This is for half-helmet riders. Is it time that we switched over to paramotor helmets since the goddamned moto helmet manufacturers can't figure it out when it comes to hearing protection?Everyone says half helmets are more dangerous anyways, you might as well add the benefit of having mounts to your helmet that hold ear muffs and a faceshield while being suicidal. The e966 safety standard cert tests are identical to DOT approved (And shady manufacturers can slap the sticker on with no testing)"JUST WEAR EARPLUGS!" Can't anymore, ears recently started randomly getting inflamed from pressure."TRY THE OUTER EAR MOLD EARPLUGS!"They work... to a good degree. But not for 70mph winds.Thoughts? Inb4 retard. (Go look at how you have to mutilate the insides of a fullface to have a chance at mounting ear muffs inside. Or how full-facers have to wear a whole ass neck brace addition under their helmet to reduce wind buffeting even more.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2731435Helmets are gay in general. If you're going to ride the thing then you might as well enjoy it, but that's in places where you're not helmcucked which is almost everywhere.
>>2731726God should've made our bones primarily out of iron. We could handle the weight of it; walking /fat/people are living proof of this.
>>2731726And mandatory motorcycle insurance.And no lane splitting.Goddamn nanny states all of em /grumble
>>2731435>Can't anymore, ears recently started randomly getting inflamed from pressure.It's over buddy. Buy the chin curtain and suffer.
>>2731726It's great till bugs.
What do you smoke when you're /out/? I'm not a smoker but I enjoy picrel when I go outing.
>>2731954Nature joints are killer. Smoking with a view is even more killer, go for a hike and spark up at the top where you can see for 30+ miles.
>>2731959get addicted to vaping so you never forget extra batteries for you flashlight.
>>2731187You're simnply too young to appreciate these things, it's obvious from a mile away.And yeah, I love whiskey and pipes. So what?
>>2732047NTA but I don't understand the appeal of cigars either. You don't even inhale them? The entire point is just the act of smoking. tasting, and smelling the cigar? It seems like you risk a lot for something that other things do a lot better.
Smoking an Allegria Lonsdale. It has improved since when I first bought them, which was 1+ years ago. Yesterday, I smoked a bowl of Capstan Gold in a cob, great blend.>>2732051There's also a nicotine buzz, and the risk is actually incredibly low.
MOST OF YOU DON'T EVEN GO OUTSIDE
>>2730694this was funny anon
I fucking love this dude.
>>2730694BASED.
>>2730683>>2730694I don't know for certain of course, but honestly I'd be fine with getting smacked around a bit when acting out if it might I had a dad who constantly took me to cool as fuck /out/ places. He's kids certainly had it better than I did.
>>2730694do you suppose he beats the ones he suspects of being gay extra hard?
You have been abducted by aliens and they are telling You that you are going to be dropped onto an uninhabited planet with an Earthlike atmosphere and and an ecosystem identical to the pacific northwest.they have given you a set of thrirteen empty boxes whose interiors is 1 foot tall 2 feet wide and 8 feet long, you may request anything you want for on the planet and you have a weight limit of 35 pounds each (not including the box itself) you will not be leaving the planet, no rescue is comingOne box will come with you the other 12 will arrive in six month intervalsWhat do you pack?How do you pack it?Which do you take with you initially?
>>2732219 i dont think he gets that
>>2727014>box 1: 1 gun, a rifle (probably a lightweight .308 build), 3 mags for the rifle, 90 rounds for the rifle. lightest 1 person tent those alien fuckers can find on amazon (thats about 10lbs down). Fill remainder with one lightweight nalgene waterbottle (refillable), one knife + edge straightener, one water filter, set of ultra lightweight insulating clothes, some lightweight footwear. remaining 5 lbs are filled with the highest calorie shelf-stable mush those alien bastards can whip up. one box of 200 matches to top off.I should be able to live in the lightweight tent and hunt / scavenge for food with the gun / knife. Water is taken care of. the main purpose of the gun is because PNW has grizzlies, I am not gonna fuck with those.box 2: 5lbs more of water purification crap. a pot, more filters, some matches. I can begin to move off of filter reliability and start to boil my own water. military style cot, tarp, down blankets. knife sharpener (the edge straightener will likely start to have diminishing returns at this point) and replacement knife.with this I can set up a more all-seasons solution to living there.box 3: fleshlight, basic supplies similar to box 2, except stuffing all the spare space with food to prepare for winter.boxes 4-13: food
>>2727038>80% of the vegs from those seeds have barely any calories>only one corn type>"survival"
box 1 basically an alone loadout + some calories + .22 rifleafter that i'd have to think on order but i'd want survival, construction stuff, food production nextsurvival stuff, like a big metal pot, lots of paracord and rope, big fishing kit, tarps, several water filters + extra filters, lots of plastic bags to store things. lots of multi vitamin bottles. then remainder of my summer / winter hiking stuffconstruction equipment, screws nails, tools, saws to mill lumber.5 books on both pre and post industrial technology. 6 pistol, rifle, ammo, optics7 and 8 high calorie foods9 seeds and farm equipment. foldable shovel, pickaxe10 solar chargers and batteriesi think it'd be pretty easy if you got all 12 boxes each a week apart. 6 months i don't know there's a fairly decent chance you die early. if you could get to box 2 and 3 you'd be ok.
Dead thread
Alright /out/ with turkey season wrapping up for most of the country, how did we do this year?Ill start. I harvested my first bird in a decade of hunting them. I got it done in the Cleveland National Forest in San Diego county
>>2729392
why u killed that torkey? he did nun wrong.
mm chikemn....
>>2732933He pretend sleep for photo, hes okay
>>2729278Still trying to get one southeastern indiana. Feels like the kentuckiana methheads keep beating me to it. public land hunting truely is pain.
> Mountain biking deep in the woods last week> Take a trail, assume it's point-to-point, ending at the road> Somehow get turned around. End up on the back of the mountain, in the middle of nowhere.> The trail gets smaller and smaller.> I'm hoping that means I'm closer to the road, but instead it dwindles to nothing. It's a glorified deer trail at this point.> I see something in the distance.> What the actual fuck??? It's a camper.> Looks like pic related, exactly like Breaking Bad, maybe even more ramshackle.> Covered in spray painted pentagrams, and the hood reads "LIAR"> How the fuck did it get all the way out here?> It's got to be five miles to the nearest road.> I get a better look. There are spent propane tanks all over the place> I see galvanized metal tubs. Someone has been cooking out here.> Begin to put two and two together, and I get the feeling I'm being watched.> Can't see in the windows. Realize someone might be looking back at me.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2732572when i was a young anon, i found a trailer in the woods. but back then nobody made meth.... it was just filled with old pornography magazines. i dont know why but the older generation use to just dump trailers in the middle of the woods and fill them with smut. Maybe these tweakers found an old porn trailer and converted it to a meth lab.im being 100% serious.
>>2732576Are you kidding? 80% of the posts on this board are fiction.
fucking call the cops you dumbass. Nature doesnt need those fuckers polluting up the forest
>>2732574>When I came home I started to take off my muddy clothes and clean the stuff I was carrying>Inside the backpack I found a hand hook man car door>will never know who was phone
>>2732835Can confirm, that’s how I encountered some of my first smut too. Someone’s older brother found a couple of boxes of nudie mags in the woods, took as much as he could carry but there was so much of it. Told his little brother, who was our friend, and we went to check it out ourselves. Sure enough, there were a bunch of boxes of nudie mags back there. Off name random late 80s - early 90s smut. That was some time in elementary school I think, maybe 6th or 7th grade at the absolute latest.I also remember finding a box of porno tapes in a closet at a college house. It was cool at first but then Danny’s Dudes turned out to be about a guy named Daniel instead of a girl Danielle, that was weird.
>inb4 he's a southernlet
Didn't even realize there was an aurora Friday. Was out camping. Was super cool, stayed up really late though.
>>2730870>I definitely need to get a better camera specifically for low-light photography because what I have isn't cutting itA7s? A7s3 second hand if you re kinda rich
>>2730871That's awesome. It looks like a supernova!
is there an app or something that will notify me when these magnetic storms happen? i keep missing out
>>2733050https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.aurora_alerts.auroraalerts
Despite being known for rainforests, most of the region of the Pacific Northwest on the windward side of the Cascade mountains is surprisingly dry during the summer, specifically. By the end of August, the undergrowth foliage is thinner, and brown grass is common.
>>2733007>climate change is only due to local factorsno I havent considered that because im not retarded.>>2733001>I don't trust those measurementsso you just make up your own data? lol
>>2733001Sure whatever, but you do realize that the timber companies go ahead and plant trees back to harvest in 30 years or whatever right? I fly over all the timber land all the time... it's all trees, not empty plots. It's not like they are magically turning their property into voids of desert.Regardless of whatever science you have to support your position, it's a small factor compared to what the ocean is doing. You can argue on a grand scale forestry and construction affect the oceans but the ocean is way more dominant than the local factors.
>>2733025ok>>2733027ah, but not all forest is the same. for example water collects less efficiently and is lost much faster from plantation forests. so you're right that large scale weather patterns are more affected by the oceans, but when you're thinking about the actual water relations on the ground, vegetation structure matters a lot.
>>2733037Sure, a new-growth forest isn't the same as an old-growth forest, and that'll have varying affects on local flora/fauna and water retention and kinds of environment. These are however local effects. You see far more impact from weather systems moving in from the ocean and colliding with geographic masses causing orographic effects like lifting up mountains, or around the olympics creating the puget sound convergence zone. If I dump a bucket of water on some grass, I don't say the grass caused the bucket of water, even if the shade caused by the grass keeps the water from evaporating.
>>2733038I think we may be talking at cross purposes. >>2732685>>2733001I would be interested to read some stats for this specifically discussing logging in the PNW. I have found many sources discussing how logging in the amazon can strongly affect weather systems elsewhere, but very little from elsewhere.
One of the best /out/ experiences of my life was when I was camping in South Dakota and I watched this massive multi-cell storm approach me then hammer me all night. I had never experienced such power in a storm, even in the tropics. And that was considered a typical summer storm for people out there. I want to go back to the plains and storm chase. How do I go about this? These videos make me want to see it in real life.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jBEyVKCT34https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6HG82MDzTwhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYubHpEMTPM
OP i heard that you are interested in bugs too? you could become a bugchaser! would be a very fitting hobby for you i think
>>2732960fuck around and find out, anon. I'd advise you to listen to your ancestors and get inside during storms.
>>2732960make sure you have a sturdy car
>>2732960>How do I go about this?you need to become a weather dork and understand why and where big T-storms form and put yourself in position- which requires advanced planning and luck. Hardcore chasers no the day before where the storms are likely to form and proceed accordingly
What's up with Krauts, specially boomers, and their kitted out rigs?I'm in southern Europe and every time I go to the beach, no matter the time of the year, there's always many, many hundred thousand €€€ traveling/camping rigs there and 90% of the time they have German plates.As I post this there are a couple 100K vans, mercs sprinters I think, fully prepared for world travel and parked on a gravel road right up to the beach.
>>2718464Krauts don't drive those tho?
>>2718464I don't understand the $150,000 overlanders. That's more than my house. I just want something like picrel on a 4x4 I rebuilt with the basics.
I would buy one in a heartbeat if i had the money but they cost.more than my house
>>2731203And honestly no German/Dutch boi is affording that lmao.
Kraut here. /out/ is basically dead here because camping is pracitcally illegal of you are not coming in a camper van or to a designated camping spot (which in most cases is just for camper van anyways). If you want to go out you basically have to bring a camper unless you go to a festival or got the go from the owner of some private property.And as it turns out a lot of the boomers put their money in these giants once they paid there house off.
Lost my job and planning on living out of my car and camping places for at least 6-12 months since I haven't done that in many years now. I haven't really been homeless before but it's my next option currently so my funds are going to be kinda limited.What are going to be the best and least expensive ways to sustain myself with food? I've never lived like this before so I'm wondering what all of the "oh shit"'s might be before I encounter them. In what areas might it be realistic to live off of the land, simply from fishing rivers or foraging? I don't plan on attempting full "survival" mode but I'd like to be out there as long as I can on as little as I can. Any good things to know or experiences are appreciated.
>>2730230Those are elderberries, retard. Hope you become homeless too
>>2730684raw elderberries will kill you as quickly as pokeberries... But keep trying. Enjoy your homelessness.
>he doesn’t know ripe elderberries are safe to eat
>>2730147A man can live off potatoes and onions for a long time. Supplement with meat and bell peppers (vit c) and there ya go.
Have you outed in the desert? Is it dangerous much? Scorpions?
>>2729992Leave no trace, Anon. Shame on you.
>>2728453It's quite dangerous. But not from wildlife. Just Sun exposure and dehydration. Way more people die from that every year than any critters in North America.
Hiked and camped with Wingate Wilderness Therapy (Now Closed) in the Grand Staircase Escalante National Monument for 13 months for 2-week shifts every month. Water and food resupply was brought in with high-clearance vehicles. The land is beautiful. The weather is diverse. I wouldn’t know where to start, when looking for food or water. I’ve eaten a few rattlesnake, but scorpions were only a nuisance when sat upon. Cedar gnats and snow storms were the worst issues I’ve had. We hiked in sleeting weather once, and had a client experience hypothermic shock. Shortly after, I left. Any questions?
>>2732546Water is the difficulty. Good luck. Regarding the actual hiking, ruck early, rest during the heat of the day.
>>2732546>innadesert in the summerknowater,,and where itlives.,base of rocky zone will flowith water after rain,,,,can holdit just below the sand for months.,rock bowlsand will have water if you dig a little.,,,evaperation will CHILL you on the hottest day!,109F,sit by sprinkler,,Cold!,ride in sun to warmup,,,wind puts the Freeze in my bones!,reach mystopull off helmetowarm up,,,shivering!,motorhome nearby has airconditionerunning HARD,,inside,Californitestare out window amazed? ,
Oke so im planning on tackling the west highland way soonish with my bong friend pretty soonish, were going to meet up either in london (if i decide to take the train from the netherlands through belgium and france to england) or in glasgow (where i can take a direct flight) And were wondering if any anons that have done this hike before have any tips to share with total beginners such as us.. :---D and with tips i mean landmarks off of the beaten road that we should visit along the way or stuff that we should/shouldnt do and generally what to expect during the trip. We also wouldnt mind meeting up with other out/chuds, and if youre wondering were both males aged 22
well what me & my mate did was bring a big bottle of whiskey each from glasgow and wildcamp way off the track & get drunk gazing at the mountains every night. was pretty good. bridge of orchy hotel pub is full of cunts. travel early as much as you can, it's much more beautiful then and much higher chance of seeing wildlife. WHW was awesome overall, you're in for a good time. the rocks around lomond can be a bit fucked in bad weather so be careful there. good luck anon
>>2732040thanks for tips anon, i dont have any experience drinking alcohol so i think ill keep it at a pint or two at a pub, i am also planning on bringing along some mushrooms along but im no too sure on how safe or smart that is. Do you have any reccomendations for what to do in glasgow, or should i avoid that place like the pest?
>>2732026DONT go to Glasgow, it’s 3rd world - Trainspotting is basically a documentary. Edinburgh is pretty cool though, there are backckers and genuinely good pubs in the middle of town. Locals were all pretty friendly. Just follow your nose mate, worked for me. t. Kiwi spent a bit of time over that way when I was 25.
Go slow, you can easily do 40km+ daily on the WhW, but you'll miss out on a lot. Also, take time to appreciate the Caledonian forests along Loch Lomond, I raced through the area because I was laser focused on seeing the true highlands area.
>>2732098I didn't do much in glasgow, just stayed the night there so we could start early the next day. it's not as phenomenally shit as e.g. >>2732180 suggest, more or less just your typical run down UK city. >>2732208I think this is good advice. absolutely no point rushing. if I ever do it again I will go a lot slower. you may meet people who look down on you for not doing e.g. 30 mile days every day. if so ignore them, they're autistic.
Okay, I'm done coping. Even ignorning muh mountains, the west still has an overall better aesthetic than the east.
Any Washingtonfags here? I’ve been thinking of moving from NW part of the state (skagit valley) to east of the mountains, maybe Okanogan county or even all the way to Pend oreille.
I like em both a lot. the main thing that the East wins is with the dense forests, damn near jungles. I miss swinging on vines and yelling like Tarzan, when I was a kid. I don't miss the poison ivy and the ticks/leeches/mosquitoes
>>2729936>then go innawoods near us to enjoy the lush greenery and bright colors of our woodlands, wetlands, water bodies and meadows.>the entire West is a desertthat guy lol
>>2729936> I'm done coping.You're not even from the east. You're just the westfag that constantly makes these bait threads. Nobody cares about your California-transplant-in-Colorado-tourist-suburb-ass Jose. Stop shitting up the board.
>>2732997>said the entire west is desert and climate change is caused by beavers and jewish loggers guy and only my acre of decidious trees matters/lol
Are you excited for the warmer weather /out/ :3 ?
>>2731927For some reason I haven't had a tick in years and I live pretty much innawoods
>>2731916Imagine not feeling shit on your skin.
>>2732246Tick concentration is location dependent.I work innawoods building a trail and most of my tick encounters were simply at the edge of wood lines rather in the deep of the forests.>>2732276Imagine not feeling ticks on your poppy seed muffin.
Was doing yardwork naked yesterday. Stopped to enjoy a fire and drink a beer, found a tick in my chest hair so i threw it in the flames
>>2731927>my friendssome day :(
