This thread is to talk about cooking in the bush. Topics included but not limited to:>cookware>cast iron cookware>pie irons>popcorn poppers>marshmallow sticks>fish baskets>sausage forks>egg suitcases>recipes>camp kitchen nightmares and horror stories>lazy partners borrowing your gear>set it and forget it meals>snack hacks>tips and tricks
Was watching old Good Eats reruns, and Alton started cooking a flank steak directly on hot coals with no barrier. Anyone ever try that before? I feel like the meat would get caked in ash.
>>2852704Seems unnecessary when we have sticks laying around.
>>2852704You have to blow away the ash right before setting the steak on the coals, but like >>2852709 said, there's no point to it unless you have literally nothing to put the steaks on except the coals.
>>2852709>>2852731His reasoning was it stops fat flare ups by eliminating the circulation between the heat source and the meat.
>>2852687nice littel grill, anon.
BATONNY CHOP CHOP
>>2851544you could put an extra long club through a spare head and baddony on that
>>2851571Just use wooden wedges or order some steel wedges from blacksmith, those people just don't give a fuck as all commie block workers do so one day they will swing the axe and be left with just the handle in their hands.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvlmsH0IFT4 (minute 8)
>>2851511BATONNY CHOP CHOPBATONNY CHOP CHOPBATONNY CHOP CHOP
they're making shingles you dumb fucks, not spliting firewood. they need an exact geometry and dims
>>2852693Doesn't matter what they're making. Batonning can do it all.
Just scored a pair of vintage koflach mountaineering boots (picrel) at an estate sale. Would these still be considered viable gear today? Supposedly the previous owner only used them for one expedition so they are basically new.
>>2851331>Supposedly the previous owner only used them for one expedition so they are basically newone expedition, yes. but they were stored outside for a while
>>2851778Koflatch actually went out of business, so the only full plastic boot still being made today is the Scarpa Inverno.>>2852002Yeah but then you basically carried boots up with you as dead weight for half the climb. I prefer a pair of modern light mountaineering boots which don't suck to hike in and I can wear the whole trip. Carrying an extra pair of shoes just seems silly to me. I get that, traditionally, climbing boots suck to hike the approach in, and I've certainly seen a fair number of "60lb expedition packs with another 7lbs of boot tied on", while the bearer scrambles up in sneakers, but it's just not my style. Seems like an injury waiting to happen, but I also have bitch ankles.
>>2852002you can use strap on crampons with some trail runners
>>2852127>>2852258The thing is, if it gets steep on snow/ice you want mountaineering boots that suck to hike in. The rigidness goes from being painful to being the only thing keeping your lower legs alive when you're front pointing for hours. (Even less technical climbing is painful in non-shanked shoes) With how light other gear is these days I think it's easily worth it.
>>2851331>vintageWhat vintage exactly? Plastic gets old and brittle. Also, do you actually need mountaineering boots? Because they suck for winter hiking.
Looking to refine survival skills in general for when I want/need to head innawoods. Any must have rw adventure books and manuals I should get?
>>2850342Deep Survival - Laurence Gonzales
>>2851101>Deep SurvivalI prefer the sequel Deep Survival: tenting with Tyrone
>>2850342What game is this?Looks sovlfull
>>2852606a bone-chilling spine-tingling atmospheric slowburn retro-aesthetic psychological horror indie game with NO jumpscares.oneyplays played it I think
>>2850342In what events do you need to head innawoods?>captcha: jwss8
Hey, /out/ hunters. do any of you hunt this specific game bird?https://www.norma-ammunition.com/en-gb/products/dedicated-hunting/centerfire-rifle/norma-jaktmatch/norma-jaktmatch-222-remington-55gr---20157210
>>2852645I do.I don't really care for it myself, but my wife goes crazy for black cock and I want to see her happy <3
Is long distance countryside biking considered /out/?If so, let's have a thread about it
>>2852195Use bar ends on flat handlebars I also like plain foam grips on everything because they are soft and insulate the most in cold or wet weather. Don't fall for the ergonomic crap it's going to make it worse since you shift wrist position very often naturally anyway. Plain bar ends and handlebars with foam grips will do the trick. Also the wider the handlebars the better you breathe and more hand position options. I would say I'm 70% on bar ends most of the time similarly how roadies would be mostly using hoods on drops.
>>2852195This specific combo. On-one Mary bars and ergon GP1 grips. I tried many bars, wider, narrower, with more and less sweep, none work as well. It was an expensive realization that I like them better than titanium bars imported from the US.Also get a rack. If you have one, get another rack, or fork bags, or a handlebar bag. On your back is absolutely the worst place to carry cargo.
>>2852195Your bike seat is too high, place your hands different
Where's my fat tyre bros? If you aren't running 29x3 and above then you aren't going /out/. Imagine not being able to ride through rivers, go off the trail, ride on sand. Loser!
>>2852186What was your route for A->B?What was your method with setting up camp? Especially in populated areas?
I'm always solo and off trail. Guns not an option. My entire setup is stealth super low profile, smokeless fire and so on. I have a knife and I carry a staff with attachable spear tip which make me feel safe. I know the sounds of all the animals even screaming owls I am used to it. There are no large predators here and it isn't the sounds of animals that scare me it's just me and my imagination which works against me. My mind invents things where there are no things so I go to bed early. I should not have to go to bed early out of fear of my own imagination. I should be able to sit in the dark and be at peace with my surroundings and relax and enjoy it. I have got better at managing it but it is still there. Even if I let my night vision adapt and I creep around knowing that I am at that point the scary creepy thing in the woods at minimum there is a persistent feeling of discomfort. Does it ever truly go away? Is being alone at night days away from a dirt road just too unnatural?
>>2852463I never knew that.>>2852274Have you considered being a faggot?
What you're describing is how you've turned yourself into the perfect stealth tracker, the perfect night hunter, all you need is a nice big knife or machete and you'd be set. You shouldn't be afraid, everything else should fear you. You should go kill some hikers to feel better about yourself.
>>2852383>>2852463>>2852490kek
man has wrestled with that feeling forever and will forever his own mind is what makes him man
>>2852274i started out feeling a little bit this way but i don't anymore. i've come to enjoy how quiet it can be at night and how nice the stars are. i think you just get used to it.
It's been a while since I've seen a /mush/ thread! How is everyone's fall mushroom season treating them? I've been finding tons of mushrooms!! Lots of these Satan's boletes, rubroboletus eastwoodiae, popped up everywhere. Too bad they're not good to eat..
>>2852586>>2852584My b. Tagged the wrong post. Meant this photo >>2852413
>>2852588Fairy fingers, also Trinity county, CA but different anon
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I think my coldest /out/ was a sleigh ride in -14°C when I was a kid. The coldest I've ever been outside for a few minutes was -22°C.
>>2852347that would be greati usually wear a fur hat and fur lined hood under -30 just to keep the frost from building up. it's pretty nice
>>2851770almost -20 °C for one night when i was stranded on a tiny train station in the middle of nowhere because the fucking deutsche bahn doesn't function when it's a bit cold
>>2851770I started a hike at 10F (-12C) today. Never hiked in that kind of weather before. Also my first time hiking in snow. Not as bad as I thought it would be. I removed my fleece like 10 minutes into the hike. The only thing I had trouble keeping warm was my hands. I think the handwarmers i brought were duds or I didn't activate them correctly.My lips are a bit irritated after the fact though. I used chapstick thoroughly not sure how to prevent that.
>>2851819Nigger
>>2852571>The only thing I had trouble keeping warm was my handsJust get sufficiently thick mittens.
I want to try mountaineering but I'm scared of heights
>>2852542You don't have to start on steep grades and exposed ridges.Start with easy trails and get accustomed to being high up.
>>2852542>nature's is JFC >>2852545That's just hiking.
>>2852548>That's just hiking.You have to start somewhere.
As someone who was also pretty fuckin scared of heights (and still is, depending on the situation) but now helps teach a mountaineering course:Start off scrambling (aka "spicy hiking"). Keep it below Class 3. Learn to orienteer, you can get lost as fuck off trail.A decent amount of mountaineering doesn't actually involve much exposure to heights. A lot of mountaineering is just about glacier travel and off-trail navigation in the alpine. You can climb, for instance, all five of the WA Volcanos without any actual class 5 rock or ice. That doesn't mean there aren't sketchy sections with big run-outs, just pointing out that "mountaineering" != "hiking + rock climbing" like a lot of people think it is. It's kinda a different set of skills, with some overlap, but it's not the same thing.Working on balance can help a lot with a fear of heights. Fear of heights is actually fear if falling. Do a lot of balance exercise.Of course exposure therapy helps too. Try rock climbing outdoors. The best exposure therapy is rappelling. Find some local top-rope crag and rappell until it's automatic. But never practice repelling without an instructor, at least not the first 50 or so times.Endurance is huge for mountaineering. Weighted uphill hikes are the best way to train. Don't waste time with anything else.
>>2852548>That's just hiking.Most mountaineering is just hiking that then turns into class 3 or 4 scrambling. Gotta walk before you can crawl.
I'm going to post birds here that I see from my dinning room window. I might post some from other locations too.
>>2852155>what the birds see when they look into OP's window.
>>2852167They get lost easily compared to other birds, their homing instinct can be fucky. Just to let you know. If you're taking it anywhere near outdoors train it to know you by a whistle (an actual whistle) so that it can find its way home.Too many parrots have "flown away" over the years.
>>2852155We posting birbs?
>>2852155It's hard to take birb pic with a phone
>>2852202I saw one of these fly by me, and now I have to buy a camera and lense and hunt it down to get some pictures.
Apart from like a handful of shorter hikes, I haven't actually been properly outing. I mean like going out somewhere actually wild where I can sit in my own thought, take in nature, cook food and sleep.I'm not even sure why, it happened after I moved to this place. I was planning on doing it last spring, just finding a place in a forest or some place, but the weather was just so shit, it's always shit here, maybe that's why
nigga just go outside. its not exactly difficult.
>>2851383Life gets in the way anon. I'm in the same boat, my last expedition to anywhere remote was over two years ago, and probably that was my last field recording as well.I moved back to the city and although I live right at the edge of a national park in the outskirts, it's not the same. I can go on nice bushwalks right outside the house but all I do is work these days and I just don't have the time I used to have for my outdoor hobbies. It kind of sucks, but I guess it's a matter of motivation. Also I drink on weekend nights and that wastes half the weekend because I'm lying around the first half of each day being a piece of shit.
>>2851501>Life gets in the way anon ... but all I do is work these days and I just don't have the time I used to have for my outdoor hobbies.Why?I'm leaving next week for an eleven-day hiking trip in New Zealand with five of my mates and while it's easy enough for self-employed ass to take time off whenever, three of the others are doctors, all right at the point in their careers where they're working their asses off the absolute most. Fuck, one of them is doing a PhD alongside his ICU residency. Another is newly married and had to book flights to visit his in-laws on the way. If we can coordinate a trip like that then surely you can rustle up a few days for a trip on your own.
Are you going /out/ this weekend anon?
>>2851383Pick place that has good weather this weekend that you can drive to in five hours or less. Look up campsites NOW. Look up trails on altrails for that area NOWLeave in a few hours.
Recommendations for rain coats that can also protect from wind? Don't want to spend a sexy chunk of cash for bullshit
>>2852085ive had this guy cotten anorak for a few years of sailing and kayaking, it works great but holy hell you get warm and sweaty in it
>>2852098no its captain highliner.
>>2852178Do you not layer with wool?
>>2852180oh yeah, all my layers are wool in fact, but even just a wool singlet is enough to be a hot sweaty mess
>>2852077Poncho with a woobie
Is this the best area for /out/heads to live?
Fuck off we're empty (and we like it that way)
>>2851307That doesn’t look like Alaska to me.
>>2851321>life that is entirely centered around survival larpyou do know what forum you are on right now right? this is our bread and butter
Why is Patagonia so surreal and beautiful? And why does it look somewhat like Dolomites?
>>2852442Patagonia is the end of the world, or at least the end of the combined American continent, a mystical place, the final checkpoint before continuing through the gauntlet of the Drake Passage and on to the frozen hellscape of Antarctica
Share with anons and get ideas.I make breakfast oat bombs. In a bag I put 100g of oats, 25g of milk powder, 25g of coconut milk powder and 20g of brown sugar one bag for each breakfast and eaten warm. Sometimes I will crumble a bit of my homemade vanilla short bread into it. With 6 inch flour tortillas, salami, dry aged parmesan, powdered tomato, olive oil and some paprika + garlic I cook quesidillas or put it all together cold. I cook simple mini pizzas with the same ingredients. Dinners are less routine. Sometimes I do the a laksa with the paste and 100g of capellini + everything else or I use instant mash potato and throw in everything.Eventually I am going to test out blending macadamia nuts into a butter and adding it to each of my meals. Has anyone here ever done that before?
>>2851540Sorry anon. You need to actually go out to comment on a thread about camp meals.I tend to just go for dehydrated meals or ramen for dinner, trail mix and cliff bars for lunch, and quicks oats with a squeeze of peanut butter for breakfast.Need to start being a bit more creative but my last trip was 7 days of pretty long hiking so I was preoccupied with weight.
>>2851660>You need to actually go out to comment on a thread about camp meals.
