm I was at the beach. I recently purchased the 10x13 aquaquest. I dug out the old 8x8 tent poles from a trashed tent. Putting the tarp up with the loops on the underside did the trick for us. Run the poles through them, spike them in the sand, and the new age wigwam was perfect. No trees for the creative setup. 🤣.

Heck of a tarp job!! Take care.

Thankyou

I've been setting up my tent under tarps since the early 1990's. I keep my firewood and fire under the tarp. Nothing quite like being warm and dry while sitting next to a campfire with a hot cup of coffee and enjoying a downpour in the forest. Since the tent never gets wet, I can get away with cheap low-quality tents at the same time. The only difference is that I always use poly-tarps.

@ac1dburn698

2 жыл бұрын

No one asked

@JeffBishop_KB3QMT

2 жыл бұрын

@@ac1dburn698 No one asked? I don't understand.

Long time fan (under another name). One thing I've always wondered about with you, rain and tarps. Groundwater is always a luxury. Where I live, ...ya, ...NO ! When ever 'we' go 'out', we ALWAYS carry a 'tarp, piece of poly, garbage bag (BPA free), something to hang in the rain to collect water ! I know it's a "show", not an encyclopedia and all possible incidentals can't, in a lifetime be covered. I wonder if maybe, one day, the subject might be covered... for everyone else's' edification. 'call it a public service announcement. 'Your friendly "professional Camper" in the Semi (hint, hint lol) God bless, Take care ... you and y'all. L.H.

Great video i use to do a lot of hiking and camping with my Dad growing up and it is something i would like to do with my kids when they are a bit older. Really love how you use different equipment every video showing of different ways of doing it. Keep up the great work.

Love the videos, I've just gotten home from 3 months backpacking around the lake district in the UK, watching these videos really helps with being back indoors! 😁

SWEET!!!!! New video from Luke. Something good to watch while I'm "working" 😆😆😆😆

I find your videos amazing to watch. Soon I'll be moving to an area with similar weather to yours which will be a huge change from my current living situation. 60 F is considered winter here which 80 or 90 being perfect. My location has reached up to 118 F in the past but it's all dry heat with no humidity. Rain is so scarce for us it's just amazing and a blessing to get. Like with you and hurricanes in the past you've seen for us it's massive floods that can happen in just an hour of a small drizzle. I wouldn't change where I live normally but I'm hoping that where I am moving to has a beautiful forest like yours. I would love to just see green and not sand, rocks, stone, desert, and just 'nothing'.

Nooooo not thinderstorms! Great watch thanks again. Cheers 🍻

..cool video keep up the great content.. Thank you…

What a lovely location that has not been spoiled. Love the rain and thunder, for me it's the best part about camping other than just being outdoors! Awesome setup too... just got my aquaquest tarp and waiting for some rainy weather to test it out in ^_^

@alexanderweaver7066

2 жыл бұрын

What a super relaxing camp atmosphere you create...makes my Stella Artois taste that much better. Ahhhh! Thanks, Luke.

Luke. You are a great encouragement to me at times in the great outdoors. I'm a survivalist who loves the outdoors and loves camping sir. I take all your advice on outdoors equipment and what to use and do. Thank you so much. Love all your videos

@DL-ij7tf

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah he pretty much never gets anything wrong. I wish he did more knives and such because I'm a knife nut but the ones he uses are awesome especially the Terava Jakkaripuukko. Legendary knife.

Also agree with you about everywhere in the backcountry is busy now. Since the scamdemic , It's the busiest I've ever seen it.

Nothing like the sound of rain on a tarp.

I am from Michigan it is everything all the time. we have a saying if you don't like the weather wait 10 minutes. one day its in the 80s the next day it could be in the 40s.

Luke really enjoyed😊

I enjoy camping in the fall.

The insulator is the type used for a short wave radio antenna.

At my grandmother's farm she had 5 gallon buckets full of those ceramic insulators. They would set up temporary electric fences to move the cattle around. They would graze down the wooded areas to the point they would look like a well groomed park. Any plants they wouldn't eat would get trimmed away or sprayed with Roundup. Some spots were more permanent, and would have barbwire fencing. The trees would eventually grow around it.

Luke, you have a LOT of rain where you live! I used to live in the convergent zone on the West side of the Cascades and got tired of the rain so I moved to a rain shadow desert on the Eastern side of the Cascades in Plain, WA. I love it here except for the fire danger which we now have to deal with every year.

Colorado: Rocky Mountain temps can vary from almost freezing low (two nights ago) to 70's high. Rain with Thunderstorms are possible daily at this time of year. Higher elevation hikers should be aware of avalanche conditions. Yes, avalanches in June! Respect the wildlife: mountain lions, moose, elk, etc. Dressing in layers is recommended.

@billbabcock1833

2 жыл бұрын

I've done so much backpacking in Colorado, starting as a Boy Scout in the 60s. Lived in Boulder in the 70s and 80s, so a lot of time in the mountains. These days my camping is limited to where I park the truck. 😜

@ellenwoods3918

2 жыл бұрын

@@billbabcock1833 Understandable!

That is OBAT" wowzers

Luke, always good tips for setting up the tarp. That forest is so cool ! Thanks for sharing 🌲⛺️🌲

I love your craftsmanship. Yourdugouts are the best Ive seen. Thankor all the ideas that I will put into mine. Keep up the good work. You are very clever

On my go!!! It's huge lol

Lower West Texas panhandle, it's HOT,DRY,WINDY!!

Here in Portland, OR we average just over 40 inches per year. Rainy season starts in the fall, October usually, and lasts till July 5th (a running joke here). We get spring hail & sometimes winter snow. Occasional thunderstorms, which I love. Very lush & green.

...God bless you Sir! ...nice video....

Nothing beats the sound of rain on a tarp, great vid cheers

It's just incredible what beauty, what atmosphere you were able to create. This is truly a meditative experience watching you. I myself started making videos about my adventures, so I'm interested in everything. Grretings from Belarus tourist. ✌️