Overnight basha camp for beginners 

Simple but effective video.did this in my garden during lockdown,cooked bacon sandwiches,my wife came down wondered what I was doing.i said taking time out,we sat and talked and laughed.house was 20ft away.thanks again.

Proper genuine truthful down to earth video. Pulls no punches, says it as it is. Lot better than other choreograph offerings. Really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next one. Thanks for taking the time to film and share. Mack, Huddersfield.

Great video for us beginners. Thanks very much. Look forward to the next one.

Love that 'can do' attitude mate. So many people are like your not allowed to camp there, you've no permission blah blah blah. The vast majority of land owners will tolerate wild camping so long as you are sensible, discreet and are careful to leave no trace. I've being doing it for over 20 years now and I've never once had any trouble. Great vid for beginners too btw.

Great vid, spent many a night happy, dry and asleep under something much like that. Thanks for making something worth watching again. Cheers

Just found your channel, thanks so much! Not camped since I was a kid, so I’m very very new, but I sleep out in my DAF 4 nights a week for work. Definitely inspired me to get outside and go! Please keep them coming, especially the beginners stuff, very much appreciated!

It's not that there's one way to do something, it's more like there's a million ways to do something. I'm glad you're showing me your way. Thanks mate.

The late Peter Hutchinson, who founded Mountain Equipment in a cow shed on the hill behind my house, supplied his sleeping bags in large stuff sacks. He wasn’t keen on what he called stuff sack Olympics, where you have to get your sleeping bag into a ridiculously small stuff sack. He said put it in a bigger one, it’s easier, and it’ll squash further when it’s in your pack.

Enjoyed the video buddy some good bush craft info

Hi Rich, I used to have a '58 ptn poncho when I was an adult instructor with the Somerset Army Cadets and always looked for a low tree so I could put a bungee over it then use the draw cord on the poncho hood to hold the middle up then peg around the side and use other bungees! Good luck with your next session of " pest control"😉

For a complete novice like me that was very informative (and entertaining) great video!

"That's not how you do it, you shouldn't do it like that" 🤣😂, What do I win ?. Seriously great video again, its all about options and everyone has their personal preferences.

Loved the video pal, been really getting into the outdoorsy type videos lately and far too many are 'tackle tarts' but yours is down to earth and straight talking 👍🏼

Was so looking forward to 'Morning Stu' :) . Top video mate. Very helpful and entertaining. Cheers for sharing.

just awesome fella! great info, loads of useful stuff! kind regards.

Great video Rich, missed the torch as was waiting for time to watch the longer video, doh! Stay safe mate & keep up the good work !!

Nice one Rich, good set up, and informative as always . Cheers bud 👍

Dear RU-vid, this is a good channel and Rich is an all round nice guy 👍

Perfect mate, really enjoyed it. The young people who live in the city will be able to follow and copy. Hopefully this will show the youth a different way to spend time than what they are used to.

Back to it I see. Excellent work

Thanks for another great video! You are greatly appreciated!!! Take care!

Man i like your attitude towords things, more people should be like you, im loving the videos man keep it up!

Thanks for the video it was spot on and the olight is ordered 👍

Great vid Rich thanks for sharing ,stay safe bud ..

Absolutely amazing knowledge in this.

Even packed me Bergen as you said. Makes sense!👍🏻

There is no can't,good message and video bigman. Hope your all well 🤘

Please keep up the videos there brilliant

Great video !!! Loved it !!! Good adviesses, it's a pleasure to ear you explanations ... I'm no noob on this, but I always find a new point of seeing things !! Hope you remember, that I make most of my bug outs with my bike, and the whole setup you took, really fits for me !!!Thank you so much !! PS: I would have taken a few more MILKs along, but hey, maybe next time!! LOL

Great stuff mate, I have the same tarp/tent & poncho, but will be using gass to heat my food up, this coronavirus lockdown has prevented me from having a holiday of some sorts so this summer so I'm gonna be stealth camping, I have a large country park near me so I'll be checking out a place to hunker down for a night, gotta get me some fashion packs though, seems the best way to go for food.

Another brilliant video cheers rich

Another great video well done.always interesting thanks mate.stay safe.👍🇬🇧🍺🤘

makes perfect sense ,great info

Awesome job,mate.

Thankyou very much, really helpfull.

Top job. 👍

Great vid for beginners, 😁👌, still keeping it real 💪😁

Brilliant that mate as usual

Is that those European earwig? Great video lots of info even for those who are not beginners. Thanks stay safe.

I love to eat cold rations because they turn me into a stinky musical instrument that makes the people camping with me want to retch. Lol. God bless and stay safe.

Don't make a brew from the water that has been heating your foil/plastic wrapper unless you are in a survival situation as it has unmeasured toxic effects

Coffee. I have a Bodum travel press. It’s an insulated metal mug with a lid that has a press in it. I’ve been using it every day, at home or camping, for about ten years. It keeps the coffee hot for ages. They do a plastic version but the metal one is only about a fiver more.

Another great video, something to try when all this lockdown ends.

Just found your channel bud, excellent content. Keep up the good work 👍🏻

Thanks for this video it helped me as I’ve never been camping gonna try it out see how it goes

More great content bud, keep it coming 👍 Cheers, Aaron

Love the vids mate 👍

Since watching you're channel wich is awesome by the way I have just bought the camo olight bundle offer plus bought other bundles in the past 6 months they are awesome torches, keep up the good work

Another good watch mate. 👍

Like these vids, keep them coming. Watched the bunk build , can now see the headroom you have inside! Big 👍

Viper and Webtex are branches of the same company. For the money they are good bits of kit generally.

Great video as usual 👍

"Shop smart, shop S-Mart"

The rubber ring can be exchanged out with the metal spiky ring on the main body of the torch. It makes it quite a bit more comfortable but it’s up to you which one you pick.

Some nice gear awesome 👍🏻

in the words of Shrek ' bushcrafters are like onions .... layers ' ... nice video

Excellent!!! No bullshit just the facts mam!!!!👍

Top video....loved it. Top job.

Good video keep em coming.

Thanks for sharing big chap 😊

Good vid rich...👍

It gets you out of the camper.

I love the rations packs. I got a deal back in 2016 and they run out in 18. There still fine now. 8 quid for a days food is cheap. Great vid bud.

Great video again 👍🏻😜

Another open instructional video Rich. I used to use Wayfarer meals and agree they are good except the Lancashire hotpot - that one reminded me of a Sunday morning Luton pavement pizza! Not that I have ever tasted one. Field to fork is good practice. Only neg is you were too close to their run. Nothing bad though.

Enjoyed the vid Richie as always. “The vegans enjoy their food” lol the irony. Looking Forward To next video. Stay safe. Johnny

Hi mate 👍🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Hope your keeping well mate! Any live chats coming up. I’m board as hell stuck at home lol.

I've seen some Corona virus haircuts and yours is far from bad!!

Nice one Rich......me and my pals used to go camping like that many years ago in South Armagh. 🤣🇬🇧 💂🏼‍♂️

Great video as always loved the bit about vegans take care mate .

Good video mate, hope you and family are ok 👍🏻 sure that beards getting longer 😂

Morning bro, just a random analytics comment

nice one, always nice to see how someone else does things, all the best

Great video :) I can't imagine setting up a basha now. Love me a lightweight 1-person backpacking tent. They're hard to find in OD green tho.

I watched the stealth camp video and pretty much bought everything you recommended so got the full kit. Just trying to build the balls to go out and do it!! Thought it wold be easy but me ass is flapping!!! If you ever need someone to come with you let me know!!! 😂 your a down to earth legend!!!! Top channel top bloke. Thank you👍🏻

Thanks for the vid Rich, great to get back to basics. Sometimes we are all our own barriers against doing something. I’ve done it myself, if I’m unsure if something is going to work I’ll just find a quiet spot or even the garden and set my kit up. Rat Packs are great but I’ve found microwave meals in bags and simply use them as boil in the bag in the same way.

Cheers mate

Excellent vid again, thank you, much appreciated in the current situation, regards, David.

Basha camps m8, my type of camping luv em👍

rich nice vid mate

Bloody good effort lad, I would have sacked it off after sunset (unless I was lamping) and retreated to the wagon lol. You would be better off with shooting sticks and a good torch maybe mate?. Any how, at least you got one for the pot. Funky looking ray gun is that.

Thanks for the video. Would you have David fryers link for the pouches you mentioned on the video. TIA.

Nice one Rich...did you say there were links below to the olight website ??

Pest control, does that include tempting RU-vid trolls out into the open just now?

just watched ur video & u mention about runing out off gas & geting new canister if u look in ul tube ther is lots of video about re filling ur gas canister from verious butane canister or from 1big gas bottle i hope this helps you

I know this and a couple of other of your uploads are titled as ''for beginners'' but I find them great and informative, you know your stuff mate, combining essential principles of bushcraft, stealth camping, military fieldcraft and backpacking. I used to get paid to stealth camp lol as well as stealth vehicle camping, did swb and lwb Defenders with a 9x9 tent on the back, and then forward control (we used to call them 1 tonne) lannies with the 9x9 on the side door. So I like your channel covering the range from basha camping to camping in your lanny. I have a British Army DPM basha too, people all over rate these highly, German and Austrian bushcrafters especially so. As a more compact and smaller shelter option which I carry even when I just go out on my mountain bike for a couple of hours, I really rate the Dutch Army poncho, because (a) it's DPM (b) Dutch blokes are big so the poncho is too, it's 1.6m wide by 2.20m long, not as big as a new-style British Army basha which I have too, I take that in winter or when I want to stay in a luxury palace basha, but bigger than the 58 pattern poncho (c) it rains a hell of a lot in the Netherlands so it is waterproof and finally (d) it folds into a pocket about 1ft / 30cm square by less than an inch / 2cm thick so very compact and you can slide it into all kinds of places without noticing, like in an old S10 respirator case together with a brew kit and food. Surplus Dutch ponchos are around £20 on ebay. Tbh I have an aversion to all 58 pattern kit, prob because I had to use it back in the day lol. So Dutch Army 1l water bottle and canteen cup (stainless steel and bombproof) for me rather than fat 58 bottle and alu mess tins, and British DPM or Belgian jigsaw camo respirator cases instead of those horrible canvas pouches which absorb water and shrink. Instead of a hexi cooker I bought one of those small versions of basically a bush box/hobo cooker, mine is a Lixada knockoff (stainless steel though not alu) which cost me £8 but it's better than a Lixada cos it folds (so it isn't fiddly to put together, doesn't fall apart) but instead of a pin to hold it in place it clips into place, so I don't have to worry about losing the pin. It works a treat with a Trangia in it, as well as solid fuel tabs - I prefer the individually wrapped Zip firelighters (from Tesco) to Hexi or Esbit which is pricey - or twigs/sticks. I make my own cheapo rat packs, with Lidl oat sachets, Polish pate packed in small foil packs, high cal grain biscuits wrapped in packs of 4 (not so cheap), Poundland single Cadbury's hot chocolate sachets, and buy nescafe and sugar sticks online (drink coffee black). For mains I get stuff like small tins of beef in gravy from Poundland, tins of Pek ham or Tulip bacon grill, and microwave pouches of rice which I just warm up in the pouch in my canteen cup with water which I then use for a brew and/or washing, or even cheap pasta pouches which need a couple of minutes cooking but they're tastier and have more calories than instant noodles, but I have ultra cheap instant noodles on me too for a quick warming snack between meals. Poundland also sell stuff like cereal bars and multipacks of small nut/dried fruit pouches. So yeah my rat packs aren't the lightest but they're around the £3/4 mark and all with at least 2500 cal. They also fulfill my nostalgia for the old British Army rat packs. Shame I can't get mini tins of steak & kidney pud or chicken curry lol. Like you I go for the brew-kit based survival kit containing all essentials, which you can actually use on a regular basis and take out even for a few hours i.e. day camping, but add in a disposable mylar blanket and you know you could survive a night out in the woods or wherever with it if push came to shove. The whole lot in an S10 respirator case, plus a medium (legal carry) Victorinox would set you back about £75 if you shopped around. From there you can easily just add sleeping bag, mat and cheapo camo tarp as a groundsheet and if you're feeling decadent a bivvy bag and you can have a full stealth/wild camping cum bushcraft setup for as little as £150 quid, but with some solid reliable tried and tested items which can last years or decades.

love the van. My eyes are always drawn to the double snorkel, wish it had a purpose.

Another great video mate, sensible advice as always, just one question, what is the name of the straps you have for securing the shovel on the bonnet of the landy ? Take care.

Nice 👍

Hi mate good video. Is that a solar panel on the front of your vehicle

Enjoyed that I'm a bungee man 👍 thanks for the tip on the opening of the ration meal will be doing that way now 👍I did love the jet boil till the burner started getting blocked .I've now have the msr version it has a bigger burner 👍 like the shirt.keep up the good content stay well 👍

A fantastic hour I just spent watching this! Thanks for very clearly explaining the "why" behind the "what" in all aspects of your camp! Not sure if it was irony or just a joke that the pest control was for vegans... either way - GREAT to spend some time outdoors with you! :-)

Great vid Rich. what ridge monkey bag have you got and do both cookers fit and what else you you put in it ? thanks mate all the best woody

Was that a Fordson Major sitting pretty at the end of your video ? hope you had better luck with the shoot.

I use a company called surplus and outdoors you can get main meals or a choice of three or four different twenty four hour rat packs also they do all the camping gear aswell and army surplus how many rabbits did you get

dang on brother

shame they don't make those 58 pattern ponchos anymore :(

thats my idea ov self isolating......but in doncaster.....at 44:55 as your talking bout no rabits theres literally one over ur right shoulder lol

did you look up the link i left a couple of videos back when you asked for a coffee bag supplier bud ?