/qtddtot/ - Questions that don’t deserve their own thread>>2793358 (I think)
>>2855009>wool blanket>folding chairNoted, thxWhat was the last thing you (anons) thought about:>ah, next time…
>stone island weatherproof cotton canvas>100% cotton >"made from a tightly woven cotton canvas fabric using the finest, long staple premium organic cotton fibers. The combination of dense weaving and swelling properties of the fiber when wet, provides an excellent weather barrier with no need for additional coating or lamination. It is entirely natural, offering a unique level of comfort and touch. It is windproof, breathable, and very durable."this is total BS right? isn't cotton literally the worst thing when it comes to wet weather? by the way i'm in a city where it can get snowy/windy/wet. i don't camp or go hiking at all
>>2855347>by the way i'm in a cityThen it doesn't really matter what you are wearing, because you're never more then an hour away from a drier and a hot bath.
My sister wants to go to Glacier National Park to celebrate graduating this summer, but the hotels are either booked or way too expensive. And she doesn't like big crowds, anyway. What's a good alternative to take her?
I'm not entirely sure if this question belongs here or in /o/, to me this is an EDC question and so it belongs in /out/.Anyway I would like to set up an "EDC" for my car's glovebox. I already have obviously an organizer where I put car documentation, a 12V charger and a bunch of different cables so it will service any device. I plan on adding a simple flashlight. What should I do regarding tools? Some sort of leatherman multitool? Or should I just add a pouch with some pliers and some screwdrivers?Genuinely curious what you guys have in your gloveboxes.
Why is half an acre the absolute minimum land area needed to be self sufficient?
>>2855336My only experience with bantams is birds ive gotten on accident or free and I didn't keep them very long.I had some bantam cochins that would walk between the legs of my large fowl cochins, it was hilarious.Just not my thing.From my experience bantam roosters are more vocal and I dont want to hear their squeaky calls all friggin day long.Eggs aren't quite fullsize but are larger than expected and supposedly they eat less. But theres "issues" in my family of perfect egg size with white to yolk ratio and bantams dont cut it.
Whats gonna stop me from buying these plots of Hawaiian land under volcanoes up in the mountains on the big island? I see some acre lots full of vegetation for cheap and I cant help but wonder what you could grow? There must be a reason, hawaiin cucked laws? Volcano insurance? Mapped some of the properties and there 30 min from the beach. Realistically whats gonna stop me from loading up a van with my stuff and parking it there while I build a dwelling? I know its technically illegal but do people even care or check on that?
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>>2855389Are you talking about the volcano that erupted like a week ago?Do it. I mean, what could go wrong?
>>2855389>Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius!
what strange / spooky stuff have you seen?once when i was in the desert, there was a telephone pole, on it looked exactly like a 10ft tall bird of prey, just eyeing me downit was about a good 5min of walking, which felt like forever, just to see that it was a transformer that looked weird, none of the other poles had it eithersounds dumb, but it really did look exactly like a gigantic human sized hawk, and the "head" even seemed to follow you too, really interesting illusion, since it also hit all the primal parts of the brain that gone "you're about to be fucking eaten by a bird!!!!!!"a year or two later, when i was gonna take a picture, it was gone, which adds a strange air to "it was right there, i tell you!">inb4 go to /x/ for this shiti want real stories, not >i smelled the rotten shit fart gas, and my best friend was turned into a skinwalker, and then i pulled out that gun from videogame and blasted it, dude trust me
>>2828996>>2828996My dad told me about shape shifters many years ago. He said they leave their clothes and change into an animal and if you find their clothes and move them, they can't change back into human shape and get stuck in that animal form
>tranny janny deleted the spooky jewish sighting posts bunch of humorless assholes, sad!
>>2853517this guy is just begging for a group of meddling kids with a dog to break into your property trying to solve a mystery.
>>2855314>I would've had outdoor gay sex with my boyfriend if it wasn't for you gay ass kids trying to make me a straight>Reeheeheeheehee
>>2802579There's a certain highway stretch in Newton County IN, that goes through a wildlife preserve dominated by dense conifers. that when the temp is very low and the time of night is so low in traffic that one's own headlights are the only substantial light, it feels as if one has a whole planet to oneself, if a spooky one. I'm not at all superstitious, but I found it pretty hair-raising going through that tunnel, and turning around with my headlights sweeping into that primordial looking site.
Where are all the mushrooms edition?
>>2840644Robins appear when loved ones are near :)
>>2854468Depends when you mean. More than 10,000 years ago Scotland was covered in ice cap and glaciers and didn't have any trees.Since then forests did recolonise Britain, and a lot of Scotland would have had Scots pine and birch, except for the tops of mountains. Likewise a lot of England would have been woodland except for some of the poor boggy soils on top of moors which would have just been heather etc in those shallow acidic wet soils.Humans cut down most of the trees in Scotland and Britain in neolithic times, around the time they were building Stonehenge, so by the time the Romans turned up it was actually not very forested at all.We've always had fewer trees for basically all of our written history. In 1066 they catalogued about 15% of land as being woodland, which is below the modern amount for France (32%), Germany (38%) or basically any other European country besides Ireland.There are actually more trees and forests in the UK today than there were 100 years ago because of extensive reforestation plans which are continuing. Where I live they're constantly planting new trees in upland areas (picrel). We almost have as many trees as we did 1000 years ago, it's increased a lot, from 5% in 1840 to 8% in 2000 to over 14% today. It has increased the most in the last 20 years.
>>2854468Also, I don't think it looks bleak. Or it's bleak in a good way. I prefer the treeless look, so you can properly see the terrain and the shapes of mountains. It looks better.I've done hiking in Europe and elsewhere that's forested and it's boring. You can't see anything because you are in a forest, and then when you get above the treeline all you see is forest. I want to see the jagged rocks and rugged landscape.Woods are nice in lowland areas, but for mountains it's way better without trees. And conifers are the most boring tree of all, just the same tree as far as the eye can see, concealing the landscape.
>>2855182>>2855184Read accounts from visitors to England in the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, and you'll see how they heap praise on it for being a land wholly tamed by man. The rolling green fields, hedgerows, pasture and row-upon-row of fruits and vegetables were an admiration, likewise the wall-less cities and the fact that a common man could up and go to London or Bristol or Norwich on a whim, safe in the knowledge that his home was secure. This kind of thinking was what spread to America through the Pilgrims and Puritans, and why they wanted to turn their newfound Eden into a land of human industry.
>>2855382>The soil is fruitful, and abounds with cattle, which inclines the inhabitants rather to feeding than ploughing, so that near a third part of the land is left uncultivated for grazing. The climate is most temperate at all times, and the air never heavy, consequently maladies are scarcer, and less physic is used there than anywhere else. There are but few rivers; though the soil is productive, it bears no wine; but that want is supplied from abroad by the best kinds, as of Orleans, Gascon, Rhenish, and Spanish. The general drink is beer, which is prepared from barley, and is excellently well tasted, but strong, and what soon fuddles. There are many hills without one tree, or any spring, which produce a very short and tender grass, and supply plenty of food to sheep; upon these wander numerous flocks, extremely white, and whether from the temperature of the air, or goodness of the earth, bearing softer and finer fleeces than those of any other country: this is the true Golden Fleece, in which consist the chief riches of the inhabitants, great sums of money being brought into the island by merchants, chiefly for that article of trade. The dogs here are particularly good. It has mines of gold, silver, and tin (of which all manner of table utensils are made, in brightness equal to silver, and used all over Europe), of lead, and of iron, but not much of the latter. The horses are small but swift. Glasshouses are in plenty here.
I use a fenix ARB L21 headlamp coupled with the acebeam E75 hand held torch. Both are rechargeable by USB-c and the batteries are interchangeable 21700. These two give me more light than I can use and make a great pair.What lights to do you carry?
>>2855190>Both out performed by random chinkshit from temu.I can get 10,000 lumens for 50 bucks off Amazon or ebay.Im not going to pay a hundred bucks for 1/10th the performance.I guess it was nice of you to help the CEO of Rei pay for that new Ferrari though.
Okay, so i have like an exam in a very fae away city and i'm extremely fucking poor so i jusr have money to travel but staying in a hotel is out of the wayGive me some great advice to look homeless or atleast places to sleep in
>>2853532t. newfag here. can you really get TB from sleeping on the ground??
>>2855152Short answer: noLonger answer: you could get TB if you are sleeping in a puddle of spit that came from the lungs of someone with TB.
>>2850331I mean is it just one exam? Cant you find a bus/train/flying thingy that arrives a few hours before the exam starts and sleep in relatively comfy and societaly acceptable conditions while you travel?
>>2850331>>2855179Or look for a cheap hostel with apps like hostelworld? Idk. Sleeping rough while trying for an exam isnt ideal.
>>2850331Just copy what bro didhttps://www.youtube.com/@VagrantHoliday
What is that thing it has slike really ligyt footsteps i the snow should i run please respond fast guys
>>2855359Idunno OP. It doesn't look good.https://youtu.be/UQmSqrHOhzo?si=j0RsA9kuEeXEaRX4
it's those dudes from the girl who loved tom gordon
>>2855359That's me walking dog, just say hi, nothing to worry about
Has anyone else here traveled around living in a backpack for a while? What about car/van life? What are your experiences and if you're still doing it what are your plans for the next year? I've been doing it for 5 years straight after my Mom passed and I had no ties left to keep me involved with society or my hometown much. Now I'm renting a large property and house, working on my hobbies and profitable skills and saving up cash for when I inevitably dip out back into the world again this spring. I'm getting a backpack set up and possibly a 4runner. I just don't know where I want to go though anymore, I've been all over the US a few times and I hate crossing the continental divide, I'm probably going to stay in the PNW for a while until something interesting draws me east, but I'm also considering biting the cost of a passport to go start traveling in other countries too.
>>2855257I went backpacking for a year back when I was 17 and did the vanlife thing as a PanAmerican road trip for my honeymoon.More settled now though.
I started a 'boutta be homeless' thread here over 10 years ago now and actually followed through with the one way ticket and a backpack/sleeping bag thing, did that for a few years and then got an RV. On my third RV now after slightly upgrading a few years every time. /out/ lore dump incoming We used to have vanlife/hobo generals here on /out/ started by this other guy who went by busanon, the threads were some of the fastest and only ones to hit bump limits. Busanon recognized my posts here and said we met years ago in Montana when I was hitchhiking and he was rubbertramping, we met up later in Colorado because of these threads but I blew his bus up in Nebraska(it overheated while I was driving) and continued hitchhiking while he stayed there in Nebraska. Jessie had a mysterious benefactor named Mike who ended up paying for Busanon to fix the bus and move it to Oklahoma, where Busanon's partner and kids were already staying in a duplex owned by Mike while Busanon picked me up in Colorado. A year or so after the bus blew up in Nebraska, Busanon and Mike invited us(my partner and our baby in our RV) out to stay on Mike's property in Oklahoma. Mike turned out to be Scroton, a jannie on multiple boards and basically a rich weirdo psychopath. Busanon had been larping like a hardcore trainhopper and traveler in every thread this entire time and Scroton/Mike had been paying him an allowance to hang out in Tulsa and be his friend, a free duplex and a car to drive around in to make extra money panhandling at gas stations. Meanwhile, Mike is running every cult play in the book to isolate my wife and I at his property north of the city and it turns out he is basically samefagging a dozen threads at once pretending to be different people arguing with each other - you might recognize him as the "stab your dog" poster. From what I gathered it went like this; Busanon baited these greens into coming to be under Mike's thumb and so he could "take care of them"
>>2855328That's pretty weird and fucked up but the longer I've been traveling the more I've seen of shit like that. I haven't been on /out/ in a while so I don't remember Busanon. I probably met him IRL too though, he sounds like Useless but Useless runs the suicide prevention bus and it exploded due to his shitty psychopathic driving. I've learned if someone is super rich they're usually also incredibly fucked in the head and can mask it well. Even if they're not, I've also learned a lot of money also calls some hardcore drama in your life even if it has nothing to do with you, so I avoid it. There's a billionaire in SoCal who owns a large ranch and farm, his wife is some Japanese woman who is way richer than him. He enjoys recruiting a bunch of people to go do acid on his farm while he watched and enjoys the show from his balcony. That's already really sketchy to me, but the guy who told me about this said he is also one of those guys who is incredibly jealous to point of being violent and his wife is literally trying to fuck every dude he brings there, and it's hard to deny her because she's a multi-billionaire and more powerful than him but he'll probably have you killed for doing it.
>>2855257>Has anyone else here traveled around living in a backpack for a while?Back when I was 25, I spent a few months without a fixed address. I ended up hitchhiking from Montréal to Victoria and back. Did it again the next summer.First trip all I had was a plastic sheet. I got really lucky - it only rained twice. Mind you I stayed with my Aunt and my brother while in BC. That said, it seems that September is BC's best kept secret. You are alone on beaches and inna woods but it's mostly dry.
>>2855355It's like that almost the entire coast down, too. I've illegally crossed up into BC a few times to see a Mountie friend who lives there and it's probably the most gorgeous place I've ever been, each time I went it was monarch season and they covered literally everything, I woke up in my tent one morning to find them all over. I heard that BC wants to become another state to America and I'd be all for that if it weren't for the fact that American tweakers would probably shoot up the highway to flood that place and turn it into a shithole quick.
ok real shit, important questionwhy is photographing wild animals with drones so looked down upon when trail cams are okay?>inb4 hurr noisenigger this isn't 2005, most drones are quiet enough to the point where they can hover 10m over your head and you probably still won't hear it. go ask any slavshit conscripts duking it out in donetsk right now >inb4 animals have keener sensesagain, trailcams. those motherfuckers emit an ungodly amount of IR lights only visible to animals (and other IR cameras i guess) yet no one seems to have any problem with themhigh IQ answers only
>>2855317It says they react to the cameras taking pictures because of the sound and light produced. I tried following links to ones that mention infrared, but they mostly just talk about sound frequencies and practically nothing about how they supposedly detect infrared.It also doesn't say anything about their migration patterns being affected.
You faggots are complaining about drones ruining your /out/ time, yet I have never seen a drone outside of suburbia. Even then, I have only seen drones on very rare occasions. You fags never go /out/.
>>2855331What about people blasting music in nature? This is another thing I see people complain about online but have only experienced it once myself.
>>2854741If you get a high quality one, they make for great air cameras. You can get some wonderful shots. You don't even have to be in any industry, you could just have it for personal use, or upload it to YouTube.
>>2854741>most drones are quietNone of the ones I've seen flown near me are.
ITT guys who made it. Men who didn't die of exposure or hunger, men who survived
>>2847989>Whatever happened to MGTOW and MRA anyway?They joined up with the flat earthers and became MAGAts.
>>2852458terrible take . this board makes way too much of this
>>2852458Was he breaking some rule you thought was imposed on him? Flour, beans , salt and pepper. You would cry like a baby if thats all your mom brought you
>>2842231Wtf
How could one man be so based?How did he know how horrible women would become?
>EWG study: Eating one freshwater fish equals a month of drinking ‘forever chemicals’ waterSo am I just not supposed to eat fish anymore? What's the point of even fishing anymore?
>I've been proven correct in hindsight yet againHow do I do it
>>2854941this
>the saltwater fish are poisoned forever>the freshwater fish are poisoned forever
>>2854781Not necessarily. In the eastern USA and Midwest, altitude does nothing as the chemicals are literally aerosols in some regions. Lakes in Arctic Canada and northern Alaska test positive for these chemicals even though they have lower population density than Siberia. This is because the chemicals are literally airborne and riding the Pacific Jetstream from China. The majority of the lower 48 is turbo fucked chemically from both the jetstream chemicals from east Asia and local chemical production and mining and industrial farming for the last 100 years straight. The only streams left in the lower 48 that can actually pull fish that test with zero chemicals are native high elevation trout streams in the mountain west and isolated lakes/streams at high elevation in the PNW. Even some of these waters may still test for industrial chemicals sometimes brought intermittently by the Pacific jetstream from China. And likewise since the Pacific jetstream is the mother jetstream of east Asia, all of north America, and most of Europe, all industrial locations, all of them are broadly polluted to some extent even in actual wilderness. Also in general, fish in the middle/lower part of the food chain may contain less chemicals due to the fact they don't live long and are less piscivorous. In the east these would be fish like bluegill/sunfish. All catfish and bass are fucked in general, even in the mountain west high elevation lakes and rivers. All great lakes fish in general are also fucked because the lakes are too severely polluted that most fish are on micro doses or even high doses of human medications present near shore and in rivers on top of industrial chemicals. The oceans aren't any better and are actually generally worse for larger species in terms of endocrine disrupting chemicals and neurotoxins (Mercury, micro plastics, DDT, OCs, PFCs, TBT/BTs, PFAs), even tuna caught in literal ocean wilderness test positive for most of these. Saltwater farmed is worse.
>>2854649If it's good for the fish, it's good for me.
any subcultures other than rock climbing that have a dirtbagging scene?
>dirtbaggingWhen did not being a good little consumer paying inflated prices become synonymous for being a piece of shit? Nice astroturfed term thereIs deadheading (No, not the jam band) also dirtbagging? Is working at a show/spot and getting to stay/go for free also dirtbagging? Where do you draw the line? Uhh excuse me sir you washed too far up your wrists in the bathroom that's basically taking a shower aka dirtbagging..
>>2855329>astroturfed termDirtbag climbers have been calling themselves that for decades. What are you on about?
>>2855181Stealthy /dirtbag/ general?Post booty gear
>>2855181>>2855192>>2855193I worked at a resort for a few yrs. They had a party every year called the Dirt Bag Ball.
>>2855193We've got 'baggers in the ski industry since skiing was a thing
KEYSTONE WAS THE FIRST RESORT TO OPEN YESTERDAY AT 3PM!
>>2846708If you guys end up at Gunstock in NH come say hi, I'm usually captain of Panorama or Pistol.
>>2854392Breh the adirondacks are an xc mecca
>>2855187According to whomst? Faggy Yankees?
I have a pair of skis that I bought used 5 years ago. They’re kind of shitty but I’m debating on whether to hold on to them or not, because I’m a pretty casual skier and right now I’m more worried about the cost of new skis than performance on the slopes. I know they’re past the point of being guaranteed by the manufacturer or whatever. Will ski shops still wax and inspect my skis, or will they not touch them at all since they’re too old? Is it even safe to be skiing on old skis like that?
>>2855340>Will ski shops still wax and inspect my skisyes.>Is it even safe to be skiing on old skis like that?How old are they? if they are less than 20yrs old you should be fine. the bindings are more of a concern than the skiis if they are old too but the shop should be able to tell you if they are functional.
Post your /out/ edc kit.Just pretend the sleeping bag is a hammock and this is mine
>>2854945um. it's a scary mummy with amphetamines.
Thats what i packed for a 3 week hike.
>>2852190this is so gay. literally a dress-up doll for manchildren
>>2852190tis the season for my winter equipment
>>2855119Doesn't have to be. It can be a neat visual organizer for gear you already have or even play to buy.Or you can just continue to be a salty fag over a cool little browser game.
>gun? heh, I just carry bear spray, it's actually more effecti-
>>2853748Jerry could do it holstered toohe's also ancient as fuck so why not count that
>>2853711Yes, but attacking people was made illegal in the bear laws that were passed in 1976, so he'll be perfectly safe
>>2853748also jerry is firing a target pistol so he doesn't really have to worry about recoil, and isn't under the pressure of a giant bear charging at him. of course, neither is the guy with the spray, but his scenario is more realistic than a target shooting session.
>>2851436Italy, Spain and France have bears too. A couple years back a bear from Asturias even crossed border to Portugal. Per capita Romania is like top 3 for most bears in the world.It's quite astonishing the lack of knowledge that people have about nature on a outdoors board.
>>2855292>also jerry is firing a target pistol so he doesn't really have to worry about recoilJerry shoulder fired .50 BMG at that speed, lying loser.
