John Burns in a Hot Tent!
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- čas přidán 22. 08. 2024
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An interview with author and mountaineer John D Burns, a passionate advocate for hot tents, ie wigwams with a wood-burning stove inside. We met at the Creag Meagaidh National Nature Reserve where, after a walk and a good chat, John spent the night in his Tentipi Safir 7 Hot Tent, and I slept in my VW Hillside Caravaggio campervan. But who was the most comfortable?
Tentipi Safir 7 tent - £2075
Weight: 27.1 lbs
Eldfell Tentipi Wood burning stove - £800-900
www.nordicoutdoor.co.uk
The Hot Tent Diaries, by John D Burns. £10.99. Available from Amazon or good book stores
Hearprotek Ear plugs for sleep - £19.99 amzn.to/3VVzYic
These are the best ear plugs for camping or campervanning I've come across, and I've used many over the years
I'm based in the Scottish Highlands and I use a VW campervan to access the great outdoors, where I climb hills, ride my e-bike or gravel bike and just visit some of those places I've never been to. I've been climbing hills and mountains all over the world for 50 years and I'm a former editor of Climber Magazine and The Great Outdoors Magazine.
I love John's books, it was awesome to see the man behind the pen! The hot tent is amazing, escaping into nature is wonderful, with this it's like travelling back in time too. Thanks for making the video Cameron.
Summer and winter, I've done my share of camping in Scottish mountains and, at the age of 71, I'm still at, mostly using lightweight 2-man tents while bikepacking with my wife, but the memories of taking our old Blacks Force 10 canvas tent home and hanging up to dry before it rots has driven me towards more modern materials.
P.S. I also use a campervan these days too.
Dear mr. Cameron , I want to visit Scotland soon and am preparing the journey as best as we can. My wife and I am looking forward to this upcoming visit. My first visit was in 1975 and the last so far was in 2016 with a campervan. Now we com with car and caravan. We always love youre vlogs and are always looking forward to the next. We are looking to prepare as best we can to make our next trip optimal, worthwhile and hope to see as much we possible can. That goes for the landscape, places we visited before, cities and what not. Keep on the good work. We especially loved youre contributions of how to behave when being in the open, on parkings and campsites.
I have a motorhome and in really bad weather it is wonderful to park , put kettle on, put heater on and within a quarter of an hour sit back relax with a cuppa feeling really toasty. ps I’m in my seventies so a tent camping holiday would a nightmare not a dream now. Cheers
V good Cameron,hope the vans doing well.
My DIY Ford Transit Custom CamperVan is Not a 'CamperVan', it is a Luxury Tent on wheels!
Hi Cameron, I really enjoyed that video, like some of the other comments I don't know if I could be bothered setting up the tent. I had a tent the same shape as that when I was a lot younger. It was very easy to erect with a central pole and four legs that went into the corners. But now I'm older,72, I prefer not to get cold and wet before getting the kettle on.
Interesting video, but the thoughts of making camp in the cold, rain or snow is too much for me. I'll stick to a night heater and the comfort of my van.
Absolutely brilliant two absolute legends 👍 great to see that me and john share the same barber 🤣
Not sure about the 'legend' description but we had a great night in the hot tent, aided and abetted by a few drams.
If I was going to do that I'd add a 'Glawning' with a Frontier stove to my T5 campervan. If it came to one or the other, the van would win hands down. Carrying a super heavy tent, plus the stove, wood, lights etc etc is not going to mean very remote camping in reality. You're not going to hike carrying all that kit. But those stoves in van awnings (with proper flashings and ventilation, obviously) are fabulous.
You’re not remote camping in a camper van either. Same thing. 🤷♂️
I have the same tent & it's brilliant. I am able to run the stove overnight too, but always have a CO detector nearby. Cooking proper food is a huge bonus too; curry, casseroles, even bread, all from scratch & much better than ready made options. Plenty of hot water too, so bathing is no problem. I also have John's book & it is helpful to anyone thinking abut a similar set up.
Ah, Mr Burns, had the pleasure of one of his plays in Inver bothy, a now defunct KPC meet, now that was bloody cold.
I would be interested to know how many all year round CL camping club sites would allow a hot tent. Great story telling, very watchable.
Good question Chris. Afraid I have no idea. Sorry…
Another great video from yourselves. I like the way you keep informing people of different ways of camping. I think you have magic man and I enjoy all your programs you put out so far so keep on going and I'll keep on watching great
Very kind of you Martin, thank you.
Looks great and it certainly evokes images of the past but it’s too heavy for backpacking. Perhaps in a few years.
It’s not meant for backpacking. 🤦♂️ It’s like saying the campervan is not meant for Formula 1 racing. Obviously! It’s a completely different type of camping, you can’t compare or disparage them for not doing what they aren’t designed for. 🤦♂️
Did my share of camping and tents in my teenage years and early 20's. Memories of trying to put a tent up in a gale with the rain pouring down definitely means that in my 60's I'll stick with my mini camper van hot tent ⛺ or not
I've dabbled in hot tenting but gave up as fuel isn't as readily available as you might think in the UK, certainly if you're wild camping. I did lots of open canoe trips up the Scottish west coast and took the hot tent setup on a couple of occasions, when the only plentiful fuel is sitka spruce I'd use more calories processing the wood than you'd get back in heat returns. I think it's easy to fall into a romantic trap after watching our friends across the pond enjoying frozen lakes and vast open tracts of Queens land, in reality hot tenting in the UK means car camping with a boot full of paid for logs.
Make friends with a carpenter. My husband is a carpenter & when he lays an unfinished oak floor or similar, he brings the cutoffs home. We take them with us camping & they’re perfect camping wood! Clean burn, free & useful recycling.
I have the same tent with a very similar stove & it uses very little fuel , so carrying in fuel is no problem to a canoeist or sailor. Even backpackers now carry titanium stoves to utterly transform their experience.
Crikey...most indigenous peoples used this method.....bet they did a lot of "R&D" 😉👍
Excellent guys, enjoyed that alot.
Try looking up "Kent survival"on CZcams,alot of hot tent camping on his channel 😎👍
While I’m sure earplugs are very useful when sleeping close to a busy roadway, I feel earplugs are dangerous camping in the wild. Of course, I live in the USA, where we have bears & cougars, even wolves in some places. I’ve had a bear tear at my car’s trunk when we were in the Smoky Mountains. I made a huge mistake & stored a bushel of apples in the trunk overnight & the bear smelled them I suppose. Are there any dangerous wildlife in Scotland?
No dangerous wild animals here. The worst we have is the Scottish Midgie, like a no-see-um with a bite like a shark. But they only appear in the summer. No bears, no wolves, no mountain lions - very sad really!
Question re the hot tent…. Is there a possibility the embers may escape from the top of the flue and cause a fire?
Yes. And there’s the possibility of being hit by a meteor. 🤦♂️