Hiking & wild camping in the New Forest 

Liam is like that random cousin you are relieved to see at a boring family get together.

The New Forest is my local national park! If you find yourself over here again, I'd recommend Rhinefield - where you'll really see some giant sequoias, douglas firs, and redwoods like you'd find in California or Oregon. There are some great spots. Ringwood Brewery is local, and makes some really great beer - the razorback being a favourite pale ale of mine. Enjoying the videos dude!

Found this channel recently and I'm so glad I did. It's good to be reminded of the pure beauty of just being out in the wilderness, exploring and enjoying everything around. Making me want to take up wildcamping and thinking about routes and places I'd like to see. Thank you!

Lovely video. New Forest is our ‘local’ national park. ‘Forest”, as well as usually meaning a large area of woodland, also means a hunting reserve set aside for royalty and in which special (and draconian) laws applied. That’s the original meaning here. Lesser nobility had ‘chases.’ Just for info.

I love the New Forest, one of my favourite places. So happy to hear the cuckoo too, they are becoming quite rare in the UK.

A lovely camping spot and great vid, the area described as "deforested" is actually heathland, are rare and significant environment in its own right.

I went camping in the new forest a long time ago near stoney cross and was amazed at the thousands of carnivorous sundews around the bogs and the new forest is a great place to camp, i remember there was a pub call the oliver cromwell that sold some really fine ales

Hey Liam! Loving the videos at the moment - they’re so relaxing and easy to watch! Would love to see you do a hike all across Dartmoor! I think you’d really love the scenery and the history. Either way, keep up the great content x

Thanks for sharing so much and inspiring so many!

Another fantastic vid. It always amazes me how much you can fit into your rucksack, whenever I go out my bag is so big and bulky!! Keep up the great work

Love your videos, the perfect way of relaxing after a tough day at work, supporting autistic teenagers in a school. Thank you for sharing such relaxing appreciation of nature.

Hi Liam, I’ve been watching your videos for a while now and they are great, very relaxing and peaceful. Keep adventuring 👍🏼

Only came across you last week or the week before. And you have inspired me so much. I find myself eyeing up flat spots good for camping. I've got a list of bits ready to order and I plan to go to the highlands and Snowdonia.

You are the most inspirational person I watch on RU-vid. Keep it up mate.

Howdy mate. Great vid...thanks! So, the tiny BRS 3000 stove is quite famous for creating a furious hotspot and destroying nonstick coatings. Its brilliant for boiling water, but cooking and frying can get a bit challenging. I can't remember where, but I came across a lightweight hack, that really works a treat. It revolves around half a mesh sphere, from those tea clampy things, you can pick up for peanuts, in the kitchen utensils isle. The half sphere fits perfectly between the folding potstands. You have to put a dent in the mesh with your thumb, but it really does a great job in dissipating heat more evenly.

Live in the New Forest area, awesome to see you walking the same places i have.

Love your videos Liam! Please keep it up, you're smashing it 🙌

Yesss!!! That opening shot is killer.. Looking forward to this one

Will watch this evening and so looking forward to time with you.

Great series, Liam. Thank you. 👍🙂🏕

Grew up in the New Forest. Love this!

The park was so quite and the scenery was pretty awesome.

Great new adventure Liam! Such a beautiful atmosphere, the camp looks super steadfast + food and ale are delicioso ;)

Love this guys vids!! Am totally inspired and am out this weekend to do my first wild camp 😀

I loved the sounds of the birds. So sweet! :-D

I love that you eat and drink the local cuisine!! Really cool!!

Thank you. I'm a recent scriber. Loving your hikes. My son's a wild camper, recently did Norway. Wild camping isn't illegal in Norway. Beautiful in summer. But expensive. Wouldn't your feet fair better in hiking boots. Trainers aren't water proof. Hiking boots will keep your feet dry, warm. Better for long treks.

this is home for me, so its awesome to see you there!

Brilliant stuff Liam as always!

Loving this series. Probably going to do this myself. As for the coffee get yourself an aeropress. Less waste and better Java 👌. All the best.

Gorse bushes burn easy so don't start a fire near them, farmers normally burn them in the winter. Normally control burn them so they don't set fire to everything in the summer

We’ve done a few hikes in the New Forest, it’s our second favourite place to hike (Favourite being the high peaks of the Lake District).

This is my new favourite chanel. Keep the content coming!

Another enjoyable escape. They built Airfields in the New Forest and a bombing range during WE2. During the dry season there are forest fires unfortunately, on heathlands in the south.

Love it mate! I lived in brook for 25 years im 31 now,I used to camp all over that way and through stoney cross its a nice area! Seing the sun rise from there is a good one aswell! Good for liberty caps aswell

Very well made video, as are all of yours. You have a rare authenticity about you, and this makes you very watchable. Excellent stuff.

Man, I miss Haslet. Can't find any around my way, grew up on the stuff, with a little mustard it's the dogs cahoona's! Been loving this series Liam, thank you, have been binge watching the entire playlist and having a great time, cheers!

Love the new forest!

Excited for this one

Another enjoyable watch. ☺️

Recently found your channel and I've been binge watching your videos ever since hahaha, makes me want to take time off work and just go on a journey like yourself :)

Been watching you Liam since the covid lockdown and whenever I finish work. You definitely made me want to push my fear of solo camping/hiking. Keep up the great content brother ✌🏽

That Haslet toastie genuinely got my mouth watering.

Great video, love the way how peaceful it is. Just wondered how good the coffee was? Keep up the great work 👍🏕

Yes Liam you bloody legend

Hi Liam. It would be really fun if you do one video about the food and beer you had during your national parks adventure :)

Nice to see you down this way Liam. Looked like a proper gourmet camping meal that night! Are you going to the South Downs at all? I’m currently walking the South Downs Way - much bigger (better) views compared to New Forest …and fewer tourists! Happy hiking!

Hello mate. Loving this series. When you camp in the south downs national park I would recommend staying in the west sussex/Hampshire part because the east sussex part can be quite busy

A little gem of a video. Liam, did you hear the cuckoo just was you began making the coffee? Those long periods of natural sounds of the forest are a delight.I'm sure you'll be a film director one day.Looking forward to the next four.Your contentment is catching.Thanks a lot.

Another awesome video, thanks for sharing.

Great video mate, looking to do this one soon, Si 👍🏻

Another superb video, super production tv quality

So wholesome I love it - as always! The new forest is beautiful there is a small village called burly which is a witchcraft village 😍

Another great video. Love your channel Liam, surely the beeb will come knocking soon?! Amazed you got away with it in the Forest, they’re really hot on not allowing wild camping of any sorts - I’ve had my van turned away from campsites cause forest rangers are so anti ‘self converted’ vans! Good work 👏

Hi Liam, just stumbled upon your channel & enjoying your vids. Well done, keep going & thank you!

someone said have u thought of walking around coast of uk ... id love to see you do that...yes what a adventure and for a army charity

Liam after you've finished camping all 15 of the National Parks you should Walk the South Western Coastal Path mate would make for great content

Hey Liam, not sure about the UK but in Australia we have a thing called ‘back burning’ where the fire brigade will burn sections of forest in a controlled manner so that if a wildfire were to break out, it would not have as much fuel available and could be managed easier. Loving the videos

Love this

Last time I camped in the New Forest, was enjoying some local venison sausages, when a herd of deer wandered past!! Felt a tad guilty, but those sausages were really tasty!

Another great video👍🏻👌🏻

Another good one

Great video as usual. Keeping it nice and simple makes it much more enjoyable to watch. Keep up the good work. Can I ask what bag you use?

Liam, would you consider exploring caves one day? Some caves in UK are 50 miles in length. G’wan Liam lad!

True legend.

Another quality episode of a quality series. I love this relaxing content mate and not just the national parks but everything, it's so refreshing to watch. I'm about your age and have always enjoyed the outdoors, camping, nature, the whole lot. So glad I stumbled across your channel Liam, please keep posting these great videos. You've got me thinking about giving it a go myself.

Yes Liam now I’ve seen you do it in my hometown no excuse for why I can’t now 🤣

Omg Finally!!!

ohhhhh bloody hell 🤤 haslet. mi nannan used to make me warm haslet sandwiches on bread just like that with a dash of brown sauce when I when to her house on the weekend, absolutely gorgeous. used to have dripping sandwiches too, many moons ago. Great stuff Liam, I think ill be off to the local butchers for some haslet this week now. 👍

A large part of the forest was cut down long ago to build a grand fleet in Portsmouth hence why there is little forest in some parts

saw the handles off ur lil frying pans so u just have a stub of the plastic/wood... they will just about balance on a BRS if u got some heavyish food in em.... (steak burgers etc) bread will still need support tho

Brilliant, I suggested you do the Camino and you've done it! I hear Via Francigena (Pilgrim route to Rome) is pretty good too. One for the future maybe?

There’s a brewery in the south of the new forest that grows their own hops, pig beer

Love your videos man, really makes me want to get out of the rat race and enjoy life, thanks bro

Hey Liam, love your videos mate

If you want a nice walk have a look at going to long man brewery! I live about 20 mins away from it and some of the best walking around. Its on the south downs way 👍... try the long blond or best 👌

I’ve been thinking of staying here with my Irish setter as it’s only down the road., glad you’ve covered it. I have fond memories of this place as a kid. Where are you off to next?

Off to Scotland now 💪🏽💪🏽

Thanks for another amazing video..quick question...where's your awesome van these days?

I love your videos.❤👌

just camped out there last weekend! really stunning

How do you find the condensation inside the tent in general with it being single skin? Great video again, thank you.

Class video mate this, I’ve got a soulo for the winter months but I’m looking at a lighter tent for the summer. Would you reccomend this one? Cheers 😊

You should do a pilgrimage route! That would be sooooo cool

Great vid as usual/ some more drone shoyts would have been good...great work...

They burn gorse bushes so that pretty flowers can come up like wild flowers I feel it's a pity they get burned down. Awsome video love all your vids thanks for sharing

Like to see a map showing parks you have done. thanks from Canada.

One definition of a forest is a tract of land set aside for hunting by royalty . Not necessarily an area of trees

Ha! Good to see you joining the youtube Lanshan kraze gang! 👍🏻👍🏻

Class video

Hey liam, you ever tried the solar panels for charging bits? Thinking of getting one

Hello mate what frying pans do you use in these videos and do they pack down?

I "liked" this video purely because you thanked the tree! They're good friends.

Liam love the video as always please could u tell me make of tent and walking shoes you used in video kind regards steve g

Can't believe you went to the New Forest and DIDN'T have a sample from Ringwood Brewery!!!

Great vibe!...but its illegal to pitch your tent just anywhere in the New Forest...?

Yoooooo I would of done this with you Liam very local to me and I've been a long time fan!

good vid m8

Would have been good to see on a map, your route, distance to travel etc as u did on other podcasts.

enjoying your chan, dude