24 HOURS: Camping in a Trash Tunnel Stealth Shelter | Norwegian Military MRE | Solo Overnight 

Another 24 Hours Episode! This time with Norwegian Military MRE and a different shelter! Watch ALL the 24 HOURS Episodes here: ru-vid.com/group/PLxnadpeGdTxCzmq4XYqDs9mkHKzLhL4sE My Bushcraft & Camping Gear: www.taoutdoors.com/ MRE Mountain EU: mremountain.eu/ MRE Mountain US: mremountain.com/ Silky Saws: www.silky-europe.com/

I really love that you got to try the Norwegian military MRE! I'm from Norway and commented on your last 24 hours episode, hoping that you would get your hands on the Norwegian one! And you did! In Norway we are able to buy the individual meals in some stores where they sell sports equipment, and in elementary school we used to go on mountain trips before each summer vacation, and I used to buy some of those meals, and it is very easy to make and tastes really good! So happy with this 24 hours episode! Cheers!

You should pick a weekend when they're calling for rain and stormy conditions and camp out in one of the shelters. Or try and build a quick shelter either or but then you could test waterproof products and you could give people tips on how to cope with the rain.

Putting this in my watch later in case I ever go homeless.

One mans trash is another mans treasure 😁 love the creative idea!!

Now that’s what I’m talking about! Super practical,quick, simple. Well built. Even pretty hard to spot from afar!!

A Canadian colleague of mine, described our Norwegian coffee as a mix between north sea oil and rocket fuel. I'm not one to disagree on that.

I allways bring a pack of real field meal with me on longer trips in the outdoors. Cheers from Norway!🇧🇻

Everyone telling him to try your MREs, send him one. It would be much easier then him trying to find one.

I've never seen anybody so fascinated with a silica gel bag before.

Lower one end where your feet are and then layer the bags like shingles going up from the low end, water will just drip over the overlaps and down the back side. :)

I read many comments with suggestions on how to improve your shelter, but having seen many of your past videos, I know you already have the knowledge of the suggestions. I appreciate RU-vid when a guy like you utilizes it to share your passion for survival skills. More important is the global reach you have!

Always love a good TA outdoors video.

very nice. You can dirty up the ends of the cut sticks to even further hide your shelter.

What a great shelter idea, anyone could try this!

Happy to see you enjoyed our field rations!

Another installment of MRE Mike, nice!

Just screened thru the list of people from around the world. Quite an interesting crew! Hello from 🇨🇦🇨🇦

YOU MUST WITHOUT FAIL scrape a small scrape around 2 inches deep inside the dripline of any tarp style bivvy the pick end of an entrenchibg tool does it nicely. If you don't any rain will wind up flooding the interior giving you a wet freckle 🐳😬

If you try this again, cut the bags on the sides instead and you can layer them like shingles and then they should stretch the length of the shelter to provide waterproofing. You can put one on each side and then the top one last. So if it should rain, the water will run off due to the shingling technique

From the USA, live in Florida and work in Alaska. Yours is the best channel on RU-vid!!

I’m English so it’ll be Bin Bivy for me. Good to see so many people from around the world on here. What does everyone else call their bin bags?

Former Norwegian medic here. The producers of the field ration is REAL(in Norwegian this is a word for genuine/solid, as in a genuine/solid meal), who produces instant meals both for civilian use as well as military use. This is why their packaging is quite "commercial" looking with different languages. The civilian rations are orange and the the military ones are green as shown here and have more calories. If you are a civilian trying these its quite easy to judge them based on just the one you're trying, but remember that however good one menu is its not going to taste as good after you've eaten it 100 times in the field, which is why there are so many menus. Variety is the most important factor in making sure a soldier enjoys their food. My personal favourites were the "lapskaus"(a type if traditional Norwegian stew) and the "fiskekaker i kremet carrisaus"(fishcakes in creamed curry sauce). The wraps must be new, as I haven't seen those before. God on you for trying though! The protein bars kept me going a lot of the time as I didn't really gave much time to prepare food being a medic and all. The coffee is also amazingly good for being instant. Great video as always! Looking forward to the next one already.

Hi, as a Norwegian, I can confirm all your points. I have tried all of MREs from Real. In addition to the field meal (I mean how many spoons do you need for a longer trip?), you can get the freeze-dried pouches in the same green wrapping alone or a smaller version in orange. I recommend to dig into the different menus, they are all excellent!

Greetings from Finland, just waiting for the day you get one of our MRE's and have a taste at näkkileipä :D

Make your frame smaller toward the bottom and layer the bags like shingles. This way any rain will drain “downhill” toward your feet. You won’t need an extra bag over the top.

I am from the United States of America. I live in Oklahoma, and enjoy watching you videos.

Cheers from Argentina!!!

Last year I watched a bushcraft video where a lady commented who was homeless (in US) but had been put up in an hotel during lockdown so could watch it. She had terminal cancer but was watching out for her friends. Quite heart-breaking and no replies, she'd posted several months after the release. She had thanked the guy for giving tips for a life her and her friends were living. So, if you want suggestions, how about what you'd do if you were suddenly homeless. Who knows, any of us could find ourselves in such a position, especially after lockdown destroyed so many jobs and businesses across the world. Might be useful to see a video coming at bushcraft from another angle, though I'm sure plenty of vets use it daily, at least the ones who are sleeping rough even on UK streets.

Using the foilage to cover the shelter could help protect the bin bags from hot embers from the fire if done carefully/time allowing. Always a pleasure to go on another adventure with TA outdoors!

>Be in the US Army >Open case of MRE's >Pick one and go off to begin preparing >Open it up, feel joy as you see that this one has Skittles >Notice the date, they're 3 years expired :(

Your videos are extremely calming. Ty

This is the best serie of videos on the channel keep doing more of it plz 🔥🔥🔥👍😎

You should try the French MRE rations, on deployment our French soldiers trade 1 French MRE pack against 2 or 3 MRE packs with soldiers from other countries, they really have an excellent reputation

im from Lithuania, loving ur stuff, been watching for about 2years now. I tried norvegian myself, they r great, but u need to try lirhuanian MRE's

Greeting from USA!!

And I just want to tell you Mister Mike that I'm a humongous fan of your videos and I enjoy them

Great video!!! Love to see some German mres in one of your 24hr vids!! Great content as always! Stay well and be safe!!

Hi Mike, try and get some from Canada. Cheers and keep these videos coming. There GREAT!!!

Love your work, awesome ideas, you protect the nature, don't cut a lot of trees like some others youtubers do just for one night. You have my respect, and thank you for all the tips and kindness. Respect from Moldova. God bless you and your family.

I love the Norwegian arctic field rations, they are pretty darn creative with their entree selections !! they are some of my favorite out of all of the rations that I have reviewed. watching from the US but I'm actually Polish -- you can get some good Polish rations as well

Tip on the MRE's; you can also 'rip' the bottom of the packets where they are connected in the corners, to widen the packets of food. It will usually stand on it's on, aaand be easier to rehydrate everything and eat everything. :) Cheers from Norway.

I'm from the US and did some training with the army so I'm very familiar with the US MRE. I would recommend them, though there are a couple menus you should stay away from. What's nice about them is that they are designed so you don't need a fire to heat up your meals. If you do not already have some that have been sent to you, I would be happy to send you a couple to try. Really enjoying watching these 24 hour trips

7:48, 😁 genau! Greetings from Switzerland.

The Netherlands here Mike! 👍😁

I love the forests

How about putting the second horizontal poles under the hoops so it makes a contact slope to help water run off . Great video 👍

Great video! Awesome to see you cut the stumps closer to the ground to help prevent someone from falling on them.

This shelter is better than my first EuroHike tent 😂 (not a joke either)

Really enjoy watching your channel, would be great if you could find or get a South African MRE. Looking forward to seeing more 24h or longer videos.

good idea. It is simple, very suitable for forests with less insects inhabiting the ground.But with my tropical forest, many species of leeches make this shelter unsuitable.

Thank god finally someone has done a detailed tutorial on how to cut open a bin bag. I would have been simply lost without your charisma and expertise.

Im from Alabama in the USA. I love watching your vids. May God Bless ypu and your family love you brother

Outstanding video

HEY GOOD JOB OF BUILDING THAT TINY ONE PERSON TENT GOOD JOB FROM JEREMY BENNETT AND AARON BENNETT 😃👍🙏

From Sweden! Really like your channel

I enjoyed your video. In colder weather make a reflector from a reflective "space blanket" in the shape of a parabola. Use saplings or whatever. Build a small fire at the focus and see how well the infra red warms your shelter. I would suggest MREs from the US, but I have been told that they taste like dog food.

make a lean-to shelter and tie the bags on to the frame Mike. if you put them on from the bottom upwards like roof tiles there shouldn't be any leaks at all

This is a great video. I'm from Michigan, USA.

Your shelter reminds me the small greenhouses people build in places where the nights are cold to protect the cucumbers and tomatos they grow.

Here's a TIP for when you're preparing the real/drytech dinner: Cut apart the bottom corners of the vacuum bag and fold them out so that the bottom becomes flat. (just be careful as not to puncture the bag). This will make it easier to get all the food mixed in and hydrated, and also makes the bag more stable when put on the ground. Another tip is to tear the tab below the zip lock AFTER its done hydrating the food. This way the bag is more shallow and easier to eat from with a short spoon.

Kia ora & Greetings from the little country of New Zealand, I don't expect many kiwis to be watching you're videos and all the advice for outdoor solo camping, but i'm one of them. I really do enjoy these kind of videos whenever I'm at home and watching tutorials on how to camp, Really useful and entertaining. Cheers Whānau

Quick, easy and dry. Very good.

Nice tunnel shelter. I always keep those little silica gel bags as they're real useful to put in opened containers of products that quickly spoil just from humidity. 💯❤👍

I just had the REAL Meal kebab Norwegian MRE delivered today. Looking forward to tearing into it.

Mike...I just loved this video. I was in the US Army and our MRE's didn't look half as good as those. I'd love to see what a Japanese MRE is like.

wow, I can't even imagine what the rations of the Brazilian army are like .. I would love to see them crossing the ocean for your channel hahahahha

In most scenarios a person will have some sort of pack or travel baggage which needs to go somewhere. If it is rain or snow, the thing to do is take a trash bag and cover your pack with the trash bag opening down. This can be placed at the foot end of the trash shelter to block much or most of the wind. A couple more bags filled with leaves can close up gaps if needed (preferably prepared before rain gets bad)

Greetings from the Netherlands.

WE MAKING IT OUTA THE HOMELESS SHELTER WITH THIS ONE 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

South Carolina really good channel really appreciate your knowledge and skills you and your dad do awesome work to show survival

Bin bag bivvy! Brilliant!

Hey Mike, great video!! Serious? ....have you ever seen or heard anything out of the ordinary when you’re in the bush?

Real Turmat is the tastiest thing by your tent after a long day. I have only ever eaten the orange coloured packets, which are meant for the average consumer I guess. They normally cost 80 kr(7£) each so whenever I see them on sale I stock up, they last 'forever'. Lovely video, informative and calming.

Thank you ,Mike

Not sure how many bags you had (or how many bags you planned to use) but you can make a Quonset hut style shelter using your bags take two long poles and several bag with a hole in each of the bottom two corners. Tuck all the bags into each other with the holes aligned and then insert the poles. Pull each bag about halfway out of the bag it is in until you have what looks like a stretcher. If that bag stretcher isn’t wide enough for your hoop, make three stretchers and tie one on each side, then a third at the top over lapping both cutting small holes on the edge of the stretcher will allow and rain that gets inside the bags to drain down and drip onto the outside of the lower panels. You can also hold the bags down by making a second hoop and rod structure directly above the plastic, pinning it in place. So a process COULD be repeated to add layers of weather resistance

Greetings from a Swede living in Norway :-)

How innovative!!! Nice design!!!

Remember during my boot camp, one of the recruits thought that the silica packet in the ration was a "spice" mix and drizzled it over a Cinnabon. To their defence, it was after a long march and it was dark in the tent xD

Your " Invasive species " is the state flower in West Virginia!!😁

Finnish here! Dope video, love camping of all sorts.

I loved this. I use 55 gallon drum liner bags in my E&E kit. I have 2 bags, 1 for cover and 1 as ground mat that I stuff with leaves or use as sleeping bag depending on the cold. At least once a year I camp for several days like this to keep my skills up.

Jedan od kanala koje gledam, i ovaj je video odličan...

Hello from Belgium!

Sweden here. Whan I was in the army (middle of the 80:s, Kungliga Jämtlands Fältjägarregemente!) there was nothing like that food... It was quite a bit nastier :-D

Sorry Mike, but you're mistaken when it comes to adding that "extra" bin bag to keep your shelter dry. I can tell you from personal experience that when you overlap plastic that way, even with a foot or more of overlap, the inside will still get wet. Anytime one layer is laying directly over another layer (meaning in direct contact) water will leak through, due to capillary action. The better way to go, when you add that extra layer, is to leave a gap between it and the lower layer.

Another great video Mike 👍🇵🇭

You could use some of that bracken from where you cut the saplings for your shelter as bedding which would make your night much more comfortable. Also if you build one end of the shelter lower then the other and use your trash bags like shingles the water would run off and it wouldn't run inside also running a trench/ ditch along the long side/ drip edge of the shelter will keep the water from running inside of the shelter and flooding you out, (been there, done that before!) Just some suggestions. Great shelter and a very good idea in a survival situation, this could be made in a very short time with very minimal tools and materials.

Enjoy your projects from Michigan USA.

I'm from Denmark mate💪🇩🇰

Many of these are really good! if its a green bag it is dinner and white bag breakfast. breakfast is usually some type of oatmeal or barley with berries. The good thing about the breakfast meals is that they're better with cold water than with hot. My personal favorite is: Creamy pasta with pork and herbs. It's not just a good MRE, its an actual good meal. ( and if you get the honey roasted nuts in the bag, your in for a treat!)

watching from the U.S love all your vids

I'm from Belgium! Great video. Keep up the good work!

Greeting from Speedwell, Tennessee USA. I love watching your video's.

Hello from Virginia Beach, Virginia USA

I'm from Norway/Denmark and our MRE's are pretty decent.

Cheers from Norway🇳🇴

Would love see more with Em and Baby and of course with DAD... Thanks Mike Fan for Life... AJ

I love how now and then you sound exactly like your dad. 8^)

The reindeer stew, sweet & sour pork, and beef stew are the best :D