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camping on the lake
Lake Shasta, Northern California
Rio Grande gorge
>>2731393Wild blackberries are really blowing up.
>>2731759Wow, they've found a patch of earth that they like there, that's for sure.
>>2731771They grow pretty much everywhere here but in no other place do they put on fruit quite that heavy. It makes me wonder what it is about that patch makes them act so different there.
>>2731787>>2731787>They grow pretty much everywhere hereI would honestly try to make the most of this. Making jam is not difficult especially once you've had enough raw material to get it just right. Piront a fancy boutique label, sweeten it with honey (a new, more "healthy" way of making it yummy) and then sell both seeded and unseeded versions. Sell it out of state, give it a snappy name, get some wholesome girl to hawk it on instagram as honey-sweetened organic blackberry jam. They will eat that stuff up, literally. The profit margins are large (since you can go around harvesting/freezing completely free raw material) and the outlay is very low.I think I might have just handed you a brand new car in terms of profitability.
>>2731791Print*
>>2731791I make some jams and wines out of them for myself every year but that's about it. Idk I guess my problem is that with work and life and all I have so little free time it's worth more to me if I just spend it doing what I enjoy. I enjoy making a few jars or gallons of country wines every few months- but it would be a bit much making enough to actually sell kek. Also at a certain point the time spent picking them just becomes too much beyond a few hours here or there. You'd have to be out there like all day for the few weeks they are coming in to actually make enough for production.
>>2731393didnt really feel like May but I was out.
>>2731791Here's another good bush I found today
>>2731393Does this counts as /out? I'm from europe so I guess it's as wild as it gets
>>2731938count*sorry, my american is bad
I love lighthouses
>>2731961wrong photo woops
>>2731393Tbh I was only few km away from my home, but it was cozy and I made few hotdogs, which were tasty
>>2732046love the green, is this east or west coast us?
>>2732046things are super green right now
>>2731963Hotdogs over a fire are the best. It just soaks up that smoky flavor
>>2732130reminds me of a science textbook cover
>>2731393Went out for a night hike the other night, like always it is comfy as fuck.
>>2732190do you go armed?
dam lake inna alpz
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>>2732198Yes. I always carry a pistol, also either a shotgun or a short Boi AR. That night it was the AR.
>>2732290Anon, he's Australian.
Few nights camping in Grampians, Victoria.
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>>2732130>>2732133at least that musk thistle is providing food to the awesome butterflies, what a no good invasive gay faggot plant
>>2732549Looks prickly. But majestic too.
>>2731393Took these cool photos in march, I heavily recommend hiking in heavy fog, truly comfy
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Right now.
my lake
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>>2733169Amazing.
>>2733160ozarksanon, I recognize this from the stock photo, glad you finally got to see it irl
>>2733174heh im not him, but i do post in every thread he makes
>>2733174>>2733177speaking of, i tried to find the perfect view for him in the national forest, but surprisingly the best ones i saw were off roads high up in the mountains. im gonna try to find them on streetviewpicrel is the highest point in the ozarks (buffalo lookout) but the trees were overgrown to the point that this was the only decent view on the mountain
>>2733179anon posted one that qualified, but wouldn't tell me where it is, and I'm not even 100% sure it's even in the ozarks anyways> i tried to find the perfect view for him in the national forestim glad I brainwormed you in a good wayI really must know the best view to be had in the plateau-ish part of the ozarksozarks are really far from me but its kinda a dream destination like some people wanna see the himalayas, I wanna drive/fly to ozarks, it just would be a journey
What I thought was a big slab of granite turned out to be some slippery fucking schist and I had a big long tumble.Somehow managed to not crack my head but had to lie down for a few minutes cause the adrenaline made me feel like passing out.
>>2733259Ouch. You’re lucky you’re not dead.
>>2733322Rotated because 4cuck removes exif.
At a Rendezvous in a state park with a bunch of buckskinning bros. I tucked myself in a sweet corner under some pines. I had a few hikers come through with questions. Other than some hawk and knife throwing splitting playing cards. Even got a few hikers to throw hawk and knives with us.
>>2733384sounds like a great time, i loved going to rendezvous as a kid
>>2733179>>2733186after looking on streetview for a bit i realized that the roads are so in the boonies that they arent covered. however there are decent views on the 21 and 16 near the upper buffalo wilderness, as well as the 5 that comes off the 21 and goes into the national forest, they dont have the best coverage though
>>2731393Did Bondcliff and Bond in the whites today, I was hoping to bag West Bond as well but the weather was nasty and my legs just weren't up to it. I'll have to grab it some other day, maybe approaching from twinway and getting Guyot as well.>>2731771I don't think blackberries have ever found a patch of dirt they didn't like, they're considered a noxious weed in many places.
Shenandoah/Potomac River x2 yesterday. I'm censored in purple. I fucking hate swimming rapids so I was swimming a ton of them to get over it. Anybody have good tips on swimming whitewater? I'm a river guide in training.
Hiking near Laramie peak
Hiked a few hours today, to look at the snow melting, and to test some of my gear, just started walking from home today.Wanted to check how my hobo stove worked with damp wood, which went surprisingly well.Also put a new edge on my folding knife, as I got some chipping with original angle, so wanted to test that out with some whittling and chopping after putting a convex edge on it.
>>2733601Still some ice on the lakes here.
>>2733602Some signs of last fall's rut, first time seeing signs of roe deer in this area, they have migrated this far north pretty recently, and seem to be thriving these last few years.Hope their population increases so that I can hunt them in a few years.
>>2733603After chopping some small trees and making a bunch of feather sticks, no chipping on the blade this time.Edge isn't quite as slicey as before, but at least it doesn't look like a saw after some abuse.Pretty happy with it now.
>>2733548>Anybody have good tips on swimming whitewater?feet first and go with the flow lol
>>2731393Is that red river gorge KY?
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>>2733820Reminds me of Arkansas. Was nice there.
>>2733674no, but you correctly guessed the geology, it's the same cumberland plateau ecology, just further south ~ 80 mi maybepogue creek canyon mesa topI'd love to go back to red river gorge when it isn't 100 degrees outside
the water levels were high so there was a mini-waterfall on the side of the cliffs
>>2732489based Huey appreciator
Northern AZ
>>2733837>I'd love to go back to red river gorge when it isn't 100 degrees outsidered river gorge scares me i swear that place is haunted
>>2733951what about it scares you?
>>2733420Black berries grow like weeds but only in certain patches do they bear fruit that heavily every year (weather permitting).
Spotted on a recent wander in West Sussex.Most abundant patch I've ever seen.
>>2734396mega celery?
>>2734400>"looks like celery, must be fine to eat"
Took my kids up to see the sunset
>>2734014Went to the faroese islands this week. Not exactly out out, but I got my fair share of hikes, as well as other experiences. Also ran into this youtuber called LostLeBlanc and his girlfriend, very weird. Highly recommend the faroese islands tho.
>>2734549Very nice
>>2736243Is this the same as the Faroe islands and you're foreign/retarded?Always fancied it. Really unique culture there of mixed nordic and pictish. Wanted to go during the whaling season, looks bananas.
>>2736243ah, finally a familiar place. gf is faroese, from tórshavn
Just pitched up among the buttercups.
>Time and place stamp on pic relArtic villages actually suck dudes can't recommend The Ozarks look cool as hell what kind of critters are there if anyone knows
>>2736513virginia?
Pretty frozen lake I slept by Saturday night. Last few miles of the trail were completely covered in snow so I was a bit afraid of getting lost but it was pretty easy to follow to contour.
>>2736676Cades Cove TN actually. Off the main loop. Normie as fuck, but go damn it's beautiful
>>2736824Amazing
>>2736853tbqh looks like a million places in SW VA, not going to the most crowded tourist trapI do want to explore over by Roan Highlands though
>>2736857>I do want to explore over by Roan Highlands thoughHeading there this week.
>>2736857Cades Cove is unique because it is a cleared valley in deep Appalachians. While plenty of those exist, they are private land or filled with McDonald. So it's actually much more rare for a publicly accessible area like this. Granted, they had to kick the landowners out to get it, but here we are. If they didn't do so, it would be just another Pigeon Forge. Other valleys that would be like it are covered in trees, so you don't get the vast views. It's still worth going if you go on Wednesdays -- they ban vehicles, so you can hike it. The tourists tend to avoid that since many times you are 5ft away from bears and their cubs. And walking or biking.
1hr off trail to find this lake, spotted it on google maps satellite.Wish I'd brought a rod and bait.
>>2736892Very nice anon.
>>2736879nibba there's valleys like that all throughought the shenandoah, unless there's some magical photo you are gonna hit me with i'm gonna avoid tourist epicenter 0
>>2736905>throughought the shenandoah,There's not though. You might get some pictures like the Cades Cove one above, but you're not getting a 360° version of it. If you've never been to Cades Cove then you won't understand.
>>2736910cleared fields are not my thing, sods and high elevation ones are kinda cool, but this is not thatcleared fields are common, dense hilly forests not as much
>>2736912>cleared fields are common, dense hilly forests not as muchIn the Appalachians, the opposite is true.
>>2736915not really you have to go pretty deep in from the coast to get away from land devoted to farming
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>>2737095>>2737096neat where is this?
>>2737107Ravnogor, Bulgaria It’s really close to a village and a lookout point, but beautiful scenery. The first pic you can only hear birds it was awesome
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>>2737114damn i was gonna guess roan highlands in tn/ncdid you drive up there, atv, walk?almost looks like southern WV where there's lots of atv trails crisscrossing the hills
>>2737119Drove with a car to the village then walked. It was a short hike honestly. Yeah we have a lot of varied landscapes so you might find them similar with a few states. The scale is totally different though
>>2737096Glorious
had back surgery because of work and i cant /out/ this whole summer i can barely walk and if im lucky i will get the feeling back to my legs in a yeari had a good run and will miss the /out/doors
I didn't have a single Memorial Day problem. Yesterday, the trail was almost empty. I went to a restaurant, which was almost empty. My food was cold, so they gave it to me for free and got me new food.
Severely underestimated the Batona. Tried to do it in three days but only got one in with 15 miles. Went home the next morning. Have a newfound respect for thru-hikers and now I’m gonna train to challenge it again in the Fall.My thoughts on those first 15 miles though? It is the quintessential NJ trail, complete with never being too far from a road. Not a very exciting trail either, but it does offer various styles of being surrounded by trees which is kind of cool, but there are very few memorable parts.
>>2736509a shit ton of armadillos, and deep into the mountains there are black bears. ive also found a bunch of cool bugs in my time
>>2736437>Is this the same as the Faroe islands and you're foreign/retarded?Yes.Definitely worth it. I wasnt expecting it to be as great as it was.>>2736460Nice, I stayed there during my trip, some nice routes going out from there.
1 night with car but its better than nothin amirite fellers?
>>2737441hell yeah brother
Lake Jocassee
What kind of cameras do you lads use? My phone seems to either take okay pictures or very bad ones when using zoom
>>2731393there's not much near the NYC area but harriman always has nice views
>>2731393Tripyramid, North Tripyramid, Whiteface and Passaconaway yesterday via the Kate Sleeper loop. I took a wrong turn at the end and ended up on the Walden trail so I ended up doing closer to 23 miles.
It pissed me off how badly cameras take mountains. They always look so flattened, but when you're there, they're fucking insane.
>>2738289depends on the mts I guess.
>>2738289I mean if you are using a phone camera the lens if fucking tiny and can only do so much. You can bring a bigger camera but then you have to cart it around everywhere and make sure you don't drop it. Some people hike with tripods and DSLRs.
Spent 9 days in the scott highland (cairngorms region) Pretty neat. Wasnt expecting that much sun so i did get sunburnt a bit but it was still a pretty relaxing time
>>2736145Best part of the hike
>>2731938Stop whining at americans, you just didn't try. Europe is full of good areasPicrel is spain
>>2739064Is Scotland as barren and desolate as most of the pictures show?
>>2739143Depends where you are, most of Scotland is quite empty but the central belt of Scotland has a lot of towns
I also went to Scotland last month
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>>2740438>>2740439where were these taken?
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>>2731963>>2732552>>2733876bros last week i went out for a cheeky overnighter and I failed to start a fire despite lighting countless ones in the past. I was alone but still felt embarassed.
>>2740567>felt embarassedGood, you should feel embarassed.Why did you fail at it?Analyze and improve.
Do you lads obey designated campsites or do you go off trail. If the latter, how do you get away with it in popular parks?
>>2740657usually off trail for me>how do you get away with it in popular parks?i rarely camp in popular park to avoid problem, but if i do, i try to be as discreet as possible. (setup your tent late, don't make any fire, leave early)
>>2740618i dont know ;_;i couldnt get the tinder to stay lit. Used dry bark fiber and dead grass and it would burn out before lighting my kindling. my only guesses is that things were a bit more damp than they felt or the birds nest was packed too tight.
>>2741027Bring a kindling stick like sawdust impregnated with resin that they sell in the store. That will really make a difference next time. Mistakes are for learning!
>>2741030i was thinking about that or maybe the classic vaseline cotton balls, but they feel like cheating. Even bringing paper scraps seems wrong
>>2740657Off-trail is allowed where I'm at, so I usually go that route. If I don't feel like searching for a good spot or I'm bringing new campers I reserve a designated site.
yeah mud bug
>>2736892i keep an ultralight anywhere man. super beautiful spot. waders? canoe? nice.
went to my favorite secret cabin inna mountains
>>2740657I camp where I want, if a problem arises I’ll deal with it. Legally you are supposed to only to designated camp sites but no one is going to come at the middle of the night to start some shit. One timeThe park ranger did meet us when we were camping and he just stayed of some chit chat and asked us to call him if we hear gunshots, probably looking for poachers .
>>2741091word. honesty is on your side. doing nothing wrong officer. like ur style anon
>>2741092My man. Yeah if you don’t look too sketchy and you are an amiable person i think you will be fine. Maybe in other countries it’s different.
>>2741092By the way, we did hear gunshots. The next they a guy who had a dairy farm nearby came to check up on us cause he saw are lights and told us those gunshots are from a birthday party and not hunters from a nearby village. We were not trying to hide , just picked a spot by a dirt road.
>>2741032Don't know what kind of flora you have in your area, but learning what works well as tinder is a good idea.Like here we have quite a lot of birch trees, and their bark is s-tier for tinder, same goes for dead pine trees and branches.I'm assuming you bring a knife if you're making a fire, making some feathersticks can help out a lot.Just experiment and learn, you'll find something that works for you and the area you are in.
Coming to you live from the /decalibron/, where I have cell reception I guess
>>2741743lebron has a mountain named after him? how can jordan compete
Giant wild Magnolia bloom. Super common but the size always blows my mind seeing them up close.
>>2741853I'm going to repost some I posted from the wetlands thread earlier.
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>>2741864Super common but such a cool flower.
>spring over>the good part of summer halfway over, what's left is browning plants and gradually scarcer animals>birds done breeding>amphibians done singing>shortening days before we know it>back to 6 fucking months of gray mud slop cold and shit before we know itTime: time is relentless.
>>2741895Summer hasn't even started yet
Did my first two night hike through a history walk track.
>>2741919Old ruins of what used to be a logging area in the middle of this rainforest.
The forest is great in the second-half of spring. Everything has come alive again and the mud is mostly gone.
>>2742055Now that is what I call an awe-inspiring view and I want to be dropped in the middle of that endless forest so bad
>>2731393Little ~4.5 hike. Good weather. Got a bit hot but I hit the trees again on the way down when it was getting oppressive.
>>2737230back still busted and in few weeks the summer turns to fall
>>2741853Noice.
>>2742803>in few weeks the summer turns to fallWtf dude, it's still spring, what are you on about?
>>2742993thats only 3.2 months away, start hiking
>>2742792why the fuck does every mountain lake look the same?
>>2743285No, I have a bike.Hiking is for fall when shit gets slippery, and hunting season opens.
>>2733167what feminine hands you have bussy
>>2743787That's a girl
>>2743503They don't tho
>>2743860And then there's the Canadian Rockies
Baldface loop today in the White Mountains
>>2744441nice
>>2743787you have a mental problem
>>2744449I mean those are very feminine hands tho
Naknek, Alaska, working on a salmon boat for the season
