Originally Posted by
pinzgauer
In Europe and Scandinavia the laws often are a little different. People are allowed to camp on land without obtaining permission as long as it's 50 or 100 m from buildings or similar.
There are typically restrictions on noise, fire size and such.
Their laws about public transit on land are a bit different.
Some countries it's just culturally accepted as reasonable. In others they are not happy about it but the law allows it.
I could see stealth or low key camping as being a thing there.
I just took down a tent someone left on my back property, probably kids but someone was camping. If they had asked I would have given them permission with some conditions.
I came across a guy, had a British accent who was doing that very thing within a wooded suburban area. He wanted to find a camping spot that was away for houses and walking paths and roadways. I remember thinking, "Get the heck out of town you chucklehead." Not realizing that is an actual "thing".
I practice something of stealth camping whenever I fish/hunt/camp by myself, I just never called it "stealth camping" Aside from it sounding creepy like JP said, it just sounds super millennialish or maybe dorkish.
I don't know what it is, but I just automatically seek and maintain a small footprint and practice noise and light discipline. I don't even have to remind myself. Not 100% dark, but I definitely am drawn to areas with more cover, build my fire to be as smokeless as possible, using the right wood and I don't go around with a 500,000 lumen spotlight.
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