Why haven't you gone winter camping yet this season /out/?What, are you scared of a little cold?
Last time I went winter camping it got down to 10-20 f. I had a sleeping bag directly on the snow since I’m kind of retarded and it was much warmer and snow free at the base of the mountains (vermont). Still had a blast but I wasn’t prepared and could barely sleepIs a single foam roll under the sleeping bag enough to stay warm or do you guys also lay down pine branches et cetera?
>>2859158You are an animal lol. On snow I do a sleeping bag on an inflatable on a z pad. It doesn't matter what you pick as long as your r value is at least ~6. Multiple layers stack by addition. You done fucked up bringing nothing at all, no wonder you didn't sleep. You could die doing that man.
Finally got some cold and snow here
>>2859292why tf does it post the picture sideways?
>>2859294Something to do with the formatting, if you make a small edit to the photo like crop a tiny bit I believe it should post the right way up>>2859198Dying is a bit dramatic I think, but I definitely wouldn’t do it again
Do you like to look at things when you go /out/?Show us your optics.>monoculars>binoculars>scopes>sunglasses too, I guess>cases/carry systems>cleaning and maintenance>poorfag optionsI have a Vortex 8x25 mono that I like to bring, but I regret not buying the 10x25. Binos are my old Nikon Travelite III 10x25.
>>2859136Not sure, but I think you can have less glass/weight in a prism and they are cheaper.
>>2859228prism ones aren't cheaper
>>2859038I had that idea too, I can't say if it's a good idea because I haven't done it yet. I was planning to attach it to the tripod foot.
I bought a cheap "night vision" camera to look at foxes and rabbits on the property at night, for how cheap it is I can't complain, you can see around 100 metres/109 yards and can record video with it if you insert an micro SD card and can swap the 18650 battery out if need be.
>>2859365Here's what it records, forgive the shakiness I was recording with one hand held up over the fence trying not to spoop the bunny that was around 50 metres away.
Is it possible to live completely cut off from the rest of the world? Not using money or having to work.If so where and what are the basic tools required?
>>2856935>>2856935If you want to live offgrid, away from society, then you must put in the work or effort or you will die of starvation or exposure. Tools cost money. If you dont want to spend money on tools then create your own from wood and stone like a caveman. Chip a rock into shape, create a notched handle, fit the rock in, use resin created from sap or glue made from a hunt to seal the tool head with the handle and tie it into place using primitive cordage. Or you can buy an axe for $20. If you want minimum work whilst in the bush then prefabricate a pop up cabin. Which takes work anyways. Youre not escaping labor in the bush. This life isnt for the weak or stupid unless you want to end up like McCandless. Vagrant? Im a hyper-violent antisocial vagabond. The fuck you think drove me to the woods?
>>2856323No. In this day and age, your government of choice WILL fuck you in the ass. If they even get a whiff of you trying to live rent free from their control, they wil swat you fast and hard. It's easiest to be a nomad(harder to track that way) at first, but when you get old and want to put down roots in the wild, that's when they pounce.
>>2856948>hoehell yeah nigga
>>2856323Even if you were raised by generations of destitute peasants you will slowly starve until your inbred grandchildren are found by the state and turned into a media sensation.https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/22/forty-years-in-the-siberian-wilderness-the-old-believers-who-time-forgot
>>2856323We have this thread every week.NO. Big gov will always come after you. If not, you will not make it unless you're an uberman that has every niche job mastered under his belt.
>tfw commandeered a boat once>did not live in vain
You know those threads we have every week about dropping everything and living alone in the woods? Almost in a ascetic manner without internet and no job. Why? What causes it? To me it seems to be wanting an escape of urban life, the responsibilities and never-ending noise, the internet that has been utterly destroyed, to escape corporatism or something along those lines. To utterly reject consumerism and decadence. Now in that sense the desire for that has been noted to have existed since roman times from what i have read. To simpler times, to rural life before urbanization. A romantization of perhaps a gilded past. Don't get me wrong, rural life is superior to urban life but it too has its disadvantages. Especially now when the majority lives in the city leaving only old people out in the countryside rather than the bustling village 100 years ago. The warmth of the village is gone in most places or dying out as is. If you can't find contentness in the now then you won't find contentness in a log cabin in the middle of Alaska.
>>2854860You're a retard and your 50 IQ take is silly, at best.Purpose or lack of it, has absolutely nothing to do with it. Purpose is an illusion imprinted onto your subconscious so your brain could justify suffering.This is about people waking up that to the idea that they are completely and utterly dependant on an unnatural system that hates them and treats them like cattle.When you go out into the woods, the purpose does not change or get added, purpose does not change as it is irrelevant to begin with.What changes is the person taking back control and being less dependent on tptb.
>>2855064https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPc16mFuspU
>>2854897Ted's criticism is on industrial society so any time in history with a "lumber mill" and shiftwork is post industrialization.
What causes social cohesion?You, (OP), have a healthy idea of a norm, where humans are part of a group, after being born into it. Members of the group accept its general beliefs, adopt its mannerisms, identify with it and glorify it without objective reasons to do so. Social instinct, bias, impressionability and herd mentality in humans are pronounced enough to make it hard, almost impossible for a group to fail at projecting cohesion within itself. It begs the question how dysfunctional society, or a group, must be for it to reach a point where all the above feels non-existent or irrelevant to individual members.I believe this is that 'cause' you're asking about.Not everyone experiencing this will wish or even decide to innawoods and wizard. Once those things are gone, that normally make the individual consider those ideas absurd and make the chance of anyone seriously considering that virtually zero, the disillusioned individual might find all sorts of formerly unthinkable delineations equally appealing, after all the group has lost its appeal. It is then merely a question of the individuals character, experiences liking and means how their alternative to life in the group might look like. Some remain shut in at home. Others are out and about but at best superficially interact. Others again seek the distance, or their demise. Drugs and what not.The question should be: Why do people not choose their group and it's traditions, when people are programmed to exactly that? Also >>>/pol/
>>2854897you do find contendness in the woods thoughever notice you never get bored there and even simple things stand out and seem plenty
>meet a /out/doorsy girl who actually likes it, not just for social media>knows how to hunt and fish and handle herself in the wilderness doesn't whine about the heat or the bugs and doesn't need me to babysit her>always down to go exploring random caves and climb on random rocks and cliffs and go on spontaneous wacky adventures with me>she's a dykeevery single time! whyyyy
>>2858738Maybe anon has hooks and no hands
>>2858736no such thing, just damaged womantry to fix
>>2858736>meet a /out/doorsy girlThis has happened before? Where do you meet such women in the first place? Please this is a genuine question
>>2858736>every single time>happened once
>>2858757What do you consider "outdoorsy"?I'd count my first gf for example. Pretty much every other weekend we'd be out hiking or diving or doing some other shit outdoors (sure, she wasn't doing much of this before we met but she got hooked once I kicked her into it), she spent the afternoons we weren't together down at the beach painting (this she was doing before we met) and she cheerfully accompanied me on week-long trips through rough terrain in appalling weather without anything more than good-natured complaining. >Met her at some Model UN camp when we were in high school. I'd definitely count my wife. She's been into hiking and camping since she was a kid (so it's not just copying a boyfriend's hobbies), she loves gardening and foraging and looking after our chickens, and together we've done some pretty intense outdoor trips (climbed Denali, multi-month hikes in Nepal and along sections of the AT). >Introduced by a mutual friend at a uni partyMy ex before her. Also into hiking and camping, childhood friends with my wife so they were always going on trips together. Joined us for a significant stretch of the AT. Very into climbing, urbex and scuba diving too fwiw. Also never complained or whined or needed to be babied when we went /out/ together.>Met through a uni rpg groupMy best female friend. Also into hiking and camping. Is regularly the one organising our group for hikes and shit. Never complains and is always the one bailing other people out with something they've forgotten. >Met randomly in med school, I think we just sat together in a lecture but it could've been during a group dissection. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Is /ice climbing/ yuru?
>>2858257kek
>>2858257You really shouldnt be using old ropes anon
>>2858399actually this specific anon should be using old rope>>2858398is the one on the right a genuine fumo? i havent seen this one around
>>2858233looks sweet. did you climb with a buddy or rope solo?
>>2858915>is the one on the right a genuine fumo? i havent seen this one aroundI'm not sure, that one isn't mine. I think its a character from bloodborne or elden ring.
Google claims this is a real story. Do a reverse image search and see if you can convince it otherwise.
>>2857181>Pixar handslol
>never should have come here
>>2857181I can't find anything but it doesn't look like AI. the rock is consistent between frames.
>>2859150>he rock is consistent between framesThe head was added in post. So of course the rock is identical.
>>2859172>>2857181that face is way too relaxed like "come on bro"
You did visit Patagonia before some tourist decided to burn it down, right?
>>2856950Went when I was a kid but dont remember much. Aside from the megasloth caves any good /out/ings recs?
>>2857970Alright, you honestly seem to know what you're talking about so I'll trust you. I was just repeating what I'd heard from the locals during the time I lived there, but yeah, people tend to have a shallow understanding of things.
>>2857970I'm just irritated by your irrational believe into some banker bogeyman.I thought I could console you but you seem too far gone. Keep living in fear.
>>2857970>The locals are poor retards that take the money the loggers giver them andWow wow wow careful there my friend. Everthing you said is 100% right and I'm fully agree with you, but if you phrase it like that I'm afraid its just gonna make the locals want to oppose you and dismiss your valid ecological concerns as "hwite colonizers telling us what to do with our own land"
>>2858036>Irrational beliefIt's public information retard.>>2858040I've met enough people in logger towns to understand that ALL logging towns are saturated with morons regardless of country or ethnicity.I'm equal opportunity when it comes to hating timber cartels (because they lie about literally everything).
Everyone check in - New England here, waiting to see somethingTonight is supposed to be the night
>>2858214according to social media there were some sightings around 4 AM on the south shore.
Well? Did anyone view it?
>>2858783The forecast was a bust. It wasn’t visible much further south than the Canadian border.
>>2858187Right on the tail edge of the green.Ill try to get pics if anything happens.
>>2859096You're a week late
>drives his truck to a pre-built camp site to "survive" thereVery cool content.Don't trust any outdoor youtube who doesn't show himself actually hiking to an otherwise unreachable spot.
He killed his best friend, wife, and mother in an alcoholic rage
>>2857406>Just take untested chinkshit to a remote location where you might be in serious trouble if the gear fails as expected
>>2858983>>2859093Eh, I guess you're right.
>>2859086they need to do another collab but this time steve takes greg to a choice parking garage to spend the night
>>2857432Yeah you don't generally want to do winter survival without this if something goes to shit you die.
Are Himalayas better than Alps for someone who is in good shape but doesn't climb very dangerous peaks?
>>2857961No actual north american outdoorsman would ever go to europe for anything nature related. We pick up and rescue way more of you european boobs here when you simply drive to far down a road cause the freedom here is too much for you to handle.
For me it's the Alps. Wake up in bliss small town, take the free public transit to the trailhead, or ask a local to car pool me there if needed. Do a brisk walk along the nicely maintained trail, then head back down into town to relax and drink wine and eat cheeses.You just can't get that kind of experience in Nepal
>>2857984You can't even walk along a river without getting shot for trespassing
>>2858095>drinking cheap lambrusco wine on the janiculum hill overlooking rome at sunset, love that memory
>>2857946how high is rocky mountain range the one in montana and cananda
Some pictures to show what it's like behind the wheel of a mighty plow. Enjoy. Start with my trusty plow truck, a very stout 2010 Chevy Tahoe -- snow tires and 4WD.
>>2859079After I finish plowing, I park the truck back at the upper parking area and march down the trail inna woods. Here's that trail
>>2859080Final pic. The fresh snow depth and a pic of my benis (as promised). The fresh snowdepth as of approximately 1am in northern New England was nearly up to my knee. I hope you all enjoyed your experience with a snow plow. Most people will never even get this close to thrills of plowing. I wanted to take a moment share that with you all.
Does anyone have any questions about plowing? Any kids out there dreaming of someday becoming a plow man? I'm happy to answer any questions you may have or ignite the fires of passion in an ambitious young man out there (plowing is a man-only occupation. Women are strictly forbidden to even touch a plow). Go ahead, pepper me with your plow questions. Don't be shy now.
>>2859083what is your favorite design of plow?
>>2859071rotate it in snapspeed
Where to buy second hand glacier glasses? Is eBay the only decent option? Found These on facebook market place, Vintage but cheap, worth buying?
>>2856770which star trek episode is that?
>>2856806In that case you're poor and not a mountaineer, enjoy walking your "adventurous mountain trails" with more gear than you'll ever need while some faggot in sandals passes you by while being equally safe
>>2856473>imagine wearing second hand glasses with sweat gunk on themlmao
>>2856473I went for these:https://www.epicmilitaria.com/original-swiss-suvasol-sunglasses-with-case.html
>>2856897>>2856776>>2856750>>2856941welcome to /out/ - outdoor redditors
>RINJANI MOUNTAIN AREA, WEST NUSA TENGGARA, INDONESIA – JUNE, 2025 Hiking trip ended tragically for 26-year-old Brazilian tourist Juliana Marins. On June 21, she set out on the “Cemara Tunggal” trail with five other people. Likely due to fatigue and the slippery terrain, she lost her balance and fell approximately 500–650 feet (150–200 meters) down a steep, rocky slope. She survived the fall but landed in an area her companions couldn’t reach. They had to contact the national park authorities to launch a rescue operation.Rescue efforts began immediately after the alert, but the search was hampered by poor weather conditions, thick fog, and extremely rugged terrain. She was eventually found on June 24 at the bottom of a ravine, another 1,600 feet (500 meters) below. Sadly, nature was unforgiving – she was found dead. It’s believed she tried to find help on her own after waiting for some time but fell from another slope, this time fatally.
>>2858684I broke my leg and I drove home a few hours from the mountains. Reallllly sucked but better than being shacked up in a hospital. I did break it RIGHT next to the car though. Not while on a hike.
>>2858873How did you even break it
>>2858874I found a driveway that had a really good view and I wanted a picture, but I figured I didn't want to get too far into their property cuz it was private, so I tried to park close to the main road - sort of on a slope and there were wet leaves covered with snow and I got out of my car without steadying my feet on a slope, tripped and fell backwards.
>>2858803
>>2858684Almost always. The amount of backpackers here where they find their car because they tried to drive a dacia into the bush in a flood and then wander off is something. I got bogged on a colossal station and knew nobody would be back for a week so hiked out about 11ks in summer but I knew where I was going and knew there was water.
