#518- “Santa Claws” EditionPrevious Thread:>>2789429janny pls…Thinking about picking up a new hobby? Want to get a memecaster? Haven't mastered the Palomar knot? Click here! http://www.pastebin.com/u/fishingandtacklehttps://imgur.com/a/1Xw3NNew Bong Fishin Guidehttps://pastebin.com/sDB5SQTqFirst for best telescopic rod is the one you exchanged for a 3pc.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Skanks
It’s been years lads.. crazy to think it’s been over a decade. Pepsi and skid are still here, glad to see. Just finished up this 3 piece travel rod to keep in the truck.
>>2803564You’re here forever!>NEW!!!!>>2803612>>2803612>>2803612>>2803612
>>2797760>Can anyone explain why mexicans are always drowning at popular fishing spots?Same reason black people always drown in swimming pools: Teaching your kid how to swim and swimming as a sport are a white middle class family thing. People under estimate the danger of being around water casually like in the case of fishing. Falling is more dangerous than people problem realize when you consider the potential for rocks, current, mud, etc. but its made much worse when you have no idea how to swim
I'll be spending a week in Vermont this September or October.Give me the best spots and trails to hit up, I will not be paying for a hotel. Thinking about hitting Green Mountain National Forest and Lake Willoughby at least, thinking about Smuggler's Notch and Mount Mansfield as well.t. am a leafcuck
>>2800246Woodstock is awesome as an outist. It’s expensive but if you stay in the hills and woods it’s beautiful. Bring a tent Canuck and go to Calander Hill in South Woodstock. There’s injun stone chambers that are kinda rad. As for Rutland it is very fenty so is Burlington and all of Chittenden county, but there’s plenty of good nature if you go 20 minutes out of the center of town.
>>2800604Central Vermont is cool, I went to college in Northfield VT and loved it. Drive along the dog river/winooski and you’ll inevitably find a good chill out spot. Got a lot of spirit too, the people outside of Montpelier seem to be less retarded and liberal than their Burlington counterparts
>>2803297Wow thanks anon, that's neat as hell, exactly the kind of stuff I'm hoping to come across. Definitely adding to my list. I do keep hearing that Rutland, Bennington, and parts of Burlington are fenty territory, I probably won't spend much time in the towns proper aside from grabbing a drink or a meal here and there.>>2803298Noted, I was thinking of swinging through Northfield if I hit up Montpelier (I like history so was hoping to spend an hour or two in a museum). Looks like there's some good spots directly south of Northfield so I'll probably take the 12A down.
bineu
>>2803469The museum is mid, but the college is really cool! Most of the students are pretty based and not too retarded. Hit up GOODMEASURE brewery it’s a personal favorite. If you want a decent swimming hole go to Norwich University park at D lot walk across the train tracks until you hit the river go left and you can find a good fishing area/swimming area. Inversely on the opposite side theirs cool mountains (pic related) where there’s plenty of places to stealth camp. Use satellite or topo maps and you can find a few abandoned quarries (where this pic was taken) they’re well drained so you’ll find some cool shit. Also spent a few weeks there after I graduated and was homeless just make sure you’re well enough off the tails and you can get as stoned and as drunk as possible. Also be sure to overturn rocks and shit near fire pits. Students often leave liquor/weed since the college has a zero tolerance policy (how I funded my alcoholism and weed addiction in college)Name a town and I can help brotha, used to be a truck driver so I’ve got the state locked down for locations to chill.
There are objectively the best 10 /out/ states in the nation. You can't beat the richness of the forests and the changing colors and textures and flowers of the seasons. And the plunging gorges and raging rivers. They have everything. Plus the people are friendly and accommodating and not snooty.
>>2802572Hopefully people can come together and chainsaw out the areas that got damaged.
>>2802543>this guylol
>>2802629Chainsaw isn't going to do anything for washouts and destroyed bridges, son.
Going to the famous Forest Cathedral trails tomorrow anons! Who wants to come see some majestic trees with me?
>>2803516you mean cook forest in pa?
Do you wear sunglasses while /out/ing? What are your favorites? Or do you prefer "natural view"?I almost always wear simple dark aviators, since I can't really stand the sun, especially summertime. Just way too bright to be enjoyable. But in cloudy autumn/winter seasons I like to spend time in my yard in orange shooting glasses. Wouldn't dare to go somewhere wearing them, since would look like a total faggot, but man, that orange somehow lifts your mood/makes everything feel so warm and comfy.
>Body tricks itself into thinking its overheating when in reality it's freezing causing you to take off clothing and freeze even fasterWhat cruel joke.
>>2803116Says the retard who takes the bible as truth.
>>2801886Hypothermia is just failure of your body. You need to be better, try harder. Whatever the conditions, you can just be warm.
>>2801974>men do not die for liesYes they do. They do it all the time.
>>2803154Mt. McKinley says hihttps://www.mountain-forecast.com/peaks/Mount-McKinley/forecasts/6194
>>2803529I remember after spending a winter in Alaska, the first spring day of positive single digit weather became an occasion to wear tshirts and shorts outside.It is ungodly cold there.
Is northern Canada an /out/ destination? How do you even get to most of these places? Fly in?
>>2802905There is a road all the way to the Arctic Coast in the west. Dempster Highway through the Yukon and NWT.
>>2802905>Is northern Canada an /out/ destination?Do you enjoy swarms of blackfly so dense they blot out the sun?
>>2802963>>2803060sounds exactly like my thing. i will come visit you this autumn, September 23rd. i like six eggs for breakfast. and mind you don't break them.
>>2802963Cope, nearly 90% of Canada's land is considered Crown Land that's considered public landhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crown_land
>>2802958>>2802959>>2802963You can take a trip to Baffin Island for like $10000 (with a group only)
> Indestructible> Perfect size to balance carry comfort with field effectiveness> Sharpen with anything> Great ergonomics> Enough grip security for combat> Excellent sheath> Lifetime warranty no matter what> Made in AmericaComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2802352Yes maybe something that doesnt scream "I served in Iraq....In what capacity? I served as a line cook from 2011 to 2014"Thank you for your service Spongebob!
>>2802360You have nothing but middle school insults. Your moronic , know nothing statements are a reflection of you not of me.
>>2802280Blade HQ had it, they have a whole bunch of knives with that theme but the Mora one sold out fast, they still have some Civivi folders and some fixed blades in the same theme.https://www.bladehq.com/cat--Dessert-Warrior-Edition-Knives--4107
I like the knife the Canadian military uses.
>>2800958Mentally retarded?That's not a puuko.
These things are exploding in population. Why are they still protected? These are monstrosities early explorers feared more than cannibal natives. We had their populations down for a reason. Why are we welcoming back IRL monsters that literally want to eat us? We shouldn't be doing that until we have some sort of reliable technology where we can implant each one with a paralysis mechanism if it's close to a human and has the urge to attack. Hook up a bear nuerolink or some shit. But letting these things roam free is a hippie delusion. Wtf are we doing?
>>2739586>Stay in an urban hellhole if you don't like being in the same place as animals that can kill you.those places are full of niggers though
>>2739570YeahThey should spray some pesticide too, the bugs are annoyingAlso asphalt the trail and put some street lights, also put a Walmart and 7/11 somewhere along the way while they’re at it
>>2739570Retard
>>2739570same reason everything is protected. there's plenty of money in it. canada geese and mallard are some of the most, if not the very most proliferous of all the birds. but if you bag one without paying the state, they will fuck you in the ass. same with deer, rabbits, trout, carp, or literally anything else. with bears, its a bit of the cetacean thing. people love them in movies, so they're protected. meanwhile whales are just about the opposite of what people say they are - stupid, cruel, violent; the vast majority aren't even endangered. whaling is federally and internationally banned (with few exceptions.) Japan gets a harder time for hunting than most govt's do for murdering people by the thousands.it really goes back to the core failing of liberal democracy. anyone can see an episode of carebears and write to their local politician, and he'll insure there's hundreds of grizzlies and wolves patroling the countryside to destroy family farms, but the public consciousness with farmers ends at old McDonald; farmers are bourgeois land owners and deserve to be eaten alive as far as the typical, socially conscious person is concerned.people hate outdoorsmen (esp. hunting and fishing), so they're extorted every year, and if they don't pay, or act at any point in a manner that the forest janny disapproves of, he can be punished at his discretion, including being banned from hunting for DECADES or branded a felon; getting off lucky would be them just stealing all your stuff to take home with them and writing you a ticket. the icing on top is so many hunters are fudds, they parrot their same bullshit lines about maintaining commons with the money they stole from you (see great lakes for an example to the contrary), and they'll report you too, and they do it for free; with allies like them, why does there even need to be a forest janny? why do you need a license to own a hawk? because fuck you.tl;dr they're protected because they hate us and want our money.
>>2803324>they're protected because they hate us and want our money.>derpthey're protected because there are so few left. "they" would make more money off them if they delisted them and opened a hunting season on them
Sometimes I use a covid mask but it makes my glasses humid
Scarf, beanie, warm clothes. Drink warm beverages all the time. You don't need a bullshit mask, in the contrary the humidity going inside the mask is molding your lungs if it stays too long on your face.
>>2798352It's such obvious bait but I still have to call you a faggot.
>>2799913It's obvious bait but you took it.
>>2799183>3°Cmmh
>>2802320I'm just a humble Shitpost Farmer rotatin my crop of (You)s
It's starting to get cold out, anons. Have any of you had a chance to get your hot tents and stoves out of storage for a cold weather camp yet? I took advantage of some early snow two weeks ago but it is now mostly gone. I was also out for Thanksgiving, it was cold but no snow.
>>2791470Have same tent, but different stove. The fire died down about 4 hrs or so after I went to bed, so had to get up and restoke the fire. Thank god I got a cold weather bag today.It would have helped if I had turned the damper down low, but what can I say? I was just excited to try it out.Loving it so far. Got down in the upper 20s
>>2791499>More soda than waterBreh....
>>2792254>>2792255Best part is how all Carinthias sleepbags fit together. A tropen easy fits inside a defence 4 for sleeping in the winter.
>>2791467I have a 16' diameter canvas bell tent but it was made more for summeradding a stove jack is no problem but the fabric isn't PU coated and I want to waterproof itconsidering the following>it will possibly be exposed to sparks from fire >it's a huge amount of fabric to treat >I live on the Olympic peninsula so I need it serious water proofwould it be better to wax it or spray it with a silicone product like camp dry?also would like the waterproofing to last as long as possible before needing reapplication because again it's a huge amount of fabric to treat
>over firinghow warped are your stoves exactly?
/Out/ in the holy landLooking for snakes in the Judean desert edition
>>2802030The Judea Desert is located almost entirely in the West Bank.
>>2802411So what
>>2802413What a piece of shit
>>2802030View from my work today
>>2802030I was going to go out again today and look for snakes but I have no energy
I paid a a guide $200 to take me up Mt Washington and I decided to chicken out at the end due to my severe social anxiety. If this is not a sign to kill myself I don't know what is, I'm such a coward, I will never be a mountaineer.
>>2802389--GAY BLOGPOST ALERT--I tend to see this kind of scenario posted over the years on different active subjects. I empathize with this and offer a different perspective. In my own stubbornness and anti-social behavior I learned and have continued to learn how to climb hard. It was a long process of pretty much exposure therapy, but internally I had the vision of what I wanted to be and what I wanted to do. Gripping hard on the rope during 20M rappels and feeling absolutely scared, coming back to my car after every outing thinking im just a pussy and I can't be what I wanted to be. I kept trying, by myself, until most mediums of climbing and outdoor engagement was comfortable. I am still learning to be comfortable but despite never taking a class, never learning from peers, all my learning was based on text from books or videos or forum posts. Not entirely fearless (you should still be for safety sake) yet I have winter climbing ascents in the rockies, rock climbing all over the country, and ice climbing adventures all around the midwest. All solo, all climbing top rope solo or free solo. Only these past few years have I been making the effort of going to climbing meetups and festivals and although it honestly sounds better to be doing these things with other people, sometimes its really not but sometimes it is. And that sometimes is what you gotta work for eventually, as most of the time to me I like being alone but sometimes it is a bit lonely.--GAY BLOGPOST CONCLUDED--
>>2802389>Mt Washington>mountaineer.Pick one(1)
>>2802489man, i love 4chan haha
>>2802389You can literally drive to the top. There is a gift shop that will even sell you a sticker to flex on the other flatlanders with.
>>2803340>>2796613Yeah yeah larper you tried that in the other thread too and everyone ignored you
for those who work in an /out/ fields>what is your job>how soul crushing is it>how to get an /out/ job out of college
I sometimes daydream about becoming a ranger, but I've got shitty knees sadly.
>>2801506That does sound nice. What about working for state/fed gov? Similar deal? Nothing against logging just seems like a lot of the forestry jobs out there are government
>>2801629>>2801789lets be fair, given that this is /out/, he's waaaaay more likely a troon who's ass cankered that straight men don't want to fuck him.
>today I will post about my troon obsession in the /our/ jobs threadwhat possesses people to do stupid shit like this>>2800539It’s not the most /out/ but telecoms tech. I did this when I was younger and it gives a lot of opportunities to go to distant rural places on a company dime as long as you don’t mind fucking around with fiber optics.
>>2801800The two guys I know are private but they work alongside and sign contracts with the municipal government of whatever town/county they’re in.
Humans were not meant to live in desert climates.
>>2803161racism implies brown people are not biologically closer to monkeys, when reality quickly demonstrates they are by the failures of their countries to produce civilization
>>2803163>doubling down on the racism
>>2803166Do you want to live in Africa?
>>2803156>we really should be aware of mass immigration >UM, SWEETY, WHY ARE YOU BLAMING BROWN PEOPLE FOR EVERYTHING Please go back to whatever extremist shithole you came from.
>>2803170>>2803213Tripling down on the racism
I want to start backpacking so bad but the thought of pooping out in the woods is so scary. Not the actual pooping part but the wiping part, my shids are always so creamy and messy, I'd have to carry a couple rolls of toilet paper, and the thought of carrying poop with me for miles, especially when it's that creamy really smelly kind it's fucking disgusting. I want to also start rock climbing but that's even worse. How do people even do it? do you eat certain foods before going out so you poop in pebbles and not make a mess?
I was 3 days into hiking across the alps and suddenly out of nowhere I needed to shit badly. It was right before climbing a peak so I guess my body suddenly decided this was the right moment to lighten the load. Anyway, it was at relatively high altitude, well above the tree line, so I scrambled about 30m up some rocks from the path onto a ledge, squatted down, and a huge log rolled out of the production line. I used biodegradable wet wipes to clean up which didn't take long and returned to the path feeling good. Sometimes I wonder if there is still a mark on the side of that mountain.Carry biodegradable wet wipes and you'll be fine.
>>2801160Some people don't handle them well, but you can just take a bit of ground up psyllium husk in a bag and eat about a teaspoon of that a day in whichever form you prefer. In my case, that almost eliminates the use for toilet paper. If water isn't in short supply, a hiking bidet is also a great solution. There's a few choices for premade options, just get something that attaches to a PET bottle. If you have a 3D printer, print https://makerworld.com/en/models/396909 or any of the other options, whatever your usecase is.If you don't like overpaying for a little piece of plastic and don't have a 3D printer, just take a normal PET bottlecap, jam a hole in it that focuses a stream, and voila, portable bidet. The stream won't come out the side, which is nicer, but it'll work just fine.
>>2803240>biodegradable wet wipesWhat does biodegradable in this context even mean? I'm asking because technically something that degrades within the next 500 years is "biodegradable". I mean even PLA is "biodegradable" in the sense that it CAN break down, but needs super specific conditions that you really only find in some industrial composting facilities. Sometimes when hiking I'm finding wet wipes in nature left by some asshole, and now I'm wondering if those were biodegradable too.
>>2803275They're 100% bamboo. I trusted their marketing to be honest, would be interesting to know how long it actually takes for them to disappear. I usually hide them under a rock or something and not leave them laying around.
>>2803278>They're 100% bamboo.I think I'm just a bit cynical because last year the "100% biodegradable seedling bags" similar to picrel I bought turned out to not be biodegradable, in fact when you held a flame under them they smelled and melted like plastic. Maybe consider throwing one of yours into your compost. That should be ideal conditions (better than what they find /out/) so if they don't break down there in a reasonable timeframe it's safe to assume they won't do so on the wild in a few years either. (Personally I'd check if after a year or so they have visibly started breaking down or something). >I usually hide them under a rock or something and not leave them laying around.That's good at least, my gut feeling is they'll take a while to decompose, so at least making sure people don't find them lying around is already better than some hikers you find on the trail, sad as that is to think about
