We encourage you to have a look around the catalog first to see what we’re all about before posting your first thread. Topics typically posted here include:>Outdoor recreational activities (Hiking, trail running, bushwhacking, camping, spelunking, geocaching, orienteering, expeditions, urban exploration, backpacking, etc.)>Gardening, farming and related activities>Hunting and fishing, and other activities involving the stalking or taking of game (including bird-watching)>Outdoor survival, bushcraft, foraging, self-sustenance in nature, train-hopping, hoboism, etc.>Outdoor destinations and exploration (specific trails, parks, regions, etc.)>Water-related activities (boats, diving, etc.)>Outdoor philosophy (conservation, Leave No Trace, protectionism, etc.)>Outdoor building and living (cabins, huts, treehouses, etc.)>Outdoor social activities and organizations (meet-ups, Scouts, NOLS, etc.)>Gear related to any of the above topicsMost topics related to the outdoors are fine. Write properly, behave politely, encourage a respectful community, and most importantly, GO OUTSIDE!!
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>#531- "Jump the Shark" Edition>Previous Thread: >>2846103>janny 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/fishingandtackle>https://imgur.com/a/1Xw3N>New Bong Fishin Guide>https://pastebin.com/sDB5SQTq>First for best telescopic rod is the one you exchanged for a 3pc.>Talk about fishin
>>2852378I believe NEPA is North East PennsylvaniA. >>2852374Lake Wallenpaupack seems to be the best place for channel catfish in your area. What I did was go to your DNR (not called DNR) website. I scrolled down to Where to Fish. I then selected Best Fishing Waters by Species. You could also go to Warmwater/Cooleater Fishing to find it. Lackawanna Lake seems to be the only other Waterbury that has channels.
Wow. This thread is dead. Fair weather fishermen, yet they complain about Skid's threads. Hopefully soon, I'm going to get some friends to take me out ice fishing. I don't own any gear, but I know they do. I think it might be fun to go after some crappie and walleye and do a catch and cook.
>>2852617It sucks because there's no light to fish after workI'm still out on the weekend. Hopefully get another nice trout today.
>>2852617Lakes are not quite safe to walk on. Fella needed rescuing with an airboat here the other day, because the ice he was fishing on broke free and drifted out into open water.
Fish from the other day, somebody got my ip range banned so now I can't shitpost fish while I'm /out/.
It is established that isolation while /out/ leads to particular hallucinations like hearing your own name and the best thing to do is to ignore it. Do not acknowledge. I wonder if this is related to all the native cultures that say exactly the same thing about hearing your own name. Have any of you experienced this or had hallucinations?
>>2852627Usually it's just the trees creaking making sounds like human voices. The reason it sounds like your name is because you're more responsive to your own name and natually hear patterns that aren't actually there. If I'm somewhere without trees, then I get worried. But trees are nosy fuckers. I experienced this all the time thru hiking, but never when I camped farther away from the trees.
>>2852628I agree with this but also I am talking about the brain basically generating a auditory hallucination of someone very clearly saying your name.
>>2852629I've never heard of that. Only in context of ghost videos, lol.
>>2852627i hear high pitched childrens voices often when walking through the forest
Angelstalking.,,wakeup, covered in snowarm, lift head and look 'im GONE!,,no, just covered in snow.,,,shake snow off and start cooling.,get dressed in sleeping bag, boots in the bottom YES!,frozen bootsuck!,,,huffing down the mountain thru thigh deep snow FLUFFING as i bound sorta like sking, Heavy fog.,,,,hear "Anoooon,,ANON!" voice in the sky?,,sweet angelic "Anooon!", stop,listen, pull beaver hat off thinking ive gone snowmad.,,,,"ANON!" its real,,Angel here why?,,"Anon,,up here!" look up astonished astrange aperition drifting in the fog,,like,wings?.,,,,no, those are skis,,,itsister on a chairlift!,,releifoolish at same time.
Last thread >>2827097This is a thread for enjoying a pipe while doing outdoor activities. If you ask why this belongs on /out/, you've never spentan evening by the campfire with a pipe silently enjoying the nature around you, and you're missing out.>how to get startedPurchase a corn cob pipe (or a cheap briar pipe) and a pouch of Half and Half or Captain Black tobacco from a smoke shopor online. You will need a lighter or match, and something to tamp it with--a large nail works well if you don't have a pipe tool.Fill the pipe with tobacco, pack it down halfway, top it off, pack it down to 3/4, top it off again, pack gently and enjoy. Smokeslower than you think you need to, the tobacco tastes best when it is burning cool. Tamp and re-light as needed. If you stillhave trouble, try different methods on YouTube until you find one that works for you.>smoking a pipe will give you cancerOriginally the Surgeon General found that pipe and cigar smokers, following a careful study of the statistics (at a time whenmost adults smoked, so they had a good sample size), had insignificant death rate increases. Nowadays, tobacco is beinglegislated against while hard drugs are being legalized. Put two and two together. Tobacco is just another good thing under attack by the government.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2852292I came back from Peru with 2 wetbags literally full of tobacco and no one said anything about it. On the other side, I've imported tobacco from Peru and have had my packages slashed and ripped open. Still received it, just damaged by people looking for drugs.
>>2852287just make sure it's not too humid so it doesn't get more moldy and remove visible mold, also keep it away from other tobaccos
>>2852292i'd keep it in the original box if you have it
>>2852296>>2852298>>2852356Thanks bros, I don't have the OG packaging since the shop I buy it from sells in bulk, but least I can do is mark it and stash it along with my smoking gear in my checked bag.
does weed count? I go to this beautiful creek about a mile's walk from my house and just spend a couple hours getting high like once or twice a month. Would post a nicer picture but 4chan is a nigger about filesizes and I'm phoneposting. Anyway, cheers anons. I gotta start doing this more often, everytime I set aside the time to come down here I don't regret it.
What is your opinion on folding kayaks? I live where not every fishing hole has a trail leading to it and I'm not looking to drag a full sized kayak along with fishing gear everywhere I want to go
>>2852506Its fine with a small soft cooler and gear if you aren't loading up super heavy. There is a lot of floor room so you can distribute the load evenly
>>2852501you can portage kayaks under 60lbs, or use a kayak cart. that kayak has a pretty respectable weight capacity for it's size due to the bulbous nose in the hull.>>2852506you can fish from recreational kayaks just fine if you're a minimalist. most of the lightweight kayaks are rec kayaks and they paddle better. sit insides are also easier to portage.
>>2852528A single seat Kevlar canoe will weigh half as much as a kayak (I’ve seen as light as 24 lbs), and they’re way easier to portage because of the depth of the hull. But they cost like 3x as much, and are a bit less safe to paddle in shitty conditions.
>>2852503Thats why i went for them. They have a really decent return policy apparently I figured 20 uses and then a free replacement would last 2-3 years and at that price point it isnt bad at all because of the convenience
>>2852555as you say, you're talking $2500 minimum. only the most serious or rich people buy shit like that. you can get something like a liquidlogic saluda 11 or 12 for a fraction of the price and carry it the same way.
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
All of the evergreens really pop out. I didn't even realize how much fucking moss is everywhere. It's absolutely beautiful and totally negates the fact that most of the forest looks like shit. I thought hiking was going to suck until the first snowfall but it's really quite nice. I spent about 7.5 hours outside today in ~32F. This is my first season trying winter hiking.
>>2852573OP here, I also got outside today. I was a bit disappointed by how little snow ended up falling here. That hour north really makes a big difference
>>2852575hour north? where is this? my photo is West Virginia. I slipped and fell and twisted my ankle capturing it (just getting out of the car). But I got the meme photo of the NRG bridge the day before so all is well.
>>2852576Oh I assumed you were at Overlook as that anon suggested. It's about an hour north and a half hour west from the Cold Spring/Beacon area. The snow that hit New York earlier this week didn't hit as hard as I was expecting. I was expecting everything to be covered by like 4-5 inches
>>2852577I mostly stay out of NY, it seems crowded and they love rules and restrictions and the speed limits are predatorily low in towns and change often in a Kafka'esque manner. I have been thinking I bet Letchworth Gorge is kino in the winter though (and dejeeted).
>>2852578New York is nice if you avoid the urban and suburban hellholes. Letchworth State Park is a good dividing line for that part of the state. South of there is more scenic and relaxed, with much friendlier people than north of there.
As it turns out these make for awful winter tires and my body on the right side hurts a lot now.Ice might be evil.
>>2852514How the fuck am I suppost to know that it doesn't get no gription on ice???
>>2852585BECAUSE ITS A SMOOTH AS A BARBIES TITSTHERE IS NOTHING TO GRIP YOU DUMBASS
>>2852595More surface = more gription idiot.
>>2852618But no tread
>>2852618Ice and snow traction relies on edges making mechanical contact with irregularities. You don’t weigh enough to generate sufficient traction using CoF. Cars don’t weigh enough to make sufficient traction with CoF. And slick tires are better in the dry because of reduced deflection and better mechanical resilience allowing you to use a more aggressive compound without worrying about mechanical failure of compound, not because area means anything to the friction equation.Also protip: CoF of a given rubber compound changes with temp, sticky summer racing tires are hockey pucks in the cold.
Nature is cool and shit. Post pictures of natural things.
Dolphin
>>2852633What's he doing?
cool pics, anons. Here's a little hitchhiker loxosceles I found at work.
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>>2852639
You now remember geocaching
>>2850092Lighten up, Francis.
>>2852471I dont think they are contemplating the cleanliness of uranus
>>2852479KEK
>>2848793Fatherless
>>2852581I won and you lost, cope and seethe
Anyone here ever go /out/ in restricted/illegal areas? Any advice for accessing these spaces?Pictured: North Brother Island, NYC
I come across many derelict farm houses on my hikes, and I'm always tempted to look inside. Haven't done it yet, though.
>>2852498get yourself a drone and check it out, it's fun
>>2852496Wilderness designation.Just so people don't dodge property taxes and close the gate except when they want to trash it themselves. Behavior in true wilderness areas is regulated and sometimes policed by gov't agencies. Making that designation a sign of an honest attempt at protection.
>>2851851Sometimes camp on army tank/artillery ranges when there is no firing going on. Often wild camp in forest, moorland hills and mountains without the landowners permission but trespass is a civil offence in the UK so at worst you will be asked to take your tent down, most of the wild land here is open access so you have a right to be walking over it even if there is no designated right of way.
>>2851852Third world problem
Where are all the mushrooms edition?
>>2851560Mountain Equipment Couloir
Good evening lads. I am going stove camping on my todd tomorrow, going to try this patch not far off a little town I know. Pic related. There's 4 options as you can see, no pine trees unfortunately but a nice thick copse of poplars by the looks of things, might make an interesting spot. I'll take some pictures and post them here if I remember. This is how I try to camp, finding little patches where nobody will bother me not far from the town. But I need your advice, where is a nice isolated place to go within yorkshire? I want to go to kielder solo but I need more experience first.
>>2852075nigga
>>2852146How did it go?
>>2840647Camping in the North Pennines as often as possible. See hardly anyone in summer, in winter its empty. Bring on the storms and snow. Cross country skiing when it snows. >>2852146Yorkshire is massive, any particular area? Moors? Dales? all the flat lands in East Yorkshire? The weather can turn quick in the moors and dales so unless you have a bit of experience fell walking in bad weather best get that before you decide to go out overnight. I wouldnt say Kielder needed more experience than those two, just being used being in and navigating in pine plantations - pick a place you are going to go to, plan out your route on the map and stick to it. Donna Van Senior on YouTube has a few videos camping up there and staying in the bothies there.
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 am coming up with a lil thru hike idea. Hike what would start out to be a lore accurate path of the Fallout New Vegas courier from california to the building the lucky 38 is based off of in Vegas, mostly following the lore accurate path, but hitting a few side locations. It might end up being more of a route than a trail, but this is the general route I had in mind. Hike from the "Mojave Outpost" (Mountain Pass) up through primm and then to Goodsprings, then east down to Nipton, over to Searchlight, and then north hitting a few notable irl equivilent locations for the Nelson the ghost town, Helios One, Novac, and then go through Boulder City to Hoover Dam and then over into Vegas.I have thru hiked a few times before, but not in the desert. I am aware water is a significant consideration here. Luckily many of the locations/towns are within a days walk of each other at my pace, although some places appear to have gaps where natural water or civilization/faucets would be.What would you consider changing about the route, or anything your would specifically add? I am aware there is a lot of public land, but also a significant amount of private land like on the solar farms and military bases.
>>2852339cool idea but i think you are likely to underestimate just how much water you will need walking with the sun, heat, and lack of humidity all day. i'd guess twice as much as regular hiking. also be sure you know how to supplement electrolytes properly.also, don't you start in goodsprings, go to primm, then head east? is mountain pass where the ranger statue is? it's been a while for me so i could be wrong
>>2852611just bring two canteens and a water bladder
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>>2852381>also, don't you start in goodsprings, go to primm, then head east?yeah, i don't know what OP is doingthe more accurate route would be>goodsprings>jean>primm>nipton>searchlight>solar array>boulder city>henderson>vegas
>>2852615on second thought i think he is extrapolating that the courier entered the desert through the ranger station before the whole benny thing happened.
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.
