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A hammock, a pocket stove, and a strip of trees behind someone’s backyard fence become the whole set for Steve Wallis’s latest overnight.

Steve Wallis doesn’t need a national park to shoot a camping video. In “Urban Stealth Camping With Hammock In Residential Area,” the Canadian outdoor creator slips into a small patch of forest wedged inside a suburban neighborhood, rigs a hammock between two trees, and spends the night trying not to be noticed by a single neighbor. There’s no permit, no campground, and no guarantee he’s even allowed to be there — which is the entire point.

• Wallis sets up camp in a small forested green space tucked inside a residential area, staying hidden from nearby houses and pedestrians because random urban camping is legally shaky within city limits.
• He rigs a hammock between trees to sleep off the ground, then tests out a cheap solid-fuel stove to cook dinner — his first real trial of the gear.
• He works through his familiar “step two” routine — a can of “Happy Camper” beer — before lighting a small, low-profile campfire and narrating in his signature low-budget style.

Camping in Plain Sight

The premise runs against everything backcountry camping is supposed to be. Instead of ridgelines and wilderness permits, Wallis is working with a strip of trees that probably sits within a few hundred feet of someone’s kitchen window. He treats the whole outing like a stealth mission: pick the spot, stay quiet, don’t leave a trace that would tip off a resident walking a dog or a cop doing rounds. It’s the same instinct that shows up in his other solo builds, like the solo overnight sandbag shelter he built deeper in the woods, just compressed into a backyard-adjacent tree line where discretion matters more than craftsmanship.

Hanging a hammock solves half his problem. It keeps him off the ground and out of sightlines that a ground tent would create, and it packs down small enough to disappear into a bag the moment he needs to bail. For someone whose whole video hinges on not being seen, that’s not a comfort upgrade — it’s operational.

Testing the Solid-Fuel Stove

Once the hammock is strung, Wallis turns to gear he hasn’t fully vetted on camera before: a cheap solid-fuel stove. He fires it up to cook dinner, and by his own account it performs better than expected for the price point. It’s a small, practical beat in the video, the kind of gear-testing moment that recurs across his channel — the same curiosity that led him to try building shelter out of plastic wrap in another outing rather than reach for anything off a store shelf.

“Step Two” and the Small Fire

Dinner done, Wallis moves into the part of the routine his regular viewers wait for. He cracks open a can of “Happy Camper” beer — a running bit he calls “step two” — and settles in as darkness sets. He lights a fire, but keeps it small and low-profile, a deliberate choice given how close he is to houses that could spot smoke or flame through the trees.

Hunker down, my friends.

That line closes out the video the way it closes out most of his uploads — no dramatic reveal, no confrontation with a homeowner or a patrol car, just a guy in a hammock, a small fire dying down, and the sense that he pulled off the stealth part exactly as planned.