Stealth Camping In Storm Drain 

I would't worry about cougars steve, they tend to go for younger men.

I'd never thought I'd be living in a time where I am able to sit at home, and watch a man be homeless professionally. Oh what a time to be alive!

This goes to show you. If you happen to pull over on a dark and lonely road, you never know who could be right beneath you.

When he says “please don’t” for mean comments really saddens me. Who could be mean to this man? Your content is so wholesome you seem like an amazing person. Can’t stop watching after finding this channel. ❤ keep it up Steve

Its a pretty haunting thought that wherever you are, anywhere in the world, Steve Walis could be just feet away from you, camping!

The sign of a true friend is that no matter what you are doing, he says, "I'll pick you up!"

Hey Steve...hope you are making it ok brother....I lost my wife of 25 years the same way except we knew she was dying. I woke up on a Sunday morning about a year and a half ago and she was gone. I know the pain you are feeling and the emotions you are dealing with. I know right now it doesn't seem like it but I can tell you it in fact does get better. The bad days get fewer and farther between but you have to keep your eye on the prize....much love

I really enjoy watching you camp stealthily. You're funny in a subtle and witty way. I do appreciate your 'leave no trace' policy. Have fun, be safe and stay stealthy!

Offering to pick you up in the am in the middle of nowhere. Everyone needs a friend like Crazy neighbour in their life, what a gent and heartwarming friendship.

Imagine being the guy who was already stealth camping in the culvert seeing all this gear come flying down...

Just found your channel last night through the roundabout camping vid, helped me through a rough night. Already subbed, but just wanna thank you for the comfort these videos bring, brings out the kid in me and reminds me to slow down and enjoy the little things.

Imagine passing over this culvert not knowing there’s a man living like a gopher underneath you haha

imagine parking in the middle of nowhere thinking there's nobody for miles, but little did you know you were less than a meter from steve

I thought about living in a culvert but realized it was just a pipe dream.

Camping in the middle of nowhere in a culvert and a car stops directly over him, that only happens to Steve, lol. They were probably relieving themselves after too many step twos. Love you videos, keep them coming.

I know this is very old, but the look of sheer terror in his eyes immersed me like no other. I love this channel.

When that car stopped over him I just imagined a serial killer dropping a body in and Steve being interviewed for a Netflix documentary about how he caught the storm drain slayer.

"So what is your husband up to this weekend?" "You wouldn't understand...."

never thought i’d hear a trailer park boys reference from this man but it made my day. “propane propane, gotta start the flame”

This video was randomly recommended to me when it came out. I’ve watch almost every video available since then! Amazing channel, and videos. love ya Steve!

Really putting the Tube in RU-vid, Steve.

I love how HE'S the crazy neighbor...

Crazy Neighbor is the best! Volunteering to drive all the way out there to help Steve so he doesn't have to walk 2km back to his car with all that stuff on his back, cold, tired, and hungry. Then a good breakfast in warmth. A friend that's pure gold! Would that everyone could have friends like that. Thanks and blessings for sharing this experience with us. 🙏👍👍♥️♥️♥️🙂

My snoring volume makes any sort of stealth sleeping scenario basically impossible 😂 you’d hear me for miles

911 responder: 911 whats your emergency ? Citizen: Yeah theres a guy camping in a storm drain ! 911 responder: It’s Steeve, leave him alone !

“What did you do today?” “I watched a 30 minute video of a man sleeping in a culvert”

I might suggest doing like several layers of bug netting in place of the tarp. It'll let enough air through while acting like a wind barrier. On both sides of your camping. Might help with keeping more heat in your culvert and still let you watch for headlights. It'd be less noisy than the tarp too.

"I assure you that it's not always as glamorous as it seems to sleep in a culvert." Easily the best quote in the video.

Imagine being referred to as the "crazy neighbor" when your neighbor who lives in a house with his wife decides to go camping in a storm drain in the middle of winter for fun.

Long time ago I was a Navy Recruiter and I met a young man walking down the road from my station after getting finished PTing and I asked him if he knew where the Navy recruiting station was and he told me yes so I asked him to jump in the car and show me...long story short he became one of my DEPers. He was always early for our weekly PT and one day I asked him if he needed a ride home because it was beginning to rain and he told me he was homeless and lived in the storm drain near the road I first met him on. I offered him a place to stay at my house, totally not allowed by the Navy, but he politely refused and said he was doing just fine where he was. I told him to prove it and he took me to his storm drain and it was actually very nice, similar to some of the hunting shelters I used to stay at when I hunted in Alaska. When he left for bootcamp he asked me if he could store his camping stuff in my shed at my place and he would come get it when he got to his A school. Very nice young man, you would not know by looking at him that first day he was homeless and living in a storm drain.

This is the video that started me on this channel. Thank you for all the entertainment Steve!

praying for you Steve. All our love from Connecticut.

I've watced a handful of these and I'm not entirely convinced that Steve actually has a home.

How anyone could ever say anything mean about Steve is beyond me. Guys a legend 🙌🏼

Watching your video has helped me so much, I’ve recently become very ill and I’ve been in and out of hospital, watching your videos has kept me going through some rough treatments, I have promised myself if I get better I’m going to buy a tent, a few bits and bobs and try stealth camping ⛺️ until then I have loads of your adventures to catch up with. Love and blessings from the 🇬🇧

Who agrees that this guys vibes are on another level

"why's daddy in the storm drain again?" "He's free my son. He's free"

next episode: stealth camping in the international space station airlock

I feel like this man is just practice for a Fallout survival run

Love the sigh and the smile “well , we’ll see how it goes.” You can see it in his eyes. Mans a solider. Life’s crazy stay safe man keep it pushing

I love that a law office donated to the beer fund. I don’t need a lawyer at the moment but the next time I do I will be contacting the Law Office of Thomas K. Brown, LLC.

Imagine throwing all that stuff down there and then someone yelled up “thank you!” Lol

I always appreciate a good stealth camp video from you, but this one in particular because I have often thought how these little drains would be a great spot to camp if needed. Good to know that’s not the case! Thank you for all your great content. I learn a lot from these and always feel good watching 😊

If you decide to give the culvert a second try, try putting your tarps at an angle to help make them less of a wind catch. Love the videos

Random guy discovering Steve in the culvert: What the? Steve eating a drain pizza: Cowabunga 😂😂

“I feel like a Ninja turtle, in a sewer, eating a pizza. “ that’s was funny!

This is the third video I’ve watched from you so far. Had a painful time recovering at hospital but you got such a calming way that distracted and helped me a lot in there. Thank you a lot and keep doing these awesome things. I’ll keep watching ✨

Brother I'm so sorry to hear about your loss, and I hope you know how much people love and appreciate your content. Your awesome bro thank you

I was honestly waiting for a pee stream to appear when the car stopped.

Up next: Steve builds a toilet paper fort in Walmart and stealth camps in it overnight EDIT: If Steve can find a 24 hour store, this can be done without breaking the law 😅

Steve, I discovered your videos a couple days ago and I really love them. You're such a nice guy and even though I never really did any kind of camping in my life, I'm still very interested and intrigued. Thank you!

This is such a wholesome channel I dunno why anyone would leave a mean comment. Just a man and his beer camping in unconventional places.

Steve could do voice narrating for novels. would listen to his auidobooks all day

"hey man whatcha doing down here" "oh just sleeping in a culvert for my youtube channel" "....alrighty then...."

Guy pulls up to dump a body down the drain. But bumps into steve cooking his dinner 😅

Steve your wit and wisdom are truly Delightful.

Driving through the middle of nowhere in the middle of the night, “why do I smell pizza? “

When I was 16, I ran away from home and spent two weeks homeless in Seattle. I set up camp in a storm drain (I know, it NEVER rains in Seattle) and found an incredible amount of support from a fellow group of drifters. They taught me a lot. It was a simpler time then. Eventually, I got found out and sent back home. This takes me back

Your camping trips fascinate me! You never know where this world can take you.Very,very high places or leave you broke and homeless. Your expirements can give people survival knowledge. Thanks

Grandmaster Steve, is always here to bring us many ways of the art of camping.

When he said "magnets" I knew this man was seeing things on a whole different level.

Steve needs a custom tarp with a picture of the culvert on both ends and then just camp between them.

Had to revisit this classic after doing some urbex through tunnels running 50+ ft deep under the Pacific Coast Highway. Some corrugated pipe and concrete, but mostly hewn from solid rock! Definitely no road noise! The western end of each tunnel opened onto the beach and sunset views. Great graffiti in some. Picked up what trash I could. Way too much water flow currently to get horizontal, but maybe some dry summer night...

I love this Channel 😀 Steve, this was awesome as always. Thank you for all the hard work and time you put into these videos. KEEP ADVENTURING GOD BLESS YOU 🤗HUGS🤗

You know Steve is a honest dude because he said he's 5' 11. You never hear of 5' 11 dudes because they all say they're 6' lol

“Welcome to camping with Steve. We’re going to camp in a culvert tonight” Me: F it, I got time.

This is such a cool channel. You seem like a very chill, but passionate dude. Thanks a lot for filming all your crazy adventures!

I'm not totally sure why, but I thoroughly enjoy watching your stealth camping video's. thanks for taking me along.

When your crazy neighbor calls to ask what you're doing and you reply that you're sleeping in a culvert, maybe it's time to re-evaluate who's the crazy neighbor 😁

This is the kind of dedication it takes to succeed.

Hey! This is the first video of yours we’ve watched (my husband and I). Just wanted to say we love you! You seem like a super sweet guy and your comment about people saying mean things really hit me because you don’t deserve that! I can’t imagine why anyone would have something negative to say to you. Can’t imagine how scary filming this video must have been in the moment. Sending support!💗

I came back to revisit this video. It’s one of my favorites. My buddy and I have some some risky stuff over the years but this has been my favorite to look back on for over a year. Stay cool my man.. or warm shall I say. Hello from Iowa

Camping with Steve and 400,000 of his closest friends.

Who else just completely stopped what they were doing to watch this 🙋‍♀️

I’ve found shelter twice in my life in a storm drain. Once in the Sonoran desert while hitchhiking and it suddenly started snowing and raining this was in Mexico. Other time was below zero Minneapolis. Opened grate to keep people out and crawled maybe 100 feet back in to a turn and set up sleeping spot and was much warmer in there. Bet I wouldn’t have made it outdoors that night without the storm drain. Thanks for sharing

That couple of seconds around 14:50 is such a perfect little encapsulation of why I enjoy your videos so much. The "Cowabunga" made my whole week, brother! I still don't understand how the damn RU-vid algorithm works, but I'm super happy it suggested your channel, these videos are like a bowl of soup on a cold day; warm and refreshing, brother.

As a reward for sleeping in a big pipe I'd love to see a Christmas special or something where Steve stealth camps in a nice hotel room in a tent and gets some step 2s brought to the door by room service 😀👍

Steve: "Welcome to camping with Steve." Me: **hits like button**

having lived both under a bridge AND in my car at times this really takes me back, but weirdly enough it also makes me miss it.

Since I started following this channel I’ve made use of my fire pit more often cracking steps 2s by the fire thank you Steve 👍

“I hope I showed that sleeping in a culvert isn’t as glamorous as it seems” 🤣🤣🤣

You’re probably one of the few or maybe only person on the planet whose made a quesadilla in a drainage culvert. Love your vids!

I grew up with one of these just not as big or that long. Your right animals love these areas.

One of my absolute favorite channels! Thanks Steve. I stealth camped on my parents couch for a time. hahaha

"I feel like a Ninja Turtle in the sewer eating pizza" classic

Bring blankets instead of tarp. They stay silent. Hang a thick dark one on each side they the heat will stay in and no light pollution.

Stealth camping is something I've always thought of as I drive on the highway and see wooded areas along the road . Now it's on You Tube .

Yet another rewatch today. I hope you're feeling better Steve!!!❤😊

who else is thinking when steve pops his head out and see his shadow there will be 6 more weeks of winter :)

"Honey wanna take the kids to the park-" "No I'm camping in the storm drain tonight"

Such a comfy and nice video. I really enjoyed it. Just found a new great channel. I love your warmth and personality and kindness coming through the screen and your way of talking is very comfortable and nice to listen to.

Your vids are so theraputic! Your calm voice and interesting adventures are great :) Thank you

I love how when Steve gets in sneaky mode, in the middle of nowhere, his voice gets very quiet as if hiding so no one hears what he's going to do. Haha! Another great video Steve!! Thank you!

When sh*t hit the fan in Texas last week, the entire time I was like "think about all the camping with Steve videos you've watched...you got this".

How can people say bad things about this guy, he seems so genuine and kind. Makes me sad to hear that, especially with what he's been going through.

His wife could never send him to the doghouse. it would be a vacation.

I can’t imagine why anyone would intentionally be mean or disparaging towards Steve. He is an upbeat happy guy doing what he loves to do. Anyone who hates Steve has the integrity of a colostomy bag.

I just found this channel somehow and I love it! Thanks Steve, awesome content

Love your work. I feel at peace watching your resourcefulness.

Imagine pulling over to the side of the road, messing around with your GPS while Steve is just feet below wondering who the hell it could be!